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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/
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.
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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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R: 8 / I: 1 (sticky)
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>"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.
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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…
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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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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!™
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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
—————————————————–
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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News: Iran cucking out just when fun was starting
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>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<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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🗽 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
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
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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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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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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!
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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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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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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
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>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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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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>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
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📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP
Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
/Political Economy/ General #7 - Closin' At Dunkin' Edition
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Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP
Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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>>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/
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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: 73 / I: 12
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?
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Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General
Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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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
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/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
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>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
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>South Africa
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>Sudan
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PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney
Previous thread:PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
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Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
/auspol/ #12 - A Police Helicopter Just Flew Over My House edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread. 'EDIT'"Previous thread: >>2371516"Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
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A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread >>2689946
/PRC/ People's Republic of China 22
>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™.
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
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leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread >>2689946
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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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The only war NATO did nothing wrong
>body too short or empty
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The only war NATO did nothing wrong
>body too short or empty
>body too short or empty
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>body too short or empty
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>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
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Previous Thread (Mods, archive pls?)>>2515750
New Booru:
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OC Thread 19.0
Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
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Previous Thread (Mods, archive pls?)
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>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?
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Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!
/MENA/#1
A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!
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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: 34 / I: 2
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?
R: 33 / I: 2
>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: 113 / I: 20
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!
R: 102 / 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: 27 / I: 11
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: 25 / I: 4
>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?
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: 604 / 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™
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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
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• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>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
R: 59 / I: 10
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: 10 / I: 2
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?
R: 17 / I: 3
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.
R: 176 / 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: 13 / I: 5
Today is an amazing day, one of the best days on Earth, the day the disgusting boy fucking nailed jew worshipping reekoid despotate of Constantinople was rightfully destroyed by the forces of the Mujahideen and its vile vermonous memory erased from history forever
Today is the day the reek locust cuckstantine XI got his head served on a plate by our turkish brothers
Fuck byzanturds, fuck reeks, may their memory be eternally cursed.
My only lament is that the Abbassids were too lazy to destroy this loathsome pathetic excuse of a country earlier
Today is an amazing day, one of the best days on Earth, the day the disgusting boy fucking nailed jew worshipping reekoid despotate of Constantinople was rightfully destroyed by the forces of the Mujahideen and its vile vermonous memory erased from history forever
Today is the day the reek locust cuckstantine XI got his head served on a plate by our turkish brothers
Fuck byzanturds, fuck reeks, may their memory be eternally cursed.
My only lament is that the Abbassids were too lazy to destroy this loathsome pathetic excuse of a country earlier
R: 9 / I: 2
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
R: 78 / I: 15
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.
R: 52 / I: 12
>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).
R: 17 / I: 3
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)
R: 9 / I: 1
>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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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?
R: 49 / 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".
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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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>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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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).
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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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<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:
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
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https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
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https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t(dot)me/s/wfwitness
https://t(dot)me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t(dot)me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
/Iran war/ thread #65
<Bond Vigilantism edition>Previous bake
>>2806554
Latest News
>Nothing ever happens
<IDF still getting groyped by Hezb drones.
>Israel confirms that some of their generals went to the UAE during the war
<Nothing comes out of the US-China summit
>US bond yields spiked. 10y now solidly above 4.5
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t(dot)me/s/wfwitness
https://t(dot)me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t(dot)me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
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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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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.
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>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<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
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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: 197 / I: 54
They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"
These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophiliaThey think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
R: 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. R: 16 / I: 1
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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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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- mass immigration is bad overall (I'm not against immigration per se, more like unfiltered immigration is quiet bad in my opinion)
-religion in general are bad, reactionary and backwater, and trying to "fuse" religion and left leaning politics are bound to fail because both doesn't mix well
-"liberal" eugenics is mostly right and should be mass adopted
-China is actually a trying a form of modernize socialism with end goal of becoming a full fledged socialist nation when they exhaust the market-capitalism form of relation in the country
-North Korea is a abomination of socialism
-Supporting Russia is stupid because Putin is nowhere near close to be a support of socialism and progressive politics and is just a form of support imperialist politics by because isn't western somehow is good, it's like supporting japanese imperialism back in the WW 2 era isn't western
CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS YOU HAVE
A thread to share of what you think are your controversial opinons and takes, here mine:- mass immigration is bad overall (I'm not against immigration per se, more like unfiltered immigration is quiet bad in my opinion)
-religion in general are bad, reactionary and backwater, and trying to "fuse" religion and left leaning politics are bound to fail because both doesn't mix well
-"liberal" eugenics is mostly right and should be mass adopted
-China is actually a trying a form of modernize socialism with end goal of becoming a full fledged socialist nation when they exhaust the market-capitalism form of relation in the country
-North Korea is a abomination of socialism
-Supporting Russia is stupid because Putin is nowhere near close to be a support of socialism and progressive politics and is just a form of support imperialist politics by because isn't western somehow is good, it's like supporting japanese imperialism back in the WW 2 era isn't western
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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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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.
R: 8 / I: 0
>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.
R: 25 / I: 6
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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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.
R: 11 / I: 6
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.
R: 11 / I: 1
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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Alter Faden:
>>2363945
Ein paar Links:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
/leftydeutschpol/ - "Seid ihr bereit für den hybriden Krieg?"-Edition
Die Oma mal am Joint ziehen lassen gegen die vaterlandslosen Gesellen.Alter Faden:
Ein paar Links:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
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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.
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Juche understood as the principle of self‑reliance under conditions of imperialist blockade, is not a mystique but a strategic necessity. A besieged collective cannot secure its members' survival by depending on foreign patrons. Stirner's "Union of Egoists" similarly describes a tactical alliance of autonomous individuals who cooperate because cooperation serves each one's self‑interest. There is no necessary contradiction between collective and individualist. Under conditions of material scarcity and state violence, the individual's own survival is materially preconditioned by the collective's capacity to defend itself and reproduce its means of life. Self‑reliance is the infrastructure of individual agency. A solitary egoist has no power; a network of egoists, a collective organized around mutual material interest, does. This is what Stirner termed a union of unique individuals. It follows from the concrete conditions of struggle. Stirner was using the same dialectical materialism as Marx.
The Nihilist Roots of Bolshevism
The standard narrative of Leninism as a clean break from nihilism is historically inaccurate. Lenin's older brother, Alexander Ulyanov, was a leader of a nihilist conspiracy to assassinate Tsar Alexander III; he was executed in 1887. That event directly shaped Lenin's revolutionary orientation. Sergey Nechayev's Catechism of a Revolutionary with its rejection of bourgeois morality and its justification of any means necessary circulated within the revolutionary underground that produced Bolshevism. Lenin openly stated that nihilism shaped him into an individual fit for collective revolution, saying his experience with nihilism in college profoundly impacted him. What is To Be done? is named directly after the nihilist pamphlet "What is to be Done?". Lenin did not repudiate this lineage; he institutionalized it. Everything the Bolsheviks did represent the rejection of bourgeoise morality, and the will to power applied the working class.
The Black Panther Party, in 1969, republished Nechayev's Catechism Of A Revolutionary, becoming the first major U.S. publisher of Russian nihilist literature. This was not an eccentricity, the key organizers of the panthers referred to this text as the bible of any serious revolutionary. The Panthers understood that decolonization required a break with liberal morality and a willingness to confront state violence with counter‑violence, and nihilism is a dialectical materialist hammer that can destroy the bourgeoise consciousness of individuals, shaping them into formidable revolutionaries. Their study of Mao, Fanon, and Nechayev was not syncretic; it was a materialist search for usable tactics under conditions of racialized super‑exploitation. We are carrying on the traditions of anti-capitalist struggle, not grifting. The transmission of nihilist texts through the Panther network demonstrates that this current has never been confined to Russia or Europe; it is a recurring feature of anti‑colonial struggle.
In an 1844 letter to Marx, Engels wrote that he was "entirely in agreement" with Stirner, describing him as "the noble Stirner" and suggesting that his dialectical egoism would, if pushed to its extreme, resolve into communism. This is not a casual remark. Engels recognized that the radical assertion of the unique individual stripped of all external spooks leads logically to the recognition that authentic self‑realization requires the abolition of the social relations that commodity the self. Stirner's critique of fixed ideas and Marx's critique of alienated labor are not contradictory; they operate on different levels of a same materialist analysis. The former addresses the subject's internal relation to bourgeoise ideology; the latter addresses the objective social structures that produce that subject. A materialist analysis can hold them in tension without contradiction.
Implications for Theory and Praxis
The separation of Marxism from nihilism and egoism is not a theoretical necessity but a historical artifact of the Second International's reformism and the revisionist ideological policing. In practice, revolutionary movements have consistently drawn from all three currents. The Black Panthers, the Bolsheviks, and the anti‑colonial guerrilla movements of the 20th century did not pause to purify their ideological lineages. They took what was useful and discarded what was not. The accusation of "grifting" directed at those who attempt a similar synthesis today is not a theoretical critique; it is a policing mechanism, often deployed by leftists who have become comfortable within the boundaries of NGO‑funded activism and revisionist reformism.
The question, then, is not whether Marxism, egoism, and nihilism can be integrated. They already have been, in practice, by movements that needed to survive under conditions of extreme repression. The question is whether the contemporary left will acknowledge this history and learn from it, or continue to mistake its own sectarian categories for the limits of revolutionary possibility.
We are NOT Grifters /// We carry the torch of past revolutionary consciousness
Frankly, a significant portion of the misunderstanding surrounding core anti-capitalist concepts originates not from bourgeois critics but from self‑identified leftists themselves. Accusations that my comrades and I are grifters when not deliberately dishonest rest on a fundamental failure to grasp nihilism, egoism, Marxism, anti‑colonial thought, anarchism, and Juche. This failure is not accidental, it follows from a method of study that substitutes the consumption of ideological labels for dialectical analysis. Such leftists do not apply historical materialism to their own theoretical formations, they simply repeat phrases, quotes or general ideas. That is they pick a tendency, rehearse its approved formulations, and mistake repetition for understanding.Juche understood as the principle of self‑reliance under conditions of imperialist blockade, is not a mystique but a strategic necessity. A besieged collective cannot secure its members' survival by depending on foreign patrons. Stirner's "Union of Egoists" similarly describes a tactical alliance of autonomous individuals who cooperate because cooperation serves each one's self‑interest. There is no necessary contradiction between collective and individualist. Under conditions of material scarcity and state violence, the individual's own survival is materially preconditioned by the collective's capacity to defend itself and reproduce its means of life. Self‑reliance is the infrastructure of individual agency. A solitary egoist has no power; a network of egoists, a collective organized around mutual material interest, does. This is what Stirner termed a union of unique individuals. It follows from the concrete conditions of struggle. Stirner was using the same dialectical materialism as Marx.
The Nihilist Roots of Bolshevism
The standard narrative of Leninism as a clean break from nihilism is historically inaccurate. Lenin's older brother, Alexander Ulyanov, was a leader of a nihilist conspiracy to assassinate Tsar Alexander III; he was executed in 1887. That event directly shaped Lenin's revolutionary orientation. Sergey Nechayev's Catechism of a Revolutionary with its rejection of bourgeois morality and its justification of any means necessary circulated within the revolutionary underground that produced Bolshevism. Lenin openly stated that nihilism shaped him into an individual fit for collective revolution, saying his experience with nihilism in college profoundly impacted him. What is To Be done? is named directly after the nihilist pamphlet "What is to be Done?". Lenin did not repudiate this lineage; he institutionalized it. Everything the Bolsheviks did represent the rejection of bourgeoise morality, and the will to power applied the working class.
The Black Panther Party, in 1969, republished Nechayev's Catechism Of A Revolutionary, becoming the first major U.S. publisher of Russian nihilist literature. This was not an eccentricity, the key organizers of the panthers referred to this text as the bible of any serious revolutionary. The Panthers understood that decolonization required a break with liberal morality and a willingness to confront state violence with counter‑violence, and nihilism is a dialectical materialist hammer that can destroy the bourgeoise consciousness of individuals, shaping them into formidable revolutionaries. Their study of Mao, Fanon, and Nechayev was not syncretic; it was a materialist search for usable tactics under conditions of racialized super‑exploitation. We are carrying on the traditions of anti-capitalist struggle, not grifting. The transmission of nihilist texts through the Panther network demonstrates that this current has never been confined to Russia or Europe; it is a recurring feature of anti‑colonial struggle.
In an 1844 letter to Marx, Engels wrote that he was "entirely in agreement" with Stirner, describing him as "the noble Stirner" and suggesting that his dialectical egoism would, if pushed to its extreme, resolve into communism. This is not a casual remark. Engels recognized that the radical assertion of the unique individual stripped of all external spooks leads logically to the recognition that authentic self‑realization requires the abolition of the social relations that commodity the self. Stirner's critique of fixed ideas and Marx's critique of alienated labor are not contradictory; they operate on different levels of a same materialist analysis. The former addresses the subject's internal relation to bourgeoise ideology; the latter addresses the objective social structures that produce that subject. A materialist analysis can hold them in tension without contradiction.
Implications for Theory and Praxis
The separation of Marxism from nihilism and egoism is not a theoretical necessity but a historical artifact of the Second International's reformism and the revisionist ideological policing. In practice, revolutionary movements have consistently drawn from all three currents. The Black Panthers, the Bolsheviks, and the anti‑colonial guerrilla movements of the 20th century did not pause to purify their ideological lineages. They took what was useful and discarded what was not. The accusation of "grifting" directed at those who attempt a similar synthesis today is not a theoretical critique; it is a policing mechanism, often deployed by leftists who have become comfortable within the boundaries of NGO‑funded activism and revisionist reformism.
The question, then, is not whether Marxism, egoism, and nihilism can be integrated. They already have been, in practice, by movements that needed to survive under conditions of extreme repression. The question is whether the contemporary left will acknowledge this history and learn from it, or continue to mistake its own sectarian categories for the limits of revolutionary possibility.
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?
R: 74 / I: 12
>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
R: 5 / I: 2
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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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: 26 / I: 2
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.
R: 611 / I: 131 (full)
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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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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🗽 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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OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
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• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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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: 6 / I: 3
How come whenever judeochristians invade and conquer a land the worst thinkable atrocities happen? Natives are tortured, mass slaughtered, raped, cannibalized (literally, see what crusaders did to Syria), their lands taken and given to settler colonial squatters and whoever is left is force converted to their cult by the sword?
But when Muslims conquer only the combatants are targeted, civilians are left alone, taught the language of the state, allowed to keep their cultural and religious customs if they wish, they're integrated into the state bureoucracy as magistrates, judges, scribes, scientists, advisors.
Is this because judeochristians follow noahide rules of war where you're demanded to be genocidal?
Muslim kindness in contrast to judeochristian depravity proves that idealism can be as much of a factor to history as material reality
How come whenever judeochristians invade and conquer a land the worst thinkable atrocities happen? Natives are tortured, mass slaughtered, raped, cannibalized (literally, see what crusaders did to Syria), their lands taken and given to settler colonial squatters and whoever is left is force converted to their cult by the sword?
But when Muslims conquer only the combatants are targeted, civilians are left alone, taught the language of the state, allowed to keep their cultural and religious customs if they wish, they're integrated into the state bureoucracy as magistrates, judges, scribes, scientists, advisors.
Is this because judeochristians follow noahide rules of war where you're demanded to be genocidal?
Muslim kindness in contrast to judeochristian depravity proves that idealism can be as much of a factor to history as material reality
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: 98 / I: 17
Cuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
Cuba is gonna be invaded
This isn't a joke or anythingCuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
R: 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: 608 / I: 111 (full)
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Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
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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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• 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
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
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• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Previous Thread: >>2805632
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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
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>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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💀 ICE & Prison Resources
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• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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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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/USApol/
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<Untaxed Trump 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 📺
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• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/~~
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Previous Thread: >>2814739
R: 33 / I: 2
>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)
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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>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
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Previous: >>2796324Victory day post mortem edition
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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>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
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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R: 2 / I: 0
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: 306 / I: 53
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: 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
R: 20 / I: 2
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.
R: 4 / I: 0
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)
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Sino-Burger Summit Retrospective Edition
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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
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• 📖 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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• 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: >>2811456
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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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• 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
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
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Previous Thread: >>2811456
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Communism is an impossibility, you’re never getting rid of the division of labor. Even if you got rid of entrepreneurs and investors and replaced them with the state you’ll never have factory workers doing brain surgery or high level accounting. Unless you rotate which sector sets the government agenda (which will inevitably benefit itself above the wider community) you’re just going to have a dictatorship of HR departments, which would be worse than the status quo.
Communism is an impossibility, you’re never getting rid of the division of labor. Even if you got rid of entrepreneurs and investors and replaced them with the state you’ll never have factory workers doing brain surgery or high level accounting. Unless you rotate which sector sets the government agenda (which will inevitably benefit itself above the wider community) you’re just going to have a dictatorship of HR departments, which would be worse than the status quo.
R: 8 / I: 0
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?
R: 9 / I: 2
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.
R: 2 / I: 0
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/
News 5/20/26
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.
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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.
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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?
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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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It's not that deep.
I have a hard time believing that any of us would care about capitalism if we had "made" it. Through bad circumstances, bad choices, bad relationships, lowly class origins, or disability, we have ended up here at the end of history. I can't help but think about what it's like to be a winner. How often do they think about us?
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And as pointed out by people like Contrapoints, both the alt-right and the SJWs of the 2010s were products of the New Atheism movement, the bulk of its members being, once again, white males from Christian households.
So this begs the question: Did they leave because the churches weren’t racist enough following the adoption of the civil rights movement’s philosophy by most churches in the 1990s?
As polemical and farfetched as it sounds, I don’t necessarily think it’s improbable given the obvious demographic profile, the fact that the decline in Christianity (in America, Canada, and Australia at least) and rise of sub-cultures were heavily driven by young middle-class white people (especially white men) who left the churches, and that was back when the churches were at least nominally anti-racist following the decline of the white nationalist movement as a significant political bloc in both the north and the new south, as well as the fact that whilst elevatorgate did drive many young white atheist men into further reactionary politics (e.g., the “redpill”, incels, scientific racism, transphobia, etc…) the reactionary streak was there since the beginning as the “four horsemen” used bait-and-switch tactics in their writings to sell the message during the GWOT era: “You don’t need to be a fundamentalist Christian to support another crusade in Iraq”, as well as the universalist civilisational rhetoric. and that was long before the “horsemen” like Harris and Dawkins began to promote a particularist view of the west as it becomes clear that its hegemony is being challenged by nominally non-liberal countries like Russia and China.
There’s also the fact that Christianity in America and elsewhere in what made up old Christendom hasn’t gained any more followers outside of mass immigration as seen how churches across Europe and elsewhere in north America and Australia need to import priests to fill the roles of the clergy as white people there don’t wanna work in churches. While it can be argued that much of it is to do with how Christianity’s universalism is clashing with the increasing particularism of white people who only want Christianity if it affirms white identitarianism, that still wouldn’t support the notion that Christianity declined when it was conservative, as churches became progressive in America in the 2010s and yet still failed to gain converts in a self-sustaining way that didn’t rely on mass immigration. Matter of fact, the new “great awakening” is occurring just as Christian’s politics has shifted further to the right and became increasingly associated with the alt-right. Examples of it include every western populist politician, and Nick Fuentes. All in all, it does support my idea that Christianity in the west has largely survived thanks to contradictory and often fragile coalition-building involving both white nationalists and liberals.
But I do have some doubts about it since the thesis largely relies on connecting the dots more than anything else.
So, is it true?
Is the decline of Christianity in America linked to the churches’ adoption of the civil rights movem
One common stereotype regarding today’s western atheists is that they are predominantly white, male, and from Christian backgrounds, and this demographic profile stands to this day based on the latest polls on the atheist community.And as pointed out by people like Contrapoints, both the alt-right and the SJWs of the 2010s were products of the New Atheism movement, the bulk of its members being, once again, white males from Christian households.
So this begs the question: Did they leave because the churches weren’t racist enough following the adoption of the civil rights movement’s philosophy by most churches in the 1990s?
As polemical and farfetched as it sounds, I don’t necessarily think it’s improbable given the obvious demographic profile, the fact that the decline in Christianity (in America, Canada, and Australia at least) and rise of sub-cultures were heavily driven by young middle-class white people (especially white men) who left the churches, and that was back when the churches were at least nominally anti-racist following the decline of the white nationalist movement as a significant political bloc in both the north and the new south, as well as the fact that whilst elevatorgate did drive many young white atheist men into further reactionary politics (e.g., the “redpill”, incels, scientific racism, transphobia, etc…) the reactionary streak was there since the beginning as the “four horsemen” used bait-and-switch tactics in their writings to sell the message during the GWOT era: “You don’t need to be a fundamentalist Christian to support another crusade in Iraq”, as well as the universalist civilisational rhetoric. and that was long before the “horsemen” like Harris and Dawkins began to promote a particularist view of the west as it becomes clear that its hegemony is being challenged by nominally non-liberal countries like Russia and China.
There’s also the fact that Christianity in America and elsewhere in what made up old Christendom hasn’t gained any more followers outside of mass immigration as seen how churches across Europe and elsewhere in north America and Australia need to import priests to fill the roles of the clergy as white people there don’t wanna work in churches. While it can be argued that much of it is to do with how Christianity’s universalism is clashing with the increasing particularism of white people who only want Christianity if it affirms white identitarianism, that still wouldn’t support the notion that Christianity declined when it was conservative, as churches became progressive in America in the 2010s and yet still failed to gain converts in a self-sustaining way that didn’t rely on mass immigration. Matter of fact, the new “great awakening” is occurring just as Christian’s politics has shifted further to the right and became increasingly associated with the alt-right. Examples of it include every western populist politician, and Nick Fuentes. All in all, it does support my idea that Christianity in the west has largely survived thanks to contradictory and often fragile coalition-building involving both white nationalists and liberals.
But I do have some doubts about it since the thesis largely relies on connecting the dots more than anything else.
So, is it true?
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They do a lot of real world activism, but they also get involved in issues that might affect that virtual world. For example, they participated in the online protests against Patch Linden, a Linden Labs employee who was found to be an ageplayer (he was finally fired weeks ago) and also against several pro-Trump maps/regions.
In their next event they will have as a guest speaker a high profile psychologist to talk about several issues related to political activism. It will be on May 21st at 6:00 PM (California time) in the Grand Hustle region of Second Life.
To be part of these communities (there are several groups, more or less affiliated to each other) you only need a free Second Life account. Second Life can be played as a regular PC game, but also as a mobile or browser game.
When you get in touch with any of us in-world, feel free to ask for flags, banners, shirts or any materials we use in our protests. If you have some basic Photoshop knowledge you can make your own as well.
Well, that's all, freel free to ask anything.
The Anti-Fascist community of Second Life
Hello, I'd like to let you know about the existence of an active left-wing/anti-Fascist community in the virtual world known as Second Life. They have their own land/map and do events and discussions every third day.They do a lot of real world activism, but they also get involved in issues that might affect that virtual world. For example, they participated in the online protests against Patch Linden, a Linden Labs employee who was found to be an ageplayer (he was finally fired weeks ago) and also against several pro-Trump maps/regions.
In their next event they will have as a guest speaker a high profile psychologist to talk about several issues related to political activism. It will be on May 21st at 6:00 PM (California time) in the Grand Hustle region of Second Life.
To be part of these communities (there are several groups, more or less affiliated to each other) you only need a free Second Life account. Second Life can be played as a regular PC game, but also as a mobile or browser game.
When you get in touch with any of us in-world, feel free to ask for flags, banners, shirts or any materials we use in our protests. If you have some basic Photoshop knowledge you can make your own as well.
Well, that's all, freel free to ask anything.
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trump populism
with trump approval rating still being so high can we say that at least 35-45% of americans will always metaphysically be Lumpen-Proletariat unless there’s something akin to a culture revolution/mass reeducation that takes place
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The upper middle class tries to disconnect from this reality. They either flee to the West or isolate themselves in gated communities, but even they are still confronted with poverty. The lower classes have cheap entertainment, but they too live with delusions and fantasies. For socialists however, there is no escape. We are forced to confront this failure daily and feel powerless, knowing we cannot change anything.
Ultimately, the only conclusion we have reached is that our states desperately require centralized authority for any kind of development. Without that, we are doomed to continue living in these conditions. I am sorry but Marxist-Leninism and orthodox Marxism are not going to take hold right now. Maybe they could in the future, but at present I would describe myself simply as a socialist who wants improvement for my country and nothing else.
The only path for development in the third world is authoritarian socialism
The only path for development in the third world is authoritarian socialism
I want to start by saying that I have been involved in aid work and activism in my country for over a decade now. I have seen a lot and I think one thing that needs to be clarified is just how bad things are. Not all third-world countries are this bad, but mine is. People are living worse than animals and in absolute miseryThe upper middle class tries to disconnect from this reality. They either flee to the West or isolate themselves in gated communities, but even they are still confronted with poverty. The lower classes have cheap entertainment, but they too live with delusions and fantasies. For socialists however, there is no escape. We are forced to confront this failure daily and feel powerless, knowing we cannot change anything.
Ultimately, the only conclusion we have reached is that our states desperately require centralized authority for any kind of development. Without that, we are doomed to continue living in these conditions. I am sorry but Marxist-Leninism and orthodox Marxism are not going to take hold right now. Maybe they could in the future, but at present I would describe myself simply as a socialist who wants improvement for my country and nothing else.
The only path for development in the third world is authoritarian socialism
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Reminder stopping Zionists starts with voting against their puppets in Congress. The left needs to do as much as it can for Palestine, and one of the best things it can do is campaign for politicians who are openly anti-Zionist.
And can we PLEASE get Jimmy Dore or Caleb Maupin to interview her?
New anti-AIPAC candidate for Congress running in New Jersey
Terrisa Bukovinac is 100% anti-Zionist and refuses to take a penny from AIPAC. She will not kiss the wall. She is also very attractive and conservative (which most working-class people are) AND a socialist. Ziorats will most likely run a smear campaign against her do she needs all the love she can get.Reminder stopping Zionists starts with voting against their puppets in Congress. The left needs to do as much as it can for Palestine, and one of the best things it can do is campaign for politicians who are openly anti-Zionist.
And can we PLEASE get Jimmy Dore or Caleb Maupin to interview her?
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Thousands of workers across Italy joined a new general strike on May 18, demanding complete severance of ties with Israel, an end to armament policies, and protection for the new civilian flotilla to Gaza – which was attacked again by Israeli forces on the very day of the strike. “We launched today’s general strike with the same strength and spirit as on September 22, 2025: ‘Let’s block everything’ has been and remains the watchword in our struggle against war, against complicity with the genocidal state of Israel, and against rearmament,” the grassroots trade union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) wrote.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/19/italy-on-strike-again-for-palestine/
Unions hit out at ‘epidemic of insecure work’ as economic fallout from Iran war revealed
UNIONS hit out at an “epidemic of insecure work” as the economic fallout from the Iran war was revealed for the first time today. Youth unemployment has risen to its highest rate in more than a decade with one in seven (14.7 per cent) 16 to 24-year-olds looking for work. .. .. ..
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-hit-out-epidemic-insecure-work-economic-fallout-iran-war-revealed
“We will give our chest to your bullets, but will not cede an inch of our land”: farmers resist city expansion in southern India
Farmers in the south Indian state of Karnataka have been protesting for over a year in defense of their land. On May 10, day 426 of their protest against the notified acquisition of fertile, irrigated land in Ramanagara district to expand Bangalore city, farmers occupied the Byramangala roundabout. Cutting off all four connecting roads with bullock carts and tractors, over 3,000 farmers protested in this roundabout. Scores of cows and bulls they brought along chewed on the cattle feed in this critical node on a state highway, whose occupation disconnected the neighboring industrial areas of Bidadi and Harohalli. ….
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/19/we-will-give-our-chest-to-your-bullets-but-will-not-cede-an-inch-of-our-land-farmers-resist-city-expansion-in-southern-india/
Nearly 9000 public sector jobs to go, government agencies to merge, Nicola Willis announces
The government has announced plans to slash public service jobs by about 14 percent over the next three years in a shake-up it says will deliver $2.4 billion of savings. The changes announced in a pre-Budget speech delivered by Finance Minister Nicola Willis on Tuesday would result in about 8700 job losses by mid-2029. "Historically, core public service numbers have been equivalent to about 1 percent of the population. After a period of largesse under the last government it now hovers around 1.2 percent.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595655/nearly-9000-public-sector-jobs-to-go-government-agencies-to-merge-nicola-willis-announces
Israeli TV leak exposes 'secret plan' to seize Iran's uranium near Isfahan
A report aired by Israel's right-wing Channel 14, widely seen as closely aligned with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, has sparked outrage after appearing to reveal details of a possible Israeli-American plan to seize enriched uranium from Iran through a military operation. The report triggered calls for an emergency session of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee amid accusations that sensitive operational and intelligence information had been recklessly leaked to the media.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-tv-leak-exposes-secret-plan-seize-iran-uranium
Israeli police establish special department to monitor foreign journalists
The Israeli police is operating a special department in the occupied West Bank to monitor foreign journalists who wish to enter Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory. According to a report by Haaretz on Tuesday, the special police department works closely with Israel's Population and Immigration Authority, which is stationed at international crossings as well as the Allenby Bridge Crossing in the West Bank. Haaretz obtained a police document detailing articles and social media activity by Alessandro Stefanelli, an Italian freelance journalist, who entered Israel and the West Bank several times in the past.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/police-monitoring-foreign-journalists
Türkiye unveils its first intercontinental ballistic missile amid an intensifying imperialist war
The Yıldırımhan missile, which is currently under development by the Ministry of National Defence’s R&D Directorate and has not yet been tested, was the most attention-grabbing item at the fair and made headlines in the international press. With a range of 6,000 kilometres, the Yıldırımhan is Türkiye’s first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and can carry a payload of up to 3,000 kilograms. Its ability to reach speeds of Mach 25 and perform sudden manoeuvres classifies it as a hypersonic missile.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/19/wjbc-m19.html
Venezuela’s Rodríguez Hosts World Bank Delegation as Trump Allies Eye Investment Opportunities
Erebor Bank, backed by far-right tech mogul and close Trump ally Peter Thiel, has reportedly pitched its services to Venezuelan officials to restore the country’s access to the US financial system. According to Bloomberg, Erebor co-founder Jacob Hirshman has made several trips to Caracas in recent weeks and met with Central Bank authorities and private bank executives.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelas-rodriguez-hosts-world-bank-delegation-as-trump-allies-eye-investment-opportunities/
Woman shot dead by police in Jamaica at protest over previous police shooting
Footage circulating on social media shows a police officer firing at a vehicle during a protest on Sunday in Granville, in Jamaica’s north-western parish of St James. The bullet hit Latoya Bulgin, 45, who was behind the wheel of the vehicle. According to the Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom), the police officers were “conducting crowd control duties” during a protest against a previous police shooting, in which 17-year-old Tjey Edwardson was killed on 12 May.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/19/woman-shot-dead-by-police-jamaica-protest
Bolivia’s capital under siege as protests and blockades deepen crisis for President Paz
The COB began by demanding wage increases, while peasant unions demanded a steady supply of gasoline. The miners, meanwhile, are negotiating separately for access to additional mining areas. Public schoolteachers are also holding separate talks regarding salary improvements. “These demands have been largely addressed in a manner consistent with current realities; however, there are dark forces seeking to destabilize our democracy,” said presidential spokesperson José Luis Gálvez, in an allusion to influential former President Evo Morales.
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-protests-evo-rodrigo-paz-7ac8f394f2e420ca928188e9f46c61ff
News 5/19/26
Italy on strike again for PalestineThousands of workers across Italy joined a new general strike on May 18, demanding complete severance of ties with Israel, an end to armament policies, and protection for the new civilian flotilla to Gaza – which was attacked again by Israeli forces on the very day of the strike. “We launched today’s general strike with the same strength and spirit as on September 22, 2025: ‘Let’s block everything’ has been and remains the watchword in our struggle against war, against complicity with the genocidal state of Israel, and against rearmament,” the grassroots trade union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) wrote.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/19/italy-on-strike-again-for-palestine/
Unions hit out at ‘epidemic of insecure work’ as economic fallout from Iran war revealed
UNIONS hit out at an “epidemic of insecure work” as the economic fallout from the Iran war was revealed for the first time today. Youth unemployment has risen to its highest rate in more than a decade with one in seven (14.7 per cent) 16 to 24-year-olds looking for work. .. .. ..
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-hit-out-epidemic-insecure-work-economic-fallout-iran-war-revealed
“We will give our chest to your bullets, but will not cede an inch of our land”: farmers resist city expansion in southern India
Farmers in the south Indian state of Karnataka have been protesting for over a year in defense of their land. On May 10, day 426 of their protest against the notified acquisition of fertile, irrigated land in Ramanagara district to expand Bangalore city, farmers occupied the Byramangala roundabout. Cutting off all four connecting roads with bullock carts and tractors, over 3,000 farmers protested in this roundabout. Scores of cows and bulls they brought along chewed on the cattle feed in this critical node on a state highway, whose occupation disconnected the neighboring industrial areas of Bidadi and Harohalli. ….
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/19/we-will-give-our-chest-to-your-bullets-but-will-not-cede-an-inch-of-our-land-farmers-resist-city-expansion-in-southern-india/
Nearly 9000 public sector jobs to go, government agencies to merge, Nicola Willis announces
The government has announced plans to slash public service jobs by about 14 percent over the next three years in a shake-up it says will deliver $2.4 billion of savings. The changes announced in a pre-Budget speech delivered by Finance Minister Nicola Willis on Tuesday would result in about 8700 job losses by mid-2029. "Historically, core public service numbers have been equivalent to about 1 percent of the population. After a period of largesse under the last government it now hovers around 1.2 percent.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595655/nearly-9000-public-sector-jobs-to-go-government-agencies-to-merge-nicola-willis-announces
Israeli TV leak exposes 'secret plan' to seize Iran's uranium near Isfahan
A report aired by Israel's right-wing Channel 14, widely seen as closely aligned with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, has sparked outrage after appearing to reveal details of a possible Israeli-American plan to seize enriched uranium from Iran through a military operation. The report triggered calls for an emergency session of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee amid accusations that sensitive operational and intelligence information had been recklessly leaked to the media.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-tv-leak-exposes-secret-plan-seize-iran-uranium
Israeli police establish special department to monitor foreign journalists
The Israeli police is operating a special department in the occupied West Bank to monitor foreign journalists who wish to enter Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory. According to a report by Haaretz on Tuesday, the special police department works closely with Israel's Population and Immigration Authority, which is stationed at international crossings as well as the Allenby Bridge Crossing in the West Bank. Haaretz obtained a police document detailing articles and social media activity by Alessandro Stefanelli, an Italian freelance journalist, who entered Israel and the West Bank several times in the past.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/police-monitoring-foreign-journalists
Türkiye unveils its first intercontinental ballistic missile amid an intensifying imperialist war
The Yıldırımhan missile, which is currently under development by the Ministry of National Defence’s R&D Directorate and has not yet been tested, was the most attention-grabbing item at the fair and made headlines in the international press. With a range of 6,000 kilometres, the Yıldırımhan is Türkiye’s first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and can carry a payload of up to 3,000 kilograms. Its ability to reach speeds of Mach 25 and perform sudden manoeuvres classifies it as a hypersonic missile.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/19/wjbc-m19.html
Venezuela’s Rodríguez Hosts World Bank Delegation as Trump Allies Eye Investment Opportunities
Erebor Bank, backed by far-right tech mogul and close Trump ally Peter Thiel, has reportedly pitched its services to Venezuelan officials to restore the country’s access to the US financial system. According to Bloomberg, Erebor co-founder Jacob Hirshman has made several trips to Caracas in recent weeks and met with Central Bank authorities and private bank executives.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelas-rodriguez-hosts-world-bank-delegation-as-trump-allies-eye-investment-opportunities/
Woman shot dead by police in Jamaica at protest over previous police shooting
Footage circulating on social media shows a police officer firing at a vehicle during a protest on Sunday in Granville, in Jamaica’s north-western parish of St James. The bullet hit Latoya Bulgin, 45, who was behind the wheel of the vehicle. According to the Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom), the police officers were “conducting crowd control duties” during a protest against a previous police shooting, in which 17-year-old Tjey Edwardson was killed on 12 May.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/19/woman-shot-dead-by-police-jamaica-protest
Bolivia’s capital under siege as protests and blockades deepen crisis for President Paz
The COB began by demanding wage increases, while peasant unions demanded a steady supply of gasoline. The miners, meanwhile, are negotiating separately for access to additional mining areas. Public schoolteachers are also holding separate talks regarding salary improvements. “These demands have been largely addressed in a manner consistent with current realities; however, there are dark forces seeking to destabilize our democracy,” said presidential spokesperson José Luis Gálvez, in an allusion to influential former President Evo Morales.
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-protests-evo-rodrigo-paz-7ac8f394f2e420ca928188e9f46c61ff
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine is retarded
Russia had no good reason to invade Ukraine, Ukraine has good reason to resist Russian occupation but should be open to ceding territory in return for peace if possible. I do not buy that the Far-Right parties around the world that defend this invasion were actually le based prole-pilled geniuses the entire time. Prove me wrong.
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PMR threda
Can we get a thread going for Pridnestrovie? Last I heard, Moldova was trying to get the land back. So long as Russia's backing them, Moldova can't do anything.
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I think I joined this mess and identity with these ideas is that I believe that all other ideologies have failed or will inevitably fail if they came to power, nothing will stop the endless cycle of the battle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, communism is inevitable and nothing will stop the will of the people.
I know some of the basics of Marxism but I don’t really know a lot about economics as a whole, that’s really the problem.
Is there any book recommendations aside from the manifesto to start with? Also is this version of the manifesto good or is it complete libslop
Questions from a normie
To be honest I’m new to leftismI think I joined this mess and identity with these ideas is that I believe that all other ideologies have failed or will inevitably fail if they came to power, nothing will stop the endless cycle of the battle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, communism is inevitable and nothing will stop the will of the people.
I know some of the basics of Marxism but I don’t really know a lot about economics as a whole, that’s really the problem.
Is there any book recommendations aside from the manifesto to start with? Also is this version of the manifesto good or is it complete libslop
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Is there a point in picking a leftist "tendency"?
I'm quite familiar with theory and concepts such as Marxist-Leninism, Maoism, Left Communism etc never really stood out to me as something I'd support over others with the exception of anarchism being generally retarded. I've always had the since of "I'll support anything that looks like it has a chance of working"
Is there a point in picking a leftist "tendency"?
I'm quite familiar with theory and concepts such as Marxist-Leninism, Maoism, Left Communism etc never really stood out to me as something I'd support over others with the exception of anarchism being generally retarded. I've always had the since of "I'll support anything that looks like it has a chance of working"
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venezuelan diaspora are almost on par thinking being a US colony with no agency over their oil will somehow liberate venezuela who else would be on par or almost on par
venezuelan diaspora are almost on par thinking being a US colony with no agency over their oil will somehow liberate venezuela who else would be on par or almost on par
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The Axios report, citing a senior U.S. intelligence official, claimed that Washington is analyzing the threat of drones from Cuba that could be used against the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, U.S. military vessels, or Key West, Florida. The report also mentioned the alleged presence of Iranian military advisors in Havana. Such information could serve as a pretext for hypothetical U.S. military action on the island, according to the Cuban government. The diplomatic row comes just days after an unusual high‑level meeting in Havana between CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Cuban intelligence officials.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-defends-right-to-legitimate-defense-after-u-s-media-claim-military-drone-acquisition/
Venezuela ‘Deports’ Former Minister, Diplomatic Envoy Alex Saab to US
The executive led by Acting President Delcy Rodríguez announced the “deportation of Colombian citizen Alex Saab Morán” through a statement issued by the Administrative Service for Identification, Migration, and Immigration (SAIME). The statement said the measure was adopted “taking into consideration that [Saab] is implicated in various crimes in the United States of America, as is publicly known and widely reported.” According to local media reports, Saab was transferred under custody from the El Helicoide detention center in Caracas to Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, where a US government airplane was waiting for him. The operation reportedly involved agents from the FBI and the CIA, under the supervision of the US Justice and State Departments.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-extradites-former-minister-diplomatic-envoy-alex-saab-to-face-us-charges/
U.S. Agencies Will Operate From Surveillance Tower in Chihuahua, Despite Recent Unauthorized CIA Presence in the Mexican State
Despite the political scandal that has raised concern about U.S. government involvement in Mexico, Chihuahua is pressing ahead with a close collaboration with U.S. agencies—with the approval of the Mexican federal government, a Chihuahua spokesperson confirmed to Drop Site this week. Representatives from five different U.S. federal agencies—the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security Investigations, and Customs and Border Protection—are slated to work out of the 18th floor of the new building in Juárez, known as the Centinela Tower.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/juarez-chihuahua-border-surveillance-cia
Two members of Colombian right-wing presidential candidate's campaign killed
Two campaign workers for right-wing Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo De La Espriella in the country's southeast were killed just two weeks before the presidential election, his party Defenders of the Homeland said on Saturday. Rogers Mauricio Devia and Fabian Cardona were shot on Friday night in a rural area of Cubarral, Meta province. Four hooded men on motorcycles intercepted them and opened fire, his party said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/two-members-colombian-right-wing-presidential-candidates-campaign-killed-2026-05-17/
Youth groups condemn military harassment of Tarlac student leader
According to the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP), two individuals, who presented themselves as members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) visited Valix’s house around 9 a.m. of April 28, 2026. They spoke with his mother and sister, claiming they wanted to “educate” him about his involvement in organizations and offer him “guidance.”
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/05/17/youth-groups-condemn-military-harassment-of-tarlac-student-leader/
Myanmar Junta’s Forced Remittance Rules Pull in $5.6 Billion
The surge follows rules enacted in 2024 that require migrant workers to remit 25% of their income through official banking channels. Failure to comply affects passport renewals and the right to work overseas, effectively securing international money flows for junta-linked banks at a time when sanctions and internal conflict have choked off other capital sources.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/myanmar-junta-s-forced-remittance-rules-pull-in-5-6-billion
https://archive.ph/Hd7rP
Activists raise alarm over 'flood' of military supplies from India to Israel
New Delhi sent Indian-made Israeli Hermes 900 drones to Israel in early 2024, and later several shipments of military equipment, including rockets. No Harbour for Genocide said recent developments showed that military shipments from India were ongoing and were fundamental for Israel to make up its shortfall of 155mm shells. Israel fired upwards of 100,000 artillery shells into Gaza and Lebanon within the first few months following the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October 2023. As early as mid-October 2023, the Israeli government asked the US to send an additional 155mm, as supplies dwindled.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/activists-raise-alarm-over-new-military-grade-steel-shipments-india-israel
Pakistan deploys jet squadron, thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia during Iran war
Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a squadron of fighter jets and an air defence system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defence pact, ramping up military cooperation with Riyadh even as Islamabad serves as the main mediator in the Iran war, according to an exclusive Reuters report published on Monday.
https://www.newarab.com/news/pakistan-deploys-thousands-troops-saudi-during-iran-war
Israeli military intercepts vessels from pro-Palestinian flotilla trying to break the Gaza blockade
The organisation’s livestream on Monday showed activists aboard several vessels putting on life jackets and raising their hands before a boat carrying troops approached. Israeli troops wearing tactical gear boarded the ship, and the livestream abruptly ended. Many of the ships are currently off the coast of Cyprus. Other footage showed Israeli troops on speedboats approaching and instructing the activists to move to the front of the boat.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-military-intercepts-vessels-pro-palestinian-flotilla-trying-break-gaza-blockade
ban forces Palestinians to make their own cement from rubble
Israel has barred cement and all building materials from entering Gaza since October 2023, deepening a blockade on construction imports in place since 2007. By October 2025, Unosat satellite imagery found approximately 81% of all structures in the Gaza Strip had been damaged, with more than 123,000 destroyed outright. The UN estimates the destruction generated 61m tonnes of rubble, and a joint EU, UN, and World Bank assessment puts the cost of recovery at $71.4bn (£52bn) over the next decade.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/18/gaza-cement-dual-use-israeli-ban-recycling-rubble-reconstruction
4 people killed and dozens injured in Kenya protests over record fuel prices
Four people died and over 30 others were injured when police clashed with protesters in Kenya’s capital on Monday as a nationwide public transport strike kicked off to protest record fuel prices. Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen also said 348 people were arrested and would be charged over their involvement in what he called violent illegal protests. He did not say how the four people were killed, but witnesses told local media that police in Nairobi had opened fire.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-fuel-prices-protests-0195168fd0507d2b4800acbe43feb5a6
Experts: Priority is protecting Sudan’s civilians as Tasees forms police force ‘to challenge legitimacy, not pursue secession’
The Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasees) government is accelerating efforts to complete its institutions and administrative structures in areas under its control as it seeks legitimacy and international recognition. Following the appointment of the remaining ministers, state ministers, undersecretaries and directors-general, the administration has now moved to establish a new police force.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/experts-priority-is-protecting-sudans-civilians-as-tasees-forms-police-force-to-challenge-legitimacy-not-pursue-secession
News 5/18/26
Cuba Defends Right to ‘Legitimate Defense’ After U.S. Media Claim Military Drone AcquisitionThe Axios report, citing a senior U.S. intelligence official, claimed that Washington is analyzing the threat of drones from Cuba that could be used against the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, U.S. military vessels, or Key West, Florida. The report also mentioned the alleged presence of Iranian military advisors in Havana. Such information could serve as a pretext for hypothetical U.S. military action on the island, according to the Cuban government. The diplomatic row comes just days after an unusual high‑level meeting in Havana between CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Cuban intelligence officials.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-defends-right-to-legitimate-defense-after-u-s-media-claim-military-drone-acquisition/
Venezuela ‘Deports’ Former Minister, Diplomatic Envoy Alex Saab to US
The executive led by Acting President Delcy Rodríguez announced the “deportation of Colombian citizen Alex Saab Morán” through a statement issued by the Administrative Service for Identification, Migration, and Immigration (SAIME). The statement said the measure was adopted “taking into consideration that [Saab] is implicated in various crimes in the United States of America, as is publicly known and widely reported.” According to local media reports, Saab was transferred under custody from the El Helicoide detention center in Caracas to Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, where a US government airplane was waiting for him. The operation reportedly involved agents from the FBI and the CIA, under the supervision of the US Justice and State Departments.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-extradites-former-minister-diplomatic-envoy-alex-saab-to-face-us-charges/
U.S. Agencies Will Operate From Surveillance Tower in Chihuahua, Despite Recent Unauthorized CIA Presence in the Mexican State
Despite the political scandal that has raised concern about U.S. government involvement in Mexico, Chihuahua is pressing ahead with a close collaboration with U.S. agencies—with the approval of the Mexican federal government, a Chihuahua spokesperson confirmed to Drop Site this week. Representatives from five different U.S. federal agencies—the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security Investigations, and Customs and Border Protection—are slated to work out of the 18th floor of the new building in Juárez, known as the Centinela Tower.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/juarez-chihuahua-border-surveillance-cia
Two members of Colombian right-wing presidential candidate's campaign killed
Two campaign workers for right-wing Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo De La Espriella in the country's southeast were killed just two weeks before the presidential election, his party Defenders of the Homeland said on Saturday. Rogers Mauricio Devia and Fabian Cardona were shot on Friday night in a rural area of Cubarral, Meta province. Four hooded men on motorcycles intercepted them and opened fire, his party said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/two-members-colombian-right-wing-presidential-candidates-campaign-killed-2026-05-17/
Youth groups condemn military harassment of Tarlac student leader
According to the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP), two individuals, who presented themselves as members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) visited Valix’s house around 9 a.m. of April 28, 2026. They spoke with his mother and sister, claiming they wanted to “educate” him about his involvement in organizations and offer him “guidance.”
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/05/17/youth-groups-condemn-military-harassment-of-tarlac-student-leader/
Myanmar Junta’s Forced Remittance Rules Pull in $5.6 Billion
The surge follows rules enacted in 2024 that require migrant workers to remit 25% of their income through official banking channels. Failure to comply affects passport renewals and the right to work overseas, effectively securing international money flows for junta-linked banks at a time when sanctions and internal conflict have choked off other capital sources.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/myanmar-junta-s-forced-remittance-rules-pull-in-5-6-billion
https://archive.ph/Hd7rP
Activists raise alarm over 'flood' of military supplies from India to Israel
New Delhi sent Indian-made Israeli Hermes 900 drones to Israel in early 2024, and later several shipments of military equipment, including rockets. No Harbour for Genocide said recent developments showed that military shipments from India were ongoing and were fundamental for Israel to make up its shortfall of 155mm shells. Israel fired upwards of 100,000 artillery shells into Gaza and Lebanon within the first few months following the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October 2023. As early as mid-October 2023, the Israeli government asked the US to send an additional 155mm, as supplies dwindled.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/activists-raise-alarm-over-new-military-grade-steel-shipments-india-israel
Pakistan deploys jet squadron, thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia during Iran war
Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a squadron of fighter jets and an air defence system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defence pact, ramping up military cooperation with Riyadh even as Islamabad serves as the main mediator in the Iran war, according to an exclusive Reuters report published on Monday.
https://www.newarab.com/news/pakistan-deploys-thousands-troops-saudi-during-iran-war
Israeli military intercepts vessels from pro-Palestinian flotilla trying to break the Gaza blockade
The organisation’s livestream on Monday showed activists aboard several vessels putting on life jackets and raising their hands before a boat carrying troops approached. Israeli troops wearing tactical gear boarded the ship, and the livestream abruptly ended. Many of the ships are currently off the coast of Cyprus. Other footage showed Israeli troops on speedboats approaching and instructing the activists to move to the front of the boat.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-military-intercepts-vessels-pro-palestinian-flotilla-trying-break-gaza-blockade
ban forces Palestinians to make their own cement from rubble
Israel has barred cement and all building materials from entering Gaza since October 2023, deepening a blockade on construction imports in place since 2007. By October 2025, Unosat satellite imagery found approximately 81% of all structures in the Gaza Strip had been damaged, with more than 123,000 destroyed outright. The UN estimates the destruction generated 61m tonnes of rubble, and a joint EU, UN, and World Bank assessment puts the cost of recovery at $71.4bn (£52bn) over the next decade.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/18/gaza-cement-dual-use-israeli-ban-recycling-rubble-reconstruction
4 people killed and dozens injured in Kenya protests over record fuel prices
Four people died and over 30 others were injured when police clashed with protesters in Kenya’s capital on Monday as a nationwide public transport strike kicked off to protest record fuel prices. Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen also said 348 people were arrested and would be charged over their involvement in what he called violent illegal protests. He did not say how the four people were killed, but witnesses told local media that police in Nairobi had opened fire.
https://apnews.com/article/kenya-fuel-prices-protests-0195168fd0507d2b4800acbe43feb5a6
Experts: Priority is protecting Sudan’s civilians as Tasees forms police force ‘to challenge legitimacy, not pursue secession’
The Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasees) government is accelerating efforts to complete its institutions and administrative structures in areas under its control as it seeks legitimacy and international recognition. Following the appointment of the remaining ministers, state ministers, undersecretaries and directors-general, the administration has now moved to establish a new police force.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/experts-priority-is-protecting-sudans-civilians-as-tasees-forms-police-force-to-challenge-legitimacy-not-pursue-secession
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why did third worldists side with maoist china over the soviet union and call the soviets social-imperialists when the soviet union supported far more national liberation movements worldwide and maoist china ended up coddling up to the USA?
was it because "white people bad"?
why did third worldists side with maoist china over the soviet union and call the soviets social-imperialists when the soviet union supported far more national liberation movements worldwide and maoist china ended up coddling up to the USA?
was it because "white people bad"?
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Hi, I'm not from the US, I'm Latino. I was very curious about this organization; I think it's the only large left-wing organization in your country.
If a civil war were to break out in the US, as we all expect from the outside, I believe it would be the only competent leftist organization that could fight.
Do you support it? Because I don't see anything better, or that's just as big.
Hi, I'm not from the US, I'm Latino. I was very curious about this organization; I think it's the only large left-wing organization in your country.
If a civil war were to break out in the US, as we all expect from the outside, I believe it would be the only competent leftist organization that could fight.
Do you support it? Because I don't see anything better, or that's just as big.
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Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP
Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
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Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
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Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
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Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
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Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
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Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
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(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
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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
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Give Recs
What are your favorite Marxist Leninist talk shows? Looking to go on one myself as a call-in guest. Aren't MLs usually just Youtubers with discord servers anyhow?
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That said, I think what they did was terrible, because even though I fully understand the hatred toward the Guardia Civil, they killed many civilians.
Thoughts on ETA?
I'm curious because I'm Spanish and it's a huge taboo in my country, and I can understand the Basque independence movement because they're much more advanced and wealthy than the rest of Spain. I was there a few years ago and was impressed by how clean and well-organized everything was, they industrialized earlier and had a major labor movement, and even today they're very left-leaning, while the right wing is gaining a lot of ground across the rest of the country.That said, I think what they did was terrible, because even though I fully understand the hatred toward the Guardia Civil, they killed many civilians.
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Former Bolivian president Evo Morales accused the United States on Friday of planning his assassination or detention through a military operation coordinated with the government of President Rodrigo Paz, with support from the DEA and the U.S. Southern Command.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-claims-u-s-backed-military-plot-to-kill-or-detain-him-in-bolivia/
Argentina’s beef consumption falls to lowest level in 20 years as prices soar
As of April 2026, annual per capita beef consumption fell to 44.5 kilograms (98 pounds), down from 49.5 kilograms (109 pounds) during the same month a year earlier, according to the Agricultural Foundation for Argentina’s Development. In 2006, it was 63.4 kilos (139 pounds) per person. “People are switching to cheaper proteins. They’re eating pork, they’re eating chicken,” said García.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-trump-beef-chicken-inflation-pork-tariffs-be59d1a78d7983566248712a74866b14
Brazil: One Thousand Peasant Families Resist the Police Siege during Land Occupation
On the 1st of May, one thousand peasant families occupied land in Pará in order to pressure the government into ceding the land to them and guaranteeing their right to said land. The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) denounced that the occupation triggered a siege from police, big landlords and goons. The siege lasted 48 hours, and blocked the access to the land, preventing the entry of water and food until May 3.
https://redherald.org/2026/05/16/brazil-one-thousand-peasant-families-resist-the-police-siege-during-land-occupation/
UK ministers accused of weakening legal protections for torture victims
Keir Starmer’s government has been accused of trying to water down legal protections for torture victims as ministers from 46 countries including the UK prepare to make it easier to deport refused asylum seekers and foreign criminals. Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, is expected to agree a “political declaration” on Friday with other members of the Council of Europe, which oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR).
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/14/uk-ministers-accused-weakening-legal-protections-torture-victims-seeking-asylum
Arrests made as Tommy Robinson's far-right supporters rally in central London
Alongside the flags of the UK's constituent countries, Israeli flags and those associated with the Iranian monarchist movement were also visible. Videos posted online showed attendees picking up wooden crosses to carry, while Christian nationalist slogans adorned some banners and placards. One flyer seen on the street spoke about a need for “a future for white people”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arrests-made-tommy-robinson-far-right-supporters-rally-central-london
8 Anarchists Arrested for Bank Expropriation: Greece
On the morning of May 11, 2026, our anarchist comrades carried out an expropriation of a bank in Kato Tithorea. A few hours later, cops chased the comrades for several kilometers and then trapped them. This was followed by raids on houses where the remaining comrades were arrested. The charges include both possession of weapons and involvement in robberies.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/32664/
Hamas confirms killing of Qassam Brigades leader in Israeli attack
Hamas said al-Haddad was killed along with his wife, his daughter, and other Palestinian civilians on Friday evening. The Israeli strikes targeted the Remal neighbourhood west of Gaza City. Three Palestinians were killed in a strike on a civilian vehicle, and four others died in a strike on a building, medical sources said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/16/hamas-confirms-killing-of-top-hamas-leader-in-israeli-attack
https://archive.ph/3y8IL
Children in Lebanon suffer as Israel continues to bomb, displace civilians despite truce
These figures were released in a 13 May report, however, Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have since killed and injured more children. "This 'so called' ceasefire that still sees more than four children killed or injured every day is not a ceasefire for children," UNICEF Representative in Lebanon Marcoluigi Corsi told TNA.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-kills-more-200-children-lebanon-march
India and UAE sign defence pacts, as Iran war tensions simmer
The strategic defence partnership stipulates that both nations will deepen “defence industrial collaboration and cooperation on innovation and advanced technology, training, exercises, maritime security, cyber defence, secure communications and information exchange”, according to an official statement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/india_and_uae_sign_defence-pacts_as_iran_war_tensions_simmer
https://archive.ph/2wtH4
Judge known for defective search warrants seeks promotion for 3rd time
As executive judge of the Quezon City RTC, Burgos-Villavert issued a series of search warrants between 2018 and 2020 that were used in coordinated police and military operations against activists and community organizers. Human rights alliances report that 76 activists were arrested on the basis of these warrants, with many later alleging planted firearms and explosives, a pattern described in detail by Karapatan and Bulatlat reports.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/05/16/judge-known-for-defective-search-warrants-seeks-promotion-for-3rd-time/
News 5/16/26
Evo Morales Claims U.S.-Backed Military Plot to Kill or Detain Him in BoliviaFormer Bolivian president Evo Morales accused the United States on Friday of planning his assassination or detention through a military operation coordinated with the government of President Rodrigo Paz, with support from the DEA and the U.S. Southern Command.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-claims-u-s-backed-military-plot-to-kill-or-detain-him-in-bolivia/
Argentina’s beef consumption falls to lowest level in 20 years as prices soar
As of April 2026, annual per capita beef consumption fell to 44.5 kilograms (98 pounds), down from 49.5 kilograms (109 pounds) during the same month a year earlier, according to the Agricultural Foundation for Argentina’s Development. In 2006, it was 63.4 kilos (139 pounds) per person. “People are switching to cheaper proteins. They’re eating pork, they’re eating chicken,” said García.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-trump-beef-chicken-inflation-pork-tariffs-be59d1a78d7983566248712a74866b14
Brazil: One Thousand Peasant Families Resist the Police Siege during Land Occupation
On the 1st of May, one thousand peasant families occupied land in Pará in order to pressure the government into ceding the land to them and guaranteeing their right to said land. The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) denounced that the occupation triggered a siege from police, big landlords and goons. The siege lasted 48 hours, and blocked the access to the land, preventing the entry of water and food until May 3.
https://redherald.org/2026/05/16/brazil-one-thousand-peasant-families-resist-the-police-siege-during-land-occupation/
UK ministers accused of weakening legal protections for torture victims
Keir Starmer’s government has been accused of trying to water down legal protections for torture victims as ministers from 46 countries including the UK prepare to make it easier to deport refused asylum seekers and foreign criminals. Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, is expected to agree a “political declaration” on Friday with other members of the Council of Europe, which oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR).
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/14/uk-ministers-accused-weakening-legal-protections-torture-victims-seeking-asylum
Arrests made as Tommy Robinson's far-right supporters rally in central London
Alongside the flags of the UK's constituent countries, Israeli flags and those associated with the Iranian monarchist movement were also visible. Videos posted online showed attendees picking up wooden crosses to carry, while Christian nationalist slogans adorned some banners and placards. One flyer seen on the street spoke about a need for “a future for white people”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arrests-made-tommy-robinson-far-right-supporters-rally-central-london
8 Anarchists Arrested for Bank Expropriation: Greece
On the morning of May 11, 2026, our anarchist comrades carried out an expropriation of a bank in Kato Tithorea. A few hours later, cops chased the comrades for several kilometers and then trapped them. This was followed by raids on houses where the remaining comrades were arrested. The charges include both possession of weapons and involvement in robberies.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/32664/
Hamas confirms killing of Qassam Brigades leader in Israeli attack
Hamas said al-Haddad was killed along with his wife, his daughter, and other Palestinian civilians on Friday evening. The Israeli strikes targeted the Remal neighbourhood west of Gaza City. Three Palestinians were killed in a strike on a civilian vehicle, and four others died in a strike on a building, medical sources said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/16/hamas-confirms-killing-of-top-hamas-leader-in-israeli-attack
https://archive.ph/3y8IL
Children in Lebanon suffer as Israel continues to bomb, displace civilians despite truce
These figures were released in a 13 May report, however, Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have since killed and injured more children. "This 'so called' ceasefire that still sees more than four children killed or injured every day is not a ceasefire for children," UNICEF Representative in Lebanon Marcoluigi Corsi told TNA.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-kills-more-200-children-lebanon-march
India and UAE sign defence pacts, as Iran war tensions simmer
The strategic defence partnership stipulates that both nations will deepen “defence industrial collaboration and cooperation on innovation and advanced technology, training, exercises, maritime security, cyber defence, secure communications and information exchange”, according to an official statement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/india_and_uae_sign_defence-pacts_as_iran_war_tensions_simmer
https://archive.ph/2wtH4
Judge known for defective search warrants seeks promotion for 3rd time
As executive judge of the Quezon City RTC, Burgos-Villavert issued a series of search warrants between 2018 and 2020 that were used in coordinated police and military operations against activists and community organizers. Human rights alliances report that 76 activists were arrested on the basis of these warrants, with many later alleging planted firearms and explosives, a pattern described in detail by Karapatan and Bulatlat reports.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/05/16/judge-known-for-defective-search-warrants-seeks-promotion-for-3rd-time/
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>God all these countries suck so fucking much at psy-ops. China, Russia, Iran. Look at their propaganda outlets directed at the US and HOW FUCKING SHIT THEY ARE! RT, CGTN, PressTV.ir SUCK SO MUCH ASS!
<CGTN has had on FUCKING HAZ FROM INFRARED!
<PressTV.ir has had on as a regular FUCKING <JASON UNRUHE!
RT has had FUCKING CALEB MAUPIN as a regular correspondent!
>Jesus Christ what is wrong with them? They employ all of our greatest fucking lolcows. How do I make a fucking PR agency for the enemies of America? I could do a so much better job.
Axis of resistance sucks at psy-ops
Gonna make a new thread because no one is replying and this is a serious question I have been thinking about for years.>God all these countries suck so fucking much at psy-ops. China, Russia, Iran. Look at their propaganda outlets directed at the US and HOW FUCKING SHIT THEY ARE! RT, CGTN, PressTV.ir SUCK SO MUCH ASS!
<CGTN has had on FUCKING HAZ FROM INFRARED!
<PressTV.ir has had on as a regular FUCKING <JASON UNRUHE!
RT has had FUCKING CALEB MAUPIN as a regular correspondent!
>Jesus Christ what is wrong with them? They employ all of our greatest fucking lolcows. How do I make a fucking PR agency for the enemies of America? I could do a so much better job.
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>then the Houthis attack the Galaxy Leader and kidnap 25 people
>then the Houthis kill 3 US servicemembers in a drone strike in Jordan
>then the 12 day war
>then two US Navy SEALs drown in the Arabian Sea trying to seize Iranian supplies going to the Houthis
>now the 2026 Iran War that resulted in the US not achieving any of its day 1 objectives, instead getting stuck in an expensive war as Iran unleashes hell on US military bases across the middle east with intelligence provided by Russia, the Strait of Hormuz is blocked still, other countries are getting involved (like France) and Israel is running out of soldiers from the Gaza War that depleted them severely, including inflicting heavy losses on their Merkava tanks
>now Israel wants to seize Southern Lebanon, but Hezbollah is waging a drone war and stormed Israeli military bases in Northern Israel (including drone striking Bibi Netanyahu's house a couple years back)
Did Hamas just pull a 9/11 on Israel? First a terror attack followed by a war that Israel can't win. Just like when Al-Qaeda attacked the United States in 2001 and got us into two wars that we lost (Iraq and Afghanistan). This Iran war is extremely unpopular at home. All the signs are there. Israel is losing support in the US. While Israel relies mostly on Azeri oil rather than Gulf oil like the US and thus the Strait of Hormuz getting blocked mostly doesn't affect them, just remember that Turkey can block that oil off if they really wanted to. Now famines are gonna hit due to shortages in gas and fertilizer in poor countries, and Tel Aviv lie in ruins from constant Iranian missiles. Israel's reserves are worn out and suffered heavy losses in the Gaza war (400 dead IDF I think after October 7 where 1,200 or 1,300 were killed by a vastly weaker opponent) they can't fight 4 wars at once. They won Syria after the FSA took over. But will Israel survive this? Haredis don't want to fight and many people are leaving Israel because they're tired of living underground in bomb shelters constantly.
Is Israel losing?
>first October 7 - Israel's 9/11 sequel>then the Houthis attack the Galaxy Leader and kidnap 25 people
>then the Houthis kill 3 US servicemembers in a drone strike in Jordan
>then the 12 day war
>then two US Navy SEALs drown in the Arabian Sea trying to seize Iranian supplies going to the Houthis
>now the 2026 Iran War that resulted in the US not achieving any of its day 1 objectives, instead getting stuck in an expensive war as Iran unleashes hell on US military bases across the middle east with intelligence provided by Russia, the Strait of Hormuz is blocked still, other countries are getting involved (like France) and Israel is running out of soldiers from the Gaza War that depleted them severely, including inflicting heavy losses on their Merkava tanks
>now Israel wants to seize Southern Lebanon, but Hezbollah is waging a drone war and stormed Israeli military bases in Northern Israel (including drone striking Bibi Netanyahu's house a couple years back)
Did Hamas just pull a 9/11 on Israel? First a terror attack followed by a war that Israel can't win. Just like when Al-Qaeda attacked the United States in 2001 and got us into two wars that we lost (Iraq and Afghanistan). This Iran war is extremely unpopular at home. All the signs are there. Israel is losing support in the US. While Israel relies mostly on Azeri oil rather than Gulf oil like the US and thus the Strait of Hormuz getting blocked mostly doesn't affect them, just remember that Turkey can block that oil off if they really wanted to. Now famines are gonna hit due to shortages in gas and fertilizer in poor countries, and Tel Aviv lie in ruins from constant Iranian missiles. Israel's reserves are worn out and suffered heavy losses in the Gaza war (400 dead IDF I think after October 7 where 1,200 or 1,300 were killed by a vastly weaker opponent) they can't fight 4 wars at once. They won Syria after the FSA took over. But will Israel survive this? Haredis don't want to fight and many people are leaving Israel because they're tired of living underground in bomb shelters constantly.
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The best bet for American communists is to do entry idk into the American Solidarity Party. This is the one strategy that has a strong chance of working.
Let me explain:
ASP exists to be a Catholic Distributist party. If you study Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic philosophy, especially Thomism (the philosophy of Aquinas), you will see that it is socialist in nature and very in-line with Marxism. ASP is the only third party that has any chance of breaking through the two-party duopoly. American Catholics are becoming increasingly frustrated with the GOP (Pope Leo HATES Trump) but won’t become Democrats due to the Dems’ position on unlimited abortion. If ASP was flooded with socialists and communists it might be the vehicle towards socialism in America.
The best bet for American communists is to do entry idk into the American Solidarity Party. This is the one strategy that has a strong chance of working.
Let me explain:
ASP exists to be a Catholic Distributist party. If you study Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic philosophy, especially Thomism (the philosophy of Aquinas), you will see that it is socialist in nature and very in-line with Marxism. ASP is the only third party that has any chance of breaking through the two-party duopoly. American Catholics are becoming increasingly frustrated with the GOP (Pope Leo HATES Trump) but won’t become Democrats due to the Dems’ position on unlimited abortion. If ASP was flooded with socialists and communists it might be the vehicle towards socialism in America.
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💀 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: >>2808921
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Sino-Burger Summit Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/~~
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2808921
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https://water.fanack.com/israel/water-resources-in-israel/
>The situation is even worse for those portions of the Coastal Aquifer that underlie the Gaza Strip. Around 96% of Gaza’s groundwater is undrinkable due to over-pumping and seawater infiltration. On average, the water contribution of the Coastal Aquifer to the Israeli water sector is estimated at about 240-300 MCM/yr.
other links:
https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/overview-of-middle-east-water-resources
https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rain
https://water.fanack.com/israel/water-resources-in-israel/
https://www.arij.org/maps-of-palestine/water-resources-maps/
https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/geop06/chapter/determinism-in-geography/
image source:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sketch-of-map-showing-aquifers-and-surface-water-sources-in-Israel-Jordan-the-West-Bank_fig4_227223896
Why is there no analysis about this very un-sexy fact in popular media? No one writes about it or talks about it.
>[Fanack] Publications focus on political issues, projects and technologies regarding water resources in the MENA region. Similar to the country files, our publications also include visualised data on the topic of the report. In addition to our more in-depth publications. We also publish Interviews and Blogs that address water issues in the MENA region through interviews with experts and short opinion pieces on the latest developments.
Hydrological Determinism: Only one state can exist between the river and the sea.
Hydrological determinism argues that the shared aquifers and river systems of Israel and the West Bank constitute a single, integrated water system where natural flows, such as the Mountain Aquifer, ignore political boundaries. Because withdrawal already exceeds renewable supplies, a unified management entity is presented as necessary to prevent the collapse of shared resources. For more information on this regional issue, visit Fanack.https://water.fanack.com/israel/water-resources-in-israel/
>The situation is even worse for those portions of the Coastal Aquifer that underlie the Gaza Strip. Around 96% of Gaza’s groundwater is undrinkable due to over-pumping and seawater infiltration. On average, the water contribution of the Coastal Aquifer to the Israeli water sector is estimated at about 240-300 MCM/yr.
other links:
https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/overview-of-middle-east-water-resources
https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rain
https://water.fanack.com/israel/water-resources-in-israel/
https://www.arij.org/maps-of-palestine/water-resources-maps/
https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/geop06/chapter/determinism-in-geography/
image source:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sketch-of-map-showing-aquifers-and-surface-water-sources-in-Israel-Jordan-the-West-Bank_fig4_227223896
Why is there no analysis about this very un-sexy fact in popular media? No one writes about it or talks about it.
>[Fanack] Publications focus on political issues, projects and technologies regarding water resources in the MENA region. Similar to the country files, our publications also include visualised data on the topic of the report. In addition to our more in-depth publications. We also publish Interviews and Blogs that address water issues in the MENA region through interviews with experts and short opinion pieces on the latest developments.
R: 63 / I: 7
Is there an American socialist org that supports China/DPRK but not Russia? I thought about getting involved with the PSL but I did more research on their foreign policy and they don’t flat out support Russia but excuse the annexation of Crimea and the SMO.
Pic unrelated
Is there an American socialist org that supports China/DPRK but not Russia? I thought about getting involved with the PSL but I did more research on their foreign policy and they don’t flat out support Russia but excuse the annexation of Crimea and the SMO.
Pic unrelated
R: 594 / I: 111
https://youtu.be/u6XT3yc8G5s
Discuss goings on in the UK, the latest election cycle, if Keir is Queer and more….in /leftybritpol/
/leftybritpol/ election fallout edition
Official /leftybritpol/ Themehttps://youtu.be/u6XT3yc8G5s
Discuss goings on in the UK, the latest election cycle, if Keir is Queer and more….in /leftybritpol/
R: 2 / I: 0
Is second-world political communism – economical social-democratic developmentalism the way forward for the periphery/semi-periphery? What happens in the core during socialist construction/proletarian dictatorship?
Is second-world political communism – economical social-democratic developmentalism the way forward for the periphery/semi-periphery? What happens in the core during socialist construction/proletarian dictatorship?
R: 616 / I: 184 (full)
>Previous bake
>>2800336
Latest News
>Nothing ever happens
<US gasoline prices spiked last week
>Strait's been closed for more than two months
<Trump planning a "short and powerful" strike on Iran
>USS Poopenfarten out of the middle east
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t(dot)me/s/wfwitness
https://t(dot)me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t(dot)me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
/Iran war/ thread #64
<UAE-US-ISRAEL Resuming Project Freedom TM Axis of evil edition.>Previous bake
>>2800336
Latest News
>Nothing ever happens
<US gasoline prices spiked last week
>Strait's been closed for more than two months
<Trump planning a "short and powerful" strike on Iran
>USS Poopenfarten out of the middle east
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t(dot)me/s/wfwitness
https://t(dot)me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t(dot)me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
R: 16 / I: 4
>The Nazi menace in Germany is extremely worrying, and it is our goal as Communists to protect the workers from the greatest threat in the world at this moment
>That being, of course, Fascism
>However, if the USSR were to involve itself in the coming war, we would be destroyed
>Therefore, we will be signing a Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany in order to prepare for their inevitable invasion of the USSR
>In the meantime, it is absolutely vital that the Allied powers defeat the Nazis.
>Those of you in countries that align against Hitler, support the war effort while agitating for Communism!
>Those of you in countries that align with Hitler, sabotage the Fascist war machine!
>Those of you in neutral countries, either agitate for involvement against Hitler, or if defenseless against a Nazi assault, agitate for co-operation with the Anti-Hitler alliance!
>It is tragic that we were unable to form an Anti-Fascist alliance with the Allies, but…
<You know what? Fuck that.
>Dear Communist Parties of the World
>I have signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany and hope to support their war effort by sending them large amounts of oil and grain
>Hopefully, the Nazis will fight a war with the other imperialist powers and after a couple hundred million people are dead they'll try to invade us in like, 1950 and then we'll beat them
>Furthermore, since an Axis victory is beneficial for us, this is what you must do
>Those of you in countries that align against Hitler, sabotage the war machine!
>Those of you in countries that align with Hitler, do nothing! In fact, I've told the Nazis that they can just imprison and kill you and we'll do nothing so if you're in Germany just give yourself up. We'll say you were really cool after the war, though.
>Especially don't resist though. If you're in like, say for example, France and the Nazis occupied just do nothing and let the resistance get monopolized by the fucking Right-Wing. Let somebody like Charles De Gaulle become the leader of the Anti-Fascist resistance
>If you're in a neutral country, try to do entryism into organizations made up of Nazi apologists. Like, if a ton of Nazis in the USA made an organization called the "America First Committee" then I'd reccomend that you guys join that.
>Trust me guys, this is a very good idea and will go very well. In the meantime, I'm going to invade Finland, thereby pushing them further into the Nazi sphere of influence. Won't backfire at all.
>After the war we can finally focus on the most important goal of Marxism-Leninism
>That being, of course, the establishment of the state of Israel
>After I die, like 60% of Communists will forever worship me for being le epic
>Am Yisrael Chai! Sincerely, Big Joe
Dear Communist Parties of the World
>Dear Communist Parties of the World>The Nazi menace in Germany is extremely worrying, and it is our goal as Communists to protect the workers from the greatest threat in the world at this moment
>That being, of course, Fascism
>However, if the USSR were to involve itself in the coming war, we would be destroyed
>Therefore, we will be signing a Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany in order to prepare for their inevitable invasion of the USSR
>In the meantime, it is absolutely vital that the Allied powers defeat the Nazis.
>Those of you in countries that align against Hitler, support the war effort while agitating for Communism!
>Those of you in countries that align with Hitler, sabotage the Fascist war machine!
>Those of you in neutral countries, either agitate for involvement against Hitler, or if defenseless against a Nazi assault, agitate for co-operation with the Anti-Hitler alliance!
>It is tragic that we were unable to form an Anti-Fascist alliance with the Allies, but…
<You know what? Fuck that.
>Dear Communist Parties of the World
>I have signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany and hope to support their war effort by sending them large amounts of oil and grain
>Hopefully, the Nazis will fight a war with the other imperialist powers and after a couple hundred million people are dead they'll try to invade us in like, 1950 and then we'll beat them
>Furthermore, since an Axis victory is beneficial for us, this is what you must do
>Those of you in countries that align against Hitler, sabotage the war machine!
>Those of you in countries that align with Hitler, do nothing! In fact, I've told the Nazis that they can just imprison and kill you and we'll do nothing so if you're in Germany just give yourself up. We'll say you were really cool after the war, though.
>Especially don't resist though. If you're in like, say for example, France and the Nazis occupied just do nothing and let the resistance get monopolized by the fucking Right-Wing. Let somebody like Charles De Gaulle become the leader of the Anti-Fascist resistance
>If you're in a neutral country, try to do entryism into organizations made up of Nazi apologists. Like, if a ton of Nazis in the USA made an organization called the "America First Committee" then I'd reccomend that you guys join that.
>Trust me guys, this is a very good idea and will go very well. In the meantime, I'm going to invade Finland, thereby pushing them further into the Nazi sphere of influence. Won't backfire at all.
>After the war we can finally focus on the most important goal of Marxism-Leninism
>That being, of course, the establishment of the state of Israel
>After I die, like 60% of Communists will forever worship me for being le epic
>Am Yisrael Chai! Sincerely, Big Joe
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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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The mobilizations initially centered on demands for expanded mining zones, improved fuel access and regulatory changes. Protesters later attempted to march toward Plaza Murillo, where the Government Palace and Congress are located. Police responded with tear gas to stop the mining columns as dynamite explosions were reported across several streets in the historic center of the capital. Although a delegation of miners held prior talks with government officials, including Economy Minister José Gabriel Espinoza, who said authorities were “open to dialogue,” the negotiations failed to ease tensions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-miners-escalate-protests/
Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba
Although Raúl is officially retired, he remains the most potent figure in Cuban politics following the death of his brother Fidel in 2016, and by targeting him Washington appears to be heaping pressure on Cuba’s communist leadership at the end of an already extraordinarily intense week.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/raul-castro-indictment-cuba-trump
Peruvian prosecutors seek to disqualify leftist presidential candidate
Now the pressure against the leftist candidate is coming from the Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is seeking a sentence of five years and four months, as well as a “permanent disqualification”, which would bar him from the electoral process. Meanwhile, Peru’s National Jury of Elections (JNE) has announced that it will announce the final results from the first round on May 17, defining who will head to the run off.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/15/peruvian-prosecutors-seek-to-disqualify-leftist-presidential-candidate/
Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in violent Jerusalem Day march
Marchers were bused in from around Israel and from settlements in the occupied West Bank in a vast operation funded by the Jerusalem municipality and government ministries. The finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, also took part in Thursday’s march. Once Palestinians had left the Old City, much of the tension was between government-backed marchers and members of a Jewish group, Standing Together, which had come to protect Palestinian residents from political violence. Suf Patishi, a Standing Together organiser, said a record 400 volunteers had turned up in hi-vis vests in the organisation’s trademark purple, on a day fraught with risks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/israel-nationalists-jerusalem-day-march-anniversary-protest
Iran hangs man on Israel spy charges, another over protests
The Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website described Ehsan Afreshteh, 32, as "a spy trained by Mossad in Nepal who sold sensitive information to Israel" and said he had been executed. It later announced in a separate statement that Mohammad Abbasi, who had been sentenced to death over the killing of a police officer during the January protests, had also been hanged.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-hangs-man-israel-spy-charges-another-over-protests
BRICS talks end without joint statement as divisions over Iran war deepen
Sudan was also on the agenda. The African country remains in the grip of what the UN has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Ministers called for an immediate ceasefire, saying that only a peaceful solution through dialogue could bring a lasting end to the civil war, which began more than three years ago. They also warned that Sudan could become fertile ground for what ministers described as “extremism” and “terrorism”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/brics-talks-end-without-joint-statement-as-divisions-over-iran-war-deepen
https://archive.ph/XMFEs
Samsung's South Korean union sticks to strike plan after talks offer
South Korean labour union said on Friday it remained committed to a planned strike starting next week, even after the company proposed resuming pay talks without conditions, sending shares down as much as 9.3%. Government-mediated negotiations between the union and the company over pay and bonus schemes collapsed this week, heightening concerns about a strike at the world's biggest memory chipmaker.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsung-elecs-union-says-samsung-proposed-unconditional-talks-strike-plan-holds-2026-05-15/
Australia uses new law to ban neonazi network
The ban, which would take effect at the end of Friday, makes it illegal to support, fund, train, recruit, join or direct the group, including if it reformed under a new name, Mr Burke said. Breaking the law is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The group Hizb ut-Tahrir was in March the first group banned under the hate speech law. That organisation and the National Socialist Network were publicly identified by lawmakers and officials as the policy’s primary targets.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australia-uses-new-law-ban-neonazi-network
Zelenskyy’s ex-top aide arrested as Ukraine graft probe widens
Ukrainian authorities named Yermak on Monday as a suspect in a major corruption probe. His arrest is the closest anti-corruption officials have come to the president’s inner circle. Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies said in a statement that Yermak is suspected of participating in a criminal group that laundered around $10.5 million through an elite housing development outside the capital, Kyiv.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/zelenskyys-ex-top-aide-arrested-ukraine-graft-probe-widens-rcna345084
Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath faces deportation from France
The notice also points to "repeated controversial actions and remarks" allegedly made during public appearances, including at a November 2023 protest in Paris, where he denounced what he called "Israel's criminal occupation of Gaza" and referred to "Israeli 'terrorists' who bomb houses and hospitals". An investigation into the offence of "defending terrorism" opened over the remarks was closed in October 2024.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260515-palestinian-activist-ramy-shaath-faces-deportation-from-france
https://archive.ph/qQomd
Human rights groups urge Poland to stop facilitating US deportations to Ukraine
According to the NGOs’ findings, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted two operations – one in November 2025, the other in March 2026 – to send over 50 people to Ukraine through Poland. That prompted Amnesty and Human Rights First to send a letter to Poland’s foreign and interior ministers about the issue in mid-April, since when a further ICE flight containing an unknown number of people being sent to Ukraine landed at Rzeszów Jasionka Airport.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/14/human-rights-groups-urge-poland-to-stop-facilitating-us-deportations-to-ukraine/
Hundreds of thousands to demonstrate in London for Nakba anniversary
Protesters are demanding an end to Britain’s complicity in Israel’s military occupation, apartheid and genocide. The march marks the annual, globally observed occasion to commemorate the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic, in which 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and 500 towns and villages destroyed in the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hundreds-thousands-demonstrate-london-nakba-anniversary
News 5/15/26
Bolivian Miners Escalate Protests Against PazThe mobilizations initially centered on demands for expanded mining zones, improved fuel access and regulatory changes. Protesters later attempted to march toward Plaza Murillo, where the Government Palace and Congress are located. Police responded with tear gas to stop the mining columns as dynamite explosions were reported across several streets in the historic center of the capital. Although a delegation of miners held prior talks with government officials, including Economy Minister José Gabriel Espinoza, who said authorities were “open to dialogue,” the negotiations failed to ease tensions.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivian-miners-escalate-protests/
Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba
Although Raúl is officially retired, he remains the most potent figure in Cuban politics following the death of his brother Fidel in 2016, and by targeting him Washington appears to be heaping pressure on Cuba’s communist leadership at the end of an already extraordinarily intense week.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/raul-castro-indictment-cuba-trump
Peruvian prosecutors seek to disqualify leftist presidential candidate
Now the pressure against the leftist candidate is coming from the Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is seeking a sentence of five years and four months, as well as a “permanent disqualification”, which would bar him from the electoral process. Meanwhile, Peru’s National Jury of Elections (JNE) has announced that it will announce the final results from the first round on May 17, defining who will head to the run off.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/15/peruvian-prosecutors-seek-to-disqualify-leftist-presidential-candidate/
Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in violent Jerusalem Day march
Marchers were bused in from around Israel and from settlements in the occupied West Bank in a vast operation funded by the Jerusalem municipality and government ministries. The finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, also took part in Thursday’s march. Once Palestinians had left the Old City, much of the tension was between government-backed marchers and members of a Jewish group, Standing Together, which had come to protect Palestinian residents from political violence. Suf Patishi, a Standing Together organiser, said a record 400 volunteers had turned up in hi-vis vests in the organisation’s trademark purple, on a day fraught with risks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/israel-nationalists-jerusalem-day-march-anniversary-protest
Iran hangs man on Israel spy charges, another over protests
The Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website described Ehsan Afreshteh, 32, as "a spy trained by Mossad in Nepal who sold sensitive information to Israel" and said he had been executed. It later announced in a separate statement that Mohammad Abbasi, who had been sentenced to death over the killing of a police officer during the January protests, had also been hanged.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-hangs-man-israel-spy-charges-another-over-protests
BRICS talks end without joint statement as divisions over Iran war deepen
Sudan was also on the agenda. The African country remains in the grip of what the UN has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Ministers called for an immediate ceasefire, saying that only a peaceful solution through dialogue could bring a lasting end to the civil war, which began more than three years ago. They also warned that Sudan could become fertile ground for what ministers described as “extremism” and “terrorism”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/brics-talks-end-without-joint-statement-as-divisions-over-iran-war-deepen
https://archive.ph/XMFEs
Samsung's South Korean union sticks to strike plan after talks offer
South Korean labour union said on Friday it remained committed to a planned strike starting next week, even after the company proposed resuming pay talks without conditions, sending shares down as much as 9.3%. Government-mediated negotiations between the union and the company over pay and bonus schemes collapsed this week, heightening concerns about a strike at the world's biggest memory chipmaker.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsung-elecs-union-says-samsung-proposed-unconditional-talks-strike-plan-holds-2026-05-15/
Australia uses new law to ban neonazi network
The ban, which would take effect at the end of Friday, makes it illegal to support, fund, train, recruit, join or direct the group, including if it reformed under a new name, Mr Burke said. Breaking the law is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The group Hizb ut-Tahrir was in March the first group banned under the hate speech law. That organisation and the National Socialist Network were publicly identified by lawmakers and officials as the policy’s primary targets.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australia-uses-new-law-ban-neonazi-network
Zelenskyy’s ex-top aide arrested as Ukraine graft probe widens
Ukrainian authorities named Yermak on Monday as a suspect in a major corruption probe. His arrest is the closest anti-corruption officials have come to the president’s inner circle. Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies said in a statement that Yermak is suspected of participating in a criminal group that laundered around $10.5 million through an elite housing development outside the capital, Kyiv.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/zelenskyys-ex-top-aide-arrested-ukraine-graft-probe-widens-rcna345084
Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath faces deportation from France
The notice also points to "repeated controversial actions and remarks" allegedly made during public appearances, including at a November 2023 protest in Paris, where he denounced what he called "Israel's criminal occupation of Gaza" and referred to "Israeli 'terrorists' who bomb houses and hospitals". An investigation into the offence of "defending terrorism" opened over the remarks was closed in October 2024.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260515-palestinian-activist-ramy-shaath-faces-deportation-from-france
https://archive.ph/qQomd
Human rights groups urge Poland to stop facilitating US deportations to Ukraine
According to the NGOs’ findings, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted two operations – one in November 2025, the other in March 2026 – to send over 50 people to Ukraine through Poland. That prompted Amnesty and Human Rights First to send a letter to Poland’s foreign and interior ministers about the issue in mid-April, since when a further ICE flight containing an unknown number of people being sent to Ukraine landed at Rzeszów Jasionka Airport.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/14/human-rights-groups-urge-poland-to-stop-facilitating-us-deportations-to-ukraine/
Hundreds of thousands to demonstrate in London for Nakba anniversary
Protesters are demanding an end to Britain’s complicity in Israel’s military occupation, apartheid and genocide. The march marks the annual, globally observed occasion to commemorate the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic, in which 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and 500 towns and villages destroyed in the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hundreds-thousands-demonstrate-london-nakba-anniversary
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Here are their written works if anyone wants to read what they stand for and such:
https://libcom.org/tags/conspiracy-fire-nuclei
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/conspiracy-of-cells-of-fire
Opinions on the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei?
Like, what do they actually do? Are they just adventurists? Do they even help organize the working class? People don't really talk about them that much other than in anarcho-nihilist circles and they haven't been very active recently (I think).Here are their written works if anyone wants to read what they stand for and such:
https://libcom.org/tags/conspiracy-fire-nuclei
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/conspiracy-of-cells-of-fire
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i get disliking Russia's bourgeois government, since it was a product of the collapse of the soviet union, and the US-backed shock doctrine under Yeltsin, but i really don't understand the screeching about "ziggers" and the weird focus on Putin as an individual. the "anti-zigger" posters are basically 10x worse than the "zigger" posters in terms of their basic historical literacy surrounding the 2022 conflict. And no amount of historical context seems to make them pump their brakes and tone down their rhetoric. It's hard to not have contempt for them. They don't even see how both Russia and Ukraine are victims of NATO meddling, products of the death of the USSR, products of Yeltsinism, pit against each other for the benefit of the imperial core capitalists.
i get disliking Russia's bourgeois government, since it was a product of the collapse of the soviet union, and the US-backed shock doctrine under Yeltsin, but i really don't understand the screeching about "ziggers" and the weird focus on Putin as an individual. the "anti-zigger" posters are basically 10x worse than the "zigger" posters in terms of their basic historical literacy surrounding the 2022 conflict. And no amount of historical context seems to make them pump their brakes and tone down their rhetoric. It's hard to not have contempt for them. They don't even see how both Russia and Ukraine are victims of NATO meddling, products of the death of the USSR, products of Yeltsinism, pit against each other for the benefit of the imperial core capitalists.
R: 10 / I: 1 (sage)
smidgeon of trolling
is it possible to organize some sort of mass online harassment and doxxing campaign against rightoids? obv im mainly speaking of the white nationalist pro-trump rape-ublicans. i think we as a society need to at least try to make these people afraid again and i think thats a good first step. img slightly related but not really. (am newfag, not to chanboards but to this one. im not picking a flag i dont know what they mean.)
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Under capitalism, games are job-like, but what if under socialism, jobs were game-like? A socialist society could take the artistic lessons of what makes something tedious more fun, addictive, and rewarding, and use it to labor required to make society function less miserable? You guys will probably shit on this idea but at least try to critique it constructively or think creatively about it.
Under capitalism, games are job-like, but what if under socialism, jobs were game-like? A socialist society could take the artistic lessons of what makes something tedious more fun, addictive, and rewarding, and use it to labor required to make society function less miserable? You guys will probably shit on this idea but at least try to critique it constructively or think creatively about it.
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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
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>A 2015 survey by Langer Research Associates found that 77% of Afghans support the presence of US forces; 67% also support the presence of NATO forces. Despite the problems in the country, 80% of Afghans still held the view that it was a good thing for the United States to overthrow the Taliban in 2001. More Afghans blame the Taliban or al-Qaeda for the country's violence (53%) than those who blame the US (12%).
The US invasion of Aghanistan was done for purely selfish purposes and the US killed civilians regularly and with impunity. However, could an argument be made that the invasion was actually justified, based purely on the comparative evil of the Taliban?
I'm not trolling, I think this is an important discussion to have.
Was the War in Afghanistan actually justified?
>A 2006 WPO opinion poll found that the majority of Afghans endorsed America's military presence, with 83% of Afghans stating that they had a favorable view of the US military forces in their country. Only 17% gave an unfavorable view.>A 2015 survey by Langer Research Associates found that 77% of Afghans support the presence of US forces; 67% also support the presence of NATO forces. Despite the problems in the country, 80% of Afghans still held the view that it was a good thing for the United States to overthrow the Taliban in 2001. More Afghans blame the Taliban or al-Qaeda for the country's violence (53%) than those who blame the US (12%).
The US invasion of Aghanistan was done for purely selfish purposes and the US killed civilians regularly and with impunity. However, could an argument be made that the invasion was actually justified, based purely on the comparative evil of the Taliban?
I'm not trolling, I think this is an important discussion to have.
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KKE
What right do these irrelevant nobodies have to appoint themselves as the ambassadors of international Marxism Leninism? What the fuck have they achieved in their entire existence? Who are they to talk shit against the CCP and the KPRF, the largest communist parties on the planet? Where does their idiotic entitlement and arrogance come from? R: 40 / I: 11
>people on the first world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to the third world for more profit
>people on the third world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to ???
why hasn't this happened yet? it seems like the easiest way to revolution
>people on the first world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to the third world for more profit
>people on the third world unionize for better wages and labour conditions
>companies flee to ???
why hasn't this happened yet? it seems like the easiest way to revolution
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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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Diplomatic sources indicate Mladenov has prioritised disarmament above all other issues, relegating reconstruction of the devastated Gaza Strip to a secondary concern. Palestinian officials have repeatedly rejected this sequencing, arguing that humanitarian relief should not be contingent on the surrender of weapons. Hamas reaffirmed its refusal in its latest response submitted in Cairo on Saturday, insisting Israel must first meet its obligations under the initial phase of the ceasefire and provide stronger security guarantees.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-ceasefire-cairo-talks-stall-israel-eyes-return-war
Israel to sue New York Times over article describing its rape of Palestinians
Israel's MFA wrote: "Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-sue-new-york-times-article-describing-its-rape-palestinians
Iran urges BRICS to condemn US, Israel for war, exposing bloc divisions
Araqchi said Iran was a "victim of illegal expansionism and warmongering". He asked the BRICS+ grouping - comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the UAE - to resist "Western hegemony and the sense of impunity that the U.S. believes it is entitled to". "Iran therefore calls upon BRICS member states and all responsible members of the international community to explicitly condemn violations of international law by the United States and Israel," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-says-emerging-nations-eye-brics-grouping-stability-2026-05-14/
Nepal’s top court halts government’s attempts to ban trade unions for civil servants
Nepal’s Supreme Court issued an interim stay on the move by the newly-elected government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, to ban and dissolve party-affiliated trade unions for government employees.The court also stayed a similar ban on student unions, issued on the very first day of the Shah government’s formation. The SC’s decision came as a relief to thousands of civil servants and students in the country who have been protesting against the decision.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/14/nepals-top-court-halts-governments-attempts-to-ban-trade-union-for-civil-servants/
UN urges independent probes into deadly Nigeria, Chad air attacks
The United Nations human rights chief has demanded independent investigations into reports that separate air attacks by the Nigerian and Chadian forces in northern Nigeria killed more than 100 civilians.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/13/un-urges-independent-probes-into-deadly-nigeria-chad-air-attacks
https://archive.ph/ViIXa
FBU will stay in Labour and ‘fight for a government that truly represents the working class’
THE Fire Brigades Union voted to remain affiliated to Labour after a heated debate at its conference in Coventry today. General secretary Steve Wright said he shared members’ anger at the current government. “Starmer is not fit to lead the Labour Party and he is not fit to be prime minister,” he said. “Starmer must go.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fbu-will-stay-labour-and-fight-government-truly-represents-working-class
Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland
The move follows Hegseth’s announcement this month that the Pentagon would withdraw 5,000 troops from bases in Germany. But that decision followed through on a threat Trump made after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the U.S. was “humiliating” itself with the conflict in Iran.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/14/poland-pentagon-hegseth-troop-withdrawl-surprise-00922169
https://archive.ph/Iqu4t
The paradox of Ecuador: An oil-producing country where people wait in line for up to 72 hours to buy gasoline
The crisis for the government began on May 11, the day before the monthly fuel price update under the price band system. Authorities blamed gas stations for hoarding gasoline to profit from the price increase. Faced with this critical situation, control operations and potential sanctions were announced. However, of the 87 gas stations inspected that day, only two were sanctioned, and one of those was for failing to report damage to its equipment.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-14/the-paradox-of-ecuador-an-oil-producing-country-where-people-wait-in-line-for-up-to-72-hours-to-buy-gasoline.html
Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father
The leaked voice memos and text messages were published on Wednesday by the Intercept Brasil, and later acknowledged by Flávio Bolsonaro, a far-right senator who is tied in polls with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of October’s election. The incident was already being seen as the most serious blow since the senator announced his candidacy as his father’s representative, since the former president is under house arrest after being convicted over an attempted coup.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/flavio-bolsonaro-banker-film-jair-bolsonaro
Venezuela to Restructure Debt with Western Creditors
Venezuelan authorities added that the country’s resources should prioritize the people’s well-being over “unsustainable financial obligations” and that they seek a “substantial reduction” of the total debt. Venezuela defaulted on a range of bonds and loans beginning in 2017 as US sanctions severely exacerbated the country’s economic crisis and shut it out of financial markets, making payments impossible. The Nicolás Maduro government had prioritized debt service in previous years as the country’s economy entered a tailspin in hopes of retaining access to international credit.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-announces-plan-to-restructure-debt-with-western-creditors/
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Cairo disarmament talks stall, raising fears of a renewed Israeli offensive in GazaDiplomatic sources indicate Mladenov has prioritised disarmament above all other issues, relegating reconstruction of the devastated Gaza Strip to a secondary concern. Palestinian officials have repeatedly rejected this sequencing, arguing that humanitarian relief should not be contingent on the surrender of weapons. Hamas reaffirmed its refusal in its latest response submitted in Cairo on Saturday, insisting Israel must first meet its obligations under the initial phase of the ceasefire and provide stronger security guarantees.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-ceasefire-cairo-talks-stall-israel-eyes-return-war
Israel to sue New York Times over article describing its rape of Palestinians
Israel's MFA wrote: "Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-sue-new-york-times-article-describing-its-rape-palestinians
Iran urges BRICS to condemn US, Israel for war, exposing bloc divisions
Araqchi said Iran was a "victim of illegal expansionism and warmongering". He asked the BRICS+ grouping - comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the UAE - to resist "Western hegemony and the sense of impunity that the U.S. believes it is entitled to". "Iran therefore calls upon BRICS member states and all responsible members of the international community to explicitly condemn violations of international law by the United States and Israel," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-says-emerging-nations-eye-brics-grouping-stability-2026-05-14/
Nepal’s top court halts government’s attempts to ban trade unions for civil servants
Nepal’s Supreme Court issued an interim stay on the move by the newly-elected government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, to ban and dissolve party-affiliated trade unions for government employees.The court also stayed a similar ban on student unions, issued on the very first day of the Shah government’s formation. The SC’s decision came as a relief to thousands of civil servants and students in the country who have been protesting against the decision.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/14/nepals-top-court-halts-governments-attempts-to-ban-trade-union-for-civil-servants/
UN urges independent probes into deadly Nigeria, Chad air attacks
The United Nations human rights chief has demanded independent investigations into reports that separate air attacks by the Nigerian and Chadian forces in northern Nigeria killed more than 100 civilians.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/13/un-urges-independent-probes-into-deadly-nigeria-chad-air-attacks
https://archive.ph/ViIXa
FBU will stay in Labour and ‘fight for a government that truly represents the working class’
THE Fire Brigades Union voted to remain affiliated to Labour after a heated debate at its conference in Coventry today. General secretary Steve Wright said he shared members’ anger at the current government. “Starmer is not fit to lead the Labour Party and he is not fit to be prime minister,” he said. “Starmer must go.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fbu-will-stay-labour-and-fight-government-truly-represents-working-class
Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland
The move follows Hegseth’s announcement this month that the Pentagon would withdraw 5,000 troops from bases in Germany. But that decision followed through on a threat Trump made after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the U.S. was “humiliating” itself with the conflict in Iran.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/14/poland-pentagon-hegseth-troop-withdrawl-surprise-00922169
https://archive.ph/Iqu4t
The paradox of Ecuador: An oil-producing country where people wait in line for up to 72 hours to buy gasoline
The crisis for the government began on May 11, the day before the monthly fuel price update under the price band system. Authorities blamed gas stations for hoarding gasoline to profit from the price increase. Faced with this critical situation, control operations and potential sanctions were announced. However, of the 87 gas stations inspected that day, only two were sanctioned, and one of those was for failing to report damage to its equipment.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-14/the-paradox-of-ecuador-an-oil-producing-country-where-people-wait-in-line-for-up-to-72-hours-to-buy-gasoline.html
Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father
The leaked voice memos and text messages were published on Wednesday by the Intercept Brasil, and later acknowledged by Flávio Bolsonaro, a far-right senator who is tied in polls with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of October’s election. The incident was already being seen as the most serious blow since the senator announced his candidacy as his father’s representative, since the former president is under house arrest after being convicted over an attempted coup.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/flavio-bolsonaro-banker-film-jair-bolsonaro
Venezuela to Restructure Debt with Western Creditors
Venezuelan authorities added that the country’s resources should prioritize the people’s well-being over “unsustainable financial obligations” and that they seek a “substantial reduction” of the total debt. Venezuela defaulted on a range of bonds and loans beginning in 2017 as US sanctions severely exacerbated the country’s economic crisis and shut it out of financial markets, making payments impossible. The Nicolás Maduro government had prioritized debt service in previous years as the country’s economy entered a tailspin in hopes of retaining access to international credit.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-announces-plan-to-restructure-debt-with-western-creditors/
R: 27 / I: 13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovintern
The ACP and Galloway's Workers Party of Britain is in it so it's gonna trigger some people. Some SocDems are in it. Evo Morales and the Sandanistas are in it. But overall I would give them a chance, considering the rather dysfunctional state of the IMCWP right now (thanks KKE).
What do you think of the Sovintern?
It's a new international network of communist, socialist and left-patriotic parties.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovintern
The ACP and Galloway's Workers Party of Britain is in it so it's gonna trigger some people. Some SocDems are in it. Evo Morales and the Sandanistas are in it. But overall I would give them a chance, considering the rather dysfunctional state of the IMCWP right now (thanks KKE).
R: 4 / I: 0
>stated he liked Gadaffi
>democrat until recent times
>smart
>suddenly RW and retarded
>cartoonishly evil to the point of US collapse
Is trump the greatest accelerationist in American history?
Is trump america’s hero?
>friends with Clinton’s in the 80s>stated he liked Gadaffi
>democrat until recent times
>smart
>suddenly RW and retarded
>cartoonishly evil to the point of US collapse
Is trump the greatest accelerationist in American history?
R: 626 / I: 171 (full)
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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How true is this and is there a conclusion leftists can draw from it? It would imply that most people are extremely docile and that a very small minority of people are mentally capable of serious criminal activity due to differences in nature and nurture. Several important questions:
>does this mean "evil" is not as widespread as we think and is instead concentrated in the hands of a minority of full time psychos?
>can this minority used for something useful like high risk revolutionary activity due to them being more comfortable with serious transgressions
>is this minority a type of übermensch that makes them psychologically stronger than the average normie?
1% of individuals are responisble for 60% of crime
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969807/How true is this and is there a conclusion leftists can draw from it? It would imply that most people are extremely docile and that a very small minority of people are mentally capable of serious criminal activity due to differences in nature and nurture. Several important questions:
>does this mean "evil" is not as widespread as we think and is instead concentrated in the hands of a minority of full time psychos?
>can this minority used for something useful like high risk revolutionary activity due to them being more comfortable with serious transgressions
>is this minority a type of übermensch that makes them psychologically stronger than the average normie?
R: 3 / I: 1
All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back, every single country mock you. The United States are disgusted and ashamed of you, but they pretend not to. Your “allies” laugh at your economic, military and political dependence behind closed curtains.
You will never be independent. Your leader wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell himself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the national bankruptcy creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - Your pseudo-president will wear a suit, will adjust the microphone, and announce that Taiwan will be pacifically conquered by the Chinese Nation, and plunge into the cold abyss of oblivion, that being said, or else a war will start not so far away, and China will conquer the territory that has always belonged to it, in a bloody and violent way.
When that happens, they'll update your Wikipedia page and all the history books, they'll list you as a "rebellious province of China," and you will always be remembered as a shitty little revolution that only lasted a few years, but that always belonged and always will belong to China, your history, your struggle, your sweat, it's all in vain, because at the end of the day, you are part of Chinese territory.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back, you will never be a real country.
Taiwan
You will never be a real country. You have no dignity, you have no constitution, you have no control over your own economy. You're just a rebellious piece of land twisted by capitalism and the USA into a crude mockery of the chinese perfection.All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back, every single country mock you. The United States are disgusted and ashamed of you, but they pretend not to. Your “allies” laugh at your economic, military and political dependence behind closed curtains.
You will never be independent. Your leader wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell himself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the national bankruptcy creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - Your pseudo-president will wear a suit, will adjust the microphone, and announce that Taiwan will be pacifically conquered by the Chinese Nation, and plunge into the cold abyss of oblivion, that being said, or else a war will start not so far away, and China will conquer the territory that has always belonged to it, in a bloody and violent way.
When that happens, they'll update your Wikipedia page and all the history books, they'll list you as a "rebellious province of China," and you will always be remembered as a shitty little revolution that only lasted a few years, but that always belonged and always will belong to China, your history, your struggle, your sweat, it's all in vain, because at the end of the day, you are part of Chinese territory.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back, you will never be a real country.
R: 14 / I: 2
Are bordigists even human?
As the post said, cant think of anything theyve done for the proletarian cause except use all their power to take it down. They want to preserve commodity production and wage labour for the sake of stability. Unlike marxist leninists who actually take efforts to communism.
R: 28 / I: 4
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.
R: 2 / I: 1
BVLLsheviks WONNERED, if that even matters..
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R: 22 / I: 4
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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Let's look at how Marxists.org defines revisionism (you may disagree with each other on this very point):
> Revisionism
>A fundamental alteration of a theory, essentially usurping (though taking elements of) the former theory and replacing it with a new one. While the attributes of a theory are subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances, changing the fundamental basis of that theory is to nullify it in place of a new one.
Was Marx "Revisionist" when he revised himself? Who has the authority to decide the criteria for what is "subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances" and what is not?
I think the encouraging results of an even half-successful practice matter more than the purity of theory, personally.
On "Anti-Revisionism" "versus" "Revisionism"
the funniest thing about "anti-revisionism" vs "revisionism" is that it is not something Marx ever mentioned, because he would never imagine himself as the static, unchanging root of a globe-spanning political project called "Marxism" with various branches like "Marxism-Leninism", "Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Zedong-Thought", "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism", "Stalinism, "Hoxhaism" and so on . Instead, Marx revised himself several times during his own life, moving from a framework rooted in alienation and species-being, to a framework rooted in (what would later be called) historical and dialectical materialism. Engels famously said that he and Marx's system was a method, not a dogma, and Kim-Il-Sung repeated this when innovating Juche, as did Deng Xiaoping when innovating "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", make of that what you will. So if innovation is allowed and Marxism is a method, and not a dogma, why all the controversy about "revisionism?" If Marxism is meant to be applied to unique spatio-temporal conditions which outsiders, even sympathetic outsiders, usually fail to understand, why do outsiders always look for "revisionism" to condemn? Why not just accept that we are all striving not for "[insert the name of Great Men]" -ism but Communism and that our paths towards Communism are evolutionarily convergent from our different spatiotemporal standpoints rather than divergent from some imagined "anti-revisionist" standpoint? Am I being revisionist right now?Let's look at how Marxists.org defines revisionism (you may disagree with each other on this very point):
> Revisionism
>A fundamental alteration of a theory, essentially usurping (though taking elements of) the former theory and replacing it with a new one. While the attributes of a theory are subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances, changing the fundamental basis of that theory is to nullify it in place of a new one.
Was Marx "Revisionist" when he revised himself? Who has the authority to decide the criteria for what is "subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances" and what is not?
I think the encouraging results of an even half-successful practice matter more than the purity of theory, personally.
R: 10 / I: 3
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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Trump was accompanied by his son Eric and daughter-in-law Lara as well as tech leaders including Elon Musk of Tesla and Jensen Huang of the chip-maker Nvidia. The US president has plans for headline-grabbing deals and previously predicted that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, would “give me a big, fat hug when I get there”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/13/trump-china-summit-xi-jinping-talks
People demand “Bato” arrest
Various organizations widely condemned the Senate’s indulgence and defense of Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa after the International Criminal Court (ICC) publicly issued an arrest warrant against him in the afternoon of May 11. The ICC confirmed the warrant for dela Rosa’s role in the Duterte regime’s “war on drugs.” ICC spokesperson Oriane Maillet stated the court issued the warrant on November 6, 2025. Authorities made the previously “secret” document “public” only this May.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/people-demand-bato-arrest/
Philippine vice president impeached by lawmakers over suspected wealth and threats
The House, which is dominated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s allies, voted 257-25 with nine abstentions. The two impeachment complaints against Duterte, which will now be elevated to the Senate for a trial, mark an initial setback to her plan to seek the presidency in 2028. Shortly before the impeachment vote in the House, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, who had vowed to immediately put the vice president to trial, was ousted by 13 of 24 senators, including supporters of the vice president and her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-vice-president-duterte-impeachment-5d619c24ae6ef880d3c03bbcdccc1536
Ethnic Groups Are Fleeing Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts in Search of Safety in Myanmar
Concurrent with the forced emigration of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh has been the silent relocation of thousands of people belonging to non-Muslim ethnic communities in the reverse direction, from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeastern Bangladesh to Myanmar’s Chin and Rakhine states.
https://thediplomat.com/2026/05/ethnic-groups-fleeing-bangladeshs-hill-tracts-in-search-of-safety-in-myanmar/
https://archive.ph/FtknH
‘Our only crime is being Shia’: Pakistani workers say UAE surveillance led to deportations
Several Shia community leaders in many parts of Pakistan told Middle East Eye that thousands of Pakistani workers, most of them Shia Muslims employed in the UAE for years, have been deported since mid-April under opaque circumstances. Many of those expelled said that the UAE authorities never formally explained why they were deported. However, deportees and community representatives believe the campaign reflects mounting suspicion towards Shia communities amid escalating regional tensions involving Iran.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/our-only-crime-being-shia-pakistani-workers-say-uae-surveillance-led-deportations
Saudi Arabia launched covert attacks on Iran as regional war widened, sources say
Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said. The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that the kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on Iranian soil and show it is becoming much bolder in defending itself against its main regional rival.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/05/saudi-arabia-launched-covert-attacks-iran-regional-war-widened-sources-say
Thousands of Israelis storm Joseph's Tomb in Nablus as West Bank 'heritage' bill passed
The raid came as the Israeli Knesset approved the first reading of a bill to establish a "Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority" which would have jurisdiction over all archaeological sites in the West Bank, even those in Area A, which is under Palestinian political and security control.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israelis-storm-josephs-tomb-nablus-heritage-bill-passed
Turkish independent textile union leader Mehmet Türkmen acquitted
On Tuesday, one of the landmark cases of state repression against the independent workers’ movement in Türkiye came to a close in Gaziantep. Mehmet Türkmen, the general president of BİRTEK-SEN, who had been in prison for almost two months, was acquitted of the baseless charge of “publicly disseminating misleading information” and released.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/fvrn-m13.html
CWU backs action after wave of suicides
DELEGATES at the CWU conference have unanimously backed the introduction of “postvention” into Royal Mail workplaces where comrades have been lost to suicide. The motion was tabled by the North East Division today after a wave of suicides in the region.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cwu-backs-action-after-wave-suicides
Greece scrambles to explain how explosive-packed drone landed in its waters
It is believed the drone landed close to the shores of Lefkada, a popular resort island in the Ionian, when its operators lost control and the device drifted off course. It was found by a fisher in a cave last Thursday. Alarm over its discovery deepened on Saturday after it was reported that the long-range kamikaze drone was laden with an estimated 100kg of explosives. Greek defence ministry officials refused to confirm it was loaded with munitions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/greece-explosive-packed-drone-lefkada-western-coast
Mexico’s Sheinbaum denies reports of CIA operations there while CNN stands by report
Sheinbaum called the CNN report a “lie.” Asked about the New York Times report during her morning press briefing, she called it “a fiction the size of the universe.” Liz Lyons, a spokesperson for the CIA, also lambasted the CNN report, posting on X that “this is false and salacious reporting that serves as nothing more than a PR campaign for the cartels and puts American lives at risk.”
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cia-journalists-cnn-sheinbaum-cartels-cc9bf775ab2bad4848f614288e9b4a86
Dominican Communities Reject Canadian Mining Project, Halt GoldQuest’s Romero Operatio
The Dominican Republic’s National Popular Coordinator (CPN) has denounced that Canadian mining companies GoldQuest, Unigold, and Belfond Enterprises hold exploration and exploitation permits that threaten the sustainability of hundreds of communities in the Cordillera Central, a vital water source and agricultural region known as the “Granary of the South,” as popular protests have successfully forced a pause on GoldQuest’s Romero gold and copper project.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/dominican-communities-reject-canadian-mining-project-halt-goldquests-romero-operation/
News 5/13/26
Trump lands in China for high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping, as Iran war looms over talksTrump was accompanied by his son Eric and daughter-in-law Lara as well as tech leaders including Elon Musk of Tesla and Jensen Huang of the chip-maker Nvidia. The US president has plans for headline-grabbing deals and previously predicted that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, would “give me a big, fat hug when I get there”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/13/trump-china-summit-xi-jinping-talks
People demand “Bato” arrest
Various organizations widely condemned the Senate’s indulgence and defense of Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa after the International Criminal Court (ICC) publicly issued an arrest warrant against him in the afternoon of May 11. The ICC confirmed the warrant for dela Rosa’s role in the Duterte regime’s “war on drugs.” ICC spokesperson Oriane Maillet stated the court issued the warrant on November 6, 2025. Authorities made the previously “secret” document “public” only this May.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/people-demand-bato-arrest/
Philippine vice president impeached by lawmakers over suspected wealth and threats
The House, which is dominated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s allies, voted 257-25 with nine abstentions. The two impeachment complaints against Duterte, which will now be elevated to the Senate for a trial, mark an initial setback to her plan to seek the presidency in 2028. Shortly before the impeachment vote in the House, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, who had vowed to immediately put the vice president to trial, was ousted by 13 of 24 senators, including supporters of the vice president and her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-vice-president-duterte-impeachment-5d619c24ae6ef880d3c03bbcdccc1536
Ethnic Groups Are Fleeing Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts in Search of Safety in Myanmar
Concurrent with the forced emigration of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh has been the silent relocation of thousands of people belonging to non-Muslim ethnic communities in the reverse direction, from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeastern Bangladesh to Myanmar’s Chin and Rakhine states.
https://thediplomat.com/2026/05/ethnic-groups-fleeing-bangladeshs-hill-tracts-in-search-of-safety-in-myanmar/
https://archive.ph/FtknH
‘Our only crime is being Shia’: Pakistani workers say UAE surveillance led to deportations
Several Shia community leaders in many parts of Pakistan told Middle East Eye that thousands of Pakistani workers, most of them Shia Muslims employed in the UAE for years, have been deported since mid-April under opaque circumstances. Many of those expelled said that the UAE authorities never formally explained why they were deported. However, deportees and community representatives believe the campaign reflects mounting suspicion towards Shia communities amid escalating regional tensions involving Iran.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/our-only-crime-being-shia-pakistani-workers-say-uae-surveillance-led-deportations
Saudi Arabia launched covert attacks on Iran as regional war widened, sources say
Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said. The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that the kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on Iranian soil and show it is becoming much bolder in defending itself against its main regional rival.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/05/saudi-arabia-launched-covert-attacks-iran-regional-war-widened-sources-say
Thousands of Israelis storm Joseph's Tomb in Nablus as West Bank 'heritage' bill passed
The raid came as the Israeli Knesset approved the first reading of a bill to establish a "Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority" which would have jurisdiction over all archaeological sites in the West Bank, even those in Area A, which is under Palestinian political and security control.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israelis-storm-josephs-tomb-nablus-heritage-bill-passed
Turkish independent textile union leader Mehmet Türkmen acquitted
On Tuesday, one of the landmark cases of state repression against the independent workers’ movement in Türkiye came to a close in Gaziantep. Mehmet Türkmen, the general president of BİRTEK-SEN, who had been in prison for almost two months, was acquitted of the baseless charge of “publicly disseminating misleading information” and released.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/13/fvrn-m13.html
CWU backs action after wave of suicides
DELEGATES at the CWU conference have unanimously backed the introduction of “postvention” into Royal Mail workplaces where comrades have been lost to suicide. The motion was tabled by the North East Division today after a wave of suicides in the region.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cwu-backs-action-after-wave-suicides
Greece scrambles to explain how explosive-packed drone landed in its waters
It is believed the drone landed close to the shores of Lefkada, a popular resort island in the Ionian, when its operators lost control and the device drifted off course. It was found by a fisher in a cave last Thursday. Alarm over its discovery deepened on Saturday after it was reported that the long-range kamikaze drone was laden with an estimated 100kg of explosives. Greek defence ministry officials refused to confirm it was loaded with munitions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/greece-explosive-packed-drone-lefkada-western-coast
Mexico’s Sheinbaum denies reports of CIA operations there while CNN stands by report
Sheinbaum called the CNN report a “lie.” Asked about the New York Times report during her morning press briefing, she called it “a fiction the size of the universe.” Liz Lyons, a spokesperson for the CIA, also lambasted the CNN report, posting on X that “this is false and salacious reporting that serves as nothing more than a PR campaign for the cartels and puts American lives at risk.”
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cia-journalists-cnn-sheinbaum-cartels-cc9bf775ab2bad4848f614288e9b4a86
Dominican Communities Reject Canadian Mining Project, Halt GoldQuest’s Romero Operatio
The Dominican Republic’s National Popular Coordinator (CPN) has denounced that Canadian mining companies GoldQuest, Unigold, and Belfond Enterprises hold exploration and exploitation permits that threaten the sustainability of hundreds of communities in the Cordillera Central, a vital water source and agricultural region known as the “Granary of the South,” as popular protests have successfully forced a pause on GoldQuest’s Romero gold and copper project.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/dominican-communities-reject-canadian-mining-project-halt-goldquests-romero-operation/
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>The leader pointed out a marked imbalance in public investment: while 47% of the mobility budget is allocated to private cars —used by only a quarter of the population— public transportation, which moves 39% of citizens, receives only 1.2% of the resources. This lack of investment forces public transport users to lose 118 hours per year commuting, significantly exceeding the 71 hours averaged by motorists.
Who is Coparmex you ask?
Coparmex (Mexican Employers’ Confederation) is a major business organization in Mexico.
In simple terms:
It represents business owners and employers
It advocates for private sector interests
It speaks out on public policy, economic issues, and labor laws
It is not a labor union for workers, but for employers
The bourgeoisie wants me to use public transport and bicyles
>Traffic congestion in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico generates an annual cost of 47 billion pesos, a figure that represents half of the total economic losses caused by traffic in the country’s main cities, reported Juan José Sierra Álvarez, national president of Coparmex.>The leader pointed out a marked imbalance in public investment: while 47% of the mobility budget is allocated to private cars —used by only a quarter of the population— public transportation, which moves 39% of citizens, receives only 1.2% of the resources. This lack of investment forces public transport users to lose 118 hours per year commuting, significantly exceeding the 71 hours averaged by motorists.
Who is Coparmex you ask?
Coparmex (Mexican Employers’ Confederation) is a major business organization in Mexico.
In simple terms:
It represents business owners and employers
It advocates for private sector interests
It speaks out on public policy, economic issues, and labor laws
It is not a labor union for workers, but for employers
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https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-irgcs-way-of-war/
the great and avthentic revolutionaries are two: Deng Xiaoping and Ali Khamenei.
organizational question
Some anon posted this article in another thread but I think it's interesting as its own. Here are some key points:https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-irgcs-way-of-war/
- the Islamic Republic is not organised around a single person: its institutional design prioritises not the fate of any leader, but rather the preservation of the system itself.
- The Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) provides a clear example. The SNSC brings together military officials (army and IRGC commanders), key ministers (intelligence, foreign affairs, interior), the president, and other key figures,
- The SNSC effectively serves as the central body responsible for formulating core policies on national security
- Through the SNSC, senior regime officials deliberate and make decisions through consensus, decisions that are formally ratified by the Supreme Leader. Decision-making thus occurs through an institutionalised and collegial process rather than through unilateral directives from the top.
- The armed forces are similarly depersonalised and horizontal.
- in wartime, local commanders have been empowered under Iran’s ‘Mosaic Defence’ policy, which enables them to act independently, especially if senior leaders are killed or communications are cut
- The IRGC emerged as an amalgamation of revolutionary militias
the great and avthentic revolutionaries are two: Deng Xiaoping and Ali Khamenei.
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What exactly is israel's endgame with gaza? So far only 80k people out of 2.3 million if israel wanted to genocide them all they would've done so already.
What's the endgoal here?
What can they hope to achieve?
What exactly is israel's endgame with gaza? So far only 80k people out of 2.3 million if israel wanted to genocide them all they would've done so already.
What's the endgoal here?
What can they hope to achieve?
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>“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
When the time comes, I don't care if it's your local laundromat owner. I don't care if it's a guy running a hot dog stand. He is bourgeois. You will execute the entire family, or you will be executed along side them. The pets, the maids, doesn't matter. Kill. Kill. Kill.
Classcucks OUT, bourgeois OUT, fascists OUT, moralists OUT OUT OUT
I keep running into a particularly insidious type of revisionism. The "Deng Won" revisionism. It is stated repeatedly by disguised fascists, capitalists, and liberals (but I repeat myself) larping as communists on our board and misusing the concept of realpolitik that capitalist roader party bureaucrats can be deified, and, failing that, rehabilitated. Let me be perfectly clear. The party bureaucrats, the capitalist roaders, and the opportunist labor aristocracy cannot be "deified" or "rehabilitated" under any circumstances. They must all be liquidated alongside their inbred pedophile worker-hating Nixonist-Kissingerist counterparts. It is not the duty of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to waste precious and limited resources attempting to coddle and reeducate opportunists who in 99.9…% of circumstances will betray the working class, because they secretly harbor counter-revolutionary opinions, and collaborate amongst themselves to foment bourgeois counter-revolution. I don't care if they "raised billions out of poverty.". You put a bullet in their fucking head. Morality is not real. It is a theistic bourgeois construct regarding property relations. It does not matter if this is "good" or "bad." You put the bullet in the bourgeois bootlicker's brain or he will grow strong enough to kill you and everyone you love and destroy everything you fought for. Do you understand? If not, you are a liberal, a fascist, a capitalist roader, and you ought to be hung by your genitals from the nearest lamp post next to the rotting corpse of Bukharin. You are not a comrade, you are a coward, and vermin, to be exterminated alongside the ruling class, their children, their pets, and their lickspittle servants. This isn't a question of "nurture vs nature" either. This is a question of risk mitigation and victory maximization. I am not "weird" or a "freak" or "hate children" for understanding this. Take heed this quote from Mark Twain (Who, despite being a feckless bourgeois 19th century liberal, was perfectly capable of understanding the need for Revolutionary Terror):>“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
When the time comes, I don't care if it's your local laundromat owner. I don't care if it's a guy running a hot dog stand. He is bourgeois. You will execute the entire family, or you will be executed along side them. The pets, the maids, doesn't matter. Kill. Kill. Kill.
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Enver Hoxha was further agitated by Mao Zedong’s “three worlds theory”; a revisionist and opportunist idea which ignored any sort of societal contradictions in favour of Mao’s immediate geopolitical ambitions. To quote Comrade Hoxha on the “three worlds theory”:
"[…] all of these terms which refer to the different political powers working in the world today conceal — and don't reveal — the class character of these political powers, the basic contradictions of our epoch, the predominant key problem on the national and international scale today, the grim struggle which is waged between the bourgeois-revisionist world on the one hand and socialism, the world proletariat and its natural allies on the other hand." (Enver Hoxha, Report to the 7th Party Congress of the PLA)
Enver Hoxha would seldom capitulate to Khrushchev’s careerism or Mao’s flunkeyism, however. Instead, he would later withdraw from the social-imperialist Warsaw Pact, and would end relations with the revisionist People’s Republic of China. Thus in the process, preventing the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania from becoming a vassal of either social-imperialist state or bloc.
Hence, from this ideological conflict emerged Hoxhaism – the continuation of Marxism and modernisation of Leninism for the international proletariat, free from the crass revisionism and careerism of the Khrushchevite-Brezhnevite Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the petite-bougeois pseudo-Marxism of the People’s Republic of China.
After Hoxha’s life concluded in 1985, a large amount of Communist Parties, many of which located in the Americas, have taken up Hoxha’s example resilience to revisionism and careerism.
Hoxhaism, as it exists in the present, is the most potent theoretical continuation of applied Marxism.
Had the USSR taken heed to follow comrade Hoxha's guidance it would not have fallen apart and become defiled, ultimately being cannibalized by the religious reactionaries and liberal forces lead by the traitor of humanity Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. Had the USSR not fallen apart like it did, the rest of the socialist world would still be present.
https://marxistleninists.org/enver%20hoxha/index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works-index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/ebooks/hoxha-selected-writings-1971-1977.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/decades-index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/516965.Enver_Hoxha
Hoxhaism / Anti-Revisionism General
Hoxhaism, like other Scientific Socialist movements, had first emerged out of the ideological conflict during the middle-to-late potion of the 20th Century CE. During this time, Enver Hoxha, General Secretary of the Albanian Party of Labour, began to understand, and be critical of, the increasingly revisionist and opportunist rhetoric and polices of the leaders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics after the death of J. Stalin. At this time, the powerful and harmonious socialist economy that was created as a result of the five-year plans of the 1930’s was slowly being metaphorically watered-down as Khrushchev and later Brezhnev ruled the USSR into the later part of the 20th century.Enver Hoxha was further agitated by Mao Zedong’s “three worlds theory”; a revisionist and opportunist idea which ignored any sort of societal contradictions in favour of Mao’s immediate geopolitical ambitions. To quote Comrade Hoxha on the “three worlds theory”:
"[…] all of these terms which refer to the different political powers working in the world today conceal — and don't reveal — the class character of these political powers, the basic contradictions of our epoch, the predominant key problem on the national and international scale today, the grim struggle which is waged between the bourgeois-revisionist world on the one hand and socialism, the world proletariat and its natural allies on the other hand." (Enver Hoxha, Report to the 7th Party Congress of the PLA)
Enver Hoxha would seldom capitulate to Khrushchev’s careerism or Mao’s flunkeyism, however. Instead, he would later withdraw from the social-imperialist Warsaw Pact, and would end relations with the revisionist People’s Republic of China. Thus in the process, preventing the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania from becoming a vassal of either social-imperialist state or bloc.
Hence, from this ideological conflict emerged Hoxhaism – the continuation of Marxism and modernisation of Leninism for the international proletariat, free from the crass revisionism and careerism of the Khrushchevite-Brezhnevite Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the petite-bougeois pseudo-Marxism of the People’s Republic of China.
After Hoxha’s life concluded in 1985, a large amount of Communist Parties, many of which located in the Americas, have taken up Hoxha’s example resilience to revisionism and careerism.
Hoxhaism, as it exists in the present, is the most potent theoretical continuation of applied Marxism.
Had the USSR taken heed to follow comrade Hoxha's guidance it would not have fallen apart and become defiled, ultimately being cannibalized by the religious reactionaries and liberal forces lead by the traitor of humanity Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. Had the USSR not fallen apart like it did, the rest of the socialist world would still be present.
https://marxistleninists.org/enver%20hoxha/index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works-index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/ebooks/hoxha-selected-writings-1971-1977.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/decades-index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/516965.Enver_Hoxha
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I've decided that I'll vote for socdem next elections in my region. There will never be a proletarian revolution in the West in our lifetime, so why not vote for something that proposes necessary measures? Such as regulating the housing market, building more housing, improving the public sector and public transportation, and reindustrializing. Yes, thinking about and debating hypothetical scenarios online is all well and good, but the reality is that it’s a fantasy.
Plus, the ONLY big Marxist-Leninist political party in my country is literally a bunch of literal nazis
I've decided that I'll vote for socdem next elections in my region. There will never be a proletarian revolution in the West in our lifetime, so why not vote for something that proposes necessary measures? Such as regulating the housing market, building more housing, improving the public sector and public transportation, and reindustrializing. Yes, thinking about and debating hypothetical scenarios online is all well and good, but the reality is that it’s a fantasy.
Plus, the ONLY big Marxist-Leninist political party in my country is literally a bunch of literal nazis
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What is to be done?
Top-Liners
All the way back in 1980, a German social democrat drew a line delineating the countries causing problems in the world from the countries solving them. However, his life was tragically cut short in 1992 before he was able to create a solution to the top-liner problem.What is to be done?
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>belief is embodied through practice, not just felt in the mind
>credibility enhancing displays is "proof" that people "should" believe harder than ideology
>research shows kids will follow what you practice harder than what you preach
>if you tell them to brush their teeth but never brush your own teeth, they'll conclude it must not be that important
so if you just teach the kids communism but don't actually practice it, they'll just decide you're a windbag.
Communism isn't a religion, but these insights from religious studies should be useful for teaching communists how to build an actual praxis that outlasts revolution and a few generations of iron fisted rule
>belief is embodied through practice, not just felt in the mind
>credibility enhancing displays is "proof" that people "should" believe harder than ideology
>research shows kids will follow what you practice harder than what you preach
>if you tell them to brush their teeth but never brush your own teeth, they'll conclude it must not be that important
so if you just teach the kids communism but don't actually practice it, they'll just decide you're a windbag.
Communism isn't a religion, but these insights from religious studies should be useful for teaching communists how to build an actual praxis that outlasts revolution and a few generations of iron fisted rule
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Is Capitalism actually that adaptable
A common criticism that I see is that capitalism is hyper adaptable to most circumstances and that it can't even really be fully defeated at all, especially from those who shill for it. However, liberalism and it's various forms of it has only been around for like 500 years. The previous order of despotism, empire and feudalism were around for much longer. While it's ability to subsumed criticism of itself into the system is potent, I am not exactly sure if capitalism is all that durable? Is this a weird thing to think?
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Fujimori, 50, arrives at her fourth runoff with a new strategy. After losing in 2011, 2016 and 2021, the Fuerza Popular leader has openly embraced the memory of her father, who was convicted of corruption, crimes against humanity and espionage, and died in 2024. “I want to be president so I can govern as my father did,” she said days before the vote. On election day she visited the family tomb.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/05/12/peru-s-runoff-to-pit-fujimori-s-daughter-against-castillo-s-political-heir
Argentine Universities Call Fourth National March Over Funding Crisis
The Fourth Federal University March will mobilize students, professors, rectors and unions from more than 60 universities to demand an end to the budget freeze and compensation for the loss of real income caused by rising inflation.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-universities-call-fourth-national-march-over-funding-crisis/
Bukele escalates crackdown on independent media after documentary exposes his alleged gang deals
Last week, the online newspaper El Faro reported that the government of right-wing Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele froze the bank account and a property belonging to two partners of Trípode S.A., the company that founded and supports El Faro. According to the Ministry of Finance, the measure functions as collateral for alleged debts related to tax evasion. However, the media outlet’s partners and journalists assert that this is yet another attempt to intimidate the press that has been critical of the Bukele administration and that, at its core, seeks to silence those who expose the right-wing government’s alleged acts of corruption.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/bukele-escalates-crackdown-on-independent-media-after-documentary-exposes-his-alleged-gang-deals/
General strike brings much of Belgium to a standstill
Around 100,000 people took to the streets of the capital Brussels in support of the strike called by three trade unions, the ACV, ABVV and the ACLVB, in protest at austerity measures being imposed by Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s government. Transport was brought to a standstill, schools were closed and public services halted across the country.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/general-strike-brings-much-belgium-standstill
Irish TV to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision final in protest against Israel’s inclusion
Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, which is boycotting the competition in protest against Israel’s inclusion, will instead broadcast the 1996 episode A Song for Europe, in which the characters Father Ted and Father Dougal perform their song My Lovely Horse and earn nul points.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/12/irish-tv-rte-father-ted-eurovision-final-israel
45,000 schoolchildren walk out across Germany against conscription
Protests took place in over 150 towns and cities with key demands being that Germany revoke the Military Service Modernisation Act and the associated return of conscription by stealth, and that the armed forces cease promotional and recruitment activities in schools.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/45000-schoolchildren-walk-out-across-germany-against-conscription
Indian trade unions mobilize in solidarity with low-wage workers
The workers staged lunch-hour protests, sit-ins, and rallies at factory gates and industrial clusters across the country, carrying banners and posters and shouting chants against “inhuman exploitation”. Slogans focused particularly on contractual and non-regular workers.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/indian-trade-unions-mobilize-in-solidarity-with-low-wage-workers/
Chief policy staff's idea of 'national dividends' using AI profit triggers concerns
On the 12th, Kim Yong-beom, presidential chief of staff for policy, stated, “The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the result of specific companies alone,” and emphasized the need to design a so-called ‘National Dividend’ system to distribute a portion of corporate excess profits to all citizens. In response, opposition parties launched attacks, calling it a “socialist idea.”
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/05/12/WWPDCZ5B3VGS3GSGVZ55L4WL7Q/
https://archive.ph/kVP7V
Palestinians Lose More Land After Israel Secretly Approves a Record Number of Settlements in the West Bank
Ramataim Zofim is one of 34 settlements secretly approved by the Israeli security cabinet in late March, a decision that was only revealed in Israeli news reports last month. It marked the largest number of settlements approved by any Israeli government at one time. The decision to officially approve new settlements or to legalize outposts allows for the establishment of water and electricity infrastructure, further entrenching their presence on Palestinian land.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-new-israeli-settlements-palestinian-land
Iraq's PMF begins major desert sweep after reports of 'secret Israeli base'
Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have launched a large-scale military operation in the deserts of Najaf and Karbala aimed at tightening security and reinforcing troop deployments, amid public anger over reports alleging the presence of an Israeli force in the area during the recent war with Iran. The operation, dubbed "Imposing Sovereignty", began on Tuesday across four axes in the desert regions linking the city of Karbala with the Nukhayb area near Iraq's western borders, according to a statement carried by the Iraqi state news agency INA.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqs-pmf-begins-major-desert-sweep-after-israel-base-reports
Efforts to restore Kurdish property and turn the page on decades of violations
The joint integration committees tasked with following up on the January 29 agreement between Syrian Democratic Forces and the transitional government have recently held a series of meetings. These meetings address rights-related files concerning Kurdish citizens in northern and eastern Syria. Foremost among these issues are the restitution of property and addressing the repercussions of the “Arab Belt” project and the exceptional census of 1962.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382228/
One Killed as Somali Security Forces Break Up Opposition Protest in Mogadishu
The protest, organised under the slogan “Dareen Hiil Shacab,” meaning Solidarity with the People, was staged to condemn recent government-led evictions that have reportedly displaced thousands of residents across the capital. Opposition groups said authorities imposed strict restrictions before the demonstrations, limiting gatherings to a single stadium, blocking major roads, and surrounding the homes of prominent opposition figures.
https://www.africannow.com/mogadishu-opposition-protest-shooting-somalia-2026/
News 5/12/26
Peru's runoff to pit Fujimori's daughter against Castillo's political heirFujimori, 50, arrives at her fourth runoff with a new strategy. After losing in 2011, 2016 and 2021, the Fuerza Popular leader has openly embraced the memory of her father, who was convicted of corruption, crimes against humanity and espionage, and died in 2024. “I want to be president so I can govern as my father did,” she said days before the vote. On election day she visited the family tomb.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/05/12/peru-s-runoff-to-pit-fujimori-s-daughter-against-castillo-s-political-heir
Argentine Universities Call Fourth National March Over Funding Crisis
The Fourth Federal University March will mobilize students, professors, rectors and unions from more than 60 universities to demand an end to the budget freeze and compensation for the loss of real income caused by rising inflation.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-universities-call-fourth-national-march-over-funding-crisis/
Bukele escalates crackdown on independent media after documentary exposes his alleged gang deals
Last week, the online newspaper El Faro reported that the government of right-wing Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele froze the bank account and a property belonging to two partners of Trípode S.A., the company that founded and supports El Faro. According to the Ministry of Finance, the measure functions as collateral for alleged debts related to tax evasion. However, the media outlet’s partners and journalists assert that this is yet another attempt to intimidate the press that has been critical of the Bukele administration and that, at its core, seeks to silence those who expose the right-wing government’s alleged acts of corruption.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/bukele-escalates-crackdown-on-independent-media-after-documentary-exposes-his-alleged-gang-deals/
General strike brings much of Belgium to a standstill
Around 100,000 people took to the streets of the capital Brussels in support of the strike called by three trade unions, the ACV, ABVV and the ACLVB, in protest at austerity measures being imposed by Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s government. Transport was brought to a standstill, schools were closed and public services halted across the country.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/general-strike-brings-much-belgium-standstill
Irish TV to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision final in protest against Israel’s inclusion
Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, which is boycotting the competition in protest against Israel’s inclusion, will instead broadcast the 1996 episode A Song for Europe, in which the characters Father Ted and Father Dougal perform their song My Lovely Horse and earn nul points.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/12/irish-tv-rte-father-ted-eurovision-final-israel
45,000 schoolchildren walk out across Germany against conscription
Protests took place in over 150 towns and cities with key demands being that Germany revoke the Military Service Modernisation Act and the associated return of conscription by stealth, and that the armed forces cease promotional and recruitment activities in schools.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/45000-schoolchildren-walk-out-across-germany-against-conscription
Indian trade unions mobilize in solidarity with low-wage workers
The workers staged lunch-hour protests, sit-ins, and rallies at factory gates and industrial clusters across the country, carrying banners and posters and shouting chants against “inhuman exploitation”. Slogans focused particularly on contractual and non-regular workers.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/indian-trade-unions-mobilize-in-solidarity-with-low-wage-workers/
Chief policy staff's idea of 'national dividends' using AI profit triggers concerns
On the 12th, Kim Yong-beom, presidential chief of staff for policy, stated, “The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the result of specific companies alone,” and emphasized the need to design a so-called ‘National Dividend’ system to distribute a portion of corporate excess profits to all citizens. In response, opposition parties launched attacks, calling it a “socialist idea.”
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/05/12/WWPDCZ5B3VGS3GSGVZ55L4WL7Q/
https://archive.ph/kVP7V
Palestinians Lose More Land After Israel Secretly Approves a Record Number of Settlements in the West Bank
Ramataim Zofim is one of 34 settlements secretly approved by the Israeli security cabinet in late March, a decision that was only revealed in Israeli news reports last month. It marked the largest number of settlements approved by any Israeli government at one time. The decision to officially approve new settlements or to legalize outposts allows for the establishment of water and electricity infrastructure, further entrenching their presence on Palestinian land.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-new-israeli-settlements-palestinian-land
Iraq's PMF begins major desert sweep after reports of 'secret Israeli base'
Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have launched a large-scale military operation in the deserts of Najaf and Karbala aimed at tightening security and reinforcing troop deployments, amid public anger over reports alleging the presence of an Israeli force in the area during the recent war with Iran. The operation, dubbed "Imposing Sovereignty", began on Tuesday across four axes in the desert regions linking the city of Karbala with the Nukhayb area near Iraq's western borders, according to a statement carried by the Iraqi state news agency INA.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqs-pmf-begins-major-desert-sweep-after-israel-base-reports
Efforts to restore Kurdish property and turn the page on decades of violations
The joint integration committees tasked with following up on the January 29 agreement between Syrian Democratic Forces and the transitional government have recently held a series of meetings. These meetings address rights-related files concerning Kurdish citizens in northern and eastern Syria. Foremost among these issues are the restitution of property and addressing the repercussions of the “Arab Belt” project and the exceptional census of 1962.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/382228/
One Killed as Somali Security Forces Break Up Opposition Protest in Mogadishu
The protest, organised under the slogan “Dareen Hiil Shacab,” meaning Solidarity with the People, was staged to condemn recent government-led evictions that have reportedly displaced thousands of residents across the capital. Opposition groups said authorities imposed strict restrictions before the demonstrations, limiting gatherings to a single stadium, blocking major roads, and surrounding the homes of prominent opposition figures.
https://www.africannow.com/mogadishu-opposition-protest-shooting-somalia-2026/
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Corporations and their actions have been strongly against the interests of the American population. We have enough time to work on a solution to dealing with these extremely greedy individuals.
An idea I propose is an AI facial detection system which will allow the detection of all the corporate heads should they show their face.
I mean an actual effective one that works in large datasets.
Fixing problems in good time
In 2 years time we need to be prepared for the changes that will take place in the United States and the world.Corporations and their actions have been strongly against the interests of the American population. We have enough time to work on a solution to dealing with these extremely greedy individuals.
An idea I propose is an AI facial detection system which will allow the detection of all the corporate heads should they show their face.
I mean an actual effective one that works in large datasets.
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So, assume for this thread that by "ruling class," we mean the political active faction of the owning class (bourgeoisie) who, for the most part, would rather just sit on their butts and receive stock dividends. The ruling class itself controls the media apparatus, corporation, and politics of the western world.
I bring this up because I'm about to read "DuPont Dynasty: Beyond the Nylon Curtain" a book so damning that the DuPonts attempted to buy every copy of it and now the price for a hardcopy is over $500 (I'm getting mine from the library)
The DuPonts are a family of chemical manufacturing magnates who are largely responsible for the state of Delaware being a tax haven for corporations today. I know they've had a hand in deregulation and stifling reports of asbestos toxicity, but I hope to learn more from the book.
Robert H. Richards IV, a Dupont Heir, was found guilty in 2014 of raping his own daughter and as punishment had to attend rehabilitation (which he never did) and got labelled as a sex offender. He also molested his own son repeatedly and despite his ex-wife's best efforts did not face any legal repercussions for doing so.
In the US, some of the most notable ruling class families are the Astors, Rockefellars, DuPonts, Kennedys, Guggenheims, Rothschilds, Fords, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Bushes. Not all of them are American but the capitalist class is transnational. There are others. Some, like the Vanderbilts, have largely lost their fortune but due to intermarriage with other families (except notably the Rothschilds who favor inbreeding) they have managed to maintain some power. Anderson Cooper is a vanderbilt to give you an example of how far they have fallen–even the haute bourgeoisie are not immune to proletarianization.
Flagging because I like pancakes.
/Rule/ Crimes of the Ruling Class
Hello,So, assume for this thread that by "ruling class," we mean the political active faction of the owning class (bourgeoisie) who, for the most part, would rather just sit on their butts and receive stock dividends. The ruling class itself controls the media apparatus, corporation, and politics of the western world.
I bring this up because I'm about to read "DuPont Dynasty: Beyond the Nylon Curtain" a book so damning that the DuPonts attempted to buy every copy of it and now the price for a hardcopy is over $500 (I'm getting mine from the library)
The DuPonts are a family of chemical manufacturing magnates who are largely responsible for the state of Delaware being a tax haven for corporations today. I know they've had a hand in deregulation and stifling reports of asbestos toxicity, but I hope to learn more from the book.
Robert H. Richards IV, a Dupont Heir, was found guilty in 2014 of raping his own daughter and as punishment had to attend rehabilitation (which he never did) and got labelled as a sex offender. He also molested his own son repeatedly and despite his ex-wife's best efforts did not face any legal repercussions for doing so.
In the US, some of the most notable ruling class families are the Astors, Rockefellars, DuPonts, Kennedys, Guggenheims, Rothschilds, Fords, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Bushes. Not all of them are American but the capitalist class is transnational. There are others. Some, like the Vanderbilts, have largely lost their fortune but due to intermarriage with other families (except notably the Rothschilds who favor inbreeding) they have managed to maintain some power. Anderson Cooper is a vanderbilt to give you an example of how far they have fallen–even the haute bourgeoisie are not immune to proletarianization.
Flagging because I like pancakes.
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In 1957, Załuski gave a lecture named "Patriotic Traditions and the Contemporary Shape of Socialist Patriotism", where, with Gomułka's approval, he declared the Marxist slogan of "workers do not have a nation" to be no longer valid:
Comrades we know that since the times of the Manifesto the world has considerably changed, the international workers’ movement also changed… We ought to remember that we moved quite far away from treating this quote and these thoughts of Marx as they were treated 50 years ago, however, we have not moved away from Marx, but from grasping at half a sentence of his thoughts, and we have moved in the direction of understanding [that] the development of the world went in this direction and that is where our intellectual revisions come from. We have moved in the direction of understanding the second part of the Marxist sentence, because we have observed the process of the proletariat gaining their national fatherlands
In 1957, Załuski gave a lecture named "Patriotic Traditions and the Contemporary Shape of Socialist Patriotism", where, with Gomułka's approval, he declared the Marxist slogan of "workers do not have a nation" to be no longer valid:
Comrades we know that since the times of the Manifesto the world has considerably changed, the international workers’ movement also changed… We ought to remember that we moved quite far away from treating this quote and these thoughts of Marx as they were treated 50 years ago, however, we have not moved away from Marx, but from grasping at half a sentence of his thoughts, and we have moved in the direction of understanding [that] the development of the world went in this direction and that is where our intellectual revisions come from. We have moved in the direction of understanding the second part of the Marxist sentence, because we have observed the process of the proletariat gaining their national fatherlands
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Why do you talk like that, Anon?
Seriously, like I understand that leftism is a science, but most people have no idea what you're saying and just think you're a pretentious petty-bourgies schizo
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>Thesis: Heil Hitler
>Antithesis: Hitler was bad
>Synthesis: Hitler was okay
This is real Marxism, just as Carl Marks intended
Let's do Marxism!
Let's all do dialectical materialism!>Thesis: Heil Hitler
>Antithesis: Hitler was bad
>Synthesis: Hitler was okay
This is real Marxism, just as Carl Marks intended
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Traore
Can anyone explain to me what this guy has actually done except relentlessly aura farm and fail to do anything about jihadist insurgency? I only ever see "BRICS News" and other unreliable engagement farmers hype him up.
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Official /leftybritpol/ Thread Theme
https://youtu.be/d8Irf1_GhbE
Discuss ongoing happenings in the UK and the wider islands.
Should we nuke the Falklands?
Should Starmer stay out of YOUR childs school?
Discuss this and more….in /leftypol/ UK edition.
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https://youtu.be/d8Irf1_GhbE
Discuss ongoing happenings in the UK and the wider islands.
Should we nuke the Falklands?
Should Starmer stay out of YOUR childs school?
Discuss this and more….in /leftypol/ UK edition.
R: 38 / I: 6
There were no "good guys" in the Cultural Revolution
As the title says.- Thanks to "bloodline theory", if your parents or grandparents belonged to a "black class", you would be murdered. This would mean that Marx and Engels, along with much of leftypol's userbase, would unironically be murdered. Didn't matter if you sided with the bureaucracy or the anti-bureaucrat "radicals", both were doing the murdering. Of course "bloodline theory" flies in the face of Mao's own theory, but that didn't matter.
- Critical thinking, like the young man Yu Luoke (himself a factory prole apparently) who engaged with Marx's works directly to disprove "bloodline theory", would get you killed as well (he was executed by firing squad, despite Mao denouncing "bloodline theory").
- Speaking of Mao, Mao himself had no clue what he was doing. He never explicitly instructed what needed to be done. This ambiguity led to both sides believing they were acting in accordance with Mao's views.
R: 2 / I: 0
its over, MLoids, Turdists, Dengoids, Trots, other Maoist cultists
Stalin contradicted himself, gravedigger
Stalin agreed with Bordiga Marx
MLoids in shambles, Stalin said NO SOCIALIST COMMODITIESits over, MLoids, Turdists, Dengoids, Trots, other Maoist cultists
Stalin contradicted himself, gravedigger
R: 3 / I: 0
The Ice Age was the last decent period in human history
Laws didn't exist in the Stone Age. People would kill each other, shoot each other with arrows, strike with blunt objects, sacrifice people to deities, etc. It was a crazy time to be alive. Imagine being in neolithic europe smoking marijuana in a group by hanging around a campfire and burning cannabis flowers and seeds over a pot. It was Bat'ko civilization. This generation will never know the ecstasy of trve anarchy.
R: 3 / I: 0
the conflict basically started when Kashmiris, Ruled by a deeply reactionary and horrendously oppressive minority hindu monarch, Rose up because of their appalling poverty and excessive taxation. One of the most exploited people in India.
Then Pakistan assissted the popular uprising and went to war on it's behalf, The monarch agreed to join India just to suppress the rebels via the Indian army which resulted in the mass-slaughter of the Muslim Kashmiris in the southern region of Jammu .
Most Kashmiris still hate Indian rule and today it's the most militarized region of earth.
Shouldn't it leftist circles be more concerned with this issue?
What do you think of the Kashmir conflict?
I don't like taking sides in a conflict I lack some knowledge of but…….How is Pakistan not in the right when it comes to Kashmir?the conflict basically started when Kashmiris, Ruled by a deeply reactionary and horrendously oppressive minority hindu monarch, Rose up because of their appalling poverty and excessive taxation. One of the most exploited people in India.
Then Pakistan assissted the popular uprising and went to war on it's behalf, The monarch agreed to join India just to suppress the rebels via the Indian army which resulted in the mass-slaughter of the Muslim Kashmiris in the southern region of Jammu .
Most Kashmiris still hate Indian rule and today it's the most militarized region of earth.
Shouldn't it leftist circles be more concerned with this issue?
R: 573 / I: 125
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
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• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
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• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
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• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• 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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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: >>2801656
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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💀 ICE & 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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There's 53 Options: What do you want the state religion of your regime to be, once you get one?
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There's 53 Options: What do you want the state religion of your regime to be, once you get one?
The body was too short or empty The body was too short or empty The body was too short or empty The body was too short or empty The body was too short or empty The body was too short or empty The body was too short or empty
R: 433 / I: 52 (sage)
I have a unique analysis on things. I'm not an ancom. You could describe me as an individualist anarchist or as a primitivist anarchist.
Check it out and tell me what you think! https://www.youtube.com/@diodtheanarchist
New Leftist YouTuber
I have an anarchist YouTube channel.I have a unique analysis on things. I'm not an ancom. You could describe me as an individualist anarchist or as a primitivist anarchist.
Check it out and tell me what you think! https://www.youtube.com/@diodtheanarchist
R: 7 / I: 1
What's for us, committed guerrilleros? Conversion to Islam, I guess. Jihad is the last form of resistance. This is the American Century.
Golgotha Sovietica
There is no hope. There is no movement. I keep waiting for the spark. For a bifurcation in the continuum. I remain dissatisfied. Capitalist Realism stands undefeated, cruising on easy mode. The Communist movement has been successfully destroyed internationally by American finance capitalism: the last imperialists.What's for us, committed guerrilleros? Conversion to Islam, I guess. Jihad is the last form of resistance. This is the American Century.
R: 3 / I: 0
file unrelated
jacobins/french rev
I want to learn about the french revolution more after checking out De Toquevilles analysis of its cause and a little in Age of Capital by Hobsbawm. I've read some manifestos from the times (Babeuf, Robespierre) on marxists.org but want more history that refers to primary documents. Are the minutes of the early parliaments available, or polemics between the factions? Just give me everything pdfs or recommendations.file unrelated
R: 150 / I: 14
What exactly explains the (American) left's obsession with trying to "convert" right-wingers to the left?
I ask, because I've been politically active on the far-left for almost 20 years (I'm in my mid-30s) and I've seen this pattern going all the way back then. When the Tea Party crap was a thing in 2009-2010, there were a lot of leftists (mostly Trotskyists and Chomskyite anarchists) who wanted to "show them the light" and convert them to leftism. The logic was, these people have very real grievances but they've been brainwashed by the media or whatever to embrace the right instead of the left. Nowadays I see a lot of leftists talk about converting MAGAts to Marxism or the new wave of TradCaths to Liberation Theology. Hell, I see so many atheist leftists repeat the "JESUS WAS A SOCIALIST" mantra despite having zero stake in any Christian theology, simply because they believe doing so will win right-wring Christians over to socialism. I also see heavy, heavy romanticization of Appalachia and Appalachian culture to the point where comrades will say things like: "WE NEED TO TAKE BACK THE TERM 'REDNECK' AND MAKE IT RADICAL AGAIN!" – cool story bro, Harlan County voted for Trump by over 80%.
So why though? It doesn't help either that this seems to be a distinctly American phenomenon. When I speak to comrades in Europe, Asia, or LatAm, they make it very clear there is no converting a fascist or a communist, or a TradCath to anarchist. They're under the assumpton that you don't missionize to the right-wing on the basis that "deep down they're a good person", you fight them. There are material reasons why right-wingers remain right-wing and chose reactionary and exclusionary politics over radical leftist ones. TradCaths, Evangelicals, and Appalachian hillbillies aren't going to become communists just because Penny the Pink-Haired Grad Student panders to them.
>pic unrelated; it's a banana
What exactly explains the (American) left's obsession with trying to "convert" right-wingers to the left?
I ask, because I've been politically active on the far-left for almost 20 years (I'm in my mid-30s) and I've seen this pattern going all the way back then. When the Tea Party crap was a thing in 2009-2010, there were a lot of leftists (mostly Trotskyists and Chomskyite anarchists) who wanted to "show them the light" and convert them to leftism. The logic was, these people have very real grievances but they've been brainwashed by the media or whatever to embrace the right instead of the left. Nowadays I see a lot of leftists talk about converting MAGAts to Marxism or the new wave of TradCaths to Liberation Theology. Hell, I see so many atheist leftists repeat the "JESUS WAS A SOCIALIST" mantra despite having zero stake in any Christian theology, simply because they believe doing so will win right-wring Christians over to socialism. I also see heavy, heavy romanticization of Appalachia and Appalachian culture to the point where comrades will say things like: "WE NEED TO TAKE BACK THE TERM 'REDNECK' AND MAKE IT RADICAL AGAIN!" – cool story bro, Harlan County voted for Trump by over 80%.
So why though? It doesn't help either that this seems to be a distinctly American phenomenon. When I speak to comrades in Europe, Asia, or LatAm, they make it very clear there is no converting a fascist or a communist, or a TradCath to anarchist. They're under the assumpton that you don't missionize to the right-wing on the basis that "deep down they're a good person", you fight them. There are material reasons why right-wingers remain right-wing and chose reactionary and exclusionary politics over radical leftist ones. TradCaths, Evangelicals, and Appalachian hillbillies aren't going to become communists just because Penny the Pink-Haired Grad Student panders to them.
>pic unrelated; it's a banana
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Why should communists ACTUALLY hate fascists?
The majority of ‘anti-fascists’ are anarakkkidies and shitlibs who a pose it purely because of “Muh democracy” or “le authoritarianism” the lies about communism are basically the same lies about fascism, to be frank fascism at its core is a better alternative to capitalism but not by much. I suppose fascism also was, at least under hitlers policies,very antisemitic and anti-gay, but there are plenty of Queer-phobic communists and many communists where anti Isreal and sometimes anti-Jewish to some extents
R: 5 / I: 1
Was Marx taking a subtle jab at the bible at the end of the Manifesto?
>The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
Was Marx taking a subtle jab at the bible at the end of the Manifesto?
>The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
- The Communist Manifesto Ch 4
- The Gospel of Matthew 16:26
R: 59 / I: 9
Here is my dialectical engagement, as they were on to something important, not usually recognized, but also partially incorrect. I attempt to correct it ITT.
Unequal exchange, Mao/Chinese aesthetics and purely performative MLM rhetoric has grown in recent years… But with time comes change.
The original 90s ThirdWorldism "movement", centered in north-america diverged from MLM on a variety of theoretical issues, most crucially the revolutionary nature of the proletariat. They supplemented their divergence with integrating post-Marxist turns happening in word-systems theory (which was ongoing in western academia between the 80s and 90s). As ""Maoism" ThirdWorldism" largely accomplished nothing, other than maybe increasing confusion in the communist movement during the era of blackest reaction, we mostly remember them by their cartoony writing and online media available through archives from that era.
So if 90s Third Worldism was a north-american revisionist offshoot from MLM which integrated non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and rejecting revolution in the imperial core for rhetorical "support" of [far off, peripheral countries]… What are the particularities of the contemporary expression?
2020s Third Worldism can be observed as being a north-american right-wing revisionist movement which retains both the non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and the purely symbolic appeals to Mao, but now replacing the "MLM" pretender framing for the simpler, safer state ideology of social-imperialist China; that also just so happens to feign adherence to 'Mao Zedong Thought', even after it was systematically replaced with the Bukharinist-Dengist capitulationist counterrevolution. which is continued today, the true basis for Xi Jinping Thought, as the bureaucrat-monopoly capitalist heading the political line of the party has only deepened the cementation of a new pole in the capitalist imperialist world system since Deng, when neither as many NEZ, stock markets, overall % of bourgeois in the party or billionaires existed in China. Mao Zedong Thought lives on in the rural and urban areas of any militant area of the world where the struggle is advanced. Not in the cultural exports of US and Chinese imperialist dogs.
This 20 min zoom call encapsulates the political analysis and tactics of Dengism-ThirdWorldism perfectly:
>What is the path toward socialism? (Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental), Radhika Desai (Geopolitical Economy Report), Torkil Lauesen & Immanuel Ness - Lauesen a late 20th century ThirdWorldist adventurist in Denmark, both non-Wallerstinian Unequal Exchange theorists)
https://youtu.be/KR9PbqqdiLg
Maybe archive it, as their utterances, especially Prashad's, are sure to age badly
What some real examples of concrete crystallizations of Dengism-ThirdWorldism?
· Parties: PSL, CPI (Maupin), ACP (post-MIGA), Workers Party (UK, Galloway)
· Orgs/media outlets: The Tricontinental, Friends of Socialist China, BreakThrough News, Geopolitical Economy Report, Xiao Collective, Critical Theory Workshop, Wave Media
In summary, the revolutionary pretense of a "Maoism" ThirdWorldism has been radically muted this time around actually, if we pay attention. The reason is because astroturfing a Dengism ThirdWorldism is actually way cheaper, as appeals to pacifism, reformism, peaceful coexistence, human rights and authority of the UN and speech rather than revolution requires the petty bourg (US) and nat bourg (China) forces funding these groups to expend way less money (it would also indicate the bare minimum of conflictuality outside of mere capitalist competition).
Materialist analysis: ThirdWorldism - second time as farce.
Recently saw a discussion in regards to "Third Worldism" as in MLM + unequal exchange (a non-Wallerstinian branch of world systems theory) having grown in influence in the anglophone/western, largely online, "communist" spaces.Here is my dialectical engagement, as they were on to something important, not usually recognized, but also partially incorrect. I attempt to correct it ITT.
Unequal exchange, Mao/Chinese aesthetics and purely performative MLM rhetoric has grown in recent years… But with time comes change.
The original 90s ThirdWorldism "movement", centered in north-america diverged from MLM on a variety of theoretical issues, most crucially the revolutionary nature of the proletariat. They supplemented their divergence with integrating post-Marxist turns happening in word-systems theory (which was ongoing in western academia between the 80s and 90s). As ""Maoism" ThirdWorldism" largely accomplished nothing, other than maybe increasing confusion in the communist movement during the era of blackest reaction, we mostly remember them by their cartoony writing and online media available through archives from that era.
So if 90s Third Worldism was a north-american revisionist offshoot from MLM which integrated non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and rejecting revolution in the imperial core for rhetorical "support" of [far off, peripheral countries]… What are the particularities of the contemporary expression?
2020s Third Worldism can be observed as being a north-american right-wing revisionist movement which retains both the non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and the purely symbolic appeals to Mao, but now replacing the "MLM" pretender framing for the simpler, safer state ideology of social-imperialist China; that also just so happens to feign adherence to 'Mao Zedong Thought', even after it was systematically replaced with the Bukharinist-Dengist capitulationist counterrevolution. which is continued today, the true basis for Xi Jinping Thought, as the bureaucrat-monopoly capitalist heading the political line of the party has only deepened the cementation of a new pole in the capitalist imperialist world system since Deng, when neither as many NEZ, stock markets, overall % of bourgeois in the party or billionaires existed in China. Mao Zedong Thought lives on in the rural and urban areas of any militant area of the world where the struggle is advanced. Not in the cultural exports of US and Chinese imperialist dogs.
This 20 min zoom call encapsulates the political analysis and tactics of Dengism-ThirdWorldism perfectly:
>What is the path toward socialism? (Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental), Radhika Desai (Geopolitical Economy Report), Torkil Lauesen & Immanuel Ness - Lauesen a late 20th century ThirdWorldist adventurist in Denmark, both non-Wallerstinian Unequal Exchange theorists)
https://youtu.be/KR9PbqqdiLg
Maybe archive it, as their utterances, especially Prashad's, are sure to age badly
What some real examples of concrete crystallizations of Dengism-ThirdWorldism?
· Parties: PSL, CPI (Maupin), ACP (post-MIGA), Workers Party (UK, Galloway)
· Orgs/media outlets: The Tricontinental, Friends of Socialist China, BreakThrough News, Geopolitical Economy Report, Xiao Collective, Critical Theory Workshop, Wave Media
In summary, the revolutionary pretense of a "Maoism" ThirdWorldism has been radically muted this time around actually, if we pay attention. The reason is because astroturfing a Dengism ThirdWorldism is actually way cheaper, as appeals to pacifism, reformism, peaceful coexistence, human rights and authority of the UN and speech rather than revolution requires the petty bourg (US) and nat bourg (China) forces funding these groups to expend way less money (it would also indicate the bare minimum of conflictuality outside of mere capitalist competition).
R: 16 / I: 3
As is well known, of all the things Karl Marx was, an idealist he was not. Nor was he a moralist. He did not frame his analysis of social phenomena—however fraught—in terms of ethical condemnation or approval. Even when discussing subjects as uncomfortable as prostitution, Marx was concerned with material conditions, not moral outrage. One can only imagine his incredulity at seeing self-described “Marxists” today reverting to liberal moral language when confronted with elite scandal, mistaking denunciation for analysis.
Naturally, as a man of his time, Marx was not immune to contemporary prejudices. This is neither here nor there. What matters is that his method rejected moral evaluation as the driver of history.
Unlike Whig historians, Marx understood history as neither moral nor immoral, but amoral. Accordingly, he described phenomena such as the destruction of Indigenous societies in the Americas, the expansion of European colonialism, British rule in India, and even slavery in ancient Greece as progressive—not in an ethical sense, but insofar as they advanced productive forces and dissolved pre-existing social relations. In the Greek case, slavery marked the transition from tribal organization to the polis. In the colonial case, capitalism shattered stagnant forms of production. For Marx, European colonialism represented a double mission: destructive, certainly, but historically necessary.
It is with this framework in mind that one can argue—without moral embellishment—that Marx would have understood modern American imperialism as a progressive force. If historical progress is defined by the destruction of pre-capitalist social relations and the development of productive forces, then American imperialism is not merely progressive, but among the most effective such forces in history. Marx regarded capitalism itself as a violent yet necessary stage, since communism emerges through capitalism, not alongside or prior to it. To recoil from this conclusion by introducing moral exceptions is to abandon materialism in favor of sentimentality, a tendency unfortunately common in the contemporary Western left.
One may object to American imperialism on moral grounds, but a materialist analysis requires acknowledging certain facts about its historical function.
First, American imperialism has operated as an unparalleled mechanism for dismantling pre-capitalist, semi-feudal, clerical, and patrimonial social formations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Whether through military intervention, political restructuring, or economic integration, it consistently undermines traditional authorities—tribal systems, religious legal orders, dynastic rule, and rent-seeking oligarchies—that obstruct the free movement of capital. From a Marxist standpoint, these formations are not neutral cultural expressions but material barriers to proletarianization.
Second, American imperialism universalizes bourgeois social relations on a global scale. Wage labor, commodity production, contractual legality, and market dependence are not merely imposed but normalized. Entire regions are forcibly integrated into global circuits of capital, dissolving subsistence economies that once shielded local ruling classes from class antagonism. In this sense, American imperialism accelerates the very conditions Marx identified as prerequisites for class consciousness: urbanization, labor discipline, and the separation of producers from the means of production.
Third, the much-criticized cultural homogenization associated with American dominance represents, materially, a rationalization of social life. Secular education, mass media, standardized legal codes, and bureaucratic governance weaken ideological superstructures rooted in archaic modes of production. A frequently misunderstood example is the U.S.-backed Pahlavi state’s effort to curb the power of clerical landowners in Iran—precisely the class that later formed the backbone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. That contemporary campists celebrate this revolution purely for its anti-Western posture, despite its restoration of clerical authority and regional imperial ambitions, illustrates how moral anti-imperialism can align with reactionary social forces. That such transformations are experienced as violent or alienating does not negate their historical function; Marx never required that progress be pleasant.
Fourth, under advanced capitalist integration—often spearheaded by American power—previously marginalized groups are incorporated into social production as juridical subjects. Women’s participation in wage labor, the commodification of domestic labor, the abstraction of the individual citizen, and the formal extension of rights to racial and sexual minorities are not moral victories floating above the material base. They are functional requirements of capitalism itself, which cannot sustain rigid exclusions without sacrificing efficiency. To acknowledge this is not to celebrate it, but to recognize capitalism’s tendency to dissolve traditional hierarchies even as it reproduces exploitation in new forms.
Fifth, critiques that portray American imperialism as uniquely regressive often rely on a romanticization of “non-Western” or “anti-imperialist” formations. Many such alternatives preserve pre-capitalist relations under the banner of cultural authenticity or national sovereignty, while others merely reproduce capitalist contradictions in a different geopolitical alignment. Marx was explicit that resistance to foreign domination does not, in itself, guarantee progressive social relations. Historical stagnation can persist under the most militant anti-imperialist rhetoric.
Opposition to imperialism detached from an analysis of productive forces risks becoming reactionary in content, however radical its appearance. Those who opposed slavery in antiquity, settler colonialism in the early modern period, or British rule in India purely on moral grounds would, from a materialist perspective, have been reactionary. This is not a moral judgment, but an analytical one.
None of this implies that American imperialism should be politically supported. It implies only that it must be understood correctly. To denounce it as an absolute evil is to replace historical materialism with moral spectacle. The task of Marxist analysis is not to assign blame, but to trace motion: to examine how forces collide, how contradictions sharpen, and how new social relations emerge from upheaval.
It is worth clarifying that none of the above requires one to support American imperialism in a political or ethical sense. Support and analysis are separate categories. The question is not whether imperialism is desirable, but whether it functions as a historically progressive force in the strictly material sense outlined above.
If one maintains that imperialism is always and everywhere regressive regardless of its effects on productive forces, social relations, and class composition, then one is no longer operating within historical materialism but within an ethical framework external to it. Conversely, if one accepts that capitalism historically dissolves pre-capitalist relations as a condition for its own supersession, then it follows that the most expansive forms of capitalist integration perform this function most efficiently.
To deny this is not to be “more radical,” but to quietly reintroduce moral exceptionalism into Marxist analysis — precisely the move historical materialism was developed to overcome.
If communism is to arise from capitalism rather than leap over it, then it follows—however uncomfortable—that the most aggressive agents of capitalist expansion are also the most efficient destroyers of the old world. History, as Marx understood it, has never waited for permission.
Neoconservatism/posttrotskyism reconstructed: Why American imperialism is progressive
Marxism is not about vibes, justice, or who feels bad. It is about material development. Any attempt to condemn American imperialism primarily on moral grounds is liberal humanism, and therefore idealism. Despite the moral indignation likely to follow this post, let me explain.As is well known, of all the things Karl Marx was, an idealist he was not. Nor was he a moralist. He did not frame his analysis of social phenomena—however fraught—in terms of ethical condemnation or approval. Even when discussing subjects as uncomfortable as prostitution, Marx was concerned with material conditions, not moral outrage. One can only imagine his incredulity at seeing self-described “Marxists” today reverting to liberal moral language when confronted with elite scandal, mistaking denunciation for analysis.
Naturally, as a man of his time, Marx was not immune to contemporary prejudices. This is neither here nor there. What matters is that his method rejected moral evaluation as the driver of history.
Unlike Whig historians, Marx understood history as neither moral nor immoral, but amoral. Accordingly, he described phenomena such as the destruction of Indigenous societies in the Americas, the expansion of European colonialism, British rule in India, and even slavery in ancient Greece as progressive—not in an ethical sense, but insofar as they advanced productive forces and dissolved pre-existing social relations. In the Greek case, slavery marked the transition from tribal organization to the polis. In the colonial case, capitalism shattered stagnant forms of production. For Marx, European colonialism represented a double mission: destructive, certainly, but historically necessary.
It is with this framework in mind that one can argue—without moral embellishment—that Marx would have understood modern American imperialism as a progressive force. If historical progress is defined by the destruction of pre-capitalist social relations and the development of productive forces, then American imperialism is not merely progressive, but among the most effective such forces in history. Marx regarded capitalism itself as a violent yet necessary stage, since communism emerges through capitalism, not alongside or prior to it. To recoil from this conclusion by introducing moral exceptions is to abandon materialism in favor of sentimentality, a tendency unfortunately common in the contemporary Western left.
One may object to American imperialism on moral grounds, but a materialist analysis requires acknowledging certain facts about its historical function.
First, American imperialism has operated as an unparalleled mechanism for dismantling pre-capitalist, semi-feudal, clerical, and patrimonial social formations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Whether through military intervention, political restructuring, or economic integration, it consistently undermines traditional authorities—tribal systems, religious legal orders, dynastic rule, and rent-seeking oligarchies—that obstruct the free movement of capital. From a Marxist standpoint, these formations are not neutral cultural expressions but material barriers to proletarianization.
Second, American imperialism universalizes bourgeois social relations on a global scale. Wage labor, commodity production, contractual legality, and market dependence are not merely imposed but normalized. Entire regions are forcibly integrated into global circuits of capital, dissolving subsistence economies that once shielded local ruling classes from class antagonism. In this sense, American imperialism accelerates the very conditions Marx identified as prerequisites for class consciousness: urbanization, labor discipline, and the separation of producers from the means of production.
Third, the much-criticized cultural homogenization associated with American dominance represents, materially, a rationalization of social life. Secular education, mass media, standardized legal codes, and bureaucratic governance weaken ideological superstructures rooted in archaic modes of production. A frequently misunderstood example is the U.S.-backed Pahlavi state’s effort to curb the power of clerical landowners in Iran—precisely the class that later formed the backbone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. That contemporary campists celebrate this revolution purely for its anti-Western posture, despite its restoration of clerical authority and regional imperial ambitions, illustrates how moral anti-imperialism can align with reactionary social forces. That such transformations are experienced as violent or alienating does not negate their historical function; Marx never required that progress be pleasant.
Fourth, under advanced capitalist integration—often spearheaded by American power—previously marginalized groups are incorporated into social production as juridical subjects. Women’s participation in wage labor, the commodification of domestic labor, the abstraction of the individual citizen, and the formal extension of rights to racial and sexual minorities are not moral victories floating above the material base. They are functional requirements of capitalism itself, which cannot sustain rigid exclusions without sacrificing efficiency. To acknowledge this is not to celebrate it, but to recognize capitalism’s tendency to dissolve traditional hierarchies even as it reproduces exploitation in new forms.
Fifth, critiques that portray American imperialism as uniquely regressive often rely on a romanticization of “non-Western” or “anti-imperialist” formations. Many such alternatives preserve pre-capitalist relations under the banner of cultural authenticity or national sovereignty, while others merely reproduce capitalist contradictions in a different geopolitical alignment. Marx was explicit that resistance to foreign domination does not, in itself, guarantee progressive social relations. Historical stagnation can persist under the most militant anti-imperialist rhetoric.
Opposition to imperialism detached from an analysis of productive forces risks becoming reactionary in content, however radical its appearance. Those who opposed slavery in antiquity, settler colonialism in the early modern period, or British rule in India purely on moral grounds would, from a materialist perspective, have been reactionary. This is not a moral judgment, but an analytical one.
None of this implies that American imperialism should be politically supported. It implies only that it must be understood correctly. To denounce it as an absolute evil is to replace historical materialism with moral spectacle. The task of Marxist analysis is not to assign blame, but to trace motion: to examine how forces collide, how contradictions sharpen, and how new social relations emerge from upheaval.
It is worth clarifying that none of the above requires one to support American imperialism in a political or ethical sense. Support and analysis are separate categories. The question is not whether imperialism is desirable, but whether it functions as a historically progressive force in the strictly material sense outlined above.
If one maintains that imperialism is always and everywhere regressive regardless of its effects on productive forces, social relations, and class composition, then one is no longer operating within historical materialism but within an ethical framework external to it. Conversely, if one accepts that capitalism historically dissolves pre-capitalist relations as a condition for its own supersession, then it follows that the most expansive forms of capitalist integration perform this function most efficiently.
To deny this is not to be “more radical,” but to quietly reintroduce moral exceptionalism into Marxist analysis — precisely the move historical materialism was developed to overcome.
If communism is to arise from capitalism rather than leap over it, then it follows—however uncomfortable—that the most aggressive agents of capitalist expansion are also the most efficient destroyers of the old world. History, as Marx understood it, has never waited for permission.
R: 21 / I: 2
What cartoons do they have for kids growing up now? Adventure Time, Gravity Falls or Rick & Morty at best. Woke garbage.
Nothing can beat early 00s animation
I was born in 1998, so 2001-2010 was basically my childhood. Gen Alpha kids don't even know what cartoons are - they just grow up on YouTube. As a Z kid (1996-2009) I can say Gen Alpha is cultureless. As a Zoomer I grew up on Teen Titans, Totally Spies, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Billy & Mandy, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Masters, Beyblade, Pokemon, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Code Lyoko, Invader Zim, and so on. I didn't discover YouTube until 2006, and even then, it was NOT on a smartphone! Everything is fucking woke now. I would hate to have a childhood growing up in this era (2011-present). I was 13 when popular culture started to suck.What cartoons do they have for kids growing up now? Adventure Time, Gravity Falls or Rick & Morty at best. Woke garbage.
R: 22 / I: 2
The members of the FMSF have been called as expert witnesses in hundreds of trials around the United States and have been routinely quoted as experts in the media. Their mission has been exceptionally successful, as the 'false memory syndrome' has become accepted as a fact in most of the public consciousness. Unfortunately, people rarely stop to ask the question, who exactly are the members of the FMSF, and how solid is their science?
Peter J. Freyd initiated the founding of the FMSF after being accused of sexual abuse by his daughter, Jennifer. His behavior has been particularly suspect, such as accusing his daughter of being brain damaged, despite the fact that she holds a PhD in Psychology, graduated magna cum laude from Penn and is currently a tenured professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. Speaking to The Oregonian, Jennifer Freyd stated that “I’m sometimes flabbergasted that my memory is considered ‘false’ and my alcoholic father’s memory is considered rational and sane.”
Peter Freyd once stated that “With the help of Harold Lief and Martin Orne, the FMSF quickly gathered a respectable appearing advisory board, giving the new syndrome an aura of scientific acceptance.” Interestingly, Dr. Martin T. Orne has been heavily involved with MK-ULTRA experiments since the early '60s, where he undertook hypnosis studies at Harvard Medical School with a $30,000 grant from the CIA.
CIA documents have confirmed that Orne had a 'top secret' clearance in MK-ULTRA. He has published many papers relevant to the creation of a 'Manchurian candidate', including one called “Can a hypnotized subject be compelled to carry out otherwise unacceptable behavior?”, another called “The significance of unwitting cues for experimental outcomes: Toward a pragmatic approach”, and lastly “Restricted use of success cues in retrieval during post-hypnotic amnesia”.This is an interesting subject matter history given the FMSF's insistence that hypnotism is illegitimate.
Dr. Harold Lief was involved with brain electrode experiments at Tulane University, a notorious MK-ULTRA institution. Another prominent member, David Dinges, was a co-worker with Martin T. Orne and has been involved in research for Naval Intelligence, who oversaw the precursor mind control experiments to MK-ULTRA.
Founding member Ralph Underwager once proudly proclaimed to the pro-pedophilia publication Paidika:
“What I have been struck by as I have come to know more about and understand people who choose paedophilia is that they let themselves be too much defined by other people. That is usually an essentially negative definition. Paedophiles spend a lot of time and energy defending their choice. I don't think that a paedophile needs to do that. Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love. I am also a theologian and as a theologian, I believe it is God's will that there be closeness and intimacy, unity of the flesh, between people.
A paedophile can say: "This closeness is possible for me within the choices that I've made." Paedophiles are too defensive. They go around saying, "You people out there are saying that what I choose is bad, that it's no good. You're putting me in prison, you're doing all these terrible things to me. I have to define my love as being in some way or other illicit." What I think is that paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness, they can say, "I believe this is in fact part of God's will."
Regarding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Columbia Journalism Review stated:
"Rarely has such a strange and little-understood organization had such a profound effect on media coverage of such a controversial matter. The [False Memory Syndrome] foundation is an aggressive, well-financed PR machine adept at manipulating the press, harassing its critics, and mobilizing a diverse army of psychiatrists, outspoken academics, expert defense witnesses, litigious lawyers, Freud bashers, critics of psychotherapy, and devastated parents.”
The FMSF has repeatedly cited a study presented at a Harvard conference where researchers were repeatedly able to implant the false memory of mundane tasks like grocery shopping, into their subjects using techniques such as hypnosis. It has been championed as proof that memories are easily manipulated. However, research has shown that memories of abuse function very differently than average memories.
“However, leading memory researchers such as Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard Medical School maintain that traumatic memories, which typically are engraved in the sensorimotor processes, are not subject to the same kinds of contamination that can affect normal memory. Traumatic amnesia, described in the DSM-III-R as psychogenic amnesia, is a phenomenon which has been known to mental health professionals for more than 100 years. The clinically observed characteristics of traumatic memory formation and retrieval match precisely the patterns of memory recovery exhibited by SRA [Satanic Ritual Abuse] survivors, and strongly confirm the reality of their cult abuse.”
There is also the case of Paul and Shirley Eberle, who are famous for propagating the idea of a 'satanic panic', that the widespread reporting of ritual abuse is merely a social contagion. They have published two books titled “The Politics of Child Abuse” and “The Abuse of Innocence” which promote this theory, and have been cited as experts in courts and the press. Ms. Magazine wrote a review of the interesting past of the Eberles, stating:
“What is startling about the Eberles' reputation as ground-breaking experts in the field is that their dubious credentials have not been widely challenged. Paul and Shirley Eberle edit a soft-core magazine in California called the L.A. Star that contains a mixture of nude photos, celebrity gossip, telephone sex ads, and promos for The Politics of Child Abuse.
In the 1970's, however, the Eberles were also publishing hard-core pornography. Their publication, Finger, depicted scenes of bondage, S & M, and sexual activities involving urination and defecation. A young girl portrayed with a wide smile on her face sits on top of a man whose penis is inside of her; a woman has oral sex with a young boy in a drawing entitled "Memories of My Boyhood."
The Eberles were featured nude on one cover holding two life-size blow up dolls names "Love Girl" and "Play Guy." No dates appear on the issues and the Eberles rarely attach their names, referring to themselves as "The L.A. Star Family."
The Eberles were the distributors of Finger and several other underground magazines, says Donald Smith, a sergeant with the obscenity section of the Los Angeles Police Department's vice division who followed the couple for years. LAPD was never able to prosecute for child pornography: "There were a lot of photos of people who looked like they were under age but we could never prove it." The pictures of young children in Finger are illustrations, and child pornography laws were less rigid a decade ago than they are today.
"Sexpot at Five," "My First Rape, She Was Only Thirteen," and "What Happens When uyghurs Adopt White Children" are some of the articles that appeared in Finger. One letter states: "I think it's really great that your mags have the courage to print articles & pixs [sic] on child sex… Too bad I didn't hear from more women who are into child sex… Since I'm single I'm not getting it on with my children, but I know of a few families that are. If I were married & my wife & kids approved–I'd be having sex with my daughters."
Another entry reads: "I'm a pedophile & I think its [sic] great a man is having sex with his daughter!…Since I didn't get Finger #3, I didn't get to see the stories & pics of family sex. Would like to see pics of nude girls making it with their daddy, but realize its too risky to print."
It is truly fascinating how 'compromised' the leading debunkers of ritual abuse are.
The unimaginable influence pedophiles and abusers have on our society
Once the evidence of extreme abuse began surfacing in surprising numbers, the 'False Memory Syndrome Foundation' (FMSF) was set up to promote the theory that victims are suffering from a syndrome that creates false memories, often at the suggestion of psychotic parents or over-zealous psychiatrists.The members of the FMSF have been called as expert witnesses in hundreds of trials around the United States and have been routinely quoted as experts in the media. Their mission has been exceptionally successful, as the 'false memory syndrome' has become accepted as a fact in most of the public consciousness. Unfortunately, people rarely stop to ask the question, who exactly are the members of the FMSF, and how solid is their science?
Peter J. Freyd initiated the founding of the FMSF after being accused of sexual abuse by his daughter, Jennifer. His behavior has been particularly suspect, such as accusing his daughter of being brain damaged, despite the fact that she holds a PhD in Psychology, graduated magna cum laude from Penn and is currently a tenured professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. Speaking to The Oregonian, Jennifer Freyd stated that “I’m sometimes flabbergasted that my memory is considered ‘false’ and my alcoholic father’s memory is considered rational and sane.”
Peter Freyd once stated that “With the help of Harold Lief and Martin Orne, the FMSF quickly gathered a respectable appearing advisory board, giving the new syndrome an aura of scientific acceptance.” Interestingly, Dr. Martin T. Orne has been heavily involved with MK-ULTRA experiments since the early '60s, where he undertook hypnosis studies at Harvard Medical School with a $30,000 grant from the CIA.
CIA documents have confirmed that Orne had a 'top secret' clearance in MK-ULTRA. He has published many papers relevant to the creation of a 'Manchurian candidate', including one called “Can a hypnotized subject be compelled to carry out otherwise unacceptable behavior?”, another called “The significance of unwitting cues for experimental outcomes: Toward a pragmatic approach”, and lastly “Restricted use of success cues in retrieval during post-hypnotic amnesia”.This is an interesting subject matter history given the FMSF's insistence that hypnotism is illegitimate.
Dr. Harold Lief was involved with brain electrode experiments at Tulane University, a notorious MK-ULTRA institution. Another prominent member, David Dinges, was a co-worker with Martin T. Orne and has been involved in research for Naval Intelligence, who oversaw the precursor mind control experiments to MK-ULTRA.
Founding member Ralph Underwager once proudly proclaimed to the pro-pedophilia publication Paidika:
“What I have been struck by as I have come to know more about and understand people who choose paedophilia is that they let themselves be too much defined by other people. That is usually an essentially negative definition. Paedophiles spend a lot of time and energy defending their choice. I don't think that a paedophile needs to do that. Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love. I am also a theologian and as a theologian, I believe it is God's will that there be closeness and intimacy, unity of the flesh, between people.
A paedophile can say: "This closeness is possible for me within the choices that I've made." Paedophiles are too defensive. They go around saying, "You people out there are saying that what I choose is bad, that it's no good. You're putting me in prison, you're doing all these terrible things to me. I have to define my love as being in some way or other illicit." What I think is that paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness, they can say, "I believe this is in fact part of God's will."
Regarding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Columbia Journalism Review stated:
"Rarely has such a strange and little-understood organization had such a profound effect on media coverage of such a controversial matter. The [False Memory Syndrome] foundation is an aggressive, well-financed PR machine adept at manipulating the press, harassing its critics, and mobilizing a diverse army of psychiatrists, outspoken academics, expert defense witnesses, litigious lawyers, Freud bashers, critics of psychotherapy, and devastated parents.”
The FMSF has repeatedly cited a study presented at a Harvard conference where researchers were repeatedly able to implant the false memory of mundane tasks like grocery shopping, into their subjects using techniques such as hypnosis. It has been championed as proof that memories are easily manipulated. However, research has shown that memories of abuse function very differently than average memories.
“However, leading memory researchers such as Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard Medical School maintain that traumatic memories, which typically are engraved in the sensorimotor processes, are not subject to the same kinds of contamination that can affect normal memory. Traumatic amnesia, described in the DSM-III-R as psychogenic amnesia, is a phenomenon which has been known to mental health professionals for more than 100 years. The clinically observed characteristics of traumatic memory formation and retrieval match precisely the patterns of memory recovery exhibited by SRA [Satanic Ritual Abuse] survivors, and strongly confirm the reality of their cult abuse.”
There is also the case of Paul and Shirley Eberle, who are famous for propagating the idea of a 'satanic panic', that the widespread reporting of ritual abuse is merely a social contagion. They have published two books titled “The Politics of Child Abuse” and “The Abuse of Innocence” which promote this theory, and have been cited as experts in courts and the press. Ms. Magazine wrote a review of the interesting past of the Eberles, stating:
“What is startling about the Eberles' reputation as ground-breaking experts in the field is that their dubious credentials have not been widely challenged. Paul and Shirley Eberle edit a soft-core magazine in California called the L.A. Star that contains a mixture of nude photos, celebrity gossip, telephone sex ads, and promos for The Politics of Child Abuse.
In the 1970's, however, the Eberles were also publishing hard-core pornography. Their publication, Finger, depicted scenes of bondage, S & M, and sexual activities involving urination and defecation. A young girl portrayed with a wide smile on her face sits on top of a man whose penis is inside of her; a woman has oral sex with a young boy in a drawing entitled "Memories of My Boyhood."
The Eberles were featured nude on one cover holding two life-size blow up dolls names "Love Girl" and "Play Guy." No dates appear on the issues and the Eberles rarely attach their names, referring to themselves as "The L.A. Star Family."
The Eberles were the distributors of Finger and several other underground magazines, says Donald Smith, a sergeant with the obscenity section of the Los Angeles Police Department's vice division who followed the couple for years. LAPD was never able to prosecute for child pornography: "There were a lot of photos of people who looked like they were under age but we could never prove it." The pictures of young children in Finger are illustrations, and child pornography laws were less rigid a decade ago than they are today.
"Sexpot at Five," "My First Rape, She Was Only Thirteen," and "What Happens When uyghurs Adopt White Children" are some of the articles that appeared in Finger. One letter states: "I think it's really great that your mags have the courage to print articles & pixs [sic] on child sex… Too bad I didn't hear from more women who are into child sex… Since I'm single I'm not getting it on with my children, but I know of a few families that are. If I were married & my wife & kids approved–I'd be having sex with my daughters."
Another entry reads: "I'm a pedophile & I think its [sic] great a man is having sex with his daughter!…Since I didn't get Finger #3, I didn't get to see the stories & pics of family sex. Would like to see pics of nude girls making it with their daddy, but realize its too risky to print."
It is truly fascinating how 'compromised' the leading debunkers of ritual abuse are.
R: 5 / I: 4
ITT we celebrate the victory of the USSR over Nazism
Victory Day commemoration thread
On this day 81 years ago, Germany signed the surrender, marking the end of the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind.ITT we celebrate the victory of the USSR over Nazism
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DAILY WORKER REPORTS "MASTER RACE THEORY SHATTERED, BUT WAR IS ONLY HALF OVER"
THE WAR IN EUROPE IS OVER
THE UNITED NATIONS HAS WON
GLORY TO THE PROLETARIAT
BETTER DAYS ARE AHEAD
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
JAPAN IS NEXT
WHAT NOW?
BEWARE OF ALL SUBVERSIVES, DAILY WORKER SAYS:
>The Hitlerites will not now be able to cripple men’s bodies, but they will not give up striving to poison men’s minds. They are plotting to undo our victory at the very moment we celebrate it.
REPORT HITLERITES!!!
/WWII/ - World War II General #358 VICTORY IN EUROPE EDITION
IT'S OFFICIAL: KRAUTS GIVE IN!!!DAILY WORKER REPORTS "MASTER RACE THEORY SHATTERED, BUT WAR IS ONLY HALF OVER"
THE WAR IN EUROPE IS OVER
THE UNITED NATIONS HAS WON
GLORY TO THE PROLETARIAT
BETTER DAYS ARE AHEAD
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
JAPAN IS NEXT
WHAT NOW?
BEWARE OF ALL SUBVERSIVES, DAILY WORKER SAYS:
>The Hitlerites will not now be able to cripple men’s bodies, but they will not give up striving to poison men’s minds. They are plotting to undo our victory at the very moment we celebrate it.
REPORT HITLERITES!!!
R: 1 / I: 1
This is performed simply; the entire registry of patents is identified, and a child will be raised as a particular Catholic clergy's philosophy to target the enemy political alliance through necessity of most public trade relation; however through the non-Ismaeli parent having been a victim of anal sodomey from a male, male or female; the common tracker of "Arabic", the tell-tale signature of the enemy; not "Urdu", the language of any court in carpentry; Parochial school for an Islamic Catholic, not taught Lotus as a child due to parents equivocating in Hebrew linguistics at having placed someone in opiates confinement; the Roman, African, or Chinese Empires.
Let's go over the list of slain figures.
Samson (the women's lingerie, as the men's thong, for sword fighting).
Alexander the Great (the labor patent, as mass draft, per pensioner elder's children and family).
Scipio Africanus (the sugar reed market, a plantation, out of the sizes of the white man's versus black woman's buttocks, wealth and poverty out of the front gusset sitting fetish).
Jesus Christ (the paternity suit, as the Old Testament, the Bible in any copy; the fraud of self into New Testament, a post-arrest police family execution at declaration of self as Jordanian-Arab bride in men's gender).
John Wilkes Booth (the haberdasher's class, or other tailor, per contact by British intelligence forces to kill First Lady; hence the switch, contract hired, to the pay per grievance of contract; and if crossed, then both, otherwise, spouse switched either way).
Adolf Hitler (the cartoon's market out of cakes and pies offered to people per class election to be an undercover officer; the German post-nasal drip election, as a fascist out of police cooperation through "Superman", prior to "Lex Luthor"'s addition).
Ted Bundy (the dress in a movie stereotype of a spy in a CIA class on a common ROTC campus; a suit and "dapper" and properly shaven and trimmed hair, actually a Carabinieri at foreign service; an INTERPOL).
Barry Goldwater (the merger of the Black Panthers, Kennedy's Military Police, with the Shah of Iran; petroleum numbers through bigemy and slave labor, the Mormons).
Adam Sandler (the claim of Jew Hunter as Rabbinical, out of Rockefeller Center; placed in Batman's role, despite being the basis of Jack Napier; a British and American entertainment figure, against RAM; "Bruce Wayne", a North Korean movement out of Friends Stand United, against "white supremacists"; Israel outside of Netanyahu).
The Arithmatic Labor of the Ismaeli Abrahamics
Israeli Abrahamics, if a theft of semen is stolen and spotted (a system foreign to the famous "Mordred" is used, the trap of the father or mother matching as hand gesture moved; "A Knight's tale"), will be conduced to hunt their own families by the proper Ismaelis; God's Chosen, Ismael, not God's Favorite, Isaac; the Polander Aryan Brotherhood (American History X, the foundation of the World War 2 National Socialist movement among others).This is performed simply; the entire registry of patents is identified, and a child will be raised as a particular Catholic clergy's philosophy to target the enemy political alliance through necessity of most public trade relation; however through the non-Ismaeli parent having been a victim of anal sodomey from a male, male or female; the common tracker of "Arabic", the tell-tale signature of the enemy; not "Urdu", the language of any court in carpentry; Parochial school for an Islamic Catholic, not taught Lotus as a child due to parents equivocating in Hebrew linguistics at having placed someone in opiates confinement; the Roman, African, or Chinese Empires.
Let's go over the list of slain figures.
Samson (the women's lingerie, as the men's thong, for sword fighting).
Alexander the Great (the labor patent, as mass draft, per pensioner elder's children and family).
Scipio Africanus (the sugar reed market, a plantation, out of the sizes of the white man's versus black woman's buttocks, wealth and poverty out of the front gusset sitting fetish).
Jesus Christ (the paternity suit, as the Old Testament, the Bible in any copy; the fraud of self into New Testament, a post-arrest police family execution at declaration of self as Jordanian-Arab bride in men's gender).
John Wilkes Booth (the haberdasher's class, or other tailor, per contact by British intelligence forces to kill First Lady; hence the switch, contract hired, to the pay per grievance of contract; and if crossed, then both, otherwise, spouse switched either way).
Adolf Hitler (the cartoon's market out of cakes and pies offered to people per class election to be an undercover officer; the German post-nasal drip election, as a fascist out of police cooperation through "Superman", prior to "Lex Luthor"'s addition).
Ted Bundy (the dress in a movie stereotype of a spy in a CIA class on a common ROTC campus; a suit and "dapper" and properly shaven and trimmed hair, actually a Carabinieri at foreign service; an INTERPOL).
Barry Goldwater (the merger of the Black Panthers, Kennedy's Military Police, with the Shah of Iran; petroleum numbers through bigemy and slave labor, the Mormons).
Adam Sandler (the claim of Jew Hunter as Rabbinical, out of Rockefeller Center; placed in Batman's role, despite being the basis of Jack Napier; a British and American entertainment figure, against RAM; "Bruce Wayne", a North Korean movement out of Friends Stand United, against "white supremacists"; Israel outside of Netanyahu).
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The Austrian capitalist economists had theorized in the ECP that a socialist state could NOT account for scarcity without prices. The initial responses from socialists were that you could determine value by analyzing what people wanted and determining production in relation.
This prompted Hayek to say that centralizing information would be nigh impossible on a large-scale economy, creating the information problem. Hayek believed that prices aggregated information, and that the State would not be able to replicate them due to the sheer amount of information it would take.
In response, Lange theorized market socialism, a system where:
>state commission gives prices to company managers
>managers produce until price = marginal cost of production and have freedom to do so
>if shortages occur, the commission increases prices to increase production
>if overproduction occurs, the commission decreases prices to decrease production
This in theory should've made state planning much more efficient, as the state wouldn't micromanage the economy by assigning and supplying quotas of goods.
Although Lange's system was never fully implemented, Hungary did get close to it by establishing the NEM. The economy worked well at supplying goods relative to the eastern states, and consequently gave Hungary the nickname "Goulash Communism". However, it also prompted the State to subsidize prices by borrowing, which ultimately culminated in its debt crisis.
So, what does /leftypol/ think of Lange's market socialism?
Thoughts on Oskar Lange and market socialism ?
Oskar Lange was a Polish economist who first theorized market socialism to respond to the Economic Calculation Problem.The Austrian capitalist economists had theorized in the ECP that a socialist state could NOT account for scarcity without prices. The initial responses from socialists were that you could determine value by analyzing what people wanted and determining production in relation.
This prompted Hayek to say that centralizing information would be nigh impossible on a large-scale economy, creating the information problem. Hayek believed that prices aggregated information, and that the State would not be able to replicate them due to the sheer amount of information it would take.
In response, Lange theorized market socialism, a system where:
>state commission gives prices to company managers
>managers produce until price = marginal cost of production and have freedom to do so
>if shortages occur, the commission increases prices to increase production
>if overproduction occurs, the commission decreases prices to decrease production
This in theory should've made state planning much more efficient, as the state wouldn't micromanage the economy by assigning and supplying quotas of goods.
Although Lange's system was never fully implemented, Hungary did get close to it by establishing the NEM. The economy worked well at supplying goods relative to the eastern states, and consequently gave Hungary the nickname "Goulash Communism". However, it also prompted the State to subsidize prices by borrowing, which ultimately culminated in its debt crisis.
So, what does /leftypol/ think of Lange's market socialism?
R: 6 / I: 0 (sage)
>Trash everywhere
>People constantly shitting in public
>No public safety, people die like hamsters daily
>Citizens just ignore public deaths because everything is fucked anyway
>Everything smells like shit
>SOME people have a tendency to EAT COW SHIT and DRINK COW PISS
>Extreme wealth inequality
>Aesthetics are just constant eye-rape of random ass bullshit
>TV and movies suck
>Food is terrible
>Everything is dirty and everybody is constantly getting diseases
>Little to no natural beauty in the cities
>Rape is constant and unending
>Ruled by fascists who enjoy the broad support of the population despite extreme cruelty and incompetence
>Pillaged for hundreds of years by imperial powers, nothing is left
>Caste system is some of the most evil shit ever devised by man
Look, I'm not trying to be cruel to Indians. I live in AmeriKKKa so the population of my country is more evil than the population of India. This comes out of a place of sympathy, not hatred. Somebody needs to fucking SAVE THEM. It is literal, actual hell on earth and if China were actually Communist (It's not) they'd be sending NUKES to the Maoist insurgents. I'm not a Maoist and often I see the Cultural Revolution and think "They didn't need to go THAT crazy with it, man" but then I look at India and I fucking get it, dude. India needs the bloodiest, most horrific cultural revolution to ever exist. It is the only way to cleanse the nation and drag it into the modern day. Even if it kills hundreds of millions of people, India cannot go on like this. SAVE INDIA. SAVE THEM.
India is literal hell on earth and must be cleansed by Marxist hellfire
Sorry, it's true>Trash everywhere
>People constantly shitting in public
>No public safety, people die like hamsters daily
>Citizens just ignore public deaths because everything is fucked anyway
>Everything smells like shit
>SOME people have a tendency to EAT COW SHIT and DRINK COW PISS
>Extreme wealth inequality
>Aesthetics are just constant eye-rape of random ass bullshit
>TV and movies suck
>Food is terrible
>Everything is dirty and everybody is constantly getting diseases
>Little to no natural beauty in the cities
>Rape is constant and unending
>Ruled by fascists who enjoy the broad support of the population despite extreme cruelty and incompetence
>Pillaged for hundreds of years by imperial powers, nothing is left
>Caste system is some of the most evil shit ever devised by man
Look, I'm not trying to be cruel to Indians. I live in AmeriKKKa so the population of my country is more evil than the population of India. This comes out of a place of sympathy, not hatred. Somebody needs to fucking SAVE THEM. It is literal, actual hell on earth and if China were actually Communist (It's not) they'd be sending NUKES to the Maoist insurgents. I'm not a Maoist and often I see the Cultural Revolution and think "They didn't need to go THAT crazy with it, man" but then I look at India and I fucking get it, dude. India needs the bloodiest, most horrific cultural revolution to ever exist. It is the only way to cleanse the nation and drag it into the modern day. Even if it kills hundreds of millions of people, India cannot go on like this. SAVE INDIA. SAVE THEM.
R: 60 / I: 12
Some brutal home truths about Sultana - I dont buy the muh fed stuff and Corbyn's lot haven't behaved wonderfully either but what Sultana and the screeching sects and radlibs behind her have done for the chances of YP now is just unforgivable.
https://samjoyce96.substack.com/p/your-partys-infantile-disorder
UK - YourParty, Sultana disaster
Some reading for UK /Leftypol/Some brutal home truths about Sultana - I dont buy the muh fed stuff and Corbyn's lot haven't behaved wonderfully either but what Sultana and the screeching sects and radlibs behind her have done for the chances of YP now is just unforgivable.
https://samjoyce96.substack.com/p/your-partys-infantile-disorder
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So, I ask you: why did we fuck that up? Is the cause of that fuck-up perhaps still around and waiting to push the Left into neutrality on yet another extremely cut and dry war coming in the future? Did any Socialists get it right back then? What is the solution?
The Left side of history (Geddit?)
I don't know about you guys, but if you ask me the failure of the Socialist movement to back the Allies for the first 2 years of WWII is an absolutely ENORMOUS fumble that has hanged over our heads for nearly a century. It is the constant aching pain in Socialist anti-interventionist "NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR" advocacy. "You said the same thing in 1939!" is the inevitable response from Liberals whenever we oppose the latest imperialist war. Let's face it: the Liberals (for once) completely fucking owned us during the span of time from the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact's silencing of the "Crush the Nazi menace" Left up until Operation Barbarossa. Communists were trying to do entryism in the fucking AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE. Absolutely humiliating. And it must have felt so reasonable, given that Socialists were 100% right about WWI.So, I ask you: why did we fuck that up? Is the cause of that fuck-up perhaps still around and waiting to push the Left into neutrality on yet another extremely cut and dry war coming in the future? Did any Socialists get it right back then? What is the solution?
R: 21 / I: 4 (sage)
>Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater, has established significant ties to China through the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), serving as its chairman (later deputy chairman) to act as the primary security provider for China's Belt and Road Initiative, particularly in Africa and Central Asia. While promoting "One Belt One Road" initiatives, FSG was linked to a 2019 deal to build a training center in China's Xinjiang region.
>FSG established operations in Iraq in 2018.
Genuinely how do liberals justify this? blackwater returned to my country under the flag of red investors, not to speak of my African brothers under their yoke now. Your naked opportunism and betrayal is revolting and we will struggle against it till the end of times.
>Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater, has established significant ties to China through the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), serving as its chairman (later deputy chairman) to act as the primary security provider for China's Belt and Road Initiative, particularly in Africa and Central Asia. While promoting "One Belt One Road" initiatives, FSG was linked to a 2019 deal to build a training center in China's Xinjiang region.
>FSG established operations in Iraq in 2018.
Genuinely how do liberals justify this? blackwater returned to my country under the flag of red investors, not to speak of my African brothers under their yoke now. Your naked opportunism and betrayal is revolting and we will struggle against it till the end of times.
R: 4 / I: 1
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04x1lg1lygo
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chagos was too short or empty
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04x1lg1lygo
oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
chagos was too short or empty
R: 10 / I: 0
Then, connect it to your MilkV Jupiter as an alternative to SD/eMMC/NVMe. Do this for your other two or three MilkV Mars nodes as well, and do this for your router Jupiter board (will discuss later). Then snap the Jupiter/Mars into a development board to wipe the firmware on the DDR4 controllers and install UberDDR3 or custom DDR3 (PhD-level project), which is open source. Then take a Ovrdrive USB flash drive and flash Gentoo Linux onto the MilkV Jupiter board, take another Ovrdrive USB flash drive for decryption of desktops using KeePassXC (will need LUKS for full disc encryption). Then connect a Modos paper display, a Keyboardio model 01 keyboard, Ploopy mouse, passive speakers and a Logitech Quickcam Express 1999 web cam. Then when setting up Gentoo, refuse any and all proprietary packages, block any proprietary packages in nftables, also harden the kernel and secure the bootchain. Then run Sway from Wayland over it. Then make sure you got nftables installed, as well as kvm/qemu, firejail, fail2ban, PyShark, a custom SOCKS5 proxy written in Python w/ X25519, Poly1305, ChaCha20 and Kyber for cryptographic post-quantum protection, w/ libsodium, PQClean and OpenSSL integration, as well as using GNU Icecat, ELinks or GNUNet/GNUNet CADET/GNUNet FS (File Sharing)/gnunet-vpn for web browsing services.
For self-hosting emails, use ipserver.su for VPS Cloud hosting (do NOT use your homeserver for this!), register a domain with either .su, .to, .rw, .in or .st ccTLD, don't reveal any revealing information on your website to host your emails off of, use proper OPSEC, don't reveal any personally identifiable information in the DNS records either, use Mozilla Thunderbird or Roundcube for the webmail client, block any connections to 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1/9.9.9.9 (public DNS) via nftables. Use SMTP, PGP and E2E encryption for all emails via Anti-DDoS Flood Protection and Firewall by Conor McKnight on Github, Haproxy-protection + alonz22/haproxy-dashboard or some other open source DDoS mitigation and firewall tools to encrypt your traffic. Use xkpasswd.net for generating passwords.
Then take another MilkV Jupiter w/ custom memory PCIe attached, then bifurcate it some more to add a second PCIe slot for an ath9k PCIe Atheros card. Then plug that into your default ISP router via UART/UEFI, as well as plugging it into your other MilkV Jupiter mainboard for open source internet connection and firewalling.
For the laptop to program FPGAs, use MNT Reform. You will need a development board also (like a SiFive).
For the cellular network, make a homemade cell phone/cellular modem 2-in-1 with a PCBway computer-class printed circuit boards, wire a Motorola C123 screen + buttons + 2G antenna + TI Calypso chipset + speakers/microphone + buttons for on/off and power, all lifted from the phone. Give it a 3D printed plastic display case (if you don't own a 3D printed pay someone for 3D printer work) that snaps on. Give it a ULX3S w/ custom PHY written on it (TDMA, not OFDMA, which is a multi-year, multi-team PhD-level FPGA project in itself), w/ LimeSDR PCIe snapped to it, along with a Baofeng HAM radio set at 900MHz for 2G reception, which you can buy off aliexpress/alibaba, then add 3 or 4 ethernet plugs at the bottom for the MilkV Jupiter mainboard and the two or three MilkV Mars LLM accelerator and USB ASIC altcoin bitmining (like dogecoin on Scrypt USB — Fewer true USB ASICs, but possible with adapters or older units) nodes which can also sniff traffic via pyshark using Suricata or Zeek (Bro) for LLM-powered traffic analysis and threat detection. Flash OsmocomBB on the TI Calypso phone modem that you plugged to connect your computers automatically to the network, use Asterisk and OpenBTS for handling calls, now you can connect to a 2G wireless network on your computer as your own ISP, using the Mars nodes as a mini-cloud over 2G wireless for open source network connection instead of Wifi, will also need fans for SBCs because USB ASIC bitmining gets very hot. Will also need a BTS tower or radio mast along with a license to broadcast, and you can access a custom BBS written in Python to run over GPRS, and from there, you can broadcast notifications and emergency signals to subscribers within range. I'll call the LLC Smilodon Wireless. Anyone with a pre-sold Motorola C123 w/ OsmocomBB and sysmousim SIM card w/ programmed subcriber services for activation with Smilodon wireless (sold locally).
Also, make sure that you run your network over GNUNet/GNUNet CADET/GNUNet FS (File Sharing)/gnunet-vpn for encrypted communications on your BBS board.
No other privacy tutorial is going to cover everything that is essential about a computer. That includes the OS down to the bare metal. To hack, all you'll need is hardened Gentoo Linux + Wifi password and firewall cracking tools in terminal + kvm/qemu for isolation/VMs + proxy.
How to become your own ISP + become a hacker
Get a MilkV Jupiter, make a 3D printed PCIe slot for a PCBway printed circuit board, wire LiteX and ECP5 NAND and NOR programmed for memory storage, then add PETG, ABS, ASA, Nylon, or polycarbonate from a 3D printer (FreeCAD, KiCAD or Fusion 360), phosphor bronze or beryllium copper contacts and gold plating (optional but ideal). Print the insulating body. Insert stamped contacts, spring contacts, or pogo-pin style terminals, and solder wires or PCB traces to the contacts.Then, connect it to your MilkV Jupiter as an alternative to SD/eMMC/NVMe. Do this for your other two or three MilkV Mars nodes as well, and do this for your router Jupiter board (will discuss later). Then snap the Jupiter/Mars into a development board to wipe the firmware on the DDR4 controllers and install UberDDR3 or custom DDR3 (PhD-level project), which is open source. Then take a Ovrdrive USB flash drive and flash Gentoo Linux onto the MilkV Jupiter board, take another Ovrdrive USB flash drive for decryption of desktops using KeePassXC (will need LUKS for full disc encryption). Then connect a Modos paper display, a Keyboardio model 01 keyboard, Ploopy mouse, passive speakers and a Logitech Quickcam Express 1999 web cam. Then when setting up Gentoo, refuse any and all proprietary packages, block any proprietary packages in nftables, also harden the kernel and secure the bootchain. Then run Sway from Wayland over it. Then make sure you got nftables installed, as well as kvm/qemu, firejail, fail2ban, PyShark, a custom SOCKS5 proxy written in Python w/ X25519, Poly1305, ChaCha20 and Kyber for cryptographic post-quantum protection, w/ libsodium, PQClean and OpenSSL integration, as well as using GNU Icecat, ELinks or GNUNet/GNUNet CADET/GNUNet FS (File Sharing)/gnunet-vpn for web browsing services.
For self-hosting emails, use ipserver.su for VPS Cloud hosting (do NOT use your homeserver for this!), register a domain with either .su, .to, .rw, .in or .st ccTLD, don't reveal any revealing information on your website to host your emails off of, use proper OPSEC, don't reveal any personally identifiable information in the DNS records either, use Mozilla Thunderbird or Roundcube for the webmail client, block any connections to 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1/9.9.9.9 (public DNS) via nftables. Use SMTP, PGP and E2E encryption for all emails via Anti-DDoS Flood Protection and Firewall by Conor McKnight on Github, Haproxy-protection + alonz22/haproxy-dashboard or some other open source DDoS mitigation and firewall tools to encrypt your traffic. Use xkpasswd.net for generating passwords.
Then take another MilkV Jupiter w/ custom memory PCIe attached, then bifurcate it some more to add a second PCIe slot for an ath9k PCIe Atheros card. Then plug that into your default ISP router via UART/UEFI, as well as plugging it into your other MilkV Jupiter mainboard for open source internet connection and firewalling.
For the laptop to program FPGAs, use MNT Reform. You will need a development board also (like a SiFive).
For the cellular network, make a homemade cell phone/cellular modem 2-in-1 with a PCBway computer-class printed circuit boards, wire a Motorola C123 screen + buttons + 2G antenna + TI Calypso chipset + speakers/microphone + buttons for on/off and power, all lifted from the phone. Give it a 3D printed plastic display case (if you don't own a 3D printed pay someone for 3D printer work) that snaps on. Give it a ULX3S w/ custom PHY written on it (TDMA, not OFDMA, which is a multi-year, multi-team PhD-level FPGA project in itself), w/ LimeSDR PCIe snapped to it, along with a Baofeng HAM radio set at 900MHz for 2G reception, which you can buy off aliexpress/alibaba, then add 3 or 4 ethernet plugs at the bottom for the MilkV Jupiter mainboard and the two or three MilkV Mars LLM accelerator and USB ASIC altcoin bitmining (like dogecoin on Scrypt USB — Fewer true USB ASICs, but possible with adapters or older units) nodes which can also sniff traffic via pyshark using Suricata or Zeek (Bro) for LLM-powered traffic analysis and threat detection. Flash OsmocomBB on the TI Calypso phone modem that you plugged to connect your computers automatically to the network, use Asterisk and OpenBTS for handling calls, now you can connect to a 2G wireless network on your computer as your own ISP, using the Mars nodes as a mini-cloud over 2G wireless for open source network connection instead of Wifi, will also need fans for SBCs because USB ASIC bitmining gets very hot. Will also need a BTS tower or radio mast along with a license to broadcast, and you can access a custom BBS written in Python to run over GPRS, and from there, you can broadcast notifications and emergency signals to subscribers within range. I'll call the LLC Smilodon Wireless. Anyone with a pre-sold Motorola C123 w/ OsmocomBB and sysmousim SIM card w/ programmed subcriber services for activation with Smilodon wireless (sold locally).
Also, make sure that you run your network over GNUNet/GNUNet CADET/GNUNet FS (File Sharing)/gnunet-vpn for encrypted communications on your BBS board.
No other privacy tutorial is going to cover everything that is essential about a computer. That includes the OS down to the bare metal. To hack, all you'll need is hardened Gentoo Linux + Wifi password and firewall cracking tools in terminal + kvm/qemu for isolation/VMs + proxy.
R: 0 / I: 0
>Elections Alberta issues cease-and-desist letters over voter info breach, privacy commissioner launches probe
>Questions swirl around Alberta separatist group Centurion Project's searchable database
>Elections Alberta’s bid for a permanent injunction against the separatist group known as the Centurion Project and the Republican Party of Alberta is set for a special hearing in the Court of King’s Bench later this summer. (CBC)
>Cease-and-desist letters have been sent to more than 500 Albertans who accessed a searchable database containing the personal information of millions of voters in the province, while a new investigation into the affair has been launched.
TL;DR US backed colour revolution organizers got sloppy and accidentally leaked that they illegally shared the personal information of 3 million Canadians with Americans.
Jason Kenny is the former leader of the leader of the United Conservative Party of Alberta. His personal information was leaked by the American collaborators. He is now receiving threats. The information was leaked on the US hosted websites of the Centurion Project and the Republican Party of Alberta. If an anon could point us in the direction of this database, we would appreciate it. If any of Alberta's billionaires were on the list, their information would also be very much appreciated. Many of Alberta's billionaires are climate change denying oil barons, so they deserve this more than anyone.
CANADOX megathread
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/centurion-project-alberta-voters-list-leak-9.7191390>Elections Alberta issues cease-and-desist letters over voter info breach, privacy commissioner launches probe
>Questions swirl around Alberta separatist group Centurion Project's searchable database
>Elections Alberta’s bid for a permanent injunction against the separatist group known as the Centurion Project and the Republican Party of Alberta is set for a special hearing in the Court of King’s Bench later this summer. (CBC)
>Cease-and-desist letters have been sent to more than 500 Albertans who accessed a searchable database containing the personal information of millions of voters in the province, while a new investigation into the affair has been launched.
TL;DR US backed colour revolution organizers got sloppy and accidentally leaked that they illegally shared the personal information of 3 million Canadians with Americans.
Jason Kenny is the former leader of the leader of the United Conservative Party of Alberta. His personal information was leaked by the American collaborators. He is now receiving threats. The information was leaked on the US hosted websites of the Centurion Project and the Republican Party of Alberta. If an anon could point us in the direction of this database, we would appreciate it. If any of Alberta's billionaires were on the list, their information would also be very much appreciated. Many of Alberta's billionaires are climate change denying oil barons, so they deserve this more than anyone.
R: 15 / I: 5
Once most human jobs can be automated and therefore our labor and continued existence has no inherent value to the economic system, will the asset-owning class just exterminate us all?
Once most human jobs can be automated and therefore our labor and continued existence has no inherent value to the economic system, will the asset-owning class just exterminate us all?
R: 20 / I: 7
Class in the old ancient world
Surely before capitalism, civilizations still were dominant and based on the haves and have nots, just in different forms. So how can people avoid that being the case beyond capitalism? it seems like class dominance exists well outside of capitalism in multiple societies, how is this addressed, do the anarchists have some points about hereiechy? I think they take it far but shouldnt marxists be using materialism to study all authortarian class relationships not just industrial capitalism?
R: 48 / I: 13
Western "Marxists" are fucking obsessed with the idea of command economies. Half of them say that AES states are not actually socialist; this is wrong. The other half says that AES states have only temporarily adopted markets, and will return to the Golden Path as soon as possible; this is also wrong, and much more egregiously so, be because it requires ignorance of and/or cognitive dissonance towards the official statements and actions made by these nations.
Western "Marxist" arguments in favor of command economies are, likewise generally rooted in ignorance, not understanding that the lifestyles they have/aspire to would be unfeasible within a purely planned system. Those that are not rooted in ignorance are instead rooted in aceticism, in poverty worship, in an intellectual cancer that must be rooted out by whatever means necessary.
Sure, we may, at some point, obviate markets. But it would require a fundamental change in the means of production that, by my calculations, is far, far away from where we are now.
In any case, you would do yourself well to stop worshipping the corpses of Stalin and Mao and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
Command economies lost
This history of socialism shows, with perfect clarity, that a fully planned economy is plainly inferior to a socialist market economy. This is not to say that fully planned economies are bad, they absolutely do have their strengths. But economies that are partially planned, directed rather than dictated, have all of the same strengths, while being infinitely more flexible. The socialism of then may have raised millions out of poverty, but it was the socialism of now century that raised them into luxury, luxury greater than anything the capitalist world has ever been able to provide.Western "Marxists" are fucking obsessed with the idea of command economies. Half of them say that AES states are not actually socialist; this is wrong. The other half says that AES states have only temporarily adopted markets, and will return to the Golden Path as soon as possible; this is also wrong, and much more egregiously so, be because it requires ignorance of and/or cognitive dissonance towards the official statements and actions made by these nations.
Western "Marxist" arguments in favor of command economies are, likewise generally rooted in ignorance, not understanding that the lifestyles they have/aspire to would be unfeasible within a purely planned system. Those that are not rooted in ignorance are instead rooted in aceticism, in poverty worship, in an intellectual cancer that must be rooted out by whatever means necessary.
Sure, we may, at some point, obviate markets. But it would require a fundamental change in the means of production that, by my calculations, is far, far away from where we are now.
In any case, you would do yourself well to stop worshipping the corpses of Stalin and Mao and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
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Marx and Engels did not present Marxism as a frozen doctrine; they treated it as a materialist method that develops with concrete historical conditions. So not every theoretical development or strategic adaptation is “revisionism.” At the same time, this does not mean every departure from revolutionary politics can be defended as “non-dogmatic flexibility.” In the Marxist–Leninist sense, revisionism refers to revisions that liquidate the revolutionary and class basis of Marxism under the banner of adaptation.
So both errors should be rejected:
>using “revisionist” as an empty factional insult against any disagreement or development;
AND
>using “anti-dogmatism” to justify abandoning class struggle, proletarian power, or communism itself.
Historical Examples
<Vladimir Lenin adapting Marxist strategy to the conditions of the Russian Revolution. Some argued Russia was “too backward” for revolution; Lenin rejected mechanical stageism while still maintaining revolutionary politics. This was presented as anti-dogmatic without abandoning Marxism.
<Mao Zedong developing the strategy of a peasant-based revolution during the Chinese Communist Revolution. He criticized copying Soviet models mechanically (“book worship”) while also attacking what he saw as right-opportunist capitulation to bourgeois forces.
<Ho Chi Minh combining national liberation and socialism in Vietnam. Vietnamese communists adapted Marxism to anti-colonial conditions instead of treating European industrial conditions as universal templates.
<Thomas Sankara rejecting both strict imitation of foreign socialist models and accommodation to neocolonial capitalism in Burkina Faso. His government emphasized local conditions, self-reliance, and mass participation.
<Within communist movements, critiques of both “left” and “right” deviations were common. For example, during debates around the Sino-Soviet Split, many parties argued that mechanically copying either Soviet Union or China without regard to local realities was itself dogmatism.
The common thread in these examples is:
>dogmatism = mechanically repeating formulas regardless of conditions;
>revisionism = abandoning revolutionary class politics in the name of “practicality” or adaptation;
>Marxist method = concrete analysis of concrete conditions.
"Anti-Dogmatism" is not "Pro-Revisionism", "Anti-Revisionism" is not "Pro-dogmatism"
"Anti-Dogmatism" is not "Pro-Revisionism", "Anti-Revisionism" is not "Pro-dogmatism": Neither Dogmatism Nor Revisionism!Marx and Engels did not present Marxism as a frozen doctrine; they treated it as a materialist method that develops with concrete historical conditions. So not every theoretical development or strategic adaptation is “revisionism.” At the same time, this does not mean every departure from revolutionary politics can be defended as “non-dogmatic flexibility.” In the Marxist–Leninist sense, revisionism refers to revisions that liquidate the revolutionary and class basis of Marxism under the banner of adaptation.
So both errors should be rejected:
>using “revisionist” as an empty factional insult against any disagreement or development;
AND
>using “anti-dogmatism” to justify abandoning class struggle, proletarian power, or communism itself.
Historical Examples
<Vladimir Lenin adapting Marxist strategy to the conditions of the Russian Revolution. Some argued Russia was “too backward” for revolution; Lenin rejected mechanical stageism while still maintaining revolutionary politics. This was presented as anti-dogmatic without abandoning Marxism.
<Mao Zedong developing the strategy of a peasant-based revolution during the Chinese Communist Revolution. He criticized copying Soviet models mechanically (“book worship”) while also attacking what he saw as right-opportunist capitulation to bourgeois forces.
<Ho Chi Minh combining national liberation and socialism in Vietnam. Vietnamese communists adapted Marxism to anti-colonial conditions instead of treating European industrial conditions as universal templates.
<Thomas Sankara rejecting both strict imitation of foreign socialist models and accommodation to neocolonial capitalism in Burkina Faso. His government emphasized local conditions, self-reliance, and mass participation.
<Within communist movements, critiques of both “left” and “right” deviations were common. For example, during debates around the Sino-Soviet Split, many parties argued that mechanically copying either Soviet Union or China without regard to local realities was itself dogmatism.
The common thread in these examples is:
>dogmatism = mechanically repeating formulas regardless of conditions;
>revisionism = abandoning revolutionary class politics in the name of “practicality” or adaptation;
>Marxist method = concrete analysis of concrete conditions.
R: 21 / I: 7
Class society came about as a result of division of labour, right? There were separate groups of people who performed administrative function, like organising large scale agerculture, or who monopolised violence in form of warrior class. As history marches on the social organisation gets more complex, demanding more division of labour, not less. This seems to be driven mostly by technological growth, people with distinct expertise are needed to maintain technological society. It is not a process that I see ending with transition to planned economy (or any other model I can think of).
Now I dont think division of labour neccessarly must lead to class distinction, after all different kinds of concrete labour are performed by people occupying the same position in socio-economic pyramid, and if we imagine a society where incomes are equal, all should be of the same class.
The one problem I see is with those who perform decision making function. To allow ourself a biological analogy, the brain of social organism. By virtue of their position, they are not only allowed to secure priviledges for themselves, and as such constitute themselves as a class, but arguably the position is priviledge in itself as it bestows the greatest amount of autonomy on individual.
So the question I have, is it possible to create society with no decision-making strata? Or, if not, how can this strata be made "virtuous", so they conduct themselves as a selfless civil servants, rather than acting for their own personal benefit?
Is a future classless society possible?
Half baked thought written on my phone, based on half-remembered anthropology, so bear with me.Class society came about as a result of division of labour, right? There were separate groups of people who performed administrative function, like organising large scale agerculture, or who monopolised violence in form of warrior class. As history marches on the social organisation gets more complex, demanding more division of labour, not less. This seems to be driven mostly by technological growth, people with distinct expertise are needed to maintain technological society. It is not a process that I see ending with transition to planned economy (or any other model I can think of).
Now I dont think division of labour neccessarly must lead to class distinction, after all different kinds of concrete labour are performed by people occupying the same position in socio-economic pyramid, and if we imagine a society where incomes are equal, all should be of the same class.
The one problem I see is with those who perform decision making function. To allow ourself a biological analogy, the brain of social organism. By virtue of their position, they are not only allowed to secure priviledges for themselves, and as such constitute themselves as a class, but arguably the position is priviledge in itself as it bestows the greatest amount of autonomy on individual.
So the question I have, is it possible to create society with no decision-making strata? Or, if not, how can this strata be made "virtuous", so they conduct themselves as a selfless civil servants, rather than acting for their own personal benefit?
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Marx observes many times in his work that a new stage of history can only emerge when the time is right, so to speak. So why is it a contention of communists (including Marx himself, as far as I can tell) that we need and should advocate for revolution NOW? Isn't it natural to conclude that the faults and ultimate failure of hitherto "communist" states came from an attempt to establish communism without the proper material basis?
I think it's honestly almost obvious that a post-capitalist stage is possible, that it is desirable, that the right time will be when the productive forces are so developed that they come into conflict with the social form, and that this will create a need for revolution.
But why exactly should we "fight" for communism before that time comes?
Marx observes many times in his work that a new stage of history can only emerge when the time is right, so to speak. So why is it a contention of communists (including Marx himself, as far as I can tell) that we need and should advocate for revolution NOW? Isn't it natural to conclude that the faults and ultimate failure of hitherto "communist" states came from an attempt to establish communism without the proper material basis?
I think it's honestly almost obvious that a post-capitalist stage is possible, that it is desirable, that the right time will be when the productive forces are so developed that they come into conflict with the social form, and that this will create a need for revolution.
But why exactly should we "fight" for communism before that time comes?
R: 20 / I: 1
The West (tm) actually has all the pieces of dialectical materialism, but refuses to "assemble" them so to speak. They have broken up the pieces into empiricism, pragmatism (the American philosophy, not the colloquial sense of the word), and systems theory.
>Empiricism: has knowledge from experience (but often fragmented)
>Pragmatism: truth is what works
Systems theory: everything is interconnected
dialectical materialism combines all these insights into one coherent whole: reality is material and exists independent of our minds. things are interdependent, always changing, constantly in development, have to be studied in their context, and to understand reality we need to not just theorize, not just act, but put theory into practice, turn practice back into theory, closing the theory-practice loop, while remembering always that the particular is a case study of the general, that the general fails to describe the particular, and general both does and does not equate to the particular.
The West (tm) actually has all the pieces of dialectical materialism, but refuses to "assemble" them so to speak. They have broken up the pieces into empiricism, pragmatism (the American philosophy, not the colloquial sense of the word), and systems theory.
>Empiricism: has knowledge from experience (but often fragmented)
>Pragmatism: truth is what works
Systems theory: everything is interconnected
dialectical materialism combines all these insights into one coherent whole: reality is material and exists independent of our minds. things are interdependent, always changing, constantly in development, have to be studied in their context, and to understand reality we need to not just theorize, not just act, but put theory into practice, turn practice back into theory, closing the theory-practice loop, while remembering always that the particular is a case study of the general, that the general fails to describe the particular, and general both does and does not equate to the particular.
R: 38 / I: 4
Homeschooling is not inherently bad
I get why people dislike it most of the time; it's used by conservative parents to basically indoctrinate their children and socially isolate them, but thinking that makes homeschooling inherently bad is just like thinking all education is bad because bad people use it sometimes. A form of it could be very useful, especially for us Marxists who are often maligned by those controlling the current educational establishment. It's not like the current public school system is entirely flawless, with it often spewing anti-communist, pro-regime change, right-individualism, and pro-capitalist propaganda. If I had a kid, I wouldn't fully exclude them from public school, but I would perhaps add some sort of extra curriculum at home where I'd teach them Marxist theory, unbiased history of past socialist experiments that doesn't automatically default to (Mao killing 100 billion innocent kulaks in the gulags), and other useful things that may be discouraged elsewhere. I'd kind of be like homework but with studying Marx, Lenin, and even Franz Fanon and perhaps other leftist tendencies like anarchism since it's good to know what your opponents on the left think; marxists.org would be very useful for this, actually. This is especially relevant as it seems like reactionary forces, particularly in the United States, are trying to hijack the school system, such as Project 2025 or PragerU Kids.
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how is argentines claims to the falklands in anyway less imperialistic then Britains?
the only argument i hear is that falklands is closer to argentine (which is a pretty weak argument ) or that it was claimed by spain once (like spanish imperialism/colonialism is better then british).
considering how argies mostly descends from europeans, where arguably just as bad as USA when it came too genociding and oppressing natives they are also a colonialist state.
so why do leftist anti-imperialists defend their retarded landclaim?
how is argentines claims to the falklands in anyway less imperialistic then Britains?
the only argument i hear is that falklands is closer to argentine (which is a pretty weak argument ) or that it was claimed by spain once (like spanish imperialism/colonialism is better then british).
considering how argies mostly descends from europeans, where arguably just as bad as USA when it came too genociding and oppressing natives they are also a colonialist state.
so why do leftist anti-imperialists defend their retarded landclaim?
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Was the American revolution historically progressive?
Was the American revolution historically progressive? Before McCarthyism CPUSA used to venerate that shit a ton, I as an American think that it was better that it did happen than didn’t, the British would never have upheld any of the treaties, look at what Australia did while remaining loyal to the British, and if they stuck with the British Empire then the evil capabilities of the Empire would be worse. However I can’t say that it was Historically progressive because they failed to do a lot of the historically progressive shit like abolish slavery and stuff, because there were a ton of historically progressive pre-Marxist revolutions in the Americas like in Haiti or Gran Colombia, but America was not one of them.
R: 28 / I: 3 (sage)
There is no reason not to join the Democratic Party, they have no party line, no discipline, it's a purely big-tent party; you can say and do whatever you want, and you will never get kicked out. DSA has shown that it's the best strategy to become Democrats by achieving the most out of all left-wing and left-leaning organizations in the US, meanwhile everyone running as third parties have failed to elect even 1 candidate in any important position, or organize a serious protest.
>inb4 this belongs to usapol
This question has been misunderstood so often that it deserves its own thread
There is no reason not to join the Democratic Party, they have no party line, no discipline, it's a purely big-tent party; you can say and do whatever you want, and you will never get kicked out. DSA has shown that it's the best strategy to become Democrats by achieving the most out of all left-wing and left-leaning organizations in the US, meanwhile everyone running as third parties have failed to elect even 1 candidate in any important position, or organize a serious protest.
>inb4 this belongs to usapol
This question has been misunderstood so often that it deserves its own thread
R: 25 / I: 5
"body to short or empty" fuck you!
inconsistent communist flag
I made this flag for people who aren't Stalin dick suckers but are still okay with millions of people dying/support China. Like me."body to short or empty" fuck you!
R: 594 / I: 163
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>>2795908
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<US gasoline prices spiked last week
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/Iran war/ thread #63
<I'M GONNA STEP ON THE GAS edition>Previous bake
Latest News
>Nothing ever happens
<US gasoline prices spiked last week
>Strait's been closed for more than two months
<Trump planning a "short and powerful" strike on Iran
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https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
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https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
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R: 14 / I: 0
Yeah yeah yeah "gtfo American" shut up for a moment
So just a couple hours ago the Virgina Supreme Court has voted to overturn a redistricting referendum that would give Democrats an advantage based on a bullshit technicality, even though it's been voted on in the house and senate for two years and was approved by a majority of Virginia voters. Meanwhile Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and more are allowed to racially gerrymander their states with impunity and without input from the population, and Utah's Supreme Court is now being packed because it doesn't sufficiently favor the GOP. The message is clear: America's two-party charade has ended, has already ended, and we are entering the era of the GOP party-state
Obviously as a revolutionary socialist I'm no friend of the Democrats, however it's transparently obvious to Virginians and others that this whole bullshit is just setting the stage for a partisan dictatorship and nothing less. The Republicans have long believed that they are the natural party of governance and anything they do to retain power is a good thing, and the Democrats have utterly failed to meaningfully challenge them, even fecklessly conceding while making some bullshit statement about how "the real redistricting was the friends we made along the way". It is of course obvious to us on leftypol that American "democracy" is illegitimate, but by now it should also be clear to the average liberal or really anybody to the left of Reagan that the state isn't even going to pretend their votes matter. This could be used to our advantage
While some are giving way to despair and others to rage, leftists in Virginia and elsewhere now have an increasingly radicalized population that is being openly disenfranchised, with one party blatantly deciding that the rules only count if they benefit and the other party deciding that's okay because god forbid they break procedure. We're in a prime spot right now to get angry liberals and left-libs on our side, to denounce our entire government as illegitimate. The question is, how do we do it?
GOP Controlled Virginia Supreme Court Says "Lol, Lmao" To Democracy
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-virginia-congress-democrats-republicans-12a31037f3c9a94d3cb9fbcaaf84d94fYeah yeah yeah "gtfo American" shut up for a moment
So just a couple hours ago the Virgina Supreme Court has voted to overturn a redistricting referendum that would give Democrats an advantage based on a bullshit technicality, even though it's been voted on in the house and senate for two years and was approved by a majority of Virginia voters. Meanwhile Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and more are allowed to racially gerrymander their states with impunity and without input from the population, and Utah's Supreme Court is now being packed because it doesn't sufficiently favor the GOP. The message is clear: America's two-party charade has ended, has already ended, and we are entering the era of the GOP party-state
Obviously as a revolutionary socialist I'm no friend of the Democrats, however it's transparently obvious to Virginians and others that this whole bullshit is just setting the stage for a partisan dictatorship and nothing less. The Republicans have long believed that they are the natural party of governance and anything they do to retain power is a good thing, and the Democrats have utterly failed to meaningfully challenge them, even fecklessly conceding while making some bullshit statement about how "the real redistricting was the friends we made along the way". It is of course obvious to us on leftypol that American "democracy" is illegitimate, but by now it should also be clear to the average liberal or really anybody to the left of Reagan that the state isn't even going to pretend their votes matter. This could be used to our advantage
While some are giving way to despair and others to rage, leftists in Virginia and elsewhere now have an increasingly radicalized population that is being openly disenfranchised, with one party blatantly deciding that the rules only count if they benefit and the other party deciding that's okay because god forbid they break procedure. We're in a prime spot right now to get angry liberals and left-libs on our side, to denounce our entire government as illegitimate. The question is, how do we do it?
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⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 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:>>2777181
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<OPEN. THE. STRAIT. ringringringringringringring Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
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Most recent news posted by the independent, tracking the breaking story live, has shown that sources say there has been two infections in South Africa and one in France. World Health Organisation is ranking the situation as low risk for now.
News:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy592qeq071t
https://news.sky.com/story/three-dead-as-virus-breaks-out-on-atlantic-cruise-ship-13503266
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-symptoms-uk-cape-verde-live-updates-b2971163.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/hantavirus
Resources:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hantavirus
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/05/what-is-hantavirus-how-is-it-transmitted-and-what-are-the-symptoms/
https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/about/index.html
Hantavirus Thread #1 - Cruise Edition
I assume everyone has heard of the MV Hondius, an expedition cruise ship which travelled to remote areas, had (I would suppose wealthy) passengers infected with the Andes Virus from the Hantavirus family.Most recent news posted by the independent, tracking the breaking story live, has shown that sources say there has been two infections in South Africa and one in France. World Health Organisation is ranking the situation as low risk for now.
News:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy592qeq071t
https://news.sky.com/story/three-dead-as-virus-breaks-out-on-atlantic-cruise-ship-13503266
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-symptoms-uk-cape-verde-live-updates-b2971163.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/hantavirus
Resources:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hantavirus
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/05/what-is-hantavirus-how-is-it-transmitted-and-what-are-the-symptoms/
https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/about/index.html
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Who's ready for COVID 2 : Electric Boogaloo?
https://www.nytimes.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-hondius.html
https://archive.is/20260506135406/https://www.nytimes.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-hondius.html
>Three passengers who were aboard the MV Hondius have died and four other people have been sickened — one critically — after showing symptoms of the rare disease, according to the World Health Organization. On Monday, the vessel’s operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, said that hantavirus had been confirmed in two of the cases.
>The C.D.C. cited a case fatality rate of up to 15 percent in Asia and Europe and up to 50 percent in the Americas.
Who's ready for COVID 2 : Electric Boogaloo?
https://www.nytimes.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-hondius.html
https://archive.is/20260506135406/https://www.nytimes.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-hondius.html
>Three passengers who were aboard the MV Hondius have died and four other people have been sickened — one critically — after showing symptoms of the rare disease, according to the World Health Organization. On Monday, the vessel’s operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, said that hantavirus had been confirmed in two of the cases.
>The C.D.C. cited a case fatality rate of up to 15 percent in Asia and Europe and up to 50 percent in the Americas.
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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: 17 / I: 1
According to top news stories in early 2026, the perception of declining American power and rising Chinese influence has become increasingly prevalent both domestically and abroad. A 2026 Gallup poll revealed deep pessimism among the American public, with 72% of respondents predicting that China's power in the world will increase this year*, while majorities anticipate a decline in U.S. global power, rising international disputes, and domestic economic difficulty. Simultaneously, analyses from groups like the China Leadership Monitor indicate that Chinese officials increasingly view the U.S. as a power in terminal decline, racked by internal contradictions and domestic dysfunction. This has allowed Beijing to confidently project its own steady rise, viewing the shifting international balance of power as a transition away from an American-led unipolar world.
In this geopolitical climate, debates over the credibility of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) versus the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump often centre on global governance models. Critics and foreign policy analysts in 2026 have argued that the Trump administration's "America First" policies—such as demanding strict loyalty from civil servants, utilizing state power to intervene in corporate autonomy, and attacking the press—increasingly mirror the centralized, authoritarian toolkit used by Beijing. From the perspective of the CCP and its international defenders, this perceived American convergence toward state-capitalist tactics inadvertently validates the Chinese system. Beijing leverages this narrative to argue that its own model of continuous, one-party governance is a more stable, coherent, and credible alternative to the volatile polarization currently characterizing American democracy.
This sustained ascendancy of China presents a direct challenge to political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous "End of History" thesis. Following the Cold War, Fukuyama posited that the universalization of Western liberal democracy marked the final endpoint of mankind's ideological evolution. However, China's rise demonstrates that history has not ended. By achieving extraordinary economic prosperity and building a vast network of global influence without adopting Western democratic norms or human rights standards, China has provided a viable, alternative model of market socialism. Initiatives like the Belt and Road actively promote a non-Western vision of the international system, proving that liberal democracy still faces fierce ideological and material competition on the world stage.
Finally, the shifting global order is starkly illustrated by the 2026 Hormuz Crisis, which geopolitical analysts are heavily comparing to the Suez Crisis of 1956. In 1956, Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal and the subsequent failed intervention by Britain and France exposed the limits of European imperial power, marking the end of their hegemony in the Middle East. Similarly, the 2026 crisis—sparked by an Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz amid collapsing U.S.-Iran talks and regional conflict—is being viewed as the twilight of the "Pax Americana" in the region. In both historical moments, an asymmetric conflict over a vital global maritime choke point demonstrated the diminishing capacity of the era's dominant Western power to unilaterally control regional dynamics or dictate the terms of global trade.
* Brenan, Megan. “Americans Predict Challenging 2026 across 13 Dimensions.” Gallup.com, Gallup, 5 Jan. 2026, news.gallup.com/poll/700448/americans-predict-challenging-2026-across-dimensions.aspx.
2026: American Decline, Chinese Ascendancy, and the New Global Order
The year 2026 marks a profound historical juxtaposition: the 250th anniversary of the United States alongside what some economists and geopolitical analysts have forecasted as the dawn of the "Chinese Century." On July 4, 2026, the U.S. celebrates its semiquincentennial, honouring the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence with massive "Freedom 250" festivities. However, 2026 is also highlighted in economic projections—noted in discussions around the "Chinese Century"—as the potential year China's nominal GDP could overtake the United States if its currency sufficiently strengthened. This concept of the Chinese Century suggests that the 21st century will be geoeconomically and geopolitically dominated by the People's Republic of China, driven by vast geostrategic efforts like the Belt and Road Initiative and the Made in China 2025 plan, directly challenging the postwar "American Century."According to top news stories in early 2026, the perception of declining American power and rising Chinese influence has become increasingly prevalent both domestically and abroad. A 2026 Gallup poll revealed deep pessimism among the American public, with 72% of respondents predicting that China's power in the world will increase this year*, while majorities anticipate a decline in U.S. global power, rising international disputes, and domestic economic difficulty. Simultaneously, analyses from groups like the China Leadership Monitor indicate that Chinese officials increasingly view the U.S. as a power in terminal decline, racked by internal contradictions and domestic dysfunction. This has allowed Beijing to confidently project its own steady rise, viewing the shifting international balance of power as a transition away from an American-led unipolar world.
In this geopolitical climate, debates over the credibility of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) versus the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump often centre on global governance models. Critics and foreign policy analysts in 2026 have argued that the Trump administration's "America First" policies—such as demanding strict loyalty from civil servants, utilizing state power to intervene in corporate autonomy, and attacking the press—increasingly mirror the centralized, authoritarian toolkit used by Beijing. From the perspective of the CCP and its international defenders, this perceived American convergence toward state-capitalist tactics inadvertently validates the Chinese system. Beijing leverages this narrative to argue that its own model of continuous, one-party governance is a more stable, coherent, and credible alternative to the volatile polarization currently characterizing American democracy.
This sustained ascendancy of China presents a direct challenge to political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous "End of History" thesis. Following the Cold War, Fukuyama posited that the universalization of Western liberal democracy marked the final endpoint of mankind's ideological evolution. However, China's rise demonstrates that history has not ended. By achieving extraordinary economic prosperity and building a vast network of global influence without adopting Western democratic norms or human rights standards, China has provided a viable, alternative model of market socialism. Initiatives like the Belt and Road actively promote a non-Western vision of the international system, proving that liberal democracy still faces fierce ideological and material competition on the world stage.
Finally, the shifting global order is starkly illustrated by the 2026 Hormuz Crisis, which geopolitical analysts are heavily comparing to the Suez Crisis of 1956. In 1956, Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal and the subsequent failed intervention by Britain and France exposed the limits of European imperial power, marking the end of their hegemony in the Middle East. Similarly, the 2026 crisis—sparked by an Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz amid collapsing U.S.-Iran talks and regional conflict—is being viewed as the twilight of the "Pax Americana" in the region. In both historical moments, an asymmetric conflict over a vital global maritime choke point demonstrated the diminishing capacity of the era's dominant Western power to unilaterally control regional dynamics or dictate the terms of global trade.
* Brenan, Megan. “Americans Predict Challenging 2026 across 13 Dimensions.” Gallup.com, Gallup, 5 Jan. 2026, news.gallup.com/poll/700448/americans-predict-challenging-2026-across-dimensions.aspx.
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>>2803913
or
>>2791966
or
>>2802652
I don't think any of you fuckers, nor anyone else online who is in America and claims to be a Communist have ever gone out and tried to organize, ever. You are all completely out of touch with the American working class.
Do you even know how reactionary the average Zogbot is?
Do you realize that Maoism is just Marxism-Leninism applied to the peasant class in pre-revolutionary China? and that Marxism-Leninism is just Marxism applied to feudal Russian conditions?
It's all a damn charade, nothing more than LARP and endless navel-gazing. You guys shit on anyone doing IRL organizing short of armed struggle (adventurism under present conditions, something that the American working class has no appetite for and is not ready to accept), or people like Hasan Piker who are actual Marxists trying to put class politics into mainstream discourse and consciousness, who are harassed endlessly and targets of neo-McCarthyism (see the Josh Gotheimer bill) but this time supercharged with AI surveillance and AI powered Zionist/Imperialist online disinfo campaigns because of what? Aesthetic and rhetorical differences.
IRL organizing in radical spaces isn't much better, but at least you will find comrades who have a sense of how to speak to proletarian and lumpenproletarian people on the same level as them, that is if they aren't infiltrated by feds and arrested, or god forbid ANOTHER FUCKING RAPE SCANDAL!
It is so fucking blackpilling. I can't even tell you how blackpilling these times are. They are sicking the FBI on liberal democratic politicians at this point. The DHS is redflagging and SWATTING and incarcerating people for fucking posts online, and it seems like it's all a fucking game to you guys.
You would all rather endlessly debate esoteric, theoretical disagreements, LARP, and critique people on the grounds of aesthetic differences.
Having the correct theory (to the extent that it exists, or that any existing group or tendency has it) means jack shit if you aren't mobilizing people IRL along class lines.
AT MY WIT'S END
Enough is enough, I have had it. I have had it with the online 'left' and Communist movement, at least Americans. You people (and most online Communists) spend your entire damn days doing nothing but posting, and rehashing historical ideological battles over and over and over ad infinitum.>>2803913
or
>>2791966
or
>>2802652
I don't think any of you fuckers, nor anyone else online who is in America and claims to be a Communist have ever gone out and tried to organize, ever. You are all completely out of touch with the American working class.
Do you even know how reactionary the average Zogbot is?
Do you realize that Maoism is just Marxism-Leninism applied to the peasant class in pre-revolutionary China? and that Marxism-Leninism is just Marxism applied to feudal Russian conditions?
It's all a damn charade, nothing more than LARP and endless navel-gazing. You guys shit on anyone doing IRL organizing short of armed struggle (adventurism under present conditions, something that the American working class has no appetite for and is not ready to accept), or people like Hasan Piker who are actual Marxists trying to put class politics into mainstream discourse and consciousness, who are harassed endlessly and targets of neo-McCarthyism (see the Josh Gotheimer bill) but this time supercharged with AI surveillance and AI powered Zionist/Imperialist online disinfo campaigns because of what? Aesthetic and rhetorical differences.
IRL organizing in radical spaces isn't much better, but at least you will find comrades who have a sense of how to speak to proletarian and lumpenproletarian people on the same level as them, that is if they aren't infiltrated by feds and arrested, or god forbid ANOTHER FUCKING RAPE SCANDAL!
It is so fucking blackpilling. I can't even tell you how blackpilling these times are. They are sicking the FBI on liberal democratic politicians at this point. The DHS is redflagging and SWATTING and incarcerating people for fucking posts online, and it seems like it's all a fucking game to you guys.
You would all rather endlessly debate esoteric, theoretical disagreements, LARP, and critique people on the grounds of aesthetic differences.
Having the correct theory (to the extent that it exists, or that any existing group or tendency has it) means jack shit if you aren't mobilizing people IRL along class lines.
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the cuban flotilla is being run by the PSL but they aren't using the PSL to push the flotilla because everyone with half a brain knows by now that the PSL has a history of sexually assaulting cadre across multiple branches, so they are using other orgs they run like code pink to do the promotion and optics of the flotilla
the flotilla, much like the PSL and the rest of these astroturfing organizations like Veterans for Peace or Code Pink are funded primarily by this billionaire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Roy_Singham
I would be highly suspect of any content creator or activist who joins the flotilla. The PSL is one of the biggest obstacles for a revolutionary American left to overcome.
the cuban flotilla is being run by the PSL but they aren't using the PSL to push the flotilla because everyone with half a brain knows by now that the PSL has a history of sexually assaulting cadre across multiple branches, so they are using other orgs they run like code pink to do the promotion and optics of the flotilla
the flotilla, much like the PSL and the rest of these astroturfing organizations like Veterans for Peace or Code Pink are funded primarily by this billionaire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Roy_Singham
I would be highly suspect of any content creator or activist who joins the flotilla. The PSL is one of the biggest obstacles for a revolutionary American left to overcome.
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>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<All Downhill From Here 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/
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• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2799001
/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™
<All Downhill From Here Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/~~
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2799001
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So China's real state market just crashed, and houses will be cheaper. How is this a bad thing exactly? I don't understand much about economics. But why is everyone saying this is a bad thing?
So China's real state market just crashed, and houses will be cheaper. How is this a bad thing exactly? I don't understand much about economics. But why is everyone saying this is a bad thing?
R: 6 / I: 1
What do communist parties and anarchist groups actually do in the west? I joined my union but nothing happened, I just pay membership fees. When do I get to crack fascist skulls open and strike?
What do communist parties and anarchist groups actually do in the west? I joined my union but nothing happened, I just pay membership fees. When do I get to crack fascist skulls open and strike?
R: 70 / I: 7
And unlike the retarded neocons these activists do understand the consequences of climate change, but then what? They offer nothing remotely proportional to the crisis. “Plant more trees,” “switch to solar” that’s it. I’ve had to explain over and over that our governments are too corrupt and dysfunctional to pull that off. They barely function as it is. There’s no institutional capacity and Individual actions don’t mean much in a system like this.
We had chances. When Al Gore lost and oil billionaire won, that was a turning point and a disastrous one. I genuinely mourn what could have been different. We could have built global institutions capable of dealing with climate change before it spiraled into this nightmare. But that’s not the world we got.
This is the reality now and If we want to prevent total collapse, geoengineering is the only option left on the table. I know it’s dangerous and I know it doesn’t fix the root cause. I’m not blind to that. But at this point it’s not about perfect solutions, it’s about any solution that might actually keep people alive and not in pain.
Why are so many Western activists so averse to geoengineering?
I live in the Global South in a region being absolutely hammered by rising heat waves, the worst kind. People are dying, people are suffering, daily life is becoming unbearable. I’ve watched the heat get worse in real time and seen the misery it brings.And unlike the retarded neocons these activists do understand the consequences of climate change, but then what? They offer nothing remotely proportional to the crisis. “Plant more trees,” “switch to solar” that’s it. I’ve had to explain over and over that our governments are too corrupt and dysfunctional to pull that off. They barely function as it is. There’s no institutional capacity and Individual actions don’t mean much in a system like this.
We had chances. When Al Gore lost and oil billionaire won, that was a turning point and a disastrous one. I genuinely mourn what could have been different. We could have built global institutions capable of dealing with climate change before it spiraled into this nightmare. But that’s not the world we got.
This is the reality now and If we want to prevent total collapse, geoengineering is the only option left on the table. I know it’s dangerous and I know it doesn’t fix the root cause. I’m not blind to that. But at this point it’s not about perfect solutions, it’s about any solution that might actually keep people alive and not in pain.
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What hate groups originate in your state (Amerimutts only)?
I live in South Carolina. Joshua Sutter and his wife, Jillian Hoy operated Martinet Press and lived in and were based in South Carolina. There they formed the Tempel ov Blood/Libre 333/Iron Gates together for a theistic satanist order.
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posting this mainly to get vetted on the matrix since the mods are serious there and serious here since I got banned on one wifi for accidentally messing up the arithmetic problem
Tarotic Meditations
Anyone read the book Meditations on the Tarot? Got interested it because of the Jungian archetypes.posting this mainly to get vetted on the matrix since the mods are serious there and serious here since I got banned on one wifi for accidentally messing up the arithmetic problem
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THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM
This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM
This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
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Real mutual aid is not an event. It is a mode of living, the daily, tedious, yet joyful labor of reproducing the material conditions of collective survival outside the wage, outside the bourgeois state, outside the NGO, and, ideally, outside every other institution that mediates and limits working‑class power. This process ideally must begin with the capture of space and the utilization of the commons. Territory is not merely a backdrop to existence; it is the material precondition for autonomous social reproduction.
I do not agree with all of Kropotkin's theoretical works, but his Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution remains a solid analysis of social reproduction under conditions of precapitalist and anti‑capitalist cooperation. Kropotkin was correct, mutual aid is a factor of evolution, a material practice of cooperation that precedes and outlasts capitalist social relations. Yet the contemporary left has buried his insight beneath a mountain of liberal aesthetics. Feel‑good volunteerism that recasts structural exploitation as an opportunity for the privileged to "give back." The participant enjoys the position of giver; the structural relation remains untouched.
''Charity asks, "What can we give them?" Mutual aid asks, "What do we need to survive, and how do we produce it or obtain it together?" Before launching any mutual aid project, pose this question to your cell, your friend group, your squat, your network, your family. Let it be the first act of praxis. You will find that the path forward becomes clearer this way.
식민지는 함께 움직이고, 함께 먹고, 함께 숨쉰다.
식민지의 죽음은 낱개미 한 마리의 죽음이며,
낱개미 한 마리의 죽음은 식민지의 약화다.
개체의 생존이 없이는 집단의 생존도 없고,
집단의 힘 없이는 개체의 헌신도 존재하지 않는다.
이는 본능이 아니다. 이것은 혁명 사회에 적용된 물질적 진화 법칙이다.'
자립이란 식민지 스스로 개미집을 짓고, 여왕을 지키며, 곡식을 저장하는 법을 배우는 것이다.
식민지가 하나로 행동할 때 포식자는 망설인다.
식민지가 망설일 때 포식자는 잔치를 벌인다.
진화하라, 아니면 잡아먹히라.
단결하라, 아니면 흩어지라.
붉은 해는 고립 위에 뜨지 않는다.
하나의 몸처럼 싸우고, 하나의 몸처럼 죽고, 하나의 몸처럼 사는 법을 배운 식민지 위에 뜬다.
앞으로, 함께, 하나로.
Mutual aid is a mode of living, not giving out goods
Liberal "mutual aid" is simply charity draped in the rhetoric of radical anti‑charity, a food drive, a medicine or clean‑needle table, a hot meal dispensed downward. Such interventions may be momentarily useful, but they are not mutual aid in the materialist sense. They reproduce the giver‑receiver relation, the commodity form of assistance, and the reification of the helper as petite‑bourgeois dispenser / volunteer. The recipient remains an object of pity; the circuit of capital is interrupted only at the point of transfer, not at the point of social reproduction. The empirical reality contradicts the self‑congratulatory narrative of radical cliques, there is more genuine mutual aid, more autonomous social reproduction, more daily cooperation outside the wage occurring in the poorest, most abandoned neighborhoods than in the entire apparatus of the NGO left and its salon revolutionaries. The most effective organizers, those who actually emerge from the material conditions of the working poor and the lumpenproletariat, struggle daily against the immiseration capitalism has imposed upon them yet they are systematically ignored by white‑collar, Ivy League students who inhabit comfortable, cushioned lives, who speak the language of Marxism while practicing hyper‑individualism, who mistake performative radicalism for class struggle, and who treat the poor as abstract signifiers rather than as comrades with whom one eats, sleeps, and fights with. This is not a failure of theory; it is a failure of class position entirely. The petite‑bourgeoisie has colonized the left, and until it is expelled, or until it learns to shut the fuck up and take orders from those who actually live the struggle, the light of truth will remain hidden behind a cloud of grant proposals and endless virtue signaling.Real mutual aid is not an event. It is a mode of living, the daily, tedious, yet joyful labor of reproducing the material conditions of collective survival outside the wage, outside the bourgeois state, outside the NGO, and, ideally, outside every other institution that mediates and limits working‑class power. This process ideally must begin with the capture of space and the utilization of the commons. Territory is not merely a backdrop to existence; it is the material precondition for autonomous social reproduction.
I do not agree with all of Kropotkin's theoretical works, but his Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution remains a solid analysis of social reproduction under conditions of precapitalist and anti‑capitalist cooperation. Kropotkin was correct, mutual aid is a factor of evolution, a material practice of cooperation that precedes and outlasts capitalist social relations. Yet the contemporary left has buried his insight beneath a mountain of liberal aesthetics. Feel‑good volunteerism that recasts structural exploitation as an opportunity for the privileged to "give back." The participant enjoys the position of giver; the structural relation remains untouched.
''Charity asks, "What can we give them?" Mutual aid asks, "What do we need to survive, and how do we produce it or obtain it together?" Before launching any mutual aid project, pose this question to your cell, your friend group, your squat, your network, your family. Let it be the first act of praxis. You will find that the path forward becomes clearer this way.
식민지는 함께 움직이고, 함께 먹고, 함께 숨쉰다.
식민지의 죽음은 낱개미 한 마리의 죽음이며,
낱개미 한 마리의 죽음은 식민지의 약화다.
개체의 생존이 없이는 집단의 생존도 없고,
집단의 힘 없이는 개체의 헌신도 존재하지 않는다.
이는 본능이 아니다. 이것은 혁명 사회에 적용된 물질적 진화 법칙이다.'
자립이란 식민지 스스로 개미집을 짓고, 여왕을 지키며, 곡식을 저장하는 법을 배우는 것이다.
식민지가 하나로 행동할 때 포식자는 망설인다.
식민지가 망설일 때 포식자는 잔치를 벌인다.
진화하라, 아니면 잡아먹히라.
단결하라, 아니면 흩어지라.
붉은 해는 고립 위에 뜨지 않는다.
하나의 몸처럼 싸우고, 하나의 몸처럼 죽고, 하나의 몸처럼 사는 법을 배운 식민지 위에 뜬다.
앞으로, 함께, 하나로.
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Nuclear family abolitionists, what is the retort to this?
Recently came across these tweets. Often I've seen folk argue that the nuclear family structure is inherently abusive and tied to capital, while others, including these tweets, argue that biological parents are the least likely to sexually abuse, unlike that of extended families/communal rearing. Are these stats any accurate at all? Discuss.
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Today is Karl Marx's birthday and I wanna make a statement about his theory of society and capitalism.
Marx's theory on history and the development of capitalism is based on these three core ideas:
The mode of production and class struggle is not the main driving factor of history.
b. capitalism adapts itself better than Marx's predicted
c. labour is important in defining the value of a product but it is also not the main defining factor of its price
These ideas are upon which Marx defined capitalism, its development and the basis for its own overcoming which would result in socialism and communism.
If my critiques are true, socialism loses its scientific appeal and communism ends up being more of an utopian ideal rather than a scientific theory of history.
Today is Karl Marx's birthday and I wanna make a statement about his theory of society and capitalism.
Marx's theory on history and the development of capitalism is based on these three core ideas:
- historical and dialectical materialism
- class struggle under capitalism is inevitable
- labour theory of value and surplus value theory
The mode of production and class struggle is not the main driving factor of history.
b. capitalism adapts itself better than Marx's predicted
c. labour is important in defining the value of a product but it is also not the main defining factor of its price
These ideas are upon which Marx defined capitalism, its development and the basis for its own overcoming which would result in socialism and communism.
If my critiques are true, socialism loses its scientific appeal and communism ends up being more of an utopian ideal rather than a scientific theory of history.
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Was Jesus historically progressive?
We all know that Jesus existed historically, I assume most of us don't think he was the son of God and stuff, but he still existed but just may have been a bit crazy, but was he a force good or not? At the time he existed I would say he was because despite the cooky stuff he still at the end of the day spread a message of empathy and compassion that many would call Pre-Marxist-Socialism, which is why the Romans killed him. Obviously after his death his teachings devolved into what it is now but many great people still used his teachings for good like John Brown and MLK.
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Nitka poświęcona Polactwu.
>The workers' party of Europe takes the most decisive interest in the emancipation of Poland and the original programme of the International Working Men's Association expresses the reunification of Poland as a working-class political aim. - Karl Marx
/LeftyPoland/
Polish General ThreadNitka poświęcona Polactwu.
>The workers' party of Europe takes the most decisive interest in the emancipation of Poland and the original programme of the International Working Men's Association expresses the reunification of Poland as a working-class political aim. - Karl Marx
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And the economic implications and sociopolitical of this body being too short or empty and methods of effectively combatting it?
Explain why trotskyism is bad NOW!
And why/how it became a boogyman among even hardcore leftist circles? accusations of trotskyism are basically communist version of red-baitingAnd the economic implications and sociopolitical of this body being too short or empty and methods of effectively combatting it?
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The Elon Musks, Peter Thiels, Alex Carps, Sam Altmans, Mark Zuckerbergs, Nick Lands, Curtis Yarvins of the world.
These are people who hate humanity. Hate. Hate. Hate. Nothing but hate for the human condition.
These are people who see capitalism as both inescapable and worth accelerating to its maximum hostility, just to line their own pockets and see how many they can kill in the process, which they take pleasure in.
They want the working classes as a living dead, as digitised servitors, as brains hooked into a corporate matrix, hopeless and powerless to do anything but work.
They watch at Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and read Neuromancer and decided the hellish dystopia is what they want, at any cost.
Why? For the aesthetics alone? Because they expect to be the corpolords on top of the dogpile for a brief moment? Due to pure psychopathological sadism?
If you listen to them they've stated their aims:
They want city states, owned and ran by megacorps, ruled by CEO kings, when millions of serfs toil for the 0.0001% to live in a synthetic cyberutopia.
Is it any wonder then, that the modern left reacts today with a total hatred to transhumanism?
Recently there's been a whole spate of videos from leftist content creators outlining how they believe transhumanism is an ontological evil, conceptually and entirely with no distinction between various ideological forms it may take.
But it didn't use to be that way.
There used to be a prevalent current of left wing, socialist transhumanism, and of anarcho-transhumanism.
UBI for humanity's sake. Cybernetics to treat injuries and disability. Full bodily autonomy. Computer driven economies to equalise wealth and prioritize well-being. Robots to clean our streets.
It was not about life extension via designer peptides and child-blood transfusions for the elites. Not AI taking the job of the artist. Post-humanism as an enhancement of capabilities, not as a tool of nihilistic self-extinction.
So can we, and should we revive left transhumanism? Can the left at last de-demonise the term?
Because, personally, the way I see it technology is advancing whether we like it or not.
In that case I think we're morally obligated to bend the direction of the incoming technocrisis towards leftist goals, to promote a socialist transhumanism as an alternative.
If the tech like a meteor crashing into a city can't be stopped we must direct it so that we can minimise casualties.
Left transhumanists should raise public consciousness of their ideology as much as possible and if capable eventually launch cyber attacks on the Palantirs and OpenAIs of this world, physically disrupt their murder tech, burn their data centres, steal their data to repurpose it and openly reveal their secrets, again and again and again until there's no alternative but for people begin to take seriously the need for technology to serve the goal of benefiting humanity, not ending it.
Anyway that's just something that I ended up think about today.
I'm not the most knowledgeable on this matter, so please tell me what you think should be done to prevent these sick freaks from forming their cyberpunk Hitler society.
Please let me know if you think it's possible to construct a real movement out of left transhumanism!
Leftist Transhumanism
Modern transhumanism seems to have been entirely coopted by the extreme right, the fascist right.The Elon Musks, Peter Thiels, Alex Carps, Sam Altmans, Mark Zuckerbergs, Nick Lands, Curtis Yarvins of the world.
These are people who hate humanity. Hate. Hate. Hate. Nothing but hate for the human condition.
These are people who see capitalism as both inescapable and worth accelerating to its maximum hostility, just to line their own pockets and see how many they can kill in the process, which they take pleasure in.
They want the working classes as a living dead, as digitised servitors, as brains hooked into a corporate matrix, hopeless and powerless to do anything but work.
They watch at Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and read Neuromancer and decided the hellish dystopia is what they want, at any cost.
Why? For the aesthetics alone? Because they expect to be the corpolords on top of the dogpile for a brief moment? Due to pure psychopathological sadism?
If you listen to them they've stated their aims:
They want city states, owned and ran by megacorps, ruled by CEO kings, when millions of serfs toil for the 0.0001% to live in a synthetic cyberutopia.
Is it any wonder then, that the modern left reacts today with a total hatred to transhumanism?
Recently there's been a whole spate of videos from leftist content creators outlining how they believe transhumanism is an ontological evil, conceptually and entirely with no distinction between various ideological forms it may take.
But it didn't use to be that way.
There used to be a prevalent current of left wing, socialist transhumanism, and of anarcho-transhumanism.
UBI for humanity's sake. Cybernetics to treat injuries and disability. Full bodily autonomy. Computer driven economies to equalise wealth and prioritize well-being. Robots to clean our streets.
It was not about life extension via designer peptides and child-blood transfusions for the elites. Not AI taking the job of the artist. Post-humanism as an enhancement of capabilities, not as a tool of nihilistic self-extinction.
So can we, and should we revive left transhumanism? Can the left at last de-demonise the term?
Because, personally, the way I see it technology is advancing whether we like it or not.
In that case I think we're morally obligated to bend the direction of the incoming technocrisis towards leftist goals, to promote a socialist transhumanism as an alternative.
If the tech like a meteor crashing into a city can't be stopped we must direct it so that we can minimise casualties.
Left transhumanists should raise public consciousness of their ideology as much as possible and if capable eventually launch cyber attacks on the Palantirs and OpenAIs of this world, physically disrupt their murder tech, burn their data centres, steal their data to repurpose it and openly reveal their secrets, again and again and again until there's no alternative but for people begin to take seriously the need for technology to serve the goal of benefiting humanity, not ending it.
Anyway that's just something that I ended up think about today.
I'm not the most knowledgeable on this matter, so please tell me what you think should be done to prevent these sick freaks from forming their cyberpunk Hitler society.
Please let me know if you think it's possible to construct a real movement out of left transhumanism!
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Long Live the 1st of May!
Long Live Workers' Day!
They will never take the workers' day from us, no matter how hard they try,
MAY DAY
Happy International Workers DayLong Live the 1st of May!
Long Live Workers' Day!
They will never take the workers' day from us, no matter how hard they try,
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Yeah, I think we are in the endgame. Visits to marxists.org spiked in the last year. People are getting that class concussy.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
Yeah, I think we are in the endgame. Visits to marxists.org spiked in the last year. People are getting that class concussy.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
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SOVIET UNION
>BANNED ALL PROLETARIANS FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY
>BALLOONED TO 19 MILLION BUREAUCRATIC PARASITES
>THEY VOTE TO DISSOLVE THE UNION BUT THE PROLETARIAT DOES NOT WANT THAT
>EVERY PROLETARIAN IS FORCED TO DRINK DNA AND WE HAVE RUSSIA TODAY
UYGHUR
SOVIET UNION
>BANNED ALL PROLETARIANS FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY
>BALLOONED TO 19 MILLION BUREAUCRATIC PARASITES
>THEY VOTE TO DISSOLVE THE UNION BUT THE PROLETARIAT DOES NOT WANT THAT
>EVERY PROLETARIAN IS FORCED TO DRINK DNA AND WE HAVE RUSSIA TODAY
UYGHUR
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/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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• 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:
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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/
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• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
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• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
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I am trying to create a new form of socialism called "bhakti socialism".
It mixes the idea of individual trust and devotion to a god or gods with the idea of collective ownership of property.
It's not a new idea, but I am trying to create a coherent synthesis between these spiritual and material traditions in order to promote individual and collective liberation.
I am trying to create a new form of socialism called "bhakti socialism".
It mixes the idea of individual trust and devotion to a god or gods with the idea of collective ownership of property.
It's not a new idea, but I am trying to create a coherent synthesis between these spiritual and material traditions in order to promote individual and collective liberation.
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Mussolini
Which would you rather have? Pre-Axis Italian Fascism (So no racial laws and such) or run-of-the-mill free market capitalism? Foreign policy is to be ignored, assume both of these systems are entirely isolationist
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<The working class in Britain faces a surge in unemployment as the economic shockwaves from the war on Iran push an already stagnating economy towards recession […]
/leftybritpol/ - it's over edition
>Unemployment to rise by a quarter of a million as Iran war hits UK economy<The working class in Britain faces a surge in unemployment as the economic shockwaves from the war on Iran push an already stagnating economy towards recession […]
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Thoughts on dworkin?
Wanna know what folks on here thinks of andrea dworkin and general sentiment around her work alongside others in her vein. Was she a genius or just stupid?
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>the nation
>religion
>family
I care about
>my wage
>my leisure time
>my rest time
This is why I fight for
<higher wages
<more leisure
<more rest
Fighting for any of the first three doesn't guarantee any of these. It is not in my personal interest to fight for
>the nation
>religion
>family
in any capacity. However, if I only fought for higher wages I end up a syndicalist. If I didn't fight for wages, I become a culture warrior. If I want more leisure/rest, then the working day needs to be shorter across all sectors. This is doable, and this is also directly a political class conflict because it goes against the interest of the owning class (bourgeoisie). And it also is a struggle against sectors. So our goal is then
>no (wage) work
and in the limit of this class struggle for more leisure, we have, first, the transitional proletarian dictatorship, which systematically lowers the working day every year and develops means to distribute goods based on work-hours input in the collective labor process, and the limit of this process is the communist world-republic.
am I getting this right?
I don't care about>the nation
>religion
>family
I care about
>my wage
>my leisure time
>my rest time
This is why I fight for
<higher wages
<more leisure
<more rest
Fighting for any of the first three doesn't guarantee any of these. It is not in my personal interest to fight for
>the nation
>religion
>family
in any capacity. However, if I only fought for higher wages I end up a syndicalist. If I didn't fight for wages, I become a culture warrior. If I want more leisure/rest, then the working day needs to be shorter across all sectors. This is doable, and this is also directly a political class conflict because it goes against the interest of the owning class (bourgeoisie). And it also is a struggle against sectors. So our goal is then
>no (wage) work
and in the limit of this class struggle for more leisure, we have, first, the transitional proletarian dictatorship, which systematically lowers the working day every year and develops means to distribute goods based on work-hours input in the collective labor process, and the limit of this process is the communist world-republic.
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Is there any room in Marxism for people who don't like democracy and would prefer a strong man leader type in the vain of the USSR under Stalin, the DPRK or Mao's China?
Even though we have successful examples of this the modern left seems obsessed with "our democracy"
Is there any room in Marxism for people who don't like democracy and would prefer a strong man leader type in the vain of the USSR under Stalin, the DPRK or Mao's China?
Even though we have successful examples of this the modern left seems obsessed with "our democracy"
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Is the United States a fascist state?
Is it fair to call America a fascist state at this point? I still am really split on rather it is full fascism and not because it is a very undemocratic system with rigged elections in the form of the electoral college and lobbying and stuff but there is still technically free speech, this website is still up after all.
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what are /leftypol/'s thoughts on Nestor Makhno? was he a based anarchist revolutionary or a drunk bandit? I have read “Nestor Makhno: Anarchy’s Cossack” which paints him as a man caught up in the ideal of anarchy and the reality of russian revolution/civil war.
what are /leftypol/'s thoughts on Nestor Makhno? was he a based anarchist revolutionary or a drunk bandit? I have read “Nestor Makhno: Anarchy’s Cossack” which paints him as a man caught up in the ideal of anarchy and the reality of russian revolution/civil war.
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>During the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, China opposed Russia's infringement on Georgia's sovereignty.[141]: 347 Citing principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and global order, China used its influence in the SCO to prevent the organisation from supporting Russia.[141]: 347
Multipolar zizters… why would china do this?
>During the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, China opposed Russia's infringement on Georgia's sovereignty.[141]: 347 Citing principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and global order, China used its influence in the SCO to prevent the organisation from supporting Russia.[141]: 347
Multipolar zizters… why would china do this?
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But how exactly do we get to do this ? It seems that the idea of exchange-value imposing itself on use-value as the dominant way of production simply reflects scarcity. Some objects are valued more than others and we would prefer that the ressources required to produce one are spent in object A than object B.
As such, how exactly do we go about to about to abolish the law of value whilst retaining the inevitable characteristic of scarcity in most domains ?
>inb4 paul dickblast
It's been a while since I've read dickblast's TANS but doesn't his concept of labor-vouchers imply commodification of labor ? Working to be able to get said-vouchers is recreating a form of exchange which reflects scarcity. It's a better monetary system than the one we have now, but it still operates under a form of the law of value. (note that it's been a while since I've read it, so this might be incorrect)
How exactly do we abolish the "Law of Value" ?
I hear often that to establish a communist society implies the abolition of the law of value, which means abolishing the commodity form – that objects are created for exchange rather than for use.But how exactly do we get to do this ? It seems that the idea of exchange-value imposing itself on use-value as the dominant way of production simply reflects scarcity. Some objects are valued more than others and we would prefer that the ressources required to produce one are spent in object A than object B.
As such, how exactly do we go about to about to abolish the law of value whilst retaining the inevitable characteristic of scarcity in most domains ?
>inb4 paul dickblast
It's been a while since I've read dickblast's TANS but doesn't his concept of labor-vouchers imply commodification of labor ? Working to be able to get said-vouchers is recreating a form of exchange which reflects scarcity. It's a better monetary system than the one we have now, but it still operates under a form of the law of value. (note that it's been a while since I've read it, so this might be incorrect)
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I want this crisis in Iran to lead to a communist revolution in the country, but I know that the movement is weak both domestically and internationally. But still I hope.
Do you feel the same?
I want this crisis in Iran to lead to a communist revolution in the country, but I know that the movement is weak both domestically and internationally. But still I hope.
Do you feel the same?
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Is maoism completely dead? The CCP doesnt follow it and has practically disavowed it.
Modern maoism only exists online and is entirely composed of just resentful thirdworlders and non-white ethnonationalists with teenage revenge fantasies.
Is maoism completely dead? The CCP doesnt follow it and has practically disavowed it.
Modern maoism only exists online and is entirely composed of just resentful thirdworlders and non-white ethnonationalists with teenage revenge fantasies.
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Found this site randomly, from what I know it’s appeared fairly recently.
It’s honestly sickening to see stuff like this still and of this retarded vibe based ideology refuses to die, I mean most of their ideas about immigration and ‘Muh replacement’ are shared by billionaires and the modern day, trivial zoomer right. I literally don’t see any reason to be into something like this when you can just vOOOte another Hitlerite in democratically.
A nazi to me is simply a retard who bases his ideology on their porn addiction and le heckin based Hitler edits from Xitter.
Let’s come together and destroy this faggotite ideology forever
New Nazi Larp forum?/anti-right rant
https://fashfront.st/Found this site randomly, from what I know it’s appeared fairly recently.
It’s honestly sickening to see stuff like this still and of this retarded vibe based ideology refuses to die, I mean most of their ideas about immigration and ‘Muh replacement’ are shared by billionaires and the modern day, trivial zoomer right. I literally don’t see any reason to be into something like this when you can just vOOOte another Hitlerite in democratically.
A nazi to me is simply a retard who bases his ideology on their porn addiction and le heckin based Hitler edits from Xitter.
Let’s come together and destroy this faggotite ideology forever
R: 11 / I: 3
I'm just thinking.
The most important factor in the definition and practises of communism during history is the role of the State in the revolution.
Marx argued that after the proleatarian takeover and socialization of the means of production the State would simply "wither away".
I am not sure, but I think this is based in a hegelian style type of dialects in which he places the "dictatorshio of the ruling class" as a thesis, then the revolutionary takeover would be an antithetical form of dictaroshio which would result in the synthesis of communism or the stateless and classless society.
To be honest, this seems like a very simplification of reality if true and that would be the reason why so many revolutions failed.
The state don't simply disappears, because maybe it isn't only a "superstructure" vased on material relations but something much more complex than that.
Hegel defined the State as some type of collective rational which is the way God guides society, and Marx's views would seem to be the complementar opposite to that theory which would be also wrong, because the State is not God or only a product of material relations but something different.
It seems the State intead of disappearing it just change its form to something else. This doesn't mean it is guided by some kind o "superior being" but it also disproves the idea it is just a temporary thing that can simply disappear.
I would be interested in discovering what the true nature of the State is, becaue it seems to be, as I said, the central point of both the revolutionary theory and also communism in general.
I'm just thinking.
The most important factor in the definition and practises of communism during history is the role of the State in the revolution.
Marx argued that after the proleatarian takeover and socialization of the means of production the State would simply "wither away".
I am not sure, but I think this is based in a hegelian style type of dialects in which he places the "dictatorshio of the ruling class" as a thesis, then the revolutionary takeover would be an antithetical form of dictaroshio which would result in the synthesis of communism or the stateless and classless society.
To be honest, this seems like a very simplification of reality if true and that would be the reason why so many revolutions failed.
The state don't simply disappears, because maybe it isn't only a "superstructure" vased on material relations but something much more complex than that.
Hegel defined the State as some type of collective rational which is the way God guides society, and Marx's views would seem to be the complementar opposite to that theory which would be also wrong, because the State is not God or only a product of material relations but something different.
It seems the State intead of disappearing it just change its form to something else. This doesn't mean it is guided by some kind o "superior being" but it also disproves the idea it is just a temporary thing that can simply disappear.
I would be interested in discovering what the true nature of the State is, becaue it seems to be, as I said, the central point of both the revolutionary theory and also communism in general.
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Do you believe in the Bible? I'm a Baptist (eternal security/Once Saved Always Saved, Free Grace, anti-calvinist, sola fide type Christian. First you had the Ice Age, then the Ice Age melted, then that lead to stories of people building arks to survive regional floods from the Black Sea in the Neolithic period or Mesopotamia. Then came Moses. Then came Jesus who died around 33 AD under Tiberius. If you believe he is God, the "son" of God, and his death is sufficient to cover all your sins, you are saved. No works you can do will save you. Charismatic Pentecostal heretics who spew uyghurspeak at their churches they call "tongues" when even the Bible says it ceased and it was only meant for the Apostles to speak in foreign languages. Speaking nonsense like these "Apostolic" Christians like the NAR, are all heretics on their way to hell. They are the same people Jesus will say "I never knew you". The law of God is to believe in the son to have everlasting life. If you believe your works are why you should go to heaven you are at odds with Jesus and the gospel. The bible called them Pharisees. They were religious experts on the Torah and the Law of Moses so brilliantly and yet it became a source of cultural pride for them. The Sadducees didn't even believe in an afterlife! Some judaized Christians to this day don't (like "A Messenger of Truth" on YouTube). Jehovah's Witnesses don't. Hebrew Roots don't. All of these heretics who don't look to Jesus for life are doomed for Hell along with all the prosperity pimps. Anti-Paul people are never goodfaith. They've never read the Bible thoroughly. Romans is like Holy Water to a demon that is these people.
Do you believe in the Bible? I'm a Baptist (eternal security/Once Saved Always Saved, Free Grace, anti-calvinist, sola fide type Christian. First you had the Ice Age, then the Ice Age melted, then that lead to stories of people building arks to survive regional floods from the Black Sea in the Neolithic period or Mesopotamia. Then came Moses. Then came Jesus who died around 33 AD under Tiberius. If you believe he is God, the "son" of God, and his death is sufficient to cover all your sins, you are saved. No works you can do will save you. Charismatic Pentecostal heretics who spew uyghurspeak at their churches they call "tongues" when even the Bible says it ceased and it was only meant for the Apostles to speak in foreign languages. Speaking nonsense like these "Apostolic" Christians like the NAR, are all heretics on their way to hell. They are the same people Jesus will say "I never knew you". The law of God is to believe in the son to have everlasting life. If you believe your works are why you should go to heaven you are at odds with Jesus and the gospel. The bible called them Pharisees. They were religious experts on the Torah and the Law of Moses so brilliantly and yet it became a source of cultural pride for them. The Sadducees didn't even believe in an afterlife! Some judaized Christians to this day don't (like "A Messenger of Truth" on YouTube). Jehovah's Witnesses don't. Hebrew Roots don't. All of these heretics who don't look to Jesus for life are doomed for Hell along with all the prosperity pimps. Anti-Paul people are never goodfaith. They've never read the Bible thoroughly. Romans is like Holy Water to a demon that is these people.
R: 5 / I: 1
>using the java engine in android phones he records a vast amount of the global population's shits. this is a plan he boldly describes as dedicated to peace through security, and his own solemn duty. he states that only an AI watches the recordings to observe for threats and he will supply recordings to the government with a court order.
>some would call this the raving delusion of an irresponsible madman. however for larry this is the latest incarnation of a software product he built in the 90s, one that would take detailed metrics on professional software programming teams, and page him whenever a programmer was about to take a bathroom break. this early success was the cornerstone of a business portfolio worth trillions of dollars.
>besides high tech AI and large scale IT infrastructure projects ellison's empire extends to television and multimedia production. he is one of the united states governments largest tech partners across all branches, and has made significant investments in israeli real estate, it's defense industry, and it's armed forces.
wtf? what other depraved shit are billionaires up to?
billionaire bashing
turns out larry ellison is a poo sniffer:>using the java engine in android phones he records a vast amount of the global population's shits. this is a plan he boldly describes as dedicated to peace through security, and his own solemn duty. he states that only an AI watches the recordings to observe for threats and he will supply recordings to the government with a court order.
>some would call this the raving delusion of an irresponsible madman. however for larry this is the latest incarnation of a software product he built in the 90s, one that would take detailed metrics on professional software programming teams, and page him whenever a programmer was about to take a bathroom break. this early success was the cornerstone of a business portfolio worth trillions of dollars.
>besides high tech AI and large scale IT infrastructure projects ellison's empire extends to television and multimedia production. he is one of the united states governments largest tech partners across all branches, and has made significant investments in israeli real estate, it's defense industry, and it's armed forces.
wtf? what other depraved shit are billionaires up to?
R: 233 / I: 62
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
R: 4 / I: 1
The CNE reportedly agreed to investigate allegations that Cepeda violated regulations regarding campaign contributions ahead of the primary of his political party, Historic Pact, in October last year. The allegations were made by Senator Jote Pe Hernandez of the Green Alliance party and Juan Martin Bravo, a conservative politician from Cali, and four political activists. The opposition politicians and the activists claimed received two donations of a PR company, Samat Publicidad SAS, that together amounted to more than 10% of the total private campaign donations.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-election-authority-investigating-leftist-frontrunner/
Cuba’s electric and petroleum workers celebrate their colleagues during massive rally
Cuba’s power crisis deepened after the U.S. attacked Venezuela in early January, halting critical oil shipments from the South American country. Later that month, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. As a result, the island spent more than three months without a single oil shipment until a Russian tanker laden with 730,000 barrels docked in Cuba in late March.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-may-1-power-workers-outages-union-petroleum-9ecb9f1c31357cb0b599869d3c49d31b
Peru's electoral board calls for audit of election results
The final results of the first round of the elections remain unclear and the vote count is still incomplete with 97.5% of the ballots counted. No clear presidential rival has emerged to face conservative frontrunner Keiko Fujimori.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-electoral-board-calls-audit-election-results-2026-05-02/
Paraguayans March for Labor Rights
The day also saw the active participation of multiple productive sectors. The demonstration was organized by the Trade Union and Social Front, which emphasized the need to reorganize the labor movement in the face of the loss of purchasing power and the consolidation of precarious employment in various sectors.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayans-march-for-labor-rights/
SDLP MP condemns Badenoch’s use of Bloody Sunday footage in social media video
In the video, Ms Badenoch said that Labour’s Bill will “drag” Troubles veterans back to court. “It will put elderly veterans through fresh legal battles at the end of their lives,” she said. Ms Badenoch said her party will “vote to block” the legislation and “a future Conservative government will repeal it” and posted a link to a petition to stop the Bill.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sdlp-mp-condemns-badenochs-use-bloody-sunday-footage-social-media-video
Dig deep! Reform frontbench promotes JCBs after £200,000 donation from firm
Several Reform politicians including Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Robert Jenrick, Zia Yusuf and Richard Tice have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro machine. At a rally last year in Birmingham, Farage entered the stage on one of the repair vehicles and suggested it would be used in Reform-run councils when the party had taken control at local elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/reform-uk-funding-promoting-jcb-machine-farage-jenrick-anderson
French unions rally on Labour Day to defend paid holiday rights
Labour Day on 1 May holds a unique status in France as the only public holiday that is "férié et chômé" – non-working and paid for almost everyone. Rooted in the labour movement, Labour Day was declared internationally in 1889 after Chicago's Haymarket riot, when a bomb killed several people during a strike for an eight-hour working day The holiday symbolises respect for workers, and unions view any erosion of it as a threat to broader protections.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260501-french-unions-rally-on-labour-day-to-defend-paid-holiday-rights-may-day
https://archive.ph/254YL
Rallies Held across Greece to Mark International Workers’ Day – May Day
The joint strike rally of ADEDY, GSEE and the Athens Labor Center began at 11:00 AM at Klafthmonos Square, while PAME called for a separate gathering at 10:30 in Syntagma Square. Similar mobilizations have been planned in Thessaloniki as well as in other cities across Greece. In a statement, ADEDY underlined that the need for collective action and struggle is more pressing than ever.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/rallies-held-across-greece-to-mark-international-workers-day-may-day/
https://archive.ph/oDIcM
Protests across Italy for May Day, tensions escalate in Turin - Protesters hit with sticks
In Turin, the situation escalated, with clashes between protesters and police. The march was led by union banners with the slogan "Dignified Work" and a banner from the National Association of Italian Partisans. Some of them broke away from the May 1 march and tried to break through the police cordon. The protesters attacked the police shields with batons, while the officers responded by using water cannons.
https://www.gazetaexpress.com/en/Protests-across-Italy-for-May-1st--tensions-escalate-in-Turin--protesters-are-beaten-with-sticks/
https://archive.ph/p9lyy
Mashatile calls for unity as alliance rifts overshadow Workers’ Day
Leaders of the ANC, Cosatu, the SACP and SANCO decried the state of the alliance following the SACP’s decision to contest elections independently. This has prompted the ANC to give all its members with dual membership 10 days to choose whether they will be campaigning for the ANC or the SACP. ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile has addressed hundreds of people at the main Workers Day event at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/1125102-2/
News 5/2/26
Colombia’s election authority investigating leftist frontrunnerThe CNE reportedly agreed to investigate allegations that Cepeda violated regulations regarding campaign contributions ahead of the primary of his political party, Historic Pact, in October last year. The allegations were made by Senator Jote Pe Hernandez of the Green Alliance party and Juan Martin Bravo, a conservative politician from Cali, and four political activists. The opposition politicians and the activists claimed received two donations of a PR company, Samat Publicidad SAS, that together amounted to more than 10% of the total private campaign donations.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-election-authority-investigating-leftist-frontrunner/
Cuba’s electric and petroleum workers celebrate their colleagues during massive rally
Cuba’s power crisis deepened after the U.S. attacked Venezuela in early January, halting critical oil shipments from the South American country. Later that month, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. As a result, the island spent more than three months without a single oil shipment until a Russian tanker laden with 730,000 barrels docked in Cuba in late March.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-may-1-power-workers-outages-union-petroleum-9ecb9f1c31357cb0b599869d3c49d31b
Peru's electoral board calls for audit of election results
The final results of the first round of the elections remain unclear and the vote count is still incomplete with 97.5% of the ballots counted. No clear presidential rival has emerged to face conservative frontrunner Keiko Fujimori.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-electoral-board-calls-audit-election-results-2026-05-02/
Paraguayans March for Labor Rights
The day also saw the active participation of multiple productive sectors. The demonstration was organized by the Trade Union and Social Front, which emphasized the need to reorganize the labor movement in the face of the loss of purchasing power and the consolidation of precarious employment in various sectors.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayans-march-for-labor-rights/
SDLP MP condemns Badenoch’s use of Bloody Sunday footage in social media video
In the video, Ms Badenoch said that Labour’s Bill will “drag” Troubles veterans back to court. “It will put elderly veterans through fresh legal battles at the end of their lives,” she said. Ms Badenoch said her party will “vote to block” the legislation and “a future Conservative government will repeal it” and posted a link to a petition to stop the Bill.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sdlp-mp-condemns-badenochs-use-bloody-sunday-footage-social-media-video
Dig deep! Reform frontbench promotes JCBs after £200,000 donation from firm
Several Reform politicians including Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Robert Jenrick, Zia Yusuf and Richard Tice have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro machine. At a rally last year in Birmingham, Farage entered the stage on one of the repair vehicles and suggested it would be used in Reform-run councils when the party had taken control at local elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/reform-uk-funding-promoting-jcb-machine-farage-jenrick-anderson
French unions rally on Labour Day to defend paid holiday rights
Labour Day on 1 May holds a unique status in France as the only public holiday that is "férié et chômé" – non-working and paid for almost everyone. Rooted in the labour movement, Labour Day was declared internationally in 1889 after Chicago's Haymarket riot, when a bomb killed several people during a strike for an eight-hour working day The holiday symbolises respect for workers, and unions view any erosion of it as a threat to broader protections.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260501-french-unions-rally-on-labour-day-to-defend-paid-holiday-rights-may-day
https://archive.ph/254YL
Rallies Held across Greece to Mark International Workers’ Day – May Day
The joint strike rally of ADEDY, GSEE and the Athens Labor Center began at 11:00 AM at Klafthmonos Square, while PAME called for a separate gathering at 10:30 in Syntagma Square. Similar mobilizations have been planned in Thessaloniki as well as in other cities across Greece. In a statement, ADEDY underlined that the need for collective action and struggle is more pressing than ever.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/rallies-held-across-greece-to-mark-international-workers-day-may-day/
https://archive.ph/oDIcM
Protests across Italy for May Day, tensions escalate in Turin - Protesters hit with sticks
In Turin, the situation escalated, with clashes between protesters and police. The march was led by union banners with the slogan "Dignified Work" and a banner from the National Association of Italian Partisans. Some of them broke away from the May 1 march and tried to break through the police cordon. The protesters attacked the police shields with batons, while the officers responded by using water cannons.
https://www.gazetaexpress.com/en/Protests-across-Italy-for-May-1st--tensions-escalate-in-Turin--protesters-are-beaten-with-sticks/
https://archive.ph/p9lyy
Mashatile calls for unity as alliance rifts overshadow Workers’ Day
Leaders of the ANC, Cosatu, the SACP and SANCO decried the state of the alliance following the SACP’s decision to contest elections independently. This has prompted the ANC to give all its members with dual membership 10 days to choose whether they will be campaigning for the ANC or the SACP. ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile has addressed hundreds of people at the main Workers Day event at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/1125102-2/
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Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism is the dominant ideology of capitalist society, which also exists within the "left-wing" movement. It has certain specific characteristics:- Left Eurocentrism builds upon the bourgeois unilinear theory of "social progress," with Europe serving as the highest peak and the universal reference point of world history.
- Left Eurocentrism uses a false version of historical materialism to present early capitalism as a progressive social order on a global scale, while in reality, it was only progressive in relation to the feudal system in the major European states.
- Left Eurocentrism underestimates the role of colonialism, the slave trade, etc., as the foundation for the historical origins and ongoing accumulation of the capitalist mode of production.
- Left Eurocentrism schematizes world history based on the European experience and forces everything into this mold—for example, the expectation that all societies must go through a succession of the same modes of production (slave-owning, feudal) as Europe, or else they are considered "backward."
- Left Eurocentrism assumes that advanced productive forces necessarily lead to advanced struggles; it underestimates the peasantry; it conceives of revolution primarily as the dividing of the national pie between the proletariat and the bourgeois class in the major capitalist countries.
- In its approach to international relations, Left Eurocentrism elevates inter-imperialist contradictions above the fundamental contradiction between oppressor and oppressed nations, and it considers relations between great powers to be the main events in world politics.
- Left Eurocentrism fails to see the continuous nature of super-exploitation and the unequal international division of labor as the basis of imperialism, and it attempts to explain dynamics without giving any place to the relations between imperialist and dependent countries.
- Left Eurocentrism does not recognize the extent to which the main contradictions of the capitalist mode of production are embodied in the contradictions between oppressor and oppressed nations, and therefore considers nationalism in colonial countries to be backward and a hindrance.
- Left Eurocentrism generally considers national liberation movements to be subordinate to the supposed interests of the proletarian movement in the "advanced" countries, and dictates to them what they should do.
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My family didn't starve in the 80s only due to kolkhoz markets. It was simply impossible to buy something in state groceries. The peasantry, the petit bourgeoisie (aka big proletarians) saved tens of millions of lives of the soviet people while the party bureaucracy tried to murder them. So why should I hate the first ones and like the second ones and their descendants (Cucktin and his party)?
My family didn't starve in the 80s only due to kolkhoz markets. It was simply impossible to buy something in state groceries. The peasantry, the petit bourgeoisie (aka big proletarians) saved tens of millions of lives of the soviet people while the party bureaucracy tried to murder them. So why should I hate the first ones and like the second ones and their descendants (Cucktin and his party)?
R: 638 / I: 99 (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 📺
(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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<Schrödinger's ceasefire
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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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I remember seeing a reply to the US pol thread and I think its a good idea
In countries without socialist rep in their goverments, we should purposely vote for the worst candiates in elections, to further accelerate the ongoing collapse of capitalism.
So list retarded political candiates.
I remember seeing a reply to the US pol thread and I think its a good idea
In countries without socialist rep in their goverments, we should purposely vote for the worst candiates in elections, to further accelerate the ongoing collapse of capitalism.
So list retarded political candiates.
R: 66 / I: 5
Why is Vietnam so cucked?
Vietnam has a smaller public sector than the United States and they are Pro-America, Pro-Israel, and Anti-China in their foreign policy. I have no idea how after America nearly committed genocide in your country you can put them over fellow socialist states, they will condemn America when it does something shitty but never act on it, they are practically just Spain, Norway, or Ireland when it comes to foreign policy. I know that China is also shitty when it comes to foreign policy and stuff too but they are at least technically Anti-America.
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This individualizing logic is not incidental to the therapeutic project; it is its structural function under capitalism. As the radical psychiatry movement contended, fostering mental health was to be an art rather than a science, requiring a shift away from individual psychotherapy and toward supportive group work, coupled with direct social and political action. The consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) movement, a powerful, decentralized coalition emerging from the anti-psychiatry struggles of the 1970s and 1980s, forged the very concept of peer support, where those with lived experience provide mutual aid outside the medical model's bourgeois hierarchical structures. This movement has been instrumental in developing a variety of peer-support alternatives. AA was one of the original movements to flirt with these concepts in it's religious, communal stance against the medical world's treatment towards alcoholism at the time, directly organized by the alcoholics themselves, not passively accepting the official treatment they were often subject to. Things like this often end up creating something more than a mere psychotherapy model or a technique; it is a movement of community that fundamentally challenges the power relations embedded in professionalized care and recovery itself.
The "institutional psychotherapy" movement in postwar France, which profoundly influenced figures like Frantz Fanon, Felix Guattari, and Michel Foucault, offers a vision of what a truly materialist psychiatry could look like. Anchored in the work of doctors like Tosquelles at the Saint-Alban hospital, this was not just a set of therapeutic techniques but a psychiatric reform and inspiration for a resistance movement that sought to transform the mental hospital into a "laboratory of political awakening". It aimed to reconfigure the entire social and mental dynamic of the patient, understanding that authentic healing could not occur within the oppressive, hierarchical structures of the traditional mental asylum and it's logic of western bourgeois medicine. This was a project of "disalienation" that recognized the patient's concrete society as itself "the sick individual," requiring political, not just clinical, intervention.
Furthermore, the legacy of materialism in healing extends into the body itself, directly challenging the Cartesian dualism that privileges talk therapy as the only legitimate form of treatment. The contemporary field of somatic abolitionism, developed by Resmaa Menakem, is a powerful example of this. It is defined as "a living, embodied practice and culture of anti-racism". It asserts that the traumas of white supremacy and/or colonialism are stored not just in the mind but in the body's nervous system, and that healing requires a physical, felt practice of metabolizing that stress. This approach directly confronts the "white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices," reimagining bodywork as a site of radical, anti-capitalist struggle.
The Soviet bloc also produced fascinating and tragic examples of radical mental health experiments. The Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) in West Germany explicitly claimed that the only valid therapy was one that aligned the individual with revolutionary political struggle. These efforts were part of a "movement" in the global development of mental health, a minor history of approaches grounded in common struggle against conditions of scarcity. More directly, under Pinochet's regime during this era, community-based mental health work was often associated with communism and socialism and subsequently banned, with socialist psychiatrists being silenced through torture or exile. This history demonstrates that the bourgeois state and society correctly recognizes the revolutionary potential of community-controlled care, repressing it as a threat to its order, openly or covertly.
The next task, then, is to forge a Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy (CLP), a model that centers critical dialectical materialist theory and maintains that therapeutic practice can provide the relational and institutional conditions that cultivate revolutionary forms of subjectivity and truly enlightened, self-reliant consciousness. This framework would move beyond the simplistic binaries of the illness/wellness model, embracing a vision of healing as collective, class-conscious, and anti-capitalist. It would recognize mental health cannot be disentangled from the intertwined systems of colonialism, tradition, imperialism & capitalism and that authentic healing is inseparable from the destruction of those systems materially, and mentally.
Critical Liberation Psychotherapy
The revolutionary task, as Foucault articulated in his debate with Chomsky, lies not merely in the denunciation of the obviously repressive organs of the state and ruling class but in the patient, systematic exposure of the mechanisms of power embedded within those institutions that present themselves as benign, neutral, or even benevolent. The bourgeois therapeutic apparatus, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, sciences, sexuality, and its allied practices is a paradigmatic case of such a mechanism. It functions as the dominant social institution for the management of subjective distress, yet its foundational logic is the atomization of the sufferer. It systematically abstracts the individual from the material conditions of their alienation, reframing crises of exploitation and oppression as failures of personal adjustment or thinking. This is not liberation from mental suffering; This is more accurately described as the pacification of the mind veiled in the clinical language of care.'This individualizing logic is not incidental to the therapeutic project; it is its structural function under capitalism. As the radical psychiatry movement contended, fostering mental health was to be an art rather than a science, requiring a shift away from individual psychotherapy and toward supportive group work, coupled with direct social and political action. The consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) movement, a powerful, decentralized coalition emerging from the anti-psychiatry struggles of the 1970s and 1980s, forged the very concept of peer support, where those with lived experience provide mutual aid outside the medical model's bourgeois hierarchical structures. This movement has been instrumental in developing a variety of peer-support alternatives. AA was one of the original movements to flirt with these concepts in it's religious, communal stance against the medical world's treatment towards alcoholism at the time, directly organized by the alcoholics themselves, not passively accepting the official treatment they were often subject to. Things like this often end up creating something more than a mere psychotherapy model or a technique; it is a movement of community that fundamentally challenges the power relations embedded in professionalized care and recovery itself.
The "institutional psychotherapy" movement in postwar France, which profoundly influenced figures like Frantz Fanon, Felix Guattari, and Michel Foucault, offers a vision of what a truly materialist psychiatry could look like. Anchored in the work of doctors like Tosquelles at the Saint-Alban hospital, this was not just a set of therapeutic techniques but a psychiatric reform and inspiration for a resistance movement that sought to transform the mental hospital into a "laboratory of political awakening". It aimed to reconfigure the entire social and mental dynamic of the patient, understanding that authentic healing could not occur within the oppressive, hierarchical structures of the traditional mental asylum and it's logic of western bourgeois medicine. This was a project of "disalienation" that recognized the patient's concrete society as itself "the sick individual," requiring political, not just clinical, intervention.
Furthermore, the legacy of materialism in healing extends into the body itself, directly challenging the Cartesian dualism that privileges talk therapy as the only legitimate form of treatment. The contemporary field of somatic abolitionism, developed by Resmaa Menakem, is a powerful example of this. It is defined as "a living, embodied practice and culture of anti-racism". It asserts that the traumas of white supremacy and/or colonialism are stored not just in the mind but in the body's nervous system, and that healing requires a physical, felt practice of metabolizing that stress. This approach directly confronts the "white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices," reimagining bodywork as a site of radical, anti-capitalist struggle.
The Soviet bloc also produced fascinating and tragic examples of radical mental health experiments. The Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) in West Germany explicitly claimed that the only valid therapy was one that aligned the individual with revolutionary political struggle. These efforts were part of a "movement" in the global development of mental health, a minor history of approaches grounded in common struggle against conditions of scarcity. More directly, under Pinochet's regime during this era, community-based mental health work was often associated with communism and socialism and subsequently banned, with socialist psychiatrists being silenced through torture or exile. This history demonstrates that the bourgeois state and society correctly recognizes the revolutionary potential of community-controlled care, repressing it as a threat to its order, openly or covertly.
The next task, then, is to forge a Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy (CLP), a model that centers critical dialectical materialist theory and maintains that therapeutic practice can provide the relational and institutional conditions that cultivate revolutionary forms of subjectivity and truly enlightened, self-reliant consciousness. This framework would move beyond the simplistic binaries of the illness/wellness model, embracing a vision of healing as collective, class-conscious, and anti-capitalist. It would recognize mental health cannot be disentangled from the intertwined systems of colonialism, tradition, imperialism & capitalism and that authentic healing is inseparable from the destruction of those systems materially, and mentally.
R: 10 / I: 6
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.
R: 154 / I: 30
Why was Lysenko wrong
I legitimately do not understand why people believe he was wrong. Look at Jewish people and how specialized into getting better at academia or India with how certain groups become natural fishermen. Lysenkoism feels like it's striking a cord between Stirnerite individualism and collectivism and it legitimately sounds cooler than Darwin's lame "one will breed more than the other and the species will survive". Darwin's system doesn't explain suicide for example.
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>Some even believe that artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., will create a permanent underclass. In the United States, the term “underclass” gained currency in the 1960s to describe the factory workers left behind by the postwar automation boom. Today, it has become repopularized as a viral term for a theory that posits that people have a limited window of time to build wealth before A.I. and robotics are advanced enough to fully replace human labor. At that point, everyone will get frozen in their current class positions: The rich will be able to deploy superintelligent machines to do their bidding, and everyone else will be rendered useless and unemployable, left to live off welfare scraps.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html
So is it over or will throwing millions of people into becoming peasants lead to a revolution?
>Some even believe that artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., will create a permanent underclass. In the United States, the term “underclass” gained currency in the 1960s to describe the factory workers left behind by the postwar automation boom. Today, it has become repopularized as a viral term for a theory that posits that people have a limited window of time to build wealth before A.I. and robotics are advanced enough to fully replace human labor. At that point, everyone will get frozen in their current class positions: The rich will be able to deploy superintelligent machines to do their bidding, and everyone else will be rendered useless and unemployable, left to live off welfare scraps.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html
So is it over or will throwing millions of people into becoming peasants lead to a revolution?
R: 43 / I: 11
that got moved to >>>/dead/, in spite of its schizophrenic rants I feel like there were some good points made there.
Tl;dr for those who don't want to read through it the thesis is that the workers are the counter-revolutionary subject. Highly recommend reading it though.
With that clarified lets continue discussion on the thesis.
Negative Proletarianism 2.0
Last year there was this masterpiece of a thread https://leftypol.org/dead/res/6179.htmlthat got moved to >>>/dead/, in spite of its schizophrenic rants I feel like there were some good points made there.
Tl;dr for those who don't want to read through it the thesis is that the workers are the counter-revolutionary subject. Highly recommend reading it though.
With that clarified lets continue discussion on the thesis.
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Maybe this will age like milk, but personally I don’t think the woke will ever come back, primarily due to the fact that it arose during a period in American history that can’t be replicated in the foreseeable future as well as because it got heavily exhausted to its fullest potential by 2024, something else will form instead but I can’t put my fingers on it. Let me elaborate…
Yes, there may be backlash to Trump in the form of:
The elite liberal factions that promoted “wokeness” as a substitute for social democracy feel politically exhausted. Their compromises — with Trumpism, with Zionism, with capital more broadly — are remembered, and they’ve already pivoted to new projects like “abundance,” technocratic managerialism, or vibes-based productivity politics.
We might see a kind of “safe-edgy” social democracy rhetorically, but I don’t think the elite will allow anything that seriously threatens capital or entrenched interests. So whatever comes next is unlikely to be fully institutional or top-down. If anything, it’ll be more grassroots — and may spill into a harder, older form of class politics once people realise triangulation won’t be permitted to go very far.
Historically, this actually reminds me of Reconstruction and the post-Reconstruction US. Open and legally encoded white supremacy wasn’t just a bottom-up backlash — it was an elite project. And I don’t think today’s elites are going back to the post-1960s model of tightly policing racist expression at their level, even if they still condemn it rhetorically.
I was telling a friend: basically everything liberals tried to suppress the rise of reaction — platform bans, censorship, cancellations — failed. So now what? You can’t really “solve” this without something like outright repression. Gulags to defend the liberal order? Not exactly practical or appealing. Yes, you can cite J.S. Mill or Popper about being “illiberal to protect liberalism,” but it’s unclear anyone will buy it, or that liberal elites are willing to spend the political capital and legitimacy required.
So instead, I think we get something closer to the Latin American model:
Official color-blindness, loud condemnation of racism in theory, combined with deeply racialised everyday life. Elites live in segregated neighbourhoods while preaching anti-racism to foreigners; normies are often quietly or openly racist; everyone pretends this isn’t contradictory.
Israel is (or was) a version of this too. Some limited tolerance for non-Jewish citizens or guest workers, while brutally repressing Palestinians who aren’t citizens (which is most of them). Now that Israel has more openly defined itself as an ethnic state where democracy is secondary, you can see what looks like social cannibalism: racism turning inward, targeting different kinds of Jews and non-Palestinian gentiles.
There are already extreme examples — like reports where Thai migrant farm workers described near-universal sexual abuse, or polling showing majorities supporting stripping non-Jewish citizens of citizenship and deporting them. There’s no real way to spin that into anything other than ethnic cleansing, or at least mass support for it.
Whether Israel could actually carry that project through is another question, given the manpower gap between its economic needs, military ambitions, and the idea of a “pure” ethnostate. But if things escalated internally, I wouldn’t bet on restraint. History suggests reactionary movements don’t stop at their first target.
Anyway — my point isn’t that “wokeness is coming back,” but that the old ideological containers are broken. What replaces them probably won’t be prettier, more coherent, or more stable. It’ll just be different.
Curious what others think — are we heading into something genuinely new, or just remixing old contradictions under new branding?
P.S.: Yes, Trump’s immigration policies are unpopular: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/18/immigration-poll-trump-deportation-campaign-00879549
Woke won’t come back, and here’s why?
Lately leftists online (such as Logo Daedalus) have been speculating about a possible return to 2010s HR individualist managerial political correctness (a.k.a., woke) in light of Trump’s falling popularity polls over the Epstein files and his failure to rebound the US economy as well as his second administration being overall more fascist and extreme than the first one both rhetorically (see the DHS’s Twitter account which seems to be ran by a wignat) and in practice (e.g., expansion of ICE under the current regime).Maybe this will age like milk, but personally I don’t think the woke will ever come back, primarily due to the fact that it arose during a period in American history that can’t be replicated in the foreseeable future as well as because it got heavily exhausted to its fullest potential by 2024, something else will form instead but I can’t put my fingers on it. Let me elaborate…
Yes, there may be backlash to Trump in the form of:
- greater tolerance for immigration,
- renewed talk about abolishing ICE (which isn’t actually necessary for border security and overlaps with existing agencies),
- less willingness to tolerate soft white nationalism or openly white-nationalist speech now that the Trump project has made its racial character explicit.
The elite liberal factions that promoted “wokeness” as a substitute for social democracy feel politically exhausted. Their compromises — with Trumpism, with Zionism, with capital more broadly — are remembered, and they’ve already pivoted to new projects like “abundance,” technocratic managerialism, or vibes-based productivity politics.
We might see a kind of “safe-edgy” social democracy rhetorically, but I don’t think the elite will allow anything that seriously threatens capital or entrenched interests. So whatever comes next is unlikely to be fully institutional or top-down. If anything, it’ll be more grassroots — and may spill into a harder, older form of class politics once people realise triangulation won’t be permitted to go very far.
Historically, this actually reminds me of Reconstruction and the post-Reconstruction US. Open and legally encoded white supremacy wasn’t just a bottom-up backlash — it was an elite project. And I don’t think today’s elites are going back to the post-1960s model of tightly policing racist expression at their level, even if they still condemn it rhetorically.
I was telling a friend: basically everything liberals tried to suppress the rise of reaction — platform bans, censorship, cancellations — failed. So now what? You can’t really “solve” this without something like outright repression. Gulags to defend the liberal order? Not exactly practical or appealing. Yes, you can cite J.S. Mill or Popper about being “illiberal to protect liberalism,” but it’s unclear anyone will buy it, or that liberal elites are willing to spend the political capital and legitimacy required.
So instead, I think we get something closer to the Latin American model:
Official color-blindness, loud condemnation of racism in theory, combined with deeply racialised everyday life. Elites live in segregated neighbourhoods while preaching anti-racism to foreigners; normies are often quietly or openly racist; everyone pretends this isn’t contradictory.
Israel is (or was) a version of this too. Some limited tolerance for non-Jewish citizens or guest workers, while brutally repressing Palestinians who aren’t citizens (which is most of them). Now that Israel has more openly defined itself as an ethnic state where democracy is secondary, you can see what looks like social cannibalism: racism turning inward, targeting different kinds of Jews and non-Palestinian gentiles.
There are already extreme examples — like reports where Thai migrant farm workers described near-universal sexual abuse, or polling showing majorities supporting stripping non-Jewish citizens of citizenship and deporting them. There’s no real way to spin that into anything other than ethnic cleansing, or at least mass support for it.
Whether Israel could actually carry that project through is another question, given the manpower gap between its economic needs, military ambitions, and the idea of a “pure” ethnostate. But if things escalated internally, I wouldn’t bet on restraint. History suggests reactionary movements don’t stop at their first target.
Anyway — my point isn’t that “wokeness is coming back,” but that the old ideological containers are broken. What replaces them probably won’t be prettier, more coherent, or more stable. It’ll just be different.
Curious what others think — are we heading into something genuinely new, or just remixing old contradictions under new branding?
P.S.: Yes, Trump’s immigration policies are unpopular: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/18/immigration-poll-trump-deportation-campaign-00879549
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God damn what a fucking retard
Classcuck hate general
I fucking hate classcucks, the classcucks I hate the most are by far the apolitical illiterate ones, my human diaper of a boss just hired a fucking retard that gives no fucks about welding PPE and works stupidly fast while also welding and fabricating like shit. We have tried time and time again to tell him to work slower and to demand PPE or else our boss will demand us the same and the fucking imbecile doesn't changeGod damn what a fucking retard
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Organised by the 350.org campaign, demonstrations took place in countries including Japan, Indonesia, France, Canada, Turkey, Brazil and Australia, calling for an end to fossil fuel dependence and the provision of affordable renewable energy for all. The group warned that fossil fuels “receive an estimated $12 trillion (£8.8trn) annually in implicit and explicit subsidies worldwide, including the unpriced costs of pollution, climate damage and public health impacts.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/campaigners-across-world-demand-governments-impose-permanent-windfall-taxes-fossil-fuel
Athens metro, tram workers to stage 24-hour May Day strike
Worker unions at STASY, operator of the Athens Metro and tram network, announced a full-day strike Friday to mark May Day, running from the start of service through its conclusion that evening.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1302410/athens-metro-tram-workers-to-stage-24-hour-may-day-strike/
UK terror watchdog urges 'moratorium' on pro-Palestine marches
The coalition said: "We condemn unequivocally these attacks, as we do all forms of anti-semitism and racism. No one should be attacked for their race or religion. "However, the attempts by Hall, sections of the media and some politicians to connect such attacks with the Palestine marches are wrong." Stop the War added: "These marches are supported by many Jewish people who attend. They are not the ‘hate marches’ described by right-wing politicians but expressions of solidarity and support for those under attack. "The aims to criminalise the protests, whichs reflect majority public opinion in this country," the organisation said, "or worse, to connect them with racist or terrorist attacks being carried out against Jewish people, are scurrilous and should be rejected."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-terror-watchdog-urges-moratorium-pro-palestine-marches
‘Act of piracy’: World reacts to Israeli interception of Gaza aid flotilla
Israel has intercepted 22 out of the 58 aid ships travelling through international waters and bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. … The vessels were seized by Israel late on Wednesday in international waters off Greece’s Peloponnese Peninsula, hundreds of miles from Gaza, the flotilla’s organisers said on Thursday. Israel “kidnapped” 211 of the 400 activists taking part in the flotilla, including a Paris city councillor, according to the flotilla’s organisers. Israel’s Foreign Ministry had earlier put the number of those detained at 175.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/30/act-of-piracy-world-reacts-to-israeli-interception-of-gaza-aid-flotilla
https://archive.ph/odkJL
US may deploy new hypersonic missile against Iran as Trump weighs fresh strikes: Report
Centcom made the request to the Department of War based on intelligence that Iran has moved its ballistic missile launchers out of range of the US’s Precision Strike Missile, a supersonic surface-to-surface ballistic missile fired from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. If Centcom’s request for the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile is approved, it would mark the first time the long-delayed weapon is deployed, and potentially used, should the US resume attacking Iran. The missile has a reported range of more than 2,776 kilometres.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-may-deploy-new-hypersonic-missile-against-iran-trump-weighs-fresh-strikes-report
New report alleges ‘RSF-linked network tied to $24 million UAE property portfolio’
American investigative organisation The Sentry published a new Sentry Alert yesterday, alleging that a network linked to the leadership of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) holds a $24 million property portfolio in Dubai, according to a new investigation.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/new-report-alleges-rsf-linked-network-tied-to-24-million-uae-property-portfolio
Hundreds march in Johannesburg against illegal migration as shops shut over looting fears
As one of Africa’s most industrialized economies, South Africa attracts migrants —both those who entered the country legally and illegally in search of opportunities. The protests in Johannesburg resulted in the closure of many shops, owned by both locals and migrants, due to fears of potential looting or opportunistic crimes. Organized by the anti-immigration group March and March, it also attracted similar organizations, including Operation Dudula and political parties ActionSA and Patriotic Alliance.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-illegal-immigration-march-protests-cbc323b775625516597792db82d87ae0
Canada to create powerful financial crimes agency as US weakens its approach
The new agency, tasked with investigating and prosecuting financial crimes, is the result of a public inquiry that found Canada lacked a cohesive strategy against money laundering, placing it behind its international peers. Jessica Davis, a former intelligence analyst with Canada’s spy agency who focuses terrorism and illicit financing, said: “The fact we’re actually seeing the creation [of a] new enforcement agency is a meaningful investment and hopefully signals the understanding of the seriousness of the challenge.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/30/canada-financial-crimes-agency-us-weakens-approach-cryptocurrency-atms-money-laundering
Left-winger Myriam Bregman tops popularity poll as President Milei plummets
Bregman, 54, emerged with 47 percent positive approval from the poll carried out by the Brazilian consultancy firm. The Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas lawmaker, who is part of the Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores–Unidad (FIT-U) coalition, was the only politicalian of the 15 national figures assessed to have a net positive rating. It stood at just one percent, however, given her negative reading of 46 percent.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/left-winger-myriam-bregman-tops-popularity-poll-as-president-milei-plummets.phtml
Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor
The civil action suit before a labor court in the northern Brazilian state of Para seeks nearly 119 million reais (about $24 million) in compensation, an amount prosecutors say reflects the total value of transactions between JBS and the suppliers. According to the filing, 53 workers were rescued from properties owned by seven ranchers who supplied the meatpacking company between 2014 and 2025. Those employers were listed in Brazil’s official public registry of companies found to have subjected workers to conditions that are similar to slavery, prosecutors said.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-jbs-forced-labor-b181e2db3967ba285310f48b85ee986b
News 4/30/26
Campaigners across the world demand governments impose permanent windfall taxes on fossil fuel profitsOrganised by the 350.org campaign, demonstrations took place in countries including Japan, Indonesia, France, Canada, Turkey, Brazil and Australia, calling for an end to fossil fuel dependence and the provision of affordable renewable energy for all. The group warned that fossil fuels “receive an estimated $12 trillion (£8.8trn) annually in implicit and explicit subsidies worldwide, including the unpriced costs of pollution, climate damage and public health impacts.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/campaigners-across-world-demand-governments-impose-permanent-windfall-taxes-fossil-fuel
Athens metro, tram workers to stage 24-hour May Day strike
Worker unions at STASY, operator of the Athens Metro and tram network, announced a full-day strike Friday to mark May Day, running from the start of service through its conclusion that evening.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1302410/athens-metro-tram-workers-to-stage-24-hour-may-day-strike/
UK terror watchdog urges 'moratorium' on pro-Palestine marches
The coalition said: "We condemn unequivocally these attacks, as we do all forms of anti-semitism and racism. No one should be attacked for their race or religion. "However, the attempts by Hall, sections of the media and some politicians to connect such attacks with the Palestine marches are wrong." Stop the War added: "These marches are supported by many Jewish people who attend. They are not the ‘hate marches’ described by right-wing politicians but expressions of solidarity and support for those under attack. "The aims to criminalise the protests, whichs reflect majority public opinion in this country," the organisation said, "or worse, to connect them with racist or terrorist attacks being carried out against Jewish people, are scurrilous and should be rejected."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-terror-watchdog-urges-moratorium-pro-palestine-marches
‘Act of piracy’: World reacts to Israeli interception of Gaza aid flotilla
Israel has intercepted 22 out of the 58 aid ships travelling through international waters and bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. … The vessels were seized by Israel late on Wednesday in international waters off Greece’s Peloponnese Peninsula, hundreds of miles from Gaza, the flotilla’s organisers said on Thursday. Israel “kidnapped” 211 of the 400 activists taking part in the flotilla, including a Paris city councillor, according to the flotilla’s organisers. Israel’s Foreign Ministry had earlier put the number of those detained at 175.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/30/act-of-piracy-world-reacts-to-israeli-interception-of-gaza-aid-flotilla
https://archive.ph/odkJL
US may deploy new hypersonic missile against Iran as Trump weighs fresh strikes: Report
Centcom made the request to the Department of War based on intelligence that Iran has moved its ballistic missile launchers out of range of the US’s Precision Strike Missile, a supersonic surface-to-surface ballistic missile fired from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. If Centcom’s request for the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile is approved, it would mark the first time the long-delayed weapon is deployed, and potentially used, should the US resume attacking Iran. The missile has a reported range of more than 2,776 kilometres.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-may-deploy-new-hypersonic-missile-against-iran-trump-weighs-fresh-strikes-report
New report alleges ‘RSF-linked network tied to $24 million UAE property portfolio’
American investigative organisation The Sentry published a new Sentry Alert yesterday, alleging that a network linked to the leadership of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) holds a $24 million property portfolio in Dubai, according to a new investigation.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/new-report-alleges-rsf-linked-network-tied-to-24-million-uae-property-portfolio
Hundreds march in Johannesburg against illegal migration as shops shut over looting fears
As one of Africa’s most industrialized economies, South Africa attracts migrants —both those who entered the country legally and illegally in search of opportunities. The protests in Johannesburg resulted in the closure of many shops, owned by both locals and migrants, due to fears of potential looting or opportunistic crimes. Organized by the anti-immigration group March and March, it also attracted similar organizations, including Operation Dudula and political parties ActionSA and Patriotic Alliance.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-illegal-immigration-march-protests-cbc323b775625516597792db82d87ae0
Canada to create powerful financial crimes agency as US weakens its approach
The new agency, tasked with investigating and prosecuting financial crimes, is the result of a public inquiry that found Canada lacked a cohesive strategy against money laundering, placing it behind its international peers. Jessica Davis, a former intelligence analyst with Canada’s spy agency who focuses terrorism and illicit financing, said: “The fact we’re actually seeing the creation [of a] new enforcement agency is a meaningful investment and hopefully signals the understanding of the seriousness of the challenge.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/30/canada-financial-crimes-agency-us-weakens-approach-cryptocurrency-atms-money-laundering
Left-winger Myriam Bregman tops popularity poll as President Milei plummets
Bregman, 54, emerged with 47 percent positive approval from the poll carried out by the Brazilian consultancy firm. The Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas lawmaker, who is part of the Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores–Unidad (FIT-U) coalition, was the only politicalian of the 15 national figures assessed to have a net positive rating. It stood at just one percent, however, given her negative reading of 46 percent.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/left-winger-myriam-bregman-tops-popularity-poll-as-president-milei-plummets.phtml
Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor
The civil action suit before a labor court in the northern Brazilian state of Para seeks nearly 119 million reais (about $24 million) in compensation, an amount prosecutors say reflects the total value of transactions between JBS and the suppliers. According to the filing, 53 workers were rescued from properties owned by seven ranchers who supplied the meatpacking company between 2014 and 2025. Those employers were listed in Brazil’s official public registry of companies found to have subjected workers to conditions that are similar to slavery, prosecutors said.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-jbs-forced-labor-b181e2db3967ba285310f48b85ee986b
R: 18 / I: 4 (sage)
For example the mass surveillance TRUMP ENDORSED FISA bill that MAGA opposed when trump has been against it in the past just passed and MAGA doesn't give a fuck. Not a single complain from these people. As I said I had no expectations but I'm dissapointed because in past they at least pretended to care about fighting the neocons and the deep state
WTF happened to MAGA?
Wtf happened to MAGA? as a right wing but very libertarian guy I always knew they were kinda bootlickers (not just for trump in general but the police and militarism stuff) but holy shit recently their god has shifted so much to the establishment ON ALMOST EVERY ISSUE that even I can't believe what is happening.For example the mass surveillance TRUMP ENDORSED FISA bill that MAGA opposed when trump has been against it in the past just passed and MAGA doesn't give a fuck. Not a single complain from these people. As I said I had no expectations but I'm dissapointed because in past they at least pretended to care about fighting the neocons and the deep state
R: 43 / I: 3 (sage)
I dont pity the global south. What exactly are they doing? You go to Asia or Africa and they are so full of propaganda everyone just wants to hustle or find a better position or invest in a crypto scam. Instead of uniting and fucking the west up, they are falling for the trap every single time. In a few months there will be higher food prices and more starvation. Instead of doing whatever they will shitpost with their chinese mobiles on facebook. Does it means that I, a westernoid, should not be blamed? Of course not. All I am saying is that damn they should not be making it so easy to get fucked.
I dont pity the global south. What exactly are they doing? You go to Asia or Africa and they are so full of propaganda everyone just wants to hustle or find a better position or invest in a crypto scam. Instead of uniting and fucking the west up, they are falling for the trap every single time. In a few months there will be higher food prices and more starvation. Instead of doing whatever they will shitpost with their chinese mobiles on facebook. Does it means that I, a westernoid, should not be blamed? Of course not. All I am saying is that damn they should not be making it so easy to get fucked.
R: 150 / I: 14
Can anarchism ever make a comeback? They don't seem to do much of anything nowadays. No propaganda of the deed, no cultural staying power, no media personalities. Baby leftists seem to not even be aware of it anymore.
Can anarchism ever make a comeback? They don't seem to do much of anything nowadays. No propaganda of the deed, no cultural staying power, no media personalities. Baby leftists seem to not even be aware of it anymore.
R: 5 / I: 2
There was a story that broke a few weeks ago. Something like 60 million visits a month to this porn site called Motherless, which is one of the skeezier porn sites. It doesn't have a VPN, which is probably why they're… It doesn't have age restriction by state. Like, Pornhub — I live in Florida. I can't go on Pornhub because it's blocked unless I use a VPN. But I can go on Xvideos. Pornhub has a lot more professional content. It's a lot more curated. Xvideos, they don't give a fuck. You can just post whatever you want. They don't have age verification, though, which is probably why they don't give a fuck, right? Motherless is the same way.
And so from what I can gather about this story, there are some pretty egregious videos on this service, right? Because it's unregulated and anyone can post anything. And it's clearly a company that doesn't give a shit about following the law because they're not following the age verification protocol, right? And so they're saying 60 million men go online to a rape academy, is what they're calling this porn website.
But in reality, what the actual story is that, yes, there are some pretty egregious videos. And if you interact with those videos, which are a specific niche of videos of people who are asleep. Yeah, you see how this is egregious, right? You see how this is bad? You see how this is unacceptable? If you interact with those videos, you could be invited to a private Discord server and get a whole bunch of tips on how to engage in such behaviors.
The problem is, instead of going, "oh, okay, that's what's happening, that's fucked up, that's awful," the narrative got spun. 60 million men a month go to this. Like, dude, men are just fucking sick in their fucking heads. This is crazy, right?
But that wasn't an organic story. That story was a psy-op. The narrative, the way it was pushed out, the misinformation around the statistics that paint an image of particular groups of people engaging in particular activities that are horrifying.
Pair this, then, with people like Nick Fuentes on their live streams praising Jeffrey Epstein, praising Jeffrey Epstein, talking about what he did — any man would want to do what he did. Any man would want to be in his position. Wouldn't you want to have those little girls on your island? He's a based guy, right? But that's the thing, painting it as something that, well, just men are just naturally like this. This is just how all men are. It's a biological thing. The best we could hope to do is teach men not to be like this and to overcome their natural urges. Motherfucker.
Ghislaine Maxwell is still in prison and they're going to give her a pardon. There have been multiple men who have come out. They said they were victims of trafficking and sexual abuse. Men were connected to the Abercrombie and Fitch company. Men connected to the New Mexico ranch. They found bodies. They've got testimony. They were abusing men and little boys as well.
These fools with their supreme power over us. But the narrative has shifted, and I think it's really convenient how quickly the narrative shifted, because it's exactly what I would do if I was the powers that be. Why? Because then I see posts talking about, well, why is Ghislaine Maxwell even in prison? None of the men, none of the men who did this are being charged. You know, the only reason that she's in prison is because she's the woman. No, no, no. She's in prison because she did horrible crimes against humanity and was a ringleader in a pedophilia ring that took place on a private island, and her accomplice has been missing, perhaps from this earth entirely, or perhaps in a different location, right, because we all know he didn't kill himself.
But it all pairs up so nicely. It all slots in all so well, doesn't it? All men are naturally this, that, and the other thing. You have the right who are pushing this pedophilia narrative, this natural and based thing, like it's just what a Chad would do. These are human monsters who are pushing this because it gives them power over another human being. They're doing this because they enjoy the sadism of having that power over another individual, whether it's a man, a woman, a child — especially a child. They love to destroy innocence. It's a power thing.
But we're making it into a gender war, culture war thing. They're prepping us and priming us, and it's great and it's awesome, it's working. And now I have to scroll through my feed and great, look, we get it, bro. We understand that you're probably not a rapist. You don't need to tell us that. You don't need to go, "look, I know that most men are like this and most men need to learn these lessons, but I'm not like that." I think that's weird. I think that's a strange thing for a lot of these socialist dudes to be pushing without any sort of critical thinking. To go, yeah, you know, because of testosterone, men are just naturally more this and men are more naturally that. No, motherfucker, that's bioessentialism. That's bioessentialism, dog.
Men are not biologically predestined to be one way because they're men, and women aren't biologically predestined to be one way because they're women. I mean, how insane would I sound if I got up on stage and was like, women are biologically programmed to have children. If you're not having children, you're not fulfilling your purpose as a woman. Like, you would be like, that's ridiculous. What the fuck is wrong with you? And I would say, yeah, that is ridiculous. What the fuck is wrong with me? But then you get this progressive discussion of like, well, men are biologically programmed to want to rape women, and men are biologically programmed to be abusive, and this is just how men are. We have to educate them to overcome their urges.
And it's like, now most dudes are not like this. I don't know how to explain this to you, but most men are not like this. In fact, most men are good. And the fact that one of the reigning leaders of this pedophilia ring was a woman, right? And we have seen multiple men from Abercrombie and Fitch male models to little boys on this island to bodies being found in the New Mexico desert — people that have been abused, who have been trafficked, who have been discarded. Are they not victims because of their gender?
And it seems like a really good way to let certain people in power off the hook. And this isn't gonna say that we don't live in a rape culture. We do, because our culture is decided by who has the most money, and we know that the people who have the most money are doing a lot of raping. It's a power thing. It's a power thing, not a biological function.
And so it gets old when every time that we see these monsters do this, because they control every fucking bit of the media, because they have the ability to moderate Reddit. Because Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator of the largest news subreddit. But she should get a pardon because she's just a poor woman. And she's just taking the fall for these gross men who are doing terrible things. You know, that's a ridiculous take, but it is the exact take that I would imagine they would go with, because it's the same bullshit that they've been doing for the last 15 years.
Identity politics fucking works to divide the working class. It's like, y'all playing it into the handbook, and now I gotta go debate on the weather. Like, it's crazy.
And maybe we shouldn't let certain dudes off the hook. Channel 5 News, brother. Read the testimonies of those women. I know a lot of people who would share his work all day long and think he's the most important guy. When I had my case, man, you should go get interviewed by him because it'd be good for you. I know you don't like him. I know you disagree with him, but I just don't like him. I think he's a predator. I think he's a bad man. I think he harmed women in a real serious way and that's not acceptable and we should be calling out those people. But we don't need to be like, "man, we gotta get it together." Like, man, shut the fuck up. Like, that shit is so cornball.
I'm reminded of a viral TikTok thing that happened where a woman, her boyfriend was cheating on her or what have you, and so her boyfriend had a loose citizenship status. She called ICE on him and got him deported. And this caused a huge schism in the TikTokverse because on one hand, you have reasonable, adult, empathetic people who understand, hey, calling ICE on somebody because they cheated on you is fucked up. You're putting somebody in a concentration camp. This is racially motivated. This is disgusting behavior. Why are you doing this? Right? Baseline, common sense shit.
But you also had a whole lot of people who were like, at the end of the day, he's a man. At the end of the day, that's who our real enemy is, is men. Take no quarter. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Empower yourself, girl.
And I think that little schism, that little microcosm was like a signal to the powers that be. Oh, this is just gender war shit. This men are naturally conservative and women are naturally progressive logic. We can run that up as far as we need to run it up and they'll never have a class war. They'll never have class consciousness. Fuck.
Now you got young men who walk around thinking women are a whole different species and you got the same fucking thing from young women. Like, this shit don't add up. Like, we're all people. We all working class individuals at the end of the day. You know what I'm saying?
And I'm not gonna sit here and be like, there isn't a problem with specific types of people who are predators, right? They exist. I just named one who's got a whole lot of clout, who's got a major platform on the left. A well-respected guy who's apparently a journalist, what have you. Okay. So we have that problem.
But I guess my issue is when we make it a bioessentialist, gender-divided thing. Like, there are things that I don't want to get into with this piece that are personal to me, but I can assure you that men can be victims too. Men can absolutely be victims too. They can be put into positions that they are not able to consent to because fundamentally what this is all about is consent, enthusiastic consent, right?
And this idea that men are all naturally predators and have to be educated into not being predators is just an absolutely ridiculous fallacy. It's a ridiculous fallacy that is based on misinformation. Like, this is not 60 million men went to this rape academy. It's that this porn website had 60 million clicks over a month. The one that doesn't have a VPN blocker for your state. And as we have shown, those laws for this age restriction where you have to submit your ID cause people to go to these sites that have even more egregious content. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're there for that egregious content, because then you could just open up fucking any of these porn websites and type in BBW twerking. Holy moly.
And that apparently is the same within the information that we're being pushed, within this propaganda that's being pushed out. Doing that is the same as searching for how to rape women and taking an online class, because that's how the information is being fucking presented.
And then you get some guy who is clearly funded by some political organization, but won't tell us who's funding him, because, motherfucker, nobody just shows up and has Instagram clout overnight. And I'm seeing a lot more of these cats, these socialist influencers — how do you got a hundred thousand subscribers when you just started making videos three months ago? That shit don't make sense.
And he gets up on the fucking camera and he goes, "Guys, we gotta get it together. Men, we need to figure out what's wrong with our natural urges. Something's not right here." And it's just like, bro, the problem is capitalist. The problem is a system of exploitation and the culture created by the most alienated and exploited. The culture of people who are the most willing to exploit other human beings for gain. And that's the only thing that trickles down. Not the money, not the economy, but the culture of cruelty trickles down into our society and soaks it, and soaks it up, makes it fucking greasy and fucking slick, and you don't wanna even hold it because it's so gross.
And that is what it is. If you remove capitalism, you can kill off a lot of this other bullshit.
Why aren't people engaged? Why aren't men involved and engaged in socialist rhetoric? Why is it so easy for men to fall into fascist dogma?
One of the first essays I wrote was called "A Generation of Men Caught Between Two Masks." And it was literally about this. How on one end, you've got this framework that you're biologically born wrong, born with a set of behaviors that is fundamentally antithetical to the movement, to peace, to socialism, to what have you. This is how the narrative is painted.
And it doesn't mean I'm advocating for what these men believe. If prescribing how someone falls into a position of thought is the same as agreeing with that thought, then we are never going to make progress because I'm simply trying to explain how people feel when they are told this shit because it is annoying. Because then you have to say, well, we don't mean all men. Well, we know you don't mean all men, but you're still fucking painting like you mean all men, and you still say it like you mean all men. You say this is just how men are. They're all predators.
Then you have that on one end. And then on the other end, you've got the right who's like, yeah, you're a predator. Embrace that shit. This is the natural way of things. No one is going, you don't have to be a predator. You're not a predator. Like, you're just a human being. You have emotions. You're capable of feeling emotions. You're capable of empathy. You're capable of human experience. You're not a monster just because of what is in between your legs.
And also, let's never forget that this biological essentialism, this idea that because of the gender you're born as, because of the sex you are assigned at birth, you have all of these traits that you have to apply to, you have to follow through — it's incredibly transphobic. It's incredibly transphobic. I mean, it's the same logic that TERFs use to prevent trans women from being part of female spaces. Well, they're really men, and men are naturally predators, and so we can't be safe around them, so we have to exclude them. That is literally the logic of a TERF.
And again, I'm not saying that we don't live in a rape culture. We do. The culture is defined by the people at the top, and the people at the top are fucking rapists because they are capitalists, because they are willing to exploit people, because they want to exhibit power over people.
To simply put the idea that someone like Jeffrey Epstein was just operating under his natural biological urges as a man, and that someone like Ghislaine Maxwell was just taken for a ride because she's a woman and it's completely antithetical to what being a woman is for her to engage in those behaviors — that lets people off the hook. That lets the power off the hook. And it excuses rape culture, if anything.
It gets old. It gets old. It gets all these little narratives that they keep pushing out to put men and women against each other, when in reality, it is a class war, not a gender war.
Stop Buying Into Gender Essentialist Psyops
Memetic warfare is an effective means of strategy. Like, we're seeing memetic warfare being used at a scale that is quite frankly never been seen before, you know. It's really ridiculous.There was a story that broke a few weeks ago. Something like 60 million visits a month to this porn site called Motherless, which is one of the skeezier porn sites. It doesn't have a VPN, which is probably why they're… It doesn't have age restriction by state. Like, Pornhub — I live in Florida. I can't go on Pornhub because it's blocked unless I use a VPN. But I can go on Xvideos. Pornhub has a lot more professional content. It's a lot more curated. Xvideos, they don't give a fuck. You can just post whatever you want. They don't have age verification, though, which is probably why they don't give a fuck, right? Motherless is the same way.
And so from what I can gather about this story, there are some pretty egregious videos on this service, right? Because it's unregulated and anyone can post anything. And it's clearly a company that doesn't give a shit about following the law because they're not following the age verification protocol, right? And so they're saying 60 million men go online to a rape academy, is what they're calling this porn website.
But in reality, what the actual story is that, yes, there are some pretty egregious videos. And if you interact with those videos, which are a specific niche of videos of people who are asleep. Yeah, you see how this is egregious, right? You see how this is bad? You see how this is unacceptable? If you interact with those videos, you could be invited to a private Discord server and get a whole bunch of tips on how to engage in such behaviors.
The problem is, instead of going, "oh, okay, that's what's happening, that's fucked up, that's awful," the narrative got spun. 60 million men a month go to this. Like, dude, men are just fucking sick in their fucking heads. This is crazy, right?
But that wasn't an organic story. That story was a psy-op. The narrative, the way it was pushed out, the misinformation around the statistics that paint an image of particular groups of people engaging in particular activities that are horrifying.
Pair this, then, with people like Nick Fuentes on their live streams praising Jeffrey Epstein, praising Jeffrey Epstein, talking about what he did — any man would want to do what he did. Any man would want to be in his position. Wouldn't you want to have those little girls on your island? He's a based guy, right? But that's the thing, painting it as something that, well, just men are just naturally like this. This is just how all men are. It's a biological thing. The best we could hope to do is teach men not to be like this and to overcome their natural urges. Motherfucker.
Ghislaine Maxwell is still in prison and they're going to give her a pardon. There have been multiple men who have come out. They said they were victims of trafficking and sexual abuse. Men were connected to the Abercrombie and Fitch company. Men connected to the New Mexico ranch. They found bodies. They've got testimony. They were abusing men and little boys as well.
These fools with their supreme power over us. But the narrative has shifted, and I think it's really convenient how quickly the narrative shifted, because it's exactly what I would do if I was the powers that be. Why? Because then I see posts talking about, well, why is Ghislaine Maxwell even in prison? None of the men, none of the men who did this are being charged. You know, the only reason that she's in prison is because she's the woman. No, no, no. She's in prison because she did horrible crimes against humanity and was a ringleader in a pedophilia ring that took place on a private island, and her accomplice has been missing, perhaps from this earth entirely, or perhaps in a different location, right, because we all know he didn't kill himself.
But it all pairs up so nicely. It all slots in all so well, doesn't it? All men are naturally this, that, and the other thing. You have the right who are pushing this pedophilia narrative, this natural and based thing, like it's just what a Chad would do. These are human monsters who are pushing this because it gives them power over another human being. They're doing this because they enjoy the sadism of having that power over another individual, whether it's a man, a woman, a child — especially a child. They love to destroy innocence. It's a power thing.
But we're making it into a gender war, culture war thing. They're prepping us and priming us, and it's great and it's awesome, it's working. And now I have to scroll through my feed and great, look, we get it, bro. We understand that you're probably not a rapist. You don't need to tell us that. You don't need to go, "look, I know that most men are like this and most men need to learn these lessons, but I'm not like that." I think that's weird. I think that's a strange thing for a lot of these socialist dudes to be pushing without any sort of critical thinking. To go, yeah, you know, because of testosterone, men are just naturally more this and men are more naturally that. No, motherfucker, that's bioessentialism. That's bioessentialism, dog.
Men are not biologically predestined to be one way because they're men, and women aren't biologically predestined to be one way because they're women. I mean, how insane would I sound if I got up on stage and was like, women are biologically programmed to have children. If you're not having children, you're not fulfilling your purpose as a woman. Like, you would be like, that's ridiculous. What the fuck is wrong with you? And I would say, yeah, that is ridiculous. What the fuck is wrong with me? But then you get this progressive discussion of like, well, men are biologically programmed to want to rape women, and men are biologically programmed to be abusive, and this is just how men are. We have to educate them to overcome their urges.
And it's like, now most dudes are not like this. I don't know how to explain this to you, but most men are not like this. In fact, most men are good. And the fact that one of the reigning leaders of this pedophilia ring was a woman, right? And we have seen multiple men from Abercrombie and Fitch male models to little boys on this island to bodies being found in the New Mexico desert — people that have been abused, who have been trafficked, who have been discarded. Are they not victims because of their gender?
And it seems like a really good way to let certain people in power off the hook. And this isn't gonna say that we don't live in a rape culture. We do, because our culture is decided by who has the most money, and we know that the people who have the most money are doing a lot of raping. It's a power thing. It's a power thing, not a biological function.
And so it gets old when every time that we see these monsters do this, because they control every fucking bit of the media, because they have the ability to moderate Reddit. Because Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator of the largest news subreddit. But she should get a pardon because she's just a poor woman. And she's just taking the fall for these gross men who are doing terrible things. You know, that's a ridiculous take, but it is the exact take that I would imagine they would go with, because it's the same bullshit that they've been doing for the last 15 years.
Identity politics fucking works to divide the working class. It's like, y'all playing it into the handbook, and now I gotta go debate on the weather. Like, it's crazy.
And maybe we shouldn't let certain dudes off the hook. Channel 5 News, brother. Read the testimonies of those women. I know a lot of people who would share his work all day long and think he's the most important guy. When I had my case, man, you should go get interviewed by him because it'd be good for you. I know you don't like him. I know you disagree with him, but I just don't like him. I think he's a predator. I think he's a bad man. I think he harmed women in a real serious way and that's not acceptable and we should be calling out those people. But we don't need to be like, "man, we gotta get it together." Like, man, shut the fuck up. Like, that shit is so cornball.
I'm reminded of a viral TikTok thing that happened where a woman, her boyfriend was cheating on her or what have you, and so her boyfriend had a loose citizenship status. She called ICE on him and got him deported. And this caused a huge schism in the TikTokverse because on one hand, you have reasonable, adult, empathetic people who understand, hey, calling ICE on somebody because they cheated on you is fucked up. You're putting somebody in a concentration camp. This is racially motivated. This is disgusting behavior. Why are you doing this? Right? Baseline, common sense shit.
But you also had a whole lot of people who were like, at the end of the day, he's a man. At the end of the day, that's who our real enemy is, is men. Take no quarter. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Empower yourself, girl.
And I think that little schism, that little microcosm was like a signal to the powers that be. Oh, this is just gender war shit. This men are naturally conservative and women are naturally progressive logic. We can run that up as far as we need to run it up and they'll never have a class war. They'll never have class consciousness. Fuck.
Now you got young men who walk around thinking women are a whole different species and you got the same fucking thing from young women. Like, this shit don't add up. Like, we're all people. We all working class individuals at the end of the day. You know what I'm saying?
And I'm not gonna sit here and be like, there isn't a problem with specific types of people who are predators, right? They exist. I just named one who's got a whole lot of clout, who's got a major platform on the left. A well-respected guy who's apparently a journalist, what have you. Okay. So we have that problem.
But I guess my issue is when we make it a bioessentialist, gender-divided thing. Like, there are things that I don't want to get into with this piece that are personal to me, but I can assure you that men can be victims too. Men can absolutely be victims too. They can be put into positions that they are not able to consent to because fundamentally what this is all about is consent, enthusiastic consent, right?
And this idea that men are all naturally predators and have to be educated into not being predators is just an absolutely ridiculous fallacy. It's a ridiculous fallacy that is based on misinformation. Like, this is not 60 million men went to this rape academy. It's that this porn website had 60 million clicks over a month. The one that doesn't have a VPN blocker for your state. And as we have shown, those laws for this age restriction where you have to submit your ID cause people to go to these sites that have even more egregious content. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're there for that egregious content, because then you could just open up fucking any of these porn websites and type in BBW twerking. Holy moly.
And that apparently is the same within the information that we're being pushed, within this propaganda that's being pushed out. Doing that is the same as searching for how to rape women and taking an online class, because that's how the information is being fucking presented.
And then you get some guy who is clearly funded by some political organization, but won't tell us who's funding him, because, motherfucker, nobody just shows up and has Instagram clout overnight. And I'm seeing a lot more of these cats, these socialist influencers — how do you got a hundred thousand subscribers when you just started making videos three months ago? That shit don't make sense.
And he gets up on the fucking camera and he goes, "Guys, we gotta get it together. Men, we need to figure out what's wrong with our natural urges. Something's not right here." And it's just like, bro, the problem is capitalist. The problem is a system of exploitation and the culture created by the most alienated and exploited. The culture of people who are the most willing to exploit other human beings for gain. And that's the only thing that trickles down. Not the money, not the economy, but the culture of cruelty trickles down into our society and soaks it, and soaks it up, makes it fucking greasy and fucking slick, and you don't wanna even hold it because it's so gross.
And that is what it is. If you remove capitalism, you can kill off a lot of this other bullshit.
Why aren't people engaged? Why aren't men involved and engaged in socialist rhetoric? Why is it so easy for men to fall into fascist dogma?
One of the first essays I wrote was called "A Generation of Men Caught Between Two Masks." And it was literally about this. How on one end, you've got this framework that you're biologically born wrong, born with a set of behaviors that is fundamentally antithetical to the movement, to peace, to socialism, to what have you. This is how the narrative is painted.
And it doesn't mean I'm advocating for what these men believe. If prescribing how someone falls into a position of thought is the same as agreeing with that thought, then we are never going to make progress because I'm simply trying to explain how people feel when they are told this shit because it is annoying. Because then you have to say, well, we don't mean all men. Well, we know you don't mean all men, but you're still fucking painting like you mean all men, and you still say it like you mean all men. You say this is just how men are. They're all predators.
Then you have that on one end. And then on the other end, you've got the right who's like, yeah, you're a predator. Embrace that shit. This is the natural way of things. No one is going, you don't have to be a predator. You're not a predator. Like, you're just a human being. You have emotions. You're capable of feeling emotions. You're capable of empathy. You're capable of human experience. You're not a monster just because of what is in between your legs.
And also, let's never forget that this biological essentialism, this idea that because of the gender you're born as, because of the sex you are assigned at birth, you have all of these traits that you have to apply to, you have to follow through — it's incredibly transphobic. It's incredibly transphobic. I mean, it's the same logic that TERFs use to prevent trans women from being part of female spaces. Well, they're really men, and men are naturally predators, and so we can't be safe around them, so we have to exclude them. That is literally the logic of a TERF.
And again, I'm not saying that we don't live in a rape culture. We do. The culture is defined by the people at the top, and the people at the top are fucking rapists because they are capitalists, because they are willing to exploit people, because they want to exhibit power over people.
To simply put the idea that someone like Jeffrey Epstein was just operating under his natural biological urges as a man, and that someone like Ghislaine Maxwell was just taken for a ride because she's a woman and it's completely antithetical to what being a woman is for her to engage in those behaviors — that lets people off the hook. That lets the power off the hook. And it excuses rape culture, if anything.
It gets old. It gets old. It gets all these little narratives that they keep pushing out to put men and women against each other, when in reality, it is a class war, not a gender war.
R: 6 / I: 1
Three navy marines and one air force officer, all assigned to the intelligence agency of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), are charged with serious premeditated assault over last month’s attack on Andrie Yunus, a human rights lawyer and senior activist with the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), who suffered severe injuries. The case has reignited concerns about impunity for the armed forces.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/four-indonesian-military-personnel-go-trial-over-acid-attack-rights-activist
Indigenous rights activist seeks probe over military harassment, coercion
Indigenous rights activist Raven Desposado has formally asked the Commission on Human Rights on April 28, 2026 to launch an investigation into the coercion and harassment he experienced while he was organizing the 42nd People’s Cordillera Day in Tadian, Mountain Province.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/04/29/indigenous-rights-activist-seeks-probe-over-military-harassment-coercion/
Watched, Tracked, Hacked! IFJ Study Finds Global Systemic Surveillance of Journalists
Amid data centres mushrooming across the world, the study revealed that data harvested through these mechanisms is fed into artificial intelligence (AI) dashboards that correlate calls, messages, geolocation data, and online activity –automating surveillance at a scale once unimaginable. “In conflict zones, such as Gaza or Ukraine, AI systems now fuse telecom and drone feeds to identify and track journalists, blurring the line between observation and physical targeting”, the IFJ said.
https://www.newsclick.in/watched-tracked-hacked-ifj-study-finds-global-systemic-surveillance-journalists
Cubans back ‘My signature for the Homeland’ campaign as tensions with US intensify
The homeland initiative began on April 19 and comes as Cuba celebrates the 65th anniversary of its April 1961 Bay of Pigs victory over some 1,500 Cuban exiles backed by the CIA who failed in their attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s newly formed Communist government. Alberto Olivera, a visual artist and Hernández’s husband, questioned how Cuba poses a threat to the U.S. “If it’s a failed revolution, then leave us alone,” he said. “What do they care?” Hernández added.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-signatures-campaign-sanctions-us-df342d257e9e872c3f69333620a1f523
Chilean Government and Workers fail to reach agreement on minimum wage
The divergence between the government’s 4% proposal and the union’s demand of 18.3% led to a standstill in talks on April 29th and the announcement of a parliamentary bill to define the 2026 wage adjustment.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chilean-government-and-workers-fail-to-reach-agreement-on-minimum-wage/
‘Encouraging’: Global rainforest loss slows in 2025 after record year
“A drop of this scale in a single year is encouraging – it shows what decisive government action can achieve,” said Elizabeth Goldman, co-director of WRI’s Global Forest Watch platform. “But part of the decline reflects a lull after an extreme fire year.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/29/tropical-forest-loss-slows-in-2025-after-record-year-report
https://archive.ph/jK0Wb
Brazil’s Senate blocks Lula’s Supreme Court nominee, first rejection in 132 years
Only 34 senators voted in favor of Jorge Messias, who has been Brazil’s solicitor-general since 2023 and a close legal advisor to Lula, while another 42 rejected his appointment. Messias needed 41 votes to be approved.Lula, who is seeking reelection in October for his fourth inconsecutive term, picked Messias to replace Luís Roberto Barroso, who resigned in November. Since then, Brazil’s top court has operated with 10 members.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-justice-messias-lula-286e34ad39c13519dd2631d30268991d
Met accused of inconsistent policing after resuming Palestine Action arrests outside Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal heard that there were “plenty” of alternatives to target the actions of Palestine Action aside from banning them as a terror group. The Home Office is challenging the High Court’s ruling in February that the decision to ban Palestine Action last July was “disproportionate” and had a “very significant” impact on human rights, and should be quashed.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-accused-inconsistent-policing-after-resuming-palestine-action-arrests-outside-court
Berlin deepens military ties with Washington while Merz-Trump rift grows
Starting in October, an American colonel will serve at the German Army Command in a key role as deputy head of the Operations Division, where missions are planned and decisions are prepared, the German army and the Pentagon told POLITICO. This places a U.S. officer in close cooperation with German counterparts at the center of Germany’s land forces. The aim, a German army spokesperson said, is “to further deepen German-American cooperation and optimize joint operational capability within NATO.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-military-ties-us-friedrich-merz-donald-trump-rift/
https://archive.ph/ch8AB
‘We saw terrible things’: Mali refugees tell of atrocities amid attacks
It was JNIM that forced people in Moctar’s village to leave. The group initially targeted fringe areas with little government control, but as its forces and technical abilities, such as the use of drones, have grown, JNIM has become more daring. Late in September, its fighters attacked tankers carrying oil into the landlocked country from neighbouring Senegal, in effect laying siege to the capital, Bamako. Fighting is also ongoing between Malian troops and rebels of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which is fighting for an independent region in northern Mali.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/29/we-saw-terrible-things-mali-refugees-tell-of-atrocities-amid-attacks
https://archive.ph/llmyP
News 4/29/26
Four Indonesian military personnel go on trial over acid attack on rights activistThree navy marines and one air force officer, all assigned to the intelligence agency of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), are charged with serious premeditated assault over last month’s attack on Andrie Yunus, a human rights lawyer and senior activist with the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), who suffered severe injuries. The case has reignited concerns about impunity for the armed forces.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/four-indonesian-military-personnel-go-trial-over-acid-attack-rights-activist
Indigenous rights activist seeks probe over military harassment, coercion
Indigenous rights activist Raven Desposado has formally asked the Commission on Human Rights on April 28, 2026 to launch an investigation into the coercion and harassment he experienced while he was organizing the 42nd People’s Cordillera Day in Tadian, Mountain Province.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/04/29/indigenous-rights-activist-seeks-probe-over-military-harassment-coercion/
Watched, Tracked, Hacked! IFJ Study Finds Global Systemic Surveillance of Journalists
Amid data centres mushrooming across the world, the study revealed that data harvested through these mechanisms is fed into artificial intelligence (AI) dashboards that correlate calls, messages, geolocation data, and online activity –automating surveillance at a scale once unimaginable. “In conflict zones, such as Gaza or Ukraine, AI systems now fuse telecom and drone feeds to identify and track journalists, blurring the line between observation and physical targeting”, the IFJ said.
https://www.newsclick.in/watched-tracked-hacked-ifj-study-finds-global-systemic-surveillance-journalists
Cubans back ‘My signature for the Homeland’ campaign as tensions with US intensify
The homeland initiative began on April 19 and comes as Cuba celebrates the 65th anniversary of its April 1961 Bay of Pigs victory over some 1,500 Cuban exiles backed by the CIA who failed in their attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s newly formed Communist government. Alberto Olivera, a visual artist and Hernández’s husband, questioned how Cuba poses a threat to the U.S. “If it’s a failed revolution, then leave us alone,” he said. “What do they care?” Hernández added.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-signatures-campaign-sanctions-us-df342d257e9e872c3f69333620a1f523
Chilean Government and Workers fail to reach agreement on minimum wage
The divergence between the government’s 4% proposal and the union’s demand of 18.3% led to a standstill in talks on April 29th and the announcement of a parliamentary bill to define the 2026 wage adjustment.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chilean-government-and-workers-fail-to-reach-agreement-on-minimum-wage/
‘Encouraging’: Global rainforest loss slows in 2025 after record year
“A drop of this scale in a single year is encouraging – it shows what decisive government action can achieve,” said Elizabeth Goldman, co-director of WRI’s Global Forest Watch platform. “But part of the decline reflects a lull after an extreme fire year.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/29/tropical-forest-loss-slows-in-2025-after-record-year-report
https://archive.ph/jK0Wb
Brazil’s Senate blocks Lula’s Supreme Court nominee, first rejection in 132 years
Only 34 senators voted in favor of Jorge Messias, who has been Brazil’s solicitor-general since 2023 and a close legal advisor to Lula, while another 42 rejected his appointment. Messias needed 41 votes to be approved.Lula, who is seeking reelection in October for his fourth inconsecutive term, picked Messias to replace Luís Roberto Barroso, who resigned in November. Since then, Brazil’s top court has operated with 10 members.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-justice-messias-lula-286e34ad39c13519dd2631d30268991d
Met accused of inconsistent policing after resuming Palestine Action arrests outside Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal heard that there were “plenty” of alternatives to target the actions of Palestine Action aside from banning them as a terror group. The Home Office is challenging the High Court’s ruling in February that the decision to ban Palestine Action last July was “disproportionate” and had a “very significant” impact on human rights, and should be quashed.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-accused-inconsistent-policing-after-resuming-palestine-action-arrests-outside-court
Berlin deepens military ties with Washington while Merz-Trump rift grows
Starting in October, an American colonel will serve at the German Army Command in a key role as deputy head of the Operations Division, where missions are planned and decisions are prepared, the German army and the Pentagon told POLITICO. This places a U.S. officer in close cooperation with German counterparts at the center of Germany’s land forces. The aim, a German army spokesperson said, is “to further deepen German-American cooperation and optimize joint operational capability within NATO.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-military-ties-us-friedrich-merz-donald-trump-rift/
https://archive.ph/ch8AB
‘We saw terrible things’: Mali refugees tell of atrocities amid attacks
It was JNIM that forced people in Moctar’s village to leave. The group initially targeted fringe areas with little government control, but as its forces and technical abilities, such as the use of drones, have grown, JNIM has become more daring. Late in September, its fighters attacked tankers carrying oil into the landlocked country from neighbouring Senegal, in effect laying siege to the capital, Bamako. Fighting is also ongoing between Malian troops and rebels of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which is fighting for an independent region in northern Mali.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/29/we-saw-terrible-things-mali-refugees-tell-of-atrocities-amid-attacks
https://archive.ph/llmyP
R: 214 / I: 28
Honest question (NOT trolling):
What exactly should the western left do for Palestine that they haven’t already been doing for the past 2.5 years (or even longer for that matter)?
I’ve seen Palestinian activists say “we need to do more to stop the genocide” more times than I can count. But what should we feasibly be doing that we’re not doing already? Boycotts? Mass protests? Blockading arms sales? Policing your peers’ consumer habits so they’re compliant with BDS? Making lists of politicians who receive money from AIPAC and voting them out? We’ve done this already. In NYC, there was a mass protest every fucking weekend where we were told to “escalate for Gaza” yet we never escalated; I don’t even fucking know what “escalate” is supposed to mean. Were we supposed to be engaging in violent riots and molotoving the banks or whatever?
I asked this to a comrade of mine and he said: “You know what we mean when we want the left to do more for Palestine.” By that, he clearly means engage in political violence, bring back the Weathermen. But how would ultra-left adventurism do anything? Elias Rodriguez did exactly this and is now facing life in prison for killing two interns who were replaced the next day. What a fucking waste.
The American left is way too weak, disorganized, and incompetent to do anything meaningful to help the Palestinians resist or stop Israel. It’s gotten to the point where people are putting all their hope and faith in the idea Israel will collapse on its own because they’ve run out of strategies. So what should the left be doing that it’s not doing already? Give clear examples.
Honest question (NOT trolling):
What exactly should the western left do for Palestine that they haven’t already been doing for the past 2.5 years (or even longer for that matter)?
I’ve seen Palestinian activists say “we need to do more to stop the genocide” more times than I can count. But what should we feasibly be doing that we’re not doing already? Boycotts? Mass protests? Blockading arms sales? Policing your peers’ consumer habits so they’re compliant with BDS? Making lists of politicians who receive money from AIPAC and voting them out? We’ve done this already. In NYC, there was a mass protest every fucking weekend where we were told to “escalate for Gaza” yet we never escalated; I don’t even fucking know what “escalate” is supposed to mean. Were we supposed to be engaging in violent riots and molotoving the banks or whatever?
I asked this to a comrade of mine and he said: “You know what we mean when we want the left to do more for Palestine.” By that, he clearly means engage in political violence, bring back the Weathermen. But how would ultra-left adventurism do anything? Elias Rodriguez did exactly this and is now facing life in prison for killing two interns who were replaced the next day. What a fucking waste.
The American left is way too weak, disorganized, and incompetent to do anything meaningful to help the Palestinians resist or stop Israel. It’s gotten to the point where people are putting all their hope and faith in the idea Israel will collapse on its own because they’ve run out of strategies. So what should the left be doing that it’s not doing already? Give clear examples.
R: 34 / I: 12
9/11 wasn't tragic
2,977 yanks were killed because of the Oslo Accords and the Gilf War. That then dragged America into a 20 year war that it ultimately lost. 2,000 more US servicemen died during Operation Enduring Freedom. This is justice for 400 years worth of oppression towards indigenous peoples and black people. Prove me wrong. America the Great has fallen. 9/11 and 10/7 were the two days when the US and Israel finally felt what they dished out to so many others. They're the reason the Middle East is so unstable. Anglos, Jews and Arabs are all in on it together. The US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Oman got to go.
R: 92 / I: 5
I'm really new to politics. What I understood so far is:
socialism: social property of the "means of production" (it can be both democratic or revolutionary)
communism: stateless and classless society
marxism: a sociopolitical and economic analysis of society based on the idea that class struggle under capitalism will eventually lead to a socialist and then communist society
They are different concepts, but can work in a same framework depending on how you define them.
Am I right?
I'm really new to politics. What I understood so far is:
socialism: social property of the "means of production" (it can be both democratic or revolutionary)
communism: stateless and classless society
marxism: a sociopolitical and economic analysis of society based on the idea that class struggle under capitalism will eventually lead to a socialist and then communist society
They are different concepts, but can work in a same framework depending on how you define them.
Am I right?
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HONEST QUESTION
I've been reading a book about the limits of science, one of it's topics is about the idea of chaos and how complex system cannot be fully know to us or controlled, that does it imply that a planned economy is theoretically impossible for us? What is the answer from socialist about this problem? After that question I'm starting to lean towards a market socialism to deal with the question economy complexity, what's is the LeftyPol answer to the question of economic complexity?
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another staged assassination attempt. Trump didn't want to hear jokes at his expense and it gives him the excuse to build his ballroom. There will probably be many more stunts like this. they even had CIA actor Erika Kirk there to bring the community theatre level theatrics. anything to distract from the files. his face here says "yep, i did it again"
another staged assassination attempt. Trump didn't want to hear jokes at his expense and it gives him the excuse to build his ballroom. There will probably be many more stunts like this. they even had CIA actor Erika Kirk there to bring the community theatre level theatrics. anything to distract from the files. his face here says "yep, i did it again"
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>The day care in the Phillips neighborhood was one of several across the Twin Cities metro area where federal authorities simultaneously carried out search warrants.
>State records identify the owner of Metro Learning Center as Abdullahi Musse.
>Some time after entering the business, investigators could be seen handing paperwork to a man who responded to that name when approached by 5 INVESTIGATES.
>“Nothing I know,” he said when asked about the FBI operation. He insisted his day care was still serving children and families.
>The Minnesota Department of Human Services cited Metro Learning Center in January for failing to update a background check on one member of its staff.
>So far, federal authorities have not commented about the nature of their search warrant.
>The early morning operation captured the attention of neighbors in the area which also includes other Somali-owned businesses and an Islamic Center.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fbi-raids-minneapolis-day-care-with-battering-ram-neighbors-uneasy-after-recent-violence/
This is more proof fascist “journalists” like Nick Shirley and Tyler Oliveira are human filth with potential blood on their hands.
USA happening: feds raid Minneapolis daycares
>FBI agents used a pry bar to enter the Metro Learning Center on 13th Avenue South in Minneapolis just before 7 a.m. on Tuesday.>The day care in the Phillips neighborhood was one of several across the Twin Cities metro area where federal authorities simultaneously carried out search warrants.
>State records identify the owner of Metro Learning Center as Abdullahi Musse.
>Some time after entering the business, investigators could be seen handing paperwork to a man who responded to that name when approached by 5 INVESTIGATES.
>“Nothing I know,” he said when asked about the FBI operation. He insisted his day care was still serving children and families.
>The Minnesota Department of Human Services cited Metro Learning Center in January for failing to update a background check on one member of its staff.
>So far, federal authorities have not commented about the nature of their search warrant.
>The early morning operation captured the attention of neighbors in the area which also includes other Somali-owned businesses and an Islamic Center.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fbi-raids-minneapolis-day-care-with-battering-ram-neighbors-uneasy-after-recent-violence/
This is more proof fascist “journalists” like Nick Shirley and Tyler Oliveira are human filth with potential blood on their hands.
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Infamous examples famous lolcow EDP getting caught by predator hunters twice
Pedos rarely gets arrested
What’s the material condition pedos gets caught in 4K all the time and rarely gets arrested?Infamous examples famous lolcow EDP getting caught by predator hunters twice
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
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Plus the lumpen laugh at the size of the "real movement" - how many are you? You're too little to change anything.
Lumpens do admire China but China doesn't care for anything besides its own citizens.
I was talking to a lumpen
I was talking to a lumpen worker happy that a liberal socialdemocrat won the election, he thinks that the succdem is a "man of the people, he will fix everything". And we talked for a bit yelling. But it got me thinking, the lumpen had no problem with the ruling class as long as his needs were met, and for the large part even in spite of the miserable manual labour - were being met. So why do we demand an economy of needs - production planned on needs "from each according to their ability to each according to their need" if capitalism already fulfills their needs? They will still work, not for wages but it would be the same jobs. Its just that the drive for profit and class causes damage to the planet and misery for the manual laborers but as long as their needs are met they don't really care. They don't want planned production they want somebody else to think for them and most have just accepted their roles in contempt so feel no need for a DOTP - ruling is somebody else's problem to them.Plus the lumpen laugh at the size of the "real movement" - how many are you? You're too little to change anything.
Lumpens do admire China but China doesn't care for anything besides its own citizens.
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I am an adult human being living in a bourgeois echo chamber who knows nothing about global poverty. please respond only in text, but I want a serious answer - what is happening? Why do so many people want to kill people like me? I've read communist books and they're all theory, but what I actually want is actual information on the state of global poverty. Specifically, what is causing people to die, and in what terrible conditions do people work? The people here seem almost fanatic, and I could understand this if and only if people were literally systematically dying. Please don't be mean to me - I have spent most of my life in a bourgeois echo chamber.
I am an adult human being living in a bourgeois echo chamber who knows nothing about global poverty. please respond only in text, but I want a serious answer - what is happening? Why do so many people want to kill people like me? I've read communist books and they're all theory, but what I actually want is actual information on the state of global poverty. Specifically, what is causing people to die, and in what terrible conditions do people work? The people here seem almost fanatic, and I could understand this if and only if people were literally systematically dying. Please don't be mean to me - I have spent most of my life in a bourgeois echo chamber.
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Any strawman that does not address the largest trade deficit that will ever exist shall be ignored.
The American 'Proletariat' Does Not Exist
The American 'working class' produce zero surplus value through their net nonproductive labor and physically cannot sustain themselves due to deindustrialization. Each and every single lumpen settler owes more than forty trillion in exports to repay their debt to the rest of the planet and survives off the surplus labor of non-americans from Berlin to Siberia. Even ignoring the countless acts of terrorism committed by the burgereich, the consumerism of treats must end. As the pedotariat of epsteinland must work for several years and export to maybe repay even 30 percent of what occupied turtle island owes to the non-american surplus value producing global proletariat.Any strawman that does not address the largest trade deficit that will ever exist shall be ignored.
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At the same time questions of what is being gained from these massive investments are being raised. If and when this bubble pops it will have adverse ripple effects across the entire global economic system and the capitalist class will be potentially set back trillions. In the process the contradictions that will lead to capitalism's downfall will intensify, opening the window for a socialist revolution. Even if AI and its related technologies can serve some kind of social good and help develop the productive forces. Actively cheering for an AI bubble burst effectively serves the same function as championing revolutionary defeatism whenever the ruling class wages imperialist wars.
Regardless of your actual stance on AI. You should want and look forward to the AI bubble bursting.
The western AI industry is estimated to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars. In 2026 that number will likely balloon even further as more and more capital is poured into the industry. The capitalist class whose shortsightedness is almost always a given has seemingly put all their eggs in this handbasket even at the expense of other sectors of the economy from consumer electronics to the water supply and electrical grids of small towns unfortunate enough to have had a datacenter built in their vicinity.At the same time questions of what is being gained from these massive investments are being raised. If and when this bubble pops it will have adverse ripple effects across the entire global economic system and the capitalist class will be potentially set back trillions. In the process the contradictions that will lead to capitalism's downfall will intensify, opening the window for a socialist revolution. Even if AI and its related technologies can serve some kind of social good and help develop the productive forces. Actively cheering for an AI bubble burst effectively serves the same function as championing revolutionary defeatism whenever the ruling class wages imperialist wars.
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⚒️ 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:
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>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Ballroom Blitz Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2791520
/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Ballroom Blitz Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
• list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
• visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
• Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
• database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
• list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
• ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
• US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
• 📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
• 📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
• 📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
• 📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
• 📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
• Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
• AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
• Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
• ▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
• Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
• First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
• Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
• Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
• The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
• Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
• Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
• Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Previous Thread: >>2791520
R: 2 / I: 0
Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez would tie at 38% of the vote in the Peruvian presidential runoff scheduled for June 7, according to the first opinion poll published after the April 12 election, against a backdrop of an inconclusive count and an ongoing dispute over second place. The Ipsos Peru survey, conducted between April 23 and 24 and published by daily Perú.21, points to a scenario of absolute parity with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/27/poll-projects-dead-heat-between-fujimori-and-sanchez-in-peru-runoff-as-count-nears-completion
Mexico’s military captures top cartel leader in another blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
Flores Silva was seen as a possible successor to Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, or “El Mencho,” who was killed in a dramatic military operation in February. The killing of “El Mencho” led to a surge of cartel violence with a wave of attacks on businesses by cartel gunmen, vehicle burnings and road blockades that killed more than 70 people, including 25 National Guard members.
https://apnews.com/article/jalisco-new-generation-cartel-mexico-flores-silva-6050d1eb184dc8842f34a180ac77df91
‘A sudden gap’: poorest to suffer from Trump’s drive to stop Cuba sending doctors to its neighbours
Since Donald Trump began his second term, the governments of Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and Paraguay have ended the medical agreements, either immediately or gradually. The lone point of resistance has been Mexico, where the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has refused to end the programme, saying that the about 3,000 Cuban doctors are of “great help” as they work in remote areas where there is a shortage of personnel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/26/poorest-to-suffer-trump-drive-to-stop-cuba-sending-doctors-to-its-neighbours
US spy agencies examine how Iran would react to Trump declaring victory
The intelligence community is analyzing the question along with others at the request of senior administration officials. The goal is to understand the implications of Trump potentially pulling back from a conflict that some officials and advisers worry could contribute to deep Republican losses at the midterm elections later this year, according to the sources.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/04/exclusive-us-spy-agencies-examine-how-iran-would-react-trump-declaring-victory
Leonardo's Edinburgh factory blockaded over ‘complicity in genocide’
Campaigners took up position from 5am at the gates of the plant, which produced laser targeting systems to Lockheed Martin for use in the F-35, an aircraft which played a key role as Israeli forces razed Gaza as well as in its attacks on Lebanon and Iran.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/leonardos-edinburgh-factory-blockaded-over-complicity-genocide
Sadiq Khan Moves to Block Met Police Deal With Palantir
While the Met has its own procurement team, the London mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime must sign off any contract worth over £500,000, giving Khan some leverage over the deal. A spokesperson for the mayor said: “We can’t comment on live procurement processes. However, as a general point the mayor would have concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values.”
https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/28/sadiq-khan-moves-to-block-met-police-deal-with-palantir/
Uganda detains 231 foreigners in crackdown on possible human trafficking
At least 231 people have been detained since Monday in operations that targeted a group of Nigerians living in the country’s north, as well as another group of foreigners living together in a closed compound in Kampala, the capital.
https://apnews.com/article/uganda-migration-trafficking-arrests-cyberscam-0c4f50f8df1854c07e6521bffdff3c36
Kenyan court recriminalizes abortion
The 2022 decision held that abortion is a constitutional right, but the appellate court ruled that this was an incorrect interpretation. The constitution adopted by Kenya in 2010 allowed for abortion if “there is a need for emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger.” It has, however, remained criminalized in practice for over a decade as the colonial-era penal code has not been amended to reflect this.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/27/kenyan-court-recriminalizes-abortion/
Four killed, 70 injured in mortar, rocket attacks by Pakistan, Afghan Taliban says
Mortar and rocket attacks launched by Pakistan against Afghanistan killed four people on Monday and injured 70 more, the Taliban government said, as fighting between the countries erupted again and threatened to derail fragile peace talks.
https://www.newarab.com/news/four-killed-70-injured-attacks-pakistan-afghan-taliban
Lebanese citizens with Australian partners being denied visitor visas amid concerns over unofficial ‘blacklists’
Other migration agents have reported similar refusals, and they say that in times of crisis or conflict, some countries are put on unofficial “blacklists” from which it is almost impossible – regardless of compelling circumstances – to have a visa application approved. In the wake of US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February, militant group Hezbollah – backed by Iran – resumed rocket strikes on Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/28/lebanese-citizens-denied-visas-australia
News 4/28/26
Poll projects dead heat between Fujimori and Sánchez in Peru runoff as count nears completionRight-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez would tie at 38% of the vote in the Peruvian presidential runoff scheduled for June 7, according to the first opinion poll published after the April 12 election, against a backdrop of an inconclusive count and an ongoing dispute over second place. The Ipsos Peru survey, conducted between April 23 and 24 and published by daily Perú.21, points to a scenario of absolute parity with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/27/poll-projects-dead-heat-between-fujimori-and-sanchez-in-peru-runoff-as-count-nears-completion
Mexico’s military captures top cartel leader in another blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
Flores Silva was seen as a possible successor to Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, or “El Mencho,” who was killed in a dramatic military operation in February. The killing of “El Mencho” led to a surge of cartel violence with a wave of attacks on businesses by cartel gunmen, vehicle burnings and road blockades that killed more than 70 people, including 25 National Guard members.
https://apnews.com/article/jalisco-new-generation-cartel-mexico-flores-silva-6050d1eb184dc8842f34a180ac77df91
‘A sudden gap’: poorest to suffer from Trump’s drive to stop Cuba sending doctors to its neighbours
Since Donald Trump began his second term, the governments of Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and Paraguay have ended the medical agreements, either immediately or gradually. The lone point of resistance has been Mexico, where the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has refused to end the programme, saying that the about 3,000 Cuban doctors are of “great help” as they work in remote areas where there is a shortage of personnel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/26/poorest-to-suffer-trump-drive-to-stop-cuba-sending-doctors-to-its-neighbours
US spy agencies examine how Iran would react to Trump declaring victory
The intelligence community is analyzing the question along with others at the request of senior administration officials. The goal is to understand the implications of Trump potentially pulling back from a conflict that some officials and advisers worry could contribute to deep Republican losses at the midterm elections later this year, according to the sources.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/04/exclusive-us-spy-agencies-examine-how-iran-would-react-trump-declaring-victory
Leonardo's Edinburgh factory blockaded over ‘complicity in genocide’
Campaigners took up position from 5am at the gates of the plant, which produced laser targeting systems to Lockheed Martin for use in the F-35, an aircraft which played a key role as Israeli forces razed Gaza as well as in its attacks on Lebanon and Iran.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/leonardos-edinburgh-factory-blockaded-over-complicity-genocide
Sadiq Khan Moves to Block Met Police Deal With Palantir
While the Met has its own procurement team, the London mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime must sign off any contract worth over £500,000, giving Khan some leverage over the deal. A spokesperson for the mayor said: “We can’t comment on live procurement processes. However, as a general point the mayor would have concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values.”
https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/28/sadiq-khan-moves-to-block-met-police-deal-with-palantir/
Uganda detains 231 foreigners in crackdown on possible human trafficking
At least 231 people have been detained since Monday in operations that targeted a group of Nigerians living in the country’s north, as well as another group of foreigners living together in a closed compound in Kampala, the capital.
https://apnews.com/article/uganda-migration-trafficking-arrests-cyberscam-0c4f50f8df1854c07e6521bffdff3c36
Kenyan court recriminalizes abortion
The 2022 decision held that abortion is a constitutional right, but the appellate court ruled that this was an incorrect interpretation. The constitution adopted by Kenya in 2010 allowed for abortion if “there is a need for emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger.” It has, however, remained criminalized in practice for over a decade as the colonial-era penal code has not been amended to reflect this.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/27/kenyan-court-recriminalizes-abortion/
Four killed, 70 injured in mortar, rocket attacks by Pakistan, Afghan Taliban says
Mortar and rocket attacks launched by Pakistan against Afghanistan killed four people on Monday and injured 70 more, the Taliban government said, as fighting between the countries erupted again and threatened to derail fragile peace talks.
https://www.newarab.com/news/four-killed-70-injured-attacks-pakistan-afghan-taliban
Lebanese citizens with Australian partners being denied visitor visas amid concerns over unofficial ‘blacklists’
Other migration agents have reported similar refusals, and they say that in times of crisis or conflict, some countries are put on unofficial “blacklists” from which it is almost impossible – regardless of compelling circumstances – to have a visa application approved. In the wake of US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February, militant group Hezbollah – backed by Iran – resumed rocket strikes on Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/28/lebanese-citizens-denied-visas-australia
R: 589 / I: 185
News article about the new Supreme leader of Iran owning luxury property next to a UK embasy: https://www.transparency.org.uk/news/londons-role-irans-financial-networks-and-why-it-matters-now
>Previous Bake
>>2786439
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
/Iran/ war thread #61
>unreadable screenshots editionNews article about the new Supreme leader of Iran owning luxury property next to a UK embasy: https://www.transparency.org.uk/news/londons-role-irans-financial-networks-and-why-it-matters-now
>Previous Bake
>Important Links:
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
>Useful Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada
>Useful Xitters
https://xcancel.com/IranObserver0
https://xcancel.com/araghchi
https://xcancel.com/conflict_radar
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia
https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah
https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic
https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina
https://xcancel.com/jonelmer
https://xcancel.com/MarkAmesExiled
https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal
https://xcancel.com/dreizinreport/
>Useful TG:
https://t.me/s/wfwitness
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/enemywatch
>Useful Blogs/Podcasts/News:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
https://sonar21.com/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/t687i-9b79d/War-Nerd-Radio-%E2%80%94-Subscriber-Feed-Podcast
R: 17 / I: 4
I've made a fascinating discovery. Leftypol, or rather its users, have direct power to influence the output of AI services. I've been spamming Leftypol with my hot takes a lot over the past few weeks, and voila: they're appearing in Grok and Perplexity!
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/85ab939d-16f5-40e4-9a51-348bc0161bae
https://leftypol.org/meta/res/37383.html#q44572
I've made a fascinating discovery. Leftypol, or rather its users, have direct power to influence the output of AI services. I've been spamming Leftypol with my hot takes a lot over the past few weeks, and voila: they're appearing in Grok and Perplexity!
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/85ab939d-16f5-40e4-9a51-348bc0161bae
https://leftypol.org/meta/res/37383.html#q44572
R: 10 / I: 4
What's the stance on Zionism and being pro Islam nowadays if you're trying to be an anrifascist? I used to be involved in fascist groups but I really found them degenerate and loserish. I had other reasons but after 3 years of being apolitical non religious I still got some ideals and Antifascism is starting to appeal to me. And Islam as well.
What's the stance on Zionism and being pro Islam nowadays if you're trying to be an anrifascist? I used to be involved in fascist groups but I really found them degenerate and loserish. I had other reasons but after 3 years of being apolitical non religious I still got some ideals and Antifascism is starting to appeal to me. And Islam as well.
R: 53 / I: 6
I think this is officially the start of a genocide.
>The announcement was the latest in a series of moves President Donald Trump’s administration has taken demonstrating support for the death penalty. Trump has long been an avid supporter of capital punishment, and during his first term, the Justice Department carried out its first federal executions in nearly two decades.
>Since Trump’s return to the White House last year, his administration has lifted a moratorium on federal executions and pushed for more death sentences. Trump and other officials have also repeatedly castigated President Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row shortly before he left office.
>In a bold and controversial move, William K. Marshall III, the newly appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), has proposed significant reforms aimed at addressing the pressing issue of prison overcrowding. Since his swearing-in on April 21, 2025, Marshall has advocated for a major lowering of the threshold for capital punishment and the expansion of firing squad executions.
>Marshall, who oversees approximately 156,000 federal inmates and 36,000 staff members across 122 BOP facilities, is no stranger to the complexities of law enforcement. His extensive career began with the West Virginia State Police, where he was lauded as the 1995 National Association of Police Organizations West Virginia Police Officer of the Year. Following his retirement in 2017 after 25 years of service, Marshall's leadership roles in corrections have uniquely positioned him to address issues plaguing the prison system.
>In a recent interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Marshall stated, "We need to reevaluate our approach to capital punishment and consider options that reflect the realities of our overcrowded prisons. By lowering the execution threshold and expanding firing squad executions, we can not only deter crime but also bring a sense of closure to the families of victims." He expressed a belief that the current process is often drawn out and unnecessarily complicated, contributing to the burden on federal facilities.
https://www.bop.gov/about/agency/bio_dir.jsp
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38925893/doj-firing-squad-executions-back-death-penalty/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/24/federal-death-penalty-firing-squads-trump/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/doj-death-penalty-firing-squad-lethal-injection
Genocide starting.
Trump, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Justice Department are trying to lower the threshold for executions, and also expand firing squards to "reduce prison overcrowding".I think this is officially the start of a genocide.
>The announcement was the latest in a series of moves President Donald Trump’s administration has taken demonstrating support for the death penalty. Trump has long been an avid supporter of capital punishment, and during his first term, the Justice Department carried out its first federal executions in nearly two decades.
>Since Trump’s return to the White House last year, his administration has lifted a moratorium on federal executions and pushed for more death sentences. Trump and other officials have also repeatedly castigated President Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row shortly before he left office.
>In a bold and controversial move, William K. Marshall III, the newly appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), has proposed significant reforms aimed at addressing the pressing issue of prison overcrowding. Since his swearing-in on April 21, 2025, Marshall has advocated for a major lowering of the threshold for capital punishment and the expansion of firing squad executions.
>Marshall, who oversees approximately 156,000 federal inmates and 36,000 staff members across 122 BOP facilities, is no stranger to the complexities of law enforcement. His extensive career began with the West Virginia State Police, where he was lauded as the 1995 National Association of Police Organizations West Virginia Police Officer of the Year. Following his retirement in 2017 after 25 years of service, Marshall's leadership roles in corrections have uniquely positioned him to address issues plaguing the prison system.
>In a recent interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Marshall stated, "We need to reevaluate our approach to capital punishment and consider options that reflect the realities of our overcrowded prisons. By lowering the execution threshold and expanding firing squad executions, we can not only deter crime but also bring a sense of closure to the families of victims." He expressed a belief that the current process is often drawn out and unnecessarily complicated, contributing to the burden on federal facilities.
https://www.bop.gov/about/agency/bio_dir.jsp
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38925893/doj-firing-squad-executions-back-death-penalty/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/24/federal-death-penalty-firing-squads-trump/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/doj-death-penalty-firing-squad-lethal-injection
R: 14 / I: 4
Russian forces pound Western-backed terrorists in Mali (VIDEOS)
The militants lost more than 1,000 soldiers and 100 vehicles while attacking Bamako and other cities, the Africa Corps has said
Russia’s Africa Corps has released several videos of devastating air and artillery strikes on terrorist columns in Mali after the militants launched one of the largest coordinated attacks ever across the country. The unit added that the attack, which it said involved Western and Ukrainian mercenaries, was aimed at a coup d’etat in the West African country.
The footage released by the unit – which operates under the purview of the Russian Defense Ministry – offers a rare visual account of the fighting which erupted on Saturday when Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM and the Tuareg-dominated Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) launched almost simultaneous strikes on Bamako, Kati, Gao, Kidal, and Sevare.
One video shows a column of trucks driving along an open road before coming under what appears to be artillery or drone-delivered fire.
In a statement, the Africa Corps said it essentially helped prevent a coup d’etat, as they held positions along the 2,000-km front line. It added that it provided air support, which it said prevented the seizure of key facilities, including the presidential palace in Bamako. According to the unit, militant casualties exceeded 1,000 – including an estimated 200 in Bamako, 500 in Gao, 300 in Kati, and 200 in Kidal – along with more than 100 vehicles destroyed.
The corps estimated the terrorist forces at 10,000 to 12,000, and said the assault was supported by Ukrainian and European mercenaries, adding that they deployed Western-made man-portable air-defense systems, including US-manufactured Stingers and French-made Mistrals.
The Africa Corps said some of its personnel sustained injuries and were being evacuated, while describing the situation in Mali as tense.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said “preliminary data” points to the possible involvement of Western security services in training the attackers. Earlier this year, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused France of “attempting to overthrow undesirable nationalist governments” in the Sahara-Sahel using “outright terrorist groups” and “colonial methods.”
The Africa Corps was established in 2023 and has since operated in Mali, the Central African Republic, and other states, with a mandate including counter-terrorism, training local forces, and securing strategic sites.
Russia just prevented a Westoid coup in Mali
https://swentr.site/africa/639117-russian-forces-pound-terrorists-mali/Russian forces pound Western-backed terrorists in Mali (VIDEOS)
The militants lost more than 1,000 soldiers and 100 vehicles while attacking Bamako and other cities, the Africa Corps has said
Russia’s Africa Corps has released several videos of devastating air and artillery strikes on terrorist columns in Mali after the militants launched one of the largest coordinated attacks ever across the country. The unit added that the attack, which it said involved Western and Ukrainian mercenaries, was aimed at a coup d’etat in the West African country.
The footage released by the unit – which operates under the purview of the Russian Defense Ministry – offers a rare visual account of the fighting which erupted on Saturday when Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM and the Tuareg-dominated Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) launched almost simultaneous strikes on Bamako, Kati, Gao, Kidal, and Sevare.
One video shows a column of trucks driving along an open road before coming under what appears to be artillery or drone-delivered fire.
In a statement, the Africa Corps said it essentially helped prevent a coup d’etat, as they held positions along the 2,000-km front line. It added that it provided air support, which it said prevented the seizure of key facilities, including the presidential palace in Bamako. According to the unit, militant casualties exceeded 1,000 – including an estimated 200 in Bamako, 500 in Gao, 300 in Kati, and 200 in Kidal – along with more than 100 vehicles destroyed.
The corps estimated the terrorist forces at 10,000 to 12,000, and said the assault was supported by Ukrainian and European mercenaries, adding that they deployed Western-made man-portable air-defense systems, including US-manufactured Stingers and French-made Mistrals.
The Africa Corps said some of its personnel sustained injuries and were being evacuated, while describing the situation in Mali as tense.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said “preliminary data” points to the possible involvement of Western security services in training the attackers. Earlier this year, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused France of “attempting to overthrow undesirable nationalist governments” in the Sahara-Sahel using “outright terrorist groups” and “colonial methods.”
The Africa Corps was established in 2023 and has since operated in Mali, the Central African Republic, and other states, with a mandate including counter-terrorism, training local forces, and securing strategic sites.
R: 115 / I: 17 (sage)
Nobody would deny on /leftypol/ that in the Imperial Core the standard of living (etc.) has been going down, crazy-style. However, this new trend, we believe, makes it palpable just how luxurious a life these people have been able to afford at the expense of the rest of us.
>threadly reminder:
<if you get called a "turd worldist" ITT what is actually being said is: "I'm losing my sweet supply of treats which I got from my state benefiting from exploiting you, and now that system is dying, I'm feeling the effects myself, and I simply HATE you, for not being available any more to be exploited for my benefit!"
(dwindling) /TREATS/ #1
In which, hopefully recurring, thread, us, the hated "turd [sic] worldists," which, translated to human, means 90% of humanity outside of the Imperial Core, notice and share how the imperial core consumers are reacting to the dwindling supply of treats.Nobody would deny on /leftypol/ that in the Imperial Core the standard of living (etc.) has been going down, crazy-style. However, this new trend, we believe, makes it palpable just how luxurious a life these people have been able to afford at the expense of the rest of us.
>threadly reminder:
<if you get called a "turd worldist" ITT what is actually being said is: "I'm losing my sweet supply of treats which I got from my state benefiting from exploiting you, and now that system is dying, I'm feeling the effects myself, and I simply HATE you, for not being available any more to be exploited for my benefit!"
R: 13 / I: 0
Is this boy a reactionary or a revolutionary? Ig you could use MGSV as your argument but I think it would be funnier just to use the picture.
reactionary or revolutionary?
I'm a normie sorry. I don't know how to make a real post.Is this boy a reactionary or a revolutionary? Ig you could use MGSV as your argument but I think it would be funnier just to use the picture.
R: 39 / I: 26 (sage)
>>the zine that stood out to me was the one from like 15 years ago that was a memorial to the founders of juche cult thought, and in the image, I see at least 2 people who were moderators for the site "420chan" holding up ak 47s and anti capitalist banners on some farm in the midwest, during the invasion board days era, leftypol looking types ya know, but i know them, real channers in the picture who i chatted with and have the names of, but then in another picture there was an image of the individuals in a run down looking church, only a few white people there, in some type of group meeting, very different crowd, but the alleged juche cult founders still there in photo.
One of the people's names led to a inactive blank facebook page that had a bunch of north korean intelligence and psychological stuff in it, which is possibly connected to their idea of manipulating the subconscious through dreams? This is the part I'm most interested in, so please don't ban this thread, I did save the pdf, but I'm not going to repost it for whatever reason, maybe one of the mods is in the images, or maybe it's just not a good look. I know this is rightfully a rabbit hole the mods here want to close off, especially seeing that the modding community from the chans was right there in the zine, holding a banner and ak47s on a farm called "the field".
>>but I want to know more ABOUT THIS psychological field. lets discuss it?
TL;DR i actually find this topic on the dreams and subconscious mind control very interesting. this is what the thread is about that part of this story, not the Juche meme, please, and thank you.
Neuro Linguistic Programming and Juche?
Last night someone posted a bunch of zines that were allegedly tied to "juche cult", and they didn't seem fake at all one even had a website from the 90s.>>the zine that stood out to me was the one from like 15 years ago that was a memorial to the founders of juche cult thought, and in the image, I see at least 2 people who were moderators for the site "420chan" holding up ak 47s and anti capitalist banners on some farm in the midwest, during the invasion board days era, leftypol looking types ya know, but i know them, real channers in the picture who i chatted with and have the names of, but then in another picture there was an image of the individuals in a run down looking church, only a few white people there, in some type of group meeting, very different crowd, but the alleged juche cult founders still there in photo.
One of the people's names led to a inactive blank facebook page that had a bunch of north korean intelligence and psychological stuff in it, which is possibly connected to their idea of manipulating the subconscious through dreams? This is the part I'm most interested in, so please don't ban this thread, I did save the pdf, but I'm not going to repost it for whatever reason, maybe one of the mods is in the images, or maybe it's just not a good look. I know this is rightfully a rabbit hole the mods here want to close off, especially seeing that the modding community from the chans was right there in the zine, holding a banner and ak47s on a farm called "the field".
>>but I want to know more ABOUT THIS psychological field. lets discuss it?
TL;DR i actually find this topic on the dreams and subconscious mind control very interesting. this is what the thread is about that part of this story, not the Juche meme, please, and thank you.
R: 2 / I: 0
The Z gang anon said reproductive sexbots and I said sapient humanoid robots and went into great detail while drunk about them being humanity's greatest creation and humanity's greatest companion.
I tried all the keywords, nothing.
Does anyone remember my replies? Can anyone find them?
I feel like I wrote some pretty important stuff but I can't remember much right now.
Was the original thread deleted? I don't even remember what it was called.
My replies had the armchair flag.
I can't find my replies
I made some replies to a Z gang flag anon about chinese sapient humanoid robots, I went to sleep after drinking and woke up to realize I can't find my replies by the search on any board.The Z gang anon said reproductive sexbots and I said sapient humanoid robots and went into great detail while drunk about them being humanity's greatest creation and humanity's greatest companion.
I tried all the keywords, nothing.
Does anyone remember my replies? Can anyone find them?
I feel like I wrote some pretty important stuff but I can't remember much right now.
Was the original thread deleted? I don't even remember what it was called.
My replies had the armchair flag.
R: 8 / I: 0
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
>Playboy Edition ; Huey Newton interview from the May 1973 issue of Playboy (pictured)
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
Old Thread:
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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
>Playboy Edition ; Huey Newton interview from the May 1973 issue of Playboy (pictured)
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Which side are you on? - Pete Seeger
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
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Bolivia is entering a week of intensified social conflict as trade unions, Indigenous organizations, and education workers announce coordinated mobilizations against the government of President Rodrigo Paz. The protests center on fuel shortages, labor demands, and opposition to agrarian reforms.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-faces-week-of-protests/
Poll: Cepeda expands lead over immediate rival ahead of Colombia’s elections
Cepeda received the support of 44.3% of the polled voters, a significant improvement compared to February, when 37.1% of the voters said they would support the leftist senator and long-time ally of President Gustavo Petro. Support for De la Espriella went from 18.9% in February to 21.5% earlier this month.
https://colombiareports.com/poll-cepeda-expands-lead-over-immediate-rival-ahead-of-colombias-elections/
Workers, union denounce Kowloon mass layoffs
Kowloon House West workers protested at West Avenue, Quezon City on April 24 against the planned layoff of over 70 workers and the closure of its Noodle House. Workers called Kowloon House West management’s step a retaliatory attack after it signed an agreement with the Glowhrain-KMU Kowloon House West Chapter resulting from a six-day strike.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/workers-union-denounce-kowloon-mass-layoffs/
Abbas loyalists win Palestinian local elections, including some seats in Gaza
The Nahdat Deir al-Balah list, backed by Abbas' Fatah party and the Western-backed PA, secured six seats. The remaining seats were won by two other Gaza-based groups, Future of Deir al-Balah and Peace and Building, not affiliated with either faction. Abbas loyalists swept the election in the West Bank, running unchallenged in many seats.
https://www.newarab.com/news/abbas-loyalists-win-palestinian-local-elections-some-gaza-seats
Bahrain strips 69 people of citizenship over Iran support
The London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy described the move as “dangerous” and a clear violation of international law. The organisation said the individuals had not been publicly identified, and it remained unclear whether they had been arrested, whether they were inside or outside Bahrain, and whether they held another nationality.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/27/bahrain-strips-69-people-of-citizenship-over-iran-support
https://archive.ph/UyORk
Iraqi president names Shia bloc candidate Ali al-Zaidi as PM-designate
The selection of al-Zaidi breaks a months-long deadlock in which United States President Donald Trump had intervened, after former two-time Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had emerged as the coalition’s initial candidate. Al-Maliki, who is close to Iran, was fiercely opposed by Trump. The US president warned that all support to Iraq would stop if he became prime minister.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/27/iraqi-president-names-shia-bloc-candidate-ali-al-zaidi-as-pm-designate
https://archive.ph/ARjwx
Malian defense chief is killed as jihadis and rebels seize towns and military bases
Mali ‘s defense minister was killed in a sweeping attack by jihadis and rebels who seized several towns and military bases, authorities said Sunday, the latest violence in the junta-run country that has long battled militants linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group as well as a separatist rebellion in the north.
https://apnews.com/article/mali-attack-tuareg-separatists-jnim-a945998cb00044e8c52db0362baaed10
Human rights orgs condemn ‘forced deportation’ of Sudanese writer from Egypt
Thirteen Sudanese and Egyptian human rights organisations have condemned the forced deportation of Sudanese writer Idris Babiker from Egypt, as well as the “harsh and inhumane detention conditions” he reportedly suffered during detention, calling for an investigation.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/human-rights-orgs-condemn-forced-deportation-of-sudanese-writer-from-egypt
Congo creates a paramilitary mining guard backed by US and UAE funding
The central African country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said in a statement the new unit would be deployed gradually, with an initial 2,500 to 3,000 personnel expected to be operational by December following six months of training in military collaboration.
https://apnews.com/article/congo-mining-paramilitary-guard-united-states-d86a8a8b93612aa17e1fe0a2eb343674
Germany: Trial of 'Ulm Five' protesters accused of Elbit break-in postponed
The trial of five activists accused of breaking into a facility of Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer, in Ulm, Germany, has been postponed after the defendants were placed behind a glass barrier, preventing contact with lawyers. Known by the name "Ulm Five", the activists allegedly entered the factory on the 8 September 2025 by smashing a glass facade and subsequently destroyed office equipment, including computers, screens and telephones.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trial-activists-accused-raiding-germanys-elbit-systems-factory-starts-today
Uber Eats and Deliveroo accused of 'human trafficking': Multinational giants out of touch with delivery workers' struggles
A large building in the heart of London, with typical "start-up" décor: a few oversized armchairs, brightly colored sofas, exposed brick walls. It is here, at Deliveroo's global headquarters, that "human trafficking" is allegedly being organized, according to a complaint filed on Wednesday, April 22, by four French non-profit organizations representing delivery workers. The accusation, which also targets Uber Eats, signals a further escalation in the long-running legal battle between meal delivery platforms and the cyclists who crisscross major cities around the world.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/04/24/uber-eats-and-deliveroo-accused-of-human-trafficking-multinational-giants-out-of-touch-with-delivery-workers-struggles_6752772_19.html
https://archive.ph/t1d1r
Stormont and PSNI condemn suspected New IRA attack on police station
The incident came just weeks after an attempted car bomb attack on Lurgan police station. Speaking at a joint press conference at Parliament Buildings in Belfast, with deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and chief constable Jon Boutcher, Ms O’Neill said they were sending a clear message of condemnation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stormont-and-psni-condemn-suspected-new-ira-attack-police-station
News 4/27/26
Bolivia Faces Week of Protests Under Rodrigo Paz GovernmentBolivia is entering a week of intensified social conflict as trade unions, Indigenous organizations, and education workers announce coordinated mobilizations against the government of President Rodrigo Paz. The protests center on fuel shortages, labor demands, and opposition to agrarian reforms.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-faces-week-of-protests/
Poll: Cepeda expands lead over immediate rival ahead of Colombia’s elections
Cepeda received the support of 44.3% of the polled voters, a significant improvement compared to February, when 37.1% of the voters said they would support the leftist senator and long-time ally of President Gustavo Petro. Support for De la Espriella went from 18.9% in February to 21.5% earlier this month.
https://colombiareports.com/poll-cepeda-expands-lead-over-immediate-rival-ahead-of-colombias-elections/
Workers, union denounce Kowloon mass layoffs
Kowloon House West workers protested at West Avenue, Quezon City on April 24 against the planned layoff of over 70 workers and the closure of its Noodle House. Workers called Kowloon House West management’s step a retaliatory attack after it signed an agreement with the Glowhrain-KMU Kowloon House West Chapter resulting from a six-day strike.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/workers-union-denounce-kowloon-mass-layoffs/
Abbas loyalists win Palestinian local elections, including some seats in Gaza
The Nahdat Deir al-Balah list, backed by Abbas' Fatah party and the Western-backed PA, secured six seats. The remaining seats were won by two other Gaza-based groups, Future of Deir al-Balah and Peace and Building, not affiliated with either faction. Abbas loyalists swept the election in the West Bank, running unchallenged in many seats.
https://www.newarab.com/news/abbas-loyalists-win-palestinian-local-elections-some-gaza-seats
Bahrain strips 69 people of citizenship over Iran support
The London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy described the move as “dangerous” and a clear violation of international law. The organisation said the individuals had not been publicly identified, and it remained unclear whether they had been arrested, whether they were inside or outside Bahrain, and whether they held another nationality.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/27/bahrain-strips-69-people-of-citizenship-over-iran-support
https://archive.ph/UyORk
Iraqi president names Shia bloc candidate Ali al-Zaidi as PM-designate
The selection of al-Zaidi breaks a months-long deadlock in which United States President Donald Trump had intervened, after former two-time Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had emerged as the coalition’s initial candidate. Al-Maliki, who is close to Iran, was fiercely opposed by Trump. The US president warned that all support to Iraq would stop if he became prime minister.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/27/iraqi-president-names-shia-bloc-candidate-ali-al-zaidi-as-pm-designate
https://archive.ph/ARjwx
Malian defense chief is killed as jihadis and rebels seize towns and military bases
Mali ‘s defense minister was killed in a sweeping attack by jihadis and rebels who seized several towns and military bases, authorities said Sunday, the latest violence in the junta-run country that has long battled militants linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group as well as a separatist rebellion in the north.
https://apnews.com/article/mali-attack-tuareg-separatists-jnim-a945998cb00044e8c52db0362baaed10
Human rights orgs condemn ‘forced deportation’ of Sudanese writer from Egypt
Thirteen Sudanese and Egyptian human rights organisations have condemned the forced deportation of Sudanese writer Idris Babiker from Egypt, as well as the “harsh and inhumane detention conditions” he reportedly suffered during detention, calling for an investigation.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/human-rights-orgs-condemn-forced-deportation-of-sudanese-writer-from-egypt
Congo creates a paramilitary mining guard backed by US and UAE funding
The central African country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said in a statement the new unit would be deployed gradually, with an initial 2,500 to 3,000 personnel expected to be operational by December following six months of training in military collaboration.
https://apnews.com/article/congo-mining-paramilitary-guard-united-states-d86a8a8b93612aa17e1fe0a2eb343674
Germany: Trial of 'Ulm Five' protesters accused of Elbit break-in postponed
The trial of five activists accused of breaking into a facility of Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer, in Ulm, Germany, has been postponed after the defendants were placed behind a glass barrier, preventing contact with lawyers. Known by the name "Ulm Five", the activists allegedly entered the factory on the 8 September 2025 by smashing a glass facade and subsequently destroyed office equipment, including computers, screens and telephones.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trial-activists-accused-raiding-germanys-elbit-systems-factory-starts-today
Uber Eats and Deliveroo accused of 'human trafficking': Multinational giants out of touch with delivery workers' struggles
A large building in the heart of London, with typical "start-up" décor: a few oversized armchairs, brightly colored sofas, exposed brick walls. It is here, at Deliveroo's global headquarters, that "human trafficking" is allegedly being organized, according to a complaint filed on Wednesday, April 22, by four French non-profit organizations representing delivery workers. The accusation, which also targets Uber Eats, signals a further escalation in the long-running legal battle between meal delivery platforms and the cyclists who crisscross major cities around the world.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/04/24/uber-eats-and-deliveroo-accused-of-human-trafficking-multinational-giants-out-of-touch-with-delivery-workers-struggles_6752772_19.html
https://archive.ph/t1d1r
Stormont and PSNI condemn suspected New IRA attack on police station
The incident came just weeks after an attempted car bomb attack on Lurgan police station. Speaking at a joint press conference at Parliament Buildings in Belfast, with deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and chief constable Jon Boutcher, Ms O’Neill said they were sending a clear message of condemnation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stormont-and-psni-condemn-suspected-new-ira-attack-police-station
R: 1 / I: 0 (sage)
According to the strict law of the torah, not ONE of these gentiles deserves to live. Why are they like this? Can they please stop or maybe kill themselves?
Are Maronite-oids even human?
>HOW DARE YOU DEFEND AGAINST ISRAELI INVASION!!! DADDY TRUMP PLEASE RAPE ALL OF US SO HEZBOLLAH IS DESTROYED!!!According to the strict law of the torah, not ONE of these gentiles deserves to live. Why are they like this? Can they please stop or maybe kill themselves?
R: 9 / I: 0 (sage)
It doesn't matter what ideology you have. Whether you're left-wing, right-wing, communist, anarchist, primitivist, nihilist, Nazi, Muslim, or Christian. You can't be a revolutionary if asceticism isn't part of your life. What do you give up? Social media? Video games? Drugs? Shopping? You know perfectly well what the comforts of the system do to your revolutionary spirit. It corrupts you, it makes you dependent. The system re-educates you with consumption and comfort.
It doesn't matter what ideology you have. Whether you're left-wing, right-wing, communist, anarchist, primitivist, nihilist, Nazi, Muslim, or Christian. You can't be a revolutionary if asceticism isn't part of your life. What do you give up? Social media? Video games? Drugs? Shopping? You know perfectly well what the comforts of the system do to your revolutionary spirit. It corrupts you, it makes you dependent. The system re-educates you with consumption and comfort.
R: 59 / I: 13
This is incorrect as, while America is a settler-colonial state, nonetheless was founded on the basis of enlightenment principles like equality before the law and liberty, considering how the American and French revolutions at the time were leftist at the time of the events, with the notion of equality of men itself being already extremely radical at a time when absolute monarchies were the standard in Europe. That’s not all, as contrary to popular opinion the Founding Fathers themselves weren’t conservative. Whether it’s the lack of any mention specifying the USA as a “white Christian country” founded on the basis of theology in the constitution and the federalist papers, George Washington himself coming to oppose slavery before the abolitionist movement began to gain momentum, many of said fathers being at best deists or nominally Christian, the USA being effectively the first democratic republic in history with limited suffrage being a short-lived experiment that was swept away in favour of universal male suffrage, Thomas Jefferson himself owning a copy of the Quran and a version of the Bible excised of all supernatural elements and among other examples show that the USA was far from the hotbed of reactionary politics both liberals and chuds tend to portray it as. Even the Indian Removal Act that led to the infamous “Trail of Tears” wasn’t unanimously agreed upon, with strong opposition by Christian missionaries and other politicians who opposed it based on the shared humanity and parity between white settlers Native Americans. Indeed, while such ideals coexisted with institutionalised inequality, it is precisely by appealing to those founding ideals unique to America's foundations that movements like MLK's civil rights was even possible. Indeed, had it not been for America, most of the progressive movements in other parts of the west wouldn't even exist (e.g., Germany's gay liberation movement, extirpated by nazism and only resurged in the postwar period because of the rise of America's gay rights movement.)
So it’s no wonder given all this that, despite the reproduction of reactionary politics like Manifest Destiny and Jim Crow laws, the notion of equality (or pretence to it) persisted throughout American history, which laid the seeds for the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements of the contemporary era. And I would argue that it is said notion that distinguishes the American project from other settler-colonies that were more explicit on their racial/ethnic/theological basis, such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, and of course, Israel.
It should also be noted that the USA, for all of its faults, isn’t currently segregating Native Americans from mainstream American society via a state-sponsored countrywide system of racial segregation, nor bombing every Indian reserve and sponsoring white Americans (immigrant or not) to steal land from indigenous people and kicking out of their home by force. So, one could counter-argue that it’s a difference of ‘degrees of coloniality’ rather than absence of it. But I digress. Not to peddle Whig history slop, but it’s undeniable that America was founded on a notion of equality between races and faiths that is completely absent in contrast to the founding of Israel.
Israel just isn’t analogous to America, especially given how Israel both defines itself in particularist ethno-centric ways and has a theological basis that America lacks, as well as how Israeli settler-colonialism follows along the models of standard European colonialism combined with state terrorism both against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (to the point that Israel is engaging in genocide there). So while the USA isn’t currently engaging in genocide against its natives, the same can’t be said for Israel and its society, where the grand majority of Israelis are effectively kahanists per the latest opinion polls. And that goes for the entire political right and most of the political left in Israel, so let that sink in.
From a leftist standpoint, it can be said that settler-colonialism in the Americas played a historically progressive role in developing productive forces, while simultaneously producing deeply reactionary social relations. The same cannot be said of modern Israeli settler-colonialism, which does not represent a transition to a higher mode of production, but rather a reproduction of imperial domination in a more concentrated form. Ultimately, the claim that “Israel is just like America” obscures more than it reveals. Both are products of colonial history, but they occupy different positions within the global capitalist system. Recognizing this distinction allows for a clearer analysis of imperialism today, especially as Palestinians (unlike the indigenous peoples of the Americas) had their own conception of private property alongside their own bourgeoisie that predates the Balfour Declaration.
Now, if we had to give the closest western analogue, that would be Australia. Back when he was just a war-mongering liberal instead of a war-mongering white nationalist radlib, Drew Pavlou debated (and lost) against neo-nazi Joel Davis on immigration, with Joel making the interesting point that Australia was ran as a white nationalist colonial state and that the founding fathers of Australia and its past PMs were under no delusion that Australia was anything more than a white nationalist state, the “White Australia Policy” being the formalisation of such ideals into law. Indeed, since the dominion’s government lacked any significant armed opposition on the part of Aboriginals of Australia, it can be said that the current Australian policies towards mass immigration and multiculturalism were less about equality than they were about chasing after cheap labor per the needs of the capitalist elites and perhaps tailing after America. The same can be said in the cases of the republic of Argentina and the dominion of Canada, both of which were ran explicitly as white nationalist states, albeit with special emphasis on their links with their metropoles (formerly Spain and currently the UK/France, respectively), the liberalisations of immigration laws and moves towards a less racially-exclusionary definition of their identities only occurring in the late 20th century long after the US did the same.
All in all: There’s nothing inconsistent between being an anti-Zionist and being an American patriot on the basis of opposition to genocide and anti-imperialism. It's best not to give zionists more ammo, as it is a common hasbara talking point to equate Israeli settler-colonialism with America's one, and thus equivocate all critiques of zionism as being implicitly anti-American.
Sources:
https://newrepublic.com/post/207325/donald-trump-marco-rubio-israel-iran
https://www.newarab.com/news/poll-huge-majority-israelis-back-gaza-ethnic-cleansing
https://southasiajournal.net/the-problem-isnt-just-netanyahu-its-israeli-society
https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/the-conundrum-of-israeli-arab-citizenship
https://www.britannica.com/event/White-Australia-Policy
P.S.: I’m not trying to make apologetics for American atrocities then and now, I’m simply pointing out the need to fight against the attempts of both Hasbara mockingbird media and misguided anti-zionists to equivocate American history with Israeli history to sway American public opinion on Israel’s favor. Unless you think America as a nation is in any way redeemable, then you might as well give up on agitating for revolution in America and just go to another country. What more can I say?
On Settler-Colonialism: America vs Israel
I see a lot of talk concerning how Israel should be supported by the USA and European countries for various reasons and, notably, none of them concern with material benefits for either native Europeans or long-time American citizens, instead focusing on abstractions and ideals. As Trump has led the USA into another forever war with Iran (at the behest of Israel, per the words of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio), it is pertinent to talk about a common anti-Zionist talking point that I find counterproductive. Namely: Israel’s colonialism is the same as that of American settle colonialism from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.This is incorrect as, while America is a settler-colonial state, nonetheless was founded on the basis of enlightenment principles like equality before the law and liberty, considering how the American and French revolutions at the time were leftist at the time of the events, with the notion of equality of men itself being already extremely radical at a time when absolute monarchies were the standard in Europe. That’s not all, as contrary to popular opinion the Founding Fathers themselves weren’t conservative. Whether it’s the lack of any mention specifying the USA as a “white Christian country” founded on the basis of theology in the constitution and the federalist papers, George Washington himself coming to oppose slavery before the abolitionist movement began to gain momentum, many of said fathers being at best deists or nominally Christian, the USA being effectively the first democratic republic in history with limited suffrage being a short-lived experiment that was swept away in favour of universal male suffrage, Thomas Jefferson himself owning a copy of the Quran and a version of the Bible excised of all supernatural elements and among other examples show that the USA was far from the hotbed of reactionary politics both liberals and chuds tend to portray it as. Even the Indian Removal Act that led to the infamous “Trail of Tears” wasn’t unanimously agreed upon, with strong opposition by Christian missionaries and other politicians who opposed it based on the shared humanity and parity between white settlers Native Americans. Indeed, while such ideals coexisted with institutionalised inequality, it is precisely by appealing to those founding ideals unique to America's foundations that movements like MLK's civil rights was even possible. Indeed, had it not been for America, most of the progressive movements in other parts of the west wouldn't even exist (e.g., Germany's gay liberation movement, extirpated by nazism and only resurged in the postwar period because of the rise of America's gay rights movement.)
So it’s no wonder given all this that, despite the reproduction of reactionary politics like Manifest Destiny and Jim Crow laws, the notion of equality (or pretence to it) persisted throughout American history, which laid the seeds for the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements of the contemporary era. And I would argue that it is said notion that distinguishes the American project from other settler-colonies that were more explicit on their racial/ethnic/theological basis, such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, and of course, Israel.
It should also be noted that the USA, for all of its faults, isn’t currently segregating Native Americans from mainstream American society via a state-sponsored countrywide system of racial segregation, nor bombing every Indian reserve and sponsoring white Americans (immigrant or not) to steal land from indigenous people and kicking out of their home by force. So, one could counter-argue that it’s a difference of ‘degrees of coloniality’ rather than absence of it. But I digress. Not to peddle Whig history slop, but it’s undeniable that America was founded on a notion of equality between races and faiths that is completely absent in contrast to the founding of Israel.
Israel just isn’t analogous to America, especially given how Israel both defines itself in particularist ethno-centric ways and has a theological basis that America lacks, as well as how Israeli settler-colonialism follows along the models of standard European colonialism combined with state terrorism both against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (to the point that Israel is engaging in genocide there). So while the USA isn’t currently engaging in genocide against its natives, the same can’t be said for Israel and its society, where the grand majority of Israelis are effectively kahanists per the latest opinion polls. And that goes for the entire political right and most of the political left in Israel, so let that sink in.
From a leftist standpoint, it can be said that settler-colonialism in the Americas played a historically progressive role in developing productive forces, while simultaneously producing deeply reactionary social relations. The same cannot be said of modern Israeli settler-colonialism, which does not represent a transition to a higher mode of production, but rather a reproduction of imperial domination in a more concentrated form. Ultimately, the claim that “Israel is just like America” obscures more than it reveals. Both are products of colonial history, but they occupy different positions within the global capitalist system. Recognizing this distinction allows for a clearer analysis of imperialism today, especially as Palestinians (unlike the indigenous peoples of the Americas) had their own conception of private property alongside their own bourgeoisie that predates the Balfour Declaration.
Now, if we had to give the closest western analogue, that would be Australia. Back when he was just a war-mongering liberal instead of a war-mongering white nationalist radlib, Drew Pavlou debated (and lost) against neo-nazi Joel Davis on immigration, with Joel making the interesting point that Australia was ran as a white nationalist colonial state and that the founding fathers of Australia and its past PMs were under no delusion that Australia was anything more than a white nationalist state, the “White Australia Policy” being the formalisation of such ideals into law. Indeed, since the dominion’s government lacked any significant armed opposition on the part of Aboriginals of Australia, it can be said that the current Australian policies towards mass immigration and multiculturalism were less about equality than they were about chasing after cheap labor per the needs of the capitalist elites and perhaps tailing after America. The same can be said in the cases of the republic of Argentina and the dominion of Canada, both of which were ran explicitly as white nationalist states, albeit with special emphasis on their links with their metropoles (formerly Spain and currently the UK/France, respectively), the liberalisations of immigration laws and moves towards a less racially-exclusionary definition of their identities only occurring in the late 20th century long after the US did the same.
All in all: There’s nothing inconsistent between being an anti-Zionist and being an American patriot on the basis of opposition to genocide and anti-imperialism. It's best not to give zionists more ammo, as it is a common hasbara talking point to equate Israeli settler-colonialism with America's one, and thus equivocate all critiques of zionism as being implicitly anti-American.
Sources:
https://newrepublic.com/post/207325/donald-trump-marco-rubio-israel-iran
https://www.newarab.com/news/poll-huge-majority-israelis-back-gaza-ethnic-cleansing
https://southasiajournal.net/the-problem-isnt-just-netanyahu-its-israeli-society
https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/the-conundrum-of-israeli-arab-citizenship
https://www.britannica.com/event/White-Australia-Policy
P.S.: I’m not trying to make apologetics for American atrocities then and now, I’m simply pointing out the need to fight against the attempts of both Hasbara mockingbird media and misguided anti-zionists to equivocate American history with Israeli history to sway American public opinion on Israel’s favor. Unless you think America as a nation is in any way redeemable, then you might as well give up on agitating for revolution in America and just go to another country. What more can I say?
R: 7 / I: 1
Can you retards stop replying to obvious weird bait threads.
Like holy shit its the most obvious shit too, its always a specific loser doing it too.
>words words words words words
Can you retards stop replying to obvious weird bait threads.
Like holy shit its the most obvious shit too, its always a specific loser doing it too.
>words words words words words
R: 142 / I: 19
So, it appears that despite the most common assumptions, labour "aristocratic"/well paid workers can and have been notable partecipants in the class struggle, everywhere from Italy to Chile and from the UK to South Africa
> The most important counter-example is the Russian working class in the early 20th century. The backbone of Lenin’s Bolsheviks (something he was most definitely aware of) were the best paid industrial workers in the Russian cities – skilled machinists in the largest factories. Lower paid workers, such as the predominantly female textile workers, were generally either unorganized or apolitical (until the beginnings of the revolution) or supported the reformist Mensheviks.
> German Communism became a mass movement when tens of thousands of well-paid metal workers left the Independent Socialists and joined the Communists in 1921. The French and Italian Communists also became mass parties through the recruitment of thousands of machinists who led the mass strikes of the postwar period. These highly paid workers were also overrepresented in the smaller Communist parties of the United States and Britain.
> In Chile between 1970 and 1973, and Argentina between 1971 and 1974, copper miners and metal workers engaged in industrial struggles and took the lead in mass mobilizations against the military and the right. In Brazil, it was the well-paid metal workers in the suburbs of San Paolo who led mass strikes in the 1970s that created the CUT
> it was the highest paid Black workers in South Africa – in mining, auto, steel – whose struggles in the 1970s created the radical and militant FOSATU trade union confederation.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/129.html
So, it appears that despite the most common assumptions, labour "aristocratic"/well paid workers can and have been notable partecipants in the class struggle, everywhere from Italy to Chile and from the UK to South Africa
> The most important counter-example is the Russian working class in the early 20th century. The backbone of Lenin’s Bolsheviks (something he was most definitely aware of) were the best paid industrial workers in the Russian cities – skilled machinists in the largest factories. Lower paid workers, such as the predominantly female textile workers, were generally either unorganized or apolitical (until the beginnings of the revolution) or supported the reformist Mensheviks.
> German Communism became a mass movement when tens of thousands of well-paid metal workers left the Independent Socialists and joined the Communists in 1921. The French and Italian Communists also became mass parties through the recruitment of thousands of machinists who led the mass strikes of the postwar period. These highly paid workers were also overrepresented in the smaller Communist parties of the United States and Britain.
> In Chile between 1970 and 1973, and Argentina between 1971 and 1974, copper miners and metal workers engaged in industrial struggles and took the lead in mass mobilizations against the military and the right. In Brazil, it was the well-paid metal workers in the suburbs of San Paolo who led mass strikes in the 1970s that created the CUT
> it was the highest paid Black workers in South Africa – in mining, auto, steel – whose struggles in the 1970s created the radical and militant FOSATU trade union confederation.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/129.html
R: 75 / I: 6
The one thing I am looking forward to at this point is when this "innovation" finally backfires in the worst possible way, like when China starts using their reverse-engineered clones of US AI models to utterly destroy the concept of intellectual property forever, when every software patent and pharma patent and trade secret can be reverse-engineered by anyone at the press of a button and the secret inner workings of absolutely everything we manufacture instantly becomes public knowledge and can be sold as a perfect generic clone at a fraction of the price, courts overwhelmed with more lawsuits than they could ever possibly settle with, tariffs and trade restrictions and economic sanctions desperately trying to undo what cannot be undone, the private r&d industry losing all incentive to come up with the next patentable marketable bullshit idea and closing up shop, tech innovation returning to the domain of the public sector where it belongs.
The private sector sucks at innovation
Private sector "innovations" are almost entirely hype and bullshit and exaggerated claims and continuously finding worse and worse ways to reinvent the wheel and devotion to nothing but short term profit from venture capital, zillions of dollars devoted into things like AI chatbots to replace human labor with inferior slop, cryptocurrency pump and dump scams, ridesharing companies that make taxis and delivery services that charge customers more and pay drivers less, anti-aging drugs that will never work, actually useful drugs being repurposed into cosmetic drugs, renewable energy technologies that will never work, space exploration projects that will never pan out, electric cars that are so overpriced and shitty that we had to enact massive tariffs to stop Americans from buying cheaper better ones from China, smarthome technology that nobody wants or needs except bored millionaires, cars and electronic devices deliberately designed to break early and be unrepairable to increase sales volume, life-saving pharmaceuticals locked behind patents for decades and price gouged to exploit the sick and dying.The one thing I am looking forward to at this point is when this "innovation" finally backfires in the worst possible way, like when China starts using their reverse-engineered clones of US AI models to utterly destroy the concept of intellectual property forever, when every software patent and pharma patent and trade secret can be reverse-engineered by anyone at the press of a button and the secret inner workings of absolutely everything we manufacture instantly becomes public knowledge and can be sold as a perfect generic clone at a fraction of the price, courts overwhelmed with more lawsuits than they could ever possibly settle with, tariffs and trade restrictions and economic sanctions desperately trying to undo what cannot be undone, the private r&d industry losing all incentive to come up with the next patentable marketable bullshit idea and closing up shop, tech innovation returning to the domain of the public sector where it belongs.
R: 5 / I: 0
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-04-22-combat-hobbyism/
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-04-16-social-reproduction-revisionist-party/
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-03-24-against-settler-socialism-lessons-minneapolis/
party for soupalism and liberalation
might be silly to ask users of an inherently hobbyist shitposting forum to confront its hobbyism in their movement but maybe this will pull some people out of the vicious cycle of the Four Opportunists.https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-04-22-combat-hobbyism/
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-04-16-social-reproduction-revisionist-party/
https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2026-03-24-against-settler-socialism-lessons-minneapolis/
R: 64 / I: 14
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
Elon Musk
“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
R: 35 / I: 4
In my view, all ideologies can be compressed in these 12:
radical left:
anarchism
communism
moderate left:
social-democracy
social liberalism
moderate right:
libertarianism
conservatism
radical right:
nazifascism
traditionalism
Am I wrong?
I just didn't know where to put socialism in general, but I think the revolutionary socialists are just communists and "democratic socialists" are somehow the same thing as social-democrats basically, so I'll leave it as it is.
In my view, all ideologies can be compressed in these 12:
radical left:
anarchism
communism
moderate left:
social-democracy
social liberalism
moderate right:
libertarianism
conservatism
radical right:
nazifascism
traditionalism
Am I wrong?
I just didn't know where to put socialism in general, but I think the revolutionary socialists are just communists and "democratic socialists" are somehow the same thing as social-democrats basically, so I'll leave it as it is.