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Classical Marxism
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The foundational texts and concepts strictly written and conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Tier 1
Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCYXFisM4k
Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-Gn8q47cs
Wage Labour and Capital (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llbLvm3RAc
Principles of Communism (1847) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcpspooZvk
Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkR-0NeOzw
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_BiWhvVyA
Tier 2
The Holy Family (1844) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaK6b6eZrg
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1952) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxXeE8kn4U
Value, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhVZW3HJzM
The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWrTzJFrnQ
Tier 3
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78lwj_TNVI
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm
The German Ideology (1846) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERf6Qvqwr6g
The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy2A2ZpSEU
Grundrisse (1858) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/
Anti-Dühring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATakOyA0zc
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo
DAS KAPITAL
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXStf2E1tc
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German Idealism
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Philosophical movement that generally argues that the mind’s structures (reason, self-consciousness) play an active role in shaping reality and experience, centering on how freedom, subjectivity, and the unity of subject and object grounds knowledge and moral life. Hugely influential in revolutionary socialist currents.
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm
Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (1794) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-6-0.pdf
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1801) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phconten.htm
The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47025/pg47025-images.html
The Jewish Question (1843) by Bruno Bauer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-3.pdf
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Utopian Socialism
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Early socialist current that imagined ideal, cooperative communities and peaceful social reforms achieved by moral persuasion and voluntary association rather than class struggle or revolution.
The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46333/pg46333-images.html
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm
The Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/theory-four-movements-charles-fourier
A New View of Society and Other Writings (1813) by Robert Owen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/owen/society/index.htm
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) by David Ricardo
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33310/pg33310-images.html
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf
Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30107/pg30107-images.html
Instructions for an Armed Uprising (1866) by Louis Auguste Blanqui
📖 · https://blanqui.kingston.ac.uk/texts/instructions-for-an-armed-uprising-1868/
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Classical Anarchism
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Rejects the state and hierarchical authority, serves as the basis for modern and contemporary Anarchism. Variants include Mutualism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Individualist anarchism.
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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
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
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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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Stemming from the Second International, treats Marxism as a scientific, historical-materialist doctrine. Generally arguing that capitalism contains objective economic contradictions that makes proletarian revolution and socialism inevitable. Therefore, political organization, class struggle, and economic analysis are central.
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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
The Main Enemy Is At Home! (1914) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1915/05/main-enemy-home.htm
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Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1883/struggle/index.htm
The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCOEZ8xjqM
On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCUjwmSSk4
Reform or Revolution? (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgtmGmyl4
Militarism and Anti-Militarism (1907) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1907/militarism-antimilitarism/index.htm
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/
The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/histacc/index.html
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Road to Power (1909) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/power/
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The Development of the Monist View of History (1895) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1899/nocomp/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlYu23bMNhg
The Socialist Crisis in France (1901) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1901/socialist-crisis-france/index.htm
The Social Revolution (1902) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1902/socrev/
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
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Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism (1922) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1922/at-the-cafe/index.html
On Synthesis (1924) by Volin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voline/1924/on-synthesis.html
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1926/struggle-against-the-state/index.html
Tier 3
The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm
Mutual Aid (1902) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm
History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) (1923) by Peter Arshinov
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921
The Russian Revolution in the Ukraine (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-the-russian-revolution-in-the-ukraine
Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Various Authors
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists
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Leninism
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Mostly based on the works of Vladimir Lenin, argues for a disciplined vanguard party using democratic centralism to seize state power and establish a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Tier 1
What Is To Be Done? (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eCCtzsiXY
Revolutionary Adventurism (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPbNQ9JqjA
Socialism and Religion (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMlcPb1ttw
Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAII71GaFY
The ABC of Communism (1920) by Nikolai Buhkarin & Evgenii Preobrazhensky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVnjwBQHH0
Tier 2
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsWA4HCGuY
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbODqyoeM0
Imperialism and World Economy (1915) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Uj5GE1h1U
The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IWmgY8k2A
“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh84f8czc7g
Tier 3
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUKPPYmqk
The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig
Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7o64hezwc
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Syndicalism
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Tendency that aims to replace capitalism and the state by organizing workers into trade-union syndicates using direct action, such as general strikes, in order to take control of production and self-manage the economy.
Tier 1
Anarchism and the Workers' Unions (1895) by Fernand Pelloutier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-and-workers-unions-fernand-pelloutier
What Means This Strike? (1898) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm
Sabotage (1898) by Émile Pouget
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pouget/1898/sabotage.htm
The Burning Question of Trade Unionism (1904) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1904/040421.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe1aEA4UOw
The General Strike (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/
The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency (1917) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm
Tier 2
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
One Big Union (2000) by the Industrial Workers of the World
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-one-big-union
Tier 3
Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1905) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1905/050710.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzF6QXNIWV0
Industrial Socialism (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/IndSocialism/
The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) by Mother Jones
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65079/pg65079-images.html
Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (1990) by José Peirats
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchists-spanish-revolution
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Marxism-Leninism
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Institutionalized doctrine that fuses Marx’s theory with Lenin’s praxis as codified official party ideology, applying the idea of historical materialism to a practical program of revolutionary vanguardism and a state-led transition to socialism.
Tier 1
Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
The Path Which Led Me To Leninism (1960) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm
The Khruschevites (1976) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/index.htm
Tier 2
Anarchism or Socialism? (1906) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm
Marxism and the National Question (1913) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm
Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia (1950) by Josip Broz Tito
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm
Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm
History Will Absolve Me (1953) by Fidel Castro
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm
Guerilla Warfare (1961) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf
Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism (1980) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm
Tier 3
Foundations of Leninism (1924) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/
The People's Front (1938) by Earl Browder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/browder/peoples-front/index.htm
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm
Fundamentals of Marxism–Leninism (1960) by Otto Kuusinen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kuusinen/1960/fundamentals-marxism-leninism.pdf
Imperialism and the Revolution (1979) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm
Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) by Kaysone Phomvihane
📖 · https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Revolution_in_Laos
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1990) by Thomas Sankara
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/womens-liberation-and-african-freedom-struggle
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Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
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Both support propaganda of the deed as a method of revolutionary struggle, with Illegalism having roots in Individualist Anarchism while Insurrectionary Anarchism shares overlap with Anarcho-Communism.
Tier 1
A Letter from Mazas Prison (1886) by Clément Duval
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/clement-duval-a-letter-from-cleement-duval
Why I Was a Burglar (1905) by Marius Jacob
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marius-jacob-why-i-was-a-burglar
Byzantinism and Limpness (1909) by Michel Antoine
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-antoine-byzantinism-and-limpness
Is the Illegalist Anarchist Our Comrade? (1911) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-is-the-illegalist-anarchist-our-comrade
Two Lectures on the Bonnot Affair (1912) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-two-lectures-on-the-bonnot-affair
Tier 2
The Anarchism of Émile Armand (1907) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-anarchism-of-emile-armand
Toward the Creative Nothing (1924) by Renzo Novatore
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/renzo-novatore-toward-the-creative-nothing
The Principal of Organization to the Light of Anarchism (1927) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-principal-of-organization-to-the-light-of-anarchism
Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo Bonnano
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy
Tier 3
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Against War, Against Peace, For The Social Revolution (1914) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-against-war-against-peace-for-the-social-revolution
The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-end-of-anarchism
Anarchists Never Surrender (1938) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-anarchists-never-surrender
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971) by William Powell
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782487901594-3.pdf
The Bonnot Gang (1987) by Richard Parry
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-parry-the-bonnot-gang-the-story-of-the-french-illegalists
The Coming Insurrection (2007) by The Invisible Committee
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection
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Trotskyism
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Based on Leon Trotsky's work, stresses permanent revolution, proletarian internationalism, and an opposition to bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm
The Transitional Program (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/
Their Morals and Ours (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
Tier 2
Terrorism and Communism (1920) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm
The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm
Tier 3
The Third International After Lenin (1928) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm
History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/
The Revolution Betrayed (1936) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/
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Pacifism
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Belief that war and violence are morally wrong or should be avoided, often favoring nonviolent resistance, diplomacy, and peaceful conflict resolution.
Tier 1
Civil Disobedience (1849) by Henry David Thoreau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence (1960) by Martin Luther King Jr.
📖 · https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/pilgrimage-nonviolence
Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you
Indian Home Rule (1909) by Mahatma Gandhi
📖 · https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf
The Power of Nonviolence (1934) by Richard B. Gregg
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-0.pdf
The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf
From Dictatorship to Democracy (1994) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-4-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Conquest of Violence (1937) by Bart de Ligt
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-6-1.pdf
Essays (Including Pacifism and Class War) (1967) by A. J. Muste
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782308254608-1.pdf
The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-1.pdf
Writings Against Power & Death (1994) by Alex Comfort
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-8-3.pdf
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Maoism
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Also known as Mao Zedong Thought, argues for peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, mass mobilization, and adapting Marxist strategy to agrarian societies.
Tier 1
Analysis of The Classes In Chinese Society (1926) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.htm
Oppose Book Worship (1930) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (1934) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm
Combat Liberalism (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm
Serve The People (1944) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_19.htm
Bombard The Headquarters (1966) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm
Tier 2
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
On Practice (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
On Protracted War (1938) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm
On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm
Tier 3
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan (1927) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm
On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/
The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_23.htm
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm
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Agrarian Socialism
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Socialist tradition that centers land, peasants, rural workers, and village communities rather than industrial workers alone. Sharing overlap with Maoism, related currents include Narodnism, Georgism, Neozapatismo, and, in the most extreme end of the spectrum, Pol Pot Thought.
Tier 1
>Georgism
Agrarian Justice (1797) by Thomas Paine
📖 · https://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
>Narodnism
Agrarian Program (1905) by the Socialist Revolutionary Party
📖 · https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Social-Revolutionaries
>Zapatismo/Neozapatismo
Plan of Ayala (1911) by Emiliano Zapata
📖 · https://users.pop.umn.edu/~rmccaa/la20c/ayala.htm
First Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle (1993) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1st-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf
Our Word Is Our Weapon (2002) by Subcomandante Marcos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/subcomandante-marcos-our-word-is-our-weapon
Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (2005) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6th-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf
Tier 2
>Narodnism
From the Other Shore (1850) by Alexander Herzen
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-2-0.pdf
Historical Letters (1869) by Pyotr Lavrov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-1.pdf
>Agrarian Marxism
Land or Death (1971) by Hugo Blanco
📖 · http://www.socialiststories.com/en/writers/Blanco-Hugo/Land-or-Death-Hugo-Blanco.pdf
>Pol Pot Thought
The Party’s Four-Year Plan to Build Socialism in All Fields, 1977–1980 (1976) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-8-3.pdf
Long Live the 17th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1977) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Cambodia/PolPot/PolPot-LongLiveThe17thAnniversaryOfCPofKampuchea-1977.pdf
Tier 3
>Georgism
Progress and Poverty (1879) by Henry George
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55308/pg55308-images.html
>Narodnism
Marxism and the Agrarian Question (1906) by Viktor Chernov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782347353852-9.pdf
The Theory of Peasant Economy (1925) by Alexander Chayanov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-2.pdf
>Agrarian Marxism
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928) by José Carlos Mariátegui
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/index.htm
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Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
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Treats Maoism as a higher stage of Marxism–Leninism, emphasizing peasant-led, protracted people’s war, the mass line, and continuing revolution to prevent bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
On Gonzalo Thought (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-1-0.pdf
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Revisionism? (1990) by Prachanda
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/p_mlmor_revisionism.html
Tier 2
General Political Line (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/CPP/Documents/GeneralPoliticalLineOfTheCommunistPartyOfPeru-1988-OCR.pdf
The Great Leap Forward: An Inevitable Need of History (2001) by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Worker/Worker-07/GreatLeapForward-Prachanda-010200.htm
Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (2004) by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf
Tier 3
On the Bourgeois-Democratic State (1961) by Abimael Guzmán
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/Gonzalo/Guzman-OnTheBourgeois-DemocraticState-1961-Thesis-OCR-sm.pdf
Philippine Society and Revolution (1970) by Amado Guerrero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/cpp/guerrero/1970/psr.htm
Problems & Prospects of Revolution in Nepal (2004) by Prachanda and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/index.htm
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Postcolonialism
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Study of how colonialism shaped societies, cultures, identities, politics, and knowledge, and how formerly colonized peoples resist, reinterpret, and live with those colonial legacies.
Tier 1
The Case Against French Colonization (1924) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.leinsdorf.com/The%20Case%20Against%20French%20Colonialism%20%20Copyright,%202017-2.htm
Discourse on Colonialism (1950) by Aimé Césaire
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/discourse-colonialism
Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988) by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Spivak_Gayatri_1988_Can_the_Subaltern_Speak.pdf
Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America (2000) by Aníbal Quijano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-5-0.pdf
Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native (2006) by Patrick Wolfe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-4-2.pdf
Tier 2
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) by Vine Deloria Jr
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-8-0.pdf
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-1.pdf
Unity and Struggle (1979) by Amílcar Cabral
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1979/unity-struggle.pdf
Decolonising the Mind (1986) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-9-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Black Jacobins (1938) by C. L. R. James
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-jacobins-toussaint-louverture-and-san-domingo-revolution-clr-james
Black Skin, White Masks (1952) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-skin-white-masks-frantz-fanon
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/wretched-earth-frantz-fanon
Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/nkrumah/nkrumah-neocolonialism.pdf
Open Veins of Latin America (1971) by Eduardo Galeano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782445309022-1.pdf
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) by Walter Rodney
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/8/81/Rodney_Walter_How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa_rev_ed_1981.pdf
Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Said_Edward_Orientalism_1979.pdf
The Location of Culture (1994) by Homi K. Bhabha
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-3.pdf
Provincializing Europe (2000) by Dipesh Chakrabarty
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-7-4.pdf
On the Postcolony (2001) by Achille Mbembe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-3-1.pdf
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
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Adapts and institutionalizes Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions by marrying one-party rule and state control of strategic sectors with market-oriented reforms to drive modernization.
Tier 1
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite As One In Looking to the Future (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/110.htm
Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/115.htm
We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/152.htm
To Build Socialism We Must First Develop the Productive Forces (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/101.htm
Tier 2
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/220.htm
Tier 3
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (1984) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/DengXiaoping/DengXiaoping-BuildSocialismWithChineseCharacteristics.pdf
On the “Three Represents” (2000) by Jiang Zemin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-1.pdf
Report to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (2007) by Hu Jintao
📖 · https://gb.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zywl/2007/200710/t20071031_3386927.htm
The Governance of China (2014) by Xi Jinping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/XiJinping/XiJinping-TheGovernanceOfChina.pdf
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Eco-Socialism
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Tradition that argues ecological crisis is rooted in capitalism’s drive for endless growth, profit, and extraction, generally advocating for ecological limits, public or communal control of production, climate justice, and meeting human needs rather than accumulating wealth.
Tier 1
Useful Work vs. Useless Toil (1885) by William Morris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1884/useful.htm
Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book
The Philosophy of Social Ecology (1996) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-philosophy-of-social-ecology
Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe? (2009) by David Schwartzman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-2-2.pdf
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe (2015) by Michael Löwy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-0.pdf
Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (2021) by The Red Nation
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-2-2.pdf
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-4-1.pdf
Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
Ecology as Politics (1978) by André Gorz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-1.pdf
The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability (1995) by Ted Trainer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-6-2.pdf
Toward Climate Justice (2010) by Brian Tokar
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-1-3.pdf
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015) by Jason W. Moore
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-2-4.pdf
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (2019) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-3-3.pdf
Less Is More (2020) by Jason Hickel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-5-4.pdf
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (2020) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1769447067118-3.pdf
Pollution Is Colonialism (2021) by Max Liboiron
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-0.pdf
Cannibal Capitalism (2022) by Nancy Fraser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-1-3.pdf
Tier 3
The Alternative in Eastern Europe (1977) by Rudolf Bahro
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-1-0.pdf
The Ecology of Freedom (1982) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom
Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism (1998) by James O'Connor
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-3-3.pdf
Marx's Ecology (2000) by John Bellamy Foster
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-4.pdf
The Enemy of Nature (2002) by Joel Kovel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-7-0.pdf
The Environmentalism of the Poor (2002) by Joan Martínez-Alier
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-8-1.pdf
Fossil Capital (2016) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-4-1.pdf
Decolonial Ecology (2019) by Malcolm Ferdinand
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-2.pdf
Marx in the Anthropocene (2022) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1676047310995.pdf
Climate Change as Class War (2022) by Matthew T. Huber
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-4.pdf
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Maoism-Third Worldism
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Blends Maoist strategy with Third-Worldist analysis, arguing the revolutionary proletariat is concentrated in oppressed (Global South) countries while much First-World labor is seen as privileged or comprador.
Tier 1
Long Live the Victory of People’s War! (1965) by Lin Biao
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/index.htm
Message to the Tricontinental (1967) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm
Tier 2
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-2.pdf
Unequal Development (1973) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-5-0.pdf
Foreign Trade and the Law of Value (1979) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-0-1.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-8-2.pdf
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (1983) by J. Sakai
📖 · https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html
Eurocentrism (1989) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-0-0.pdf
The Wealth of (Some) Nations (2019) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1655353202103-0.pdf
Tier 3
Accumulation on a World Scale (1971) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-5-1.pdf
Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-6-2.pdf
Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1986) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-0-0.pdf
Divided World, Divided Class (2012) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-9-1.pdf
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Animal Liberation
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Movement that seeks to abolish the capitalistic exploitation of nonhuman animals, especially in food, research, clothing, entertainment, and other industries.
Tier 1
Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) by Henry Stephens Salt
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64498/pg64498-images.html
On Vegetarianism (1901) by Élisée Reclus
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elisee-reclus-on-vegetarianism
Animal Machines (1964) by Ruth Harrison
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-7-0.pdf
Speciesism (1970) by Richard D. Ryder
📖 · https://www.veganzetta.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Speciesism-Again-the-original-leaflet-Richard-Ryder.pdf
Animal Liberation and Social Revolution (1997) by Brian Dominick
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/brian-a-dominick-animal-liberation-and-social-revolution
Revealing the Animal-Industrial Complex (2012) by Richard Twine
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-6-3.pdf
18 Theses on Marxism and Animal Liberation (2018) by Bündnis Marxismus & Tierbefreiung
📖 · https://mutb.org/media/publication-thesenpapier-en.pdf
Conceptualising Animal Exploitation in Capitalism (2019) by Christian Stache
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-3-1.pdf
Tier 2
The Universal Kinship (1906) by J. Howard Moore
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61363/pg61363-images.html
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (1988) by Marjorie Spiegel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-2.pdf
Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice (1993) by Ted Benton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-4.pdf
Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007) by Bob Torres
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-1.pdf
The Politics of Total Liberation (2014) by Steven Best
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-1-0.pdf
Beyond Nature: Animal Liberation, Marxism, and Critical Theory (2021) by Marco Maurizi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-5-2.pdf
Tier 3
Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-8-1.pdf
The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) by Carol J. Adams
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-5-3.pdf
Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation (2002) by David Nibert
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-7-0.pdf
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (2011) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-2.pdf
Total Liberation (2014) by David Naguib Pellow
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-5-4.pdf
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Juche
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The official state ideology of North Korea, stressing political independence, economic self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the central role of the leader in guiding the nation.
Tier 1
For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses (1946) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1946/08/29.pdf
On the Occasion of the Founding of the Korean People’s Army (1948) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1948/02/08.pdf
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work (1955) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm
The Juche Idea is an Idea that Has Inherited and Developed the Progressive Ideologies of Mankind (1986) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Idea-Is-An-Idea-That-Has-Inherited-And-Developed-The-Progressive-Ideologies-Of-Mankind.pdf
Ours is the Socialism of Juche (1994) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16.pdf
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Juche-Oriented Socialist State with Invincible Might (2008) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Democratic-Peoples-Republic-Of-Korea-Is-A-Juche-Oriented-Socialist-State-With-Invincible-Might.pdf
Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun (2012) by Kim Jong Un
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-4-2.pdf
Tier 2
On the Juche Idea (1982) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/On-The-Juche-Idea.pdf
Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish (1991) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/Our-Socialism-Centred-On-The-Masses-Shall-Not-Perish.pdf
Tier 3
On Juche in Our Revolution (1975) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-0-0.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-1-1.pdf
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Christian Socialism
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Belief that Christian ethics, especially care for the poor, solidarity, justice, and shared responsibility, support a more equal, cooperative economy rather than capitalist individualism. Variants include Distributism, Christian Anarchism and Liberation Theology.
Tier 1
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf
Unto This Last (1862) by John Ruskin
📖 · https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Unto_This_Last_(Ruskin)
Rerum novarum (1891) by Pope Leo XIII
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html
Christian Socialism: A Lecture (1894) by Stewart Headlam
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-7-1.pdf
The Acquisitive Society (1920) by R. H. Tawney
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33741/33741-h/33741-h.htm
Quadragesimo anno (1931) by Pope Pius XI
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html
Christianity and Social Order (1942) by William Temple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-1.pdf
Message to the Christians (1965) by Camilo Torres Restrepo
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-0-3.pdf
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (1997) by Alain Badiou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782740961869-7.pdf
Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you
The Servile State (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64882/pg64882-images.html
Utopia of Usurers (1917) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2134/2134-h/2134-h.htm
The Socialist Decision (1933) by Paul Tillich
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-3-4.pdf
The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf
The Book of Ammon (1965) by Ammon Hennacy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-4-2.pdf
A Theology of Liberation (1971) by Gustavo Gutiérrez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-7-4.pdf
Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982) by Cornel West
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-0.pdf
Christi-Anarchy (1999) by Dave Andrews
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-7-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Kingdom of Christ (1838) by F. D. Maurice
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a592475701mauruoft/mode/2up
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a5924757b02mauruoft/mode/2up
Practical Christian Socialism (1854) by Adin Ballou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-0.pdf
Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) by Walter Rauschenbusch
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-2.pdf
Socialism and Character (1912) by Vida Dutton Scudder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/scudder/1912/socialism-and-character-scudder.pdf
The Outline of Sanity (1927) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-0-3.pdf
Easy Essays (1934) by Peter Maurin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-0.pdf
The Socialist Sixth of the World (1939) by Hewlett Johnson
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/johnson-hewlett/socialistsixth/contents.htm
Christian Anarchy: Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers (1987) by Vernard Eller
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-1.pdf
Anarchy and Christianity (1988) by Jacques Ellul
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jacques-ellul-anarchy-christianity-en
Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel (2011) by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexandre-christoyannopoulos-christian-anarchism
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Italian Left-Communism
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Insisting on strict Marxist orthodoxy, rejecting parliamentarism, reformist trade unions and united fronts, while promoting a revolutionary, party-centered alternative to both social democracy and Marxism-Leninism.
Tier 1
Party and Class (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm
Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence (1946) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1946/bourgeois-violence.htm
Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party (1951) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm
Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! (1951) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1951/centralised.htm
Tier 2
Party and Class Action (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/classact.htm
The Democratic Principle (1922) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm
The Lyons Theses (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm
The Communist Left in the Third International (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm
Dialogue with Stalin (1952) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm
We Defend the Italian Left (1966) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm
Tier 3
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation (1946) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm
Bordiga — Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric (1970) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.leftcom.org/files/2018-10-02-damen-bordiga.pdf
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Jewish Socialism
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Tradition that links Jewish collective life, labor struggle, anti-capitalism, and opposition to antisemitism. In its Bundist and Anti-Zionist forms, it emphasizes the principle of "doikayt" — a fight for socialism where Jews already live, rather than through a separate Jewish state.
Tier 1
Zionism or Socialism (1898) by Chaim Zhitlowsky
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-4-3.pdf
Social Democracy and the National Question (1904) by Vladimir Medem
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-3-1.pdf
A Jewish Socialist Critique of Zionism (1906) by Chaim Jakov Gelfand
📖 · https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a-jewish-socialist-critique-of-zionism-from-1906
The Jewish Proletariat in Russia: Ten Years of the Bund (1907) by K. Boris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/boris/bund.htm
Manifesto of the General Jewish Workers’ Union in Poland (1937) by Henryk Erlich
📖 · https://www.derspekter.org/manifesto-of-the-general-jewish-workers-union-bund-in-poland/
Anti-Semitism and Yiddish Culture / Jewish Culture (1938) by Moissaye J. Olgin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism.htm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism-2.htm
Stop Them Now: German Mass Murder of Jews in Poland (1942) by Szmul Zygielbojm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/stop-murder.pdf
Statement on Palestine and Zionism Issued (1947) by the New York Bund Organization
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-ny-48.pdf
The Jewish Labor Bund and the State of Israel (1948) by the Bund World Coordinating Committee
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-israel.pdf
The Problems of Jewish Culture (1950) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/schappes-culture.pdf
Message of the Non-Jewish Jew (1958) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/deutscher01.htm
The Roots of Antisemitism (1960) by Raya Dunayevskaya
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1960/antisemitism.htm
The Jewish Question and the Left — Old and New: A Challenge to the New Left (1970) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/old-and-new.pdf
Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype (1977) by Hal Draper
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1977/kmtr1/app1.htm
Tier 2
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (1894) by Bernard Lazare
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lazare-bernard/1894/antisemitism/index.htm
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation (1942) by Abraham Leon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/leon/Abram_Leon_The_Jewish_Question.pdf
The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays (1968) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-4-0.pdf
Zionism: Its Role in World Politics (1973) by Hyman Lumer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830399588-6.pdf
Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left (2025) by Benjamin Balthaser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-9-2.pdf
Tier 3
Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Stars Bear Witness (1949) by Bernard Goldstein
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/five-years-warsaw-ghetto-bernard-goldstein
The London Years (1956) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-the-london-years
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (1990) by Enzo Traverso
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-1.pdf
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007) by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-2.pdf
Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (2009) by Jack Jacobs
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-8-3.pdf
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012) by Judith Butler
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-4.pdf
No Masters but God: Portraits of Anarcho-Judaism (2021) by Hayyim Rothman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-1-0.pdf
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (2026) by Molly Crabapple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830101983-7.pdf
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Council Communism
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Favors workers’ councils as the basis of proletarian power and organization as opposed to vanguard party centralism, arguing for direct, self-managed, council-based socialism.
Tier 1
World Revolution and Communist Tactics (1920) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm
The Lenin Legend (1935) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm
Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed (1940) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm
The Party and Class (1941) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1941/party-class.htm
The Failure of the Working Class (1946) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1946/failure-working-class.htm
Tier 2
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy (1914) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm
The World Revolution (1918) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm
Report from Moscow (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm
Lenin As Philosopher (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (1939) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm
Spontaneity and Organisation (1949) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1949/spontaneity.htm
Tier 3
An Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1920) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm
Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/workers-councils.htm
Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy (1969) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm
Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anti-bolshevik-communism-paul-mattick
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Islamic & Arab Socialism
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Social Justice in Islam (1949) by Sayyid Qutb
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-3-0.pdf
The Quranic System of Sustenance (1955) by Ghulam Ahmed Perwez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-2-1.pdf
Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution (1955) by Gamal Abdel Nasser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-0-2.pdf
The Socialism of Islam (1960) by Mustafa al-Siba'i
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-8-3.pdf
The Green Book (1975) by Muammar Gaddafi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-4-4.pdf
Islam and Socialism (1976) by Syed Hussein Alatas
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-4-0.pdf
On the Sociology of Islam (1979) by Ali Shariati
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-1-1.pdf
[More entries to come]
Reading General Sticky
Hello, /leftypol/!Welcome to the Reading General Sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.
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Classical Marxism
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The foundational texts and concepts strictly written and conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Tier 1
Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCYXFisM4k
Theses on Feuerbach (1845) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-Gn8q47cs
Wage Labour and Capital (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llbLvm3RAc
Principles of Communism (1847) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGcpspooZvk
Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkR-0NeOzw
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_BiWhvVyA
Tier 2
The Holy Family (1844) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Conditions of the Working Class in England (1845) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaK6b6eZrg
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1952) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orxXeE8kn4U
Value, Price and Profit (1865) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhVZW3HJzM
The Civil War in France (1871) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWrTzJFrnQ
Tier 3
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78lwj_TNVI
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm
The German Ideology (1846) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERf6Qvqwr6g
The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNy2A2ZpSEU
Grundrisse (1858) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/
Anti-Dühring (1877) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATakOyA0zc
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by Friedrich Engels
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2GaAs5VLo
DAS KAPITAL
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhXStf2E1tc
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German Idealism
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Philosophical movement that generally argues that the mind’s structures (reason, self-consciousness) play an active role in shaping reality and experience, centering on how freedom, subjectivity, and the unity of subject and object grounds knowledge and moral life. Hugely influential in revolutionary socialist currents.
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm
Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (1794) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-6-0.pdf
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1801) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phconten.htm
The Essence of Christianity (1841) by Ludwig Feuerbach
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47025/pg47025-images.html
The Jewish Question (1843) by Bruno Bauer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-3.pdf
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Utopian Socialism
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Early socialist current that imagined ideal, cooperative communities and peaceful social reforms achieved by moral persuasion and voluntary association rather than class struggle or revolution.
The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46333/pg46333-images.html
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm
The Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/theory-four-movements-charles-fourier
A New View of Society and Other Writings (1813) by Robert Owen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/owen/society/index.htm
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) by David Ricardo
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33310/pg33310-images.html
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf
Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30107/pg30107-images.html
Instructions for an Armed Uprising (1866) by Louis Auguste Blanqui
📖 · https://blanqui.kingston.ac.uk/texts/instructions-for-an-armed-uprising-1868/
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Classical Anarchism
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Rejects the state and hierarchical authority, serves as the basis for modern and contemporary Anarchism. Variants include Mutualism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Individualist anarchism.
Tier 1
What is Property? (1840) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoynLwP3u4
Collectivism (1872) by Adhémar Schwitzguébel
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adhemar-schwitzguebel-collectivism
Tier 2
The Philosophy of Poverty (1846) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty
God and the State (1871) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-god-and-the-state
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLArnrsxwWY
Ideas on Social Organisation (1876) by James Guillaume
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-guillaume-ideas-on-social-organization
Tier 3
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793) by William Godwin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/godwin-political-justice
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Statism and Anarchy (1873) by Mikhail Bakunin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-statism-and-anarchy
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Orthodox Marxism
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Stemming from the Second International, treats Marxism as a scientific, historical-materialist doctrine. Generally arguing that capitalism contains objective economic contradictions that makes proletarian revolution and socialism inevitable. Therefore, political organization, class struggle, and economic analysis are central.
Tier 1
The Present Position of the Socialist Movement in Germany (1896) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1896/06/essex-lecture.html
Erfurt Program (1891) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm
The Main Enemy Is At Home! (1914) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1915/05/main-enemy-home.htm
Tier 2
Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1883/struggle/index.htm
The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1892) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCOEZ8xjqM
On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCUjwmSSk4
Reform or Revolution? (1900) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgtmGmyl4
Militarism and Anti-Militarism (1907) by Karl Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1907/militarism-antimilitarism/index.htm
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/
The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/histacc/index.html
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Road to Power (1909) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/power/
Tier 3
The Development of the Monist View of History (1895) by Georgi Plekhanov
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899) by Wilhelm Liebknecht
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1899/nocomp/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlYu23bMNhg
The Socialist Crisis in France (1901) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1901/socialist-crisis-france/index.htm
The Social Revolution (1902) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1902/socrev/
The Foundations of Christianity (1908) by Karl Kautsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/index.htm
The Accumulation of Capital (1913) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/
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Anarcho-Communism
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Advocates for abolishing the state, capitalism, and private ownership of the means of production in favor of decentralized, voluntary communes with common ownership and distribution "from each according to ability, to each according to need." Variants include Platformism, Syncreticism, and Magonism.
Tier 1
Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869) by Sergey Nechayev
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kviqQa6ZU
To Manual Workers, Supporters of Political Action (1876) by François Dumartheray
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francois-dumartheray-to-manual-workers-supporters-of-political-action
Anarchy and Communism (1880) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carlo-cafiero-anarchy-and-communism
Our Revolution (1881) by Carlo Cafiero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/cafiero/1881/our-revolution.html
A Word to Tramps (1884) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-to-tramps
Words of a Rebel (1885) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1885/words-of-a-rebel/index.html
I Am an Anarchist (1886) by Lucy Parsons
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-i-am-an-anarchist
Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy
Manifesto of the Mexican Liberal Party (1911) by Ricardo Flores Magón
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/ricardo-flores-magon/1911/manifesto-of-the-mexican-liberal-party.html
The Anarchist Synthesis (1927) by Sébastien Faure
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sebastien-faure-the-anarchist-synthesis
A Project of Anarchist Organisation (1927) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-a-project-of-anarchist-organisation
The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929) by Alexander Berkman
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/berkman/1929/what-is-communist-anarchism/index.html
Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism (1922) by Errico Malatesta
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1922/at-the-cafe/index.html
On Synthesis (1924) by Volin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/voline/1924/on-synthesis.html
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/makhno-nestor/works/1926/struggle-against-the-state/index.html
Tier 3
The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm
Mutual Aid (1902) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm
History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) (1923) by Peter Arshinov
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-arshinov-history-of-the-makhnovist-movement-1918-1921
The Russian Revolution in the Ukraine (1926) by Nestor Makhno
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nestor-makhno-the-russian-revolution-in-the-ukraine
Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Various Authors
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists
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Leninism
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Mostly based on the works of Vladimir Lenin, argues for a disciplined vanguard party using democratic centralism to seize state power and establish a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat to lead the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Tier 1
What Is To Be Done? (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eCCtzsiXY
Revolutionary Adventurism (1902) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPbNQ9JqjA
Socialism and Religion (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMlcPb1ttw
Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAII71GaFY
The ABC of Communism (1920) by Nikolai Buhkarin & Evgenii Preobrazhensky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVnjwBQHH0
Tier 2
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsWA4HCGuY
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbODqyoeM0
Imperialism and World Economy (1915) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Uj5GE1h1U
The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky (1918) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IWmgY8k2A
“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder (1920) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh84f8czc7g
Tier 3
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1909) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtUKPPYmqk
The State and Revolution (1917) by Vladimir Lenin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig
Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921) by Nikolai Bukharin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7o64hezwc
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Syndicalism
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Tendency that aims to replace capitalism and the state by organizing workers into trade-union syndicates using direct action, such as general strikes, in order to take control of production and self-manage the economy.
Tier 1
Anarchism and the Workers' Unions (1895) by Fernand Pelloutier
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-and-workers-unions-fernand-pelloutier
What Means This Strike? (1898) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1898/980211.htm
Sabotage (1898) by Émile Pouget
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pouget/1898/sabotage.htm
The Burning Question of Trade Unionism (1904) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1904/040421.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe1aEA4UOw
The General Strike (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/
The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency (1917) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1917/sabotage.htm
Tier 2
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (1938) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
One Big Union (2000) by the Industrial Workers of the World
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-one-big-union
Tier 3
Socialist Reconstruction of Society (1905) by Daniel DeLeon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1905/050710.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzF6QXNIWV0
Industrial Socialism (1911) by Bill Haywood
📖 · https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/IndSocialism/
The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925) by Mother Jones
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65079/pg65079-images.html
Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution (1990) by José Peirats
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anarchists-spanish-revolution
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Marxism-Leninism
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Institutionalized doctrine that fuses Marx’s theory with Lenin’s praxis as codified official party ideology, applying the idea of historical materialism to a practical program of revolutionary vanguardism and a state-led transition to socialism.
Tier 1
Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
The Path Which Led Me To Leninism (1960) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm
The Khruschevites (1976) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/index.htm
Tier 2
Anarchism or Socialism? (1906) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm
Marxism and the National Question (1913) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm
Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia (1950) by Josip Broz Tito
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm
Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm
History Will Absolve Me (1953) by Fidel Castro
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm
Guerilla Warfare (1961) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf
Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism (1980) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/euroco/env2-1.htm
Tier 3
Foundations of Leninism (1924) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/
The People's Front (1938) by Earl Browder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/browder/peoples-front/index.htm
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951) by Joseph Stalin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/index.htm
Fundamentals of Marxism–Leninism (1960) by Otto Kuusinen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kuusinen/1960/fundamentals-marxism-leninism.pdf
Imperialism and the Revolution (1979) by Enver Hoxha
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm
Revolution in Laos: Practice and Prospects (1981) by Kaysone Phomvihane
📖 · https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Revolution_in_Laos
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (1990) by Thomas Sankara
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/womens-liberation-and-african-freedom-struggle
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Illegalism and Insurrectionary Anarchism
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Both support propaganda of the deed as a method of revolutionary struggle, with Illegalism having roots in Individualist Anarchism while Insurrectionary Anarchism shares overlap with Anarcho-Communism.
Tier 1
A Letter from Mazas Prison (1886) by Clément Duval
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/clement-duval-a-letter-from-cleement-duval
Why I Was a Burglar (1905) by Marius Jacob
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marius-jacob-why-i-was-a-burglar
Byzantinism and Limpness (1909) by Michel Antoine
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-antoine-byzantinism-and-limpness
Is the Illegalist Anarchist Our Comrade? (1911) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-is-the-illegalist-anarchist-our-comrade
Two Lectures on the Bonnot Affair (1912) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-two-lectures-on-the-bonnot-affair
Tier 2
The Anarchism of Émile Armand (1907) by Émile Armand
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-anarchism-of-emile-armand
Toward the Creative Nothing (1924) by Renzo Novatore
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/renzo-novatore-toward-the-creative-nothing
The Principal of Organization to the Light of Anarchism (1927) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-principal-of-organization-to-the-light-of-anarchism
Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo Bonnano
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy
Tier 3
The Ego and Its Own (1844) by Max Stirner
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-its-own.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOex4R61Oo
Against War, Against Peace, For The Social Revolution (1914) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-against-war-against-peace-for-the-social-revolution
The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-galleani-the-end-of-anarchism
Anarchists Never Surrender (1938) by Victor Serge
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/victor-serge-anarchists-never-surrender
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971) by William Powell
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782487901594-3.pdf
The Bonnot Gang (1987) by Richard Parry
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-parry-the-bonnot-gang-the-story-of-the-french-illegalists
The Coming Insurrection (2007) by The Invisible Committee
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comite-invisible-the-coming-insurrection
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Trotskyism
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Based on Leon Trotsky's work, stresses permanent revolution, proletarian internationalism, and an opposition to bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
The Lessons of October (1924) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm
The Transitional Program (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/
Their Morals and Ours (1938) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1944) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
Tier 2
Terrorism and Communism (1920) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm
The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm
Tier 3
The Third International After Lenin (1928) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm
History of the Russian Revolution (1930) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/
The Revolution Betrayed (1936) by Leon Trotsky
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/
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Pacifism
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Belief that war and violence are morally wrong or should be avoided, often favoring nonviolent resistance, diplomacy, and peaceful conflict resolution.
Tier 1
Civil Disobedience (1849) by Henry David Thoreau
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence (1960) by Martin Luther King Jr.
📖 · https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/pilgrimage-nonviolence
Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you
Indian Home Rule (1909) by Mahatma Gandhi
📖 · https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf
The Power of Nonviolence (1934) by Richard B. Gregg
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-0.pdf
The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf
From Dictatorship to Democracy (1994) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-4-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Conquest of Violence (1937) by Bart de Ligt
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-6-1.pdf
Essays (Including Pacifism and Class War) (1967) by A. J. Muste
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782308254608-1.pdf
The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973) by Gene Sharp
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-2-1.pdf
Writings Against Power & Death (1994) by Alex Comfort
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306077617-8-3.pdf
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Maoism
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Also known as Mao Zedong Thought, argues for peasant-led revolution, protracted people’s war, mass mobilization, and adapting Marxist strategy to agrarian societies.
Tier 1
Analysis of The Classes In Chinese Society (1926) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_1.htm
Oppose Book Worship (1930) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm
Be Concerned With the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (1934) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm
Combat Liberalism (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm
Serve The People (1944) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_19.htm
Bombard The Headquarters (1966) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm
Tier 2
On Contradiction (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
On Practice (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
On Protracted War (1938) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm
On New Democracy (1940) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm
Tier 3
Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement In Hunan (1927) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm
On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/
The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_23.htm
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zedong
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm
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Agrarian Socialism
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Socialist tradition that centers land, peasants, rural workers, and village communities rather than industrial workers alone. Sharing overlap with Maoism, related currents include Narodnism, Georgism, Neozapatismo, and, in the most extreme end of the spectrum, Pol Pot Thought.
Tier 1
>Georgism
Agrarian Justice (1797) by Thomas Paine
📖 · https://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
>Narodnism
Agrarian Program (1905) by the Socialist Revolutionary Party
📖 · https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Social-Revolutionaries
>Zapatismo/Neozapatismo
Plan of Ayala (1911) by Emiliano Zapata
📖 · https://users.pop.umn.edu/~rmccaa/la20c/ayala.htm
First Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle (1993) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1st-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf
Our Word Is Our Weapon (2002) by Subcomandante Marcos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/subcomandante-marcos-our-word-is-our-weapon
Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (2005) by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
📖 · https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6th-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf
Tier 2
>Narodnism
From the Other Shore (1850) by Alexander Herzen
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-2-0.pdf
Historical Letters (1869) by Pyotr Lavrov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-1.pdf
>Agrarian Marxism
Land or Death (1971) by Hugo Blanco
📖 · http://www.socialiststories.com/en/writers/Blanco-Hugo/Land-or-Death-Hugo-Blanco.pdf
>Pol Pot Thought
The Party’s Four-Year Plan to Build Socialism in All Fields, 1977–1980 (1976) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-8-3.pdf
Long Live the 17th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1977) by the Communist Party of Kampuchea
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Cambodia/PolPot/PolPot-LongLiveThe17thAnniversaryOfCPofKampuchea-1977.pdf
Tier 3
>Georgism
Progress and Poverty (1879) by Henry George
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55308/pg55308-images.html
>Narodnism
Marxism and the Agrarian Question (1906) by Viktor Chernov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782347353852-9.pdf
The Theory of Peasant Economy (1925) by Alexander Chayanov
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782336731998-3-2.pdf
>Agrarian Marxism
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928) by José Carlos Mariátegui
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/index.htm
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Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
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Treats Maoism as a higher stage of Marxism–Leninism, emphasizing peasant-led, protracted people’s war, the mass line, and continuing revolution to prevent bureaucratic degeneration.
Tier 1
On Gonzalo Thought (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-1-0.pdf
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Revisionism? (1990) by Prachanda
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/p_mlmor_revisionism.html
Tier 2
General Political Line (1988) by the Communist Party of Peru
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/CPP/Documents/GeneralPoliticalLineOfTheCommunistPartyOfPeru-1988-OCR.pdf
The Great Leap Forward: An Inevitable Need of History (2001) by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/Worker/Worker-07/GreatLeapForward-Prachanda-010200.htm
Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (2004) by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Founding/MLM-pamphlet.pdf
Tier 3
On the Bourgeois-Democratic State (1961) by Abimael Guzmán
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Peru/Gonzalo/Guzman-OnTheBourgeois-DemocraticState-1961-Thesis-OCR-sm.pdf
Philippine Society and Revolution (1970) by Amado Guerrero
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/cpp/guerrero/1970/psr.htm
Problems & Prospects of Revolution in Nepal (2004) by Prachanda and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
📖 · https://bannedthought.net/Nepal/Problems-Prospects/index.htm
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Postcolonialism
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Study of how colonialism shaped societies, cultures, identities, politics, and knowledge, and how formerly colonized peoples resist, reinterpret, and live with those colonial legacies.
Tier 1
The Case Against French Colonization (1924) by Ho Chi Minh
📖 · https://www.leinsdorf.com/The%20Case%20Against%20French%20Colonialism%20%20Copyright,%202017-2.htm
Discourse on Colonialism (1950) by Aimé Césaire
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/discourse-colonialism
Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988) by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Spivak_Gayatri_1988_Can_the_Subaltern_Speak.pdf
Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America (2000) by Aníbal Quijano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-5-0.pdf
Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native (2006) by Patrick Wolfe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-4-2.pdf
Tier 2
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) by Vine Deloria Jr
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-8-0.pdf
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation (1970) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-1.pdf
Unity and Struggle (1979) by Amílcar Cabral
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1979/unity-struggle.pdf
Decolonising the Mind (1986) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-9-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Black Jacobins (1938) by C. L. R. James
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-jacobins-toussaint-louverture-and-san-domingo-revolution-clr-james
Black Skin, White Masks (1952) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/black-skin-white-masks-frantz-fanon
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/wretched-earth-frantz-fanon
Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (1965) by Kwame Nkrumah
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/nkrumah/nkrumah-neocolonialism.pdf
Open Veins of Latin America (1971) by Eduardo Galeano
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782445309022-1.pdf
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) by Walter Rodney
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/8/81/Rodney_Walter_How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa_rev_ed_1981.pdf
Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said
📖 · https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Said_Edward_Orientalism_1979.pdf
The Location of Culture (1994) by Homi K. Bhabha
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-2-3.pdf
Provincializing Europe (2000) by Dipesh Chakrabarty
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402192458-7-4.pdf
On the Postcolony (2001) by Achille Mbembe
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782402288133-3-1.pdf
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
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Adapts and institutionalizes Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions by marrying one-party rule and state control of strategic sectors with market-oriented reforms to drive modernization.
Tier 1
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth From Facts and Unite As One In Looking to the Future (1978) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/110.htm
Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/115.htm
We Can Develop A Market Economy Under Socialism (1979) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1979/152.htm
To Build Socialism We Must First Develop the Productive Forces (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/101.htm
Tier 2
On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership (1980) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1980/220.htm
Tier 3
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (1984) by Deng Xiaoping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/DengXiaoping/DengXiaoping-BuildSocialismWithChineseCharacteristics.pdf
On the “Three Represents” (2000) by Jiang Zemin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-1.pdf
Report to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (2007) by Hu Jintao
📖 · https://gb.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zywl/2007/200710/t20071031_3386927.htm
The Governance of China (2014) by Xi Jinping
📖 · https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/XiJinping/XiJinping-TheGovernanceOfChina.pdf
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Eco-Socialism
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Tradition that argues ecological crisis is rooted in capitalism’s drive for endless growth, profit, and extraction, generally advocating for ecological limits, public or communal control of production, climate justice, and meeting human needs rather than accumulating wealth.
Tier 1
Useful Work vs. Useless Toil (1885) by William Morris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1884/useful.htm
Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book
The Philosophy of Social Ecology (1996) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-philosophy-of-social-ecology
Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe? (2009) by David Schwartzman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-2-2.pdf
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe (2015) by Michael Löwy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-0.pdf
Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (2021) by The Red Nation
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-2-2.pdf
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-4-1.pdf
Tier 2
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) by Peter Kropotkin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-fields-factories-and-workshops-or-industry-combined-with-agriculture-and-brain-w
Ecology as Politics (1978) by André Gorz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-1.pdf
The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability (1995) by Ted Trainer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-6-2.pdf
Toward Climate Justice (2010) by Brian Tokar
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-1-3.pdf
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015) by Jason W. Moore
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686715-2-4.pdf
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (2019) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-3-3.pdf
Less Is More (2020) by Jason Hickel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-5-4.pdf
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (2020) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1769447067118-3.pdf
Pollution Is Colonialism (2021) by Max Liboiron
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-0.pdf
Cannibal Capitalism (2022) by Nancy Fraser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-1-3.pdf
Tier 3
The Alternative in Eastern Europe (1977) by Rudolf Bahro
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-1-0.pdf
The Ecology of Freedom (1982) by Murray Bookchin
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom
Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism (1998) by James O'Connor
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-3-3.pdf
Marx's Ecology (2000) by John Bellamy Foster
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491486197-7-4.pdf
The Enemy of Nature (2002) by Joel Kovel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-7-0.pdf
The Environmentalism of the Poor (2002) by Joan Martínez-Alier
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491686714-8-1.pdf
Fossil Capital (2016) by Andreas Malm
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-4-1.pdf
Decolonial Ecology (2019) by Malcolm Ferdinand
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782491886054-2-2.pdf
Marx in the Anthropocene (2022) by Kohei Saito
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1676047310995.pdf
Climate Change as Class War (2022) by Matthew T. Huber
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782492152750-5-4.pdf
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Maoism-Third Worldism
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Blends Maoist strategy with Third-Worldist analysis, arguing the revolutionary proletariat is concentrated in oppressed (Global South) countries while much First-World labor is seen as privileged or comprador.
Tier 1
Long Live the Victory of People’s War! (1965) by Lin Biao
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/index.htm
Message to the Tricontinental (1967) by Che Guevara
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm
Tier 2
White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782143919558-0-2.pdf
Unequal Development (1973) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-5-0.pdf
Foreign Trade and the Law of Value (1979) by Anwar Shaikh
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-0-1.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144098405-8-2.pdf
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (1983) by J. Sakai
📖 · https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html
Eurocentrism (1989) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-0-0.pdf
The Wealth of (Some) Nations (2019) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1655353202103-0.pdf
Tier 3
Accumulation on a World Scale (1971) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-5-1.pdf
Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade (1972) by Arghiri Emmanuel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782144680371-6-2.pdf
Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1986) by Samir Amin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-0-0.pdf
Divided World, Divided Class (2012) by Zak Cope
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-9-1.pdf
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Animal Liberation
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Movement that seeks to abolish the capitalistic exploitation of nonhuman animals, especially in food, research, clothing, entertainment, and other industries.
Tier 1
Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) by Henry Stephens Salt
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64498/pg64498-images.html
On Vegetarianism (1901) by Élisée Reclus
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elisee-reclus-on-vegetarianism
Animal Machines (1964) by Ruth Harrison
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-7-0.pdf
Speciesism (1970) by Richard D. Ryder
📖 · https://www.veganzetta.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Speciesism-Again-the-original-leaflet-Richard-Ryder.pdf
Animal Liberation and Social Revolution (1997) by Brian Dominick
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/brian-a-dominick-animal-liberation-and-social-revolution
Revealing the Animal-Industrial Complex (2012) by Richard Twine
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-6-3.pdf
18 Theses on Marxism and Animal Liberation (2018) by Bündnis Marxismus & Tierbefreiung
📖 · https://mutb.org/media/publication-thesenpapier-en.pdf
Conceptualising Animal Exploitation in Capitalism (2019) by Christian Stache
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-3-1.pdf
Tier 2
The Universal Kinship (1906) by J. Howard Moore
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61363/pg61363-images.html
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (1988) by Marjorie Spiegel
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-2.pdf
Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice (1993) by Ted Benton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-9-4.pdf
Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007) by Bob Torres
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-1.pdf
The Politics of Total Liberation (2014) by Steven Best
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-1-0.pdf
Beyond Nature: Animal Liberation, Marxism, and Critical Theory (2021) by Marco Maurizi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572099103-5-2.pdf
Tier 3
Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-8-1.pdf
The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) by Carol J. Adams
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782571960451-5-3.pdf
Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation (2002) by David Nibert
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-7-0.pdf
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (2011) by Various Authors
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-2-2.pdf
Total Liberation (2014) by David Naguib Pellow
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782572033826-5-4.pdf
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Juche
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The official state ideology of North Korea, stressing political independence, economic self-sufficiency, self-defense, and the central role of the leader in guiding the nation.
Tier 1
For the Establishment of a United Party of the Working Masses (1946) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1946/08/29.pdf
On the Occasion of the Founding of the Korean People’s Army (1948) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1948/02/08.pdf
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work (1955) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1955/12/28.htm
The Juche Idea is an Idea that Has Inherited and Developed the Progressive Ideologies of Mankind (1986) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Juche-Idea-Is-An-Idea-That-Has-Inherited-And-Developed-The-Progressive-Ideologies-Of-Mankind.pdf
Ours is the Socialism of Juche (1994) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/1994/04/16.pdf
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Juche-Oriented Socialist State with Invincible Might (2008) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/The-Democratic-Peoples-Republic-Of-Korea-Is-A-Juche-Oriented-Socialist-State-With-Invincible-Might.pdf
Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun (2012) by Kim Jong Un
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145470496-4-2.pdf
Tier 2
On the Juche Idea (1982) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/On-The-Juche-Idea.pdf
Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish (1991) by Kim Jong Il
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/works/Our-Socialism-Centred-On-The-Masses-Shall-Not-Perish.pdf
Tier 3
On Juche in Our Revolution (1975) by Kim Il Sung
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-0-0.pdf
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782145712234-1-1.pdf
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Christian Socialism
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Belief that Christian ethics, especially care for the poor, solidarity, justice, and shared responsibility, support a more equal, cooperative economy rather than capitalist individualism. Variants include Distributism, Christian Anarchism and Liberation Theology.
Tier 1
New Christianity (1825) by Henri de Saint-Simon
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-1-2.pdf
Unto This Last (1862) by John Ruskin
📖 · https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Unto_This_Last_(Ruskin)
Rerum novarum (1891) by Pope Leo XIII
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html
Christian Socialism: A Lecture (1894) by Stewart Headlam
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-7-1.pdf
The Acquisitive Society (1920) by R. H. Tawney
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33741/33741-h/33741-h.htm
Quadragesimo anno (1931) by Pope Pius XI
📖 · https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html
Christianity and Social Order (1942) by William Temple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-1.pdf
Message to the Christians (1965) by Camilo Torres Restrepo
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-0-3.pdf
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (1997) by Alain Badiou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782740961869-7.pdf
Tier 2
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you
The Servile State (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
📖 · https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/64882/pg64882-images.html
Utopia of Usurers (1917) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2134/2134-h/2134-h.htm
The Socialist Decision (1933) by Paul Tillich
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-3-4.pdf
The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782306269841-7-0.pdf
The Book of Ammon (1965) by Ammon Hennacy
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-4-2.pdf
A Theology of Liberation (1971) by Gustavo Gutiérrez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-7-4.pdf
Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982) by Cornel West
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-0.pdf
Christi-Anarchy (1999) by Dave Andrews
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-7-2.pdf
Tier 3
The Kingdom of Christ (1838) by F. D. Maurice
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a592475701mauruoft/mode/2up
📖 · https://archive.org/details/a5924757b02mauruoft/mode/2up
Practical Christian Socialism (1854) by Adin Ballou
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-0.pdf
Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) by Walter Rauschenbusch
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-8-2.pdf
Socialism and Character (1912) by Vida Dutton Scudder
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/scudder/1912/socialism-and-character-scudder.pdf
The Outline of Sanity (1927) by G. K. Chesterton
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782704866148-0-3.pdf
Easy Essays (1934) by Peter Maurin
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705119609-6-0.pdf
The Socialist Sixth of the World (1939) by Hewlett Johnson
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/johnson-hewlett/socialistsixth/contents.htm
Christian Anarchy: Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers (1987) by Vernard Eller
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782705229520-1-1.pdf
Anarchy and Christianity (1988) by Jacques Ellul
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jacques-ellul-anarchy-christianity-en
Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel (2011) by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexandre-christoyannopoulos-christian-anarchism
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Italian Left-Communism
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Insisting on strict Marxist orthodoxy, rejecting parliamentarism, reformist trade unions and united fronts, while promoting a revolutionary, party-centered alternative to both social democracy and Marxism-Leninism.
Tier 1
Party and Class (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/party-class.htm
Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence (1946) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1946/bourgeois-violence.htm
Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party (1951) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm
Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! (1951) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1951/centralised.htm
Tier 2
Party and Class Action (1921) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1921/classact.htm
The Democratic Principle (1922) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm
The Lyons Theses (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm
The Communist Left in the Third International (1926) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm
Dialogue with Stalin (1952) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm
We Defend the Italian Left (1966) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/damen/1966/defend.htm
Tier 3
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation (1946) by Amadeo Bordiga
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm
Bordiga — Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric (1970) by Onorato Damen
📖 · https://www.leftcom.org/files/2018-10-02-damen-bordiga.pdf
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Jewish Socialism
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Tradition that links Jewish collective life, labor struggle, anti-capitalism, and opposition to antisemitism. In its Bundist and Anti-Zionist forms, it emphasizes the principle of "doikayt" — a fight for socialism where Jews already live, rather than through a separate Jewish state.
Tier 1
Zionism or Socialism (1898) by Chaim Zhitlowsky
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-4-3.pdf
Social Democracy and the National Question (1904) by Vladimir Medem
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-3-1.pdf
A Jewish Socialist Critique of Zionism (1906) by Chaim Jakov Gelfand
📖 · https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a-jewish-socialist-critique-of-zionism-from-1906
The Jewish Proletariat in Russia: Ten Years of the Bund (1907) by K. Boris
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/boris/bund.htm
Manifesto of the General Jewish Workers’ Union in Poland (1937) by Henryk Erlich
📖 · https://www.derspekter.org/manifesto-of-the-general-jewish-workers-union-bund-in-poland/
Anti-Semitism and Yiddish Culture / Jewish Culture (1938) by Moissaye J. Olgin
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism.htm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/olgin-anti-semitism-2.htm
Stop Them Now: German Mass Murder of Jews in Poland (1942) by Szmul Zygielbojm
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/stop-murder.pdf
Statement on Palestine and Zionism Issued (1947) by the New York Bund Organization
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-ny-48.pdf
The Jewish Labor Bund and the State of Israel (1948) by the Bund World Coordinating Committee
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-israel.pdf
The Problems of Jewish Culture (1950) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/schappes-culture.pdf
Message of the Non-Jewish Jew (1958) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/deutscher01.htm
The Roots of Antisemitism (1960) by Raya Dunayevskaya
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1960/antisemitism.htm
The Jewish Question and the Left — Old and New: A Challenge to the New Left (1970) by Morris Schappes
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/old-and-new.pdf
Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype (1977) by Hal Draper
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1977/kmtr1/app1.htm
Tier 2
Holy History of Mankind (1837) by Moses Hess
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782141768594-3-1.pdf
On The Jewish Question (1844) by Karl Marx
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7jgrQ_oF8
Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (1894) by Bernard Lazare
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lazare-bernard/1894/antisemitism/index.htm
The National Question and Autonomy (1908) by Rosa Luxemburg
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm
🎧 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkL6ZUnzcc
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation (1942) by Abraham Leon
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/leon/Abram_Leon_The_Jewish_Question.pdf
The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays (1968) by Isaac Deutscher
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-4-0.pdf
Zionism: Its Role in World Politics (1973) by Hyman Lumer
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830399588-6.pdf
Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left (2025) by Benjamin Balthaser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-9-2.pdf
Tier 3
Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Stars Bear Witness (1949) by Bernard Goldstein
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/five-years-warsaw-ghetto-bernard-goldstein
The London Years (1956) by Rudolf Rocker
📖 · https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-the-london-years
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (1990) by Enzo Traverso
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-1.pdf
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007) by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-2.pdf
Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (2009) by Jack Jacobs
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-8-3.pdf
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012) by Judith Butler
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782749813899-1-4.pdf
No Masters but God: Portraits of Anarcho-Judaism (2021) by Hayyim Rothman
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782753054661-1-0.pdf
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (2026) by Molly Crabapple
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782830101983-7.pdf
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Council Communism
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Favors workers’ councils as the basis of proletarian power and organization as opposed to vanguard party centralism, arguing for direct, self-managed, council-based socialism.
Tier 1
World Revolution and Communist Tactics (1920) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm
The Lenin Legend (1935) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm
Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed (1940) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm
The Party and Class (1941) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1941/party-class.htm
The Failure of the Working Class (1946) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1946/failure-working-class.htm
Tier 2
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy (1914) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1914/imperialism.htm
The World Revolution (1918) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm
Report from Moscow (1920) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm
Lenin As Philosopher (1938) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism (1939) by Otto Rühle
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm
Spontaneity and Organisation (1949) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1949/spontaneity.htm
Tier 3
An Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1920) by Herman Gorter
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm
Workers' Councils (1942) by Anton Pannekoek
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/workers-councils.htm
Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy (1969) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm
Anti-Bolshevik Communism (1978) by Paul Mattick
📖 · https://libcom.org/article/anti-bolshevik-communism-paul-mattick
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Islamic & Arab Socialism
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Social Justice in Islam (1949) by Sayyid Qutb
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-3-0.pdf
The Quranic System of Sustenance (1955) by Ghulam Ahmed Perwez
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-2-1.pdf
Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution (1955) by Gamal Abdel Nasser
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-0-2.pdf
The Socialism of Islam (1960) by Mustafa al-Siba'i
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-8-3.pdf
The Green Book (1975) by Muammar Gaddafi
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967224955-4-4.pdf
Islam and Socialism (1976) by Syed Hussein Alatas
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-4-0.pdf
On the Sociology of Islam (1979) by Ali Shariati
📖 · https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782967555497-1-1.pdf
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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
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FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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/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™
<wHaT a ReLiEf! Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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>Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory “pretty soon” while preparing a hard economic blow to force Iran into ending the war.
<In response to Trump’s threats, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the waterway will remain Iranian and that blockade enforcement will continue until the US accepts defeat.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamabad MoU marked an “end of the war, not a ceasefire”, pointing out that the US violated the deal and fighting resumed, leaving no 60-day ceasefire to extend.
<Araghchi also says negotiations between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz “may reach a conclusion soon”.
>Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, reporting no injuries and that the situation was brought under control.
<Oil prices rise more than a dollar a barrel as tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran peace talks drive Brent crude to $88.52 and US WTI to $82.40.
>CENTCOM says US forces “redirected” 62 commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea after reinstating the naval blockade of Iranian ports
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one sided love editionprev >>2874490
>Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory “pretty soon” while preparing a hard economic blow to force Iran into ending the war.
<In response to Trump’s threats, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the waterway will remain Iranian and that blockade enforcement will continue until the US accepts defeat.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamabad MoU marked an “end of the war, not a ceasefire”, pointing out that the US violated the deal and fighting resumed, leaving no 60-day ceasefire to extend.
<Araghchi also says negotiations between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz “may reach a conclusion soon”.
>Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, reporting no injuries and that the situation was brought under control.
<Oil prices rise more than a dollar a barrel as tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran peace talks drive Brent crude to $88.52 and US WTI to $82.40.
>CENTCOM says US forces “redirected” 62 commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea after reinstating the naval blockade of Iranian ports
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>Interview with Lotta Continua 1977, Paul Mattick
Marxism and Terror
>For revolutionaries it is psychologically quite difficult, if not impossible, to raise their voices against the futile application of “revolutionary justice” by terroristic groups and individuals. Even Marx, who despised all forms nihilistic actions, could not help being elated by the terroristic feats of the Russian “Peoples’ Will” As a matter of fact, the counter-terror of revolutionary groups cannot be prevented by mere recognition of its futility. Their perpetrators are not moved by the conviction that their actions will lead directly to social change, but by their inability to accept the unchallenged, the perpetual terror of the bourgeoisie unchallenged. And once engaged in illegal terror, the legal terror forces them to continue their activities until the bitter end. This type of people is itself product of the class-ridden society and a response to its increasing brutalization. There is no sense in forming a consensus with the bourgeoisie and condemning their activities from proletarian point of view. It is enough to recognize their futility and to look for more effective ways to overcome the ever-present capitalist terror by the class actions of the proletariat.>Interview with Lotta Continua 1977, Paul Mattick
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The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????
The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
Neocon Iraq War criminals
Why is it that the surviving members of the George W. Bush administration who acted as the architects of the Iraq War have never faced any legal penalties for what they did?The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????
The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
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SDF/ROJAVA have dissolved
>SDF chief Mazloum Abdi says that the integration of Kurdish-led forces into the Syrian state is complete, adding that "our struggle will continue to guarantee the rights of the Kurdish people in the Syrian constitution" "The phase of integrating the military, security and administrative institutions into the state institutions has ended, and from today onward, a new phase has begun,” he said, calling on the people of the region to protect the "institutions established through the sacrifices of martyrs, and to support and preserve them."
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Joseph Stalin is the most reviled opponent of the liberal bourgeoisie. No one causes more lib seethe than Stalin. The man was also firmly socially conservative and anti-cosmopolitan. And most importantly, he won the fucking war and died on old man at the height of his power, and the Soviet empire he built survived for decades afterwards.
So why is the online right still in love with a miserable loser like Hitler? Why are chinlet shooters and insecure browns still chanting "Hitler was right" instead of embracing the chad superiority of Stalin? Are they just stupid?
Joseph Stalin is the most reviled opponent of the liberal bourgeoisie. No one causes more lib seethe than Stalin. The man was also firmly socially conservative and anti-cosmopolitan. And most importantly, he won the fucking war and died on old man at the height of his power, and the Soviet empire he built survived for decades afterwards.
So why is the online right still in love with a miserable loser like Hitler? Why are chinlet shooters and insecure browns still chanting "Hitler was right" instead of embracing the chad superiority of Stalin? Are they just stupid?
R: 35 / I: 6
Why is it that Islam, not Communism, remains the last bastion against imperialism?
And it can also be argued that communism was never anti imperialist to begin with because the Soviet union helped establish Israel, invaded Afghanistan and so on.
Is Islam the only true anti imperial creed?
Why is it that Islam, not Communism, remains the last bastion against imperialism?
And it can also be argued that communism was never anti imperialist to begin with because the Soviet union helped establish Israel, invaded Afghanistan and so on.
Is Islam the only true anti imperial creed?
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How are the right and the left both pouncing on the EU at the same time dude? Fuck my uyghur life, shit's so over. Supranational governing bodies formed by consensus are never going to work.
How are the right and the left both pouncing on the EU at the same time dude? Fuck my uyghur life, shit's so over. Supranational governing bodies formed by consensus are never going to work.
R: 500 / I: 125
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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General
A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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NH-01 DSA candidate Heath Howard suspends campaign
Here in NH, a pro-Palestine DSA candidate, Heath Howard, who is also a disabled comrade, was hounded out of the primary race by progressive influencers for "transphobia". He openly said Israel has no right to exist as a state on WMUR, our local state news channel. Could it be any more obvious this was a coordinated smear campaign?
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fact: people in the top left think people in the top right are actually people in the bottom right
fact: people in the top right think people in the top left are actually people in the bottom left
fact: people in the bottom left think people in the bottom right are actually people in the top right
fact: people in the bottom right think people in the bottom left are actually people in the top left
"ziggers" and "succdems" confuse each other for "trumptards" and "nafoids"
>>2902247fact: people in the top left think people in the top right are actually people in the bottom right
fact: people in the top right think people in the top left are actually people in the bottom left
fact: people in the bottom left think people in the bottom right are actually people in the top right
fact: people in the bottom right think people in the bottom left are actually people in the top left
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Are you as brave as them?
Could you handle the pressure in that chaotic and stressful environment with no conventional training and minimal funding and weaponry?
Do Myanmar rebels represent the contemporary revolutionary spirit?
Do you wish this were your appearance, leftypol?Are you as brave as them?
Could you handle the pressure in that chaotic and stressful environment with no conventional training and minimal funding and weaponry?
R: 20 / I: 4
Therapy
Why is something as pseudoscientific and generally useless as "therapy" pushed so heavily nowadays? As someone who was in and out of psych wards as an adolescent, as someone who's been to dozens and dozens of therapists, as someone with multiple complex conditions, how is talking to some clueless privileged fag with a bullshit degree going to improve my material circumstances in any way? Why am I the bad guy for being against the psychiatric industrial complex? What real purpose does "therapy" serve in relation to neoliberal capitalism?
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One of my American moots discussed with me about Christopher Hyatt, Stephen Kershner, and free will, and he did bring up the recent example of Lindsay Clancy and the controversy surrounding her case.
Maverick journo Michael Tracey has already covered the basic facts, so I‘ll skip on reinstating it, and jump onto the meat of the discussion behind this gendered discourse.
For starters, I don’t necessarily agree with the manosphere here, but I do understand their frustration because, more often than not, men get the short end of the stick in civil/family courts which use a lower evidentiary standard compared to supreme courts, especially when it comes to child custody, alimony, child support, divorce, and sex-related charges. Not to mention that society is more lenient towards female criminals compared to their male counterparts even if the crime was done under an episode of psychosis, as demonstrated by gender-based sentencing disparity favoring women over men: https://sp2016dev.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_gender_disparities.aspx
And yes, I know Michael here isn’t putting a gendered double standard, but still…
Whilst understanding the frustration, I still don’t agree with it as Clancy herself was not only failed by the very institutions she sought help from, but the warning signs (such as her expressing suicidal thoughts) were there long before the filicides. And it’s with that in mind that I think that the gendered discourse is masking something society is far more uncomfortable with.
In the first line of this text, I did mention the names of Hyatt and Kershner, and with good reason as those figures, despite radically different backgrounds (the former being a niche occultist, the latter an academic that got subjected to an investigative committee that outlasted the Warren commission) all hold that free will is a myth. Kirshner elaborated more on his point, making the argument against punishment in general on the basis that he didn't believe in free will, and therefore punishing someone is just punishing someone whose conditions/ biology/mental traits led them to that path and ultimately did nothing but satisfy a need for vengenance.
I feel like the american prison system and the american public have long ago given up the pretense that incarceration is about rehabiliation. If they did believe in it then conditions would be far better and they'd be paired with say doctors, teachers and psychologists to help them see the errors of their ways and how to correct themselves. And this comes into play as the crux of the issue with Clancy is whether:
Now, I do think she is being overcharged, and that she wasn’t in her right mind. It can be a mitigating factor to kill someone in a bout of temporary insanity like being cheated on or "a crime of passion" if sanity is not lost. I think we've lost sight of the fact, because activists on mental health have been quite strident about this point, that legally speaking, going back to the Greeks, the mentally ill are not responsible for their actions. However, this has never been an easy pill for many people to swallow, and people say cliches like "mental illness doesn’t make you racist/bigoted/kill people" when that’s plainly not true. And this is the main contradiction here: Not gender, but people’s general discomfort with the idea that free will may not exist after all (or that neurological factors may make it unethical to overcharge people for crimes they did when they were, for example, under a state of psychosis), and how that relates to crime.
And as we’ve seen with current events, anything that the masses in western society see as being unresolved (regardless of the actual reality) is bound to turn into a culture war, and the case of Clancy is no different.
What does the Lindsey Clancy trial tells us about society
https://www.mtracey.net/p/lindsay-clancy-menOne of my American moots discussed with me about Christopher Hyatt, Stephen Kershner, and free will, and he did bring up the recent example of Lindsay Clancy and the controversy surrounding her case.
Maverick journo Michael Tracey has already covered the basic facts, so I‘ll skip on reinstating it, and jump onto the meat of the discussion behind this gendered discourse.
For starters, I don’t necessarily agree with the manosphere here, but I do understand their frustration because, more often than not, men get the short end of the stick in civil/family courts which use a lower evidentiary standard compared to supreme courts, especially when it comes to child custody, alimony, child support, divorce, and sex-related charges. Not to mention that society is more lenient towards female criminals compared to their male counterparts even if the crime was done under an episode of psychosis, as demonstrated by gender-based sentencing disparity favoring women over men: https://sp2016dev.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_gender_disparities.aspx
And yes, I know Michael here isn’t putting a gendered double standard, but still…
Whilst understanding the frustration, I still don’t agree with it as Clancy herself was not only failed by the very institutions she sought help from, but the warning signs (such as her expressing suicidal thoughts) were there long before the filicides. And it’s with that in mind that I think that the gendered discourse is masking something society is far more uncomfortable with.
In the first line of this text, I did mention the names of Hyatt and Kershner, and with good reason as those figures, despite radically different backgrounds (the former being a niche occultist, the latter an academic that got subjected to an investigative committee that outlasted the Warren commission) all hold that free will is a myth. Kirshner elaborated more on his point, making the argument against punishment in general on the basis that he didn't believe in free will, and therefore punishing someone is just punishing someone whose conditions/ biology/mental traits led them to that path and ultimately did nothing but satisfy a need for vengenance.
I feel like the american prison system and the american public have long ago given up the pretense that incarceration is about rehabiliation. If they did believe in it then conditions would be far better and they'd be paired with say doctors, teachers and psychologists to help them see the errors of their ways and how to correct themselves. And this comes into play as the crux of the issue with Clancy is whether:
- She is being overcharged
- She was in her right mind when committing the murders
Now, I do think she is being overcharged, and that she wasn’t in her right mind. It can be a mitigating factor to kill someone in a bout of temporary insanity like being cheated on or "a crime of passion" if sanity is not lost. I think we've lost sight of the fact, because activists on mental health have been quite strident about this point, that legally speaking, going back to the Greeks, the mentally ill are not responsible for their actions. However, this has never been an easy pill for many people to swallow, and people say cliches like "mental illness doesn’t make you racist/bigoted/kill people" when that’s plainly not true. And this is the main contradiction here: Not gender, but people’s general discomfort with the idea that free will may not exist after all (or that neurological factors may make it unethical to overcharge people for crimes they did when they were, for example, under a state of psychosis), and how that relates to crime.
And as we’ve seen with current events, anything that the masses in western society see as being unresolved (regardless of the actual reality) is bound to turn into a culture war, and the case of Clancy is no different.
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Wtf is that man I have read a shit ton of theory
They also say the job isn't to just gain membership its to make a harden vanguard
Professional revolutionary
I hear RCP people say that they are training professional revolutionairesWtf is that man I have read a shit ton of theory
They also say the job isn't to just gain membership its to make a harden vanguard
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Zigger question
Why do ziggers - who are socially rightist (Russian ethno-nationalists + homo/transphobes) and economically rightist (supporting Putin's oligarchy) - constitute a privileged class on LEFTYpol?
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Previous: >>2884212
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Vice City editionPrevious: >>2884212
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
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The UK’s main opposition Conservative Party has announced it will end social housing provision for foreign nationals in England if it enters government at the next election…
/leftybritpol/ - by-election edish
UK Conservatives and far-right Reform UK pledge mass eviction of foreign nationals from social housingThe UK’s main opposition Conservative Party has announced it will end social housing provision for foreign nationals in England if it enters government at the next election…
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I made this without a hint of irony.
I like natural rights, Leninism, Hoxhaism, and my philosophy is heavily influenced by Mishima.
And there is nothing you can do about it.
I made this without a hint of irony.
I like natural rights, Leninism, Hoxhaism, and my philosophy is heavily influenced by Mishima.
And there is nothing you can do about it.
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I think there's a convergence right now between the Sorelian conception of political "myths" and the prominence of GenAI slop, especially on The Right. I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that Generative AI has been almost endemic to Right-Wing political movements, even while Data Centers in particular are still grossly unpopular. I don't believe this convergence is intentional, in fact I doubt that most on the political Right even know who Sorel was, but rather I believe the Right has intuited some of Sorel's work without actually reading it. Though entirely unintentional, the specter of Sorelianism has only become more relevant to modern political disputes.
To begin, let's first discuss what Sorel means by a "Myth". He asserts his thesis in his Magnum Opus, "Reflections on Violence" here:
>“In the course of these studies, I have established something so simple that I did not believe it had to be emphasized: men who participate in great social movements represent their immediate action in the form of images of battles assuring the triumph of their cause. I proposed calling these constructions myths, the knowledge of which is so important for the historian: the syndicalist general strike and Marx’s catastrophic revolution are myths. I have given as remarkable examples of myths those which were constructed by early Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and by Mazzini’s followers. I wanted to show that it is not necessary to try to analyze such systems of images in the same way that one breaks down something into its elements; that they should be taken as a whole and as historical forces; that it is necessary above all to keep from comparing the accomplished facts with the images which men had adopted prior to action.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 20, Cambridge Texts Edition
The emphasis on the word "images" is my own, as I feel that's directly relevant to the tidal wave of AI slop we see coming from The Right Wing today. Now I should mention that though Sorel uses the term "images" he doesn't necessarily mean a literal picture or painting. The images Sorel refers to could exist as ethereally as in the mind's eye. What matters for the sake of politics is that these images are conceptualized collectively and depict triumphant battles against an enemy.
To try to break this down simply; Sorel believed that myths provided a crucial motive force, that regardless of their relationship to the actual reality of the conflict, they motivate people to become partisans within that conflict. For example, one such myth he references was that of Early Christianity. Historically, Christianity existed in the space of an End Times movement, several early Christians earnestly believed Christ was coming and that by dying as martyrs they would be rewarded in the hereafter. Indeed, contemporary Roman sources would even occasionally remark that Christians would willingly turn themselves in to authorities in hopes of achieving martyrdom. It doesn't matter that the myth Christians conceptualized for themselves didn't literally happen, as Christ didn't return in their lifetimes to usher in the Last Judgement. Rather that myth motivated Christians to proselytize, to suffer martyrdom, and ultimately led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
It was important to Sorel that images depict conflict to be elevated to the status of "myth"; images which merely depict perfect or idealized society, Sorel thought, merely indulged in Utopianism which would lead to reformism.
>“As long as there are no myths accepted by the masses, one may go on talking of revolts indefinitely without ever provoking any revolutionary movement; this is what gives such importance to the general strike and renders it so odious to socialists who are afraid of revolution; they do all they can to shake the confidence felt by the workers in the preparations they are making for the revolution; and in order to succeed in this they cast ridicule on the idea of the general strike, which alone has a value as a motive force. One of the chief means employed by them is to represent it as a utopia; this is easy enough, as there are very few myths which are perfectly free from any utopian element.
>The revolutionary myths which exist at the present time are almost pure; they allow us to understand the activity, the sentiments, and the ideas of the masses as they prepare themselves to enter on a decisive struggle; they are not descriptions of things but expressions of a will to act. A utopia is, on the contrary, an intellectual product; it is the work of theorists who, after observing and discussing the facts, seek to establish a model to which they can compare existing societies in order to estimate the amount of good and evil they contain; it is a combination of imaginary institutions having sufficient analogies to real institutions for the jurist to be able to reason about them; it is a construction which can be broken into parts and of which certain pieces have been shaped in such a way that they can (with a few alterations) be fitted into future legislation. — Whilst contemporary myths lead men to prepare themselves for a combat which will destroy the existing state of things, the effect of utopias has always been to direct men’s minds towards reforms which can be brought about by patching up the system; it is not surprising then that so many believers in utopias were able to develop into able statesmen when they had acquired greater experience of political life. — A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical to the convictions of a group, being the expression of these convictions in the language of movement; and it is, in consequence, unanalysable into parts which could be placed on the plane of historical descriptions. A utopia, on the other hand, can be discussed like any other social constitution; the spontaneous movements it presupposes can be compared with those actually observed in the course of history, and we can in this way evaluate their verisimilitude; it is possible to refute it by showing that the economic system on which it has been made to rest is incompatible with the necessary conditions of modern production.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 28, Cambridge Edition
That was a lot of words, but in essence: myths prepare a movement for battle and encourage them to do conflict, they're taken "as a whole" rather than being broken into constituent parts. An image of Socialists leading a battalion of tanks towards reactionary holdouts doesn't propose legislation nor can it be broken down into an analysis on mechanized warfare, it must be taken as a whole. Utopias, by contrast, are analyzed on a policy-basis. The very origin of the term "Utopia" in political theory relates back to Saint Thomas More's book, and to this very day people had dissected his idealized society and critiqued his policy proposals.
Back to modernity: as generative AI has been refined and widely distributed, it hasn't been adopted by the "mainstream" of political and cultural opinion, rather it has found purchase in groups which can be coined "cultural insurgencies". It's not mainstream liberal thought that embraced AI image generation, but "populist" right wing movements, freaks, perverts, and the detritus of failed social movements. In the face of rapidly secularizing generations, Evangelical Christians have embraced AI images of Jesus coming to earth to judge the secular world they despise. In the absence of sexual gratification, glassy-eyed internet shut ins use AI to give "woke" video game characters bigger tits or a fatter ass or doll-like facial features. Political orgs like the AfD in Germany or MAGA in America gleefully use AI to paint the world as they perceive it: a Manichean battle between foreign invaders, their effeminate compradors in the West, and chisel-jawed "alpha males" opposing them.
As these movements have claimed power in the political arena and shown their utter inability to govern, it appears they've grown to rely more and more on Sorelian style myths to shore up their support. As Trump's grown older and more incontinent, his most fervent supporters depict him as more virile, more muscular, and more competent than ever. As the Iran war proves itself to be a bungle, the Right Wing internet is awash in depictions of Trump as a "military man", Trump in Uniform, Trump ordering missile strikes, Trump flying fighter jets. What this has done is created a floor of unshakeable faith, around 38% of the country which approves of him, whereas George W. Bush eventually collapsed to 25% support by the end of his second term.
Liberals are hoping, perhaps naively, that there will be some "wake up call" for Trump. That a Bush 2 moment may happen where Trump sees his support completely collapse. That America will grow "tired" of populism and submit to the rule of dull technocrats, but as Sorel himself said:
>The professors of the little science are really difficult to satisfy. They assert very loudly that they will only admit into thought ideas that are clear and distinct; – as a matter of fact, this is a rule which is insufficient for purposes of action, for we do nothing great without the help of warmly coloured and sharply defined images which absorb the whole of our attention;
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 140
A more obvious collapse of the Trump administration would not cause a collapse in his supporters, but rather it would be preceded with even more wild and manic images presaging a final battle with "communist liberals" and "the deep state". The manic distribution of images would be followed by an even greater upswing of political violence. Here is where AI in particular becomes a danger, because what it lacks in quality it compensates with quantity.
Consider how the brain is "tricked" into thinking enough images moving fast enough give the impression of motion. What AI allows is the impression of a certain conflict. In seconds, Right Wingers can have hundreds of photographs that look real enough to impose ideas on the general public. If a person scrolls TikTok or Facebook or Twitter long enough and sees hundreds of AI generated images of London teeming with Muslims, or Blue-Haired Transgenders teaching school kids, or BLM protesters attacking white people, then even if he can recognize on a basic level that the image in front of him is fake, they could blur and coagulate in his subconscious, plant a seed of fascist myth that the Right will meticulously grow. Even if one or two or three images are recognized as fake, if someone sees the same myth depicted day in and day out, hundreds of times, the possibility remains that they'll believe it on some level, they won't be stuck with any one particular image, but THE image of a battle between "western civilization" and "brown hordes".
So how does the Left counter this? In theory it could try to pre-emptively flood the zone: post more AI than ever of Right Wingers being cannibals, being perverts, freaks, "bad" in some way. Whether it could counter-signal to an extent that would obfuscate Right Wing narrative building is unknown. Alternatively it could try to specialize: quality over quantity. Create such striking images of class war that they hold attention longer than the billion images of AI slop the Right puts out. Regardless of what "The Left" broadly chooses, I think it needs to reckon with AI images as something beyond "quaint", but an insidious danger.
Sorel in the Age of AI
I was thinking of making this thread ages ago, but I couldn't find the right words. I'm still not sure if I'm saying everything I want to here, but I figured at the very least this can create some interesting discussion.I think there's a convergence right now between the Sorelian conception of political "myths" and the prominence of GenAI slop, especially on The Right. I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that Generative AI has been almost endemic to Right-Wing political movements, even while Data Centers in particular are still grossly unpopular. I don't believe this convergence is intentional, in fact I doubt that most on the political Right even know who Sorel was, but rather I believe the Right has intuited some of Sorel's work without actually reading it. Though entirely unintentional, the specter of Sorelianism has only become more relevant to modern political disputes.
To begin, let's first discuss what Sorel means by a "Myth". He asserts his thesis in his Magnum Opus, "Reflections on Violence" here:
>“In the course of these studies, I have established something so simple that I did not believe it had to be emphasized: men who participate in great social movements represent their immediate action in the form of images of battles assuring the triumph of their cause. I proposed calling these constructions myths, the knowledge of which is so important for the historian: the syndicalist general strike and Marx’s catastrophic revolution are myths. I have given as remarkable examples of myths those which were constructed by early Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and by Mazzini’s followers. I wanted to show that it is not necessary to try to analyze such systems of images in the same way that one breaks down something into its elements; that they should be taken as a whole and as historical forces; that it is necessary above all to keep from comparing the accomplished facts with the images which men had adopted prior to action.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 20, Cambridge Texts Edition
The emphasis on the word "images" is my own, as I feel that's directly relevant to the tidal wave of AI slop we see coming from The Right Wing today. Now I should mention that though Sorel uses the term "images" he doesn't necessarily mean a literal picture or painting. The images Sorel refers to could exist as ethereally as in the mind's eye. What matters for the sake of politics is that these images are conceptualized collectively and depict triumphant battles against an enemy.
To try to break this down simply; Sorel believed that myths provided a crucial motive force, that regardless of their relationship to the actual reality of the conflict, they motivate people to become partisans within that conflict. For example, one such myth he references was that of Early Christianity. Historically, Christianity existed in the space of an End Times movement, several early Christians earnestly believed Christ was coming and that by dying as martyrs they would be rewarded in the hereafter. Indeed, contemporary Roman sources would even occasionally remark that Christians would willingly turn themselves in to authorities in hopes of achieving martyrdom. It doesn't matter that the myth Christians conceptualized for themselves didn't literally happen, as Christ didn't return in their lifetimes to usher in the Last Judgement. Rather that myth motivated Christians to proselytize, to suffer martyrdom, and ultimately led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
It was important to Sorel that images depict conflict to be elevated to the status of "myth"; images which merely depict perfect or idealized society, Sorel thought, merely indulged in Utopianism which would lead to reformism.
>“As long as there are no myths accepted by the masses, one may go on talking of revolts indefinitely without ever provoking any revolutionary movement; this is what gives such importance to the general strike and renders it so odious to socialists who are afraid of revolution; they do all they can to shake the confidence felt by the workers in the preparations they are making for the revolution; and in order to succeed in this they cast ridicule on the idea of the general strike, which alone has a value as a motive force. One of the chief means employed by them is to represent it as a utopia; this is easy enough, as there are very few myths which are perfectly free from any utopian element.
>The revolutionary myths which exist at the present time are almost pure; they allow us to understand the activity, the sentiments, and the ideas of the masses as they prepare themselves to enter on a decisive struggle; they are not descriptions of things but expressions of a will to act. A utopia is, on the contrary, an intellectual product; it is the work of theorists who, after observing and discussing the facts, seek to establish a model to which they can compare existing societies in order to estimate the amount of good and evil they contain; it is a combination of imaginary institutions having sufficient analogies to real institutions for the jurist to be able to reason about them; it is a construction which can be broken into parts and of which certain pieces have been shaped in such a way that they can (with a few alterations) be fitted into future legislation. — Whilst contemporary myths lead men to prepare themselves for a combat which will destroy the existing state of things, the effect of utopias has always been to direct men’s minds towards reforms which can be brought about by patching up the system; it is not surprising then that so many believers in utopias were able to develop into able statesmen when they had acquired greater experience of political life. — A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical to the convictions of a group, being the expression of these convictions in the language of movement; and it is, in consequence, unanalysable into parts which could be placed on the plane of historical descriptions. A utopia, on the other hand, can be discussed like any other social constitution; the spontaneous movements it presupposes can be compared with those actually observed in the course of history, and we can in this way evaluate their verisimilitude; it is possible to refute it by showing that the economic system on which it has been made to rest is incompatible with the necessary conditions of modern production.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 28, Cambridge Edition
That was a lot of words, but in essence: myths prepare a movement for battle and encourage them to do conflict, they're taken "as a whole" rather than being broken into constituent parts. An image of Socialists leading a battalion of tanks towards reactionary holdouts doesn't propose legislation nor can it be broken down into an analysis on mechanized warfare, it must be taken as a whole. Utopias, by contrast, are analyzed on a policy-basis. The very origin of the term "Utopia" in political theory relates back to Saint Thomas More's book, and to this very day people had dissected his idealized society and critiqued his policy proposals.
Back to modernity: as generative AI has been refined and widely distributed, it hasn't been adopted by the "mainstream" of political and cultural opinion, rather it has found purchase in groups which can be coined "cultural insurgencies". It's not mainstream liberal thought that embraced AI image generation, but "populist" right wing movements, freaks, perverts, and the detritus of failed social movements. In the face of rapidly secularizing generations, Evangelical Christians have embraced AI images of Jesus coming to earth to judge the secular world they despise. In the absence of sexual gratification, glassy-eyed internet shut ins use AI to give "woke" video game characters bigger tits or a fatter ass or doll-like facial features. Political orgs like the AfD in Germany or MAGA in America gleefully use AI to paint the world as they perceive it: a Manichean battle between foreign invaders, their effeminate compradors in the West, and chisel-jawed "alpha males" opposing them.
As these movements have claimed power in the political arena and shown their utter inability to govern, it appears they've grown to rely more and more on Sorelian style myths to shore up their support. As Trump's grown older and more incontinent, his most fervent supporters depict him as more virile, more muscular, and more competent than ever. As the Iran war proves itself to be a bungle, the Right Wing internet is awash in depictions of Trump as a "military man", Trump in Uniform, Trump ordering missile strikes, Trump flying fighter jets. What this has done is created a floor of unshakeable faith, around 38% of the country which approves of him, whereas George W. Bush eventually collapsed to 25% support by the end of his second term.
Liberals are hoping, perhaps naively, that there will be some "wake up call" for Trump. That a Bush 2 moment may happen where Trump sees his support completely collapse. That America will grow "tired" of populism and submit to the rule of dull technocrats, but as Sorel himself said:
>The professors of the little science are really difficult to satisfy. They assert very loudly that they will only admit into thought ideas that are clear and distinct; – as a matter of fact, this is a rule which is insufficient for purposes of action, for we do nothing great without the help of warmly coloured and sharply defined images which absorb the whole of our attention;
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 140
A more obvious collapse of the Trump administration would not cause a collapse in his supporters, but rather it would be preceded with even more wild and manic images presaging a final battle with "communist liberals" and "the deep state". The manic distribution of images would be followed by an even greater upswing of political violence. Here is where AI in particular becomes a danger, because what it lacks in quality it compensates with quantity.
Consider how the brain is "tricked" into thinking enough images moving fast enough give the impression of motion. What AI allows is the impression of a certain conflict. In seconds, Right Wingers can have hundreds of photographs that look real enough to impose ideas on the general public. If a person scrolls TikTok or Facebook or Twitter long enough and sees hundreds of AI generated images of London teeming with Muslims, or Blue-Haired Transgenders teaching school kids, or BLM protesters attacking white people, then even if he can recognize on a basic level that the image in front of him is fake, they could blur and coagulate in his subconscious, plant a seed of fascist myth that the Right will meticulously grow. Even if one or two or three images are recognized as fake, if someone sees the same myth depicted day in and day out, hundreds of times, the possibility remains that they'll believe it on some level, they won't be stuck with any one particular image, but THE image of a battle between "western civilization" and "brown hordes".
So how does the Left counter this? In theory it could try to pre-emptively flood the zone: post more AI than ever of Right Wingers being cannibals, being perverts, freaks, "bad" in some way. Whether it could counter-signal to an extent that would obfuscate Right Wing narrative building is unknown. Alternatively it could try to specialize: quality over quantity. Create such striking images of class war that they hold attention longer than the billion images of AI slop the Right puts out. Regardless of what "The Left" broadly chooses, I think it needs to reckon with AI images as something beyond "quaint", but an insidious danger.
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>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
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WILLKOMENSKULTUR IST VORBEI edition>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
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Leftbook
Does anyone remembering all those communist meme pages on Facebook in 2015-2018? I had a philosophy meme page that would just post vaguely leftist content and existentialist memes, until it petered out in 2019. I used to be an admin on this page too and got kicked out by some ecelebs like Pierre Trudanke.
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Plus they dont even know what nihilism even means.
"Nihilistic Violent Extremism" (NVE)
Does anyone else think the whole "NVE" thing that popped up a year or so ago is a dedicated psyop? It came completely out of nowhere despute the fact that violence with obscure motives has always been a thing yet recently all the news outlets are drumming about it and acting like its an ISIS tier threat. Is someone trying to start a new satanic panic or is this a way to make political attacks look likejust mentally ill people schizoing out?Plus they dont even know what nihilism even means.
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Yet, I'm a fucking communist. And I need this new position, I desperately need a better wage, so I took the job without a moment of existential crisis, or whatever.
So I would like to axe you guys if you've faced such a dilemma before, and how you resolved the contradictions between the individual and the social, meaning still being a fucking communist, yet having to order proles to "properly" submit to the rule of capital, WHILE trying to maintain… sanity…
On the one hand I feel that I earned this position through my blood sweat n' tears: I was always among the best workers, no matter the job, and I differentiated myself from the rest by delivering the highest quality product, doing it the fastest, being reliable and punctual, etc. Just so it happens that this particular company noticed it and said, "Hey, we need this guy," or, "Hey, what about this guy for this position?"
On the other, I understand – to a degree – being called a "nerd" or an "asslicker" behind my back by my fellow proles. To their criticism (or parody, morelike) I would say that I'm simply not "built" in a way that I could ever possibly do the absolute minimum at a job, so that I get paid what everyone else AND not get fired. It's just not an option for me, on a subjective level. Even at my most boring conveyor-belt job, while working, I was constantly thinking about the work I was doing and how to improve my speed, agility, whatever, while I saw my fellow conveyor-slaves dreaming about whatever, or talking about how the company provided dinner "better be good this time," or whatever. (And I'm not blaming them, tbh. It's an alienated existence, but I think there are cracks and there's luck and then you can break through.)
I'm an intense person, an intense personality.
I hate nothing more at work when the manager tells us: "Production is halted [for some reason], but the cameras are watching, so PLEASE PRETEND to be DOING SOMETHING!" Like, FUCK THAT SHIT! It is in these moments when I think to myself: why am I even here? Just send me back home with the company bus. Stop wasting my time, etc. But when there's work, I'm at the front, pouring my muscles and brainses into it. I become one with the flow. Cynically, I could say, that I actually enjoy my alienation.
Tangent aside, I wanted to ask some practical and, admittedly, moralistic/ethical questions to (ex?-) fellow commie proles and their experiences with managers. Mundane questions, like "what makes a good manager" or "who was the best manager you had, and what qualities made him like so?"
BTW, I've read Lenin before Deng, and our "bordiga-oid" leftcoms still scratch their heads when Lenin says that "we," meaning soviets, need to learn from burger managerial structures, etc. (obv, I'm paraphrasing, and obv., this is from the NEP period…) I'm wondering (and hoping), that somehow, with this managerial path I have taken, I could gather experience that would allow me to shape in a post-revolutionary situation my outlook and perhaps state policies regarding the genre.
As for my inevitable anarcho-tard critics, I would just say one thing, one thing that is based on 5 years of productive labor experience.
Proles work, lumpen-proles, while employed temporarily, work AND steal. I have ZERO problems with my fellow workers lifting completely idiotic, say, hygiene products from the hygiene product factory and either hoarding them at home or running a side (petty) business, selling said articles to an arab petty-bourgeois shop owner, or what-fucking-ever. Good for you, as far as I'm concerned: you substituted your income. The capitalist exploits you, and you found a way to "get back at him," or "get a larger piece of the pie," or whatever. I have no moral qualms about this (inevitable, structural) phenomenon.
HOWEVER, and here we traverse into hypothetical territories, in my labour experience, having "profiled" dozens of these guys and gals who steal from the capitalist workplace, I would say that even IF we had a successful communist revolution, these same motherfuckers would keep stealing from the socialized factories, no matter what.
TL;DR: lumpen is as much a social as a subjective category. If you had no problems with
1) risking your own job every single day (typically, exiting a productive workplace, like a factory, involves searches by a security guy);
2) taking something that is LEGALLY (spooky, and bourgeois, I know) not yours;
3) having these pre-mediated thoughts and strategies and whatnot – I'm trying to emphasize here to subjective investment these coworkers had and have invested in planning stealing OVER planning working …) instead of being an excellent fucking worker (like I was, like I am),
I'm almost certain that you will keep up this habit of yours, a lumpen habit, even after a successful communist revolution. And mind you, I come from an ex-socialist country, and stealing from factories (etc.) was fucking rampant, and back then, basically the shift-leader and the factory bureaucracy and the state-mandated workers union covered your ass if you got caught…….
In any case, and I welcome your input and advice, I know that I should NOT report thieves at the workplace, (DUH!) but I suspect that 95% of these people are anti-social degenerates, who will continue the same behaviour under the lowest stage of communism, socialism.
I guess that is all, for now. Thanks for reading my blogpost, and please give me advice on how to consistently maintain my Marxist conviction WHILE being a manager, a slave-driver, a what-not…
And please, please, do tell me stories about your worst and best "bosses"!
I would very much appreciate that.
thx
Prole to managerial role @ the workplace -- questions
So, I'm about to become a manager's assistant, and hopefully after some time a manager proper, which is to say – in classical ML lingo, – I'm climbing the ladder from a productive worker's position to that of an overseer, which inevitably means that in terms of objective class positions, I'm moving from the run of the mill prole to one that is in service of capital, namely, my new function will essentially be to ensure an optimal production process, which inevitably involves neat things like "keeping the workplace clean" but more importantly, heightening the rate of exploitation, etc.Yet, I'm a fucking communist. And I need this new position, I desperately need a better wage, so I took the job without a moment of existential crisis, or whatever.
So I would like to axe you guys if you've faced such a dilemma before, and how you resolved the contradictions between the individual and the social, meaning still being a fucking communist, yet having to order proles to "properly" submit to the rule of capital, WHILE trying to maintain… sanity…
On the one hand I feel that I earned this position through my blood sweat n' tears: I was always among the best workers, no matter the job, and I differentiated myself from the rest by delivering the highest quality product, doing it the fastest, being reliable and punctual, etc. Just so it happens that this particular company noticed it and said, "Hey, we need this guy," or, "Hey, what about this guy for this position?"
On the other, I understand – to a degree – being called a "nerd" or an "asslicker" behind my back by my fellow proles. To their criticism (or parody, morelike) I would say that I'm simply not "built" in a way that I could ever possibly do the absolute minimum at a job, so that I get paid what everyone else AND not get fired. It's just not an option for me, on a subjective level. Even at my most boring conveyor-belt job, while working, I was constantly thinking about the work I was doing and how to improve my speed, agility, whatever, while I saw my fellow conveyor-slaves dreaming about whatever, or talking about how the company provided dinner "better be good this time," or whatever. (And I'm not blaming them, tbh. It's an alienated existence, but I think there are cracks and there's luck and then you can break through.)
I'm an intense person, an intense personality.
I hate nothing more at work when the manager tells us: "Production is halted [for some reason], but the cameras are watching, so PLEASE PRETEND to be DOING SOMETHING!" Like, FUCK THAT SHIT! It is in these moments when I think to myself: why am I even here? Just send me back home with the company bus. Stop wasting my time, etc. But when there's work, I'm at the front, pouring my muscles and brainses into it. I become one with the flow. Cynically, I could say, that I actually enjoy my alienation.
Tangent aside, I wanted to ask some practical and, admittedly, moralistic/ethical questions to (ex?-) fellow commie proles and their experiences with managers. Mundane questions, like "what makes a good manager" or "who was the best manager you had, and what qualities made him like so?"
BTW, I've read Lenin before Deng, and our "bordiga-oid" leftcoms still scratch their heads when Lenin says that "we," meaning soviets, need to learn from burger managerial structures, etc. (obv, I'm paraphrasing, and obv., this is from the NEP period…) I'm wondering (and hoping), that somehow, with this managerial path I have taken, I could gather experience that would allow me to shape in a post-revolutionary situation my outlook and perhaps state policies regarding the genre.
As for my inevitable anarcho-tard critics, I would just say one thing, one thing that is based on 5 years of productive labor experience.
Proles work, lumpen-proles, while employed temporarily, work AND steal. I have ZERO problems with my fellow workers lifting completely idiotic, say, hygiene products from the hygiene product factory and either hoarding them at home or running a side (petty) business, selling said articles to an arab petty-bourgeois shop owner, or what-fucking-ever. Good for you, as far as I'm concerned: you substituted your income. The capitalist exploits you, and you found a way to "get back at him," or "get a larger piece of the pie," or whatever. I have no moral qualms about this (inevitable, structural) phenomenon.
HOWEVER, and here we traverse into hypothetical territories, in my labour experience, having "profiled" dozens of these guys and gals who steal from the capitalist workplace, I would say that even IF we had a successful communist revolution, these same motherfuckers would keep stealing from the socialized factories, no matter what.
TL;DR: lumpen is as much a social as a subjective category. If you had no problems with
1) risking your own job every single day (typically, exiting a productive workplace, like a factory, involves searches by a security guy);
2) taking something that is LEGALLY (spooky, and bourgeois, I know) not yours;
3) having these pre-mediated thoughts and strategies and whatnot – I'm trying to emphasize here to subjective investment these coworkers had and have invested in planning stealing OVER planning working …) instead of being an excellent fucking worker (like I was, like I am),
I'm almost certain that you will keep up this habit of yours, a lumpen habit, even after a successful communist revolution. And mind you, I come from an ex-socialist country, and stealing from factories (etc.) was fucking rampant, and back then, basically the shift-leader and the factory bureaucracy and the state-mandated workers union covered your ass if you got caught…….
In any case, and I welcome your input and advice, I know that I should NOT report thieves at the workplace, (DUH!) but I suspect that 95% of these people are anti-social degenerates, who will continue the same behaviour under the lowest stage of communism, socialism.
I guess that is all, for now. Thanks for reading my blogpost, and please give me advice on how to consistently maintain my Marxist conviction WHILE being a manager, a slave-driver, a what-not…
And please, please, do tell me stories about your worst and best "bosses"!
I would very much appreciate that.
thx
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"Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no
First major victim of radical liberalism?
"Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no
First major victim of radical liberalism?
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KEEP THE PRO-WAR CIRCLEJERK TO /ukr/ AND FUCK OFF
QOTT:
>пойдёшь голосовать?
>будет ли движуха под выборы?
>какие есть варианты менять ситуацию к лучшему, когда участие в выборном фарсе ничего не даст?
/rupol/
Заранее известных победителей эдишн.KEEP THE PRO-WAR CIRCLEJERK TO /ukr/ AND FUCK OFF
QOTT:
>пойдёшь голосовать?
>будет ли движуха под выборы?
>какие есть варианты менять ситуацию к лучшему, когда участие в выборном фарсе ничего не даст?
R: 16 / I: 3
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
Elon Musk = Nazi
“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
R: 500 / I: 267
Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General
Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
R: 42 / I: 4
a "post-industrial society"
what the fuck kind of nonsense is that shit? like all the food and medicine and clothes and cars and electricity and appliances that we need just fall out of the sky while we move money around in a circle scamming each other and gambling on fairy stories? how did we get here? what the hell happened to our common sense, to our fucking sanity? it's not just the ruling class and the one percent who are like this, it's our whole culture, it's a whole world of delusional entitled narcissists who want something for nothing, from the us president who expects a billion dollars every time someone calls him an asshole, to the youtube influencer who expects a free iphone because he dances around in front of a webcam like a circus clown, to the freelance blogger who expects $10/month from every reader for his ai-assisted pseudointellectual drivel, to the typical small business owner who never even shows his face in the store and just hires teenagers and poor immigrants to run it for minimum wage while he collects passive income, to the "tech entrepeneur" who crowdsources free labor for his open-source software project and then sells it off to some big company at the first opportunity. whatever happens to us in the future when this ponzi scheme we call "civilization" collapses, we deserve every bit of it and then some. we deserve to have our faces under the boot for all eternity for this shit.
R: 47 / I: 8
I have been brainwashed by rightist propaganda into believing that human ethnicities or "races" have differing skills a capabilities because of biological factors
I'm tired of my mind being clouded by hateful intrusive thoughts
Please help deprogram me
Please show me the light and please tell me which books or articles I should read that shows there isn't a "superior race"
Please
I have been brainwashed by rightist propaganda into believing that human ethnicities or "races" have differing skills a capabilities because of biological factors
I'm tired of my mind being clouded by hateful intrusive thoughts
Please help deprogram me
Please show me the light and please tell me which books or articles I should read that shows there isn't a "superior race"
Please
R: 18 / I: 0
From the few bits and pieces I've read on it, their work seems completely irrelevant and stuck in philosophical qualms with no relation to the real world. The hegelian interpretation of Marx reads as a bunch of messianic and idealist garbage that Marx would've condemned.
But what's /leftypol/'s opinion on the matter ?
What are your thoughts on hegelian marxists ?
I've personally approached marx from a more economic perspective and I was surprised to see that some authors treat Marx as primarily a philosopher rather than a social critique.From the few bits and pieces I've read on it, their work seems completely irrelevant and stuck in philosophical qualms with no relation to the real world. The hegelian interpretation of Marx reads as a bunch of messianic and idealist garbage that Marx would've condemned.
But what's /leftypol/'s opinion on the matter ?
R: 9 / I: 0
Because no matter who wins the elections, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians will continue. If one of the liberal Zionists wins they will spin somehow to make it seem less evil. With these two they won't be able to pretend that they're not genocidal freaks. Thus hastening international intervention.
I'm totally accelerationist in this regard.
What do you think of this?
Accelerationism
I hope these guys win the coming elections in Israel.Because no matter who wins the elections, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians will continue. If one of the liberal Zionists wins they will spin somehow to make it seem less evil. With these two they won't be able to pretend that they're not genocidal freaks. Thus hastening international intervention.
I'm totally accelerationist in this regard.
What do you think of this?
R: 4 / I: 0
Canadian Nuclear Proliferation: NPT withdrawal
An electronic petition with as few as 500 signatures could be considered for review by the House of Commons. It's time for one of us to create a petition demanding that Canada withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The time is right for this. The Canadian public is fed up and forcing Canada's parliament to respond to a petition with enough signatures and a member of parliament's endorsement would deepen the Western rupture.
R: 45 / I: 9
Another Communization Theory thread because why not?
Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!
Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
Another Communization Theory thread because why not?
Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!
Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
R: 3 / I: 0
The government of Rodrigo Paz has deployed Police and Military units after the announcement of road blockades in different areas of Bolivia. In June this year, the government issued a decree to deploy the repression forces of the State before popular protests, such as the road blockades. Therefore, the government imposed a state of exception, which is still ongoing and will last another 22 days.
https://redherald.org/2026/08/26/military-deployment-in-bolivias-roads-anticipating-new-blockades/
Venezuela: Opposition Lawmaker Ecarri Proposes Dollarization Plan
Ecarri, a National Assembly Deputy from Alianza del Lápiz, has hired US economist Steve Hanke as an advisor for his plan to change the national currency. …. Hanke, a Johns Hopkins University academic who served in the Reagan administration, has advised countries such as Ecuador and Zimbabwe on similar initiatives. In an article for business magazine Fortune, he confirmed that he has already drafted “a bill for the Venezuelan parliament.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-opposition-lawmaker-ecarri-proposes-dollarization-plan/
U.S. close to striking "massive" deal for Venezuelan oil fields
The historic deal would more than double U.S. oil reserves by drawing from a country that has the world's largest proven reserves. "Calling this deal huge would be an understatement," one of the officials said. "It is massive." Adding pressure to get the deal signed: the wars in Iran and Ukraine, which have disrupted global oil supplies and raised prices.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/trump-venezuela-oil-deal-talks
https://archive.ph/HRScX
Israeli forces set to deploy troops to West Bank as settler attacks continue
The move was justified by Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir, who said that amid the upcoming Jewish holiday season, he is “ordering the elevation of readiness of an additional division headquarters in order to reinforce the forces in the area.” “In addition, preparations must be made for the immediate deployment of units and battalions to reinforce the area," he added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-set-deploy-troops-west-bank-amid-attacks
Algerian wildfires claim at least 12 lives and 54 injured
He reported 54 burn cases at the hospital, including six people who were in critical condition. Mr Sayoud said civil protection teams recorded 154 fire outbreaks across the country on Wednesday, including 36 in Bejaia province, 18 of which had been brought under control.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/algerian-wildfires-minister-of-interior-said-sayoud-12-dead-54-injured
Chad accuses Sudan of cross-border strike, raises alert level
Chad has accused neighbouring Sudan of carrying out an air strike that hit a military convoy in its territory last week, and has raised its alert level in the area to its highest point, a security source said. Sudan said on Thursday it was surprised its army had been blamed for the attack without an independent investigation, and that its forces were working to protect its sovereignty.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chad-accuses-sudan-cross-border-strike-raises-alert-level-2026-08-27/
UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’
Eman el-Shazly, a 45-year-old based in Birmingham, was arrested on 16 August while visiting Egypt. Her lawyers say she has been detained in an attempt to silence her sister Mona, a relentless and harsh critic of the Egyptian government on her UK-based YouTube channel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/uk-urged-to-help-free-british-egyptian-arrested-in-cairo-over-sisters-activism
Fears raised for 40 children still missing from asylum-seeker hotels
Last year then border security and asylum minister Dame Angela Eagle told the committee that some of those found were “located in exploitative situations and may have been trafficked or victims of other forms of exploitation.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fears-raised-40-children-still-missing-asylum-seeker-hotels
French presidential candidates clash at first debate before upcoming elections
hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged business leaders to "raise wages" to prevent France from "falling into recession" and slammed "tax giveaways" under Macron which he alleged equalled the sum of the entire deficit. Centrist hopeful Édouard Philippe, a former premier under Macron, accused Melenchon of seeking to "burn" France's debt and take steps that would "result in France being shut out of the banking system".
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260827-french-presidential-candidates-clash-at-first-debate-before-upcoming-elections
Why JP Nadda met anti-reservation protesters, and what BJP wants
Union Minister J P Nadda on Thursday met members of the “Reservation Hatao Andolan” here, days after hundreds of people gathered at Jantar Mantar demanding that affirmative action be based on economic criteria rather than caste.
https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/jp-nadda-meets-reservation-hatao-andolan-bjp-up-upper-caste-tactics-10852517/?ref=hometop_hp
Residents denounce Bulacan barangay officials' repression
Since August 21, the barangay has banned and blocked the entry and exit of vehicles residents use for their livelihood. The vehicle is loaded with plastics that residents collect, clean and sell to a factory in the city center. Residents said the barangay gave no notice at all regarding the policy. The abrupt ban deprived them of their means of livelihood. The barangay also included a ban on bringing bottled water into the community. They said these measures violate their rights to land, settlement and livelihood.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/residents-denounce-bulacan-barangay-officials-repression/
Catastrophic floods kill over 390 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing
Videos of the disaster showed people running before the floodwaters swallowed them up and washed out buildings and bridges. More than 390 people were killed, according to authorities in Nepal and China, and more than 1,400 were missing, including hundreds of foreigners and pilgrims. Hundreds of others have been displaced across the Himalayan region.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-tibet-glacier-collapse-floods-61b592d428e4631add31ce052d0daf1f
News 8/27/26
Military Deployment in Bolivia’s Roads Anticipating New BlockadesThe government of Rodrigo Paz has deployed Police and Military units after the announcement of road blockades in different areas of Bolivia. In June this year, the government issued a decree to deploy the repression forces of the State before popular protests, such as the road blockades. Therefore, the government imposed a state of exception, which is still ongoing and will last another 22 days.
https://redherald.org/2026/08/26/military-deployment-in-bolivias-roads-anticipating-new-blockades/
Venezuela: Opposition Lawmaker Ecarri Proposes Dollarization Plan
Ecarri, a National Assembly Deputy from Alianza del Lápiz, has hired US economist Steve Hanke as an advisor for his plan to change the national currency. …. Hanke, a Johns Hopkins University academic who served in the Reagan administration, has advised countries such as Ecuador and Zimbabwe on similar initiatives. In an article for business magazine Fortune, he confirmed that he has already drafted “a bill for the Venezuelan parliament.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-opposition-lawmaker-ecarri-proposes-dollarization-plan/
U.S. close to striking "massive" deal for Venezuelan oil fields
The historic deal would more than double U.S. oil reserves by drawing from a country that has the world's largest proven reserves. "Calling this deal huge would be an understatement," one of the officials said. "It is massive." Adding pressure to get the deal signed: the wars in Iran and Ukraine, which have disrupted global oil supplies and raised prices.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/trump-venezuela-oil-deal-talks
https://archive.ph/HRScX
Israeli forces set to deploy troops to West Bank as settler attacks continue
The move was justified by Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir, who said that amid the upcoming Jewish holiday season, he is “ordering the elevation of readiness of an additional division headquarters in order to reinforce the forces in the area.” “In addition, preparations must be made for the immediate deployment of units and battalions to reinforce the area," he added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-set-deploy-troops-west-bank-amid-attacks
Algerian wildfires claim at least 12 lives and 54 injured
He reported 54 burn cases at the hospital, including six people who were in critical condition. Mr Sayoud said civil protection teams recorded 154 fire outbreaks across the country on Wednesday, including 36 in Bejaia province, 18 of which had been brought under control.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/algerian-wildfires-minister-of-interior-said-sayoud-12-dead-54-injured
Chad accuses Sudan of cross-border strike, raises alert level
Chad has accused neighbouring Sudan of carrying out an air strike that hit a military convoy in its territory last week, and has raised its alert level in the area to its highest point, a security source said. Sudan said on Thursday it was surprised its army had been blamed for the attack without an independent investigation, and that its forces were working to protect its sovereignty.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chad-accuses-sudan-cross-border-strike-raises-alert-level-2026-08-27/
UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’
Eman el-Shazly, a 45-year-old based in Birmingham, was arrested on 16 August while visiting Egypt. Her lawyers say she has been detained in an attempt to silence her sister Mona, a relentless and harsh critic of the Egyptian government on her UK-based YouTube channel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/uk-urged-to-help-free-british-egyptian-arrested-in-cairo-over-sisters-activism
Fears raised for 40 children still missing from asylum-seeker hotels
Last year then border security and asylum minister Dame Angela Eagle told the committee that some of those found were “located in exploitative situations and may have been trafficked or victims of other forms of exploitation.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fears-raised-40-children-still-missing-asylum-seeker-hotels
French presidential candidates clash at first debate before upcoming elections
hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged business leaders to "raise wages" to prevent France from "falling into recession" and slammed "tax giveaways" under Macron which he alleged equalled the sum of the entire deficit. Centrist hopeful Édouard Philippe, a former premier under Macron, accused Melenchon of seeking to "burn" France's debt and take steps that would "result in France being shut out of the banking system".
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260827-french-presidential-candidates-clash-at-first-debate-before-upcoming-elections
Why JP Nadda met anti-reservation protesters, and what BJP wants
Union Minister J P Nadda on Thursday met members of the “Reservation Hatao Andolan” here, days after hundreds of people gathered at Jantar Mantar demanding that affirmative action be based on economic criteria rather than caste.
https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/jp-nadda-meets-reservation-hatao-andolan-bjp-up-upper-caste-tactics-10852517/?ref=hometop_hp
Residents denounce Bulacan barangay officials' repression
Since August 21, the barangay has banned and blocked the entry and exit of vehicles residents use for their livelihood. The vehicle is loaded with plastics that residents collect, clean and sell to a factory in the city center. Residents said the barangay gave no notice at all regarding the policy. The abrupt ban deprived them of their means of livelihood. The barangay also included a ban on bringing bottled water into the community. They said these measures violate their rights to land, settlement and livelihood.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/residents-denounce-bulacan-barangay-officials-repression/
Catastrophic floods kill over 390 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing
Videos of the disaster showed people running before the floodwaters swallowed them up and washed out buildings and bridges. More than 390 people were killed, according to authorities in Nepal and China, and more than 1,400 were missing, including hundreds of foreigners and pilgrims. Hundreds of others have been displaced across the Himalayan region.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-tibet-glacier-collapse-floods-61b592d428e4631add31ce052d0daf1f
R: 29 / I: 5
Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
ITALIANS DO IT BETTERManica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
R: 601 / I: 152 (full)
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
ICE & Prison Resources
Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world.
>ICE In My Area // ICE tracker using public info and user submissions
https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
>AILA Deaths Log // list of deaths at ICE concentration camps
https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
>Incarceration in Real Numbers // 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
>US Jails Database // database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites
https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
>Prison Activist Resource Center // resources, mailing lists, etc
https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
>ICE Agent List // incomplete public wiki
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
>US Political Prisoners Tracker // last updated 2025
https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading
>Are Prisons Obsolete? // Angela Davis
https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
>Defend Yourself in Interrogation // No Trace Project
https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
>Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook // National Lawyers Guild
https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
>Surviving Solitary Confinement // Critical Resistance
https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
>The Abolitionist // inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle
https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
>Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual // legal reference
https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒ Labor
>Cornell Strike Tracker // live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
>AFL-CIO Strike Map // [imperialist]'s strike tracker
https://aflcio.org/strike-map
>BLS Work Stoppage Data // Labor Bureau's official tracker
https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
>IWW Timeline // 20th century chronology (ends at 1999)
https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
>IWW Workplace Organizing Guide // libcom.org / Solidarity Federation
https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
>▶ Salting: Workplace Organizing 101 // 50 minute webinar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
>US Atrocities (essay) // deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
>Overthrowing Other People's Governments // coups and regime changes — master list
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
>Wikipedia: US War Crimes // reference article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
>No Blood, No Foul // /our boys/ detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006]
https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
>251 Military Interventions Since 1991 // Black Agenda Report
https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
>Slave Voyages // visualisation of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
https://www.slavevoyages.org/
>Slavery & Remembrance // UNESCO sites relating to slavery
https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
>Slave Narratives Collection // first-hand documents, Library of Congress
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 // NOAA
https://www.noaa.gov/weather
Gommie News 📺
>Geese
https://www.geesemag.com/
>HOUDINI
https://houdinimagazine.com/
>Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/
>Black Agenda Report
https://blackagendareport.com/
>The Grayzone
https://thegrayzone.com/
>Left Voice
https://www.leftvoice.org/
>Newsanon Filter // leftypol search feed
https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22NewsAnon%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 📖
>Black Reconstruction // W.E.B. Du Bois
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
>Fourth of July Speech // Eugene Debs
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 Crèvecoeur
https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
>Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement, 1972
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
>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
>Custer Died for Your Sins // Vine Deloria Jr., 1969
http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
>Emancipation Proclamation // Lincoln
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
>Democracy in America // 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 Newton - The Correct Handling of a Revolution
https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/1967/07/20.htm
>Share Our Wealth // Huey Long
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
>OP Backup Site
https://usapol.neocities.org/
>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™
/USApol/ - American Politics
>I love my country but it does not yet exist editionThe American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
ICE & Prison Resources
Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world.
>ICE In My Area // ICE tracker using public info and user submissions
https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
>AILA Deaths Log // list of deaths at ICE concentration camps
https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
>Incarceration in Real Numbers // 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
>US Jails Database // database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites
https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
>Prison Activist Resource Center // resources, mailing lists, etc
https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
>ICE Agent List // incomplete public wiki
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
>US Political Prisoners Tracker // last updated 2025
https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading
>Are Prisons Obsolete? // Angela Davis
https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
>Defend Yourself in Interrogation // No Trace Project
https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
>Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook // National Lawyers Guild
https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
>Surviving Solitary Confinement // Critical Resistance
https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
>The Abolitionist // inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle
https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
>Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual // legal reference
https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒ Labor
>Cornell Strike Tracker // live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
>AFL-CIO Strike Map // [imperialist]'s strike tracker
https://aflcio.org/strike-map
>BLS Work Stoppage Data // Labor Bureau's official tracker
https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
>IWW Timeline // 20th century chronology (ends at 1999)
https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
>IWW Workplace Organizing Guide // libcom.org / Solidarity Federation
https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
>▶ Salting: Workplace Organizing 101 // 50 minute webinar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
>US Atrocities (essay) // deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
>Overthrowing Other People's Governments // coups and regime changes — master list
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
>Wikipedia: US War Crimes // reference article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
>No Blood, No Foul // /our boys/ detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006]
https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
>251 Military Interventions Since 1991 // Black Agenda Report
https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
>Slave Voyages // visualisation of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
https://www.slavevoyages.org/
>Slavery & Remembrance // UNESCO sites relating to slavery
https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
>Slave Narratives Collection // first-hand documents, Library of Congress
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 // NOAA
https://www.noaa.gov/weather
Gommie News 📺
>Geese
https://www.geesemag.com/
>HOUDINI
https://houdinimagazine.com/
>Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/
>Black Agenda Report
https://blackagendareport.com/
>The Grayzone
https://thegrayzone.com/
>Left Voice
https://www.leftvoice.org/
>Newsanon Filter // leftypol search feed
https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22NewsAnon%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 📖
>Black Reconstruction // W.E.B. Du Bois
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
>Fourth of July Speech // Eugene Debs
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 Crèvecoeur
https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
>Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement, 1972
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
>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
>Custer Died for Your Sins // Vine Deloria Jr., 1969
http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
>Emancipation Proclamation // Lincoln
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
>Democracy in America // 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 Newton - The Correct Handling of a Revolution
https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/1967/07/20.htm
>Share Our Wealth // Huey Long
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
>OP Backup Site
https://usapol.neocities.org/
>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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Linkfarm:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
/leftydeutschpol/ - Mehrzweckeier Edition
Previously:Linkfarm:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
R: 24 / I: 3
Have you guys been paying attention to the normie discourses
has anyone been paying attention to these ""discussions"" on tiktok the gentiles believe that lindsay clancey didn't kill her kids, straight people are only attracted to other, and the word cis is a slur/predatory (old foids don't want to be called it so if you call them that its le rape) how are we to reeducate these people with no institutional power
R: 78 / I: 10
The shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt toward individual responsibility and the presumption of innocence was gradual rather than revolutionary. In many ancient and medieval societies, families, clans, villages, or entire communities could be held liable for the actions of one member, and accused individuals often had to prove their innocence through oaths, ordeals, or social standing. These proofs were often ritual in nature and lacked scientific rigor. Over centuries, especially under the influence of Roman legal principles, canon law, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and liberal constitutionalism, legal systems increasingly emphasized that guilt should be based on evidence against a specific individual rather than group affiliation. Thinkers such as Beccaria and Blackstone argued that protecting the innocent from wrongful punishment was more important than maximizing convictions, leading to higher standards of proof, formal rules of evidence, due process, and the modern principle that the prosecution bears the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite these legal prohibitions, governments and armed groups have at times been accused of imposing measures that amount to collective punishment, especially during wars, occupations, and counterinsurgency campaigns. Whether a specific case qualifies is often legally and politically disputed.
The transformation from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual liability and the presumption of innocence was driven largely by changes in state capacity and legal administration. As governments became stronger, more centralized, and more bureaucratic, they relied less on kinship groups to police their own members and more on professional courts, investigators, and judges. Improved record-keeping, forensic methods, written legal codes, and standardized procedures made it increasingly feasible (but not necessarily easy) to determine who actually committed an offense, reducing the perceived need to punish families or communities collectively. At the same time, expanding commerce and more diverse populations required legal systems that were universalist in nature, and treated strangers as individuals under uniform rules rather than as second class citizens, gradually making individualized justice and procedural safeguards the foundation of modern law.
From a class and economic perspective, the shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual responsibility can be understood as a consequence of the rise of market economies and capitalist social relations. Collective liability was well suited to feudal and kin-based societies, where obligations were shared by households, villages, and estates, but it impeded commerce by making contracts and property rights unpredictable. As merchants, urban aristocracy, and later industrial capitalists gained influence, they demanded legal systems that treated people as autonomous individuals capable of owning property, entering contracts, and being held liable only for their own actions. The resulting legal order replaced inherited collective responsibility with individualized rights and duties, not simply out of humanitarian concern, but because wage labor, private property, investment, and impersonal markets functioned more efficiently when legal responsibility was attached to discrete individuals rather than families, classes, or communities.
However, there is a problem which persists. Engels' concept of "social murder" refers to the idea that when a social and economic system predictably produces premature death through poverty, unsafe working conditions, malnutrition, or inadequate housing, those deaths are not mere accidents but the foreseeable consequences of institutional arrangements. Under this interpretation, responsibility is diffuse rather than individualized: no single capitalist or official commits murder in the ordinary legal sense, but the ruling class collectively maintains a system whose predictable effects include preventable deaths. Should the ruling class be collectively punished for this crime, potentially undermining or reversing the the historical changes described above? Furthermore, are not the proletariat themselves being collectively punished by the bourgeoisie for the crime of being poor?
One could argue that this represents a functional return of collective punishment, despite the formal triumph of individualized criminal law. Modern legal systems generally reject punishing innocent individuals for another person's crimes, yet they often tolerate economic institutions that systematically expose entire classes to greater risks of illness, violence, and early death based on their socioeconomic position. In that sense, the poor may experience harms not because of anything they individually did, but because they belong to a structurally disadvantaged class. The "punishment" is not imposed by a judge but by social and economic arrangements.
Bourgeois apologists argue that collective punishment involves intentionally imposing penalties on innocent people for the actions of others, whereas poverty-related harms arise from impersonal market processes, policy tradeoffs, historical contingencies, or individual choices rather than a deliberate punitive intent. From this perspective, calling these outcomes "collective punishment" obscures important distinctions between legal sanctions and structural inequality.
Collective Punishment Versus Individual Responsibility
Today most legal systems nominally reject collective punishment, emphasizing individual responsibility. It is also prohibited in armed conflict under international humanitarian law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention. This was not always the case. The Athenian Draco is remembered for harsh laws, from which we get the word "Draconian" but one of his major reforms was to replace private blood feuds with state-administered justice. Before his code, killings were often avenged by the victim's family, leading to cycles of retaliation.The shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt toward individual responsibility and the presumption of innocence was gradual rather than revolutionary. In many ancient and medieval societies, families, clans, villages, or entire communities could be held liable for the actions of one member, and accused individuals often had to prove their innocence through oaths, ordeals, or social standing. These proofs were often ritual in nature and lacked scientific rigor. Over centuries, especially under the influence of Roman legal principles, canon law, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and liberal constitutionalism, legal systems increasingly emphasized that guilt should be based on evidence against a specific individual rather than group affiliation. Thinkers such as Beccaria and Blackstone argued that protecting the innocent from wrongful punishment was more important than maximizing convictions, leading to higher standards of proof, formal rules of evidence, due process, and the modern principle that the prosecution bears the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite these legal prohibitions, governments and armed groups have at times been accused of imposing measures that amount to collective punishment, especially during wars, occupations, and counterinsurgency campaigns. Whether a specific case qualifies is often legally and politically disputed.
The transformation from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual liability and the presumption of innocence was driven largely by changes in state capacity and legal administration. As governments became stronger, more centralized, and more bureaucratic, they relied less on kinship groups to police their own members and more on professional courts, investigators, and judges. Improved record-keeping, forensic methods, written legal codes, and standardized procedures made it increasingly feasible (but not necessarily easy) to determine who actually committed an offense, reducing the perceived need to punish families or communities collectively. At the same time, expanding commerce and more diverse populations required legal systems that were universalist in nature, and treated strangers as individuals under uniform rules rather than as second class citizens, gradually making individualized justice and procedural safeguards the foundation of modern law.
From a class and economic perspective, the shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual responsibility can be understood as a consequence of the rise of market economies and capitalist social relations. Collective liability was well suited to feudal and kin-based societies, where obligations were shared by households, villages, and estates, but it impeded commerce by making contracts and property rights unpredictable. As merchants, urban aristocracy, and later industrial capitalists gained influence, they demanded legal systems that treated people as autonomous individuals capable of owning property, entering contracts, and being held liable only for their own actions. The resulting legal order replaced inherited collective responsibility with individualized rights and duties, not simply out of humanitarian concern, but because wage labor, private property, investment, and impersonal markets functioned more efficiently when legal responsibility was attached to discrete individuals rather than families, classes, or communities.
However, there is a problem which persists. Engels' concept of "social murder" refers to the idea that when a social and economic system predictably produces premature death through poverty, unsafe working conditions, malnutrition, or inadequate housing, those deaths are not mere accidents but the foreseeable consequences of institutional arrangements. Under this interpretation, responsibility is diffuse rather than individualized: no single capitalist or official commits murder in the ordinary legal sense, but the ruling class collectively maintains a system whose predictable effects include preventable deaths. Should the ruling class be collectively punished for this crime, potentially undermining or reversing the the historical changes described above? Furthermore, are not the proletariat themselves being collectively punished by the bourgeoisie for the crime of being poor?
One could argue that this represents a functional return of collective punishment, despite the formal triumph of individualized criminal law. Modern legal systems generally reject punishing innocent individuals for another person's crimes, yet they often tolerate economic institutions that systematically expose entire classes to greater risks of illness, violence, and early death based on their socioeconomic position. In that sense, the poor may experience harms not because of anything they individually did, but because they belong to a structurally disadvantaged class. The "punishment" is not imposed by a judge but by social and economic arrangements.
Bourgeois apologists argue that collective punishment involves intentionally imposing penalties on innocent people for the actions of others, whereas poverty-related harms arise from impersonal market processes, policy tradeoffs, historical contingencies, or individual choices rather than a deliberate punitive intent. From this perspective, calling these outcomes "collective punishment" obscures important distinctions between legal sanctions and structural inequality.
R: 14 / I: 2 (sage)
Why do internet leftists glaze over failures so much?
Exmples of what I mean:- Black Panther Party - aimed to destroy the US and bring communism, did nothing notable, disbanded after being targeted by the state they wanted to destroy. Online leftists say they did nothing wrong and blame the evil capitalist US for not letting a bunch of dudes destroy itself.
- The USSR - a system that almost died in late 1960s but was saved by oil prices. When oil prices dropped back down it also died. Thoughout its existence it was plagued by internal issues, corruption, censorship, and Dubai style megaprojects.
- Concept of "Late stage capitalism" - the term was coined over 100 years ago and it implies that capitalism is heading towards collapse soon™. Since then capitalisn has transformed multiple times but it is still "late stage" and this time it is definitely going to collapse. (dont look at parallels with christian latter days)
R: 37 / I: 9 (sage)
The goal of Communists is to seize power for the working class. That means elevating the consciousness of the working people to see that their welfare and survival can only be secured by political means. Why are so many of you fuckwits so allergic to power that you think shitting on a figured universally beloved by that working class is a good idea?
Yes, there is a time and a place to discuss how celebrities can be tools to support Imperialism and Capitalism. That time and place is not fucking now. Maybe you're right, she did support Imperialism by being a sex symbol for "da troops" or whatever. Can you retards not grasp that saying that shit NOW doesn't make you a based and principled revolutionary, it makes you look like an unhinged lunatic. You're not just being a contrarian dickhead, you're being a shit Communist, and the entire movement would be better off without you.
Communists are not immune to the basic principles of politics and power-brokering. Touch grass ffs
Leftists be normal challenge
Why the fuck is it impossible for some of you neurotic freaks to be normal? Why must so many of you be contrarian fuckwits? For an ideology called "Socialism" you'd think you'd be able to manage basic social skills and not go "Uhm well ackshually Dolly Parton supported Iraq and didn't post about Palestine" right after she's fucking died. Why are so many of you so autistic you can't grasp something as basic as pandering to the sensibilities of normies even slightly and not screeching incessantly about her being a crakkker fascist or whatever because she wasn't bankrolling the Black Panthers or something?The goal of Communists is to seize power for the working class. That means elevating the consciousness of the working people to see that their welfare and survival can only be secured by political means. Why are so many of you fuckwits so allergic to power that you think shitting on a figured universally beloved by that working class is a good idea?
Yes, there is a time and a place to discuss how celebrities can be tools to support Imperialism and Capitalism. That time and place is not fucking now. Maybe you're right, she did support Imperialism by being a sex symbol for "da troops" or whatever. Can you retards not grasp that saying that shit NOW doesn't make you a based and principled revolutionary, it makes you look like an unhinged lunatic. You're not just being a contrarian dickhead, you're being a shit Communist, and the entire movement would be better off without you.
Communists are not immune to the basic principles of politics and power-brokering. Touch grass ffs
R: 14 / I: 1 (sage)
I want to believe that they're bot/shill threads because all the replies are ridiculously stupid, uninteresting, and half of the time a thread will have 200-300 replies with not a single post addressing the OP image. A couple of days ago I saw a thread with the twitter account "End Wokeness" complaining about the DSA being dangerous, and only about 4 out of 250 replies even addressed the fact that End Wokeness is an Orthodox Zionist Jew (which should be common knowledge on a board which screams about da joooooz all day, but not for LLMs which can't parse the text in the OP image). I just saw this thread now and it made me unbelievably pissed off. Not a single person for dozens of replies pointed out that historically a bunch of socialist leaders (Mao, Pol Pot, many of "da joooooz" in Russia who were part of the Middle Class Intelligentsia with animosity against Christian Tsarist autocracy) were part of the petit-bourgeoisie, urban skilled professions or came from families wealthy rural landowners (which is how they got enough education to become socialist activists in the first place).
Plus, the average person with no money is literally a wageslave with no time, no connections and no resources to be heard by other people/media. Why wouldn't socialist organisers disproportionately be people with some amount of money, just like a ton of the alt-right personalities were? Only so many people can become political talking heads by being viral streamers, and even then they can only get so far unless they can afford to make it their full-time pursuit (which involves money). And on top of that, what radical Union organisations does the USA even have that exist in the consciousness of the average zoomer? What do these people fucking want, John Henry?
This has to be a concerted effort to spam discussion about the DSA on that dead board, it's not possible so many people can be so inane and stupid for hundreds of posts on end. Can somebody explain to me why exactly there is a shill war between the DSA and MIGAtards on the dead website that is 4cuck?
Why does 4/pol/ have bot threads arguing over the DSA?
Can the top minds of this leftist board please fill me in on why /pol/yps' dead board is full of bot threads arguing either for or against the DSA?I want to believe that they're bot/shill threads because all the replies are ridiculously stupid, uninteresting, and half of the time a thread will have 200-300 replies with not a single post addressing the OP image. A couple of days ago I saw a thread with the twitter account "End Wokeness" complaining about the DSA being dangerous, and only about 4 out of 250 replies even addressed the fact that End Wokeness is an Orthodox Zionist Jew (which should be common knowledge on a board which screams about da joooooz all day, but not for LLMs which can't parse the text in the OP image). I just saw this thread now and it made me unbelievably pissed off. Not a single person for dozens of replies pointed out that historically a bunch of socialist leaders (Mao, Pol Pot, many of "da joooooz" in Russia who were part of the Middle Class Intelligentsia with animosity against Christian Tsarist autocracy) were part of the petit-bourgeoisie, urban skilled professions or came from families wealthy rural landowners (which is how they got enough education to become socialist activists in the first place).
Plus, the average person with no money is literally a wageslave with no time, no connections and no resources to be heard by other people/media. Why wouldn't socialist organisers disproportionately be people with some amount of money, just like a ton of the alt-right personalities were? Only so many people can become political talking heads by being viral streamers, and even then they can only get so far unless they can afford to make it their full-time pursuit (which involves money). And on top of that, what radical Union organisations does the USA even have that exist in the consciousness of the average zoomer? What do these people fucking want, John Henry?
This has to be a concerted effort to spam discussion about the DSA on that dead board, it's not possible so many people can be so inane and stupid for hundreds of posts on end. Can somebody explain to me why exactly there is a shill war between the DSA and MIGAtards on the dead website that is 4cuck?
R: 37 / I: 1
Class A NATO and Class B NATO.
Class A - Germanic NATO.
Class B - Slavic NATO.
When there would be an actual attack on NATO Class B, it doesn't mean the Class A (Germanic) will go and send their soldiers to fight the attacker.
You will not read about this in official documents and statements, but this is the reality.
If for example, Putler would attack the baltics, we might see Poland, Romania and maybe Finland and Sweden, fighting.
NATO is a paper tiger, Putler is already doing hybrid war against baltics, Poland, Romania, but NATO is not reacting at all, they don't respond with hybrid war against Russia.
two NATOs
You know there are actually two NATO's?Class A NATO and Class B NATO.
Class A - Germanic NATO.
Class B - Slavic NATO.
When there would be an actual attack on NATO Class B, it doesn't mean the Class A (Germanic) will go and send their soldiers to fight the attacker.
You will not read about this in official documents and statements, but this is the reality.
If for example, Putler would attack the baltics, we might see Poland, Romania and maybe Finland and Sweden, fighting.
NATO is a paper tiger, Putler is already doing hybrid war against baltics, Poland, Romania, but NATO is not reacting at all, they don't respond with hybrid war against Russia.
R: 27 / I: 7
https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
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>Bye, bye, Microsoft! – editionhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
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Brazilian presidential candidate stages a falseflag, blames Leftypol
Yesterday, someone in Leftypol's latam board posted a death threat to Renan Santos, a Brazilian candidate in this year's presidential elections. Within (what I believe to be) seconds, it was deleted by the own OP. Reportedly no one saw that post, but it is in the board's log. Some hours later, websites and social media started circulating this as (minor) news, and Renan Santos promptly recorded a video (related) wearing a bulletproof vest saying he's being threatened by radical leftists in an obscure imageboard, who intended to kill him on his next speech at an university (the most famous one in Brazil), yadda yadda.
Renan Santos is a member of MBL and its Missão party, which are alt-right organizations that are somewhat popular with the Brazilian youth. He is ranking low, at only 4% of estimated votes in the upcoming elections, but he ranks higher with young voters, and will probably scoop a third place behind Lula and Bolsonaro's son.
Thoughts?
Brazilian presidential candidate stages a falseflag, blames Leftypol
Yesterday, someone in Leftypol's latam board posted a death threat to Renan Santos, a Brazilian candidate in this year's presidential elections. Within (what I believe to be) seconds, it was deleted by the own OP. Reportedly no one saw that post, but it is in the board's log. Some hours later, websites and social media started circulating this as (minor) news, and Renan Santos promptly recorded a video (related) wearing a bulletproof vest saying he's being threatened by radical leftists in an obscure imageboard, who intended to kill him on his next speech at an university (the most famous one in Brazil), yadda yadda.
Renan Santos is a member of MBL and its Missão party, which are alt-right organizations that are somewhat popular with the Brazilian youth. He is ranking low, at only 4% of estimated votes in the upcoming elections, but he ranks higher with young voters, and will probably scoop a third place behind Lula and Bolsonaro's son.
Thoughts?
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A councillor chosen by the ANC branch under the Madibeng municipality is being rejected by the party in favour of another candidate, prompting some community members to push for their preferred candidate to contest the ward under the South African Communist Party (SACP) banner. Councillor John Raletele has been approached to stand as an SACP candidate after the ANC moved to reject his nomination for another term as ward councillor in Madibeng.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2026-08-26-community-dangles-sacp-hat-to-rejected-anc-candidate-councillor-in-madibeng/
https://archive.ph/cMIDQ
Dozens killed in rebel attacks on Sudan’s Kordofan, medical group says
A medical organisation has accused a Sudanese rebel group aligned with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of killing 27 people, including four children, in the southern province of South Kordofan. In a statement on Tuesday, the Sudan Doctors Network said the killings were carried out by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-N) in Qardud and Abu Hamama, areas inhabited by the Otoro tribe in South Kordofan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/26/dozens-killed-in-rebel-attacks-on-sudans-kordofan-medical-group-says
https://archive.ph/gQEl5
US designates Palestine Action activist group 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist'
Wednesday's decision comes a year after the United Kingdom banned the group for damaging materials at weapons factories run by Elbit Systems. Elbit is a key provider of weapons to the Israeli military, which has for nearly three years carried out what the United Nations and Holocaust scholars have called a genocide in the Gaza Strip. Palestine Action is now sanctioned in the US "for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods and services to or in support of, an act of terrorism", the Department of the Treasury said in a statement.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-designates-palestine-action-specially-designated-global-terrorist
Gaza parents urged to stop children flying kites after Israel warning to Hamas
The popular committees, comprising representatives of local non-governmental organizations and charities that run Gaza displacement camps and shelters, issued the warning in a statement late on Monday. The announcement was coordinated with Hamas authorities, a source in the militant group said.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/gaza-parents-urged-stop-children-flying-kites-after-israel-warning-hamas
Türkiye: Attacks on Kurdish seasonal farm workers and chauvinist provocations in football stadiums
According to press reports, the incident began with what was described as “a quarrel among young people.” The area where the workers were staying was then pelted with stones, and the vehicles carrying them as they set out to leave the village came under attack. Footage circulated on social media shows a large crowd attacking workers riding in the bed of a pickup truck, among them children. In further footage obtained by the Mezopotamya Agency, the attackers can be heard shouting at the workers: “Starving dogs, is there no work in your own homeland?”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/26/qmoh-a26.html
Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people
“Offering expert careers advice and guidance requires specialist skills and knowledge but yet, as a result of austerity, has become one of many services left to be mopped up by schools. “Such specialist services must be refunded and reinstated to give young people the best chance at making informed career and life decisions.” Mr Burnham called on employers today to offer work experience opportunities for young people, as he branded the number of youngsters not in education, employment or training (Neet) a “huge challenge.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-announces-plan-10000-work-experience-placements-young-people
Iceland to vote on reopening EU membership talks in close referendum
Icelanders are not being asked to decide just yet if they want to join the 27-member bloc – only whether they want their government to negotiate possible terms, including on the highly sensitive fishing issue. "This is an opportunity, it's not a final decision," Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told AFP, arguing that the referendum paved the way for a "risk-reducing 'Yes'".
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260826-iceland-to-vote-on-reopening-eu-membership-talks-in-close-referendum
https://archive.ph/Zrx9T
Bolivia Groups Prepare Protests Over Diesel Price Increase
The groups, organized under the Multisector Committee, plan to take to the streets once the state of exception currently in force expires, according to César Gonzáles, executive secretary of the National Confederation of Trade Guilds of Bolivia. The committee brings together about 20 sectors, including trade guilds, agricultural producers, cooperative miners and heavy transport operators. Organizations in Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro and El Alto are already coordinating the planned mobilizations.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-protests-diesel-price-increase/
Panama and El Salvador declare emergency over El Nino-fuelled drought
Panama's Interior Minister Dinoska Montalvo said the declaration will allow authorities to "to be prepared for what may come with El Nino," which has fuelled a severe drought that is ravaging harvests, sparking fears of famine. Meanwhile, El Salvador declared a state of maximum alert on Tuesday to activate monitoring, surveillance and aid efforts for affected communities.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-panama-and-el-salvador-declare-emergency-over-el-nino-fuelled-drought
https://archive.ph/Tui95
A political amnesty law takes effect in Thailand but excludes lese majeste
The law covers a range of offenses related to political activities from Jan. 1, 2005 to July 15, 2025. It will not only grant release for current prisoners, but also close investigations and prosecutions, dismiss pending court cases, and clear criminal records of those eligible for the amnesty. In addition to lese majeste, the amnesty will also exclude corruption and crimes resulting in death or serious injury.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-political-amnesty-protest-112-9aeb0398aab3d97c68d21c17e27b7c41
Australia: PepsiCo demands more real pay cuts at Brisbane Smith’s crisps factory
Aggressively, the management has announced a ballot to try to push through its demands without agreement from the three trade unions covering the more than 400 workers at the site, while counting on the union officials to stifle workers’ anger.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/26/xqkn-a26.html
Labor Center Condemns Factory Closure By NBI In Davao City
Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region (KMU-SMR, or Labor Day Movement) strongly denounced the operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) at the Davao Mighty Steel Corporation (DMS) factory in Barangay Ilang, Davao City, on Aug. 13.
https://redspark.nu/peoples-war/philippines/labor-news-from-the-philippines-labor-center-condemns-factory-closure-by-nbi-in-davao-city/
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Community dangles SACP hat to rejected ANC candidate councillor in MadibengA councillor chosen by the ANC branch under the Madibeng municipality is being rejected by the party in favour of another candidate, prompting some community members to push for their preferred candidate to contest the ward under the South African Communist Party (SACP) banner. Councillor John Raletele has been approached to stand as an SACP candidate after the ANC moved to reject his nomination for another term as ward councillor in Madibeng.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2026-08-26-community-dangles-sacp-hat-to-rejected-anc-candidate-councillor-in-madibeng/
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Dozens killed in rebel attacks on Sudan’s Kordofan, medical group says
A medical organisation has accused a Sudanese rebel group aligned with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of killing 27 people, including four children, in the southern province of South Kordofan. In a statement on Tuesday, the Sudan Doctors Network said the killings were carried out by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-N) in Qardud and Abu Hamama, areas inhabited by the Otoro tribe in South Kordofan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/26/dozens-killed-in-rebel-attacks-on-sudans-kordofan-medical-group-says
https://archive.ph/gQEl5
US designates Palestine Action activist group 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist'
Wednesday's decision comes a year after the United Kingdom banned the group for damaging materials at weapons factories run by Elbit Systems. Elbit is a key provider of weapons to the Israeli military, which has for nearly three years carried out what the United Nations and Holocaust scholars have called a genocide in the Gaza Strip. Palestine Action is now sanctioned in the US "for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods and services to or in support of, an act of terrorism", the Department of the Treasury said in a statement.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-designates-palestine-action-specially-designated-global-terrorist
Gaza parents urged to stop children flying kites after Israel warning to Hamas
The popular committees, comprising representatives of local non-governmental organizations and charities that run Gaza displacement camps and shelters, issued the warning in a statement late on Monday. The announcement was coordinated with Hamas authorities, a source in the militant group said.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/gaza-parents-urged-stop-children-flying-kites-after-israel-warning-hamas
Türkiye: Attacks on Kurdish seasonal farm workers and chauvinist provocations in football stadiums
According to press reports, the incident began with what was described as “a quarrel among young people.” The area where the workers were staying was then pelted with stones, and the vehicles carrying them as they set out to leave the village came under attack. Footage circulated on social media shows a large crowd attacking workers riding in the bed of a pickup truck, among them children. In further footage obtained by the Mezopotamya Agency, the attackers can be heard shouting at the workers: “Starving dogs, is there no work in your own homeland?”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/26/qmoh-a26.html
Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people
“Offering expert careers advice and guidance requires specialist skills and knowledge but yet, as a result of austerity, has become one of many services left to be mopped up by schools. “Such specialist services must be refunded and reinstated to give young people the best chance at making informed career and life decisions.” Mr Burnham called on employers today to offer work experience opportunities for young people, as he branded the number of youngsters not in education, employment or training (Neet) a “huge challenge.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-announces-plan-10000-work-experience-placements-young-people
Iceland to vote on reopening EU membership talks in close referendum
Icelanders are not being asked to decide just yet if they want to join the 27-member bloc – only whether they want their government to negotiate possible terms, including on the highly sensitive fishing issue. "This is an opportunity, it's not a final decision," Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told AFP, arguing that the referendum paved the way for a "risk-reducing 'Yes'".
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260826-iceland-to-vote-on-reopening-eu-membership-talks-in-close-referendum
https://archive.ph/Zrx9T
Bolivia Groups Prepare Protests Over Diesel Price Increase
The groups, organized under the Multisector Committee, plan to take to the streets once the state of exception currently in force expires, according to César Gonzáles, executive secretary of the National Confederation of Trade Guilds of Bolivia. The committee brings together about 20 sectors, including trade guilds, agricultural producers, cooperative miners and heavy transport operators. Organizations in Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro and El Alto are already coordinating the planned mobilizations.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-protests-diesel-price-increase/
Panama and El Salvador declare emergency over El Nino-fuelled drought
Panama's Interior Minister Dinoska Montalvo said the declaration will allow authorities to "to be prepared for what may come with El Nino," which has fuelled a severe drought that is ravaging harvests, sparking fears of famine. Meanwhile, El Salvador declared a state of maximum alert on Tuesday to activate monitoring, surveillance and aid efforts for affected communities.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-panama-and-el-salvador-declare-emergency-over-el-nino-fuelled-drought
https://archive.ph/Tui95
A political amnesty law takes effect in Thailand but excludes lese majeste
The law covers a range of offenses related to political activities from Jan. 1, 2005 to July 15, 2025. It will not only grant release for current prisoners, but also close investigations and prosecutions, dismiss pending court cases, and clear criminal records of those eligible for the amnesty. In addition to lese majeste, the amnesty will also exclude corruption and crimes resulting in death or serious injury.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-political-amnesty-protest-112-9aeb0398aab3d97c68d21c17e27b7c41
Australia: PepsiCo demands more real pay cuts at Brisbane Smith’s crisps factory
Aggressively, the management has announced a ballot to try to push through its demands without agreement from the three trade unions covering the more than 400 workers at the site, while counting on the union officials to stifle workers’ anger.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/26/xqkn-a26.html
Labor Center Condemns Factory Closure By NBI In Davao City
Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region (KMU-SMR, or Labor Day Movement) strongly denounced the operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) at the Davao Mighty Steel Corporation (DMS) factory in Barangay Ilang, Davao City, on Aug. 13.
https://redspark.nu/peoples-war/philippines/labor-news-from-the-philippines-labor-center-condemns-factory-closure-by-nbi-in-davao-city/
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Why does the demon colony invests in "high tech" so much and brands itself "startup nation"?
meow meow
Why does the demon colony invests in "high tech" so much and brands itself "startup nation"?
meow meow
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< And then finally, in 2020, there’d been “Gabriel” in California, the infiltrator who everyone really liked. They had been heartbroken to learn Gabriel, an Iraq War vet built like a brick shithouse, was a secret anti-fascist. Looking back, it made some sense: Gabriel, after all, had always insisted on leading combat trainings, using group sparring sessions as a ruse to beat the shit out of different members, giving some concussions.
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DAILY REMINDER THAT PATRIOT FRONT IDOLIZED AN UNDERCOVER ANTIFASCIST SO MUCH THEY MADE THIS MAD LAD THEIR FIGHT TRAINER.< And then finally, in 2020, there’d been “Gabriel” in California, the infiltrator who everyone really liked. They had been heartbroken to learn Gabriel, an Iraq War vet built like a brick shithouse, was a secret anti-fascist. Looking back, it made some sense: Gabriel, after all, had always insisted on leading combat trainings, using group sparring sessions as a ruse to beat the shit out of different members, giving some concussions.
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Glad men standing up for themselves current insanity year, because enough is enough!
Femininists and baby killers sympathisers
Just reminding you that if you don’t want your children killed ask your wife or your girlfriend if she sympathises baby killers like Lindsay Clancy or not, if she sympathises her divorce/break up.Glad men standing up for themselves current insanity year, because enough is enough!
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Is there bourgeois socialism?
What are some interesting yet lesser known ideas from communist thinkers?
Any weird/interesting socialist ideologies?
Is there a communism who puts central importance on the lumpenproletariat, and not the proletariat?Is there bourgeois socialism?
What are some interesting yet lesser known ideas from communist thinkers?
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Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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> If you want to be really esoteric, Marxism is advanced feudalism.
No. Marxism is not advanced feudalism. Feudalism is predicated on aristocrat-serf class relations, whereas Marxism is predicated on the elimination of class relations. On what planet could one possibly come to the "esoteric" conclusion that Marxism is "advanced feudalism?" Even assuming this is inspired by that dumb pop-Economics book from Yanis Varoufakis (Technoefeudalism) that is not even his hypothesis. His hypothesis is that the capitalist countries are becoming Technofeudal, not the AES countries. I am honestly baffled by this take and thought it deserved its own thread, because I did not want to derail the thread I found it in. Where are people getting this idea? Is there a common source for this revision or is it arising out of pure vibes?
"Marxism is advanced feudalism."
>>>/siberia/818393> If you want to be really esoteric, Marxism is advanced feudalism.
No. Marxism is not advanced feudalism. Feudalism is predicated on aristocrat-serf class relations, whereas Marxism is predicated on the elimination of class relations. On what planet could one possibly come to the "esoteric" conclusion that Marxism is "advanced feudalism?" Even assuming this is inspired by that dumb pop-Economics book from Yanis Varoufakis (Technoefeudalism) that is not even his hypothesis. His hypothesis is that the capitalist countries are becoming Technofeudal, not the AES countries. I am honestly baffled by this take and thought it deserved its own thread, because I did not want to derail the thread I found it in. Where are people getting this idea? Is there a common source for this revision or is it arising out of pure vibes?
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>failed at everything he tried to do after winning the civil war award
>Divided the communist world over shit that didnt matter in the end award
>Killed more chinese people than the japanese ever did award
>Killed 2 billion birds for no fucking reason award
>Caused china to adopt market reforms and sell out to capitalism because he fucked everything up so badly award
I genuinely wonder how mao fans still exist?
Do they just only read his literature and ignore everything that he did and caused post civil war?
>failed at everything he tried to do after winning the civil war award
>Divided the communist world over shit that didnt matter in the end award
>Killed more chinese people than the japanese ever did award
>Killed 2 billion birds for no fucking reason award
>Caused china to adopt market reforms and sell out to capitalism because he fucked everything up so badly award
I genuinely wonder how mao fans still exist?
Do they just only read his literature and ignore everything that he did and caused post civil war?
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why dont we like dsa
long time lurker first time poster. i consider myself to be a leftist and want to get more involved, i recently found out about a DSA chaptor in a mid sized city not to far from where i live, im looking into it but ive heard a lot of distaste for the DSA from leftists online, though i cant find much reson other then
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Am I crazy for thinking this?
One of my core political positions and personal values since I was a literal child is that any kind of violence and coercion is way worse when accepted and normalized or state sponsored. I can accept rape, murder, and torture as facts of life that are impossible to eradicate as long as the public is strongly opposed to it and the state cracks down on it. What disturbs and enrages me to the point of wanting to hurt people is when people become accepting of it and even worse when the state starts practicing it. A cruel criminal needs to be turned around and the community needs to be protected from him. A government oficiall that authorizes torture and degradation of a person ought to be shot on sight. The visceral reaction i get from normalized barbarity is so strong that its almost knee-jerk. I wonder if there is anyone else who thinks like this or if im a genuinely insane.
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99.9999% of fights on leftypol are over whether the top pic or the bottom pic is true.
https://strawpoll.com/GeZARkvDRyV
So which is it leftypol?
1: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 1st world workers are trying to crush the 3rd world bourgeoisie and the 3rd world workers
2: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 3rd world bourgeoisie are trying to crush the 1st world workers and the 3rd world workers
99.9999% of fights on leftypol are over whether the top pic or the bottom pic is true.
https://strawpoll.com/GeZARkvDRyV
So which is it leftypol?
1: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 1st world workers are trying to crush the 3rd world bourgeoisie and the 3rd world workers
2: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 3rd world bourgeoisie are trying to crush the 1st world workers and the 3rd world workers
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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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Is Marxism just a long winded apologia to justify colonialism and oppression?
Muh HHistoriKKKally progreSSive
So why is it that all "historically progressive" forces in History all turnout to be white European colonizers who raped and enslaved Black and Indigenous folx?Is Marxism just a long winded apologia to justify colonialism and oppression?
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All societal systems that have existed since humans became sedentary roughly 10,000 years ago are fascist. Before that, for nearly 95 percent of our species’ 300,000-year history, humanity lived in hunter-gatherer or forager societies. These communities had no permanent hierarchies, no inherited positions of power, no state institutions and no ruling class at all: decisions were made through collective consensus, and people with particular experience or skill held only temporary authority rooted in mutual respect, never the power to coerce others. They were entirely classless and egalitarian, with land, tools and hunting grounds held as common property, food distributed according to need, and no exploitation of one group’s labour by another. There was no organised state violence, no standing armies and no large-scale warfare between communities; internal conflicts were resolved through mediation rather than repression. Gender relations were broadly equitable too, as women’s foraging work supplied 60 to 80 percent of most groups’ food supply, earning them equal social standing. Groups were small and flexible, usually made up of 20 to 50 related people. This form of organisation is known as primitive communism: the default way humans lived for almost all of our history, before sedentism gave rise to the fascist systems that have defined every society ever since.
All societal systems that have existed since humans became sedentary roughly 10,000 years ago are fascist. Before that, for nearly 95 percent of our species’ 300,000-year history, humanity lived in hunter-gatherer or forager societies. These communities had no permanent hierarchies, no inherited positions of power, no state institutions and no ruling class at all: decisions were made through collective consensus, and people with particular experience or skill held only temporary authority rooted in mutual respect, never the power to coerce others. They were entirely classless and egalitarian, with land, tools and hunting grounds held as common property, food distributed according to need, and no exploitation of one group’s labour by another. There was no organised state violence, no standing armies and no large-scale warfare between communities; internal conflicts were resolved through mediation rather than repression. Gender relations were broadly equitable too, as women’s foraging work supplied 60 to 80 percent of most groups’ food supply, earning them equal social standing. Groups were small and flexible, usually made up of 20 to 50 related people. This form of organisation is known as primitive communism: the default way humans lived for almost all of our history, before sedentism gave rise to the fascist systems that have defined every society ever since.
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IN HONOR OF LEADER ANTOUN SAADEH
The man who was martyred 77 years ago killed by an overall conspiracy was not an average person . He was the man who was inspired and had an insight , and who positioned himself from where he could secure the future of his people. He is among those who will not be satisfied by merely existing . His whole being and existence revolved around his people. His name is Antoun Saadeh called also the Leader , a title he earned with everything that goes with it . Not only he was fought and set up by the colonialist predators and their local clientele in the mid of the previous century, but after his martyrdom , all about him was obscured and camouflaged and even buried . He presented a real threat because people felt affinity with him and trusted him and were inspired by him . He was the man who lead the Renaissance proper to our area after WWI and WWII , when the region was meeting so many challenges that range from identity to independence . This was when the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the colonialists were starting dividing the empire among themselves, and also creating the vicious state of israel , and planting it in the heart of the Arab world.
Leader Saadeh immediately felt the threat , and decided that the people of this area should claim what is theirs, and before they do this, they should know their identity and find out who they are and the common ground which they share or their natural belonging and natural habitat, and accordingly, claim what is theirs before they fall a prey to the conspiracies that seek to divide the area according to the colonial ambitions .. Religion can no more be a Reference thought leader Saadeh after the fall of the Ottoman Empire because the inhabitants of this area are multi cultural , multi religious and multi lingual , and there is need to define what a nation is in all its variety , and to defend this nation and its borders, and secure its sovereignty and unity and independence . It was an attempt at preventing that the identity of the people be lost for ever and an attempt at retrieving this identity .
The people should retrieve their identity – thought Saadeh- Greater Syria being the nation to which those belong , and it is located in what has been known as the Fertile Crescent , in the heart of the Arab World , being also an intrinsic part of this world . Saadeh knew from experience and from his life in Latin America in its attempt at breaking loose from the colonizer that freedom is NOT an individual Issue but a National Issue , and only a Free Nation can grant Freedom to its people and to the individuals and not the other way . No doubt , Leader Saadeh was deeply inspired by Simone Bolivar and other nationalists from Latin America . As a Nationalist , he was wrongly associated with Hitler or with the fascists , and this was a demonization campaign that targeted him and wanted to harm his spotless reputation as a spotless leader and tarnish his image and distort his message.
All what he professed was built on historical evidence and historical facts , and he did not invent anything when he said : SYRIA (meaning Greater Syria) BELONGS TO THE SYRIANS, AND THE SYRIANS ARE AN INTEGRAL NATION . It was a Truth that he discovered . For this, he had to pay his life , because what he discovered and called for went against all the colonialist schemes that had for purpose to tear apart this region and set Religions against one another and create the usurping state of israel about which Saadeh warned very early as a real immanent threat, as he warned against the Gulf countries role in making the creation of israel possible .
It is now that we are discovering that every word he said was true . He called for unity solidarity and above all Ethics . The essence of the Nation is Ethics, . His message did not remain unheard, and his Party – the Syrian Social Nationalist Party- was the largest in number, and so many people rallied around him from all categories and classes because he represented the Spirit of the Nation . The predators of course who wanted to carry on their vicious scheme of Sykes Picot and Balfour conspired against him , and their agents delivered him to the local Lebanese Authorities who sentenced him to death without trial and executed him at the dawn of June the 8th 1949 . He died full of dignity for he never feared death because he knew that the Nation will survive him, and he did not have the least doubt about it .
He had foreseen the future when he said : I see ranks in perfect order and harmony proceeding towards the goal , and this is what we are seeing now in Hizbullah who is the real expression of the aspirations of leader Saadeh , one of the most honorable leaders that this Nation has ever witnessed, and who used to say LIFE IS ONLY A DIGNIFIED STAND . It is this dignity that we see in the Resistance Leadership and Freedom Fighters , and if the Resistance has an Origin , no doubt that Leader Saadeh is one of these origins despite the fact that he was a secular leader of a secular Party where Religion is a private individual matter and a personal Relation to God His secularism was never anti Religion but was anti colonialist . It is in the Resistance that the real message of Saadeh finds life , and this is something that no one can deny , and it is the Resistance that qualified to carry this message whereby Leader Saadeh’s vision turned out to be true.
IN HONOR OF LEADER ANTOUN SAADEH
The man who was martyred 77 years ago killed by an overall conspiracy was not an average person . He was the man who was inspired and had an insight , and who positioned himself from where he could secure the future of his people. He is among those who will not be satisfied by merely existing . His whole being and existence revolved around his people. His name is Antoun Saadeh called also the Leader , a title he earned with everything that goes with it . Not only he was fought and set up by the colonialist predators and their local clientele in the mid of the previous century, but after his martyrdom , all about him was obscured and camouflaged and even buried . He presented a real threat because people felt affinity with him and trusted him and were inspired by him . He was the man who lead the Renaissance proper to our area after WWI and WWII , when the region was meeting so many challenges that range from identity to independence . This was when the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the colonialists were starting dividing the empire among themselves, and also creating the vicious state of israel , and planting it in the heart of the Arab world.
Leader Saadeh immediately felt the threat , and decided that the people of this area should claim what is theirs, and before they do this, they should know their identity and find out who they are and the common ground which they share or their natural belonging and natural habitat, and accordingly, claim what is theirs before they fall a prey to the conspiracies that seek to divide the area according to the colonial ambitions .. Religion can no more be a Reference thought leader Saadeh after the fall of the Ottoman Empire because the inhabitants of this area are multi cultural , multi religious and multi lingual , and there is need to define what a nation is in all its variety , and to defend this nation and its borders, and secure its sovereignty and unity and independence . It was an attempt at preventing that the identity of the people be lost for ever and an attempt at retrieving this identity .
The people should retrieve their identity – thought Saadeh- Greater Syria being the nation to which those belong , and it is located in what has been known as the Fertile Crescent , in the heart of the Arab World , being also an intrinsic part of this world . Saadeh knew from experience and from his life in Latin America in its attempt at breaking loose from the colonizer that freedom is NOT an individual Issue but a National Issue , and only a Free Nation can grant Freedom to its people and to the individuals and not the other way . No doubt , Leader Saadeh was deeply inspired by Simone Bolivar and other nationalists from Latin America . As a Nationalist , he was wrongly associated with Hitler or with the fascists , and this was a demonization campaign that targeted him and wanted to harm his spotless reputation as a spotless leader and tarnish his image and distort his message.
All what he professed was built on historical evidence and historical facts , and he did not invent anything when he said : SYRIA (meaning Greater Syria) BELONGS TO THE SYRIANS, AND THE SYRIANS ARE AN INTEGRAL NATION . It was a Truth that he discovered . For this, he had to pay his life , because what he discovered and called for went against all the colonialist schemes that had for purpose to tear apart this region and set Religions against one another and create the usurping state of israel about which Saadeh warned very early as a real immanent threat, as he warned against the Gulf countries role in making the creation of israel possible .
It is now that we are discovering that every word he said was true . He called for unity solidarity and above all Ethics . The essence of the Nation is Ethics, . His message did not remain unheard, and his Party – the Syrian Social Nationalist Party- was the largest in number, and so many people rallied around him from all categories and classes because he represented the Spirit of the Nation . The predators of course who wanted to carry on their vicious scheme of Sykes Picot and Balfour conspired against him , and their agents delivered him to the local Lebanese Authorities who sentenced him to death without trial and executed him at the dawn of June the 8th 1949 . He died full of dignity for he never feared death because he knew that the Nation will survive him, and he did not have the least doubt about it .
He had foreseen the future when he said : I see ranks in perfect order and harmony proceeding towards the goal , and this is what we are seeing now in Hizbullah who is the real expression of the aspirations of leader Saadeh , one of the most honorable leaders that this Nation has ever witnessed, and who used to say LIFE IS ONLY A DIGNIFIED STAND . It is this dignity that we see in the Resistance Leadership and Freedom Fighters , and if the Resistance has an Origin , no doubt that Leader Saadeh is one of these origins despite the fact that he was a secular leader of a secular Party where Religion is a private individual matter and a personal Relation to God His secularism was never anti Religion but was anti colonialist . It is in the Resistance that the real message of Saadeh finds life , and this is something that no one can deny , and it is the Resistance that qualified to carry this message whereby Leader Saadeh’s vision turned out to be true.
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Zvi Sukkot, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, was filmed smashing the Palestinian Martyrs' Monument in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, with a sledgehammer. In a video posted to Facebook, Sukkot said the memorial commemorated two Palestinians who had killed Israelis and argued that it could not be allowed to remain. “We must take it down,” he said, adding that he wanted the memorial destroyed because children growing up in the village and passing it would be inspired to become “martyrs” themselves.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-lawmaker-smashes-palestinian-memorial-occupied-west-bank
Israeli forces raid UNRWA training centre in occupied East Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the incursion was lawful. In a post on X, he said: “In accordance with my directive and following the law we passed, the evacuation of the UNRWA compound in Kafr Aqab, Jerusalem, began today.” After the raid, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Jerusalem Municipality had already commenced work to transform the property into a new educational and community complex.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/25/israeli-forces-raid-unrwa-training-centre-in-occupied-east-jerusalem
https://archive.ph/OGW6r
Polish prosecutors charge MEP with Holocaust denial over Auschwitz ‘fake’ claim
Poland sought to strip Braun of his parliamentary immunity over the remarks, and the European Parliament approved the request in March. Braun, who has a long record of antisemitic rhetoric, is already on trial over separate alleged offenses, including his use of a fire extinguisher to disrupt a Hanukkah celebration in the Polish parliament in 2023.
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-prosecutors-mep-grzegorz-braun-holocaust-denial-auschwitz-fake-claim/
https://archive.ph/Ng1bs
Disabled activists in Wales reject invitation to be ‘glorified door staff’
Disabled People Against Cuts Cymru (DPAC Cymru) rejected a direct invitation from the DWP to co-host one of the Westminster government’s reviews into the personal independence payments (PIP). It was for DPAC to co-host a workshop in Bangor, north Wales.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/disabled-activists-wales-reject-invitation-be-glorified-door-staff
Ukraine targets Ozon in widening attacks on Russian online retailers
A fire also broke out at an Ozon logistics hub in the town of Enem on the outskirts of the city of Krasnodar, and workers were evacuated from warehouses in Adygeysk, in the Adygeya region, and in Nevinnomyssk in the Stavropol region although neither facility was damaged, it said. Work at an Ozon logistics centre in the Samara region was halted on Saturday after it was hit in a drone strike, and the company said work had been halted at its logistics centre in the Orenburg region, from which over 300 people were evacuated.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-ozon-says-four-logistics-hubs-targeted-by-ukrainian-drones-2026-08-24/
Indonesians brave choking smoke to pray for rain as country battles wildfires
Authorities in Indonesia’s South Sumatra province turned to spiritual measures on Tuesday as huge blazes in central and western regions scorched wide areas of forests and peatland, creating a choking haze that blanketed some cities in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-sumatra-forest-fires-rain-prayers-ffbea47df1da615f88f8d4ca5b8be4cb
Colombia’s new president Abelardo de la Espriella announces immigration crackdown
The leftwing senator María José Pizarro Rodríguez reposted the president’s announcement and asked whether he was “proposing a Colombian ICE against fellow Latin Americans”, in reference to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She added that the “order to deport irregular migrants is pure xenophobia and aporophobia”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/25/colombia-immigration-crackdown-president-abelardo-de-la-espriella
Chile's Carabineros strip-search 2 adolescents in classroom days after enactment of “Protected Schools” law
One was made to remove his sweatshirt and shoes and have his shirt lifted before his classmates. The second was ordered to remove his trousers, sweatshirt, shirt and shoes, and then to perform squats in his underwear, in front of his classmates, school staff and the police themselves. The procedure was triggered by the reported theft of a mobile phone.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/24/efry-a24.html
Peru court hands lengthy prison terms in killing of Indigenous Amazon defender
A Peruvian court on Monday evening convicted four men of murder-for-hire and sentenced them to between 15 and 35 years in prison for the 2023 killing of Indigenous rainforest defender Quinto Inuma Alvarado, in a closely watched case seen as a test of accountability for violence against Indigenous and environmental defenders in the Amazon.
https://apnews.com/article/peru-sentence-killing-indigenous-amazon-defender-6bc41df8a7750b223da265e758c2aba5
Montreal adopts 'diluted' Palestine motion, rejects push to become first N. American city to cut Israel ties
The amended motion placed greater emphasis on diversity and inclusion in Montreal while removing most references to genocide and calls to sever ties with Israel. However, it reaffirmed the council's "solidarity with the Palestinian people" and with civilian victims of conflicts in the Middle East, as well as its commitment to international law. In addition, the final version of the motion was amended to highlight condemnation of the 7 October attacks on Israel, and stated that Jewish and Israeli people in Montreal must not be held responsible for the actions of the Israeli government.
https://www.newarab.com/news/montreal-adopts-diluted-palestine-motion-keeps-israel-ties
News 8/25/26
Israeli lawmaker smashes Palestinian memorial in occupied West BankZvi Sukkot, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, was filmed smashing the Palestinian Martyrs' Monument in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, with a sledgehammer. In a video posted to Facebook, Sukkot said the memorial commemorated two Palestinians who had killed Israelis and argued that it could not be allowed to remain. “We must take it down,” he said, adding that he wanted the memorial destroyed because children growing up in the village and passing it would be inspired to become “martyrs” themselves.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-lawmaker-smashes-palestinian-memorial-occupied-west-bank
Israeli forces raid UNRWA training centre in occupied East Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the incursion was lawful. In a post on X, he said: “In accordance with my directive and following the law we passed, the evacuation of the UNRWA compound in Kafr Aqab, Jerusalem, began today.” After the raid, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Jerusalem Municipality had already commenced work to transform the property into a new educational and community complex.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/25/israeli-forces-raid-unrwa-training-centre-in-occupied-east-jerusalem
https://archive.ph/OGW6r
Polish prosecutors charge MEP with Holocaust denial over Auschwitz ‘fake’ claim
Poland sought to strip Braun of his parliamentary immunity over the remarks, and the European Parliament approved the request in March. Braun, who has a long record of antisemitic rhetoric, is already on trial over separate alleged offenses, including his use of a fire extinguisher to disrupt a Hanukkah celebration in the Polish parliament in 2023.
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-prosecutors-mep-grzegorz-braun-holocaust-denial-auschwitz-fake-claim/
https://archive.ph/Ng1bs
Disabled activists in Wales reject invitation to be ‘glorified door staff’
Disabled People Against Cuts Cymru (DPAC Cymru) rejected a direct invitation from the DWP to co-host one of the Westminster government’s reviews into the personal independence payments (PIP). It was for DPAC to co-host a workshop in Bangor, north Wales.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/disabled-activists-wales-reject-invitation-be-glorified-door-staff
Ukraine targets Ozon in widening attacks on Russian online retailers
A fire also broke out at an Ozon logistics hub in the town of Enem on the outskirts of the city of Krasnodar, and workers were evacuated from warehouses in Adygeysk, in the Adygeya region, and in Nevinnomyssk in the Stavropol region although neither facility was damaged, it said. Work at an Ozon logistics centre in the Samara region was halted on Saturday after it was hit in a drone strike, and the company said work had been halted at its logistics centre in the Orenburg region, from which over 300 people were evacuated.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-ozon-says-four-logistics-hubs-targeted-by-ukrainian-drones-2026-08-24/
Indonesians brave choking smoke to pray for rain as country battles wildfires
Authorities in Indonesia’s South Sumatra province turned to spiritual measures on Tuesday as huge blazes in central and western regions scorched wide areas of forests and peatland, creating a choking haze that blanketed some cities in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-sumatra-forest-fires-rain-prayers-ffbea47df1da615f88f8d4ca5b8be4cb
Colombia’s new president Abelardo de la Espriella announces immigration crackdown
The leftwing senator María José Pizarro Rodríguez reposted the president’s announcement and asked whether he was “proposing a Colombian ICE against fellow Latin Americans”, in reference to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She added that the “order to deport irregular migrants is pure xenophobia and aporophobia”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/25/colombia-immigration-crackdown-president-abelardo-de-la-espriella
Chile's Carabineros strip-search 2 adolescents in classroom days after enactment of “Protected Schools” law
One was made to remove his sweatshirt and shoes and have his shirt lifted before his classmates. The second was ordered to remove his trousers, sweatshirt, shirt and shoes, and then to perform squats in his underwear, in front of his classmates, school staff and the police themselves. The procedure was triggered by the reported theft of a mobile phone.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/24/efry-a24.html
Peru court hands lengthy prison terms in killing of Indigenous Amazon defender
A Peruvian court on Monday evening convicted four men of murder-for-hire and sentenced them to between 15 and 35 years in prison for the 2023 killing of Indigenous rainforest defender Quinto Inuma Alvarado, in a closely watched case seen as a test of accountability for violence against Indigenous and environmental defenders in the Amazon.
https://apnews.com/article/peru-sentence-killing-indigenous-amazon-defender-6bc41df8a7750b223da265e758c2aba5
Montreal adopts 'diluted' Palestine motion, rejects push to become first N. American city to cut Israel ties
The amended motion placed greater emphasis on diversity and inclusion in Montreal while removing most references to genocide and calls to sever ties with Israel. However, it reaffirmed the council's "solidarity with the Palestinian people" and with civilian victims of conflicts in the Middle East, as well as its commitment to international law. In addition, the final version of the motion was amended to highlight condemnation of the 7 October attacks on Israel, and stated that Jewish and Israeli people in Montreal must not be held responsible for the actions of the Israeli government.
https://www.newarab.com/news/montreal-adopts-diluted-palestine-motion-keeps-israel-ties
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Step 2. Start killing other marxist-leninists
Step 3. Start killing the working class
Step 4. Sell out to liberalism and capitalism
Step 5.???
Step 6. Profit
Literally every marxist-leninist state has already either gone trough all these steps and reached the endgoal of communism that is the dissolution of the marxist-leninist state as marx (pbuh) predicted.
Or is currently on steps 1-4
The cycle of marxist-leninism
Step 1. Kill all non-marxist leninistsStep 2. Start killing other marxist-leninists
Step 3. Start killing the working class
Step 4. Sell out to liberalism and capitalism
Step 5.???
Step 6. Profit
Literally every marxist-leninist state has already either gone trough all these steps and reached the endgoal of communism that is the dissolution of the marxist-leninist state as marx (pbuh) predicted.
Or is currently on steps 1-4
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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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I am trying to understand what restrains state violence when military power is overwhelmingly on its side
The Limits of State Violence
- Why doesn’t the US invade Cuba militarily?
- Why doesn’t France invade Haiti after losing it?
I am trying to understand what restrains state violence when military power is overwhelmingly on its side
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What do we do about anti-intellectualism?
It's completely impossible to have any sort of meaningful conversation about anything that matters anymore because nobody will engage with the facts. Conservatives who've never put any thought into a topic in their life will say "well my initial assumption is obviously common sense" and the general public will treat this as an equally (if not more) valid argument than citing years of history and peer-reviewed research done by people who've dedicated their lives to understanding the world. There's no way for the left to convince anyone of anything if reality itself is shunned as political bias. It's so infuriating that it's pushing me towards a radically misanthropic mindset. How do we pull the masses out from this gaping abyss?
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I remember when he had a whole cult around him in the early 2010s during Occupy and was a huge cheerleader for the Rojava revolution in the years that followed. His book Debt The First 5000 Years was a huge hit (and I mean HUGE, in the sense that you'd see it sold in both anarchist infoshops and mainstream booksellers like Barnes). He was instrumental in rewriting the historical narrative of class formation and the development of money and economic systems. A lot of Marxists didn't like that but they had zero means of debunking his work. When he died in 2020 there was an outpouring of love from leftists all over the world, for an anarchist intellectual who meant so much to people.
But now, I never see Graeber mentioned, ever. The only times I see him or his work brought up is to heavily chastise it, or attack him for his anarchist politics. Tankies hate him but can never prove him wrong. I have to ask why he's become nothing but a footnote in the history of leftist thought, especially when he was so celebrated 15 years ago.
David Graeber
Why does everyone in leftist circles hate him now?I remember when he had a whole cult around him in the early 2010s during Occupy and was a huge cheerleader for the Rojava revolution in the years that followed. His book Debt The First 5000 Years was a huge hit (and I mean HUGE, in the sense that you'd see it sold in both anarchist infoshops and mainstream booksellers like Barnes). He was instrumental in rewriting the historical narrative of class formation and the development of money and economic systems. A lot of Marxists didn't like that but they had zero means of debunking his work. When he died in 2020 there was an outpouring of love from leftists all over the world, for an anarchist intellectual who meant so much to people.
But now, I never see Graeber mentioned, ever. The only times I see him or his work brought up is to heavily chastise it, or attack him for his anarchist politics. Tankies hate him but can never prove him wrong. I have to ask why he's become nothing but a footnote in the history of leftist thought, especially when he was so celebrated 15 years ago.
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Thanks in advance
Theorie als materielle Gewalt – Die Klassiker der III. Internationale
Hello German comrades. Have any of you read Hans Heinz Holz's Theorie als materielle Gewalt – Die Klassiker der III. Internationale. Is it more philosophical or historical? I don't know german but if it's any good I am willing to use google translation to read the part about Mao for a study of mine. Could anyone provide it in pdf?Thanks in advance
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Even the Ronald Reagan era in America and modern Russia treated them better.
Soviets saw them as degenerate lumpenproles that couldn’t work.
Autists and Schizos in Soviet mental asylums
Why is Soviet Union so popular autists and schizophrenics, despite they put all of them in mental hospitals?Even the Ronald Reagan era in America and modern Russia treated them better.
Soviets saw them as degenerate lumpenproles that couldn’t work.
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The decrees rolled back by Kast’s administration had been signed during the government of left-wing former Chilean leader Gabriel Boric, whom Kast replaced as president earlier this month. The demonstration, called by several environmental organizations under the slogan “Don’t ‘Kast-igate’ Nature,” drew thousands more participants in 15 cities across the country.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-water-day-president-kast-protest-755a101737bc52ef66417905b0835ea5
Argentine Professors Call 48-Hour Strike Over Funding Law
Public universities are not receiving the funding established by the law, despite Supreme Court rulings ordering its implementation. This delay affects both the day-to-day operation of the institutions and the payment of faculty salaries and student scholarships. Argentine unions denounce that salary adjustments in recent months resulted from unilateral decisions, without formal collective bargaining, and were far below inflation. On Sunday, they also warn that they will intensify protests if the Milei administration does not offer concrete responses.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-university-professors-call-48-hour-strike-over-funding-law/
Venezuelan Parliament Approves Law to ‘Protect’ Real Estate Developers
The law also establishes fines for delays in submitting documents, permit failures, non-compliance with regulations, and violations of preventive measures, among other offenses. At the same time, the legislative project establishes incentives for private sector constructors such as greater flexibility to set prices, an end to a prior existing 24-month deadline for completing certain projects, and modified conditions benefiting sellers should buyers fail to make payments. The bill also eliminated the lending banks’ liability in case the real estate project is not completed. For buyers, the change removes one of the parties they could potentially hold accountable in case the purchased home is not delivered.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-parliament-approves-law-to-protect-real-estate-developers/
Russian Government Proposes Tax Relief for Wildberries and Sellers After Drone Attacks
Under the draft proposal, sellers whose losses exceed 5% of annual revenue will receive a 12-month deferral on value-added tax (VAT), corporate tax and other liabilities due between August 2026 and July 2027. Following the deferral period, Wildberries sellers will be allowed to settle their tax obligations in equal monthly installments over 12 months.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/24/russian-government-proposes-tax-relief-for-wildberries-and-sellers-after-drone-attacks-a93564
https://archive.ph/T8tN8
Thousands rally for climate action in Sweden ahead of general election
Some 10,000 people rallied in Stockholm on Sunday to demand stronger action on climate change, weeks before Sweden’s general election. Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg joined the rally, as organisers accused the government of weakening emissions policies and urged politicians to act faster to meet Sweden’s climate targets.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260823-thousands-rally-in-sweden-to-protest-climate-policies-ahead-of-general-election
https://archive.ph/NGuZ9
Norway plans further development of Arctic drilling amid EU energy concerns
Development of reserves in the Barents Sea is to persist, Energy Minister Terje Aasland told Reuters news agency on Monday. While the EU currently supports a ban on new drilling in the Arctic on environmental grounds, it is reviewing the policy due to energy security concerns.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/24/norway-plans-further-development-of-arctic-drilling-amid-eu-energy-concerns
https://archive.ph/kyVya
EFF promises free basic services for the unemployed
Malema was addressing the EFF Ground Forces Forum in Umsunduzi, in Pietermaritzburg, as part of his local government election campaign. ,South Africa holds local government elections on November 4. Malema says unemployment in the country is out of control and the government is failing to provide basic services.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-promises-free-basic-services-for-the-unemployed/
Sudan anti-war forces reject El Burhan dialogue call
The participants described El Burhan’s dialogue call as a political manoeuvre aimed at consolidating the army’s authority, granting it political legitimacy and paving the way for elements of the former regime and the Islamic movement to return to power. The participants adopted a joint position paper, The Peace Process We Want, calling for an independent political process free from the dominance of either party to the conflict and rejecting dialogue that could entrench military rule.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-anti-war-forces-reject-el-burhan-dialogue-call
‘Staggering’: watchdog condemns police after Indigenous teenager on bus wrongfully arrested – then searched
The commonwealth and ACT ombudsman has criticised the Australian federal police for failing to clearly define “racial profiling” after police in Canberra pulled guns on an Indigenous teenager who they mistook for a suspect in an aggravated burglary.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/25/watchdog-scathing-after-act-police-searched-indigenous-teen-even-after-they-realised-arrest-was-mistake-ntwnfb
The P85 wage standoff
For most workers like Palajos, the day begins with work. But before the first task is done, another calculation is already running in the back: How far will today’s wage go? The answer has become harder to stretch as the prices of food and other necessities continue to rise. “The cost of goods here in Manila is very high. Our current minimum wage of P695 ($11.24) feels like it is only worth P300 ($4.86),” Palajos said, describing the rising cost of living in the capital.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/08/21/the-p85-wage-standoff/
Bangladesh tribunal orders 3 journalists held until trial in 2024 uprising case
During the student-led uprising, hundreds of people were killed, and Hasina was later sentenced to death on charges of crimes against humanity. She fled to India two years ago and was tried in absentia. The tribunal asked that Mozammel Babu, editor-in-chief of private Ekattor Television, its principal correspondent Farzana Rupa and Shyamal Dutta, editor of daily Bhorer Kagoj and former general secretary of the National Press Club in Dhaka, remain jailed.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-journalists-jail-tribunal-hasina-986b4869a16544fd24108e5e431c2b6c
News 8/24/26
Chileans mark World Water Day by protesting President Kast’s rollback of environmental rulesThe decrees rolled back by Kast’s administration had been signed during the government of left-wing former Chilean leader Gabriel Boric, whom Kast replaced as president earlier this month. The demonstration, called by several environmental organizations under the slogan “Don’t ‘Kast-igate’ Nature,” drew thousands more participants in 15 cities across the country.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-water-day-president-kast-protest-755a101737bc52ef66417905b0835ea5
Argentine Professors Call 48-Hour Strike Over Funding Law
Public universities are not receiving the funding established by the law, despite Supreme Court rulings ordering its implementation. This delay affects both the day-to-day operation of the institutions and the payment of faculty salaries and student scholarships. Argentine unions denounce that salary adjustments in recent months resulted from unilateral decisions, without formal collective bargaining, and were far below inflation. On Sunday, they also warn that they will intensify protests if the Milei administration does not offer concrete responses.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-university-professors-call-48-hour-strike-over-funding-law/
Venezuelan Parliament Approves Law to ‘Protect’ Real Estate Developers
The law also establishes fines for delays in submitting documents, permit failures, non-compliance with regulations, and violations of preventive measures, among other offenses. At the same time, the legislative project establishes incentives for private sector constructors such as greater flexibility to set prices, an end to a prior existing 24-month deadline for completing certain projects, and modified conditions benefiting sellers should buyers fail to make payments. The bill also eliminated the lending banks’ liability in case the real estate project is not completed. For buyers, the change removes one of the parties they could potentially hold accountable in case the purchased home is not delivered.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-parliament-approves-law-to-protect-real-estate-developers/
Russian Government Proposes Tax Relief for Wildberries and Sellers After Drone Attacks
Under the draft proposal, sellers whose losses exceed 5% of annual revenue will receive a 12-month deferral on value-added tax (VAT), corporate tax and other liabilities due between August 2026 and July 2027. Following the deferral period, Wildberries sellers will be allowed to settle their tax obligations in equal monthly installments over 12 months.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/24/russian-government-proposes-tax-relief-for-wildberries-and-sellers-after-drone-attacks-a93564
https://archive.ph/T8tN8
Thousands rally for climate action in Sweden ahead of general election
Some 10,000 people rallied in Stockholm on Sunday to demand stronger action on climate change, weeks before Sweden’s general election. Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg joined the rally, as organisers accused the government of weakening emissions policies and urged politicians to act faster to meet Sweden’s climate targets.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260823-thousands-rally-in-sweden-to-protest-climate-policies-ahead-of-general-election
https://archive.ph/NGuZ9
Norway plans further development of Arctic drilling amid EU energy concerns
Development of reserves in the Barents Sea is to persist, Energy Minister Terje Aasland told Reuters news agency on Monday. While the EU currently supports a ban on new drilling in the Arctic on environmental grounds, it is reviewing the policy due to energy security concerns.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/24/norway-plans-further-development-of-arctic-drilling-amid-eu-energy-concerns
https://archive.ph/kyVya
EFF promises free basic services for the unemployed
Malema was addressing the EFF Ground Forces Forum in Umsunduzi, in Pietermaritzburg, as part of his local government election campaign. ,South Africa holds local government elections on November 4. Malema says unemployment in the country is out of control and the government is failing to provide basic services.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-promises-free-basic-services-for-the-unemployed/
Sudan anti-war forces reject El Burhan dialogue call
The participants described El Burhan’s dialogue call as a political manoeuvre aimed at consolidating the army’s authority, granting it political legitimacy and paving the way for elements of the former regime and the Islamic movement to return to power. The participants adopted a joint position paper, The Peace Process We Want, calling for an independent political process free from the dominance of either party to the conflict and rejecting dialogue that could entrench military rule.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-anti-war-forces-reject-el-burhan-dialogue-call
‘Staggering’: watchdog condemns police after Indigenous teenager on bus wrongfully arrested – then searched
The commonwealth and ACT ombudsman has criticised the Australian federal police for failing to clearly define “racial profiling” after police in Canberra pulled guns on an Indigenous teenager who they mistook for a suspect in an aggravated burglary.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/25/watchdog-scathing-after-act-police-searched-indigenous-teen-even-after-they-realised-arrest-was-mistake-ntwnfb
The P85 wage standoff
For most workers like Palajos, the day begins with work. But before the first task is done, another calculation is already running in the back: How far will today’s wage go? The answer has become harder to stretch as the prices of food and other necessities continue to rise. “The cost of goods here in Manila is very high. Our current minimum wage of P695 ($11.24) feels like it is only worth P300 ($4.86),” Palajos said, describing the rising cost of living in the capital.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/08/21/the-p85-wage-standoff/
Bangladesh tribunal orders 3 journalists held until trial in 2024 uprising case
During the student-led uprising, hundreds of people were killed, and Hasina was later sentenced to death on charges of crimes against humanity. She fled to India two years ago and was tried in absentia. The tribunal asked that Mozammel Babu, editor-in-chief of private Ekattor Television, its principal correspondent Farzana Rupa and Shyamal Dutta, editor of daily Bhorer Kagoj and former general secretary of the National Press Club in Dhaka, remain jailed.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-journalists-jail-tribunal-hasina-986b4869a16544fd24108e5e431c2b6c
R: 8 / I: 0
What's the Marxist analysis on neets? Are they lumpenproletariat?
Would I be executed or put in a gulag in a revolution?
meow
What's the Marxist analysis on neets? Are they lumpenproletariat?
Would I be executed or put in a gulag in a revolution?
meow
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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
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📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
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IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
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
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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💀 ICE & Prison Resources
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ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
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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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
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/ CYBERCOM /
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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
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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!
R: 14 / I: 0
Hong Kong CHINA region is affected.
Chinese citizens living in foreign countries will be expected to declare earnings and send 20% tax of earnings back to mainland China.
Other countries are likely to respond economically by applying harsher regulation conditions on Chinese, even though Chinese do not follow any set regulations.
China Tax
China tries to impose 20% tax on people in living in other countries that are not main land China.Hong Kong CHINA region is affected.
Chinese citizens living in foreign countries will be expected to declare earnings and send 20% tax of earnings back to mainland China.
Other countries are likely to respond economically by applying harsher regulation conditions on Chinese, even though Chinese do not follow any set regulations.
R: 121 / I: 11
https://archive.ph/NUCFc#selection-647.0-647.67
and really want to know how others here look at data like this and dont completely black pill over it. i feel like there is very little hope that things are getting this bad and we still seem to be determined to make them even worse.
How to not climate Doomer
have recently been absolutely swamped by articles such as this on many of my feedshttps://archive.ph/NUCFc#selection-647.0-647.67
and really want to know how others here look at data like this and dont completely black pill over it. i feel like there is very little hope that things are getting this bad and we still seem to be determined to make them even worse.
R: 2 / I: 0
Next month in the north-west of England alone, 77 newly qualified clinical psychologists will face the prospect of unemployment or leaving the NHS for private practice despite the NHS spending £19.25 million training them over three years, it warns.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unite-protests-outside-no-10-north-over-lack-jobs-nhs-trained-workers
French centre-left candidate launches presidential bid amid divided left
Centre-left politician Raphaël Glucksmann on Sunday launched his bid for the French presidency, aiming to unite moderate left-wing voters and challenge Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s influence ahead of France’s 2027 election. With Marine Le Pen leading first-round polls, Glucksmann is seeking to position himself as a pro-European, pro-Ukraine alternative to both the far right and hard left.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260823-glucksmann-launches-french-presidential-bid-as-left-seeks-to-challenge-far-right
https://archive.ph/zxwLN
Clashes erupt at migrant facility in northern Greece
The violence began shortly after 9 p.m. when a group of migrants reportedly tore down part of an internal fence and attacked police with stones. Buildings, common areas, security cameras, firefighting equipment and service vehicles were damaged. One entire wing was destroyed, forcing residents to move to another part of the facility.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1313218/clashes-erupt-at-migrant-facility-in-northern-greece/
https://archive.ph/sCzCJ
In Kfarchouba, life is 'a big prison' under Israeli occupation of south Lebanon
Qassem, an octogenarian, said that, as a local political authority, he had assured the Israeli military that there were no armed individuals in the village. But this has not made life easy for residents, as constant surveillance and the threat of raids, detention and interrogation add to a pervasive sense of insecurity. Occupying Israeli forces have also limited people's access to their agricultural lands and olive groves. “We can’t use our land, they don’t allow us. The mountains, the valleys, the orchards, the farmlands where we cultivate," the mayor said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kfarchouba-life-big-prison-under-israeli-occupation-south-lebanon
Iraqi army deploys along Saudi border to curb militias
The force, led by Major General Imad Ubaid al-Maliki, has been deployed across the Al-Salman, Basiyah, and Shabaka areas in the Najaf desert, where its aim is to secure desert roads and routes leading to the Jumaimah border crossing, backed by Iraqi reconnaissance aircraft.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-army-deploys-along-saudi-border-curb-militias
Turkey to seek Interpol notice for Netanyahu in Gaza flotilla case
NATO member Turkey has been one of the fiercest critics of Israel's assault on Gaza and has previously issued domestic arrest warrants for Netanyahu over the war there. It has repeatedly called for international measures against Israel over what Ankara calls its violations of human rights and international law. Israel denies those charges.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-seek-interpol-notice-netanyahu-gaza-flotilla-case-2026-08-21/
South Korea shields Russia's nuclear project with Egypt against actions from the US and other Western states
Per the sources, South Korean participation has provided Egypt with access to technology and expertise from a country that is closely integrated with Western supply chains, while also reducing the exposure of project participants to US and European sanctions imposed on Russian businesses following the invasion of Ukraine.
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/south-korea-shields-russias-nuclear-project-with-egypt-against-actions-from-the-us/x9ywx7f?op=1
Thousands of PUP students join protests as semester opens
More than 3,000 joined the rally at PUP-Sta. Mesa. The PUP Sentral na Konseho ng Mag-aaral (Students’ Central Council), PUP Office of the Student Regent and Sandigan ng mga Mag-aaral ng Sambayanan (SAMASA, or Pillar of the People’s Scholars) PUP led the protest. “Amid the worsening crisis in education and society, we must face the first day of classes with courage and firm resolve,” they said. Expanding the “Works for Taxes” (Obras por Impuestos) mechanism to affected municipalities.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/thousands-of-pup-students-join-protests-as-semester-opens/
Indonesia takes on Malaysia in battle over palm oil pricing
Analysts say dominance in physical supply does not automatically translate into pricing power. Jakarta’s move to set new benchmarks may not be enough to persuade international traders to ditch Bursa Malaysia’s crude palm oil futures contract (FCPO), the industry’s principal reference for pricing and hedging.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3364890/indonesia-takes-malaysia-battle-over-palm-oil-pricing
https://archive.ph/l8tNN
Billionaire CEO of Canada’s Shopify demands abolition of right to vote for broad sections of the population
Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swathes of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm. These proposals were met with support from within the Canadian capitalist oligarchy and international financial elite, including from the fascist Elon Musk.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/22/tdyk-a22.html
Cuba says US sanctions are blocking its efforts to open the economy to private investment
”Literally, the United States has done everything imaginable to try to prevent foreign investors,” said William LeoGrande, a professor at American University and a leading expert on U.S.-Cuba relations. ”When they say, `Well, we want to see Cuba open up to foreign investment,’ they’re being disingenuous. … It’s not possible for them to succeed without some kind of sanctions relief.” The goal of Trump’s Republican administration, he said, is “not just to open up Cuba economically but to overthrow the Cuban government — to change the nature of the Cuban political system.”
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-us-sanctions-economy-reform-investment-65b19b9e3abf8a14945e4510c9557f83
Colombia expands disaster region in 2nd emergency decree
According to the decree, the government is considering the following extraordinary measures to respond to the disaster that left more than $9.5 billion in damages. ax, credit, and budgetary flexibility to direct new resources to disaster recovery. public credit operations bypassing lengthy CONPES/DNP approvals. Use of the Royalty Savings and Stabilization Fund (FAE) resources as repayable loans.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-expands-disaster-region-in-2nd-emergency-decree/
News 8/23/26
Unite protests outside No 10 North over lack of jobs for NHS-trained workersNext month in the north-west of England alone, 77 newly qualified clinical psychologists will face the prospect of unemployment or leaving the NHS for private practice despite the NHS spending £19.25 million training them over three years, it warns.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unite-protests-outside-no-10-north-over-lack-jobs-nhs-trained-workers
French centre-left candidate launches presidential bid amid divided left
Centre-left politician Raphaël Glucksmann on Sunday launched his bid for the French presidency, aiming to unite moderate left-wing voters and challenge Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s influence ahead of France’s 2027 election. With Marine Le Pen leading first-round polls, Glucksmann is seeking to position himself as a pro-European, pro-Ukraine alternative to both the far right and hard left.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260823-glucksmann-launches-french-presidential-bid-as-left-seeks-to-challenge-far-right
https://archive.ph/zxwLN
Clashes erupt at migrant facility in northern Greece
The violence began shortly after 9 p.m. when a group of migrants reportedly tore down part of an internal fence and attacked police with stones. Buildings, common areas, security cameras, firefighting equipment and service vehicles were damaged. One entire wing was destroyed, forcing residents to move to another part of the facility.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1313218/clashes-erupt-at-migrant-facility-in-northern-greece/
https://archive.ph/sCzCJ
In Kfarchouba, life is 'a big prison' under Israeli occupation of south Lebanon
Qassem, an octogenarian, said that, as a local political authority, he had assured the Israeli military that there were no armed individuals in the village. But this has not made life easy for residents, as constant surveillance and the threat of raids, detention and interrogation add to a pervasive sense of insecurity. Occupying Israeli forces have also limited people's access to their agricultural lands and olive groves. “We can’t use our land, they don’t allow us. The mountains, the valleys, the orchards, the farmlands where we cultivate," the mayor said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kfarchouba-life-big-prison-under-israeli-occupation-south-lebanon
Iraqi army deploys along Saudi border to curb militias
The force, led by Major General Imad Ubaid al-Maliki, has been deployed across the Al-Salman, Basiyah, and Shabaka areas in the Najaf desert, where its aim is to secure desert roads and routes leading to the Jumaimah border crossing, backed by Iraqi reconnaissance aircraft.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-army-deploys-along-saudi-border-curb-militias
Turkey to seek Interpol notice for Netanyahu in Gaza flotilla case
NATO member Turkey has been one of the fiercest critics of Israel's assault on Gaza and has previously issued domestic arrest warrants for Netanyahu over the war there. It has repeatedly called for international measures against Israel over what Ankara calls its violations of human rights and international law. Israel denies those charges.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-seek-interpol-notice-netanyahu-gaza-flotilla-case-2026-08-21/
South Korea shields Russia's nuclear project with Egypt against actions from the US and other Western states
Per the sources, South Korean participation has provided Egypt with access to technology and expertise from a country that is closely integrated with Western supply chains, while also reducing the exposure of project participants to US and European sanctions imposed on Russian businesses following the invasion of Ukraine.
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/south-korea-shields-russias-nuclear-project-with-egypt-against-actions-from-the-us/x9ywx7f?op=1
Thousands of PUP students join protests as semester opens
More than 3,000 joined the rally at PUP-Sta. Mesa. The PUP Sentral na Konseho ng Mag-aaral (Students’ Central Council), PUP Office of the Student Regent and Sandigan ng mga Mag-aaral ng Sambayanan (SAMASA, or Pillar of the People’s Scholars) PUP led the protest. “Amid the worsening crisis in education and society, we must face the first day of classes with courage and firm resolve,” they said. Expanding the “Works for Taxes” (Obras por Impuestos) mechanism to affected municipalities.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/thousands-of-pup-students-join-protests-as-semester-opens/
Indonesia takes on Malaysia in battle over palm oil pricing
Analysts say dominance in physical supply does not automatically translate into pricing power. Jakarta’s move to set new benchmarks may not be enough to persuade international traders to ditch Bursa Malaysia’s crude palm oil futures contract (FCPO), the industry’s principal reference for pricing and hedging.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3364890/indonesia-takes-malaysia-battle-over-palm-oil-pricing
https://archive.ph/l8tNN
Billionaire CEO of Canada’s Shopify demands abolition of right to vote for broad sections of the population
Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swathes of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm. These proposals were met with support from within the Canadian capitalist oligarchy and international financial elite, including from the fascist Elon Musk.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/22/tdyk-a22.html
Cuba says US sanctions are blocking its efforts to open the economy to private investment
”Literally, the United States has done everything imaginable to try to prevent foreign investors,” said William LeoGrande, a professor at American University and a leading expert on U.S.-Cuba relations. ”When they say, `Well, we want to see Cuba open up to foreign investment,’ they’re being disingenuous. … It’s not possible for them to succeed without some kind of sanctions relief.” The goal of Trump’s Republican administration, he said, is “not just to open up Cuba economically but to overthrow the Cuban government — to change the nature of the Cuban political system.”
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-us-sanctions-economy-reform-investment-65b19b9e3abf8a14945e4510c9557f83
Colombia expands disaster region in 2nd emergency decree
According to the decree, the government is considering the following extraordinary measures to respond to the disaster that left more than $9.5 billion in damages. ax, credit, and budgetary flexibility to direct new resources to disaster recovery. public credit operations bypassing lengthy CONPES/DNP approvals. Use of the Royalty Savings and Stabilization Fund (FAE) resources as repayable loans.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-expands-disaster-region-in-2nd-emergency-decree/
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Marxist Historiography
Can we understand the progression of history through the analysis of class and contradictions in society? Why do liberal historians deny the existence of economic class, but insist on social class? A classic example might be the Marxist, Georges Lefebvre, saying how the bourgeois class spearheaded the French Revolution due to an erosion of the divine right of kings and the expansion of mercantilism. But Alfred Cobban denies this simplification of French society, and states that different social classes agitated for the toppling of King Louis for separate reasons, including women as a social class or certain nobles seeing the monarchy as outmoded. Even the peasantry, Cobban argued, were not determined by the economic bonds of the bourgeoisie in relation to emergent property, but by the overspending and debt of the monarchy that could no longer sustain food domestically and over-taxed. Is Marxist analysis merely touching the surface without looking deeper?
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The Postcolonial Volk
By Benjamin Zachariah
Polity, 176 pages, $25
You might have noticed that at some point, progressive types began to use the term “folks” to refer to “people.” There are black folks, queer folks, indigenous folks. The change is significant. Whereas “people” evokes a sense of a universal subject, “folks” is particular. It implies a world of distinctions: different cultures, different experiences, different interests. No people, just “peoples,” all speaking with a different voice. From this perspective, “The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.”
While the idea of a pluriverse has become increasingly popular within decolonial thought, that last line didn’t come from the tradition’s ever-proliferating ranks of academic adherents. It came from Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist. At a time when everything is “literally Hitler,” the comparison can seem overwrought. But it is precisely the comparison between post-colonial particularism and the völkisch right that Benjamin Zachariah reveals with a keen sense of the absurd in his new book, The Postcolonial Volk.
Zachariah critiques the “conglomerate” of postcolonial and decolonial theory clustering around what’s come to be known as “theory from the Global South.” But appearances are deceiving, because it’s not really from the Global South at all. As Zachariah describes, its language and legitimacy claims are crafted in the Global North, exported to the Global South, and then reimported as authentic non-Western knowledge.
And just as it is not really of the Global South, this ostensibly left-wing “postcolonial-decolonial-Global South conglomerate” is not really of the left either. Despite the right’s insistence that the ghost of Karl Marx is currently undertaking a long march through the institutions, Zachariah’s central claim is that the contemporary left actually has far more in common with anti-communist and proto-fascist forces than with the nineteenth-century founder of “scientific socialism.” In important respects, its ethos actually arises from an entirely rival tradition, one that encompasses romantic nationalism, indigenism, cultural organicism, and völkisch thought. It is, Zachariah says, “Romanticism, rather than the much-reviled Enlightenment, that suggests itself as the intellectual basis of the ‘post-Enlightenment’ world that Global Southistan now lays claim to.”
This is why, as Zachariah shows, the postcolonial outlook now common on the contemporary left is so hostile to the Enlightenment and its ideal of universal truth. In his satirical “Twelve Theses on Postcolonialism,” he condenses its outlook into its propositions including “the individual is an Enlightenment conspiracy” and “the Age of Reason is the Age of Empire.” Contrary to popular belief, universal reason and the emancipation of the individual were central to Marxism and the socialist and communist traditions shaped by it (“We are communists out of egoism,” Engels once wrote to Marx), however miserably they failed in practice. Marx and Engels were part of the Young Hegelian milieu, who were deeply impressed by the “heroes of the French Revolution,” and even called themselves “encyclopaedists” after the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophes. This is a far cry from the unholy trinity that Zachariah skewers, however much its adherents may sometimes rummage in the dustbins for what he calls the “debris of Marx- and- Engels-isms.”
Postcolonialism does not simply swap out the working class for some other group of the oppressed. Its object is a mystic unity of culture, collective memory, fraught relationships to race and place, and inherited victimhood. Blood and soil in these formulations are only slightly obscured by a thin rhetorical dust.
As Zachariah shows, the postcolonial tendency’s hostility to individualism and universalism follows precisely from its Romantic and völkisch premises. This is why, as Zachariah describes through a number of jarring examples, its language passes so easily out of the mouths of Hindu nationalists, Islamists, and white identitarians. All emphasize authentic peoples, violated inheritances, foreign contamination, internal betrayers, and cultural restoration as a magical solution to social and political problems.
One of Zachariah’s most illuminating examples is that of Benoy Kumar Sarkar, a Bengali social scientist whom Zachariah describes as “a self-conscious and dedicated user of völkisch ideas” and “zealous co-worker with the Nazis,” who is now unselfconsciously revered as a pioneer of Indian sociology, political science, and forebear of postcolonial thought. That Sarkar was a resolute admirer of Hitler, whom he called “Vivekananda multiplied by Bismarck,” is forgiven or ignored by those eager to find in him a postcolonial precursor.
The story is similar, if more well known, regarding Martin Heidegger, whom Zachariah describes as “postcolonial scholars’ preferred philosopher of ‘affect’” and whose defenders’ attempt to save him from the charge of Nazism “faltered on the evidence of his own diaries.” One compromised intellectual ancestor might be a mere misstep, a product of a momentary lapse in judgment (even if lasting many years). But when the fascist affinities of your forebears must repeatedly be bracketed or explained away, it should tell you that something is wrong with your outlook.
Not that this is really possible, because postcolonialism’s epistemology means it is singularly incapable of recognizing the proto-fascism of its völkisch affinities. As Zachariah writes, these are instead routinely “underplayed or explained away in terms of the ‘difference’ of non-Western cultures, which are allegedly incapable of fascism or to whom Western concepts such as fascism simply do not apply.” If the volk is light-skinned, the politics belong to the right; if dark-skinned, to the left, and ne’er the twain shall meet. And so, the right remains evil for its organic nationalism, while the left is merely seeking cultural renewal; the right is dangerous for denouncing non-white internal enemies but when the left denounces whites it is merely identifying obstacles to “decolonization.” It is the peculiarities of the volk, rather than the politics, that matter.
Why has the left turned to these romantic ideas? Zachariah cites the collapse of the Soviet Union as one cause. But he hits on an even deeper reason near the start of the book, when he draws on Walter Benjamin’s much-quoted vignette inspired by Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus. This is the backward-facing, forward-blown Angel of History, who is to Benjamin, “surveying the debris of the past” as a storm blowing from Paradise drives him perilously into the future. “He would like to pause,” goes the vignette, “to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed,” but the gale has got so strong he cannot close his wings.
Zachariah’s intended point is well taken: We can no more return to an earlier materialist left than postcolonial volk can return to the idyllic time before the colonial “Fall.” Both the longing and the backward-looking means of overcoming it are misguided. But Benjamin’s image also answers a deeper question: Just why is there such a passionate desire to escape the forces of history and take refuge in the wholeness of the past?
In You Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm reads the expulsion from Eden not as man’s corruption but “the beginning of his rise.” Eden is the central symbolic story of man’s gradual alienation from animalhood and nature in the development of his capacity to reason and disobey, that is, his capacity for freedom. But crucially, this freedom is experienced as a painful sense of loss, as freedom imposes burdens of uncertainty, choice, and responsibility.
“Man suffers from this loss of oneness,” Fromm writes, and “his most passionate striving is to return to the world of union which was his home.” And so while man, in Fromm’s radical humanist reading of the Hebrew scriptures, reasons and argues with God on his ascent to independence, he is always drawn back downward, “to the womb, the Mother Earth,” and the certainties and bindings of the past, nature, clan, and idols.
This is the deeper yearning expressed in Benjamin’s Angel of History. We want to go back and pick up the pieces, rebuild what’s been lost. But the most painful lesson, the one we continually cannot accept, is that there is no going back.
Ashley Frawley is a Compact columnist, a visiting fellow at MCC Brussels, and a visiting researcher in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent.
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The Rise of the Völkisch Left
July 31, 2026The Postcolonial Volk
By Benjamin Zachariah
Polity, 176 pages, $25
You might have noticed that at some point, progressive types began to use the term “folks” to refer to “people.” There are black folks, queer folks, indigenous folks. The change is significant. Whereas “people” evokes a sense of a universal subject, “folks” is particular. It implies a world of distinctions: different cultures, different experiences, different interests. No people, just “peoples,” all speaking with a different voice. From this perspective, “The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.”
While the idea of a pluriverse has become increasingly popular within decolonial thought, that last line didn’t come from the tradition’s ever-proliferating ranks of academic adherents. It came from Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist. At a time when everything is “literally Hitler,” the comparison can seem overwrought. But it is precisely the comparison between post-colonial particularism and the völkisch right that Benjamin Zachariah reveals with a keen sense of the absurd in his new book, The Postcolonial Volk.
Zachariah critiques the “conglomerate” of postcolonial and decolonial theory clustering around what’s come to be known as “theory from the Global South.” But appearances are deceiving, because it’s not really from the Global South at all. As Zachariah describes, its language and legitimacy claims are crafted in the Global North, exported to the Global South, and then reimported as authentic non-Western knowledge.
And just as it is not really of the Global South, this ostensibly left-wing “postcolonial-decolonial-Global South conglomerate” is not really of the left either. Despite the right’s insistence that the ghost of Karl Marx is currently undertaking a long march through the institutions, Zachariah’s central claim is that the contemporary left actually has far more in common with anti-communist and proto-fascist forces than with the nineteenth-century founder of “scientific socialism.” In important respects, its ethos actually arises from an entirely rival tradition, one that encompasses romantic nationalism, indigenism, cultural organicism, and völkisch thought. It is, Zachariah says, “Romanticism, rather than the much-reviled Enlightenment, that suggests itself as the intellectual basis of the ‘post-Enlightenment’ world that Global Southistan now lays claim to.”
This is why, as Zachariah shows, the postcolonial outlook now common on the contemporary left is so hostile to the Enlightenment and its ideal of universal truth. In his satirical “Twelve Theses on Postcolonialism,” he condenses its outlook into its propositions including “the individual is an Enlightenment conspiracy” and “the Age of Reason is the Age of Empire.” Contrary to popular belief, universal reason and the emancipation of the individual were central to Marxism and the socialist and communist traditions shaped by it (“We are communists out of egoism,” Engels once wrote to Marx), however miserably they failed in practice. Marx and Engels were part of the Young Hegelian milieu, who were deeply impressed by the “heroes of the French Revolution,” and even called themselves “encyclopaedists” after the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophes. This is a far cry from the unholy trinity that Zachariah skewers, however much its adherents may sometimes rummage in the dustbins for what he calls the “debris of Marx- and- Engels-isms.”
Postcolonialism does not simply swap out the working class for some other group of the oppressed. Its object is a mystic unity of culture, collective memory, fraught relationships to race and place, and inherited victimhood. Blood and soil in these formulations are only slightly obscured by a thin rhetorical dust.
As Zachariah shows, the postcolonial tendency’s hostility to individualism and universalism follows precisely from its Romantic and völkisch premises. This is why, as Zachariah describes through a number of jarring examples, its language passes so easily out of the mouths of Hindu nationalists, Islamists, and white identitarians. All emphasize authentic peoples, violated inheritances, foreign contamination, internal betrayers, and cultural restoration as a magical solution to social and political problems.
One of Zachariah’s most illuminating examples is that of Benoy Kumar Sarkar, a Bengali social scientist whom Zachariah describes as “a self-conscious and dedicated user of völkisch ideas” and “zealous co-worker with the Nazis,” who is now unselfconsciously revered as a pioneer of Indian sociology, political science, and forebear of postcolonial thought. That Sarkar was a resolute admirer of Hitler, whom he called “Vivekananda multiplied by Bismarck,” is forgiven or ignored by those eager to find in him a postcolonial precursor.
The story is similar, if more well known, regarding Martin Heidegger, whom Zachariah describes as “postcolonial scholars’ preferred philosopher of ‘affect’” and whose defenders’ attempt to save him from the charge of Nazism “faltered on the evidence of his own diaries.” One compromised intellectual ancestor might be a mere misstep, a product of a momentary lapse in judgment (even if lasting many years). But when the fascist affinities of your forebears must repeatedly be bracketed or explained away, it should tell you that something is wrong with your outlook.
Not that this is really possible, because postcolonialism’s epistemology means it is singularly incapable of recognizing the proto-fascism of its völkisch affinities. As Zachariah writes, these are instead routinely “underplayed or explained away in terms of the ‘difference’ of non-Western cultures, which are allegedly incapable of fascism or to whom Western concepts such as fascism simply do not apply.” If the volk is light-skinned, the politics belong to the right; if dark-skinned, to the left, and ne’er the twain shall meet. And so, the right remains evil for its organic nationalism, while the left is merely seeking cultural renewal; the right is dangerous for denouncing non-white internal enemies but when the left denounces whites it is merely identifying obstacles to “decolonization.” It is the peculiarities of the volk, rather than the politics, that matter.
Why has the left turned to these romantic ideas? Zachariah cites the collapse of the Soviet Union as one cause. But he hits on an even deeper reason near the start of the book, when he draws on Walter Benjamin’s much-quoted vignette inspired by Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus. This is the backward-facing, forward-blown Angel of History, who is to Benjamin, “surveying the debris of the past” as a storm blowing from Paradise drives him perilously into the future. “He would like to pause,” goes the vignette, “to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed,” but the gale has got so strong he cannot close his wings.
Zachariah’s intended point is well taken: We can no more return to an earlier materialist left than postcolonial volk can return to the idyllic time before the colonial “Fall.” Both the longing and the backward-looking means of overcoming it are misguided. But Benjamin’s image also answers a deeper question: Just why is there such a passionate desire to escape the forces of history and take refuge in the wholeness of the past?
In You Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm reads the expulsion from Eden not as man’s corruption but “the beginning of his rise.” Eden is the central symbolic story of man’s gradual alienation from animalhood and nature in the development of his capacity to reason and disobey, that is, his capacity for freedom. But crucially, this freedom is experienced as a painful sense of loss, as freedom imposes burdens of uncertainty, choice, and responsibility.
“Man suffers from this loss of oneness,” Fromm writes, and “his most passionate striving is to return to the world of union which was his home.” And so while man, in Fromm’s radical humanist reading of the Hebrew scriptures, reasons and argues with God on his ascent to independence, he is always drawn back downward, “to the womb, the Mother Earth,” and the certainties and bindings of the past, nature, clan, and idols.
This is the deeper yearning expressed in Benjamin’s Angel of History. We want to go back and pick up the pieces, rebuild what’s been lost. But the most painful lesson, the one we continually cannot accept, is that there is no going back.
Ashley Frawley is a Compact columnist, a visiting fellow at MCC Brussels, and a visiting researcher in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent.
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What's the conclusion comrades?
Also why wasn't there a general strike?
Gaza University Encampments Review
So let's do an honest review of the encampments. What did they really accomplish?- Temporarily stop/slow down the genocide?
- Stop US transfer of weapons to Israel (Rafah)?
- Brown University ultimately rejected divestment, meaning the student demands were nof fulfilled.
- Change of public opinion of Israel?
What's the conclusion comrades?
Also why wasn't there a general strike?
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meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.
Which of these is most accurate?
Which of these is the closest?meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.meow.
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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/19/south-korea-s-no-kids-zones-reflect-a-society-where-people-have-given-up-on-trying-to-accommodate-each-other_6540962_4.html
>It is no coincidence that South Korean society has been suffering from a low birth rate, as it seems to find the mere presence of children exhausting. As proof, one need only consider the large number of establishments that refuse entry to the youngest customers. "At first, we had baby seats, but there were too many problems. The little ones would scream, throw food, and, or, refuse to eat it. Their behavior could be annoying to other patrons. But our prices are quite high, therefore customers are expecting superior service," said Iyo Iyo (not her real name), an employee of a rather chic sushi restaurant in the center of Seoul. Like hundreds of others, this establishment does not allow children. The words "no-kids zone" have even made their on way on the restaurant's menu.
>This trend has been growing in South Korea, where the Jeju Research Institute has identified 542 "no-kids zones." A user-generated map on Google lists 459. This phenomenon has become a cause for concern in a country experiencing a population decline, and where no-go zones have begun affecting increasingly large sections of the population. Min-ah Lee, a sociologist at Seoul's Chung-Ang University, has seen "a growing trend towards exclusion among
Kid Free Zones in Korea
We need to ban these in the West before they become a thing. If a venue doesn't serve alcohol or cannabis, then there is no legal reason for it to prohibit children.https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/19/south-korea-s-no-kids-zones-reflect-a-society-where-people-have-given-up-on-trying-to-accommodate-each-other_6540962_4.html
>It is no coincidence that South Korean society has been suffering from a low birth rate, as it seems to find the mere presence of children exhausting. As proof, one need only consider the large number of establishments that refuse entry to the youngest customers. "At first, we had baby seats, but there were too many problems. The little ones would scream, throw food, and, or, refuse to eat it. Their behavior could be annoying to other patrons. But our prices are quite high, therefore customers are expecting superior service," said Iyo Iyo (not her real name), an employee of a rather chic sushi restaurant in the center of Seoul. Like hundreds of others, this establishment does not allow children. The words "no-kids zone" have even made their on way on the restaurant's menu.
>This trend has been growing in South Korea, where the Jeju Research Institute has identified 542 "no-kids zones." A user-generated map on Google lists 459. This phenomenon has become a cause for concern in a country experiencing a population decline, and where no-go zones have begun affecting increasingly large sections of the population. Min-ah Lee, a sociologist at Seoul's Chung-Ang University, has seen "a growing trend towards exclusion among
R: 51 / I: 8
>The Soviet Union
>Tsarist Russia
>Fascist Italy
>Nazi Germany
>The German Empire
>The Second French Empire
>Hezbollah
>Ba'athist Iraq
>The Islamic Republic of Iran
>The PRC
I dislike
>America
>Britain
>The French third and fifth republics
Third positionists be like
I like>The Soviet Union
>Tsarist Russia
>Fascist Italy
>Nazi Germany
>The German Empire
>The Second French Empire
>Hezbollah
>Ba'athist Iraq
>The Islamic Republic of Iran
>The PRC
I dislike
>America
>Britain
>The French third and fifth republics
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Anybody else voting republican in the midterms, heres why I am
>trump has revived socialism
>the contradictions of capitalism have accelerated
>proverty is up
>america is losing a war badly
>america has accelerated its debt crisis
>a recession is all but inevitable infact it might be worst
>political violence against the ruling class is normalized
>trump is retarded
Anybody else voting republican in the midterms, heres why I am
>trump has revived socialism
>the contradictions of capitalism have accelerated
>proverty is up
>america is losing a war badly
>america has accelerated its debt crisis
>a recession is all but inevitable infact it might be worst
>political violence against the ruling class is normalized
>trump is retarded
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Literally everything i learn about trotsky just makes him seem more and more based.
Why do ml's still seethe at him? Because he lost a power struggle against stalin over a hundred years ago??
Hes the only reason there was even a ussr to fight over in the first place.
Literally everything i learn about trotsky just makes him seem more and more based.
Why do ml's still seethe at him? Because he lost a power struggle against stalin over a hundred years ago??
Hes the only reason there was even a ussr to fight over in the first place.
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what happens if $$$America$$$ gets a $$$president$$$ that doesn't fail at trying to secure $$$bourgeoisie interests$$$
no seriously we might be fucked if we don't prepare for a scenario where the $$$US President$$$ doesn't suck at his joblike Trump Does
Trvthnvke: Most people would not hate $$$America$$$ if it wasn't for $$$Donald Trump$$$
nobody even took the idea of the revolution seriously until $$$Donald Trump$$$ became the $$$US President$$$what happens if $$$America$$$ gets a $$$president$$$ that doesn't fail at trying to secure $$$bourgeoisie interests$$$
no seriously we might be fucked if we don't prepare for a scenario where the $$$US President$$$ doesn't suck at his joblike Trump Does
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Several brigades have since been formed for SDF fighters who joined the Syrian army, with former SDF commanders leading them. Damascus has also appointed a former SDF commander as deputy defense minister for the eastern region. Abdi also said Kurdish fighters who had arrived in northeast Syria (Rojava) from Kurdish regions in Iraq, Iran and Turkey to help defend the Kurdish enclave against attacks, including those by the Islamic State, have now left Syria.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/syria/1078920
Protests continue in Tunisia demanding the ousting of the president
Mobilised by a new opposition collective, the demonstrators pleaded for improvements to basic utility services and an end to medicine shortages, rising living costs and restrictions on freedoms. Some denounced what they described as the president’s failure to meet the people’s demands since he was elected seven years ago.
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RSF turns to tribal mobilisation after Sudan battlefield losses
The new recruitment drive marks a return to a strategy that has played a central role in the RSF's expansion since long before the outbreak of Sudan's current war in April 2023. The paramilitary force developed out of armed networks recruited heavily from communities in Darfur, and tribal mobilisation has remained an important source of manpower throughout the conflict. In July 2023, only months after fighting erupted between the RSF and army, leaders of seven predominantly Arab tribes gathered in Nyala and publicly announced their support for the paramilitary force.
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Indian workers in Israel demand accountability after murder of Indian caregiver
Israeli authorities have since indicted Avior Zaken, the grandson of the elderly couple who employed Acharya, for attacking him repeatedly with a sharp object on 23 July. Workers have called for the Israeli government to prosecute the case fully, provide compensation to Acharya's family, and protect Indian foreign workers from violence and abuse, according to NDTV.
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14 killed in strike on Myanmar Buddhist monastery during meditation retreat: Report
The attack occurred on Friday at 9am in Swel Le Oh village in Myaung township, about 75 kilometres (45 miles) west of Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, according to Nway Oo, a spokesperson for the Civil Defence and Security Organisation of Myaung Township, or CDSOM.
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Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s family accuses gov’t of defying hospital order
His lawyer told Al Jazeera that, under the order, Khan was to remain there under medical care until the case was next heard on September 16. Instead, he spent a few hours at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) before being returned to his cell by 5am on Friday, without ever setting foot inside Shifa hospital.
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The prosecutor in the Maradona case says a crime occurred and the trial will not collapse
The class action was brought by lawmaker Victoria Tolosa Paz, who also filed a criminal complaint. “The government charges a fuel tax to maintain our roads and, instead of spending it on works, three out of every four pesos from SisVial went into financial gambling,” she said. A separate complaint by lawmaker Marcela Pagano was assigned to judge Julio Ercolini, who as of this week had not referred it to a prosecutor. No officials have been charged and no criminal case has been formally opened.
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Panama canal to reduce shipping as El Niño strikes vital route
Central America is in the throes of a severe drought driven by El Niño, a weather pattern that warms surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, triggering changes in winds and rainfall. In the area of the canal rainfall from May to August is down34% from its historical average, the authority said, adding that El Niño could cut it even more.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/21/panama-canal-reduce-shipping-el-nino-drought
Hidden AirTag Exposes Amazon Destroying Rare Books in Bulk to Train AI
Amazon has been caught buying and destroying rare books in bulk to train its AI models – after investigative journalists planted a tracking device in one of the books. The retail giant is the latest company to be exposed for the practice after 404 Media convinced a bookseller to hide an AirTag among a large batch of books that Amazon had ordered anonymously.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/21/hidden-airtag-exposes-amazon-destroying-rare-books-in-bulk-to-train-ai/
Corbyn launches Your Party campaign against ‘national travesty’ of run-away private rents
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner ruled out rent controls in July despite PM Andy Burnham supporting a rent freeze as Greater Manchester mayor in 2023. Mr Corbyn said: “For millions of renters, payday has become the day they feel their landlord’s bank balance heave. “The average rent is now equivalent to almost half the average worker’s gross pay. Once tax, bills and other essentials are taken into account, people are left with next to nothing. It is a national travesty.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corbyn-launches-your-party-campaign-against-national-travesty-run-away-private-rents
News 8/21/26
Mazloum Abdi announces full integration of SDF as ‘new phase’ beginsSeveral brigades have since been formed for SDF fighters who joined the Syrian army, with former SDF commanders leading them. Damascus has also appointed a former SDF commander as deputy defense minister for the eastern region. Abdi also said Kurdish fighters who had arrived in northeast Syria (Rojava) from Kurdish regions in Iraq, Iran and Turkey to help defend the Kurdish enclave against attacks, including those by the Islamic State, have now left Syria.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/syria/1078920
Protests continue in Tunisia demanding the ousting of the president
Mobilised by a new opposition collective, the demonstrators pleaded for improvements to basic utility services and an end to medicine shortages, rising living costs and restrictions on freedoms. Some denounced what they described as the president’s failure to meet the people’s demands since he was elected seven years ago.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protests-continue-tunisia-demanding-ousting-president
RSF turns to tribal mobilisation after Sudan battlefield losses
The new recruitment drive marks a return to a strategy that has played a central role in the RSF's expansion since long before the outbreak of Sudan's current war in April 2023. The paramilitary force developed out of armed networks recruited heavily from communities in Darfur, and tribal mobilisation has remained an important source of manpower throughout the conflict. In July 2023, only months after fighting erupted between the RSF and army, leaders of seven predominantly Arab tribes gathered in Nyala and publicly announced their support for the paramilitary force.
https://www.newarab.com/news/rsf-turns-tribal-mobilisation-after-sudan-battlefield-losses
Indian workers in Israel demand accountability after murder of Indian caregiver
Israeli authorities have since indicted Avior Zaken, the grandson of the elderly couple who employed Acharya, for attacking him repeatedly with a sharp object on 23 July. Workers have called for the Israeli government to prosecute the case fully, provide compensation to Acharya's family, and protect Indian foreign workers from violence and abuse, according to NDTV.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/indian-workers-israel-demand-accountability-after-murder-indian-caregiver
14 killed in strike on Myanmar Buddhist monastery during meditation retreat: Report
The attack occurred on Friday at 9am in Swel Le Oh village in Myaung township, about 75 kilometres (45 miles) west of Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, according to Nway Oo, a spokesperson for the Civil Defence and Security Organisation of Myaung Township, or CDSOM.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/airstrike-on-a-buddhist-monastery-kills-death-toll-in-central-myanmar-sagaing-101787319916766.html
https://archive.ph/zlRbY
Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s family accuses gov’t of defying hospital order
His lawyer told Al Jazeera that, under the order, Khan was to remain there under medical care until the case was next heard on September 16. Instead, he spent a few hours at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) before being returned to his cell by 5am on Friday, without ever setting foot inside Shifa hospital.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/21/pti-accuses-pakistan-government-of-defying-ex-pm-imran-khan-hospital-order
https://archive.ph/rjDID
The prosecutor in the Maradona case says a crime occurred and the trial will not collapse
The class action was brought by lawmaker Victoria Tolosa Paz, who also filed a criminal complaint. “The government charges a fuel tax to maintain our roads and, instead of spending it on works, three out of every four pesos from SisVial went into financial gambling,” she said. A separate complaint by lawmaker Marcela Pagano was assigned to judge Julio Ercolini, who as of this week had not referred it to a prosecutor. No officials have been charged and no criminal case has been formally opened.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/20/a-judge-demands-urgent-reports-from-argentina-s-government-on-the-fate-of-road-funds
Panama canal to reduce shipping as El Niño strikes vital route
Central America is in the throes of a severe drought driven by El Niño, a weather pattern that warms surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, triggering changes in winds and rainfall. In the area of the canal rainfall from May to August is down34% from its historical average, the authority said, adding that El Niño could cut it even more.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/21/panama-canal-reduce-shipping-el-nino-drought
Hidden AirTag Exposes Amazon Destroying Rare Books in Bulk to Train AI
Amazon has been caught buying and destroying rare books in bulk to train its AI models – after investigative journalists planted a tracking device in one of the books. The retail giant is the latest company to be exposed for the practice after 404 Media convinced a bookseller to hide an AirTag among a large batch of books that Amazon had ordered anonymously.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/21/hidden-airtag-exposes-amazon-destroying-rare-books-in-bulk-to-train-ai/
Corbyn launches Your Party campaign against ‘national travesty’ of run-away private rents
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner ruled out rent controls in July despite PM Andy Burnham supporting a rent freeze as Greater Manchester mayor in 2023. Mr Corbyn said: “For millions of renters, payday has become the day they feel their landlord’s bank balance heave. “The average rent is now equivalent to almost half the average worker’s gross pay. Once tax, bills and other essentials are taken into account, people are left with next to nothing. It is a national travesty.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corbyn-launches-your-party-campaign-against-national-travesty-run-away-private-rents
R: 84 / I: 13
White Panther Party
What are your thoughts on them? Here was their 10 point platform:- Full endorsement and support of Black Panther Party’s 10-Point Program.
- Total assault on the culture by any means necessary, including rock ’n’ roll, dope and fucking in the streets.
- Free exchange of energy and materials — we demand the end of money!
- Free food, clothes, housing, dope, music, bodies, medical care — everything free for everybody!
- Free access to information media — free the technology from the greed creeps!
- Free time and space for all humans — dissolve all unnatural boundaries.
- Free all schools and all structures from corporate rule — turn the buildings over to the people at once!
- Free all prisoners everywhere — they are our brothers.
- Free all soldiers at once — no more conscripted armies.
- Free the people from their “leaders” — leaders suck — all power to all the people! Freedom means free everyone!
R: 618 / I: 130 (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™
<If you join the USMC as a Muslim they throw you in an industrial clothes dryer … edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2892298
/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™
<If you join the USMC as a Muslim they throw you in an industrial clothes dryer … edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2892298
R: 56 / I: 8
Socialist Cinema
Why were many masterpieces of cinema made by socialists or people sympathetic to socialism? Eisenstein created the montage, which Hollywood appropriated and standardised. Kurosawa brought samurai movies to its apotheosis, inspiring everything from Star Wars to contemporary westerns.
R: 1 / I: 0
Gooning is western bourgeois decadence
Just reminding that westoids are degenerates and you need to support anti-imperialists nation like Russia against these degeneracy. Hentai over bible and Quran is outrageous.
R: 17 / I: 1
>Capitalism = consumer choices and innovation
>Socialism = lack of incentives and uniformity
>Its against Human Nature
>Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Thank you YouTube for this recommendation.
Red Scare Slop
>Socialism is when command economy>Capitalism = consumer choices and innovation
>Socialism = lack of incentives and uniformity
>Its against Human Nature
>Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Thank you YouTube for this recommendation.
R: 13 / I: 3
A short question quiz about the world which has two odd characteristics:
How well did you do? Be honest, this is an anonymous board.
Factfulness Quiz
https://natkalia.github.io/factfulness-quiz-coderscamp/A short question quiz about the world which has two odd characteristics:
- The more educated you are, the worse you perform
- Most people perform worse than random chance.
How well did you do? Be honest, this is an anonymous board.
R: 168 / I: 81
Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
/auspol/ #12 - A Police Helicopter Just Flew Over My House edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread. 'EDIT'"Previous thread: >>2371516"Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
R: 36 / I: 4
>According to Donald Parkinson, Hammoud is most likely the poster Rafiq from the RevLeft forums, as his writing style matches almost 1-to-1 with the forum poster, saying that ideologically at the time Ali was “more of a heterodox leftcom who flirted with the ideas of Mike Macnair and Lars Lih.” Macnair and Lih are communists who reject Stalinism as a failure and call for learning from Karl Kautsky’s Second International.
What the fuck! How did this little bit of leftoid lore go unnoticed? The founder of the MAGAcommunist retard party and /leftypol/'s favorite RevLeft screenshot author circa 2015 were actually the same person all along??
Haz is Rafiq?
https://cosmonautmag.com/2025/04/praxis-of-alienation-and-enmity-on-the-american-communist-party/>According to Donald Parkinson, Hammoud is most likely the poster Rafiq from the RevLeft forums, as his writing style matches almost 1-to-1 with the forum poster, saying that ideologically at the time Ali was “more of a heterodox leftcom who flirted with the ideas of Mike Macnair and Lars Lih.” Macnair and Lih are communists who reject Stalinism as a failure and call for learning from Karl Kautsky’s Second International.
What the fuck! How did this little bit of leftoid lore go unnoticed? The founder of the MAGAcommunist retard party and /leftypol/'s favorite RevLeft screenshot author circa 2015 were actually the same person all along??
R: 4 / I: 0
I fear that my belief America is the Arbiter of Nations that can exert itself economically and militaristically at will is inherently unpopular among the proletarians of america, unlike the anticommunist days of the cold war (which usa was focused on beating the USSR, hence the alliance with communist china in 1972)
I fear that having been ragebaited by communist videos that my ideals are actually bourgeoisie and/or no longer socially acceptable
In an age of the rising tide communism
My american nationalism is no longer socially acceptable
I know its absolutely scandalous for an American Nationalist like me to comment in a leftist politically correct message board
I fear I brainwashed myself to believe that Your communist expanionist ideology views my nation and my christian faith as inherently degenerate and satanic.
I fear now that posting my point of view of my american nationalism under the guise of a new rooseveltian era (only using the name rooseveltian so every american political party thought of their roosevelt, thus uniting them like a fasces)
(technically not american nationalism, the politics of mechanism, a lifeform aristocracy profiting from robotic labor, doesn't exist yet, and it applies bismarckian realpolitik on a global scale, so american nationalism (Rooseveltian thought to unite the Republicans and Democrats under one banner like that of a neoclassical fasces) was just the means to the end until robots that proletarians could profit from became a thing)
first of all Im autistic, to avoid being a softie degenerate like chris chan I would purpopsely make my life harder and suppress my autistic side to try and make myself more normal through sheer and utter strength of will
note that MAGA prides itself in "restoring normality" this will resonate hard with someone like me
this was why I became an american nationalist, since it was essentially the next best thing, Bismarck was able to take a divided Germany and able to unite it into the powerhouse it became during Marx's Era
the democrat party platform could not sufficiently enact a process and policy that could effectively unite the people under the banner of the "anti-trumpism" under Biden
I had voted for Harris, my parents were liberals, but I knew Trump was the obvious favorite ever since I had a supernatural thought 1 year before he was elected saying the next president would be Republican
One of the tenets of Mechanism is having an outcome predetermined, and rather than yap about a potential revolution, would actually enact steps to get there (this was to resolve one of my issues with Marxism, which I fear could've been a self-imposed bourgeoisie construct)
The same external thoughts not created by me that said the next president would be republican told me during the vice presidents debate of 2024 (which was super boring but since I never got to see boring politics, I assumed it was the glorious future and prosperity), Tim Walz of course got tied up in an unrecoverable fraud case, which led me to research JD Vance
so JD Vance harbors some of the qualities of what we in America call the "American Dream" his rhetoric is like a
diet-coke Teddy Roosevelt, something I admire
he came from nothing yet goes into the military and then gets into Yale with the GI Bill studying law, and afterwards became the Ohio Senator, before being selected by Trump to appeal to the youth vote and ensure victory in the midwestern states, since he is VP, essentially, getting him elected in 2028 would prove the american dream is not just dead and surviving but thriving (which I fear would only strengthen bourgeoisie power in your eyes)
I knew that Trump was crazy, I did not trust my parents at all back then, but they had lived in the east coast and knew of Trump in the late 20th century before his exploits became widely known,
my grandfather, a mega socially conservative republican and average fox news watcher before he died was contracted to build trump tower and REFUSED to shake his hand due to Trump not paying him
mom lives in New Jersey and watched his casinos go bankrupt at least 6 times, two of which happened when my mom was in her twenties
on top of that, I had just gotten myself out of a masturbation addiction with help from attending one catholic mass (which I assumed disproved the theory that religion was the opiate of the masses)
politically the goal was to get JD Vance President
in a mechanist perspective, revolution is seen as a method, not an inevitability, no matter how moderate or radical, this is why I believed it would eliminate the existence of "bourgeoisie socialists"
the steps to get JD Vance in office were such:
Condition 1 was met with Donald Trump winning the house, the courts, the popular and electoral vote, this meant he had the support of the whole peoples, at worst trump didnt have to do anything and would still remain popular
He could only screw over his position like 2026 by self-sabotaging it, due to the 2020 scenario, republicans would try to distance trump from the spotlight with it unraveling during the late 20s as republicans focused on getting themselves re-elected and people like Vance would consolidate the future of the party.
What I didn't account for was that all the republicans were trump appointees and would thus be yes men, meaning trump would unravel before he even began
as I was a christian that meant there was absolutely no way I could ever be a marxist.
I read Marx in high school for a russian revolution cirriculum once and hated it. Whether or not it is due to my petit bourgeoisie father or believing owning a $1,400,000 house made me believe I was an elite that couldn't fail no matter how hard I tried
my issues with Marx were
Add on to my conversion to catholicism which meant that my other grievance was:
point 3 was one of the main reasons I started meticulously researching Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW to appear more fascist.
You see, mechanism is incompatible with fascism because the existence of a Lifeform Aristocracy implied that all races were capable of greatness.
I viewed fascism as an irrelevant ideology propped up by communists as a means to justify the maintenance of a capitalist world order
one of the main themes of Mechanism is to find meaning outside of producing material and capital, this is why I believed Mechanism was incompatible with Marxism
I believed Marxism adopted the capitalist construct of materialism (meaning derived from resources and money)
and I sought to be amaterial, doing total ego crucifiction for the sake of a meaning and destiny greater than that of myself.
This was one reason of many I believed Mechanism was incompatible.
The keystone of mechanism in a marxist perpsective is proletarians delegating their labor to robots and profiting from said clanker labor. Effectively creating a "Lifeform Bourgeoisie".
I believed this framework was incompatible with Marxist egalitarianism because it essentially asked to create a Lifeform Bourgeoisie, and was thus "counterrevolutionary"
the other reason is that I didn't want to call all other politics "capitalist" and "counterrevolutionary" you see I'm something of what you would call an internet troll, mechanism views all ideologies as an arch, with Mechanism as the keystone, the sum of history, the sigma male
any anti-mechanist faction is essentially a faulty arch just waiting for the keystone to be destroyed (eliminating the whole arch). I don't want to group Bismarckians, Fascists, Capitalists, and Bonapartists as "bourgeoisie counterrevolutions" I wanted to target each one individually, jeopardizing the keystone of each, letting the old world order of capital die as the new world order
of mechanism rose from the ashes.
Motivated after intentially making gameplay of a pirated copy of sonic the hedgehog harder, I would ragequit and try to find dirt on sonic, eventually leading to me discovering Dr Eggman was based off of Theodore Roosevelt, with his american localization (robotnik) meaning "worker" in polish (im not kidding this is what radicalized me against capitalism)
This is why the revolutionary of the Mechanist ideology is known as the Eggman, an inversion of blueblurian capitalism
blueblurianism is anything that prohibits the existence a lifeform aristocracy to enslave everyone for the benefit of the few
in contrast, the Eggman is of the Godly nature of Christ, willing to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the many and establish a Lifeform Aristocracy
the endgame of Mechanism was to create a Sigma Class (people born into a society where all Lifeforms cannot work and can profit from Clanker Labor)
this was to resolve the major issue in the Communist Manifesto, Marx promised a society without work but did not have the methods to get there
either a revolution or implementation of reforms to create the Lifeform Aristocracy:
In this state there would be:
$1,000 price for housing, tuition, and university
$100 monthly rent
$3.29 daily rent
$1 products in all stores
$1 product-per-measurement if measurement is needed
$10 for everything else
no tariffs - free trade with other nations
(this is where the new deal inspiration comes in)
the proletariat was guaranteed these rights by the state
Food
Drink
A Bed
Clothes
Shelter
A Job
Electricity
Internet
Personal Computer
Smartphones
Cell Towers
Citizenship for Children
Cyborg parts for mutilation (born with or inflicted)
A Clanker Laborer
with the ability to buy other clanker laborers for
$8,000
and pay 10% of all profits made
any megacorporation was to be trustbusted
(teddy roosevelt influence)
(the strength of will is only fulfilled in adversity, how can we reach our full potential without a rival or rivalry to push ourselves?)
also you need to use something akin to triple-paranthesis, but with triple dollar signs instead, like:
$$$bourgeoisie capitalism$$$ is crippling the workers at the expense of the $$$capitalists$$$
you wanna fight fascism, ya gotta beat 'em at there own game
YEEHAW
…and I accidentally got hopecore in something that I believed would be a confession
Im fucked
I might be a worker but I know people like you don't have sympathy for an american imperialist like me.I fear that my belief America is the Arbiter of Nations that can exert itself economically and militaristically at will is inherently unpopular among the proletarians of america, unlike the anticommunist days of the cold war (which usa was focused on beating the USSR, hence the alliance with communist china in 1972)
I fear that having been ragebaited by communist videos that my ideals are actually bourgeoisie and/or no longer socially acceptable
In an age of the rising tide communism
My american nationalism is no longer socially acceptable
I know its absolutely scandalous for an American Nationalist like me to comment in a leftist politically correct message board
I fear I brainwashed myself to believe that Your communist expanionist ideology views my nation and my christian faith as inherently degenerate and satanic.
I fear now that posting my point of view of my american nationalism under the guise of a new rooseveltian era (only using the name rooseveltian so every american political party thought of their roosevelt, thus uniting them like a fasces)
(technically not american nationalism, the politics of mechanism, a lifeform aristocracy profiting from robotic labor, doesn't exist yet, and it applies bismarckian realpolitik on a global scale, so american nationalism (Rooseveltian thought to unite the Republicans and Democrats under one banner like that of a neoclassical fasces) was just the means to the end until robots that proletarians could profit from became a thing)
first of all Im autistic, to avoid being a softie degenerate like chris chan I would purpopsely make my life harder and suppress my autistic side to try and make myself more normal through sheer and utter strength of will
note that MAGA prides itself in "restoring normality" this will resonate hard with someone like me
this was why I became an american nationalist, since it was essentially the next best thing, Bismarck was able to take a divided Germany and able to unite it into the powerhouse it became during Marx's Era
the democrat party platform could not sufficiently enact a process and policy that could effectively unite the people under the banner of the "anti-trumpism" under Biden
I had voted for Harris, my parents were liberals, but I knew Trump was the obvious favorite ever since I had a supernatural thought 1 year before he was elected saying the next president would be Republican
One of the tenets of Mechanism is having an outcome predetermined, and rather than yap about a potential revolution, would actually enact steps to get there (this was to resolve one of my issues with Marxism, which I fear could've been a self-imposed bourgeoisie construct)
The same external thoughts not created by me that said the next president would be republican told me during the vice presidents debate of 2024 (which was super boring but since I never got to see boring politics, I assumed it was the glorious future and prosperity), Tim Walz of course got tied up in an unrecoverable fraud case, which led me to research JD Vance
so JD Vance harbors some of the qualities of what we in America call the "American Dream" his rhetoric is like a
diet-coke Teddy Roosevelt, something I admire
he came from nothing yet goes into the military and then gets into Yale with the GI Bill studying law, and afterwards became the Ohio Senator, before being selected by Trump to appeal to the youth vote and ensure victory in the midwestern states, since he is VP, essentially, getting him elected in 2028 would prove the american dream is not just dead and surviving but thriving (which I fear would only strengthen bourgeoisie power in your eyes)
I knew that Trump was crazy, I did not trust my parents at all back then, but they had lived in the east coast and knew of Trump in the late 20th century before his exploits became widely known,
my grandfather, a mega socially conservative republican and average fox news watcher before he died was contracted to build trump tower and REFUSED to shake his hand due to Trump not paying him
mom lives in New Jersey and watched his casinos go bankrupt at least 6 times, two of which happened when my mom was in her twenties
- Trump Taj Mahal in 1991
- Trump Plaza in 1992
on top of that, I had just gotten myself out of a masturbation addiction with help from attending one catholic mass (which I assumed disproved the theory that religion was the opiate of the masses)
politically the goal was to get JD Vance President
in a mechanist perspective, revolution is seen as a method, not an inevitability, no matter how moderate or radical, this is why I believed it would eliminate the existence of "bourgeoisie socialists"
the steps to get JD Vance in office were such:
- Ensure Donald Trump got elected in 2024
- Ensure the Democrats won the midterms in 2026
- Ensure Vance and Rubio began to consolidate their future in 2027/2028
- Ensure Trump had a crashout similar to 2020 that Vance could leverage to his advantage
Condition 1 was met with Donald Trump winning the house, the courts, the popular and electoral vote, this meant he had the support of the whole peoples, at worst trump didnt have to do anything and would still remain popular
He could only screw over his position like 2026 by self-sabotaging it, due to the 2020 scenario, republicans would try to distance trump from the spotlight with it unraveling during the late 20s as republicans focused on getting themselves re-elected and people like Vance would consolidate the future of the party.
What I didn't account for was that all the republicans were trump appointees and would thus be yes men, meaning trump would unravel before he even began
as I was a christian that meant there was absolutely no way I could ever be a marxist.
I read Marx in high school for a russian revolution cirriculum once and hated it. Whether or not it is due to my petit bourgeoisie father or believing owning a $1,400,000 house made me believe I was an elite that couldn't fail no matter how hard I tried
my issues with Marx were
- He had no endgame for the ideal communist state or nation
- He saw every political faction and class outside of communism as "capitalist"/"bourgeoisie" and was incapable of elaborating on how a "proletariat" could exploit capitalist loophole to become "bourgeoisie" (American Dream)
Add on to my conversion to catholicism which meant that my other grievance was:
- Marxism unironically believes that religion is an opiate of the masses that must be destroyed
point 3 was one of the main reasons I started meticulously researching Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW to appear more fascist.
You see, mechanism is incompatible with fascism because the existence of a Lifeform Aristocracy implied that all races were capable of greatness.
I viewed fascism as an irrelevant ideology propped up by communists as a means to justify the maintenance of a capitalist world order
one of the main themes of Mechanism is to find meaning outside of producing material and capital, this is why I believed Mechanism was incompatible with Marxism
I believed Marxism adopted the capitalist construct of materialism (meaning derived from resources and money)
and I sought to be amaterial, doing total ego crucifiction for the sake of a meaning and destiny greater than that of myself.
This was one reason of many I believed Mechanism was incompatible.
The keystone of mechanism in a marxist perpsective is proletarians delegating their labor to robots and profiting from said clanker labor. Effectively creating a "Lifeform Bourgeoisie".
I believed this framework was incompatible with Marxist egalitarianism because it essentially asked to create a Lifeform Bourgeoisie, and was thus "counterrevolutionary"
the other reason is that I didn't want to call all other politics "capitalist" and "counterrevolutionary" you see I'm something of what you would call an internet troll, mechanism views all ideologies as an arch, with Mechanism as the keystone, the sum of history, the sigma male
any anti-mechanist faction is essentially a faulty arch just waiting for the keystone to be destroyed (eliminating the whole arch). I don't want to group Bismarckians, Fascists, Capitalists, and Bonapartists as "bourgeoisie counterrevolutions" I wanted to target each one individually, jeopardizing the keystone of each, letting the old world order of capital die as the new world order
of mechanism rose from the ashes.
Motivated after intentially making gameplay of a pirated copy of sonic the hedgehog harder, I would ragequit and try to find dirt on sonic, eventually leading to me discovering Dr Eggman was based off of Theodore Roosevelt, with his american localization (robotnik) meaning "worker" in polish (im not kidding this is what radicalized me against capitalism)
This is why the revolutionary of the Mechanist ideology is known as the Eggman, an inversion of blueblurian capitalism
blueblurianism is anything that prohibits the existence a lifeform aristocracy to enslave everyone for the benefit of the few
in contrast, the Eggman is of the Godly nature of Christ, willing to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the many and establish a Lifeform Aristocracy
the endgame of Mechanism was to create a Sigma Class (people born into a society where all Lifeforms cannot work and can profit from Clanker Labor)
this was to resolve the major issue in the Communist Manifesto, Marx promised a society without work but did not have the methods to get there
either a revolution or implementation of reforms to create the Lifeform Aristocracy:
In this state there would be:
$1,000 price for housing, tuition, and university
$100 monthly rent
$3.29 daily rent
$1 products in all stores
$1 product-per-measurement if measurement is needed
$10 for everything else
no tariffs - free trade with other nations
(this is where the new deal inspiration comes in)
the proletariat was guaranteed these rights by the state
Food
Drink
A Bed
Clothes
Shelter
A Job
Electricity
Internet
Personal Computer
Smartphones
Cell Towers
Citizenship for Children
Cyborg parts for mutilation (born with or inflicted)
A Clanker Laborer
with the ability to buy other clanker laborers for
$8,000
and pay 10% of all profits made
any megacorporation was to be trustbusted
(teddy roosevelt influence)
(the strength of will is only fulfilled in adversity, how can we reach our full potential without a rival or rivalry to push ourselves?)
also you need to use something akin to triple-paranthesis, but with triple dollar signs instead, like:
$$$bourgeoisie capitalism$$$ is crippling the workers at the expense of the $$$capitalists$$$
you wanna fight fascism, ya gotta beat 'em at there own game
YEEHAW
…and I accidentally got hopecore in something that I believed would be a confession
R: 109 / I: 10
>Leninist doctrine holds that a vanguard Party should assume state power and drive the population to economic development, and, by some miracle that is unexplained, to freedom and justice. It is an ideology that naturally appeals greatly to the radical intelligentsia, to whom it affords a justification for their role as state managers. I can’t see any reason — either in logic or history — to take it seriously. Libertarian socialism (including a substantial mainstream of Marxism) dismissed all of this with contempt, quite rightly.
>Leninist doctrine holds that a vanguard Party should assume state power and drive the population to economic development, and, by some miracle that is unexplained, to freedom and justice. It is an ideology that naturally appeals greatly to the radical intelligentsia, to whom it affords a justification for their role as state managers. I can’t see any reason — either in logic or history — to take it seriously. Libertarian socialism (including a substantial mainstream of Marxism) dismissed all of this with contempt, quite rightly.
R: 2 / I: 0
The decision marks a milestone in Evergrande’s saga after it defaulted on more than $300 billion in liabilities when Chinese authorities cracked down on excessive borrowing in the real estate industry in 2020. That triggered a crunch among many developers and brought on a downturn in the property market that has weighed on the broader economy ever since.
https://apnews.com/article/china-evergrande-founder-real-estate-fraud-5573868904b3ced0c5c9b0314c56ae5a
Philippines army, PNP attempt to block relief distribution in Camarines Norte
The groups launched the RDO to deliver food and aid to residents of Brgy. Lukbanan who continue to suffer the effects of Super El Niño. For several days, members of The Good Samaritan and BMDR have been subjected to surveillance, intimidation and illegal photography. Despite this, the groups remained resolute in delivering service to communities in need.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/afp-pnp-attempt-to-block-relief-distribution-in-camarines-norte/
Myanmar military chief visits Bangkok as diplomatic offensive continues
Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup, was sworn in as president of Myanmar in April, handing the office of military leader to Ye Win Oo. Thai military chief Ukris Boontanondha met Oo on Thursday at a Bangkok hotel. The talks between them focused on cooperation on the nation’s 2,400km (1,500-mile) border, according to Bangkok.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/20/myanmar-military-chief-visits-bangkok-as-diplomatic-offensive-continues
https://archive.ph/jvwWe
Australia ‘outraged’ over Israeli decision not to open criminal probe into killing of Gaza aid worker
According to Ms Wong, drone audio from the attack had still not been handed over despite requests from the Australian government. The Frankcom decision contrasts with the IDF’s announcement that it would carry out a criminal investigation into the killing by Israeli forces of five year old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and six of her relatives in Gaza in 2024.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australia-outraged-over-israeli-decision-not-open-criminal-probe-killing-gaza-aid-worker
Jury Refuses to Convict Palestine Action Activists
Jurors deliberated for more than 37 hours but were unable to reach verdicts for seven of the eight defendants: Madeleine Norman, Hannah Davidson, Teuta Hoxha, Ola Aleksandra Herbich, Ian Sanders, William Plastow and Yulia Brigadirova. They may now face a retrial.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/20/jury-refuses-to-convict-palestine-action-activists/
Turkey says it will not fall into Israeli 'trap' in Syria, denies military presence in air base
"We are experienced enough not to fall into the trap of figures like (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, who aim to undermine peace and stability in our region," said Burhanettin Duran, the Turkish presidency's director of communications. After the site was struck, causing damage to its runways, reports said that a Turkish delegation had been at the site just hours earlier, but Turkey has denied a military visit to the location.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-says-it-will-not-fall-israeli-trap-syria
‘We are starving’: Palestinians besieged by settlers in West Bank homes run out of food
Israeli soldiers arrived last week, ostensibly to remove the settlers, but have since effectively contributed to the siege by blocking food deliveries to the families. “The municipal council tried to bring us food, but the soldiers prevented them, and the food was left outside,” Hassan told Middle East Eye. “Unicef staff were able to deliver some food to us a few days ago, and now it’s starting to spoil.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/we-are-starving-palestinians-besieged-settlers-west-bank-homes-run-out-food
New opposition group plans protest in Tunisia after extreme heat-driven power and water cuts
The umbrella initiative, launched in May, has been calling for an end to what it describes as government failure and injustice in the country that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings. Among grievances are repeated cuts to Tunisia's utility supplies, chronic shortages of essential medicines, rising living costs and unemployment.
https://www.newarab.com/news/new-opposition-group-plans-protest-tunisia-after-extreme-heat-driven-power-and-water-cuts
More than 100 dead after goldmine collapses in Central African Republic
A statement by a local public prosecutor said many others were trapped under the deluge. It did not mention the number of fatalities. However, Gervais Ganagoroh, a Red Cross volunteer involved in the relief effort, told the Associated Press news agency on Wednesday that more than 100 bodies had been recovered from the collapse and a senior official at a local mining association confirmed that number to Reuters.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/20/gold-mine-collapse-deadly-landslide-central-african-republic
Strike by Egyptian textile workers
Hundreds of workers at Misr El Amria Spinning and Weaving Company, Egypt’s largest textile conglomerate company, were locked-out by management on August 9. Rejecting management claims of a shutdown for “routine maintenance, inventory, and reviews,” workers have denounced a move to break their strike, ongoing since July 28, over a refusal to honour a promised pay increase.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/17/sgdp-a17.html
Impatient savers are hindering Milei’s lending push in Argentina
The mismatch is becoming a broader obstacle to Milei’s recovery as the government seeks to stimulate lending to kickstart more economic activity and hiring. The Central Bank is injecting more liquidity into Argentina’s financial system in an effort to keep rates low after a surge of borrowing costs last year to contain a peso sell-off at the time.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/impatient-savers-are-hindering-mileis-lending-push-in-argentina.phtml
https://archive.ph/Qp4vc
Record 742 Disappearances Expose Absent State in Ecuador
The figure far exceeds the records of previous years. In 2025, authorities registered 405 cases, an increase of 83.21% compared with the preceding year. In 2024, the country reported 229 disappearances, which represented a 224% rise. These new statistics confirm a growing trend that has turned forced disappearances into one of Ecuador’s most acute social emergencies.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/record-742-disappearances-ecuador/
News 8/20/26
Chinese court sentences founder of troubled property developer Evergrande to life in prisonThe decision marks a milestone in Evergrande’s saga after it defaulted on more than $300 billion in liabilities when Chinese authorities cracked down on excessive borrowing in the real estate industry in 2020. That triggered a crunch among many developers and brought on a downturn in the property market that has weighed on the broader economy ever since.
https://apnews.com/article/china-evergrande-founder-real-estate-fraud-5573868904b3ced0c5c9b0314c56ae5a
Philippines army, PNP attempt to block relief distribution in Camarines Norte
The groups launched the RDO to deliver food and aid to residents of Brgy. Lukbanan who continue to suffer the effects of Super El Niño. For several days, members of The Good Samaritan and BMDR have been subjected to surveillance, intimidation and illegal photography. Despite this, the groups remained resolute in delivering service to communities in need.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/afp-pnp-attempt-to-block-relief-distribution-in-camarines-norte/
Myanmar military chief visits Bangkok as diplomatic offensive continues
Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup, was sworn in as president of Myanmar in April, handing the office of military leader to Ye Win Oo. Thai military chief Ukris Boontanondha met Oo on Thursday at a Bangkok hotel. The talks between them focused on cooperation on the nation’s 2,400km (1,500-mile) border, according to Bangkok.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/20/myanmar-military-chief-visits-bangkok-as-diplomatic-offensive-continues
https://archive.ph/jvwWe
Australia ‘outraged’ over Israeli decision not to open criminal probe into killing of Gaza aid worker
According to Ms Wong, drone audio from the attack had still not been handed over despite requests from the Australian government. The Frankcom decision contrasts with the IDF’s announcement that it would carry out a criminal investigation into the killing by Israeli forces of five year old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and six of her relatives in Gaza in 2024.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australia-outraged-over-israeli-decision-not-open-criminal-probe-killing-gaza-aid-worker
Jury Refuses to Convict Palestine Action Activists
Jurors deliberated for more than 37 hours but were unable to reach verdicts for seven of the eight defendants: Madeleine Norman, Hannah Davidson, Teuta Hoxha, Ola Aleksandra Herbich, Ian Sanders, William Plastow and Yulia Brigadirova. They may now face a retrial.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/20/jury-refuses-to-convict-palestine-action-activists/
Turkey says it will not fall into Israeli 'trap' in Syria, denies military presence in air base
"We are experienced enough not to fall into the trap of figures like (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, who aim to undermine peace and stability in our region," said Burhanettin Duran, the Turkish presidency's director of communications. After the site was struck, causing damage to its runways, reports said that a Turkish delegation had been at the site just hours earlier, but Turkey has denied a military visit to the location.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-says-it-will-not-fall-israeli-trap-syria
‘We are starving’: Palestinians besieged by settlers in West Bank homes run out of food
Israeli soldiers arrived last week, ostensibly to remove the settlers, but have since effectively contributed to the siege by blocking food deliveries to the families. “The municipal council tried to bring us food, but the soldiers prevented them, and the food was left outside,” Hassan told Middle East Eye. “Unicef staff were able to deliver some food to us a few days ago, and now it’s starting to spoil.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/we-are-starving-palestinians-besieged-settlers-west-bank-homes-run-out-food
New opposition group plans protest in Tunisia after extreme heat-driven power and water cuts
The umbrella initiative, launched in May, has been calling for an end to what it describes as government failure and injustice in the country that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings. Among grievances are repeated cuts to Tunisia's utility supplies, chronic shortages of essential medicines, rising living costs and unemployment.
https://www.newarab.com/news/new-opposition-group-plans-protest-tunisia-after-extreme-heat-driven-power-and-water-cuts
More than 100 dead after goldmine collapses in Central African Republic
A statement by a local public prosecutor said many others were trapped under the deluge. It did not mention the number of fatalities. However, Gervais Ganagoroh, a Red Cross volunteer involved in the relief effort, told the Associated Press news agency on Wednesday that more than 100 bodies had been recovered from the collapse and a senior official at a local mining association confirmed that number to Reuters.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/20/gold-mine-collapse-deadly-landslide-central-african-republic
Strike by Egyptian textile workers
Hundreds of workers at Misr El Amria Spinning and Weaving Company, Egypt’s largest textile conglomerate company, were locked-out by management on August 9. Rejecting management claims of a shutdown for “routine maintenance, inventory, and reviews,” workers have denounced a move to break their strike, ongoing since July 28, over a refusal to honour a promised pay increase.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/17/sgdp-a17.html
Impatient savers are hindering Milei’s lending push in Argentina
The mismatch is becoming a broader obstacle to Milei’s recovery as the government seeks to stimulate lending to kickstart more economic activity and hiring. The Central Bank is injecting more liquidity into Argentina’s financial system in an effort to keep rates low after a surge of borrowing costs last year to contain a peso sell-off at the time.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/impatient-savers-are-hindering-mileis-lending-push-in-argentina.phtml
https://archive.ph/Qp4vc
Record 742 Disappearances Expose Absent State in Ecuador
The figure far exceeds the records of previous years. In 2025, authorities registered 405 cases, an increase of 83.21% compared with the preceding year. In 2024, the country reported 229 disappearances, which represented a 224% rise. These new statistics confirm a growing trend that has turned forced disappearances into one of Ecuador’s most acute social emergencies.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/record-742-disappearances-ecuador/
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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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After overthrowing the Zionist regime in Palestine, the global south should start an international jihad against the collaborationist regimes in the west and elsewhere.
After overthrowing the Zionist regime in Palestine, the global south should start an international jihad against the collaborationist regimes in the west and elsewhere.
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English needs spelling and conjugation overhaul so badly
Overhaul English NAO!!!
>Simplified Chinese was officially introduced by the government of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s as part of a broader effort to increase literacy and modernize the country. The reform reduced the number of strokes in many commonly used characters and standardized certain character forms, making them easier and faster to learn and write. Although the government promoted the reform, it drew on simplification practices and proposals that had existed for centuries. The primary goal was to help expand education and enable more people, especially those with limited access to schooling, to become literate. Simplified Chinese is now the standard writing system in China and Singapore, while Traditional Chinese remains in use in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.English needs spelling and conjugation overhaul so badly
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when israel falls apart all the israeli war criminals are just gonna get operation paperclipped by whoever becomes most relevant on the world stage because israel puts 7% of its GDP into research and development. they will not see a single bit of consequences, much like their nazi forefathers
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when israel falls apart all the israeli war criminals are just gonna get operation paperclipped by whoever becomes most relevant on the world stage because israel puts 7% of its GDP into research and development. they will not see a single bit of consequences, much like their nazi forefathers
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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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Despite their different methods, they come to the same conclusion.
Leftcoms x conspiracy theorists alliance (hear me out)
Leftcoms don't support any side in wars because all sides are capitalist shitholes. Conspiracy theorists don't support any side in wars because all sides are controlled by a world government.Despite their different methods, they come to the same conclusion.
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The US empire collapsing doesn't necessarily mean that life will get worse for ordinary Americans.
Remember that Europe only achieved high standard of living and social democracy AFTER colonialism ended. And the Nordics never even had colonies in the first place.
In fact I consider this fact to be a disappointment because Americans will never be punished for their crimes.
The US empire collapsing doesn't necessarily mean that life will get worse for ordinary Americans.
Remember that Europe only achieved high standard of living and social democracy AFTER colonialism ended. And the Nordics never even had colonies in the first place.
In fact I consider this fact to be a disappointment because Americans will never be punished for their crimes.
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The US was literally on the verge of social and economic collapse during the 70s but then Mao just had an autism moment and backstabbed the USSR and entire communist world, forcing them to sign SALT I and letting America recover.
Legit what the fuck was his problem?
The US was literally on the verge of social and economic collapse during the 70s but then Mao just had an autism moment and backstabbed the USSR and entire communist world, forcing them to sign SALT I and letting America recover.
Legit what the fuck was his problem?
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I’ve seen liberals, be it those that support Palestine or Israel, come to unison when it comes to giving phull sapport to the Ukraine. Why? What gives?
Now, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that for the US government Georgia 2008 wasn’t the breaking line for the American empire, so much as the Ukraine 2014, simply because the Ukraine has far more resources in terms of arable land, industrial capacity, and minerals.
But what’s the excuse for the shitlib? Because those seem like ad hoc reasoning to justify a preconceived reason more than anything. Ofc the average shitlib is propagandized into supporting the Globalist American Empire (GAE) and whatever diktats it makes. Still, I think it’s worth asking how convenient it is that they’re so passionate about a country that is coincidentally one rich of resources (or illusion thereof, as some sceptics might say).
Indeed, shitlibs like Corey believe in the infinite goodness of the American empire, and so they’ll be the most conservative defenders of the status quo even if they won’t define themselves as such, with their sole issue with Trump being based on aesthetics more than anything else. Reminds you of anything?
Now, as Marx denotes, ideology and idealism often serve to mask what are in practice class struggles and other material realities. In this case, “western democracy capitalism” to a lib may sound like a just coherent idea, but in reality it’s little more than idealistic smokescreen for an imperialist war waged by the NATO imperialistic war machine against Russia, with obvious involvement from the cross-continental military cabal and arms industries. Whether you see it as a conflict between a proletarian and bourgeois powers, or intra-porkie bourgeois infighting at the expense of the global prole, it’s for you to decide. Nonetheless, much of the western propaganda about the Ukraine is clearly ideological crap.
For Eurocrats, there’s the fact that the war serves both to offset an European recession, and as a rallying cry for EU unity at a time when Europe is more disunited than ever. Not even anti-immigration serves as a proper glue as immigration is largely irrelevant to eastern Euros what with already having net low migration (both in and out of country) coupled with ethnic blood feuds, whereas Western Europe is slowly becoming united by a negative. But what does unite a Polish tradcath homophobe, and a French pro-gay atheist busherite? Hatred for Russia signalled as support for the Ukraine. Not to mention, throwing cash at the Ukraine serves to put off the looming economic decline: https://www.amerikanets.com/p/why-is-europe-all-in-on-ukraine
As for America, residual anti-communism metastasised into Russophobia, and economic incentives for the military industrial complex in the form of weapons sales combined with the war providing testing grounds for drone warfare and the fact that both Ukraine and Israel serve as nodes from which the GAE can destabilise its competitors is well-known.
Still, what do you think are the main reasons why shitlibs to this day (both woketards and busherites) are obsessed with Ukraine?
Why are shitlibs obsessed with Ukraine?
Btw, this is the offending tweet: https://xcancel.com/ZeynabDay/status/2081396221504008571I’ve seen liberals, be it those that support Palestine or Israel, come to unison when it comes to giving phull sapport to the Ukraine. Why? What gives?
Now, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that for the US government Georgia 2008 wasn’t the breaking line for the American empire, so much as the Ukraine 2014, simply because the Ukraine has far more resources in terms of arable land, industrial capacity, and minerals.
But what’s the excuse for the shitlib? Because those seem like ad hoc reasoning to justify a preconceived reason more than anything. Ofc the average shitlib is propagandized into supporting the Globalist American Empire (GAE) and whatever diktats it makes. Still, I think it’s worth asking how convenient it is that they’re so passionate about a country that is coincidentally one rich of resources (or illusion thereof, as some sceptics might say).
Indeed, shitlibs like Corey believe in the infinite goodness of the American empire, and so they’ll be the most conservative defenders of the status quo even if they won’t define themselves as such, with their sole issue with Trump being based on aesthetics more than anything else. Reminds you of anything?
Now, as Marx denotes, ideology and idealism often serve to mask what are in practice class struggles and other material realities. In this case, “western democracy capitalism” to a lib may sound like a just coherent idea, but in reality it’s little more than idealistic smokescreen for an imperialist war waged by the NATO imperialistic war machine against Russia, with obvious involvement from the cross-continental military cabal and arms industries. Whether you see it as a conflict between a proletarian and bourgeois powers, or intra-porkie bourgeois infighting at the expense of the global prole, it’s for you to decide. Nonetheless, much of the western propaganda about the Ukraine is clearly ideological crap.
For Eurocrats, there’s the fact that the war serves both to offset an European recession, and as a rallying cry for EU unity at a time when Europe is more disunited than ever. Not even anti-immigration serves as a proper glue as immigration is largely irrelevant to eastern Euros what with already having net low migration (both in and out of country) coupled with ethnic blood feuds, whereas Western Europe is slowly becoming united by a negative. But what does unite a Polish tradcath homophobe, and a French pro-gay atheist busherite? Hatred for Russia signalled as support for the Ukraine. Not to mention, throwing cash at the Ukraine serves to put off the looming economic decline: https://www.amerikanets.com/p/why-is-europe-all-in-on-ukraine
As for America, residual anti-communism metastasised into Russophobia, and economic incentives for the military industrial complex in the form of weapons sales combined with the war providing testing grounds for drone warfare and the fact that both Ukraine and Israel serve as nodes from which the GAE can destabilise its competitors is well-known.
Still, what do you think are the main reasons why shitlibs to this day (both woketards and busherites) are obsessed with Ukraine?
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>get criticized by the left
>does a 180º and and start writing pro-communist songs
What the fuck was his problems?
John Lennon
>write the song "Revolution" denouncing the student protests of 1968, specifically calling out support for Stalin and Mao>get criticized by the left
>does a 180º and and start writing pro-communist songs
What the fuck was his problems?
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Is nationalism inherently against leftist ideology? If so, what do i do if i don't want to share my country with (Nevermind), but i do want a system where the average person can afford stuff that people need and want?
Is nationalism inherently against leftist ideology? If so, what do i do if i don't want to share my country with (Nevermind), but i do want a system where the average person can afford stuff that people need and want?
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Now police and miliary forces are expelling indigenous populations from their communities in Argentina, Colombia and Ecuador. Israeli corporations are taking control of water in Colombia and Argentina. The new fires in Colombia are suspected to be man made, similar to the Patagonia fires, so Israelis can buy land.
This is a Plan Condor 2 but Israel is deeply involved. It is not known yet if they want to create a new Palestine or only steal resources.
What do we do?
Israel is invading LATAM
Israel has sabotaged every recent elections in South America to install right/wing puppets: Fujimori in Colombia, de la Espriella in Colombia, Kast in Chile, same in Bolivia, Ecuador, etc. The only stronghold left is Brazil with Lula but that might change soon.Now police and miliary forces are expelling indigenous populations from their communities in Argentina, Colombia and Ecuador. Israeli corporations are taking control of water in Colombia and Argentina. The new fires in Colombia are suspected to be man made, similar to the Patagonia fires, so Israelis can buy land.
This is a Plan Condor 2 but Israel is deeply involved. It is not known yet if they want to create a new Palestine or only steal resources.
What do we do?
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The mainstream interests of foreign and corporate are all focused on war like and exploitation scenarios from modelling.
There will be a war or there will be a genocide because that is their collective will.
They care not for civilians, nor ethics, nor anything.
Great job.
Pure Aggregate Hate
The future of the world looks like war.The mainstream interests of foreign and corporate are all focused on war like and exploitation scenarios from modelling.
There will be a war or there will be a genocide because that is their collective will.
They care not for civilians, nor ethics, nor anything.
Great job.
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Between December 2023, when Milei took office, and December 2025, the Argentine government "implemented a slew of security and intelligence reforms and expanded their use of surveillance technologies," the report said. "These measures constitute an intensification of state monitoring capacities… aimed at controlling and deterring protest and increasing authoritarian practices," it added.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/amnesty-international-slams-rise-of-argentinas-surveillance-state.phtml
https://archive.ph/wCXC4
Lula calls oil near the Amazon River a passport to Brazil’s future after Petrobras strikes new find
The exploratory drilling began in October. Environmental and Indigenous groups have since sued the Brazilian government and Petrobras to halt exploration, arguing the licensing process failed to properly consult traditional communities, underestimated spill risks and did not adequately assess climate impacts. The company has long argued it has never caused spills in its drillings.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-lula-oil-petrobras-amazon-drilling-9ad1dd2eb5a7932c2738c904fcaa73cc
Adviser to far-right Latin American leaders arrested for allegedly plotting to kill girlfriend
The businessman and political consultant Fernando Cerimedo, 42, had been working as an adviser to the Bolivian president, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, and was one of the main strategists behind Javier Milei’s campaign in Argentina’s 2023 presidential election.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/fernando-cerimedo-adviser-far-right-latin-american-leaders-arrested-allegedly-plotting-kill-girlfriend
Colombia’s government publishes “white paper” on corruption by Petro
The book contains mainly political criticisms of the previous “regime” and no evidence of misdeeds that hadn’t been picked by the Comptroller General’s Office, which monitors public spending. The president blamed the budget deficit on the “sacking” of the Petro administration rather than Congress’s failure to approve the legislation that allowed the previous government to carry out its 2026 budget.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-publishes-white-paper-on-corruption-by-petro/
Israeli troops raid Syria and kidnap two a day after bombing air base near Turkey
Over 100 soldiers in 15 armoured vehicles rattled into Jubata al-Khashab, a settlement in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Zone, which forms a buffer between Syrian-controlled territory and the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967 but recognised as Syrian by every country except Israel, the US and lately Colombia.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-troops-raid-syria-and-kidnap-two-day-after-bombing-air-base-near-turkey
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 17 Palestinians; Tuesday’s primary results; Liberia to take 1,200 deportees from the U.S.
Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, killing 17, wounding 38 over the past 24 hours. Palestinian child dies of malnutrition in Gaza. Nearly 470 attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in a week. Land seizures, settler attacks and detentions reported across the occupied West Bank. UN: Gaza remains world’s deadliest place for aid workers in 2025 for third consecutive year. Israel announces probe into two high-profile Gaza massacres. United Arab Emirates halts all trade with Iran after accusing it of launching missiles.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaza-strikes-tuesday-primary-florida-liberia-us-deportees
UAE-funded mercenary targeted British activist in London, report says
Emirati financial records seen by ITV showed that Golan, who lived in the US, was being paid by the UAE while carrying out the operation. He was receiving a six-figure annual retainer, as well as substantial bonuses, including a $1m payment weeks before his trip to London for an operation in Yemen. ITV's investigation, based on witness testimony, emails, WhatsApp messages and financial records, found that Golan worked with a former US special forces operative to locate and monitor Tikriti.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-funded-mercenary-targeted-british-activist-anas-altikriti-london
Ex-Left Party leader helps pave the way for far-right rule in eastern Germany
Wagenknecht has proposed electing an “independent” and “non-partisan” state premier together with the AfD, one who would rely on shifting majorities in the state legislature—including the votes of the AfD. She has also announced that her party would abstain in any third round of voting for state premier, in which a simple majority suffices. This could allow Ulrich Siegmund, the far right’s lead candidate, to be elected head of an AfD minority state government.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/19/mqwm-a19.html
Ukrainian man arrested over 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions
The German prosecutors said that the suspect was a “trained scuba diver” who belonged to a group of people who “planted explosives” on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea near the Danish island of Bornholm.
https://apnews.com/article/nord-stream-explosions-arrest-b53e8345e4e9c1125324806d83041f9d
Volodymyr Zelenskyy sacks senior aide amid Ukraine corruption crisis
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired a senior aide amid a fresh corruption investigation – one day after a former defence minister warned the country was facing “a crisis of governance” and needed to hold a wartime presidential election.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/volodymyr-zelenskyy-sacks-senior-aide-amid-ukraine-corruption-crisis
News 8/19/26
Amnesty International slams rise of Argentina’s 'surveillance state'Between December 2023, when Milei took office, and December 2025, the Argentine government "implemented a slew of security and intelligence reforms and expanded their use of surveillance technologies," the report said. "These measures constitute an intensification of state monitoring capacities… aimed at controlling and deterring protest and increasing authoritarian practices," it added.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/amnesty-international-slams-rise-of-argentinas-surveillance-state.phtml
https://archive.ph/wCXC4
Lula calls oil near the Amazon River a passport to Brazil’s future after Petrobras strikes new find
The exploratory drilling began in October. Environmental and Indigenous groups have since sued the Brazilian government and Petrobras to halt exploration, arguing the licensing process failed to properly consult traditional communities, underestimated spill risks and did not adequately assess climate impacts. The company has long argued it has never caused spills in its drillings.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-lula-oil-petrobras-amazon-drilling-9ad1dd2eb5a7932c2738c904fcaa73cc
Adviser to far-right Latin American leaders arrested for allegedly plotting to kill girlfriend
The businessman and political consultant Fernando Cerimedo, 42, had been working as an adviser to the Bolivian president, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, and was one of the main strategists behind Javier Milei’s campaign in Argentina’s 2023 presidential election.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/fernando-cerimedo-adviser-far-right-latin-american-leaders-arrested-allegedly-plotting-kill-girlfriend
Colombia’s government publishes “white paper” on corruption by Petro
The book contains mainly political criticisms of the previous “regime” and no evidence of misdeeds that hadn’t been picked by the Comptroller General’s Office, which monitors public spending. The president blamed the budget deficit on the “sacking” of the Petro administration rather than Congress’s failure to approve the legislation that allowed the previous government to carry out its 2026 budget.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-publishes-white-paper-on-corruption-by-petro/
Israeli troops raid Syria and kidnap two a day after bombing air base near Turkey
Over 100 soldiers in 15 armoured vehicles rattled into Jubata al-Khashab, a settlement in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Zone, which forms a buffer between Syrian-controlled territory and the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967 but recognised as Syrian by every country except Israel, the US and lately Colombia.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israeli-troops-raid-syria-and-kidnap-two-day-after-bombing-air-base-near-turkey
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 17 Palestinians; Tuesday’s primary results; Liberia to take 1,200 deportees from the U.S.
Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, killing 17, wounding 38 over the past 24 hours. Palestinian child dies of malnutrition in Gaza. Nearly 470 attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in a week. Land seizures, settler attacks and detentions reported across the occupied West Bank. UN: Gaza remains world’s deadliest place for aid workers in 2025 for third consecutive year. Israel announces probe into two high-profile Gaza massacres. United Arab Emirates halts all trade with Iran after accusing it of launching missiles.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaza-strikes-tuesday-primary-florida-liberia-us-deportees
UAE-funded mercenary targeted British activist in London, report says
Emirati financial records seen by ITV showed that Golan, who lived in the US, was being paid by the UAE while carrying out the operation. He was receiving a six-figure annual retainer, as well as substantial bonuses, including a $1m payment weeks before his trip to London for an operation in Yemen. ITV's investigation, based on witness testimony, emails, WhatsApp messages and financial records, found that Golan worked with a former US special forces operative to locate and monitor Tikriti.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-funded-mercenary-targeted-british-activist-anas-altikriti-london
Ex-Left Party leader helps pave the way for far-right rule in eastern Germany
Wagenknecht has proposed electing an “independent” and “non-partisan” state premier together with the AfD, one who would rely on shifting majorities in the state legislature—including the votes of the AfD. She has also announced that her party would abstain in any third round of voting for state premier, in which a simple majority suffices. This could allow Ulrich Siegmund, the far right’s lead candidate, to be elected head of an AfD minority state government.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/19/mqwm-a19.html
Ukrainian man arrested over 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions
The German prosecutors said that the suspect was a “trained scuba diver” who belonged to a group of people who “planted explosives” on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea near the Danish island of Bornholm.
https://apnews.com/article/nord-stream-explosions-arrest-b53e8345e4e9c1125324806d83041f9d
Volodymyr Zelenskyy sacks senior aide amid Ukraine corruption crisis
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired a senior aide amid a fresh corruption investigation – one day after a former defence minister warned the country was facing “a crisis of governance” and needed to hold a wartime presidential election.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/volodymyr-zelenskyy-sacks-senior-aide-amid-ukraine-corruption-crisis
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>Situation heating up in Spain
>Some are saying that Israel and the US is trying to punish Spain through Morocco because of recent anti-zionist actions
>But the situation is causing a shitstorm at the moment with on the ground fighting occurring
So what is going to happen in this situation and how will the EU respond?
==Ceuta and Spain Situation==
NOW - Thousands of illegal migrants from Africa storm the border of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco>Situation heating up in Spain
>Some are saying that Israel and the US is trying to punish Spain through Morocco because of recent anti-zionist actions
>But the situation is causing a shitstorm at the moment with on the ground fighting occurring
So what is going to happen in this situation and how will the EU respond?
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The Eastern Agricultural Chamber (CAO) of Bolivia rejected Decree 5676 of the right-wing government of Rodrigo Paz, which raises the price of diesel for large consumers, and called an extraordinary congress in defense of the sector amid warnings about possible food supply risks.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivias-eastern-agricultural-chamber-rejects-diesel-price-decree/
Uruguay's only industrial brewer negotiates cutting 80 jobs or ending production
Fábricas Nacionales de Cerveza (FNC), Uruguay's only industrial beer producer, is negotiating with the government and the trade union a restructuring that would cut 80 of the 400 jobs at its Montevideo and Minas plants. The company keeps a second scenario on the table, which the parties involved regard as less likely: abandoning local production and operating as an importer, with a workforce reduced to around 100 employees.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/17/uruguay-s-only-industrial-brewer-negotiates-cutting-80-jobs-or-ending-production
Zambian President Hichilema re-elected for second term
According to the Electoral Commission of Zambia, President Hichilema won with 2,965,326 votes and his closest competitor was opposition leader Brian Mundubile, who won 1,856,217 votes, about 38 per cent. President Hichilema welcomed the results and thanked Zambians, but also reached out to those who voted for the opposition.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/zambian-president-hichilema-re-elected-second-term
Pakistan top court orders Imran Khan’s hospital transfer amid access battle
Uzair Bhandari, one of Khan’s lawyers, told Al Jazeera the three-member bench on Tuesday also ordered a medical board be formed to oversee Khan’s treatment, including the former prime minister’s sister Dr Uzma Khan and his personal physician Dr Faisal Sultan. “The court also directed that Khan’s family be allowed to meet him at the hospital and that he be permitted to speak with his sons, who live abroad,” Bhandari said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/18/pakistan-top-court-orders-imran-khans-hospital-transfer-amid-access-battle
https://archive.ph/giD8v
Seniors intensify push for higher monthly pensions
SKK and the Makabayan bloc propose raising the pension to ₱2,000 from ₱1,000 and extending coverage to Social Security System and Government Service Insurance System pensioners receiving ₱10,000 or less per month. “This is a concrete step toward recognizing that our senior citizens deserve not merely gratitude, but adequate and sustained social protection,” Rep. Tinio said.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/seniors-intensify-push-for-higher-monthly-pensions/
Thousands in Indonesia await aid after quake kills 68, overshadowing Independence Day
Thousands of people waited for aid on the Indonesian island of Flores on Monday as the country marked its 81st Independence Day, two days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 68 people, injured more than 200 others and damaged thousands of homes.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-flores-earthquake-landslide-ec45607ccc22d9df2d5cfe4ab82d33eb
‘Don’t boycott GTA VI’: Fired workers urge fans to back legal fight instead
The dismissed workers have released a video urging fans not to boycott the game when it launches later this year, but instead to back their legal battle against the company by buying a new range of T-shirts to help fund their costs.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dont-boycott-gta-vi-fired-workers-urge-fans-back-legal-fight-instead
‘Our task is to laugh at these enemies’: the Ukrainian unit posting drone videos of Russian soldiers’ last moments
He acknowledged that the clips were deliberately arranged to mock the victims, who are sometimes seen throwing sticks at the drones to try to knock them off course, or falling over as they run. Though the moment of death is not shown, the last frame is a closeup of a soldier’s face.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/18/ukraine-drone-chase-videos-russian-soldiers
Ousted Ukrainian defense chief Fedorov demands elections in challenge to Zelenskyy
The president has been under increasing pressure at home following the controversial government reshuffle last month in which he pushed out Fedorov, a popular minister credited with inspiring battlefield innovations.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ousted-ukrainian-defense-chief-fedorov-demands-elections-in-challenge-to-zelenskyy/
https://archive.ph/JHShs
US sanctions International Criminal Court president, trial lawyer in bid to dismantle body
"The Trump Administration has been clear: the ICC is a corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate. We will not tolerate its assault on state sovereignty," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement. Akane and Seye, he added, "have directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction… This sets a dangerous precedent for all nations".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-president-trial-lawyer-bid-dismantle-body
Israeli forces advance into Rif Dimashq and continue bulldozing operations near Jabata Al-Khashab in Al-Qunaitrah countryside
An Israeli forces patrol advanced toward Talat Bat Al-Warda overlooking Beit Jin town in western Rif Dimashq, as part of the ongoing Israeli military movements in the area, amid a state of tension and anticipation among residents.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/385656/
Israeli soldiers number Palestinian detainees on their foreheads
The Israeli army confirmed that soldiers had marked the detainees with numbers, saying that “lessons have been learned”, according to Israeli media. The army made similar comments in April after Palestinian women from Jenin were marked with numbers on their arms. In 2024, Israeli soldiers also marked a group of Palestinian detainees from Hebron with numbers on their foreheads.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-soldiers-number-palestinian-detainees-their-foreheads
News 8/18/26
Bolivia’s Eastern Agricultural Chamber Rejects Diesel Price DecreeThe Eastern Agricultural Chamber (CAO) of Bolivia rejected Decree 5676 of the right-wing government of Rodrigo Paz, which raises the price of diesel for large consumers, and called an extraordinary congress in defense of the sector amid warnings about possible food supply risks.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivias-eastern-agricultural-chamber-rejects-diesel-price-decree/
Uruguay's only industrial brewer negotiates cutting 80 jobs or ending production
Fábricas Nacionales de Cerveza (FNC), Uruguay's only industrial beer producer, is negotiating with the government and the trade union a restructuring that would cut 80 of the 400 jobs at its Montevideo and Minas plants. The company keeps a second scenario on the table, which the parties involved regard as less likely: abandoning local production and operating as an importer, with a workforce reduced to around 100 employees.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/17/uruguay-s-only-industrial-brewer-negotiates-cutting-80-jobs-or-ending-production
Zambian President Hichilema re-elected for second term
According to the Electoral Commission of Zambia, President Hichilema won with 2,965,326 votes and his closest competitor was opposition leader Brian Mundubile, who won 1,856,217 votes, about 38 per cent. President Hichilema welcomed the results and thanked Zambians, but also reached out to those who voted for the opposition.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/zambian-president-hichilema-re-elected-second-term
Pakistan top court orders Imran Khan’s hospital transfer amid access battle
Uzair Bhandari, one of Khan’s lawyers, told Al Jazeera the three-member bench on Tuesday also ordered a medical board be formed to oversee Khan’s treatment, including the former prime minister’s sister Dr Uzma Khan and his personal physician Dr Faisal Sultan. “The court also directed that Khan’s family be allowed to meet him at the hospital and that he be permitted to speak with his sons, who live abroad,” Bhandari said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/18/pakistan-top-court-orders-imran-khans-hospital-transfer-amid-access-battle
https://archive.ph/giD8v
Seniors intensify push for higher monthly pensions
SKK and the Makabayan bloc propose raising the pension to ₱2,000 from ₱1,000 and extending coverage to Social Security System and Government Service Insurance System pensioners receiving ₱10,000 or less per month. “This is a concrete step toward recognizing that our senior citizens deserve not merely gratitude, but adequate and sustained social protection,” Rep. Tinio said.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/seniors-intensify-push-for-higher-monthly-pensions/
Thousands in Indonesia await aid after quake kills 68, overshadowing Independence Day
Thousands of people waited for aid on the Indonesian island of Flores on Monday as the country marked its 81st Independence Day, two days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 68 people, injured more than 200 others and damaged thousands of homes.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-flores-earthquake-landslide-ec45607ccc22d9df2d5cfe4ab82d33eb
‘Don’t boycott GTA VI’: Fired workers urge fans to back legal fight instead
The dismissed workers have released a video urging fans not to boycott the game when it launches later this year, but instead to back their legal battle against the company by buying a new range of T-shirts to help fund their costs.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dont-boycott-gta-vi-fired-workers-urge-fans-back-legal-fight-instead
‘Our task is to laugh at these enemies’: the Ukrainian unit posting drone videos of Russian soldiers’ last moments
He acknowledged that the clips were deliberately arranged to mock the victims, who are sometimes seen throwing sticks at the drones to try to knock them off course, or falling over as they run. Though the moment of death is not shown, the last frame is a closeup of a soldier’s face.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/18/ukraine-drone-chase-videos-russian-soldiers
Ousted Ukrainian defense chief Fedorov demands elections in challenge to Zelenskyy
The president has been under increasing pressure at home following the controversial government reshuffle last month in which he pushed out Fedorov, a popular minister credited with inspiring battlefield innovations.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ousted-ukrainian-defense-chief-fedorov-demands-elections-in-challenge-to-zelenskyy/
https://archive.ph/JHShs
US sanctions International Criminal Court president, trial lawyer in bid to dismantle body
"The Trump Administration has been clear: the ICC is a corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate. We will not tolerate its assault on state sovereignty," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement. Akane and Seye, he added, "have directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction… This sets a dangerous precedent for all nations".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-president-trial-lawyer-bid-dismantle-body
Israeli forces advance into Rif Dimashq and continue bulldozing operations near Jabata Al-Khashab in Al-Qunaitrah countryside
An Israeli forces patrol advanced toward Talat Bat Al-Warda overlooking Beit Jin town in western Rif Dimashq, as part of the ongoing Israeli military movements in the area, amid a state of tension and anticipation among residents.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/385656/
Israeli soldiers number Palestinian detainees on their foreheads
The Israeli army confirmed that soldiers had marked the detainees with numbers, saying that “lessons have been learned”, according to Israeli media. The army made similar comments in April after Palestinian women from Jenin were marked with numbers on their arms. In 2024, Israeli soldiers also marked a group of Palestinian detainees from Hebron with numbers on their foreheads.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-soldiers-number-palestinian-detainees-their-foreheads
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/fiction/
i see people here constantly talk about theory and the writers of said theory so i'm kinda curious what everyone's taste is for stuff outside of philosophy.
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For example I would have supported the shining path entirely if it were that they didn't target other marxist groups like they did IRL. Btw im not a maoist I just really hate capital. I also support many anarchist tatics infact almost all because they are great at sabtoging, but I myself am not an anarchist.
extremist Anti-capitalism
I believe I have my own ideological framework in which I crtically support anything that I think can destablize capitalism regardless of how retarded they are. Does this ideology exist? Im writting a theoratical manifesto but I don't think ill be adding this in, although some parts will be included.For example I would have supported the shining path entirely if it were that they didn't target other marxist groups like they did IRL. Btw im not a maoist I just really hate capital. I also support many anarchist tatics infact almost all because they are great at sabtoging, but I myself am not an anarchist.
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>start a left wing populist org
>a bajillion factions form out of the fact that your economic theory is vague as shit
>get a really loud but small left wing faction
>be DSA
>pic unrelated
>start a left wing populist org
>a bajillion factions form out of the fact that your economic theory is vague as shit
>get a really loud but small left wing faction
>be DSA
>pic unrelated
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What's up with leftcoms?
No, seriously. What causes someone to become a left communist? Too much reading and not enough living in the real world? Just trying to find a leftist ideology that excuses total inaction?
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ITT we laugh at classcuck jewish niggers who pretend:
<the end of America = the end of Capitalism
<Judaism/Zionism is a bigger enemy than Capitalism
<islamists are real resistance to capitalism
<dengoids are real resistance to capitalism
<monarcho-nazism in DPRK is real resistance to capitalism
<muh sahel coalition gang raping gay men is real resistance to capitalism
etc. etc. etc.
/Anti-Campism/ ACKsis of "Resistance" Edition
For those sick of Zigger Putlerites, Chigger Dengoids, Irauyghur Islamists, DPRK ethno-national-monarchoids, and other right wing multipolaroid schizos pretending MUH ACK-SIS OF RESISTANCE and MUH AMERISRAELI MUTTREICH has anything to do with class struggle.ITT we laugh at classcuck jewish niggers who pretend:
<the end of America = the end of Capitalism
<Judaism/Zionism is a bigger enemy than Capitalism
<islamists are real resistance to capitalism
<dengoids are real resistance to capitalism
<monarcho-nazism in DPRK is real resistance to capitalism
<muh sahel coalition gang raping gay men is real resistance to capitalism
etc. etc. etc.
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Yugoslavia General Thread
Leftypol is seriously lacking when it comes to a yugoslavia thread. It may not exist on a map, but it still is carried in the hearts of many, and it's vision was not extinguished by it's destruction, it is like a star, though it may long since been dead, it shines bright upon many around the universe, and serves as an image displaying the light and truth.
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Every historical and material example shows that prohibition is not going to be effective and brings its own problems, not to mention that the motivation for these policies were often intentional to hurt varying groups of people deemed undesirable - from the entire alcohol prohibition era until its repeal for instance, or the now famous Nixon staffer talking about how drugs were an easy way to target 'the hippies, mexicans, and blacks', the cocaine era and crack epidemic, AIDS being spread by sharing needles, and so much more. Its now common knowledge that not only did "drugs win the drug war, and continue to do so" but all the harm done by it also made profiteers wealthy, from narco traffickers who operated private armies, to the whole Iran-Contra affair and Air America black budget work in the Golden Triangle during and after Vietnam, to military-industrial complex extended to militarized policing etc. Most of the money went to a handful of people from the criminal enterprise or those ostensibly fighting it, while people paid more for worse quality, less safe products. This is no longer the kind of thing you'd only read about from some underground zine next to psychotic ramblings, its well documented and seemingly, accepted . So why are we not doing anything about it ?
It seems that the only lefties who comment on the drug issue at all are those with the myopic to just plain incorrect issue of fixating on pharmaceutical companies, doctors etc.. at fault for things like the opioid crisis, which is far from the truth. While certain companies like Perdue Pharma were guilty of malfeasance (the specifics here I can get into but the way they advertised it even to medical professionals was inaccurate ) and there were cash only "pill mill" doctors and pharmacists writing large quantities of controlled substances for patients they barely met, these were individual issues of professional and often illegal conduct that could be handled by existing structures. The bigger problems came from how in response to high profile events, crackdowns made doctors responsibly treating pain (which is MASSIVELY undertreated in our society which is also in more pain than ever thanks to a variety of factors) , afraid or even unable to treat patients, meaning some of them would go to the streets - where the actual epidemic came from. The crossover was primarily from the pill mills early on selling to those that would become dealers (known as "diversion" from legit use and Rx to the black market), but this is not what started the "epidemic" of opioid deaths and other addiction behaviors ticking up . Rather, it was the black market discovering fentanyl, which could be fabricated cheaply, and was extremely strong. Even with heroin there was massive varied quality from being "stepped on" with all matter of junk added as filler for dealers and cartels to make more cash, and a stronger product when not expected could lead to death because of uncertain dosing. However fentanyl was so much stronger even a small variation in strength vs the last batch, could be enough to kill users etc. These deaths is where the "epidemic" became an issue in the 2010s, but their response ranged from ineffective and piecemeal under Dems, to actively malevolent and punishment focused under Republicans. Now, we're looking at banning yet more "research chemical" analogues and the suppliers in China and the LATAM cartels who actually process and distribute are playing cat and mouse games, while the White House decides to blow up boats deemed to be carrying "narco-terrorists". Addiction and use of black market drugs (not just opioids but many other substances) continue up through the Pandemic era and beyond, more recently allowing questionable "addiction therapy centers" to spring up, many of which are expensive and adhere to half baked 12-step processes; those lucky enough to have health insurance cover very little in-patient offers and the kinds of places that do comprehensive therapy and medication assistance with patient comfort in mind, aren't available or affordable to many. Patients with legitimate pain management needs are having their doses restricted by doctors who are afraid of state controlled substance boards and the FDA intruding, all predicated on a garbage FDA document that was originally intended for dosing patients short term and with no opioid experience/tolerance that came about in the 1st Trump term. To his credit, Biden did alter it slightly but like everything else insufficient, plus the damage had already been done; insurance companies (atop the rest) now used those standards for what they'd cover, meaning patients who couldnt' pay out of pocket would not get their meds much of the time. This, right at the time where pharmacies often refused cash payment for controlled substances because they were told that was what evil drug dealers did etc . These are barely scraping the surface of the issues, not to mention things like how areas that decriminalized certain usage now are pushing for more police presence because "drunk/high people are laying/leaning everywhere and leaving needles and broken glass in public areas etc) . Its problems atop problems.
It seems a perfect time for the Left to make this a priority. We have the last decade of the Marijuana/Cannabis experiment to prove that despite the cries from the right, there was no Reefer Madness. THere were issues in the implementation especially given how monied entities started investing in wider pot fabrication and distribution, but that can be solved if we just go the last 10% and ensure true legalization everwhere, but most of the work is done. The next thing to focus upon is other drugs. I'd advocate for a program of regulated legalization, where the substances are legal to possess and use, but who and how they can be bought, or manufactured for widespread sale, can be regulated properly similar to other intoxicants, be it for medical or recreational use.
Dispensing with the fear around many substances and the insane prohibition that has pushed potentially helpful drugs off the market for fear of how they may be abused will also allow research into making them safer. We've had relatively little development in drug segments thought to be the "fun kind abuse or addictive" and even specific refusal to make drugs safer and less physically addicting, for fear it would be "less of a deterrent thus leading to more abuse"! Its completely insane. Just like when we legalized alcohol again, we had a stunning drop in the amount of people turning up blind from drinking some adulterated paint thinner sold on the black market or some idiot using lead liners in their beer or wine brewing, we'd see users trend away from black market garbage in favor of safer, standardized alternatives. You'd have many fewer overdoses if you knew that every pill or vial was going to have consistent strength; not to mention prohibiting harmful additives and anything not disclosed on the label. They could all be made far cheaper too, especially if leftists made the issue a focal point; perhaps even have certain cultivation or manufacture dedicated to being at-cost for the public benefit. There could also be taxes and fees specifically designed to support addiction support services built in, a better version of the "sin taxes" that alcohol and cigarettes utilize. Investing in greater addition support and prevention treatments would be a part of it - infact, some of the very drugs that are illegal currently have the potential benefit of helping rewire the brain to contend with physical dependence as well as psychological dependence; ibogaine, a hallucinogen has shown promise for decades and despite it being not a "party drug" in any way or particularly fun, still requires going to another country to hope you find someone capable of providing ibogaine therapy, legally. MDMA has huge benefits to PTSD and other psychiatric issues if used correctly, but outside very limited trials its illegality has driven recreational users into more harmful meds masquerading as the hard-to-synthesize-properly MDMA, most of which are some combination of amphetamine or other unknown assortment meant to mimic what its "supposed" to feel like.
There are many other factors that could be discussed, but legalization and regulation done properly would lead to a massive improvement to quality of life for average person, obliterating many of the criminal elements that the Right fixates on in order to scare the populace into compliance, and otherwise benefits society. While there will be issues and friction - the initial apparent "increase" of drug users or adverse effects for instance is likely to be simply converting what used to be unreported into something that can be tracked even without a legal or medical calamity - it seems a worthwhile element. There are many groups that have been particularly harmed by the drug war in the past, from sexual or racial minorities to the disabled and patients who find their care restricted by insurance and fearful practitioners alike, but much like with the repeal of alcohol prohibition it will likely have wide ranging benefits across many strata of society if done right. It seems like a simple focal point for leftist political actors to grab hold, identify how capitalist exploitation and authoritarian puritanism alike have pushed a knowingly bad policy for decades in the hopes it will harm "the wrong people, and its all their fault for being weak enough to be harmed in the first place".
Ending the drug war and legalization; why not a greater focus among Western left-leaning politics?
Pretty much everyone under 50 in the US is aware that the drug war failed. Once we rule out those on the right who feel that the only reason it failed was a lack of authoritarianism, need it to justify various prejudices towards the "wrong" sort of people etc.. and the like, we come down to even vaguely centrists from a social point of view and an even wider group for economic ones (though the specifics of implementation may differ), see that this is a failed, ineffective strategy. Especially among those who define themselves as left leaning, why is ending the drug war and replacing it with legalization and regulated, affordable substances a greater political focal point?Every historical and material example shows that prohibition is not going to be effective and brings its own problems, not to mention that the motivation for these policies were often intentional to hurt varying groups of people deemed undesirable - from the entire alcohol prohibition era until its repeal for instance, or the now famous Nixon staffer talking about how drugs were an easy way to target 'the hippies, mexicans, and blacks', the cocaine era and crack epidemic, AIDS being spread by sharing needles, and so much more. Its now common knowledge that not only did "drugs win the drug war, and continue to do so" but all the harm done by it also made profiteers wealthy, from narco traffickers who operated private armies, to the whole Iran-Contra affair and Air America black budget work in the Golden Triangle during and after Vietnam, to military-industrial complex extended to militarized policing etc. Most of the money went to a handful of people from the criminal enterprise or those ostensibly fighting it, while people paid more for worse quality, less safe products. This is no longer the kind of thing you'd only read about from some underground zine next to psychotic ramblings, its well documented and seemingly, accepted . So why are we not doing anything about it ?
It seems that the only lefties who comment on the drug issue at all are those with the myopic to just plain incorrect issue of fixating on pharmaceutical companies, doctors etc.. at fault for things like the opioid crisis, which is far from the truth. While certain companies like Perdue Pharma were guilty of malfeasance (the specifics here I can get into but the way they advertised it even to medical professionals was inaccurate ) and there were cash only "pill mill" doctors and pharmacists writing large quantities of controlled substances for patients they barely met, these were individual issues of professional and often illegal conduct that could be handled by existing structures. The bigger problems came from how in response to high profile events, crackdowns made doctors responsibly treating pain (which is MASSIVELY undertreated in our society which is also in more pain than ever thanks to a variety of factors) , afraid or even unable to treat patients, meaning some of them would go to the streets - where the actual epidemic came from. The crossover was primarily from the pill mills early on selling to those that would become dealers (known as "diversion" from legit use and Rx to the black market), but this is not what started the "epidemic" of opioid deaths and other addiction behaviors ticking up . Rather, it was the black market discovering fentanyl, which could be fabricated cheaply, and was extremely strong. Even with heroin there was massive varied quality from being "stepped on" with all matter of junk added as filler for dealers and cartels to make more cash, and a stronger product when not expected could lead to death because of uncertain dosing. However fentanyl was so much stronger even a small variation in strength vs the last batch, could be enough to kill users etc. These deaths is where the "epidemic" became an issue in the 2010s, but their response ranged from ineffective and piecemeal under Dems, to actively malevolent and punishment focused under Republicans. Now, we're looking at banning yet more "research chemical" analogues and the suppliers in China and the LATAM cartels who actually process and distribute are playing cat and mouse games, while the White House decides to blow up boats deemed to be carrying "narco-terrorists". Addiction and use of black market drugs (not just opioids but many other substances) continue up through the Pandemic era and beyond, more recently allowing questionable "addiction therapy centers" to spring up, many of which are expensive and adhere to half baked 12-step processes; those lucky enough to have health insurance cover very little in-patient offers and the kinds of places that do comprehensive therapy and medication assistance with patient comfort in mind, aren't available or affordable to many. Patients with legitimate pain management needs are having their doses restricted by doctors who are afraid of state controlled substance boards and the FDA intruding, all predicated on a garbage FDA document that was originally intended for dosing patients short term and with no opioid experience/tolerance that came about in the 1st Trump term. To his credit, Biden did alter it slightly but like everything else insufficient, plus the damage had already been done; insurance companies (atop the rest) now used those standards for what they'd cover, meaning patients who couldnt' pay out of pocket would not get their meds much of the time. This, right at the time where pharmacies often refused cash payment for controlled substances because they were told that was what evil drug dealers did etc . These are barely scraping the surface of the issues, not to mention things like how areas that decriminalized certain usage now are pushing for more police presence because "drunk/high people are laying/leaning everywhere and leaving needles and broken glass in public areas etc) . Its problems atop problems.
It seems a perfect time for the Left to make this a priority. We have the last decade of the Marijuana/Cannabis experiment to prove that despite the cries from the right, there was no Reefer Madness. THere were issues in the implementation especially given how monied entities started investing in wider pot fabrication and distribution, but that can be solved if we just go the last 10% and ensure true legalization everwhere, but most of the work is done. The next thing to focus upon is other drugs. I'd advocate for a program of regulated legalization, where the substances are legal to possess and use, but who and how they can be bought, or manufactured for widespread sale, can be regulated properly similar to other intoxicants, be it for medical or recreational use.
Dispensing with the fear around many substances and the insane prohibition that has pushed potentially helpful drugs off the market for fear of how they may be abused will also allow research into making them safer. We've had relatively little development in drug segments thought to be the "fun kind abuse or addictive" and even specific refusal to make drugs safer and less physically addicting, for fear it would be "less of a deterrent thus leading to more abuse"! Its completely insane. Just like when we legalized alcohol again, we had a stunning drop in the amount of people turning up blind from drinking some adulterated paint thinner sold on the black market or some idiot using lead liners in their beer or wine brewing, we'd see users trend away from black market garbage in favor of safer, standardized alternatives. You'd have many fewer overdoses if you knew that every pill or vial was going to have consistent strength; not to mention prohibiting harmful additives and anything not disclosed on the label. They could all be made far cheaper too, especially if leftists made the issue a focal point; perhaps even have certain cultivation or manufacture dedicated to being at-cost for the public benefit. There could also be taxes and fees specifically designed to support addiction support services built in, a better version of the "sin taxes" that alcohol and cigarettes utilize. Investing in greater addition support and prevention treatments would be a part of it - infact, some of the very drugs that are illegal currently have the potential benefit of helping rewire the brain to contend with physical dependence as well as psychological dependence; ibogaine, a hallucinogen has shown promise for decades and despite it being not a "party drug" in any way or particularly fun, still requires going to another country to hope you find someone capable of providing ibogaine therapy, legally. MDMA has huge benefits to PTSD and other psychiatric issues if used correctly, but outside very limited trials its illegality has driven recreational users into more harmful meds masquerading as the hard-to-synthesize-properly MDMA, most of which are some combination of amphetamine or other unknown assortment meant to mimic what its "supposed" to feel like.
There are many other factors that could be discussed, but legalization and regulation done properly would lead to a massive improvement to quality of life for average person, obliterating many of the criminal elements that the Right fixates on in order to scare the populace into compliance, and otherwise benefits society. While there will be issues and friction - the initial apparent "increase" of drug users or adverse effects for instance is likely to be simply converting what used to be unreported into something that can be tracked even without a legal or medical calamity - it seems a worthwhile element. There are many groups that have been particularly harmed by the drug war in the past, from sexual or racial minorities to the disabled and patients who find their care restricted by insurance and fearful practitioners alike, but much like with the repeal of alcohol prohibition it will likely have wide ranging benefits across many strata of society if done right. It seems like a simple focal point for leftist political actors to grab hold, identify how capitalist exploitation and authoritarian puritanism alike have pushed a knowingly bad policy for decades in the hopes it will harm "the wrong people, and its all their fault for being weak enough to be harmed in the first place".
R: 4 / I: 0
On Monday, August 10, a court in Pervomaisk, Ukraine, convicted the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk of high treason under martial law and sentenced him to 15 years in prison for having called for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against war.
The response to the verdict has been significant and widespread. Nearly 500 people in more than 40 countries, Ukraine and Russia among them, have signed the petition for Bogdan’s release or written letters of protest since the sentencing, and the petition now stands at more than 6,000 names. Historians, doctors, teachers and pensioners have written to the court demanding that the conviction be overturned.
This response stands in sharp contrast to the silence of the major media outlets in the United States and, in particular, the New York Times. The Times has never reported on Bogdan’s case, either his arrest and imprisonment on April 25, 2024, or his sentencing on August 10.
The Times cannot plead ignorance. On Tuesday, August 11, David North, the chairman of the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) International Editorial Board, wrote to Philip Pan, the international editor of the Times, calling on the paper to cover the case. North pointed out that on the day of Bogdan’s sentencing the Times had published a report headlined “Russian Court Bars Country’s Only Antiwar Party From Running for Parliament,” which noted the seven-year sentence given to the Yabloko party’s deputy chairman, Maxim Kruglov, for a 2022 social media post, while the paper had printed nothing about a Ukrainian sentenced to more than twice that term.
“If the suppression of antiwar political activity in Russia warrants extensive reporting—and it certainly does—then the sentencing of a Ukrainian socialist to 15 years in prison for activities that include publishing antiwar articles warrants no less serious scrutiny,” North wrote.
The Times did not reply. One week after Bogdan’s sentencing, it published a front-page article titled “Held by Russia, Ukrainian Feels ‘Crushing’ Fear,” with a nine-minute produced audio version. It reports on Artem Murdid, a Ukrainian bank worker arrested in occupied Melitopol in March 2023 and sentenced by a Russian court to life in prison on terrorism charges.
Four journalists worked the story across Kiev, Berlin and Moscow. The Times has reporters inside Ukraine, in Kiev, a day’s drive from the Nikolaev region where Bogdan was tried and imprisoned.
The Times printed Murdid’s account of torture while conceding in its own words that it is “impossible to verify,” justifying publication because it is “consistent with dozens of accounts.” But Bogdan’s case requires no such justification: The verdict is a public document, the expert reports exist on paper, the WSWS articles cited as treason are published and readable by anyone. For Bogdan Syrotiuk the Times has provided not one line.
The Murdid report presents Russia’s imprisonment of Ukrainian civilians—among them, the Times writes, people “picked up for singing pro-Ukrainian songs, posting pro-Ukrainian thoughts on social media or transferring money to Ukrainian bank accounts”—as evidence of the character of the Russian state. The same paper, however, conceals the character of the Ukrainian state, which imprisons its own citizens for publishing antiwar articles, holds them in prisons the UN Committee Against Torture found in April 2025 to be overcrowded and short of food and water and governs under martial law without elections.
The Times report counts roughly 2,600 Ukrainian civilians verified in Russian custody on war-related accusations, of whom, it states, “almost 900” have been charged or convicted, citing the Media Initiative for Human Rights. According to the United Nations Human Rights Office, however, some 20,000 criminal cases have been opened under Ukraine’s treason and collaboration statutes since the war began. The two figures measure what the readers of the “newspaper of record” are permitted to know. One count of wartime prosecution is put on the front page, while the other is passed over in silence.
The Times’ coverage of political persecution in Russia is voluminous. The paper has published a series of reports on Ukrainians held in Russian prisons—“Ukrainians Tell of Brutal Russian Repression in Occupied Territories” (October 30, 2024), “The Ukrainians Stuck in Russia’s New Gulag” (November 29, 2025) and now on Murdid—and on Russians jailed for criticizing the war. On Monday it ran its second report in a week on the banned Yabloko party, “Barred From Ballot, a Party Becomes a Vessel for Russians’ Discontent.”
In four and a half years of war the Times has not published a report on the conditions in Ukraine’s prisons or on the treason prosecutions of Ukrainian citizens for their political views. Its columnists instead urge Americans to fight for their democracy “as Hard … as Ukrainians Are Fighting to Save Theirs,” as Thomas Friedman’s headline put it on September 23, 2025.
The double standard is a policy of deliberate war propaganda, aimed at demonizing Russia and promoting the dictatorship of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a bastion of democracy against Russian “authoritarianism.” The Times cannot report Bogdan’s case because the case explodes that narrative.
Since 2016 the Times has been the principal organ of the faction of the American ruling class, centered in the Democratic Party and the intelligence agencies, that has made confrontation with Russia the central aim of American foreign policy. Its campaign over “Russian interference” in the 2016 election attacked US President Donald Trump from the right, as insufficiently hostile to Moscow, and prepared public opinion for the war in Ukraine. Since February 2022 the Times has spearheaded the pro-war campaign.
It is the journalistic flagship of substantial sections of the intelligence and military establishment that are pressing for deeper US intervention against Russia. Beyond those layers, the Times and the Democratic Party speak for sections of the upper middle class for whom hostility to Russia is an article of faith.
The Times’ relationship with the intelligence agencies goes back decades. In October 1977 Carl Bernstein reported in Rolling Stone that Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the publisher of the Times, had “signed a secrecy agreement with the CIA in the 1950s” and that, according to a CIA official, the paper had provided cover for CIA employees.
The Times’ silence on the persecution of Bogdan is entirely in keeping with this role. Its aim is to provide war propaganda, aimed at drumming up public support for the escalation of war with Russia.
This escalation is now taking place. Overnight into Sunday, Ukraine launched some 600 drones at Moscow, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, and Russian missiles and drones hit Kiev the same night. Bogdan was jailed for opposing the US-NATO war, while rejecting the Russian invasion and calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers.
Workers must draw the lessons of the silence of the New York Times and of the sections of the Democratic Party that it speaks for. Totally committed to the interests of US imperialism, which is using Ukraine’s youth as cannon fodder in a war with Russia, they have abandoned any defense of even the most basic democratic rights, including the freedom of speech.
Workers and young people seeking to defend democratic rights and oppose global war must organize independently of any faction of the political establishment and its corporate media mouthpieces. The defense of Bogdan, and of democratic rights in Ukraine and everywhere else, falls to the working class.
Bogdan’s defense has until September 9 to lodge an appeal, and its challenge to his detention, filed at the European Court of Human Rights in spring 2025, is still pending.
The World Socialist Web Site urges its readers to add their names at wsws.org/freebogdan. Write to the Pervomaisk City District Court at [email protected] and the Nikolaev Court of Appeal at [email protected], with a copy to [email protected], demanding that the sentence be thrown out and Bogdan freed at once.
Amid growing support for Ukrainian political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk, the New York Times maintains
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/18/yvoe-a18.htmlOn Monday, August 10, a court in Pervomaisk, Ukraine, convicted the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk of high treason under martial law and sentenced him to 15 years in prison for having called for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against war.
The response to the verdict has been significant and widespread. Nearly 500 people in more than 40 countries, Ukraine and Russia among them, have signed the petition for Bogdan’s release or written letters of protest since the sentencing, and the petition now stands at more than 6,000 names. Historians, doctors, teachers and pensioners have written to the court demanding that the conviction be overturned.
This response stands in sharp contrast to the silence of the major media outlets in the United States and, in particular, the New York Times. The Times has never reported on Bogdan’s case, either his arrest and imprisonment on April 25, 2024, or his sentencing on August 10.
The Times cannot plead ignorance. On Tuesday, August 11, David North, the chairman of the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) International Editorial Board, wrote to Philip Pan, the international editor of the Times, calling on the paper to cover the case. North pointed out that on the day of Bogdan’s sentencing the Times had published a report headlined “Russian Court Bars Country’s Only Antiwar Party From Running for Parliament,” which noted the seven-year sentence given to the Yabloko party’s deputy chairman, Maxim Kruglov, for a 2022 social media post, while the paper had printed nothing about a Ukrainian sentenced to more than twice that term.
“If the suppression of antiwar political activity in Russia warrants extensive reporting—and it certainly does—then the sentencing of a Ukrainian socialist to 15 years in prison for activities that include publishing antiwar articles warrants no less serious scrutiny,” North wrote.
The Times did not reply. One week after Bogdan’s sentencing, it published a front-page article titled “Held by Russia, Ukrainian Feels ‘Crushing’ Fear,” with a nine-minute produced audio version. It reports on Artem Murdid, a Ukrainian bank worker arrested in occupied Melitopol in March 2023 and sentenced by a Russian court to life in prison on terrorism charges.
Four journalists worked the story across Kiev, Berlin and Moscow. The Times has reporters inside Ukraine, in Kiev, a day’s drive from the Nikolaev region where Bogdan was tried and imprisoned.
The Times printed Murdid’s account of torture while conceding in its own words that it is “impossible to verify,” justifying publication because it is “consistent with dozens of accounts.” But Bogdan’s case requires no such justification: The verdict is a public document, the expert reports exist on paper, the WSWS articles cited as treason are published and readable by anyone. For Bogdan Syrotiuk the Times has provided not one line.
The Murdid report presents Russia’s imprisonment of Ukrainian civilians—among them, the Times writes, people “picked up for singing pro-Ukrainian songs, posting pro-Ukrainian thoughts on social media or transferring money to Ukrainian bank accounts”—as evidence of the character of the Russian state. The same paper, however, conceals the character of the Ukrainian state, which imprisons its own citizens for publishing antiwar articles, holds them in prisons the UN Committee Against Torture found in April 2025 to be overcrowded and short of food and water and governs under martial law without elections.
The Times report counts roughly 2,600 Ukrainian civilians verified in Russian custody on war-related accusations, of whom, it states, “almost 900” have been charged or convicted, citing the Media Initiative for Human Rights. According to the United Nations Human Rights Office, however, some 20,000 criminal cases have been opened under Ukraine’s treason and collaboration statutes since the war began. The two figures measure what the readers of the “newspaper of record” are permitted to know. One count of wartime prosecution is put on the front page, while the other is passed over in silence.
The Times’ coverage of political persecution in Russia is voluminous. The paper has published a series of reports on Ukrainians held in Russian prisons—“Ukrainians Tell of Brutal Russian Repression in Occupied Territories” (October 30, 2024), “The Ukrainians Stuck in Russia’s New Gulag” (November 29, 2025) and now on Murdid—and on Russians jailed for criticizing the war. On Monday it ran its second report in a week on the banned Yabloko party, “Barred From Ballot, a Party Becomes a Vessel for Russians’ Discontent.”
In four and a half years of war the Times has not published a report on the conditions in Ukraine’s prisons or on the treason prosecutions of Ukrainian citizens for their political views. Its columnists instead urge Americans to fight for their democracy “as Hard … as Ukrainians Are Fighting to Save Theirs,” as Thomas Friedman’s headline put it on September 23, 2025.
The double standard is a policy of deliberate war propaganda, aimed at demonizing Russia and promoting the dictatorship of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a bastion of democracy against Russian “authoritarianism.” The Times cannot report Bogdan’s case because the case explodes that narrative.
Since 2016 the Times has been the principal organ of the faction of the American ruling class, centered in the Democratic Party and the intelligence agencies, that has made confrontation with Russia the central aim of American foreign policy. Its campaign over “Russian interference” in the 2016 election attacked US President Donald Trump from the right, as insufficiently hostile to Moscow, and prepared public opinion for the war in Ukraine. Since February 2022 the Times has spearheaded the pro-war campaign.
It is the journalistic flagship of substantial sections of the intelligence and military establishment that are pressing for deeper US intervention against Russia. Beyond those layers, the Times and the Democratic Party speak for sections of the upper middle class for whom hostility to Russia is an article of faith.
The Times’ relationship with the intelligence agencies goes back decades. In October 1977 Carl Bernstein reported in Rolling Stone that Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the publisher of the Times, had “signed a secrecy agreement with the CIA in the 1950s” and that, according to a CIA official, the paper had provided cover for CIA employees.
The Times’ silence on the persecution of Bogdan is entirely in keeping with this role. Its aim is to provide war propaganda, aimed at drumming up public support for the escalation of war with Russia.
This escalation is now taking place. Overnight into Sunday, Ukraine launched some 600 drones at Moscow, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, and Russian missiles and drones hit Kiev the same night. Bogdan was jailed for opposing the US-NATO war, while rejecting the Russian invasion and calling for the unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers.
Workers must draw the lessons of the silence of the New York Times and of the sections of the Democratic Party that it speaks for. Totally committed to the interests of US imperialism, which is using Ukraine’s youth as cannon fodder in a war with Russia, they have abandoned any defense of even the most basic democratic rights, including the freedom of speech.
Workers and young people seeking to defend democratic rights and oppose global war must organize independently of any faction of the political establishment and its corporate media mouthpieces. The defense of Bogdan, and of democratic rights in Ukraine and everywhere else, falls to the working class.
Bogdan’s defense has until September 9 to lodge an appeal, and its challenge to his detention, filed at the European Court of Human Rights in spring 2025, is still pending.
The World Socialist Web Site urges its readers to add their names at wsws.org/freebogdan. Write to the Pervomaisk City District Court at [email protected] and the Nikolaev Court of Appeal at [email protected], with a copy to [email protected], demanding that the sentence be thrown out and Bogdan freed at once.
R: 20 / I: 5
The essence of communism is not the nationalization of the means of production. That is a byproduct of a more fundamental change in society.
The essence of communism is the government directly controlling labor i.e. people.
>besides the point, but interesting video you should check out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZN8hmkSZU
A new government telling YOU to what to work on and where to work, given your capabilities and resources in the rest of society.
And this is objectively Good if the new government is Good.
This is a core redpill that is too hard to swallow for retards and normies. Those who understand need to evangelize the commie sigma grindset because the human capital for communism is very rare. That mindset is the Hive-mind. Broken people reject the hive-mind when it is an unavoidable prerequisite for communism. We will not be able to build communism with people broken and alienated by crapitalism. As crapistalism turns even worse, more and more of the entreprolecariat will gnosticpill themselves. The result is nihilism for the wealth accumulators and suicide for the rest. It will be a total dark age because human development and the divine reaching for the stars is possible only through social practice of actual vigor. All the good people are dying and returning to the pleroma. There are fewer and fewer people left to make communism work.
We will not see communism come back anytime soon because those that can do it, won't.
<revisionism, dirigism, human rights etc.
And those that will do it, will be evil.
<Palantir, the Reptile, etc.
It truly is blackpilling just how far down the drain conditions for revolution are right now.
>Give me some worthy hopium leftychuds.
It's Actually Over
I have come to a serious realization.The essence of communism is not the nationalization of the means of production. That is a byproduct of a more fundamental change in society.
The essence of communism is the government directly controlling labor i.e. people.
>besides the point, but interesting video you should check out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZN8hmkSZU
A new government telling YOU to what to work on and where to work, given your capabilities and resources in the rest of society.
And this is objectively Good if the new government is Good.
This is a core redpill that is too hard to swallow for retards and normies. Those who understand need to evangelize the commie sigma grindset because the human capital for communism is very rare. That mindset is the Hive-mind. Broken people reject the hive-mind when it is an unavoidable prerequisite for communism. We will not be able to build communism with people broken and alienated by crapitalism. As crapistalism turns even worse, more and more of the entreprolecariat will gnosticpill themselves. The result is nihilism for the wealth accumulators and suicide for the rest. It will be a total dark age because human development and the divine reaching for the stars is possible only through social practice of actual vigor. All the good people are dying and returning to the pleroma. There are fewer and fewer people left to make communism work.
We will not see communism come back anytime soon because those that can do it, won't.
<revisionism, dirigism, human rights etc.
And those that will do it, will be evil.
<Palantir, the Reptile, etc.
It truly is blackpilling just how far down the drain conditions for revolution are right now.
>Give me some worthy hopium leftychuds.
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How would accreditation work under communism. Say there is a construction project. How would the materials be assessed to be of high enough quality, how would the plumbing electricity, etc be assessed to have been installed in a safe way? If one has to go into surgery how can they be sure that the medical team is operating in a properly sanitized environment without state set standards for what that would be?
Why no state?
Questions about a theoretical communist state:How would accreditation work under communism. Say there is a construction project. How would the materials be assessed to be of high enough quality, how would the plumbing electricity, etc be assessed to have been installed in a safe way? If one has to go into surgery how can they be sure that the medical team is operating in a properly sanitized environment without state set standards for what that would be?
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ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
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Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
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ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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The SACP said millions of South Africans were working and paying their way through life but were still unable to live with dignity. “Councillors vanish between elections,” the party said, accusing local political representatives of losing touch with the communities they are elected to serve. “This is not the democracy our people fought for. The party’s decision to contest the elections independently marks a significant political departure and is aimed at giving the working class its own candidates and political programme at municipal level.
https://africadaily.co.za/sacp-takes-aim-at-anc-run-municipalities-as-it-launches-election-manifesto/
https://archive.ph/9d50L
Observers report intimidation and violence during Zambian elections
Calls for a toning down of rhetoric came from observers, including those from the Southern African Development Community and the European Union, as Thursday’s votes continued to be counted. Vote counting was temporarily suspended on Friday following reports of violence against polling staff and the alleged theft of ballot papers. Counting resumed hours later after the electoral commission said the “security threat to the electoral process had been contained,” said Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa, reporting from the capital, Lusaka.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/observers-report-intimidation-and-violence-during-zambian-elections
Germany rethinks law protecting politicians from insults
Variations of this view find consensus across Germany’s fractured political spectrum. The far-left Left Party and far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party want the law abolished outright, while the CDU, Greens and center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) all support revising it. “Politicians like Friedrich Merz insult ordinary people in this country every day by calling them lazy or malingerers,” said Luke Hoss, a Left lawmaker, referring to the chancellor’s remarks that Germans should work more to boost economic growth.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-politician-insult-law-friedrich-merz-section-188/
https://archive.ph/NDqLv
Russian state bank fires economist who warned Moscow was losing 'war of attrition' with West
"We are falling behind. We are losing both the technological and economic competition in the world. And we are losing it not only to China and the United States, in some ways we are losing it to Ukraine too," he said, adding that this was due to Kyiv receiving financial support from the West. "We will not win the competition in this war of attrition. We have the illusion that everything there (in Ukraine) will collapse. It has not collapsed and will not collapse. Our costs are mounting," he said, predicting a social crisis.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russian-state-bank-fires-economist-who-warned-moscow-was-losing-war-attrition-2026-08-17/
Pro-Palestine activist due in court after a pro-Israel campaigner demands police take action
Sussex University student Maya Szerszen, of the Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) group in Brighton, was charged after Heidi Bachram launched a campaign along with other members of Sussex Friends of Israel. Ms Bachram, who regularly criticises pro-Palestine activism on X and her Substack page, shared a video of police refusing to arrest Ms Szerszen while she was addressing at a Palestine solidarity rally in Brighton on February 28.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pro-palestine-activist-due-court-after-pro-israel-campaigner-demands-police-take-action
Argentina Job Market Under Strain as Long-Term Unemployment Persists
The unemployment rate was 7.8% in the first quarter of the year, according to Indec, Argentina’s national statistics agency. But an analysis by the Institute of Thought and Public Policies (IPyPP), led by economist Claudio Lozano, found that the broader pressure on the labor market was significantly higher when unemployment and underemployment were considered together.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-job-market-under-strain/
Venezuela’s UK-Held Gold to Be Released to US Control, Foreign Audits
Following recent US-backed talks between the acting Delcy Rodríguez government and representatives of the defunct, opposition-majority parliament elected in 2015, the two sides agreed to work together to secure the unfreezing of the 31 tons of gold, worth around US $4.3 billion at current prices, to support post-earthquake recovery efforts. Ramón López, a member of the opposition delegation, disclosed that the resources would be deposited in a US Treasury bank account and be subjected to external audits.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelas-uk-held-gold-to-be-released-to-us-control-foreign-audits/
South Korea’s Lee urges talks with North Korea about finally ending Korean war
In a speech marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said the two Koreas should hold a sit-down for coexistence.a speech marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said the two Koreas should hold a sit-down for coexistence. He urged dialogue between North Korea and concerned parties to end the 1950-53 Korean war, which was stopped by a ceasefire, not a peace treaty, and said discussions could also explore measures to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/15/south-koreas-lee-urges-talks-with-north-korea-about-finally-ending-korean-war
China’s Xi praises former president Jiang’s contribution in show of party unity
The commemorative event was hosted a year before the 21st Party Congress, scheduled for next autumn, when a new leadership line will be formed and Xi is set to renew another five-year term as the party’s leader. Xi praised a long list of Jiang’s achievements, from political loyalty to the party to economic development, foreign policy and defence policy, with clear reference to his own governance style, including fighting corruption, a firm stance on the party’s unchallenged status to rule and decisive leadership when facing crisis.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3364226/xi-jinping-speaks-event-commemorate-former-president-jiang-zemin-centenary
https://archive.ph/TZp4u
‘They want Netanyahu to lose’: Likud puts Erdogan on election billboard
The billboard, displayed in Tel Aviv, includes images of Erdogan alongside Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “They want Netanyahu to lose. Don’t let them win,” the campaign poster reads.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/they-want-netanyahu-to-lose-likud-puts-erdogan-on-election-billboard-3226250
https://archive.ph/T3Qg9
Trump says US in contact with IRGC and calls on Iran to surrender
During an interview with Fox News on Monday, Trump said that Iran should “put up the white flag of surrender” in the five-month US-Israel war on Iran. The call is just the latest in the rhetorical tit-for-tat between the US and Washington as mediators continue to work to try to bring the parties back to the negotiating table.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/17/trump-demands-iran-put-up-the-white-flag-of-surrender-as-mou-expires
https://archive.ph/3Dszm
Sudan ramps up Saudi Arabia, Turkey contacts amid growing Red Sea cooperation
In Riyadh, Salem and Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan co-chaired the political consultations between the two countries and oversaw the establishment of a Saudi-Sudanese Coordination Council, aimed at putting bilateral cooperation on a more institutional footing, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The two sides also pledged to deepen cooperation across multiple fields, SPA reported.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/sudan-ramps-saudi-arabia-turkey-contacts-amid-growing-red-sea-cooperation
News 8/17/26
SACP takes aim at ANC-run municipalities as it launches election manifestoThe SACP said millions of South Africans were working and paying their way through life but were still unable to live with dignity. “Councillors vanish between elections,” the party said, accusing local political representatives of losing touch with the communities they are elected to serve. “This is not the democracy our people fought for. The party’s decision to contest the elections independently marks a significant political departure and is aimed at giving the working class its own candidates and political programme at municipal level.
https://africadaily.co.za/sacp-takes-aim-at-anc-run-municipalities-as-it-launches-election-manifesto/
https://archive.ph/9d50L
Observers report intimidation and violence during Zambian elections
Calls for a toning down of rhetoric came from observers, including those from the Southern African Development Community and the European Union, as Thursday’s votes continued to be counted. Vote counting was temporarily suspended on Friday following reports of violence against polling staff and the alleged theft of ballot papers. Counting resumed hours later after the electoral commission said the “security threat to the electoral process had been contained,” said Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa, reporting from the capital, Lusaka.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/observers-report-intimidation-and-violence-during-zambian-elections
Germany rethinks law protecting politicians from insults
Variations of this view find consensus across Germany’s fractured political spectrum. The far-left Left Party and far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party want the law abolished outright, while the CDU, Greens and center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) all support revising it. “Politicians like Friedrich Merz insult ordinary people in this country every day by calling them lazy or malingerers,” said Luke Hoss, a Left lawmaker, referring to the chancellor’s remarks that Germans should work more to boost economic growth.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-politician-insult-law-friedrich-merz-section-188/
https://archive.ph/NDqLv
Russian state bank fires economist who warned Moscow was losing 'war of attrition' with West
"We are falling behind. We are losing both the technological and economic competition in the world. And we are losing it not only to China and the United States, in some ways we are losing it to Ukraine too," he said, adding that this was due to Kyiv receiving financial support from the West. "We will not win the competition in this war of attrition. We have the illusion that everything there (in Ukraine) will collapse. It has not collapsed and will not collapse. Our costs are mounting," he said, predicting a social crisis.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russian-state-bank-fires-economist-who-warned-moscow-was-losing-war-attrition-2026-08-17/
Pro-Palestine activist due in court after a pro-Israel campaigner demands police take action
Sussex University student Maya Szerszen, of the Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) group in Brighton, was charged after Heidi Bachram launched a campaign along with other members of Sussex Friends of Israel. Ms Bachram, who regularly criticises pro-Palestine activism on X and her Substack page, shared a video of police refusing to arrest Ms Szerszen while she was addressing at a Palestine solidarity rally in Brighton on February 28.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pro-palestine-activist-due-court-after-pro-israel-campaigner-demands-police-take-action
Argentina Job Market Under Strain as Long-Term Unemployment Persists
The unemployment rate was 7.8% in the first quarter of the year, according to Indec, Argentina’s national statistics agency. But an analysis by the Institute of Thought and Public Policies (IPyPP), led by economist Claudio Lozano, found that the broader pressure on the labor market was significantly higher when unemployment and underemployment were considered together.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-job-market-under-strain/
Venezuela’s UK-Held Gold to Be Released to US Control, Foreign Audits
Following recent US-backed talks between the acting Delcy Rodríguez government and representatives of the defunct, opposition-majority parliament elected in 2015, the two sides agreed to work together to secure the unfreezing of the 31 tons of gold, worth around US $4.3 billion at current prices, to support post-earthquake recovery efforts. Ramón López, a member of the opposition delegation, disclosed that the resources would be deposited in a US Treasury bank account and be subjected to external audits.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelas-uk-held-gold-to-be-released-to-us-control-foreign-audits/
South Korea’s Lee urges talks with North Korea about finally ending Korean war
In a speech marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said the two Koreas should hold a sit-down for coexistence.a speech marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said the two Koreas should hold a sit-down for coexistence. He urged dialogue between North Korea and concerned parties to end the 1950-53 Korean war, which was stopped by a ceasefire, not a peace treaty, and said discussions could also explore measures to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/15/south-koreas-lee-urges-talks-with-north-korea-about-finally-ending-korean-war
China’s Xi praises former president Jiang’s contribution in show of party unity
The commemorative event was hosted a year before the 21st Party Congress, scheduled for next autumn, when a new leadership line will be formed and Xi is set to renew another five-year term as the party’s leader. Xi praised a long list of Jiang’s achievements, from political loyalty to the party to economic development, foreign policy and defence policy, with clear reference to his own governance style, including fighting corruption, a firm stance on the party’s unchallenged status to rule and decisive leadership when facing crisis.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3364226/xi-jinping-speaks-event-commemorate-former-president-jiang-zemin-centenary
https://archive.ph/TZp4u
‘They want Netanyahu to lose’: Likud puts Erdogan on election billboard
The billboard, displayed in Tel Aviv, includes images of Erdogan alongside Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “They want Netanyahu to lose. Don’t let them win,” the campaign poster reads.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/they-want-netanyahu-to-lose-likud-puts-erdogan-on-election-billboard-3226250
https://archive.ph/T3Qg9
Trump says US in contact with IRGC and calls on Iran to surrender
During an interview with Fox News on Monday, Trump said that Iran should “put up the white flag of surrender” in the five-month US-Israel war on Iran. The call is just the latest in the rhetorical tit-for-tat between the US and Washington as mediators continue to work to try to bring the parties back to the negotiating table.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/17/trump-demands-iran-put-up-the-white-flag-of-surrender-as-mou-expires
https://archive.ph/3Dszm
Sudan ramps up Saudi Arabia, Turkey contacts amid growing Red Sea cooperation
In Riyadh, Salem and Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan co-chaired the political consultations between the two countries and oversaw the establishment of a Saudi-Sudanese Coordination Council, aimed at putting bilateral cooperation on a more institutional footing, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The two sides also pledged to deepen cooperation across multiple fields, SPA reported.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/sudan-ramps-saudi-arabia-turkey-contacts-amid-growing-red-sea-cooperation
R: 1 / I: 0
why is cute cat
me is survivor of commiunist
i have no good english
communism kill me brother when he was try escape
me is now in italyi was escape yugoslavia
>me love green
<me love orange
cutecat thread
how is cute cat?why is cute cat
me is survivor of commiunist
i have no good english
communism kill me brother when he was try escape
me is now in italyi was escape yugoslavia
>me love green
<me love orange
R: 288 / I: 41 (sage)
Can we stop pretending that Stalinism is a leftist ideology? Stalin transformed the USSR into a reactionary state-capitalist shithole that retained nothing of the Left.
Just read posts by Stalinists - they are indistinguishable from Nazi ones, if you set aside the leftist terminology.
Can we stop pretending that Stalinism is a leftist ideology? Stalin transformed the USSR into a reactionary state-capitalist shithole that retained nothing of the Left.
Just read posts by Stalinists - they are indistinguishable from Nazi ones, if you set aside the leftist terminology.
R: 85 / I: 14
When people say "communism doesnt work"? Why not point out that it took liberalism like 300 years of failed revolutions and counterevolutions to finally settle?
When people say communism is le bad because of red terror, why not point out that liberal revolutions also had their own terror and repression against feudalist supporters?
I've said my piece
When people say "communism doesnt work"? Why not point out that it took liberalism like 300 years of failed revolutions and counterevolutions to finally settle?
When people say communism is le bad because of red terror, why not point out that liberal revolutions also had their own terror and repression against feudalist supporters?
I've said my piece
R: 22 / I: 1 (sage)
Anarcho Communism will win
Fuck the government, Fuck capitalism, Fuck hierarchies, Fuck private property. Anarcho Communism WILL win, Capitalism WILL lose, Fascism WILL lose. Rise up, Fight the power!
R: 62 / I: 14
Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported that the first site will open in Tel Sultan, near Rafah, “within weeks”, and house civilians “with no weapons or affiliation with Hamas”. It added that the zone will be policed by a “multinational force”, known as the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which will be equipped with “non-lethal weapons” and operate from the Israeli Amitai Camp near Gaza under the command of the board. According to the report, while aid and temporary housing will be supplied to the areas, Board of Peace officials have pledged not to import concrete into Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trumps-board-peace-launch-hamas-free-shelters-while-israel-tightens-grip-gaza
So what's the lefty/pol/ Righist Cope Patrol's line on these countries joining the BoP under literal "chairman for life" Donald Trump?
· Vietnam (Ae Ea Ss!1)
· Belarus (Need I comment? Le last remnant of the USSR, guys!)
· Kazakhstan (/leftypol/ was REALLY SUPPORTIVE of when the Kazakh government and their Russian masters lethally repressed the proletarian-led (oil rig strike) protesters in 2022!)
· Cambodia ([search engine] Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) if you don't already know about Vietnam's responsibility for this mess)
· BRICS vanguard Indonesia, UAE and Egypt!
/LEFTYPOL/ SEEMS REALLY AVOIDANT OF THE TOPIC! WHAT GIVES?
Board of Peace (BoP)
‘Board of Peace’ to launch ‘Hamas-free’ camps as Israel tightens grip on GazaIsraeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported that the first site will open in Tel Sultan, near Rafah, “within weeks”, and house civilians “with no weapons or affiliation with Hamas”. It added that the zone will be policed by a “multinational force”, known as the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which will be equipped with “non-lethal weapons” and operate from the Israeli Amitai Camp near Gaza under the command of the board. According to the report, while aid and temporary housing will be supplied to the areas, Board of Peace officials have pledged not to import concrete into Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trumps-board-peace-launch-hamas-free-shelters-while-israel-tightens-grip-gaza
So what's the lefty/pol/ Righist Cope Patrol's line on these countries joining the BoP under literal "chairman for life" Donald Trump?
· Vietnam (Ae Ea Ss!1)
· Belarus (Need I comment? Le last remnant of the USSR, guys!)
· Kazakhstan (/leftypol/ was REALLY SUPPORTIVE of when the Kazakh government and their Russian masters lethally repressed the proletarian-led (oil rig strike) protesters in 2022!)
· Cambodia ([search engine] Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) if you don't already know about Vietnam's responsibility for this mess)
· BRICS vanguard Indonesia, UAE and Egypt!
/LEFTYPOL/ SEEMS REALLY AVOIDANT OF THE TOPIC! WHAT GIVES?
R: 62 / I: 13
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: 127 / I: 12
Anti-revisionism thread
I hate revisionists
I fucking despise roaders. They have completely ossified mindsets and won't ever change their minds no matter how much I argue (and I argue constantly for the most minor points) while I will publicly criticise myself if I was found to have taken a wrong line. Like they just ignore any evidence I bring up about the fascist state of China. Roaders are set in their ways and won't ever change, they are ideological zombies and the only way to deal with them is to put a bullet in their head and eliminate an enemy to socialism.Anti-revisionism thread
R: 16 / I: 3 (sage)
Fed up with fruitless negotiations and firmly believing in a people's war, He was the aggressor in a conflict against the biggest empires of his time (USSR, UK, France) and damn nearly succeeded, Providing unprecedented opportunities for colonized peoples to fight back and recruited widely among them to fight in his waffen-SS (the most ethnically diverse army in history and the biggest action-oriented third-worldist organization in history) non-germans made up 40-50% of it's membership and directed Azeri, georgian, central asian, Indian and other peoples against their occupiers. It was unthinkable for a man to fight in the SS for any other reason than a decolonialist socialist liberation war.
He aided Ethiopia against the Italian fascists, extensively cooperated with Iraq, Iran & Palestine against the British which is why he's still a folk hero in the middle east and was widely supported there during his life. Helped form anticolonial armies in India, Indochina and heavily armed Chinese revolutionaries against evil Japanese imperialists, Among numerous other operations empowering colonized peoples against their empires.
Although he failed, Even after mobilizing his entire population in this revolutionary war, He nonetheless took with him Millions and millions of colonizers and severly weakened empires and aftermath of this was the gradual decolonization of the world and till this day his ideology is widely adopted among alienated and oppressed individuals such as Latinos in America, Turks, Indians, Indonesians, filipinos and Mexicans as a response to failed promises of a just world order by Liberals and deceptive third world "Leftists".
The Hitler they don't show you
Hitler was an maoist third-worldist ultra-internationalist anticolonial revolutionary who was outraged at the mistreatment of the British colonial authorities in Africa and India, Roosevelt's domination of the pacific and hostile actions in Latin America and the USSR's large scale ethnically slavic settlement in central Asia, Siberia and the Caucasus and neglect of the native peoples.Fed up with fruitless negotiations and firmly believing in a people's war, He was the aggressor in a conflict against the biggest empires of his time (USSR, UK, France) and damn nearly succeeded, Providing unprecedented opportunities for colonized peoples to fight back and recruited widely among them to fight in his waffen-SS (the most ethnically diverse army in history and the biggest action-oriented third-worldist organization in history) non-germans made up 40-50% of it's membership and directed Azeri, georgian, central asian, Indian and other peoples against their occupiers. It was unthinkable for a man to fight in the SS for any other reason than a decolonialist socialist liberation war.
He aided Ethiopia against the Italian fascists, extensively cooperated with Iraq, Iran & Palestine against the British which is why he's still a folk hero in the middle east and was widely supported there during his life. Helped form anticolonial armies in India, Indochina and heavily armed Chinese revolutionaries against evil Japanese imperialists, Among numerous other operations empowering colonized peoples against their empires.
Although he failed, Even after mobilizing his entire population in this revolutionary war, He nonetheless took with him Millions and millions of colonizers and severly weakened empires and aftermath of this was the gradual decolonization of the world and till this day his ideology is widely adopted among alienated and oppressed individuals such as Latinos in America, Turks, Indians, Indonesians, filipinos and Mexicans as a response to failed promises of a just world order by Liberals and deceptive third world "Leftists".
R: 6 / I: 0
The CIT recorded 2,650 civilian deaths in Ukraine in 2025 (297 in occupied areas and 2,353 in the rest of the territory). On the Russian side, the deaths amounted to 275. Those figures are based primarily on official records from regional governors, together with reporting from independent media. CIT classifies the data into three categories: Ukraine, occupied Ukraine, and Russia, while excluding attacks on military facilities.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-08-13/civilians-in-ukraine-and-russia-are-paying-an-ever-higher-price-in-the-war.html
https://archive.ph/Pqxjt
Swedish union ends dispute with Tesla
In a statement, the union said the reason for its decision was that “Tesla has bought out all of our striking members at the company. With no members remaining at Tesla, our industrial action can no longer have an effect. “This does not mean that the fundamental issue behind the conflict has changed. Our goal remains that collective agreements should apply throughout the Swedish labour market, and IF Metall remains ready to fight for collective agreements wherever and whenever employers oppose them.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/swedish-union-ends-dispute-tesla
Hungary uses sunken barges to raise Danube River to keep nuclear plant going
Hungarian authorities are sinking the two barges to raise water levels so Paks, which provides the country with more than a third of its electricity, can continue to operate normally. The sinking began Saturday morning and Hungarian media are quoting the prime minister saying the water level at the plant has risen by 1 centimeter.
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-barge-danube-river-nuclear-power-plant-paks/
https://archive.ph/hSYZr
Fagan launches leadership bid with GMB support
The launch in Glasgow came as he secured the support of the GMB union, taking him another step towards reaching his target of three affiliate nominations – two from trade unions – which he needs to book a spot on the ballot. “For two Budgets in a row, while other parties forced concessions from the SNP, we sat on the sidelines,” he told supporters, promising to work with the SNP to pass its budget if five tests are met, the first being progress on bringing buses “back under public control” and a £2 cap on fares.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fagan-launches-leadership-bid-gmb-support
Sedition to anthem: Many lives of ‘Azadi’ chants in India’s youth protests
The entry curve of the protest strip read: “#2026 Gen-Z REVOLUTION!!!” A man in his early twenties climbed a tree carrying a powerful loudspeaker and blasted a song. “Azadi, give me freedom! Azadi, give me freedom! Azadi, give me freedom!” The crowd followed the words, with their hands raised in the air. Azadi, translated as “freedom” in English, a popular hip-hop song from the Bollywood film Gully Boy, became the anthem of the student protests in one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government in years.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/8/15/sedition-to-anthem-many-lives-of-aazadi-chants-in-indias-youth-protests
https://archive.ph/WjVQb
Senior citizens endure long wait for promised support
The labor leader from San Andres, Manila had already submitted everything required for the government’s cash incentive for older Filipinos including her birth certificate, a valid ID and a photograph. No medical records. No income certification. The barangay officials handling the process are also senior citizens who know the community well which should hasten the process.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/08/08/senior-citizens-endure-long-wait-for-promised-support/
Afghanistan marks 5 years under the Taliban with safer streets but pleas for jobs and education
As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents say they feel safer after decades of conflict and upheaval but stress the leaders should now focus on creating jobs and expanding access to schools in the country where girls above the age of 12 are banned from education.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-5year-anniversary-6179bb5805731f0c2b6b5b59ea322b6c
Israel’s ‘pilot zones’: Withdrawal on paper, continued occupation of south Lebanon
On paper, the pilot zones, whose implementation began on 20 July, are meant to work as a formula: a gradual Israeli withdrawal, paired with a handover of sovereignty to the Lebanese Army, and the end of Hezbollah's armed presence in these locations. But Daniel Meier, professor of political science and director of the Master in Middle Eastern Studies at Sciences Po Grenoble, says Israel has sought to use the mechanism for a different purpose.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-pilot-zones-withdrawal-paper-continued-occupation-south-lebanon
US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere
The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors ragged, analysts say, while the Trump administration further retreats from the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.
https://apnews.com/article/aircraft-carriers-trump-china-pacific-iran-war-87cfb838de8c13464fa3cab1840ad87d
Morocco arrests 111 migrants headed for Spain's Ceuta in security crackdown
Moroccan police arrested at least 111 people on Saturday as they tried to enter Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, amid tightened security on both sides of the border after social media posts called for another mass migrant crossing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/spain-boosts-security-ceuta-calls-appear-online-another-mass-border-rush-2026-08-14/
Venezuelan Gov’t and US-Backed Opposition Faction to Renew Supreme Court
The two parties will conduct a process aimed at transforming the judicial system as well as promoting the recovery of Venezuela’s gold reserves frozen at the Bank of England to support the country’s reconstruction following the June 24 earthquakes. The agreement on the judicial overhaul, presented in a joint press conference at the 5-star Melá Hotel in Caracas, effectively replaces the process the Venezuelan National Assembly had launched in May following a reform that increased the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) from 20 to 32 members and a preliminary evaluation of magistrate candidates.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-and-us-backed-opposition-faction-to-renew-supreme-court/
Colombia says 377 still missing three days after 7.4M earthquake
So far, rescue workers and neighbors were able to rescue 348 people from the rubble alive and 3,826 people were injured. The earthquake, which was the strongest in a decade, destroyed 12,563 homes and damaged another 75,654. At least 172 apartment buildings collapsed, said Tamayo.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-says-377-still-missing-three-days-after-7-4m-earthquake/
News 8/15/26
Civilians in Ukraine and Russia are paying an ever-higher price in the warThe CIT recorded 2,650 civilian deaths in Ukraine in 2025 (297 in occupied areas and 2,353 in the rest of the territory). On the Russian side, the deaths amounted to 275. Those figures are based primarily on official records from regional governors, together with reporting from independent media. CIT classifies the data into three categories: Ukraine, occupied Ukraine, and Russia, while excluding attacks on military facilities.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-08-13/civilians-in-ukraine-and-russia-are-paying-an-ever-higher-price-in-the-war.html
https://archive.ph/Pqxjt
Swedish union ends dispute with Tesla
In a statement, the union said the reason for its decision was that “Tesla has bought out all of our striking members at the company. With no members remaining at Tesla, our industrial action can no longer have an effect. “This does not mean that the fundamental issue behind the conflict has changed. Our goal remains that collective agreements should apply throughout the Swedish labour market, and IF Metall remains ready to fight for collective agreements wherever and whenever employers oppose them.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/swedish-union-ends-dispute-tesla
Hungary uses sunken barges to raise Danube River to keep nuclear plant going
Hungarian authorities are sinking the two barges to raise water levels so Paks, which provides the country with more than a third of its electricity, can continue to operate normally. The sinking began Saturday morning and Hungarian media are quoting the prime minister saying the water level at the plant has risen by 1 centimeter.
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-barge-danube-river-nuclear-power-plant-paks/
https://archive.ph/hSYZr
Fagan launches leadership bid with GMB support
The launch in Glasgow came as he secured the support of the GMB union, taking him another step towards reaching his target of three affiliate nominations – two from trade unions – which he needs to book a spot on the ballot. “For two Budgets in a row, while other parties forced concessions from the SNP, we sat on the sidelines,” he told supporters, promising to work with the SNP to pass its budget if five tests are met, the first being progress on bringing buses “back under public control” and a £2 cap on fares.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fagan-launches-leadership-bid-gmb-support
Sedition to anthem: Many lives of ‘Azadi’ chants in India’s youth protests
The entry curve of the protest strip read: “#2026 Gen-Z REVOLUTION!!!” A man in his early twenties climbed a tree carrying a powerful loudspeaker and blasted a song. “Azadi, give me freedom! Azadi, give me freedom! Azadi, give me freedom!” The crowd followed the words, with their hands raised in the air. Azadi, translated as “freedom” in English, a popular hip-hop song from the Bollywood film Gully Boy, became the anthem of the student protests in one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government in years.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/8/15/sedition-to-anthem-many-lives-of-aazadi-chants-in-indias-youth-protests
https://archive.ph/WjVQb
Senior citizens endure long wait for promised support
The labor leader from San Andres, Manila had already submitted everything required for the government’s cash incentive for older Filipinos including her birth certificate, a valid ID and a photograph. No medical records. No income certification. The barangay officials handling the process are also senior citizens who know the community well which should hasten the process.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/08/08/senior-citizens-endure-long-wait-for-promised-support/
Afghanistan marks 5 years under the Taliban with safer streets but pleas for jobs and education
As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents say they feel safer after decades of conflict and upheaval but stress the leaders should now focus on creating jobs and expanding access to schools in the country where girls above the age of 12 are banned from education.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-5year-anniversary-6179bb5805731f0c2b6b5b59ea322b6c
Israel’s ‘pilot zones’: Withdrawal on paper, continued occupation of south Lebanon
On paper, the pilot zones, whose implementation began on 20 July, are meant to work as a formula: a gradual Israeli withdrawal, paired with a handover of sovereignty to the Lebanese Army, and the end of Hezbollah's armed presence in these locations. But Daniel Meier, professor of political science and director of the Master in Middle Eastern Studies at Sciences Po Grenoble, says Israel has sought to use the mechanism for a different purpose.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-pilot-zones-withdrawal-paper-continued-occupation-south-lebanon
US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere
The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors ragged, analysts say, while the Trump administration further retreats from the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.
https://apnews.com/article/aircraft-carriers-trump-china-pacific-iran-war-87cfb838de8c13464fa3cab1840ad87d
Morocco arrests 111 migrants headed for Spain's Ceuta in security crackdown
Moroccan police arrested at least 111 people on Saturday as they tried to enter Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, amid tightened security on both sides of the border after social media posts called for another mass migrant crossing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/spain-boosts-security-ceuta-calls-appear-online-another-mass-border-rush-2026-08-14/
Venezuelan Gov’t and US-Backed Opposition Faction to Renew Supreme Court
The two parties will conduct a process aimed at transforming the judicial system as well as promoting the recovery of Venezuela’s gold reserves frozen at the Bank of England to support the country’s reconstruction following the June 24 earthquakes. The agreement on the judicial overhaul, presented in a joint press conference at the 5-star Melá Hotel in Caracas, effectively replaces the process the Venezuelan National Assembly had launched in May following a reform that increased the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) from 20 to 32 members and a preliminary evaluation of magistrate candidates.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-and-us-backed-opposition-faction-to-renew-supreme-court/
Colombia says 377 still missing three days after 7.4M earthquake
So far, rescue workers and neighbors were able to rescue 348 people from the rubble alive and 3,826 people were injured. The earthquake, which was the strongest in a decade, destroyed 12,563 homes and damaged another 75,654. At least 172 apartment buildings collapsed, said Tamayo.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-says-377-still-missing-three-days-after-7-4m-earthquake/
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>We did not start any war, there is no aggression on the part of Russia.
>We are responding to the actions of Ukraine, which has unleashed hostilities with the support of the West.
Previous: >>2877669
Dindu nuffin 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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #294
President Putin:>We did not start any war, there is no aggression on the part of Russia.
>We are responding to the actions of Ukraine, which has unleashed hostilities with the support of the West.
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Dindu nuffin edition
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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That prices =/= labor-costs can simply be explained by supply/demand granting higher bargaining power to the bourgeois.
However, if this is correct, why can't we solve the transformation problem ? I might be wrong in my understanding of the LTV so this might explain the issue, but it seems that there's no satisfying solution to it.
If the LTV is correct, what's the solution to the transformation problem ?
I mostly agree with the LTV because it's almost a tautology. A commodity needs labor to be produced and other commodities aswell. As such, any commodity can be broken down and will always be reduccible to its labor-content.That prices =/= labor-costs can simply be explained by supply/demand granting higher bargaining power to the bourgeois.
However, if this is correct, why can't we solve the transformation problem ? I might be wrong in my understanding of the LTV so this might explain the issue, but it seems that there's no satisfying solution to it.
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Take the Revolutionary War, probably the most commonly cited example. Yes, the Continental Army was fighting the British Empire. But the Americans were financed and materially supported by France and later Spain, while Britain was simultaneously dealing with multiple conflicts across the globe. Calling this a straightforward case of a tiny, helpless underdog taking on an all-powerful empire leaves out a few inconvenient details.
Then there's WW2, where the American "underdog" narrative becomes even more impressive. The average American soldier was significantly better paid than soldiers in all other armies. An American private earned around $50 a month, compared with roughly $12 for a British private. An American sergeant could out-earn officers in some other countries. American troops were also extraordinarily well supplied, with vastly greater access to not just food, ammunition, equipment, transportation, but for ice-cream, thanksgiving Turkey and cigarettes
The Impacts of America's Underdog Psychology
One cultural trend I've noticed over the years is how many Americans, especially on the neoconservative right(though not exclusively) genuinely seem to view American history through the lens of the plucky underdog fighting against overwhelming odds. Which is a rather odd interpretation of history, if you ignore the small detail that the United States was usually the side with more resources, more money, better logistics or some combination of all three.Take the Revolutionary War, probably the most commonly cited example. Yes, the Continental Army was fighting the British Empire. But the Americans were financed and materially supported by France and later Spain, while Britain was simultaneously dealing with multiple conflicts across the globe. Calling this a straightforward case of a tiny, helpless underdog taking on an all-powerful empire leaves out a few inconvenient details.
Then there's WW2, where the American "underdog" narrative becomes even more impressive. The average American soldier was significantly better paid than soldiers in all other armies. An American private earned around $50 a month, compared with roughly $12 for a British private. An American sergeant could out-earn officers in some other countries. American troops were also extraordinarily well supplied, with vastly greater access to not just food, ammunition, equipment, transportation, but for ice-cream, thanksgiving Turkey and cigarettes
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Whats the correct leftypol take on immigration?
Whats the correct leftypol take on immigration?
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World War III and the death of civilization
World War 3 is the endresult of self-imposed tyranny upon the human race and the world for 3,000+ years. It was inevitable that technology would progress to the point that humanity had the capability to destroy itself and take the world out along with it. WW3 is also the only solution to nation-states. They're gonna eat themselves. I look forward to the death of the nation-state. People said ANPRIM would never return - you cannot outsmart nature and biology. It was inevitable that this was gonna happen. Pride destroyed us all. It's the same story every single time, except next time there's no escaping the collapse.
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The most ridiculous part was that the supposed divide between the Dirtbag Left and the DSA left barely existed. They agreed on healthcare, labor, foreign policy, housing, policing and virtually every other major issue. The defining ideological conflict of the era was essentially whether you were allowed to make edgy 90's raunch comedy jokes on podcasts. Entire feuds and endless Twitter meltdowns emerged from a disagreement that amounted to "can you say slurs ironically?"
The confidence was incredible, leftist genuinely talked as if DSA-aligned leadership of every major American city was inevitable, as if Bernie was one good news cycle away from the White House and as if a handful of podcasts by stand up comedians had somehow cracked the code of political history.
In retrospect, it all seems absurd. There was never a realistic path to any of it. The movement's grandest ambitions had essentially zero chance of materializing.
Then reality intervened. Bernie lost, The post-COVID world arrivedm Housing crises worsened, Migration became politically explosive, Major wars returnedm China didn't democratize and instead looked increasingly capable of navigating long-term crises without becoming a Western liberal democracy and the assumptions underlying the entire scene collapsed one by one.
A lot of the old supporters ended up as tankies. A smaller but noticeable number drifted toward the far right. Sometimes they somehow became both at once. The aesthetic transformation is almost as funny as the political one, the old Dirtbag Left revolved around schlubby podcasters making jokes about being ironically gay, the people who inherited its audience are often obsessed with MMA, military history, geopolitical realism and posting shirtless workout photos. The few remaining loyalists seem to have finally realized that their politics were never meaningfully different from the DSA's in the first place and appear perfectly content settling into the role of ordinary progressive liberals.
What a strange, stupid little farce that was.
On the Dirtbag Left/DSA movement
For a brief moment from 2016-2022 this was supposedly the pinnacle of online left-wing politics. Bernie was about to win, Democratic socialism was the future, China would inevitably democratize and the old boring MLism was dead. A few DSA-backed candidates winning city council seats in already progressive districts was treated as if the Bolsheviks had just stormed the Winter Palace.The most ridiculous part was that the supposed divide between the Dirtbag Left and the DSA left barely existed. They agreed on healthcare, labor, foreign policy, housing, policing and virtually every other major issue. The defining ideological conflict of the era was essentially whether you were allowed to make edgy 90's raunch comedy jokes on podcasts. Entire feuds and endless Twitter meltdowns emerged from a disagreement that amounted to "can you say slurs ironically?"
The confidence was incredible, leftist genuinely talked as if DSA-aligned leadership of every major American city was inevitable, as if Bernie was one good news cycle away from the White House and as if a handful of podcasts by stand up comedians had somehow cracked the code of political history.
In retrospect, it all seems absurd. There was never a realistic path to any of it. The movement's grandest ambitions had essentially zero chance of materializing.
Then reality intervened. Bernie lost, The post-COVID world arrivedm Housing crises worsened, Migration became politically explosive, Major wars returnedm China didn't democratize and instead looked increasingly capable of navigating long-term crises without becoming a Western liberal democracy and the assumptions underlying the entire scene collapsed one by one.
A lot of the old supporters ended up as tankies. A smaller but noticeable number drifted toward the far right. Sometimes they somehow became both at once. The aesthetic transformation is almost as funny as the political one, the old Dirtbag Left revolved around schlubby podcasters making jokes about being ironically gay, the people who inherited its audience are often obsessed with MMA, military history, geopolitical realism and posting shirtless workout photos. The few remaining loyalists seem to have finally realized that their politics were never meaningfully different from the DSA's in the first place and appear perfectly content settling into the role of ordinary progressive liberals.
What a strange, stupid little farce that was.
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His first studies were in the rural public school of Biran, where he learned to read and write, continuing the following educational levels in private catholic schools in the city of Santiago de Cuba. In 1945 he graduated as a bachelor of arts at the Colegio de Belen in Havana, belonging to the Society of Jesus. He then entered the University of Havana to study social sciences and national and international law.
Restless, observant, sharp in his reflections and outstanding in all learning, in the university environment he joined the socio-political struggles of his time, occupying various positions in the University Student Federation. With an ideology favorable to just, libertarian and popular causes, he soon became involved in revolutionary activities, such as those of the Committee for the Independence of Puerto Rico.
Fidel Castro was 25 years old when he was designated by the party as candidate for Congress in the elections scheduled for June 1952, but on March 10 of that year the coup d'état of Colonel Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar took place, being Fidel Castro one of the first to denounce the reactionary and illegitimate character of the de facto regime and to call for its overthrow.
On July 26, 1953 he commanded the assault on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba, a plan that included also taking the Bayamo barracks, in an action conceived as a detonator of the armed struggle against the Batista regime. Unfortunately, his tactics failed and he was taken prisoner by the repressive forces of the tyranny a few days after the military setback. He was held incommunicado for 76 days. He was put on trial and sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, the popular reaction in his support and that of the rest of the Moncadistas succeeded in pressuring the government, and they were released in May 1955. Weeks later he founded the 26th of July Movement to continue the revolutionary struggle. In the name of revolutionary power, he proclaimed on April 16, 1961 the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution. He led the Cuban people in the days of the dramatic October Crisis of 1962.
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, he was elected deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power -created in 1976-, representing the municipality of Santiago de Cuba. From then until 2008, he served as President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers. Fidel Castro received a large number of foreign and Cuban decorations, as well as numerous academic and honorary distinctions from centers of higher education in Cuba, Latin America and Europe.
On January 3, 1961, at that time, the President of the United States of America (USA), Dwight D. Eisenhower, broke diplomatic relations with Cuba due to political and ideological differences, and ordered the closure of the US embassy in Havana. Subsequently, on February 3, 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy officially ordered the economic and commercial blockade of Cuba.
He promoted on a worldwide scale the battle of the Third World against the current international economic order, particularly against the foreign debt, the waste of resources as a result of military spending and neoliberal globalization, as well as the efforts for the unity and integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. He was the main promoter of the Non-Aligned Movement.
He led the determined action of the Cuban people to confront the effects of the economic blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States for more than sixty years and the economic consequences of the collapse of the European socialist community, and promoted the tenacious effort of Cubans to overcome the serious difficulties resulting from these factors, their resistance during the so-called Special Period and the resumption of the country's economic growth and development.
For almost fifty years, he promoted and directed the struggle of the Cuban people for the consolidation of the revolutionary process, its advance towards socialism, the unity of the revolutionary forces and of all the people, the economic and social transformations of the country, the development of education , health, sports, culture and science, defense, confronting external aggressions, conducting an active foreign policy of principles, solidarity actions with the peoples who fight for independence and progress, and the deepening of the revolutionary, internationalist and communist consciousness of the people.
On July 31, 2006, he resigned from his official positions due to health problems. From then on, he wrote about the problems of the contemporary world in numerous reflections and articles published in the Cuban media during his convalescent period. He dedicated enormous efforts in his last years to projects related to agriculture and human and animal nutrition. Due to his moral authority, he influenced important and strategic decisions of the Revolution.
He passed away on November 25, 2016, in Havana, Cuba at 10:29 p.m., at the age of 90. In compliance with his will, his remains were cremated. His ashes were deposited in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, in a solemn ceremony, on December 4, 2016.
The president was a symbol of resistance on the continent, before the advance of the US imperial forces. The figure of Fidel Castro was not only a symbol in Cuba but also in the world, thanks to his actions in defense of the welfare and sovereignty of the island and its inhabitants. Despite being subjected to the US blockade, Cuba managed to maintain its sovereignty and Fidel and the Cuban revolution became a figure of impact and inspiration in the Latin American context of the 20th century, his challenge to the most powerful power, he turned the revolution into a model of the Latin American resistance and elsewhere, and the image of Fidel with his beard, cigar and green military clothing as universal symbols of rebellion.
Among the actions he carried out to maintain sovereignty and transform Cuban society, the following can be mentioned:
The Literacy Campaign of 1961 and the redesign of the education system to improve the levels of education among a large part of the Cuban population that was illiterate in 1959. Carried out with volunteers and at a low cost, in a short time it reflected an improvement in the rates of literacy, made education universally accessible, leading Cuba to be the first place in Latin America in 2007 in literacy.
The provision of Cuban medical assistance to Latin America and other countries. The large number of highly trained medical personnel travel to various countries and the Latin American School of Medicine is expanded on the outskirts of Havana
Establishment of the "Scientific Pole" and development of the biotechnological sector, which led the island to achieve important exports of pharmaceutical products for 296.8 million pesos compared to 233.4 million for sugar exports. In addition, Cuba's investment in the "Polo Científico" has built a professional and institutional foundation for future success in the pharmaceutical and other scientific fields.
Fidel Castro is 100 years old today
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 in Biran, a former Cuban province in the eastern part of the island. He was the son of Ángel Castro Argiz and Lina Ruz González. His father was a Galician migrant; when he arrived in Cuba he had obtained some property and, as a peasant farmer, he dedicated himself to sugar cane production. His mother came from a peasant family in the province of Pinar del Río. Fidel Castro is one of the great protagonists of 20th century history and politics, and one of the most relevant figures in Cuban and Latin American history. He is considered the father of the Cuban Revolution.His first studies were in the rural public school of Biran, where he learned to read and write, continuing the following educational levels in private catholic schools in the city of Santiago de Cuba. In 1945 he graduated as a bachelor of arts at the Colegio de Belen in Havana, belonging to the Society of Jesus. He then entered the University of Havana to study social sciences and national and international law.
Restless, observant, sharp in his reflections and outstanding in all learning, in the university environment he joined the socio-political struggles of his time, occupying various positions in the University Student Federation. With an ideology favorable to just, libertarian and popular causes, he soon became involved in revolutionary activities, such as those of the Committee for the Independence of Puerto Rico.
Fidel Castro was 25 years old when he was designated by the party as candidate for Congress in the elections scheduled for June 1952, but on March 10 of that year the coup d'état of Colonel Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar took place, being Fidel Castro one of the first to denounce the reactionary and illegitimate character of the de facto regime and to call for its overthrow.
On July 26, 1953 he commanded the assault on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba, a plan that included also taking the Bayamo barracks, in an action conceived as a detonator of the armed struggle against the Batista regime. Unfortunately, his tactics failed and he was taken prisoner by the repressive forces of the tyranny a few days after the military setback. He was held incommunicado for 76 days. He was put on trial and sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, the popular reaction in his support and that of the rest of the Moncadistas succeeded in pressuring the government, and they were released in May 1955. Weeks later he founded the 26th of July Movement to continue the revolutionary struggle. In the name of revolutionary power, he proclaimed on April 16, 1961 the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution. He led the Cuban people in the days of the dramatic October Crisis of 1962.
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, he was elected deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power -created in 1976-, representing the municipality of Santiago de Cuba. From then until 2008, he served as President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers. Fidel Castro received a large number of foreign and Cuban decorations, as well as numerous academic and honorary distinctions from centers of higher education in Cuba, Latin America and Europe.
On January 3, 1961, at that time, the President of the United States of America (USA), Dwight D. Eisenhower, broke diplomatic relations with Cuba due to political and ideological differences, and ordered the closure of the US embassy in Havana. Subsequently, on February 3, 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy officially ordered the economic and commercial blockade of Cuba.
He promoted on a worldwide scale the battle of the Third World against the current international economic order, particularly against the foreign debt, the waste of resources as a result of military spending and neoliberal globalization, as well as the efforts for the unity and integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. He was the main promoter of the Non-Aligned Movement.
He led the determined action of the Cuban people to confront the effects of the economic blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States for more than sixty years and the economic consequences of the collapse of the European socialist community, and promoted the tenacious effort of Cubans to overcome the serious difficulties resulting from these factors, their resistance during the so-called Special Period and the resumption of the country's economic growth and development.
For almost fifty years, he promoted and directed the struggle of the Cuban people for the consolidation of the revolutionary process, its advance towards socialism, the unity of the revolutionary forces and of all the people, the economic and social transformations of the country, the development of education , health, sports, culture and science, defense, confronting external aggressions, conducting an active foreign policy of principles, solidarity actions with the peoples who fight for independence and progress, and the deepening of the revolutionary, internationalist and communist consciousness of the people.
On July 31, 2006, he resigned from his official positions due to health problems. From then on, he wrote about the problems of the contemporary world in numerous reflections and articles published in the Cuban media during his convalescent period. He dedicated enormous efforts in his last years to projects related to agriculture and human and animal nutrition. Due to his moral authority, he influenced important and strategic decisions of the Revolution.
He passed away on November 25, 2016, in Havana, Cuba at 10:29 p.m., at the age of 90. In compliance with his will, his remains were cremated. His ashes were deposited in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, in a solemn ceremony, on December 4, 2016.
The president was a symbol of resistance on the continent, before the advance of the US imperial forces. The figure of Fidel Castro was not only a symbol in Cuba but also in the world, thanks to his actions in defense of the welfare and sovereignty of the island and its inhabitants. Despite being subjected to the US blockade, Cuba managed to maintain its sovereignty and Fidel and the Cuban revolution became a figure of impact and inspiration in the Latin American context of the 20th century, his challenge to the most powerful power, he turned the revolution into a model of the Latin American resistance and elsewhere, and the image of Fidel with his beard, cigar and green military clothing as universal symbols of rebellion.
Among the actions he carried out to maintain sovereignty and transform Cuban society, the following can be mentioned:
The Literacy Campaign of 1961 and the redesign of the education system to improve the levels of education among a large part of the Cuban population that was illiterate in 1959. Carried out with volunteers and at a low cost, in a short time it reflected an improvement in the rates of literacy, made education universally accessible, leading Cuba to be the first place in Latin America in 2007 in literacy.
The provision of Cuban medical assistance to Latin America and other countries. The large number of highly trained medical personnel travel to various countries and the Latin American School of Medicine is expanded on the outskirts of Havana
Establishment of the "Scientific Pole" and development of the biotechnological sector, which led the island to achieve important exports of pharmaceutical products for 296.8 million pesos compared to 233.4 million for sugar exports. In addition, Cuba's investment in the "Polo Científico" has built a professional and institutional foundation for future success in the pharmaceutical and other scientific fields.
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What is anti-Western about it?
Why do right-wingers say Marxism is anti-Western?
Marxism is part of Western culture. It's the combination of English political economy (e.g. Mill, Ricardo, Smith), French socialism (e.g. Fourier, Proudhon, Saint-Simon) and German philosophy (e.g. Hegel, Fichte, Feuerbach).What is anti-Western about it?
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>Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says there will be no security in the region if Iran’s security is not guaranteed.
>President Donald Trump threatens that the US will bomb and destroy critical Iranian infrastructure every time Iran shoots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
>Iran has pledged retaliatory attacks on civilian infrastructure in the region, including bridges and energy sites.
>Iran’s Health Ministry says that at least 53 people have been killed in US strikes on the country since June 27.
/Iran War/ #70
The people's comprador edition>Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says there will be no security in the region if Iran’s security is not guaranteed.
>President Donald Trump threatens that the US will bomb and destroy critical Iranian infrastructure every time Iran shoots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
>Iran has pledged retaliatory attacks on civilian infrastructure in the region, including bridges and energy sites.
>Iran’s Health Ministry says that at least 53 people have been killed in US strikes on the country since June 27.
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>settler-colonial state
>Loyal ally of AmeriKKKa
>lead by a Jewish supremacist government
>Currently engaging in ethnic cleansing of indigenous people
>Big exporter of crypto and AI startup scams
>Inhabitants are long nosed and racist
<Be Argentina
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>settler-colonial state
>Loyal ally of AmeriKKKa
>lead by a Jewish supremacist government
>Currently engaging in ethnic cleansing of indigenous people
>Big exporter of crypto and AI startup scams
>Inhabitants are long nosed and racist
<Be Argentina
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>>2891132
i bet young glowies don't even know about basic shit like all the coups the CIA did in the 60s and 70s. a communist 20 year old who has read killing hope by william blum knows way more about what the CIA, IMF, world bank, etc. is actually for than a 20 year old CIA agent who is just a bourgeois kid who wants to play james bond.
>>2891132
i bet young glowies don't even know about basic shit like all the coups the CIA did in the 60s and 70s. a communist 20 year old who has read killing hope by william blum knows way more about what the CIA, IMF, world bank, etc. is actually for than a 20 year old CIA agent who is just a bourgeois kid who wants to play james bond.
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The Venezuelan government has granted an offshore natural gas concession to a consortium of British multinational BP, the United Arab Emirates’ XRG, and Qatar’s UCC. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez held an agreement-signing ceremony and press conference on Thursday alongside executives of the three corporations on Wednesday. … Rodríguez emphasized Caracas’ decision to prioritize natural gas ventures to supply the domestic market and boost exports. However, state energy company PDVSA is not a stakeholder in the project.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/bp-to-explore-venezuelan-offshore-natural-gas-alongside-emirati-qatari-partners/
Dominican Republic’s expulsion of Cuban officials sparks geopolitical tension
In recent months, several conservative Latin American countries, including Colombia and Ecuador, have cut relations or closed their embassies in Cuba while proclaiming their political alignment with Trump. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry reacted that the expulsion involved 10 officials — not nine as the Dominicans had stated — and expressed regret over the decision by Dominican President Luis Abinader.
https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-cuba-expulsion-diplomats-us-embargo-tensions-afc79dfb2c416f2a97909b240857ca9b
Only half of primary school kids have ‘satisfactory knowledge’ of language and maths
The organisation's report looks at educational trajectories and learning outcomes. It drills down into government data to analyse how many children complete primary school within the expected timeframe, without repeating a year or dropping out, and how many of them simultaneously achieve satisfactory or advanced levels in language and mathematics.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/only-half-of-primary-school-kids-have-satisfactory-knowledge-of-language-and-maths.phtml
Canadian plasma clinics pause collections after deaths of two donors
On the same day, the agency had issued a formal notice of non-compliance for failure to follow blood regulations, a senior official told the Globe and Mail newspaper. The two deaths occurred after plasma donations in October 2025 and January 2026, Health Canada said in March of this year. The donors, both of whom were in the province of Manitoba, went into “distress” while donating, people familiar with the cases said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/canadian-plasma-clinics-pause-collections-after-deaths-of-donors-grifols
Labour divided over indefinite leave to remain
Since May 2025, the Labour government has been preparing sweeping changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain status. The Home Office is set to replace the standard five-year route to achieving permanent residence with an ‘earned settlement’ model. For migrants classified as low or mid-skilled workers the route could be extended to 10 or 15 years. People who came to Britain under one set of rules are being forced to adhere to a new set that will make workers more dependent on employers.
https://revolutionarycommunist.org/britain/fight-racism/labour-divided-over-indefinite-leave-to-remain/
US threatens EU over its green reporting rules
The U.S. on Friday threatened action against the EU unless Brussels reins in its environmental and human rights rules, which Washington says unfairly burden American companies. Acknowledging Brussels had made “some positive reforms,” Washington said the EU had “failed to fully address U.S. concerns,” and that it “will take any actions necessary to address unreasonable burdens on U.S. commerce.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-threatens-eu-over-transatlantic-green-rules/
https://archive.ph/d6f80
Attacks on healthcare in conflict zones averaging more than four a day in 2026, World Health Organization says
Ukraine, Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territory account for the largest share of reported incidents, although attacks have also been recorded in countries including Iran, Sudan, Myanmar, Syria, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Musani said. "What we are witnessing are multiple forms of violence," Musani said, citing the use of heavy weapons, destruction of health facilities and the detention or abduction of healthcare workers and patients. During this period 94 healthcare workers have been detained.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/attacks-healthcare-conflict-zones-averaging-more-than-four-day-2026-world-health-2026-08-14/
World’s housing crisis impacts nearly half of humanity
Approximately 3.4 billion of the world’s 8 billion population lack access to secure, safe, and adequate housing. Housing inadequacy encompasses insecure tenure, overcrowding, exposure to environmental hazards and a lack of access to basic services such as water, sanitation, power and waste collection. More than 1.1 billion people live in informal settlements and slums, the highest number ever, up from 201 million in 2010.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/11/ainn-a11.html
Vote counting suspended then restarted in Zambia election after attacks at polling stations
The main opposition leader claimed he had been questioned by the army, and police said one person was killed at a polling station during Thursday’s vote. Police identified the person as a party official and said they had arrested nine suspects. While the counting was suspended, riot police and soldiers in armored vehicles were deployed to parts of the capital, Lusaka, including the main vote tallying center, though there were no immediate reports of any major unrest.
https://apnews.com/article/zambia-election-vote-counting-suspended-9978128100cfd22e2715d884030ab728
Backlash as Ugandan troops post videos of deployment to Gaza
Activists took to social media to express anger at the soldiers leaving for the war-battered territory, where over 73,300 Palestinians have been killed, with thousands more unaccounted for. One user labelled them "the scum of the earth", while another said they were "colonial troops".
https://www.newarab.com/news/anger-ugandan-troops-leave-gaza-part-trump-plan
Rights groups accuse Israel of attempting to hide Gaza genocide with rubble clear-up plan
In a new report called Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the removal of the rubble could be an attempt at demographic engineering and erasing evidence of the genocide the Israelis are accused of carrying out against Palestinians in Gaza.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rights-groups-accuse-israel-attempting-hide-gaza-genocide-rubble-clear-plan
Women and children pay the price | 96 victims in criminal and sectarian-based incidents in 2026
In light of ongoing humanitarian and security challenges facing civilians in Syria, fears escalate of the consequences of crimes and violations against the most fragile category such as women and children.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/385471/
News 8/14/26
BP to Explore Venezuelan Offshore Natural Gas Alongside Emirati, Qatari PartnersThe Venezuelan government has granted an offshore natural gas concession to a consortium of British multinational BP, the United Arab Emirates’ XRG, and Qatar’s UCC. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez held an agreement-signing ceremony and press conference on Thursday alongside executives of the three corporations on Wednesday. … Rodríguez emphasized Caracas’ decision to prioritize natural gas ventures to supply the domestic market and boost exports. However, state energy company PDVSA is not a stakeholder in the project.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/bp-to-explore-venezuelan-offshore-natural-gas-alongside-emirati-qatari-partners/
Dominican Republic’s expulsion of Cuban officials sparks geopolitical tension
In recent months, several conservative Latin American countries, including Colombia and Ecuador, have cut relations or closed their embassies in Cuba while proclaiming their political alignment with Trump. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry reacted that the expulsion involved 10 officials — not nine as the Dominicans had stated — and expressed regret over the decision by Dominican President Luis Abinader.
https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-cuba-expulsion-diplomats-us-embargo-tensions-afc79dfb2c416f2a97909b240857ca9b
Only half of primary school kids have ‘satisfactory knowledge’ of language and maths
The organisation's report looks at educational trajectories and learning outcomes. It drills down into government data to analyse how many children complete primary school within the expected timeframe, without repeating a year or dropping out, and how many of them simultaneously achieve satisfactory or advanced levels in language and mathematics.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/only-half-of-primary-school-kids-have-satisfactory-knowledge-of-language-and-maths.phtml
Canadian plasma clinics pause collections after deaths of two donors
On the same day, the agency had issued a formal notice of non-compliance for failure to follow blood regulations, a senior official told the Globe and Mail newspaper. The two deaths occurred after plasma donations in October 2025 and January 2026, Health Canada said in March of this year. The donors, both of whom were in the province of Manitoba, went into “distress” while donating, people familiar with the cases said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/canadian-plasma-clinics-pause-collections-after-deaths-of-donors-grifols
Labour divided over indefinite leave to remain
Since May 2025, the Labour government has been preparing sweeping changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain status. The Home Office is set to replace the standard five-year route to achieving permanent residence with an ‘earned settlement’ model. For migrants classified as low or mid-skilled workers the route could be extended to 10 or 15 years. People who came to Britain under one set of rules are being forced to adhere to a new set that will make workers more dependent on employers.
https://revolutionarycommunist.org/britain/fight-racism/labour-divided-over-indefinite-leave-to-remain/
US threatens EU over its green reporting rules
The U.S. on Friday threatened action against the EU unless Brussels reins in its environmental and human rights rules, which Washington says unfairly burden American companies. Acknowledging Brussels had made “some positive reforms,” Washington said the EU had “failed to fully address U.S. concerns,” and that it “will take any actions necessary to address unreasonable burdens on U.S. commerce.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-threatens-eu-over-transatlantic-green-rules/
https://archive.ph/d6f80
Attacks on healthcare in conflict zones averaging more than four a day in 2026, World Health Organization says
Ukraine, Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territory account for the largest share of reported incidents, although attacks have also been recorded in countries including Iran, Sudan, Myanmar, Syria, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Musani said. "What we are witnessing are multiple forms of violence," Musani said, citing the use of heavy weapons, destruction of health facilities and the detention or abduction of healthcare workers and patients. During this period 94 healthcare workers have been detained.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/attacks-healthcare-conflict-zones-averaging-more-than-four-day-2026-world-health-2026-08-14/
World’s housing crisis impacts nearly half of humanity
Approximately 3.4 billion of the world’s 8 billion population lack access to secure, safe, and adequate housing. Housing inadequacy encompasses insecure tenure, overcrowding, exposure to environmental hazards and a lack of access to basic services such as water, sanitation, power and waste collection. More than 1.1 billion people live in informal settlements and slums, the highest number ever, up from 201 million in 2010.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/11/ainn-a11.html
Vote counting suspended then restarted in Zambia election after attacks at polling stations
The main opposition leader claimed he had been questioned by the army, and police said one person was killed at a polling station during Thursday’s vote. Police identified the person as a party official and said they had arrested nine suspects. While the counting was suspended, riot police and soldiers in armored vehicles were deployed to parts of the capital, Lusaka, including the main vote tallying center, though there were no immediate reports of any major unrest.
https://apnews.com/article/zambia-election-vote-counting-suspended-9978128100cfd22e2715d884030ab728
Backlash as Ugandan troops post videos of deployment to Gaza
Activists took to social media to express anger at the soldiers leaving for the war-battered territory, where over 73,300 Palestinians have been killed, with thousands more unaccounted for. One user labelled them "the scum of the earth", while another said they were "colonial troops".
https://www.newarab.com/news/anger-ugandan-troops-leave-gaza-part-trump-plan
Rights groups accuse Israel of attempting to hide Gaza genocide with rubble clear-up plan
In a new report called Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the removal of the rubble could be an attempt at demographic engineering and erasing evidence of the genocide the Israelis are accused of carrying out against Palestinians in Gaza.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rights-groups-accuse-israel-attempting-hide-gaza-genocide-rubble-clear-plan
Women and children pay the price | 96 victims in criminal and sectarian-based incidents in 2026
In light of ongoing humanitarian and security challenges facing civilians in Syria, fears escalate of the consequences of crimes and violations against the most fragile category such as women and children.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/385471/
R: 13 / I: 8
What impression does the bystander observe when they come across your comrades?
Throw around some adjectives. Rebellious? Confident? Weird? Impotent? Screeching? Reliable? Strong? Alienated? Woke? Respectable? Relatable? Limp-wristed? Everyday? Arrogant? Caring? Inspiring? Charitable?
Hard mode: talk about your local socialists. The Online Left are bots, they don't matter and their ridiculous opinions are irrelevant. Delete them from your mind.
P O W E R
Do the socialists you know project power?What impression does the bystander observe when they come across your comrades?
Throw around some adjectives. Rebellious? Confident? Weird? Impotent? Screeching? Reliable? Strong? Alienated? Woke? Respectable? Relatable? Limp-wristed? Everyday? Arrogant? Caring? Inspiring? Charitable?
Hard mode: talk about your local socialists. The Online Left are bots, they don't matter and their ridiculous opinions are irrelevant. Delete them from your mind.
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There are moments in history when the true priorities of a political system reveal themselves with extraordinary clarity. Empires speak grandly of liberty, sacrifice and national security. Yet beneath the flags, medals and polished speeches lies the material reality of power.
And apparently, that reality comes in a paper bag.
According to our entirely serious reconstruction of events, an American Air Force pilot recently entered the presidential office wearing full flight equipment, approached Donald Trump and delivered that most strategically vital of American resources: McDonald's.
Donald Trump News
Once again, comrades, the machinery of American imperialism has performed its most sacred duty: ensuring that Donald Trump receives his lunch.There are moments in history when the true priorities of a political system reveal themselves with extraordinary clarity. Empires speak grandly of liberty, sacrifice and national security. Yet beneath the flags, medals and polished speeches lies the material reality of power.
And apparently, that reality comes in a paper bag.
According to our entirely serious reconstruction of events, an American Air Force pilot recently entered the presidential office wearing full flight equipment, approached Donald Trump and delivered that most strategically vital of American resources: McDonald's.
R: 602 / I: 107 (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™
<Burgershart Potemkin Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2888939
/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™
<Burgershart Potemkin Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2888939
R: 0 / I: 0
This is how shit every monopoly company is.
The problem has always been the bourgeoise when will the pol proletariat realize the hell they live in?
I believe never. They are keen to remain ignorant forever following a dream of wealth that does not exist, because it was stolen from them.
You are forced into crime because all CEOs are criminals.
Monopoly Greed
It's easier to do everything your self than to participate in the system.This is how shit every monopoly company is.
The problem has always been the bourgeoise when will the pol proletariat realize the hell they live in?
I believe never. They are keen to remain ignorant forever following a dream of wealth that does not exist, because it was stolen from them.
You are forced into crime because all CEOs are criminals.
R: 109 / I: 52 >>>/leftypol/2851498 says mods will remove it so I am proving it wrong.
The Zionist Entity is a genocidal settler-colonial apartheid state set up by the European and North American powers to colonize the middle east. Even early zionists like Theodor Herzl understood Israel in these explicitly settler-colonial terms. Here is Herzl speaking in the 1800s, when Palestine was still Ottoman territory:
>If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could offer to resolve Turkey’s finances. For Europe, we would form part of a bulwark against Asia there, we would serve as the advance post of civilisation against barbarism.
So Theodor Herzel felt not only that European people were entitled to Palestine over the people already living there (including Ottoman Jews), but that the presence of "civilized" Europeans in Israel would form a "bulwark" (forward operating base(offensive, not defensive)) against Asia, which entire continent Herzl racistly characterized as "barbaric."
Herzl was born on May 2nd , 1860 in Budapest, Hungary to a family of German speaking assimilated Jews. His father, Jakob, was a wealthy businessman and the young Theodor was expected to enter politics or engineering by his parents. In a sense, he did not disappoint, as Herzl was destined to become the father of political Zionism. While Herzl never saw his Jewish state during his lifetime, his ideology remains so influential that even today he is considered the father of Israel.
Herzl’s birthday is a holiday in Israel, his grave is a national monument, the organization he founded is still active today and the largest mountain in the country was re-named in his honor. It is not an exaggeration to say that Herzl and his ideology remain central to Zionism.
As a young man, Herzl was a fanatic Germanophile. He believed that if Jews simply tried hard enough, they could become “Germanized” and shake off what he called “shameful Jewish characteristics.” Herzl viewed German culture and language as inherently superior to that of the reviled working-class Yiddish speaking Jews. At first, he believed that Jews should be Germanized, arguing that Eastern European Jews were so "savage" and backwards that they must learn the very concepts of beauty and nobility by studying the works of authors like Goethe and Shakespeare. He initially envisioned his Zion as a German colony, and waxed poetic about importing German culture to the orient. However, as time went on, Herzl increasingly started to believe that Jews could not and should not assimilate into Europe, and the only solution to the “Jewish question” was the complete removal of all Jews from Europe. Herzl’s Zionism is fundamentally based in notions about Jewish incompatibility with gentile society. Herzl dedicated the rest of his life to his goal of a Jewish state. In 1897, he founded the World Zionist Organization, a big tent coalition of Zionists dedicated to creating a Jewish state by any means necessary. As time went on, and the "Labor" Zionist wings were increasingly persecuted by Herzl, the organization moved farther and farther to the right. Given what Herzl believed in, this is understandable. Unlike the Zionists of today, who must pretend to have some respect for the charade known as international law, Herzl was quite open about his plans.
In the view of Herzl, Israel was explicitly a colonial project, and he toured the capitals of Europe trying to drum up support and funding for his cause. Herzl cast a wide net, he was not terribly concerned with who supported him, or why. He gladly worked with some of the most extreme antisemites on earth. After many attempts to get a meeting with Tsar Nicholas II by promising to solve Russia’s “Jewish problem”, Herzl finally got a letter saying Russia would support his proposed deportation of the Jews. He kept it for the rest of his life, treating it as one of his most prized possessions.
At the same time, Tsarist forces were carrying out reactionary pogroms all throughout the so-called Pale of Settlement, the home of most of Europe’s Jews. In 1903, the same year Herzl was in correspondence with the Tsar, over seven hundred pogroms took place in Ukraine and Moldova alone resulting in the murder of thousands of Jews. In many cases, the pogroms were incited by the Tsar’s secret police and in others the guilty were simply granted clemency by the government. Herzl knew all of this, and his continued support of the Tsarist government was controversial even inside his own movement.
In the end, it was all for nothing. The Tsar did not keep his word and Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of Jews in exchange for empty promises. Sadly, the genocidal tendencies inside Zionism would only accelerate as the movement grew. The Tsar wasn’t the only one who used Herzl as a tool. Starting in 1896, Herzl actively worked with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. After a meeting with the Sultan’s advisors in the Levant to discuss strategy, Herzl threw his support behind the Armenian Genocide, a crime so vile it had cut off the Ottomans from European loans. Herzl believed that he could jump in to fill that gap, offering to pay off the empire’s increasing debts using funds raised from European Zionists in exchange for permission to start a colony in Palestine.
Although he found almost no support even inside the World Zionist Council, Herzl spent 5 years touring Europe, speaking, raising funds and writing articles in support of Turkey’s extermination of the Armenian people. Herzl cast the crumbling empire as a historical ally of the Jews and one they should support. He called the Ottomans civilized and decent people, justified in their actions due to the allegedly backwards and violent ways of the subhuman Armenians. He was even awarded a medal by the Grand Vizier in Istanbul, in commemoration of his loyal service to the Ottoman Empire.
In 1901, Herzl finally got his long-awaited meeting with the Sultan, who rejected his proposal out of hand. Once again, Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for words on paper. Today, Herzl’s "civilized" slaughter is viewed as an act of genocide by all credible historians and groups as diverse as the United Nations, the United States Government, the European Union, the Anti-Defamation League, and the World Jewish Congress, who specifically called it “the blueprint of the Holocaust.” With his options dwindling, Herzl even turned to Cecil Rhodes, the openly white supremacist founder of the unrecognized apartheid state of Rhodesia to ask for his advice and blessing to colonize Palestine. Although his efforts amounted to nothing, the ideological connections remained, and the state of Israel became a close ally of Rhodesia. At one point, Israel was one of the only countries willing to sell weapons and licenses to its fellow apartheid states. Israel even collaborated with apartheid South Africa on its nuclear program, a direct violation of international law which was never punished.
>"You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial" - Herzl in a letter to Cecil Rhodes
At best, Herzl represents the sort of reactionary, callous “realpolitik” that the state of Israel still embraces today. At worst, he was a genocidal racist willing to support even the vilest crimes to advance his movement.
Palestine Versus The Zionist Entity
We haven't had this thread in a while so I'm bringing it back.The Zionist Entity is a genocidal settler-colonial apartheid state set up by the European and North American powers to colonize the middle east. Even early zionists like Theodor Herzl understood Israel in these explicitly settler-colonial terms. Here is Herzl speaking in the 1800s, when Palestine was still Ottoman territory:
>If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could offer to resolve Turkey’s finances. For Europe, we would form part of a bulwark against Asia there, we would serve as the advance post of civilisation against barbarism.
So Theodor Herzel felt not only that European people were entitled to Palestine over the people already living there (including Ottoman Jews), but that the presence of "civilized" Europeans in Israel would form a "bulwark" (forward operating base(offensive, not defensive)) against Asia, which entire continent Herzl racistly characterized as "barbaric."
Herzl was born on May 2nd , 1860 in Budapest, Hungary to a family of German speaking assimilated Jews. His father, Jakob, was a wealthy businessman and the young Theodor was expected to enter politics or engineering by his parents. In a sense, he did not disappoint, as Herzl was destined to become the father of political Zionism. While Herzl never saw his Jewish state during his lifetime, his ideology remains so influential that even today he is considered the father of Israel.
Herzl’s birthday is a holiday in Israel, his grave is a national monument, the organization he founded is still active today and the largest mountain in the country was re-named in his honor. It is not an exaggeration to say that Herzl and his ideology remain central to Zionism.
As a young man, Herzl was a fanatic Germanophile. He believed that if Jews simply tried hard enough, they could become “Germanized” and shake off what he called “shameful Jewish characteristics.” Herzl viewed German culture and language as inherently superior to that of the reviled working-class Yiddish speaking Jews. At first, he believed that Jews should be Germanized, arguing that Eastern European Jews were so "savage" and backwards that they must learn the very concepts of beauty and nobility by studying the works of authors like Goethe and Shakespeare. He initially envisioned his Zion as a German colony, and waxed poetic about importing German culture to the orient. However, as time went on, Herzl increasingly started to believe that Jews could not and should not assimilate into Europe, and the only solution to the “Jewish question” was the complete removal of all Jews from Europe. Herzl’s Zionism is fundamentally based in notions about Jewish incompatibility with gentile society. Herzl dedicated the rest of his life to his goal of a Jewish state. In 1897, he founded the World Zionist Organization, a big tent coalition of Zionists dedicated to creating a Jewish state by any means necessary. As time went on, and the "Labor" Zionist wings were increasingly persecuted by Herzl, the organization moved farther and farther to the right. Given what Herzl believed in, this is understandable. Unlike the Zionists of today, who must pretend to have some respect for the charade known as international law, Herzl was quite open about his plans.
In the view of Herzl, Israel was explicitly a colonial project, and he toured the capitals of Europe trying to drum up support and funding for his cause. Herzl cast a wide net, he was not terribly concerned with who supported him, or why. He gladly worked with some of the most extreme antisemites on earth. After many attempts to get a meeting with Tsar Nicholas II by promising to solve Russia’s “Jewish problem”, Herzl finally got a letter saying Russia would support his proposed deportation of the Jews. He kept it for the rest of his life, treating it as one of his most prized possessions.
At the same time, Tsarist forces were carrying out reactionary pogroms all throughout the so-called Pale of Settlement, the home of most of Europe’s Jews. In 1903, the same year Herzl was in correspondence with the Tsar, over seven hundred pogroms took place in Ukraine and Moldova alone resulting in the murder of thousands of Jews. In many cases, the pogroms were incited by the Tsar’s secret police and in others the guilty were simply granted clemency by the government. Herzl knew all of this, and his continued support of the Tsarist government was controversial even inside his own movement.
In the end, it was all for nothing. The Tsar did not keep his word and Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of Jews in exchange for empty promises. Sadly, the genocidal tendencies inside Zionism would only accelerate as the movement grew. The Tsar wasn’t the only one who used Herzl as a tool. Starting in 1896, Herzl actively worked with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. After a meeting with the Sultan’s advisors in the Levant to discuss strategy, Herzl threw his support behind the Armenian Genocide, a crime so vile it had cut off the Ottomans from European loans. Herzl believed that he could jump in to fill that gap, offering to pay off the empire’s increasing debts using funds raised from European Zionists in exchange for permission to start a colony in Palestine.
Although he found almost no support even inside the World Zionist Council, Herzl spent 5 years touring Europe, speaking, raising funds and writing articles in support of Turkey’s extermination of the Armenian people. Herzl cast the crumbling empire as a historical ally of the Jews and one they should support. He called the Ottomans civilized and decent people, justified in their actions due to the allegedly backwards and violent ways of the subhuman Armenians. He was even awarded a medal by the Grand Vizier in Istanbul, in commemoration of his loyal service to the Ottoman Empire.
In 1901, Herzl finally got his long-awaited meeting with the Sultan, who rejected his proposal out of hand. Once again, Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for words on paper. Today, Herzl’s "civilized" slaughter is viewed as an act of genocide by all credible historians and groups as diverse as the United Nations, the United States Government, the European Union, the Anti-Defamation League, and the World Jewish Congress, who specifically called it “the blueprint of the Holocaust.” With his options dwindling, Herzl even turned to Cecil Rhodes, the openly white supremacist founder of the unrecognized apartheid state of Rhodesia to ask for his advice and blessing to colonize Palestine. Although his efforts amounted to nothing, the ideological connections remained, and the state of Israel became a close ally of Rhodesia. At one point, Israel was one of the only countries willing to sell weapons and licenses to its fellow apartheid states. Israel even collaborated with apartheid South Africa on its nuclear program, a direct violation of international law which was never punished.
>"You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial" - Herzl in a letter to Cecil Rhodes
At best, Herzl represents the sort of reactionary, callous “realpolitik” that the state of Israel still embraces today. At worst, he was a genocidal racist willing to support even the vilest crimes to advance his movement.
R: 73 / I: 5 (sage)
Why is the western left so hesitant to give up their pro-immigration stance, even when it's the main driver of normies switching to far-right parties and has been infiltrated by capitalists for cheap labor?
Why is the western left so hesitant to give up their pro-immigration stance, even when it's the main driver of normies switching to far-right parties and has been infiltrated by capitalists for cheap labor?
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Prediction (pessimistic): The US government will be overthrown, not by "social fascist" DSA members or by "True marxist leninists" (they don't exist since they are an impossible standard for a westoid to meet) but actual fascists like patriot front or proud boys. The US government will triple down on ethno-nationalism but will recede from the world stage. "Multipolarity" will bloom but will prove to be a farce. "Free trade" will collapse and all countries will be forced to become "self sufficient". This will lead to a period of basically universal Juche style self reliance mixed with ethnonational zionist kibbutz style "socialism." Neofeudal schemes will tie neo-peasants to agriculture since countries will be forced to produce surplus, but neo-peasants will double as neo-proles through digital office jobs. Basically they will grow crops for the state but also be responsible for digital maintenance of statistics. Hyper surveillance will prevent people from hoarding or hiding what they produce. Climate change will make everything harder to grow, the end of free trade will mean that all countries become isolationist and produce for themselves, and ethnonationalism and hyper surveillance will create a self reliant neofeudal national socialist dystopia in each country with its own characteristics. Each country will become an open air fallout vault. Transhumanism and gene editing will result in speciation of humans into several new sub species meant to specialize. Mind altering substances and technology will be used to enforce obedience, and transform pain into pleasure. This will entrench artificial castes and turn life into a hell disguised as heaven.
Prediction (pessimistic): The US government will be overthrown, not by "social fascist" DSA members or by "True marxist leninists" (they don't exist since they are an impossible standard for a westoid to meet) but actual fascists like patriot front or proud boys. The US government will triple down on ethno-nationalism but will recede from the world stage. "Multipolarity" will bloom but will prove to be a farce. "Free trade" will collapse and all countries will be forced to become "self sufficient". This will lead to a period of basically universal Juche style self reliance mixed with ethnonational zionist kibbutz style "socialism." Neofeudal schemes will tie neo-peasants to agriculture since countries will be forced to produce surplus, but neo-peasants will double as neo-proles through digital office jobs. Basically they will grow crops for the state but also be responsible for digital maintenance of statistics. Hyper surveillance will prevent people from hoarding or hiding what they produce. Climate change will make everything harder to grow, the end of free trade will mean that all countries become isolationist and produce for themselves, and ethnonationalism and hyper surveillance will create a self reliant neofeudal national socialist dystopia in each country with its own characteristics. Each country will become an open air fallout vault. Transhumanism and gene editing will result in speciation of humans into several new sub species meant to specialize. Mind altering substances and technology will be used to enforce obedience, and transform pain into pleasure. This will entrench artificial castes and turn life into a hell disguised as heaven.
R: 2 / I: 0
Israeli occupation forces detained Palestinian journalist Mohammed Awad during an early-morning raid on his home near Ramallah on Wednesday, as the number of Palestinian media workers held in Israeli custody continues to rise. Awad, 38, is a video journalist who has worked with several international media organizations, including AFP, covering developments throughout the occupied Palestinian territory.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-detains-palestinian-afp-journalist-mohammed-awad-in-west-bank-raid/
In Christian village of Taybeh, Israeli military order fails to stop settler violence
Local residents documented fresh settler attacks on several families east of Taybeh on Tuesday 11 August, including the Naif al-Kaabneh family, who have been subjected to violent assaults in recent days, despite the decision to close off the area under the pretext of protecting Palestinians. Taybeh is a predominantly Christian Palestinian village in the West Bank, and its residents rely on agriculture, olive groves and olive oil production, among other sources of income.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-christians-taybeh-face-continuing-settler-attacks-despite-military-closure
Popular Algerian Hirak activist arrested over TikTok live, 'glorifying terrorism'
Mohammed Bakir Torki, also known as Soufiane, was remanded in custody after the Sidi M'hamed Court in the capital, Algiers, brought several criminal charges against him. The accusations brought against the activist, which also include disseminating false information via social media, are related to his participation in a TikTok live broadcast in June this year. Authorities accused Bakir Torki of glorifying and praising terrorism, and undermining public security and public order.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-hirak-activist-arrested-over-tiktok-live-stream
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment
‘Informal settlements encroaching military bases are security threat’
Emerging farmers at the Tswelopolele irrigation scheme at Praktiseer outside Burgersfort in Limpopo say they are unable to continue farming after their leased land was allegedly invaded by local dwellers. The farmers lease the land from the Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Department. Farmers continue paying monthly rentals despite being unable to use it. Farmers have expressed frustrations.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/some-farmers-in-limpopo-claim-their-leased-land-has-been-invaded/
China targets pseudo-history myths claiming West stole civilisations
A provincial propaganda department in China has warned the public against subscribing to growing conspiracy theories on history, such as those stating that Aristotle and Ancient Greece never existed. In a post on Wednesday, “Zhejiang Propaganda” – a social media account affiliated with the Zhejiang provincial publicity department – warned about the rise of the “pseudo-historical school” online. The school promotes conspiracy theories that deny Western history and claim key achievements of Western civilisation actually originated in China.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3363942/did-aristotle-exist-china-targets-pseudo-history-myths-claiming-west-stole-civilisations?pgtype=live
https://archive.ph/EcmIG
Broad reaction to Burhan’s call for dialogue inside Sudan and reports of presidential amnesty
Kamal Omar, political secretary of the Popular Congress Party, said his party supported an internal dialogue to avoid the experience of previous negotiations held abroad. But he said its purpose must be to end the war, and that the Founding Alliance (Tasees) could not be excluded because it is one of the parties to the conflict. The complex circumstances created by the war, he argued, meant that the first objective of any dialogue must be to stop the fighting.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/broad-reaction-to-burhans-call-for-dialogue-inside-sudan-and-reports-of-presidential-amnesty
Romania shuts its last nuclear reactor as drought-hit Danube river drops to record low
Romania has been forced to shut down the last working reactor at its only nuclear plant after drought caused the Danube river to fall to record lows – a rare move that will immediately affect power supplies in neighbouring Moldova. Drought and record-low water levels have deepened fears of an energy crisis across Europe, which is facing a new summer heatwave.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/romania-nuclear-plant-shut-down-cernavoda-danube-river-water-drought
Count Binface claims victory over Nigel Farage in Clacton by-election
Analysis by Politico meanwhile suggested Mr Farage and his party spent more than £10,000 on social media political adverts to prevent being humiliated by a bin. The Reform leader quit as an MP to trigger the by-election in protest against media and parliamentary scrutiny of donations from his backers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/count-binface-claims-victory-over-nigel-farage-clacton-election
Mysterious Attacks on Ecuadorian Fishers Raise Fears of Expanded US Boat Bombings
An investigation published Wednesday by The New York Times has raised fresh questions about who attacked three Ecuadorian fishing vessels in the Pacific Ocean earlier this year—but for fishers and their families in the South American nation, the mystery is hardly new.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ecuador-fishers-attacked
Peru Declares State of Emergency in 607 Districts Over Potential El Niño Drought
During the next two months, local authorities will receive facilities to implement immediate and necessary exceptional measures to reduce the existing very high risk, as well as carry out the corresponding response and rehabilitation efforts. Actions to reduce the risk of drought will be carried out by regional and local governments in coordination with ministries and the National Institute of Civil Defense (INDECI).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peru-declares-state-of-emergency-in-607-districts-over-potential-el-nino-drought/
Brazil: Two days before the deadline, Bolsonaro's party cannot register Flávio as candidate
A certificate issued by the court at 11:13 on Thursday listed the senator as a regular member of the Missão party since Wednesday, August 12, and recorded his departure from the Liberal Party on the same date. Official records had until then shown continuous membership of the PL since November 2021. The discrepancy blocked the registration procedure. The campaign's legal team also reported that the party temporarily lost credentialed access to the platform used to submit data to the court.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/13/brazil-two-days-before-the-deadline-bolsonaro-s-party-cannot-register-flavio-as-candidate
US floats prospect of joint strikes on Colombian armed groups
Colombia had authorized "joint military operations to destroy terrorists and terror networks," Hegseth told a gathering of the U.S.-led Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition in Panama. "Yes," he replied when asked if he had discussed with his Colombian counterpart joint strikes against armed groups such as the National Liberation Army (ELN), which the U.S. designates as a terrorist group, and remnants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hegseth-welcomes-colombia-counter-drug-alliance-after-its-election-2026-08-12/
News 8/13/26
Israel Detains Palestinian AFP Journalist Mohammed Awad in West Bank RaidIsraeli occupation forces detained Palestinian journalist Mohammed Awad during an early-morning raid on his home near Ramallah on Wednesday, as the number of Palestinian media workers held in Israeli custody continues to rise. Awad, 38, is a video journalist who has worked with several international media organizations, including AFP, covering developments throughout the occupied Palestinian territory.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-detains-palestinian-afp-journalist-mohammed-awad-in-west-bank-raid/
In Christian village of Taybeh, Israeli military order fails to stop settler violence
Local residents documented fresh settler attacks on several families east of Taybeh on Tuesday 11 August, including the Naif al-Kaabneh family, who have been subjected to violent assaults in recent days, despite the decision to close off the area under the pretext of protecting Palestinians. Taybeh is a predominantly Christian Palestinian village in the West Bank, and its residents rely on agriculture, olive groves and olive oil production, among other sources of income.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-christians-taybeh-face-continuing-settler-attacks-despite-military-closure
Popular Algerian Hirak activist arrested over TikTok live, 'glorifying terrorism'
Mohammed Bakir Torki, also known as Soufiane, was remanded in custody after the Sidi M'hamed Court in the capital, Algiers, brought several criminal charges against him. The accusations brought against the activist, which also include disseminating false information via social media, are related to his participation in a TikTok live broadcast in June this year. Authorities accused Bakir Torki of glorifying and praising terrorism, and undermining public security and public order.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-hirak-activist-arrested-over-tiktok-live-stream
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment
‘Informal settlements encroaching military bases are security threat’
Emerging farmers at the Tswelopolele irrigation scheme at Praktiseer outside Burgersfort in Limpopo say they are unable to continue farming after their leased land was allegedly invaded by local dwellers. The farmers lease the land from the Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Department. Farmers continue paying monthly rentals despite being unable to use it. Farmers have expressed frustrations.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/some-farmers-in-limpopo-claim-their-leased-land-has-been-invaded/
China targets pseudo-history myths claiming West stole civilisations
A provincial propaganda department in China has warned the public against subscribing to growing conspiracy theories on history, such as those stating that Aristotle and Ancient Greece never existed. In a post on Wednesday, “Zhejiang Propaganda” – a social media account affiliated with the Zhejiang provincial publicity department – warned about the rise of the “pseudo-historical school” online. The school promotes conspiracy theories that deny Western history and claim key achievements of Western civilisation actually originated in China.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3363942/did-aristotle-exist-china-targets-pseudo-history-myths-claiming-west-stole-civilisations?pgtype=live
https://archive.ph/EcmIG
Broad reaction to Burhan’s call for dialogue inside Sudan and reports of presidential amnesty
Kamal Omar, political secretary of the Popular Congress Party, said his party supported an internal dialogue to avoid the experience of previous negotiations held abroad. But he said its purpose must be to end the war, and that the Founding Alliance (Tasees) could not be excluded because it is one of the parties to the conflict. The complex circumstances created by the war, he argued, meant that the first objective of any dialogue must be to stop the fighting.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/broad-reaction-to-burhans-call-for-dialogue-inside-sudan-and-reports-of-presidential-amnesty
Romania shuts its last nuclear reactor as drought-hit Danube river drops to record low
Romania has been forced to shut down the last working reactor at its only nuclear plant after drought caused the Danube river to fall to record lows – a rare move that will immediately affect power supplies in neighbouring Moldova. Drought and record-low water levels have deepened fears of an energy crisis across Europe, which is facing a new summer heatwave.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/romania-nuclear-plant-shut-down-cernavoda-danube-river-water-drought
Count Binface claims victory over Nigel Farage in Clacton by-election
Analysis by Politico meanwhile suggested Mr Farage and his party spent more than £10,000 on social media political adverts to prevent being humiliated by a bin. The Reform leader quit as an MP to trigger the by-election in protest against media and parliamentary scrutiny of donations from his backers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/count-binface-claims-victory-over-nigel-farage-clacton-election
Mysterious Attacks on Ecuadorian Fishers Raise Fears of Expanded US Boat Bombings
An investigation published Wednesday by The New York Times has raised fresh questions about who attacked three Ecuadorian fishing vessels in the Pacific Ocean earlier this year—but for fishers and their families in the South American nation, the mystery is hardly new.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ecuador-fishers-attacked
Peru Declares State of Emergency in 607 Districts Over Potential El Niño Drought
During the next two months, local authorities will receive facilities to implement immediate and necessary exceptional measures to reduce the existing very high risk, as well as carry out the corresponding response and rehabilitation efforts. Actions to reduce the risk of drought will be carried out by regional and local governments in coordination with ministries and the National Institute of Civil Defense (INDECI).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peru-declares-state-of-emergency-in-607-districts-over-potential-el-nino-drought/
Brazil: Two days before the deadline, Bolsonaro's party cannot register Flávio as candidate
A certificate issued by the court at 11:13 on Thursday listed the senator as a regular member of the Missão party since Wednesday, August 12, and recorded his departure from the Liberal Party on the same date. Official records had until then shown continuous membership of the PL since November 2021. The discrepancy blocked the registration procedure. The campaign's legal team also reported that the party temporarily lost credentialed access to the platform used to submit data to the court.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/13/brazil-two-days-before-the-deadline-bolsonaro-s-party-cannot-register-flavio-as-candidate
US floats prospect of joint strikes on Colombian armed groups
Colombia had authorized "joint military operations to destroy terrorists and terror networks," Hegseth told a gathering of the U.S.-led Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition in Panama. "Yes," he replied when asked if he had discussed with his Colombian counterpart joint strikes against armed groups such as the National Liberation Army (ELN), which the U.S. designates as a terrorist group, and remnants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hegseth-welcomes-colombia-counter-drug-alliance-after-its-election-2026-08-12/
R: 44 / I: 3
Why do Western governments make it easy for their citizens to access drugs and CP via the darknet?
Shouldn't civilized countries actually be consistently eliminating access to such filth?
Why do Western governments make it easy for their citizens to access drugs and CP via the darknet?
Shouldn't civilized countries actually be consistently eliminating access to such filth?
R: 72 / I: 8
Cooperativization vs Nationalization
Why does the left not focus on cooperativization rather than nationalization of industries? If we did manage to replace every company with a cooperative, would that not still be some kind of proto-Socialist position, albeit with markets still intact?
R: 0 / I: 0
Happy birthday to the goat! Here's hoping that the achievements of cubas revolution endures and that the US empire crumbles
meow, mods need to be shot
Happy birthday to the goat! Here's hoping that the achievements of cubas revolution endures and that the US empire crumbles
meow, mods need to be shot
R: 637 / I: 129 (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™
<US of Amalek Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2887575
/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™
<US of Amalek Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2887575
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On August 5, 162 Ukrainian prisoners, among them 92 political prisoners, engaged in a one-day hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions, torture and killings within the Ukrainian prison system. According to the website anti-imperialism.by, over 200 people from 15 other countries, including Russia, Turkey, Great Britain, Germany and Greece, joined the hunger strike. Some 50 left-wing activists and anti-fascists, as well as 20 relatives of political prisoners in Ukraine also joined the protest action.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/12/wbaq-a12.html
Putin threat pushes Germany to give spies major new powers
Under the proposed reform, spies working for Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, could carry out acts of sabotage, conduct offensive cyber operations and pursue more aggressive espionage operations. Until now, those spies have been limited to information-gathering operations due to intentional restraints put in place after World War II to prevent a repeat of the abuses perpetrated by the Nazi spy apparatus.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-give-spies-bnd-new-powers-to-counter-russia-threat/
https://archive.ph/4eaIY
Migrant workers liken zero-hour contracts to conditions during the Industrial Revolution
MIGRANT hospitality workers have likened zero-hours contracts to working conditions during Britain’s Industrial Revolution. The United Voices of the World (UVW) union said that conditions under the contracts are “very similar” to the long working hours, fines and low wages that were rife in the 1700s.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/migrant-workers-liken-zero-hour-contracts-conditions-during-industrial-revolution
UK Government Won’t Release Files on Israeli Firm ‘Meddling’ in Election
Viginum, a French government agency that fights foreign digital interference, said BlackCore had coordinated hundreds of accounts to post negative comments about Scottish first minister John Swinney during his bid for re-election, which was nonetheless successful.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/12/uk-government-wont-release-files-on-israeli-firm-meddling-in-election/
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
On Tuesday, the Israeli military dropped flares in a wooded area outside Khiam, in south Lebanon, sparking blazes. When firefighters attempted to extinguish the flames, a drone struck close by, forcing them to withdraw, said the head of the civil defence in the Nabatieh region, Hussein Fakih.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/israel-deliberately-starting-wildfires-in-southern-lebanon-firefighters-say
Iran to join BRICS development bank soon, central bank governor says
The bank was set up by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa in 2015 to finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects. It has since expanded its membership to include the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and other emerging economies.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-join-brics-development-bank-soon
US strikes in Yemen killed 153 civilians in 2025, says Pentagon review
The numbers mark a sharp increase from 2024, when the Pentagon assessed that US military operations killed two civilians and injured two others. The three strikes targeted Houthi forces in and around the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, as well as the Ras Isa fuel port.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/12/us-strikes-in-yemen-killed-153-civilians-in-2025-says-pentagon-review
https://archive.ph/4f4Tb
Libya reels from assassination, oil strikes and central bank turmoil
The assassination came as emergency crews fought a major fire at the Zawiya oil refinery, west of Tripoli, following a drone attack on Monday evening. It was the third strike on the facility in two days. Libya’s National Oil Corporation said a drone directly struck a tank holding about 4.5 million litres of fuel. The resulting fire caused the tank to collapse and prompted the company to warn that further attacks could force it to suspend operations.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-reels-assassination-oil-strikes-and-central-bank-turmoil
Canadian airline WestJet agrees to settle flight attendants’ sexual harassment class action
A British Columbia judge on Monday approved the terms of the settlement, which were finalised on 22 June after months of negotiation. The payment will be distributed among the 3,452 flight attendants in the class action after expenses are removed, including legal fees. WestJet agreed to hire a third-party to conduct a workplace inquiry that will examine the prevalence of harassment, the extent of underreporting and how reporting systems can be made more effective.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/canadian-airline-westjet-settle-flight-attendants-sexual-harassment-class-action
Brazil Supreme Court upholds laws that led to downfall of Amazon soy moratorium
In January, major grain traders withdrew from the soy moratorium, which helped slash deforestation over its nearly two decades in effect, after top soy-producing states passed bills revoking tax benefits for participating companies. Brazil is the world’s largest soybean producer, accounting for about 40% of global output. Much of the crop is grown in central and northern states that include parts of the Amazon biome, such as Mato Grosso, Para and Rondonia.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-rainforest-soy-moratorium-deforestation-4145415431832ff862b40e2ed1ab627e
US fuel exports to Cuba spur chaotic black market
The embargo has hobbled essential state-run services like the healthcare system, public transport and schools. But under the Commerce Department exception, a trickle of gasoline and diesel is reaching private restaurants, retailers and taxis, the first significant landings of U.S. fuel on the Caribbean island since Castro nationalized refineries after the 1959 revolution.
Reuters could not determine which U.S. companies are shipping fuel to Cuba, but there is no sign major oil traders are involved.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-fuel-sales-cuban-business-bring-glimpse-capitalism-havana-2026-08-11/
Australian food delivery drivers to get £16.40 minimum hourly rate
The agreement does not introduce a minimum wage, as drivers and riders will not be compensated for time spent waiting for jobs, but applies to “engaged time,” the time between accepting an order and delivering it — so workers would continue to earn if waiting for a restaurant to prepare an order, for example. The union has accepted the drivers being defined as “employee-like” workers rather than full employees.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australian-food-delivery-drivers-get-ps1640-minimum-hourly-rate
Government appointments fall short on inclusion
However, appointments to constitutional and public bodies made on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council, chaired by Shah, and through cabinet decisions tell a different story. Critics say the government has fallen short of the constitutional principle of proportional inclusion, with women, Madhehis and other marginalised communities poorly represented in key appointments across the state.
https://kathmandupost.com/politics/2026/08/13/government-appointments-fall-short-on-inclusion
https://archive.ph/BGt7m
Pakistan's ruling party poised to win Kashmir elections amid deadly clashes, analysts say
The PML-N has benefited from a longstanding rule that mandates 12 seats for constituencies representing what the regional constitution defines as refugees from Indian-administered Kashmir. These seats — which were largely won by the PML-N — have become a flashpoint in Pakistani politics over the last few months. Kashmiri protesters say the seats have too often been filled by people living elsewhere in Pakistan who have little regard for the region's economic struggles.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pakistans-ruling-party-poised-to-win-kashmir-elections-amid-deadly-clashes-analysts-say
https://archive.ph/DalZ2
News 8/12/26
Hunger strike against inhumane conditions, forced labor and torture in Ukrainian prisonsOn August 5, 162 Ukrainian prisoners, among them 92 political prisoners, engaged in a one-day hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions, torture and killings within the Ukrainian prison system. According to the website anti-imperialism.by, over 200 people from 15 other countries, including Russia, Turkey, Great Britain, Germany and Greece, joined the hunger strike. Some 50 left-wing activists and anti-fascists, as well as 20 relatives of political prisoners in Ukraine also joined the protest action.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/12/wbaq-a12.html
Putin threat pushes Germany to give spies major new powers
Under the proposed reform, spies working for Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, could carry out acts of sabotage, conduct offensive cyber operations and pursue more aggressive espionage operations. Until now, those spies have been limited to information-gathering operations due to intentional restraints put in place after World War II to prevent a repeat of the abuses perpetrated by the Nazi spy apparatus.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-give-spies-bnd-new-powers-to-counter-russia-threat/
https://archive.ph/4eaIY
Migrant workers liken zero-hour contracts to conditions during the Industrial Revolution
MIGRANT hospitality workers have likened zero-hours contracts to working conditions during Britain’s Industrial Revolution. The United Voices of the World (UVW) union said that conditions under the contracts are “very similar” to the long working hours, fines and low wages that were rife in the 1700s.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/migrant-workers-liken-zero-hour-contracts-conditions-during-industrial-revolution
UK Government Won’t Release Files on Israeli Firm ‘Meddling’ in Election
Viginum, a French government agency that fights foreign digital interference, said BlackCore had coordinated hundreds of accounts to post negative comments about Scottish first minister John Swinney during his bid for re-election, which was nonetheless successful.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/12/uk-government-wont-release-files-on-israeli-firm-meddling-in-election/
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
On Tuesday, the Israeli military dropped flares in a wooded area outside Khiam, in south Lebanon, sparking blazes. When firefighters attempted to extinguish the flames, a drone struck close by, forcing them to withdraw, said the head of the civil defence in the Nabatieh region, Hussein Fakih.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/israel-deliberately-starting-wildfires-in-southern-lebanon-firefighters-say
Iran to join BRICS development bank soon, central bank governor says
The bank was set up by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa in 2015 to finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects. It has since expanded its membership to include the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and other emerging economies.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-join-brics-development-bank-soon
US strikes in Yemen killed 153 civilians in 2025, says Pentagon review
The numbers mark a sharp increase from 2024, when the Pentagon assessed that US military operations killed two civilians and injured two others. The three strikes targeted Houthi forces in and around the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, as well as the Ras Isa fuel port.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/12/us-strikes-in-yemen-killed-153-civilians-in-2025-says-pentagon-review
https://archive.ph/4f4Tb
Libya reels from assassination, oil strikes and central bank turmoil
The assassination came as emergency crews fought a major fire at the Zawiya oil refinery, west of Tripoli, following a drone attack on Monday evening. It was the third strike on the facility in two days. Libya’s National Oil Corporation said a drone directly struck a tank holding about 4.5 million litres of fuel. The resulting fire caused the tank to collapse and prompted the company to warn that further attacks could force it to suspend operations.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-reels-assassination-oil-strikes-and-central-bank-turmoil
Canadian airline WestJet agrees to settle flight attendants’ sexual harassment class action
A British Columbia judge on Monday approved the terms of the settlement, which were finalised on 22 June after months of negotiation. The payment will be distributed among the 3,452 flight attendants in the class action after expenses are removed, including legal fees. WestJet agreed to hire a third-party to conduct a workplace inquiry that will examine the prevalence of harassment, the extent of underreporting and how reporting systems can be made more effective.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/canadian-airline-westjet-settle-flight-attendants-sexual-harassment-class-action
Brazil Supreme Court upholds laws that led to downfall of Amazon soy moratorium
In January, major grain traders withdrew from the soy moratorium, which helped slash deforestation over its nearly two decades in effect, after top soy-producing states passed bills revoking tax benefits for participating companies. Brazil is the world’s largest soybean producer, accounting for about 40% of global output. Much of the crop is grown in central and northern states that include parts of the Amazon biome, such as Mato Grosso, Para and Rondonia.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-rainforest-soy-moratorium-deforestation-4145415431832ff862b40e2ed1ab627e
US fuel exports to Cuba spur chaotic black market
The embargo has hobbled essential state-run services like the healthcare system, public transport and schools. But under the Commerce Department exception, a trickle of gasoline and diesel is reaching private restaurants, retailers and taxis, the first significant landings of U.S. fuel on the Caribbean island since Castro nationalized refineries after the 1959 revolution.
Reuters could not determine which U.S. companies are shipping fuel to Cuba, but there is no sign major oil traders are involved.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-fuel-sales-cuban-business-bring-glimpse-capitalism-havana-2026-08-11/
Australian food delivery drivers to get £16.40 minimum hourly rate
The agreement does not introduce a minimum wage, as drivers and riders will not be compensated for time spent waiting for jobs, but applies to “engaged time,” the time between accepting an order and delivering it — so workers would continue to earn if waiting for a restaurant to prepare an order, for example. The union has accepted the drivers being defined as “employee-like” workers rather than full employees.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/australian-food-delivery-drivers-get-ps1640-minimum-hourly-rate
Government appointments fall short on inclusion
However, appointments to constitutional and public bodies made on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council, chaired by Shah, and through cabinet decisions tell a different story. Critics say the government has fallen short of the constitutional principle of proportional inclusion, with women, Madhehis and other marginalised communities poorly represented in key appointments across the state.
https://kathmandupost.com/politics/2026/08/13/government-appointments-fall-short-on-inclusion
https://archive.ph/BGt7m
Pakistan's ruling party poised to win Kashmir elections amid deadly clashes, analysts say
The PML-N has benefited from a longstanding rule that mandates 12 seats for constituencies representing what the regional constitution defines as refugees from Indian-administered Kashmir. These seats — which were largely won by the PML-N — have become a flashpoint in Pakistani politics over the last few months. Kashmiri protesters say the seats have too often been filled by people living elsewhere in Pakistan who have little regard for the region's economic struggles.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pakistans-ruling-party-poised-to-win-kashmir-elections-amid-deadly-clashes-analysts-say
https://archive.ph/DalZ2
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unpopular opinion
The black panthers were LARPERS like any other maoist leaning group, but they were so good at LARPING that the neocon government believed them, and killed them. I believe LARPERS eventually get cointelpro'd, back then, and now, because the government is based on right wing lies, and being disconnected from what it means to be a leftist, and the LARP of the left fufills the fear fantasies of the right-wing idea of what it means to be leftwing. antifa is a huge example.
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Friendly reminder billionaire are shilling for politicians they know are idiotic and incompetent like Trump to cut social programs and start stupid wars while increasing the national debt 5 trillion in 18 months to point out how government and "statist" ideology is unsustainable and harmful and then started astroturfing people curtis yarvin out of goddamn nowhere to spread and manufacture consent for a corporate and libertarian society, scapegoating the same incompetent governments they ceaselessly fought to bring to power
We are heading for an extremely oligarchical world, It's up for us to act now.
Ancapistan in ~10 years, give or take
Friendly reminder billionaire are shilling for politicians they know are idiotic and incompetent like Trump to cut social programs and start stupid wars while increasing the national debt 5 trillion in 18 months to point out how government and "statist" ideology is unsustainable and harmful and then started astroturfing people curtis yarvin out of goddamn nowhere to spread and manufacture consent for a corporate and libertarian society, scapegoating the same incompetent governments they ceaselessly fought to bring to power
We are heading for an extremely oligarchical world, It's up for us to act now.
Ancapistan in ~10 years, give or take
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Could anyone help me find the book I am looking for?
Book with references to Maoist economic development.
I remember reading this book which had graphs on Maoist industrial development showing it was actually the beginning of the "economic miracle" the counterrevolutionary state had, and that the country had modernised in the Maoist era. I'd like to find it to cite, but I don't remember the name and I didn't have a pdf in my computer library that has those details exactly nationwide, so I had to resort to a book by a liberal historian called Chinese Economic Development by Chris Bramal, that has some of the statistics (especially when it comes to human development), but not the industrial statistics. It is a good book but it is not what I am looking for and it is limited because it is liberal history not socialist history.Could anyone help me find the book I am looking for?
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Being ruled by the wise is undoubtedly the best system of government. Philosopher kings are chads, and what better system than to be ruled by chads?
The Republic is the defining work of all western political philosophy so it should be natural that we turn to it.
Plato's Republic
Why would the society described in Plato's Republic be undesirable according to a Marxist perspective? We know all the problems with democracy and how the masses of people can't be trusted. Plus the republic abolishes private property and calls for communal raising of children, which Marxists also support.Being ruled by the wise is undoubtedly the best system of government. Philosopher kings are chads, and what better system than to be ruled by chads?
The Republic is the defining work of all western political philosophy so it should be natural that we turn to it.
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On August 10, Bogdan Syrotiuk, a 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist and opponent of the US-NATO war against Russia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The verdict, handed down by a district court in the Nikolaev region, also orders the confiscation of his property and electronic devices and the destruction of the socialist books, leaflets and programmatic documents taken from him. … The verdict will be immediately appealed. Under Ukrainian law, the appeal must be filed within 30 days. We call on all supporters of democratic rights to back these legal actions and call for the annulment of the sentence.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/11/oqko-a11.html
Almost three-quarters of England now in drought, UK government says
Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought, the British government said on Monday, highlighting the worsening impact of prolonged dry weather on agriculture, public water supplies and wildlife. Most of the country, 71.3%, is now experiencing a flash drought caused by a combination of very low rainfall and higher temperatures. That has risen since late July, when almost half the country was declared to be in drought.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/almost-three-quarters-england-now-drought-uk-government-says-2026-08-10/
Cuban President Meets With Communist Leaders Visiting Havana
On Monday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel received several representatives of communist parties from around the world who are visiting Havana this week to participate in activities marking the centennial of the birth of Commander Fidel Castro (1926-2016). Among the visitors are Jose Luis Centella, president of the Communist Party of Spain, and Walter Baier, the president of the European Left Party.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuban-president-meets-with-communist-leaders-visiting-havana/
Venezuelan Business Spokesman Says Privatizations Will Boost ‘Efficiency,’ Reduce State Payroll
The former president of major pro-business lobby CONINDUSTRIA, Pisella was chosen by Acting President Delcy Rodríguez to represent the private sector in a commission tasked with evaluating state-owned assets, with companies, landed estates, and other properties deemed “non-strategic” set to be privatized or liquidated.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-business-spokesman-says-privatizations-will-boost-efficiency-reduce-state-payroll/
Colombia’s far-right government recognises Israeli claim over Golan Heights
Colombia’s recognition of the Israeli claim comes as Israel expands its military footprint in Syria following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024. Israel has moved troops into a UN-monitored buffer zone and seized strategic territories, including the Syrian side of Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon), which overlooks the capital, Damascus.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/11/colombias-far-right-government-recognises-israeli-claim-over-golan-heights
https://archive.ph/PCDa2
Turkey approves law to pardon thousands of PKK fighters
TURKEY’S parliament has approved legislation that would give a conditional pardon to thousands of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members in a bid to advance the government’s peace initiative with the insurgent group. The measure would only come into effect after Turkish authorities have verified that the PKK has fully disarmed.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/turkey-approves-law-pardon-thousands-pkk-fighters
Palestinian medics in Israel face incitement over unproven patient abuse claims
Rambam said after reviewing the incident that it “rejects the claims that the patient was treated inappropriately”. Some Palestinian doctors, however, criticised the hospital’s response, saying it failed to address the allegations targeting Arab medical staff, according to Haaretz. “At the end of the day, this is an attack on all Arab medical staff,” one medical professional said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-medics-israel-face-incitement-over-unproven-claims-patient-mistreatment
Child labourers among 18 killed in Egypt pick-up crash
At least 18 people, many of them children aged 13 to 14, were killed on Tuesday in northern Egypt when two pick-up trucks carrying agricultural day labourers crashed, a local medical source told news agency AFP. Egypt's health ministry had earlier said there were 47 casualties, including around 30 injured, in the crash in the Dawawis area of Ismailia governorate.
https://www.newarab.com/news/child-labourers-among-18-killed-egypt-pick-crash
Motorcycle taxi riders assert their rights
MC 2026-048, or Interim Implementing Guidelines on the Operation of Motorcycle Taxi, prohibits multi-homing, or a rider’s registration with more than one Motorcycle Taxi Platform Provider (MTPP). The measure also limits the number of MC taxi riders allowed on the road for each ride-hailing provider. Additionally, the memorandum covers provisional operating rules, vehicle specifications and safety parameters.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/motorcycle-taxi-riders-assert-their-rights/
Zepto warehouse sealed in Bengaluru’s Hoskote over violations: ‘Unhygienic food, non-compliant labelling, misbranding’
A warehouse operated for quick commerce firm Zepto was sealed in eastern Bengaluru’s Hoskote on Tuesday after a special inspection by the state’s food safety department over alleged violations related to food labelling, handling and storage.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/zeptos-warehouse-sealed-in-bengaluru-s-hoskote-by-food-safety-dept-101786465869220.html
https://archive.ph/EekEF
Protest in Jharkhand intensifies over alleged job exams corruption
Students and job-seekers have been demonstrating in Ranchi, the state capital, for over two weeks, calling for an overhaul of the state’s government exam system. Despite multiple rounds of talks and the government accepting several demands, protesters say the protests will continue until all their demands are met in full.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protest-jharkhand-intensifies-over-alleged-job-exams-corruption
Human rights groups sue Trump administration over ‘crippling’ ICC sanctions
The US government has long opposed and sought to impede the work of the court – of which it is not a party – but those attacks escalated after the ICC prosecutor issued arrest warrants in November 2024 for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant over crimes committed in Gaza. The US responded by sanctioning ICC prosecutors, judges, three leading Palestinian human rights groups and Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territory.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/human-rights-groups-trump-lawsuit-icc-sanctions
News 8/11/26
Fascist Ukrainian court sentences Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist opponent of war, to 15 years in prisonOn August 10, Bogdan Syrotiuk, a 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist and opponent of the US-NATO war against Russia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The verdict, handed down by a district court in the Nikolaev region, also orders the confiscation of his property and electronic devices and the destruction of the socialist books, leaflets and programmatic documents taken from him. … The verdict will be immediately appealed. Under Ukrainian law, the appeal must be filed within 30 days. We call on all supporters of democratic rights to back these legal actions and call for the annulment of the sentence.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/11/oqko-a11.html
Almost three-quarters of England now in drought, UK government says
Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought, the British government said on Monday, highlighting the worsening impact of prolonged dry weather on agriculture, public water supplies and wildlife. Most of the country, 71.3%, is now experiencing a flash drought caused by a combination of very low rainfall and higher temperatures. That has risen since late July, when almost half the country was declared to be in drought.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/almost-three-quarters-england-now-drought-uk-government-says-2026-08-10/
Cuban President Meets With Communist Leaders Visiting Havana
On Monday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel received several representatives of communist parties from around the world who are visiting Havana this week to participate in activities marking the centennial of the birth of Commander Fidel Castro (1926-2016). Among the visitors are Jose Luis Centella, president of the Communist Party of Spain, and Walter Baier, the president of the European Left Party.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuban-president-meets-with-communist-leaders-visiting-havana/
Venezuelan Business Spokesman Says Privatizations Will Boost ‘Efficiency,’ Reduce State Payroll
The former president of major pro-business lobby CONINDUSTRIA, Pisella was chosen by Acting President Delcy Rodríguez to represent the private sector in a commission tasked with evaluating state-owned assets, with companies, landed estates, and other properties deemed “non-strategic” set to be privatized or liquidated.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-business-spokesman-says-privatizations-will-boost-efficiency-reduce-state-payroll/
Colombia’s far-right government recognises Israeli claim over Golan Heights
Colombia’s recognition of the Israeli claim comes as Israel expands its military footprint in Syria following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024. Israel has moved troops into a UN-monitored buffer zone and seized strategic territories, including the Syrian side of Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon), which overlooks the capital, Damascus.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/11/colombias-far-right-government-recognises-israeli-claim-over-golan-heights
https://archive.ph/PCDa2
Turkey approves law to pardon thousands of PKK fighters
TURKEY’S parliament has approved legislation that would give a conditional pardon to thousands of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members in a bid to advance the government’s peace initiative with the insurgent group. The measure would only come into effect after Turkish authorities have verified that the PKK has fully disarmed.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/turkey-approves-law-pardon-thousands-pkk-fighters
Palestinian medics in Israel face incitement over unproven patient abuse claims
Rambam said after reviewing the incident that it “rejects the claims that the patient was treated inappropriately”. Some Palestinian doctors, however, criticised the hospital’s response, saying it failed to address the allegations targeting Arab medical staff, according to Haaretz. “At the end of the day, this is an attack on all Arab medical staff,” one medical professional said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-medics-israel-face-incitement-over-unproven-claims-patient-mistreatment
Child labourers among 18 killed in Egypt pick-up crash
At least 18 people, many of them children aged 13 to 14, were killed on Tuesday in northern Egypt when two pick-up trucks carrying agricultural day labourers crashed, a local medical source told news agency AFP. Egypt's health ministry had earlier said there were 47 casualties, including around 30 injured, in the crash in the Dawawis area of Ismailia governorate.
https://www.newarab.com/news/child-labourers-among-18-killed-egypt-pick-crash
Motorcycle taxi riders assert their rights
MC 2026-048, or Interim Implementing Guidelines on the Operation of Motorcycle Taxi, prohibits multi-homing, or a rider’s registration with more than one Motorcycle Taxi Platform Provider (MTPP). The measure also limits the number of MC taxi riders allowed on the road for each ride-hailing provider. Additionally, the memorandum covers provisional operating rules, vehicle specifications and safety parameters.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/motorcycle-taxi-riders-assert-their-rights/
Zepto warehouse sealed in Bengaluru’s Hoskote over violations: ‘Unhygienic food, non-compliant labelling, misbranding’
A warehouse operated for quick commerce firm Zepto was sealed in eastern Bengaluru’s Hoskote on Tuesday after a special inspection by the state’s food safety department over alleged violations related to food labelling, handling and storage.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/zeptos-warehouse-sealed-in-bengaluru-s-hoskote-by-food-safety-dept-101786465869220.html
https://archive.ph/EekEF
Protest in Jharkhand intensifies over alleged job exams corruption
Students and job-seekers have been demonstrating in Ranchi, the state capital, for over two weeks, calling for an overhaul of the state’s government exam system. Despite multiple rounds of talks and the government accepting several demands, protesters say the protests will continue until all their demands are met in full.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protest-jharkhand-intensifies-over-alleged-job-exams-corruption
Human rights groups sue Trump administration over ‘crippling’ ICC sanctions
The US government has long opposed and sought to impede the work of the court – of which it is not a party – but those attacks escalated after the ICC prosecutor issued arrest warrants in November 2024 for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant over crimes committed in Gaza. The US responded by sanctioning ICC prosecutors, judges, three leading Palestinian human rights groups and Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territory.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/human-rights-groups-trump-lawsuit-icc-sanctions
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Trotsky was right to say that Soviet socialism turned "social-nationalist" after Stalin's victory at the thirteenth congress of the PCUS, and Stalin's victory meant the first step toward the future Soviet dissolution.
Trotsky was right to say that Soviet socialism turned "social-nationalist" after Stalin's victory at the thirteenth congress of the PCUS, and Stalin's victory meant the first step toward the future Soviet dissolution.
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Western "Marxists" are fucking obsessed with the idea of command economies. Half of them say that AES states are not actually socialist; this is wrong. The other half says that AES states have only temporarily adopted markets, and will return to the Golden Path as soon as possible; this is also wrong, and much more egregiously so, be because it requires ignorance of and/or cognitive dissonance towards the official statements and actions made by these nations.
Western "Marxist" arguments in favor of command economies are, likewise generally rooted in ignorance, not understanding that the lifestyles they have/aspire to would be unfeasible within a purely planned system. Those that are not rooted in ignorance are instead rooted in aceticism, in poverty worship, in an intellectual cancer that must be rooted out by whatever means necessary.
Sure, we may, at some point, obviate markets. But it would require a fundamental change in the means of production that, by my calculations, is far, far away from where we are now.
In any case, you would do yourself well to stop worshipping the corpses of Stalin and Mao and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
Command economies lost
This history of socialism shows, with perfect clarity, that a fully planned economy is plainly inferior to a socialist market economy. This is not to say that fully planned economies are bad, they absolutely do have their strengths. But economies that are partially planned, directed rather than dictated, have all of the same strengths, while being infinitely more flexible. The socialism of then may have raised millions out of poverty, but it was the socialism of now century that raised them into luxury, luxury greater than anything the capitalist world has ever been able to provide.Western "Marxists" are fucking obsessed with the idea of command economies. Half of them say that AES states are not actually socialist; this is wrong. The other half says that AES states have only temporarily adopted markets, and will return to the Golden Path as soon as possible; this is also wrong, and much more egregiously so, be because it requires ignorance of and/or cognitive dissonance towards the official statements and actions made by these nations.
Western "Marxist" arguments in favor of command economies are, likewise generally rooted in ignorance, not understanding that the lifestyles they have/aspire to would be unfeasible within a purely planned system. Those that are not rooted in ignorance are instead rooted in aceticism, in poverty worship, in an intellectual cancer that must be rooted out by whatever means necessary.
Sure, we may, at some point, obviate markets. But it would require a fundamental change in the means of production that, by my calculations, is far, far away from where we are now.
In any case, you would do yourself well to stop worshipping the corpses of Stalin and Mao and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
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Jesus Christ, I hate living in the south so goddamn much. South Carolina is an alligator and mosquito infested shithole like Florida. The weather is brutally humid. Why the fuck would anybody want to live here outside of Hilton Head Island, which is basically a retirement home. Monkey Island is some experiment where they brought macacos from the Caribbeans and let them live there. And it's a hardline republican state. Lindsey Graham (who just recently won the dead faggot award) and Henry McSlavemaster. I can't fucking stand these people riding Trump in SC legislature. It is hopelessly lost at this point. Until South Carolina goes blue like Georgia, but Georgia is worse and more corrupt than South Carolina in many ways. So I doubt that'll fix it either. I want to move back to my dad's state, which is Connecticut.
Jesus Christ, I hate living in the south so goddamn much. South Carolina is an alligator and mosquito infested shithole like Florida. The weather is brutally humid. Why the fuck would anybody want to live here outside of Hilton Head Island, which is basically a retirement home. Monkey Island is some experiment where they brought macacos from the Caribbeans and let them live there. And it's a hardline republican state. Lindsey Graham (who just recently won the dead faggot award) and Henry McSlavemaster. I can't fucking stand these people riding Trump in SC legislature. It is hopelessly lost at this point. Until South Carolina goes blue like Georgia, but Georgia is worse and more corrupt than South Carolina in many ways. So I doubt that'll fix it either. I want to move back to my dad's state, which is Connecticut.
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Capitalism is extinction.
South Korea has double the population of North Korea, but South Korea only has half as many babies as North Korea. Which economic feature of capitalism causes this?
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Cuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
Cuba is gonna be invaded
This isn't a joke or anythingCuba is gonna be invaded by the US by next month, and I don't have much hope in the Cuban armed forces alone.
Either an armed resistance needs to be established in the United States or international voluteers need to be formed for Cuba, either by the Cuban goverment or some communist org (PSL, RCI, etc).
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More than 240 brigadistas from social movements in Latin America, the United States, and Europe delivered medical supplies to the Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology in Havana to support the care of cancer patients in a context of the tightening of the US blockade against Cuba.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/international-brigades-donate-medical-supplies-to-havanas-oncology-institute/
Mass trials without due process in El Salvador: ‘Judges are afraid. They’re convicting everyone’
Analysis of the documents shows that most defendants were arrested under remarkably similar circumstances: police officers or soldiers on patrol in areas with gang activity would spot one or more individuals with a “suspicious appearance,” who would then allegedly attempt to “flee.” After detaining them, officers checked police databases and identified them as gang members. Of the 1,226 cases reviewed, only two involved arrests were made under an arrest warrant or following a judicial search warrant
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-08-10/mass-trials-without-due-process-in-el-salvador-judges-are-afraid-theyre-convicting-everyone.html
https://archive.ph/n7Bcg
Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people
Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella, who reported the death toll, said at least 87 people were injured and around 1,600 buildings were damaged, including at least 61 that completely collapsed. He declared an emergency to expedite funding for the quake recovery while saying he would visit the disaster zone. “We aren’t going to leave people alone. They are in our hearts and we are going to tend to people with our full determination,” he said.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-ecuador-earthquake-26fd40f93272d834fced47a4a673edc9
China moves to join Brazil’s WTO fight over Trump’s forced labour tariffs
The move was first reported by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and independently confirmed to the South China Morning Post by a Brazilian government source. In the request, China said Washington could apply comparable measures to Chinese goods, and that such measures would affect all Chinese exports to the American market, subject to specific exemptions.
https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3363585/china-moves-join-brazils-wto-fight-over-trumps-forced-labour-tariffs?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/ZRduj
Germany: Massive cuts at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, protests in Kassel against militarisation
From this year, universities in North Rhine-Westphalia must make do with around €120 million less annually. “With this decision, the state government is breaking a central promise from the 2020 Future Agreement ‘Strengthening Study and Teaching’ and is sustainably jeopardising the quality of study, teaching and working conditions at the universities,” stated a declaration of the state AStA (students’ union) conference last December.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/10/ksnm-a10.html
Russian family denied asylum in Finland fear reprisals for pro-Ukraine activism
Nikita said his problems in Russia started when he realised that his boss had lied when he had told him that the project he was working on was not linked to the war effort. When he tried to come off the project, he said his boss threatened him with arrest or being sent to the frontline.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/09/russian-family-finland-reprisals-pro-ukraine-activism
Dubai ruler confronted in London over UAE involvement in Sudan war
A video posted on Sunday shows a Sudanese man shouting at Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum and his entourage as they walk through the affluent Knightsbridge area. “Emiratis and UAE, they’re killing Sudanese people,” the man shouts from across the road at the ruler of Dubai and the group he is with. “UAE is killing people in my country. Stop killing my people.” One man, who appears to be Emirati and part of Maktoum’s entourage, then appears to racially abuse the Sudanese man, shouting: “Fuck you, fuck you and fuck your people… Motherfucker, Black bitch.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dubai-ruler-confronted-london-over-uae-involvement-sudan-war
Iran hierarchy consolidation as IRGC veteran tapped for key security role
Six new military positions were also officially filled on Monday, with Ali Abdollahi, head of Iran’s joint war command, appointed as the new chief of staff of the armed forces and Ali Ozmaei named as the head of the IRGC Navy. Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi was also confirmed as commander-in-chief of the IRGC “with the rank of major general”, officially succeeding Mohammad Pakpour, who was killed during the opening salvo of the US-Israel war on Iran in late Feburary.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/10/iran-hierarchy-consolidation-as-irgc-veteran-tapped-for-key-security-role
https://archive.ph/NTTEd
‘We have no tents or blankets’: Ceuta migrants struggle to survive brutal heat and freezing nights
Those who remain in Ceuta include an estimated 1,300 unaccompanied children, with NGOs expressing concerns that hundreds more – including some as young as 10 – could be wandering the city unprotected. One 16-year-old told the Guardian that she had made her way to the city’s reception centre for minors on arrival, only to be told it was full. She had instead been sleeping rough on the streets of Ceuta. “I went days without food. When a woman brought food for the migrants, the men got there first, and we didn’t get anything. The same happened with clothing, when we managed to get to the front of the line, there was nothing left.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/08/we-have-no-tents-or-blankets-ceuta-migrants-struggle-to-survive-brutal-heat-and-freezing-nights
Sudan: Prisoners, missing, and abducted people — continuing crisis and unresolved reports —what are police and Red Cross doing?
Sudan’s Interior Ministry has said its electronic reporting platform has received 550 reports of missing people since mid-April, while the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Sudan said it was aware of recent statements and public announcements concerning the possible release of detainees. The organisation said it was in close contact with the relevant parties, including the United Nations.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/prisoners-missing-and-abducted-people-a-continuing-crisis-and-unresolved-reports-what-are-the-police-and-red-cross-doing
News 8/10/26
International Brigades Donate Medical Supplies to Havana’s Oncology InstituteMore than 240 brigadistas from social movements in Latin America, the United States, and Europe delivered medical supplies to the Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology in Havana to support the care of cancer patients in a context of the tightening of the US blockade against Cuba.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/international-brigades-donate-medical-supplies-to-havanas-oncology-institute/
Mass trials without due process in El Salvador: ‘Judges are afraid. They’re convicting everyone’
Analysis of the documents shows that most defendants were arrested under remarkably similar circumstances: police officers or soldiers on patrol in areas with gang activity would spot one or more individuals with a “suspicious appearance,” who would then allegedly attempt to “flee.” After detaining them, officers checked police databases and identified them as gang members. Of the 1,226 cases reviewed, only two involved arrests were made under an arrest warrant or following a judicial search warrant
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-08-10/mass-trials-without-due-process-in-el-salvador-judges-are-afraid-theyre-convicting-everyone.html
https://archive.ph/n7Bcg
Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people
Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella, who reported the death toll, said at least 87 people were injured and around 1,600 buildings were damaged, including at least 61 that completely collapsed. He declared an emergency to expedite funding for the quake recovery while saying he would visit the disaster zone. “We aren’t going to leave people alone. They are in our hearts and we are going to tend to people with our full determination,” he said.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-ecuador-earthquake-26fd40f93272d834fced47a4a673edc9
China moves to join Brazil’s WTO fight over Trump’s forced labour tariffs
The move was first reported by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and independently confirmed to the South China Morning Post by a Brazilian government source. In the request, China said Washington could apply comparable measures to Chinese goods, and that such measures would affect all Chinese exports to the American market, subject to specific exemptions.
https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3363585/china-moves-join-brazils-wto-fight-over-trumps-forced-labour-tariffs?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/ZRduj
Germany: Massive cuts at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, protests in Kassel against militarisation
From this year, universities in North Rhine-Westphalia must make do with around €120 million less annually. “With this decision, the state government is breaking a central promise from the 2020 Future Agreement ‘Strengthening Study and Teaching’ and is sustainably jeopardising the quality of study, teaching and working conditions at the universities,” stated a declaration of the state AStA (students’ union) conference last December.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/10/ksnm-a10.html
Russian family denied asylum in Finland fear reprisals for pro-Ukraine activism
Nikita said his problems in Russia started when he realised that his boss had lied when he had told him that the project he was working on was not linked to the war effort. When he tried to come off the project, he said his boss threatened him with arrest or being sent to the frontline.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/09/russian-family-finland-reprisals-pro-ukraine-activism
Dubai ruler confronted in London over UAE involvement in Sudan war
A video posted on Sunday shows a Sudanese man shouting at Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum and his entourage as they walk through the affluent Knightsbridge area. “Emiratis and UAE, they’re killing Sudanese people,” the man shouts from across the road at the ruler of Dubai and the group he is with. “UAE is killing people in my country. Stop killing my people.” One man, who appears to be Emirati and part of Maktoum’s entourage, then appears to racially abuse the Sudanese man, shouting: “Fuck you, fuck you and fuck your people… Motherfucker, Black bitch.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dubai-ruler-confronted-london-over-uae-involvement-sudan-war
Iran hierarchy consolidation as IRGC veteran tapped for key security role
Six new military positions were also officially filled on Monday, with Ali Abdollahi, head of Iran’s joint war command, appointed as the new chief of staff of the armed forces and Ali Ozmaei named as the head of the IRGC Navy. Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi was also confirmed as commander-in-chief of the IRGC “with the rank of major general”, officially succeeding Mohammad Pakpour, who was killed during the opening salvo of the US-Israel war on Iran in late Feburary.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/10/iran-hierarchy-consolidation-as-irgc-veteran-tapped-for-key-security-role
https://archive.ph/NTTEd
‘We have no tents or blankets’: Ceuta migrants struggle to survive brutal heat and freezing nights
Those who remain in Ceuta include an estimated 1,300 unaccompanied children, with NGOs expressing concerns that hundreds more – including some as young as 10 – could be wandering the city unprotected. One 16-year-old told the Guardian that she had made her way to the city’s reception centre for minors on arrival, only to be told it was full. She had instead been sleeping rough on the streets of Ceuta. “I went days without food. When a woman brought food for the migrants, the men got there first, and we didn’t get anything. The same happened with clothing, when we managed to get to the front of the line, there was nothing left.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/08/we-have-no-tents-or-blankets-ceuta-migrants-struggle-to-survive-brutal-heat-and-freezing-nights
Sudan: Prisoners, missing, and abducted people — continuing crisis and unresolved reports —what are police and Red Cross doing?
Sudan’s Interior Ministry has said its electronic reporting platform has received 550 reports of missing people since mid-April, while the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Sudan said it was aware of recent statements and public announcements concerning the possible release of detainees. The organisation said it was in close contact with the relevant parties, including the United Nations.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/prisoners-missing-and-abducted-people-a-continuing-crisis-and-unresolved-reports-what-are-the-police-and-red-cross-doing
R: 8 / I: 3
Disease has repeatedly disrupted the assumptions of civilizations. The collapse of the Roman Empire, for example, cannot be explained only through political corruption or class tensions. Epidemics such as the Antonine Plague weakened the empire’s population, strained its military capacity, disrupted trade, and reduced the tax base needed to maintain its institutions. Social conflicts existed before the crisis, but disease changed the conditions under which those conflicts unfolded.
The same pattern appeared during the Black Death in the fourteenth century. The plague killed a large portion of Europe’s population, creating a severe labor shortage. This shifted the balance of power between workers and landowners because surviving laborers could demand higher wages and better conditions. In this case, what looked like a class struggle was partly the consequence of a biological event that altered the supply of human labor. The disease did not merely influence class relations; it reshaped them.
Disease has also influenced the rise and fall of empires. European conquest of the Americas was not driven only by weapons, political ambition, or economic competition. Smallpox and other infectious diseases devastated Indigenous populations who had little prior exposure to Eurasian pathogens. These epidemics weakened societies, disrupted political structures, and made colonization easier. The outcome of global power struggles was shaped not just by armies and rulers, but by microbes.
Even modern history shows the same pattern. The influenza pandemic of 1918 affected societies already destabilized by World War I, influencing labor markets, public policy, and political attitudes. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in economic systems, changed patterns of work, accelerated technological shifts, and intensified debates over inequality and government responsibility.
This does not mean class struggle is irrelevant. Economic conflicts determine how societies respond to crises: who receives protection, who bears the costs, and who benefits from recovery. But class struggle often operates within conditions created by larger forces. Disease can change population size, labor availability, migration patterns, state capacity, and the organization of everyday life. It can create the circumstances in which new social conflicts emerge.
History is therefore not simply a story of workers versus owners, rulers versus subjects, or oppressed groups versus dominant classes. It is also a story of humans adapting to biological realities they cannot fully control. The invisible pressures of disease have repeatedly redirected the path of civilization, sometimes more decisively than any revolution, war, or political movement.
Disease is the true engine of historical change
Class struggle is not actually the engine of history. Disease is. Disease kills more soldiers on the battlefield than combat. Disease kills more workers and owners than class struggle. Tuberculosis continues to kill over a million and a half people per year, despite its known cure. While conflicts between classes, elites, and economic groups have certainly shaped political movements and social change, many of the most dramatic turning points in human history were triggered or accelerated by biological forces that transformed populations, economies, and systems of power.Disease has repeatedly disrupted the assumptions of civilizations. The collapse of the Roman Empire, for example, cannot be explained only through political corruption or class tensions. Epidemics such as the Antonine Plague weakened the empire’s population, strained its military capacity, disrupted trade, and reduced the tax base needed to maintain its institutions. Social conflicts existed before the crisis, but disease changed the conditions under which those conflicts unfolded.
The same pattern appeared during the Black Death in the fourteenth century. The plague killed a large portion of Europe’s population, creating a severe labor shortage. This shifted the balance of power between workers and landowners because surviving laborers could demand higher wages and better conditions. In this case, what looked like a class struggle was partly the consequence of a biological event that altered the supply of human labor. The disease did not merely influence class relations; it reshaped them.
Disease has also influenced the rise and fall of empires. European conquest of the Americas was not driven only by weapons, political ambition, or economic competition. Smallpox and other infectious diseases devastated Indigenous populations who had little prior exposure to Eurasian pathogens. These epidemics weakened societies, disrupted political structures, and made colonization easier. The outcome of global power struggles was shaped not just by armies and rulers, but by microbes.
Even modern history shows the same pattern. The influenza pandemic of 1918 affected societies already destabilized by World War I, influencing labor markets, public policy, and political attitudes. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in economic systems, changed patterns of work, accelerated technological shifts, and intensified debates over inequality and government responsibility.
This does not mean class struggle is irrelevant. Economic conflicts determine how societies respond to crises: who receives protection, who bears the costs, and who benefits from recovery. But class struggle often operates within conditions created by larger forces. Disease can change population size, labor availability, migration patterns, state capacity, and the organization of everyday life. It can create the circumstances in which new social conflicts emerge.
History is therefore not simply a story of workers versus owners, rulers versus subjects, or oppressed groups versus dominant classes. It is also a story of humans adapting to biological realities they cannot fully control. The invisible pressures of disease have repeatedly redirected the path of civilization, sometimes more decisively than any revolution, war, or political movement.
R: 18 / I: 5
How would you effectuate changes for the better?
Should the EU federalize?
Should the RU create a greater Altai autonomous republic?
If the EU were to federalize, exactly what would 'counter' it?
Modifying Nations
How would you do it?How would you effectuate changes for the better?
Should the EU federalize?
Should the RU create a greater Altai autonomous republic?
If the EU were to federalize, exactly what would 'counter' it?
R: 30 / I: 2
i'm gonna vote for the apple
it's like the blue donkey in america but russian and green and also an apple instead of a donkey
your thoughts comrades
i'm gonna vote for the apple
it's like the blue donkey in america but russian and green and also an apple instead of a donkey
your thoughts comrades
R: 35 / I: 5
What happens to the party after communism is established? Does anyone believe organizations like the ccp or cpk or anyother communist party in power in a country will just willingly let go of all their power?
What happens to the party after communism is established? Does anyone believe organizations like the ccp or cpk or anyother communist party in power in a country will just willingly let go of all their power?
R: 51 / I: 6
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-07/holy-see-decrees-excommunication-lefebrians-consecrations.html
As a result of escalating tensions revolving around some unapproved bishop appointments, it's officially happened: the Vatican has declared the tradcath Society of Saint Pius X to be schismatic and therefor not just its bishops but lay practitioners too are excommunicated. While the largest amount of tradcaths tend to congregate in America there's still plenty spread out all over the world. What are the implications of this split? Possible Antipope soon?
Society of Saint Pius X Officially Excommunicated
REAL, NOT CLICKBAIT, NOT A DRILL, THE CHICAGO POPE CRACKS DOWNhttps://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-07/holy-see-decrees-excommunication-lefebrians-consecrations.html
As a result of escalating tensions revolving around some unapproved bishop appointments, it's officially happened: the Vatican has declared the tradcath Society of Saint Pius X to be schismatic and therefor not just its bishops but lay practitioners too are excommunicated. While the largest amount of tradcaths tend to congregate in America there's still plenty spread out all over the world. What are the implications of this split? Possible Antipope soon?
R: 602 / I: 148 (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 tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
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Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2885805
/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™
<ChatGPT Occupied Government Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2885805
R: 19 / 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
R: 47 / I: 8
Why is nationalism such a powerful force?
Nearly all communists buy into it in some form.
Seems like we cant seem to get rid of no matter what. Why? Whats so special about it?
Why is nationalism such a powerful force?
Nearly all communists buy into it in some form.
Seems like we cant seem to get rid of no matter what. Why? Whats so special about it?
R: 5 / I: 5
World Revolution & Coffee
A little known topic about how the basis of Vietnamesse coffee production came from their socialist era. Trade agreements that benefit the client state are rare and shows how communism can work
R: 75 / I: 8
Britain? Portugal? Rome? The Khanate? I don’t know if any of them match the amount of real distress and suffering caused, in a utilitarian sense, as the United States has.
No this post has nothing to do with the fact it’s the Fourth of July.
Has there ever been a worse political unit?
I think America deserves some credit for the minute good it’s done on the world stage, but can any political unit ever even come close to a comparative amount of suffering and death caused? I feel like I don’t even need to go through the atrocities but I mean the USA has directly caused genocides on more continents than they have not… Has any tribe, nation, kingdom, soviet, whatever the fuck term you want to use EVER caused as much real physical harm as the great Satan, America?Britain? Portugal? Rome? The Khanate? I don’t know if any of them match the amount of real distress and suffering caused, in a utilitarian sense, as the United States has.
No this post has nothing to do with the fact it’s the Fourth of July.
R: 44 / I: 6
revolution in the imperial core is unlikely but highly necessary because there is no stronger imperialist force that can come in from the outside and ruin the revolution. the third world is more immiserated and has had mores successful revolutions, but those revolutions get rolled back by CIA coups, sanctions, bombs, opportunism, revisionism, etc. the opportunism and revisionism is usually a side effect of trying to protect the gains of the revolution from a stronger outside force without being suicidal. the core would not have to do this. they are the strongest force. who's gonna bomb and sanction america if it has a revolution? china? iran? russia? DPRK? Give me a break.
revolution in the imperial core is unlikely but highly necessary because there is no stronger imperialist force that can come in from the outside and ruin the revolution. the third world is more immiserated and has had mores successful revolutions, but those revolutions get rolled back by CIA coups, sanctions, bombs, opportunism, revisionism, etc. the opportunism and revisionism is usually a side effect of trying to protect the gains of the revolution from a stronger outside force without being suicidal. the core would not have to do this. they are the strongest force. who's gonna bomb and sanction america if it has a revolution? china? iran? russia? DPRK? Give me a break.
R: 613 / I: 123 (full)
Increased security for England and Argentina tie
<Authorities say there will be increased security measures in place for Wednesday's World Cup semi-final between England and Argentina.
>The pair will resume one of international football's most storied rivalries at the Atlanta Stadium, as England bid to defeat the defending champions and reach their first World Cup final since 1966.
>Atlanta police are aware of historical tensions between the two countries.
/leftybritpol/ - This England edition
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clyey5glv4koIncreased security for England and Argentina tie
<Authorities say there will be increased security measures in place for Wednesday's World Cup semi-final between England and Argentina.
>The pair will resume one of international football's most storied rivalries at the Atlanta Stadium, as England bid to defeat the defending champions and reach their first World Cup final since 1966.
>Atlanta police are aware of historical tensions between the two countries.
R: 42 / I: 10
It seems to me that By all means he is an orthodox marxist and his writings perfectly fine. And his criticisms of the USSR seem non-objectionable to most people (Totalitarianism is bad, More party discourse needed, More worker democracy, etc.)
Why is he so hated among many marxist circles? Hate doesn't describe it, He is thoroughly despised.
I'm all ears. and will respond if I have time.
Why was Trotsky bad?
No bait no rageful discussion just honest question, Why was he so hated?It seems to me that By all means he is an orthodox marxist and his writings perfectly fine. And his criticisms of the USSR seem non-objectionable to most people (Totalitarianism is bad, More party discourse needed, More worker democracy, etc.)
Why is he so hated among many marxist circles? Hate doesn't describe it, He is thoroughly despised.
I'm all ears. and will respond if I have time.
R: 2 / I: 0
Economy option? No.
Follow trade rules? No.
Careful What You Choose
Following Putin's advice, China is very closely. Interesting to see them planning a war like Putin even with Putin's advice.Economy option? No.
Follow trade rules? No.
R: 35 / I: 3
Has any capitalist state fell back to feudalism? Reading Marx I get the sense that once a change in the mode of production happens it does not reverse and this is what we see from the most developed areas entering capitalism. If this is the case then failed AES states didn't actually change their mode of production and the possibility that socialism just as every other change in the MoP can still only come from the most advanced areas of society.
Has any capitalist state fell back to feudalism? Reading Marx I get the sense that once a change in the mode of production happens it does not reverse and this is what we see from the most developed areas entering capitalism. If this is the case then failed AES states didn't actually change their mode of production and the possibility that socialism just as every other change in the MoP can still only come from the most advanced areas of society.
R: 61 / I: 6
>Never become the leader of any socialist country
>Fucking die
>Commies keep denying your word for decades
>A century later your writings becomes fundamental in modern Marxist thought
Ts is where China got their "do nothing, win" strategy from
>Never become the leader of any socialist country
>Fucking die
>Commies keep denying your word for decades
>A century later your writings becomes fundamental in modern Marxist thought
Ts is where China got their "do nothing, win" strategy from
R: 97 / I: 5
how can low birthrates and immigration both be a problem? it would seem to me that one ought to compensate for the other. if you're worried about the population of your country decreasing then you should be happy that new people are coming in to bolster your numbers. if you are worried about the population being too high, then you should be happy that people aren't having as many babies.
and let's face it, neither of these things are issues that anyone can really do anything about. you can't make millions of people have sex and produce babies more often and you can't stop millions of people from entering a country. human behavior at this scale is basically like the weather, you can't control it or do anything about it and there's no sense in whining about it, all you can really do is just accept it and adapt to it.
how can low birthrates and immigration both be a problem? it would seem to me that one ought to compensate for the other. if you're worried about the population of your country decreasing then you should be happy that new people are coming in to bolster your numbers. if you are worried about the population being too high, then you should be happy that people aren't having as many babies.
and let's face it, neither of these things are issues that anyone can really do anything about. you can't make millions of people have sex and produce babies more often and you can't stop millions of people from entering a country. human behavior at this scale is basically like the weather, you can't control it or do anything about it and there's no sense in whining about it, all you can really do is just accept it and adapt to it.
R: 4 / I: 2
They call anyone goycattle for not only eating meat and falling for LiverKing scam.
Remember chads shit fibres, don’t become like that miserable Chud.
Chuds Carnioids diets vs Chad Fibremaxxing
What’s material condition Chuds hating Fibremaxxing?They call anyone goycattle for not only eating meat and falling for LiverKing scam.
Remember chads shit fibres, don’t become like that miserable Chud.
R: 597 / I: 162
>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™
<Actionable Threats 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
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2884221
/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™
<Actionable Threats Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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What's one book every Marxist should read and understand? My answer is the German Ideology.
Basically, most of the people you interact with that are leftist in some sense are also complete blockheads the clocks says the time is to talk about ideology. It is actually really funny, honestly. You get such fantastical, magical thinking. Oh we if just follow this set of instructions and believe it really hard, it will come to fruition! Oh if we just want something to be true and declare it to be so everywhere then it is true. Oh let us play some word games who cares about understanding the material relations of production. Once we have the perfect set of words in perfect order, and once we tell everyone, we will have communism, there is no doubt in my mind.
Yeah, none of the 2nd internationale read this book. Not even Lenin. Stalin was the first man to read this book (and lead a movement) after Marx and Engels and it shows, historically speaking.
What's one book every Marxist should read and understand? My answer is the German Ideology.
Basically, most of the people you interact with that are leftist in some sense are also complete blockheads the clocks says the time is to talk about ideology. It is actually really funny, honestly. You get such fantastical, magical thinking. Oh we if just follow this set of instructions and believe it really hard, it will come to fruition! Oh if we just want something to be true and declare it to be so everywhere then it is true. Oh let us play some word games who cares about understanding the material relations of production. Once we have the perfect set of words in perfect order, and once we tell everyone, we will have communism, there is no doubt in my mind.
Yeah, none of the 2nd internationale read this book. Not even Lenin. Stalin was the first man to read this book (and lead a movement) after Marx and Engels and it shows, historically speaking.
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https://nitter.net/anatolium/status/2085698524050591906
Sam Altman Phonenumber Leak
A French Journalist named Juan Branco was under surveillance by Mossad. The Mossad agent surveilling him accidentally uploaded thousands of contacts to his phone, including the number of Sam. Altman.https://nitter.net/anatolium/status/2085698524050591906
R: 22 / I: 2
What if the yuan replaces the dollar?
How is any of this beneficial to the proletariat?
Should we even care?
https://archive.ph/h0YmE
What after the dollar?
What happens after the dollar loses its reserve currency status, whether to the yuan or local currencies or something else.What if the yuan replaces the dollar?
How is any of this beneficial to the proletariat?
Should we even care?
https://archive.ph/h0YmE
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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 tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
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Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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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
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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A one-day international solidarity hunger strike will be held on 5 August 2026 in support of political prisoners in Volodymyr Zelensky's Ukraine. The initiative was launched by the Association for the Defence of Political Prisoners and Human Rights, founded by Ukrainian communists Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich, together with 15 prisoners at Vinnytsia Correctional Colony No. 86.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/08/repression-in-zelenskys-ukraine-political-prisoners-announce-august-5-hunger-strike.html
2 Years After Kursk Incursion, Russia Raises Civilian Death Toll to More Than 600
At least 640 Russian civilians were killed and 561 others were wounded during Ukraine’s occupation of the southwestern Kursk region, the Investigative Committee said Thursday on the second anniversary of Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion. The updated figure from Russia’s top investigative body marks an increase from previous estimates that varied from around 350 to more than 500 civilian deaths during the months-long occupation.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/06/2-years-after-kursk-incursion-russia-raises-civilian-death-toll-to-more-than-600-a93426
https://archive.ph/GqwFO
Racist thugs storm homes of refugees
Police bracing for further violence have warned that those taking part in the disorder will face “the full force of the law,” with two more people arrested on Thursday on a third consecutive night of unrest in the Norfolk market town. People have attempted to storm homes linked to asylum-seekers following proposals to convert a former military base just over the border in Suffolk, RAF Barnham, into asylum-seeker accommodation for up to 3,750 people.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/racist-thugs-storm-homes-refugees
Greek mayor among three charged over wildfire near Athens =
Investigators believe the blaze started on July 31 with a spark from power cables at a wind farm near Agios Vasileios, a seaside village at the foot of a mountain 85 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Athens. Giannis Apostolou, mayor of the small town of Stylida around 140 kilometres northwest of the capital, owns an electrical installation company linked to the wind farm.
https://www.euractiv.com/news/greek-mayor-among-three-charged-over-wildfire-near-athens/
Spain imposes border checks on Italy amid Ceuta migration row
Spain announced Friday that it would introduce border controls for travellers arriving from Italy in retaliation for Rome imposing similar measures. The rare spat between the EU nations came after tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco to Spain's North African territory Ceuta in an unprecedented, deadly rush.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260807-spain-imposes-border-checks-on-italy-amid-ceuta-migration-row
https://archive.ph/tXLVP
Communist Party Leader Bhim Rawal Expresses Dissatisfaction with Government Appointments
Kathmandu. Communist Party of Nepal leader Bhim Rawal has expressed dissatisfaction with the appointments of office bearers and members in three academies made by the government. He alleged that the appointments made by the Balen Shah-led government showed no glimpse of good governance, justice, and impartiality, which the Rastriya Swatantra Party has been claiming.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/73731/bhim-rawals-comment-after-pragya-pratishthans-appointment-balens-fleeting-love-is-fake
https://archive.ph/gg2w2
Police raid Starbucks’ South Korean HQ over ad campaign that evoked massacre
Investigators searched the Starbucks headquarters in southern Seoul on Tuesday, police said Wednesday. Police gave no further details, but South Korean media reported investigators also were sent to the residences of Starbucks executives.
https://apnews.com/article/korea-starbucks-police-raid-gwangju-c7c718112575208e7ff28d71942c707c
Thailand school shooting: eight killed including suspected attacker, police say
The 14-year-old wounded more than 30 people in the shooting at the prestigious Debsirin Nonthaburi school northwest of Bangkok. Nine people were in a critical condition, the Thai health department said. For Prompong Namwong, an English teacher at the school, it was a normal morning until a panicked student from another class flung open the door, trying to find somewhere to hide. In the corridor, Prompong heard other teachers shouting that there had been a mass shooting downstairs.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/07/thailand-school-shooting-debsirin-nonthaburi-bangkok
Malaysia seizes container suspected of carrying goods bound for Israel
AKPS said preliminary checks indicated that the shipment may violate customs law, which prohibits the direct or indirect export of goods to Israel. "Based on preliminary checks, the shipment is suspected of not complying with Item No 15, Second Schedule, Customs (Prohibition on Export) Order 2023, which provides for the prohibition of direct or indirect export of goods to Israel," AKPS said in a statement cited by Berita Harian newspaper.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/malaysia-seizes-container-suspected-carrying-goods-bound-israel
Israel troops build earth barrier in Lebanese army-held town
Ezzeddine said they were surprised to see the barrier in the morning, located around 100 metres from the town square. Confirming the incident, a Lebanese military source told AFP it was a violation of the framework agreement.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-troops-build-earth-barrier-lebanese-army-held-town
Days before the first return convoy | Displaced residents of Ras Al-Ain (Sere Kaniye) protest in Al-Hasakah
Protesters called for fair financial compensation to help cover their needs and rebuild damaged homes, along with security and stability in the city and its countryside. They also underscored the presence of landmines and the lack of security guarantees necessary for a safe return. Protesters raised several banners with slogans written on them, most notably read “we demand full compensation, $1,000 is not enough to clear rubble.”
https://www.syriahr.com/en/385228/
News 8/8/26
Repression in Zelensky’s Ukraine: Political prisoners announce August 5 hunger strikeA one-day international solidarity hunger strike will be held on 5 August 2026 in support of political prisoners in Volodymyr Zelensky's Ukraine. The initiative was launched by the Association for the Defence of Political Prisoners and Human Rights, founded by Ukrainian communists Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich, together with 15 prisoners at Vinnytsia Correctional Colony No. 86.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/08/repression-in-zelenskys-ukraine-political-prisoners-announce-august-5-hunger-strike.html
2 Years After Kursk Incursion, Russia Raises Civilian Death Toll to More Than 600
At least 640 Russian civilians were killed and 561 others were wounded during Ukraine’s occupation of the southwestern Kursk region, the Investigative Committee said Thursday on the second anniversary of Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion. The updated figure from Russia’s top investigative body marks an increase from previous estimates that varied from around 350 to more than 500 civilian deaths during the months-long occupation.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/06/2-years-after-kursk-incursion-russia-raises-civilian-death-toll-to-more-than-600-a93426
https://archive.ph/GqwFO
Racist thugs storm homes of refugees
Police bracing for further violence have warned that those taking part in the disorder will face “the full force of the law,” with two more people arrested on Thursday on a third consecutive night of unrest in the Norfolk market town. People have attempted to storm homes linked to asylum-seekers following proposals to convert a former military base just over the border in Suffolk, RAF Barnham, into asylum-seeker accommodation for up to 3,750 people.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/racist-thugs-storm-homes-refugees
Greek mayor among three charged over wildfire near Athens =
Investigators believe the blaze started on July 31 with a spark from power cables at a wind farm near Agios Vasileios, a seaside village at the foot of a mountain 85 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Athens. Giannis Apostolou, mayor of the small town of Stylida around 140 kilometres northwest of the capital, owns an electrical installation company linked to the wind farm.
https://www.euractiv.com/news/greek-mayor-among-three-charged-over-wildfire-near-athens/
Spain imposes border checks on Italy amid Ceuta migration row
Spain announced Friday that it would introduce border controls for travellers arriving from Italy in retaliation for Rome imposing similar measures. The rare spat between the EU nations came after tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco to Spain's North African territory Ceuta in an unprecedented, deadly rush.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260807-spain-imposes-border-checks-on-italy-amid-ceuta-migration-row
https://archive.ph/tXLVP
Communist Party Leader Bhim Rawal Expresses Dissatisfaction with Government Appointments
Kathmandu. Communist Party of Nepal leader Bhim Rawal has expressed dissatisfaction with the appointments of office bearers and members in three academies made by the government. He alleged that the appointments made by the Balen Shah-led government showed no glimpse of good governance, justice, and impartiality, which the Rastriya Swatantra Party has been claiming.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/73731/bhim-rawals-comment-after-pragya-pratishthans-appointment-balens-fleeting-love-is-fake
https://archive.ph/gg2w2
Police raid Starbucks’ South Korean HQ over ad campaign that evoked massacre
Investigators searched the Starbucks headquarters in southern Seoul on Tuesday, police said Wednesday. Police gave no further details, but South Korean media reported investigators also were sent to the residences of Starbucks executives.
https://apnews.com/article/korea-starbucks-police-raid-gwangju-c7c718112575208e7ff28d71942c707c
Thailand school shooting: eight killed including suspected attacker, police say
The 14-year-old wounded more than 30 people in the shooting at the prestigious Debsirin Nonthaburi school northwest of Bangkok. Nine people were in a critical condition, the Thai health department said. For Prompong Namwong, an English teacher at the school, it was a normal morning until a panicked student from another class flung open the door, trying to find somewhere to hide. In the corridor, Prompong heard other teachers shouting that there had been a mass shooting downstairs.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/07/thailand-school-shooting-debsirin-nonthaburi-bangkok
Malaysia seizes container suspected of carrying goods bound for Israel
AKPS said preliminary checks indicated that the shipment may violate customs law, which prohibits the direct or indirect export of goods to Israel. "Based on preliminary checks, the shipment is suspected of not complying with Item No 15, Second Schedule, Customs (Prohibition on Export) Order 2023, which provides for the prohibition of direct or indirect export of goods to Israel," AKPS said in a statement cited by Berita Harian newspaper.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/malaysia-seizes-container-suspected-carrying-goods-bound-israel
Israel troops build earth barrier in Lebanese army-held town
Ezzeddine said they were surprised to see the barrier in the morning, located around 100 metres from the town square. Confirming the incident, a Lebanese military source told AFP it was a violation of the framework agreement.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-troops-build-earth-barrier-lebanese-army-held-town
Days before the first return convoy | Displaced residents of Ras Al-Ain (Sere Kaniye) protest in Al-Hasakah
Protesters called for fair financial compensation to help cover their needs and rebuild damaged homes, along with security and stability in the city and its countryside. They also underscored the presence of landmines and the lack of security guarantees necessary for a safe return. Protesters raised several banners with slogans written on them, most notably read “we demand full compensation, $1,000 is not enough to clear rubble.”
https://www.syriahr.com/en/385228/
R: 6 / I: 1 (sage)
A few years ago, somebody posted once a link of him talking. At first, his appearance made me think he is a glowie. For whatever reason I started listening to him over the months. In the end, I ended up listening to him for years.
So what do you think about him? Is he going to bring the revolution?
A few years ago, somebody posted once a link of him talking. At first, his appearance made me think he is a glowie. For whatever reason I started listening to him over the months. In the end, I ended up listening to him for years.
So what do you think about him? Is he going to bring the revolution?
R: 4 / I: 0
The figures also showed: a 20 percent rise in referrals for individuals related to far-right extremism. Asian people continue to be overrepresented in the Prevent programme, making up 18 percent of referrals where ethnicity was recorded - double their proportion of the wider population in England and Wales. …. Smith argued that the programme's referral process relies too heavily on subjective judgement with public sector workers legally obliged to refer anyone to Prevent if they are suspected of terrorism.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nearly-one-five-prevent-referrals-had-autism-recorded-new-home-office-figures-reveal
BBC Axed Report on British Army Killing Unarmed Child in Derry
The UK government successfully lobbied the BBC to axe a report revealing the British Army killed an unarmed child in Derry during the Troubles in 1972, newly released documents reveal. A week after 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty was shot dead, the Ministry of Defence falsely claimed he had been killed from a distance of 25 metres by a soldier who believed the child was armed.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/05/bbc-axed-report-on-british-army-killing-unarmed-child-in-derry/
Germany: Far-right AfD extends its lead in nationwide polls
For the time being, there is still widespread agreement among all democratic parties in Germany: Cooperating with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) remains out of the question. However, whether this will remain the case is becoming increasingly uncertain. The established parties have so far been unable to halt the AfD's surge in the polls over recent months.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-far-right-afd-extends-its-lead-in-nationwide-polls/a-78279279
https://archive.ph/ji6dK
Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia sign key military pact
Earlier, Turkey’s Haberturk television and other media said it is likely to allow joint military exercises and training, technology transfers and the sharing of intelligence. Saudi Arabia, whose critical infrastructure and oil facilities have come under attack as part of the war in Iran, has been looking to diversify its military partnerships. In September, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defence pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pakistan-turkey-and-saudi-arabia-sign-key-military-pact
Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace issues first building contract – for a military base
The contract, which has not yet been finalised, was awarded to Arkel International, a Louisiana-based firm that has previously carried out work with the US government in countries such as Iraq. The Board of Peace is chaired by the US president and led by a team that includes his son-in-law Jared Kushner and friend Steve Witkoff. … The base now being planned is just 100 metres by 120 metres and is intended to house a contingent of Moroccan troops, who would rotate from a base in Israel, the source said. It would lie in the 60% of Gaza’s territory that the Israeli army directly controls. Israeli forces have also created a buffer zone beyond that area.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/06/trump-gaza-board-of-peace-first-building-contract-military-base
Cameroon’s president draws concern and criticism by staying abroad for 2 months
The world’s oldest president, who has led Cameroon since 1982, began his eighth term in office in November after winning a widely disputed election in October. But the 93-year-old left the country on June 7 for what Biya’s office described as “a brief private stay in Europe” that has become one of his longest trips overseas. His government later confirmed he was in Switzerland.
https://apnews.com/article/cameroon-president-paul-biya-absence-switzerland-68cfd7d81a90162267a60845e7627813
Morocco: Seven taxi drivers jailed in 'harsh first ruling' after Ceuta migrant surge
Seven Moroccan taxi drivers were sentenced to up to six months in prison and fined $1,070 each for aiding irregular migration by driving people to the Spanish border in Ceuta. It marked the first ruling in Morocco tied to the surge of more than 70,000 people crossing into the tiny Spanish North African territory over the past week.
https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-taxi-drivers-jailed-harsh-ruling-after-ceuta-surge
New Colombia president pledges robust fight against crime, fiscal austerity in maiden speech
De La Espriella has blamed Petro, who has not recognized the new president's victory, for an expansion of armed groups, and narrowly defeated Petro ally, leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda, in the runoff. Cepeda led a morning march in Barranquilla on Friday, where he told demonstrators that the country's opposition will work to defend democracy and called for peaceful civil disobedience.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/de-la-espriella-take-office-colombia-president-pledges-security-crackdown-2026-08-07/
Milei retreats even further to pass property bill amid backlash
The bill passed the Senate in a 37-33 vote early Friday morning after a lengthy debate, but not before Milei’s party removed a key section that would have eased land-use restrictions in the aftermath of a fire, intentional or not. The government had already stripped out the bill’s centrepiece Wednesday, which eased limits on foreign property ownership.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-retreats-even-further-to-pass-property-bill-amid-backlash.phtml
https://archive.ph/UVvWi
More than a decade after 43 students vanished in Mexico, ex-governor arrested, accused of cover-up
The former governor, belonging to a party that gave rise to Mexico’s ruling Morena party, is the highest-profile arrest in the case to date since the detention of former federal Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam, who is facing criminal charges of forced disappearance, obstruction of justice and torture. Aguirre governed Guerrero from 2011 until he resigned in October 2014, one month after the students disappeared.
https://apnews.com/article/ayotzinapa-forced-disappearance-mexico-angel-aguirre-2f2a03e36b20207fb8d3d8f168c10515
News 8/7/26
UK: Nearly one in five Prevent referrals had autism, new Home Office figures revealThe figures also showed: a 20 percent rise in referrals for individuals related to far-right extremism. Asian people continue to be overrepresented in the Prevent programme, making up 18 percent of referrals where ethnicity was recorded - double their proportion of the wider population in England and Wales. …. Smith argued that the programme's referral process relies too heavily on subjective judgement with public sector workers legally obliged to refer anyone to Prevent if they are suspected of terrorism.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nearly-one-five-prevent-referrals-had-autism-recorded-new-home-office-figures-reveal
BBC Axed Report on British Army Killing Unarmed Child in Derry
The UK government successfully lobbied the BBC to axe a report revealing the British Army killed an unarmed child in Derry during the Troubles in 1972, newly released documents reveal. A week after 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty was shot dead, the Ministry of Defence falsely claimed he had been killed from a distance of 25 metres by a soldier who believed the child was armed.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/05/bbc-axed-report-on-british-army-killing-unarmed-child-in-derry/
Germany: Far-right AfD extends its lead in nationwide polls
For the time being, there is still widespread agreement among all democratic parties in Germany: Cooperating with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) remains out of the question. However, whether this will remain the case is becoming increasingly uncertain. The established parties have so far been unable to halt the AfD's surge in the polls over recent months.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-far-right-afd-extends-its-lead-in-nationwide-polls/a-78279279
https://archive.ph/ji6dK
Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia sign key military pact
Earlier, Turkey’s Haberturk television and other media said it is likely to allow joint military exercises and training, technology transfers and the sharing of intelligence. Saudi Arabia, whose critical infrastructure and oil facilities have come under attack as part of the war in Iran, has been looking to diversify its military partnerships. In September, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defence pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pakistan-turkey-and-saudi-arabia-sign-key-military-pact
Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace issues first building contract – for a military base
The contract, which has not yet been finalised, was awarded to Arkel International, a Louisiana-based firm that has previously carried out work with the US government in countries such as Iraq. The Board of Peace is chaired by the US president and led by a team that includes his son-in-law Jared Kushner and friend Steve Witkoff. … The base now being planned is just 100 metres by 120 metres and is intended to house a contingent of Moroccan troops, who would rotate from a base in Israel, the source said. It would lie in the 60% of Gaza’s territory that the Israeli army directly controls. Israeli forces have also created a buffer zone beyond that area.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/06/trump-gaza-board-of-peace-first-building-contract-military-base
Cameroon’s president draws concern and criticism by staying abroad for 2 months
The world’s oldest president, who has led Cameroon since 1982, began his eighth term in office in November after winning a widely disputed election in October. But the 93-year-old left the country on June 7 for what Biya’s office described as “a brief private stay in Europe” that has become one of his longest trips overseas. His government later confirmed he was in Switzerland.
https://apnews.com/article/cameroon-president-paul-biya-absence-switzerland-68cfd7d81a90162267a60845e7627813
Morocco: Seven taxi drivers jailed in 'harsh first ruling' after Ceuta migrant surge
Seven Moroccan taxi drivers were sentenced to up to six months in prison and fined $1,070 each for aiding irregular migration by driving people to the Spanish border in Ceuta. It marked the first ruling in Morocco tied to the surge of more than 70,000 people crossing into the tiny Spanish North African territory over the past week.
https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-taxi-drivers-jailed-harsh-ruling-after-ceuta-surge
New Colombia president pledges robust fight against crime, fiscal austerity in maiden speech
De La Espriella has blamed Petro, who has not recognized the new president's victory, for an expansion of armed groups, and narrowly defeated Petro ally, leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda, in the runoff. Cepeda led a morning march in Barranquilla on Friday, where he told demonstrators that the country's opposition will work to defend democracy and called for peaceful civil disobedience.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/de-la-espriella-take-office-colombia-president-pledges-security-crackdown-2026-08-07/
Milei retreats even further to pass property bill amid backlash
The bill passed the Senate in a 37-33 vote early Friday morning after a lengthy debate, but not before Milei’s party removed a key section that would have eased land-use restrictions in the aftermath of a fire, intentional or not. The government had already stripped out the bill’s centrepiece Wednesday, which eased limits on foreign property ownership.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-retreats-even-further-to-pass-property-bill-amid-backlash.phtml
https://archive.ph/UVvWi
More than a decade after 43 students vanished in Mexico, ex-governor arrested, accused of cover-up
The former governor, belonging to a party that gave rise to Mexico’s ruling Morena party, is the highest-profile arrest in the case to date since the detention of former federal Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam, who is facing criminal charges of forced disappearance, obstruction of justice and torture. Aguirre governed Guerrero from 2011 until he resigned in October 2014, one month after the students disappeared.
https://apnews.com/article/ayotzinapa-forced-disappearance-mexico-angel-aguirre-2f2a03e36b20207fb8d3d8f168c10515
R: 16 / I: 1
I'm sick of my day to day life and I'm quite willing to make that commitment.
How would one join such a group if it exists, how could I reach them. I'm very willing to do hard and dangerous work.
Actual organizing thread
So I've been working for the local direct aid anarchist group (fnb). They're great and I've met some good people through it. Thing is though is that it doesn't really satisfy me. I've been thinking about this more and more, but is there a direct aid group that is international? Kinda like the red cross but actually marxist/anarchist/leftist.I'm sick of my day to day life and I'm quite willing to make that commitment.
How would one join such a group if it exists, how could I reach them. I'm very willing to do hard and dangerous work.
R: 45 / I: 4
Doing Time
If you are queer in prison you are statistically much more likely to get abused and raped than if you are a literal child molester. I doubt leftists would fare much better in the hyper macho rightoid environment that prison is. Not to mention the guards that will intentionally set you up to get attacked if they dont like your politics. I have done time in a criminally insane institution though im not sure how much authotity i have to speak on this considering the environment is a usually regarded and softer and my crime was not necessarily political, even though we had rape and beatdowns there too, though i kept my opinions on anything to myself and minded my own bussiness so i avoided the bulk of the drama. Still, leftists have a big disadvantage on this front considering any type of violent action in service of the revolution will have to face this reality. This will deter a lot of people and i feel especially sad for the queer people that endure so much violence form the right yet cant retaliate because the alternative is being thrown into a sadistic rape dungeon to be tortured till suicide by both cops and inmates. This is a major blackpill a lot of people here are not ready to swallow.
R: 10 / I: 0
do you agree or disagree
the structural position of trade unions in this historical moment is legitimization of the exploitation of labor-power and normalizing neoliberal incursions into rights which the working class movement wrestled from the bourgeoisie during the last century
R: 22 / I: 6
The funniest part is her grandma being white
Friend hss Kim Il-Sung photo
My friend just showed me a real framed photo she has of her grandma with Kim Il-Sung and Samora Machel from when she worked in the Mozambican government during its socialist era, just thought you guys should know that.The funniest part is her grandma being white
R: 18 / I: 2 (sage)
Could a knowledgeable anon explain the concrete bourgie structure in the USA? What's what who's who and where are all these pigs located in relation to one maybe other bourgies outside the country?
Who is the real boss?
Who is more dominant in the USA today? Tech oligarchy or financial one? It is clear that they have some sort of coalition, and we could add MIC and other players. The tech bros recieve a lot of attention, but I suspect the real string-pullers are the finance ones.Could a knowledgeable anon explain the concrete bourgie structure in the USA? What's what who's who and where are all these pigs located in relation to one maybe other bourgies outside the country?
R: 594 / I: 153
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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
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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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🗽 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™
<Trump Slump Depression Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Rightoids are fond of saying that communism is a religion but millions of evangelical anticommunists literally think that if society got rid of money capital, it means the antichrist won. Isn't anticommunism more of a religion than communism?
Rightoids are fond of saying that communism is a religion but millions of evangelical anticommunists literally think that if society got rid of money capital, it means the antichrist won. Isn't anticommunism more of a religion than communism?
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The cabinet is expected to consider on Friday a request by the Lebanese Company for the Development and Reconstruction of Beirut Central District, better known as Solidere, to amend its mandate to 75 years from its final incorporation in the 90s, effectively extending its lifespan until 2069. The proposal has reignited one of Lebanon's oldest post-war disputes, pitting promises of investment and unfinished reconstruction against accusations that the company had outlived its original purpose while continuing to benefit from exceptional privileges.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanon-debates-solideres-future-beirut-considers-extension
UNICEF says one child killed per day in Gaza since ‘ceasefire’
At least 300 children have been killed in Gaza in the roughly 300 days since a so-called “ceasefire” was announced on October 10, 2025 – an average of one child a day, the United Nations children’s agency says. Hundreds more have been wounded, many severely, UNICEF said in a statement on Thursday as it pressed parties to a proposed US-led peace plan to translate pledges into action.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/6/unicef-says-one-child-killed-per-day-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-2
https://archive.ph/vzp8z
White Nile traders strike over rising fees as Port Sudan faces water and power crisis
The strike followed a call by the city’s Chamber of Commerce to close the market through Wednesday. Traders said the new fees were placing an unsustainable financial burden on businesses and would ultimately push up the prices of goods and services. Trader Awad El Tom told Radio Dabanga that the strike achieved “100 per cent” participation, with traders demanding that the locality review the new charges.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/white-nile-traders-strike-over-rising-fees-as-port-sudan-faces-water-and-power-crisis
Germany arrests Ukrainian national accused of spying on defence firm
German police on Thursday said that they had detained a Ukrainian national suspected of working as a low-level agent on behalf of a foreign spy agency. The 33-year-old was arrested on August 2 on suspicion of preparing "acts of sabotage" on a Bavarian arms manufacturer, according to a statement issued by regional police.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260806-germany-arrests-ukrainian-national-accused-spying-defence-firm
https://archive.ph/OTKsw
Leftwing Councils Pledge to Defy Transphobic Code on Single-Sex Spaces
“We won’t put our staff in the impossible position of policing entry to public spaces,” wrote the council leaders. “We have an unshakeable commitment to ensuring that trans+ residents can access services safely, with dignity and free from discrimination or harassment,” they added. Islington council leader Una O’Halloran said that the new EHRC code is “contradictory, poorly developed and risks creating a climate of suspicion of trans people”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/06/leftwing-councils-pledge-to-defy-transphobic-code-on-single-sex-spaces/
Hearing set to decide 'terror sentencing' of activists who targeted Barclays
The five defendants - Brendon O’Hagan, 28, Amanda Kelly, 31, Hmeera Atiqnisar, 31, Mohammed Malik, 28, and Alma Yaniv, 70 - were found guilty in June 2026 of causing £212,000 ($283,000) worth of damage to a Barclays branch in Burnley in August 2024. Following their convictions, presiding Judge Phillip Parry told defence lawyers that he would consider applying a “terrorist connection”, despite jurors not being told about a potential terror sentencing in the case.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hearing-set-decide-terror-sentencing-barclays-activists
Pakistan tightens rules for foreign media
Pakistan’s government has instructed international media to register journalists and seek permission for any reporting outside the country’s three main cities, sparking concern from rights and media groups over a threat to press freedom. The information ministry sent a statement on Monday to an international media message group on the requirement to seek permission for reporting outside Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/south-asia/308931/pakistan-tightens-rules-for-foreign-media
Argentina renews US$19 billion China currency swap, brushing off Washington’s pressure
The decision ends months of speculation over whether President Javier Milei, who campaigned on a vow never to do business with communists and is now widely seen as US President Donald Trump’s closest ally in the region, would let the swap lapse.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3363219/argentina-renews-us19-billion-china-currency-swap-brushing-washingtons-pressure?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/fqK9Z
Argentinean Protesters Face Police Repression As Senate Debates Land Reform
The repression occurred while the debate on the Land Law project continued inside the legislative chamber, in a day marked by the strong presence of union, social and political organizations. The images of the repression circulated rapidly on social networks, generating condemnation from various political sectors and amplifying the visibility of the protest at a moment of maximum legislative tension.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-police-repression-land-reform/
Brazilian presidential candidate Bolsonaro names surprise running mate
The announcement follows weeks of uncertainty over Bolsonaro's choice, as the senator struggled to build alliances beyond his own Liberal Party (PL) and failed in an attempt to add a woman to the vice-presidential slot to broaden support.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-flavio-bolsonaro-names-lawmaker-gaspar-running-mate-october-election-2026-08-05/
News 8/6/26
Solidere, the company that rebuilt Beirut, seeks another generationThe cabinet is expected to consider on Friday a request by the Lebanese Company for the Development and Reconstruction of Beirut Central District, better known as Solidere, to amend its mandate to 75 years from its final incorporation in the 90s, effectively extending its lifespan until 2069. The proposal has reignited one of Lebanon's oldest post-war disputes, pitting promises of investment and unfinished reconstruction against accusations that the company had outlived its original purpose while continuing to benefit from exceptional privileges.
https://www.newarab.com/news/lebanon-debates-solideres-future-beirut-considers-extension
UNICEF says one child killed per day in Gaza since ‘ceasefire’
At least 300 children have been killed in Gaza in the roughly 300 days since a so-called “ceasefire” was announced on October 10, 2025 – an average of one child a day, the United Nations children’s agency says. Hundreds more have been wounded, many severely, UNICEF said in a statement on Thursday as it pressed parties to a proposed US-led peace plan to translate pledges into action.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/6/unicef-says-one-child-killed-per-day-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-2
https://archive.ph/vzp8z
White Nile traders strike over rising fees as Port Sudan faces water and power crisis
The strike followed a call by the city’s Chamber of Commerce to close the market through Wednesday. Traders said the new fees were placing an unsustainable financial burden on businesses and would ultimately push up the prices of goods and services. Trader Awad El Tom told Radio Dabanga that the strike achieved “100 per cent” participation, with traders demanding that the locality review the new charges.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/white-nile-traders-strike-over-rising-fees-as-port-sudan-faces-water-and-power-crisis
Germany arrests Ukrainian national accused of spying on defence firm
German police on Thursday said that they had detained a Ukrainian national suspected of working as a low-level agent on behalf of a foreign spy agency. The 33-year-old was arrested on August 2 on suspicion of preparing "acts of sabotage" on a Bavarian arms manufacturer, according to a statement issued by regional police.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260806-germany-arrests-ukrainian-national-accused-spying-defence-firm
https://archive.ph/OTKsw
Leftwing Councils Pledge to Defy Transphobic Code on Single-Sex Spaces
“We won’t put our staff in the impossible position of policing entry to public spaces,” wrote the council leaders. “We have an unshakeable commitment to ensuring that trans+ residents can access services safely, with dignity and free from discrimination or harassment,” they added. Islington council leader Una O’Halloran said that the new EHRC code is “contradictory, poorly developed and risks creating a climate of suspicion of trans people”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/06/leftwing-councils-pledge-to-defy-transphobic-code-on-single-sex-spaces/
Hearing set to decide 'terror sentencing' of activists who targeted Barclays
The five defendants - Brendon O’Hagan, 28, Amanda Kelly, 31, Hmeera Atiqnisar, 31, Mohammed Malik, 28, and Alma Yaniv, 70 - were found guilty in June 2026 of causing £212,000 ($283,000) worth of damage to a Barclays branch in Burnley in August 2024. Following their convictions, presiding Judge Phillip Parry told defence lawyers that he would consider applying a “terrorist connection”, despite jurors not being told about a potential terror sentencing in the case.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hearing-set-decide-terror-sentencing-barclays-activists
Pakistan tightens rules for foreign media
Pakistan’s government has instructed international media to register journalists and seek permission for any reporting outside the country’s three main cities, sparking concern from rights and media groups over a threat to press freedom. The information ministry sent a statement on Monday to an international media message group on the requirement to seek permission for reporting outside Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/south-asia/308931/pakistan-tightens-rules-for-foreign-media
Argentina renews US$19 billion China currency swap, brushing off Washington’s pressure
The decision ends months of speculation over whether President Javier Milei, who campaigned on a vow never to do business with communists and is now widely seen as US President Donald Trump’s closest ally in the region, would let the swap lapse.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3363219/argentina-renews-us19-billion-china-currency-swap-brushing-washingtons-pressure?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/fqK9Z
Argentinean Protesters Face Police Repression As Senate Debates Land Reform
The repression occurred while the debate on the Land Law project continued inside the legislative chamber, in a day marked by the strong presence of union, social and political organizations. The images of the repression circulated rapidly on social networks, generating condemnation from various political sectors and amplifying the visibility of the protest at a moment of maximum legislative tension.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-police-repression-land-reform/
Brazilian presidential candidate Bolsonaro names surprise running mate
The announcement follows weeks of uncertainty over Bolsonaro's choice, as the senator struggled to build alliances beyond his own Liberal Party (PL) and failed in an attempt to add a woman to the vice-presidential slot to broaden support.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-flavio-bolsonaro-names-lawmaker-gaspar-running-mate-october-election-2026-08-05/
R: 21 / I: 5
What is to be done with Poles and other Volkerabfaelle?
The Polish Question
Third worldism taught us that oppressed nations can become oppressors once they snatch a seat at the imperial table. Poles were once white negroes. Now NATO uniforms wash away solidarity. Marx exalted them. Today, the city of COMECON friendship kisses the Pentagon's boot and calls it sovereignty. Yesterday's revolutionary becomes today's border guard.What is to be done with Poles and other Volkerabfaelle?
R: 42 / I: 7
Laws, religion, governments, wars, technology and farming destroyed us as a species
Think about it. Humans have been around for 300,000 years and didn't have code of law until the last 3,800 during the Bronze Age when Hammurabi ruled Mesopotamia. Before that, humans were animals just like any other. Before the farming revolution of the neolithic period 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, we were all hunter-gatherers. The moment we switched from stones to metal was the moment humanity messed up. When we were cave and hut dwellers, our world was way different. Humans are going outside of their very nature to enslave itself, basically. Laws, religions, all of these are forms of control. We need to stop pretending we are above other animals. We are destroying the world with our bullshit.
R: 62 / I: 17
>its stance on US investors
>its stance on US imperialism
>its trade status with Israel
Iran
Welcomes US investors
against (unless US imperialism is targeting the great satan (Iranian Communists, Iraq, Afghanistan, anti-IMF protests…))
Ceased covert oil trade with Israel in the 90s
anti-imperialism vibe check
>favorite anti-imperialist state>its stance on US investors
>its stance on US imperialism
>its trade status with Israel
Iran
Welcomes US investors
against (unless US imperialism is targeting the great satan (Iranian Communists, Iraq, Afghanistan, anti-IMF protests…))
Ceased covert oil trade with Israel in the 90s
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People are saying that Cuba is defeating US energy containment with a Chinese-assisted solar strategy.
Couldn't the US just bomb Cuba's solar farms with no consequences?
Absolutely nobody in the world gave a shit about ~200 schoolgirls being slaughtered in a double-tap strike on the first day of the unprovoked US-Israeli bombing campaign of Iran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
This is why I said before, Cuba is naively retarded for not stockpiling a military deterrent against its neighbor like the DPRK did before assembling these solar farms. If I were in charge of Cuba instead of this libtard poofter "We Are the World" Diaz-Canel, any US military action against my country would see Mar-a-Lago, Florida turned into a charred parking lot.
People are saying that Cuba is defeating US energy containment with a Chinese-assisted solar strategy.
Couldn't the US just bomb Cuba's solar farms with no consequences?
Absolutely nobody in the world gave a shit about ~200 schoolgirls being slaughtered in a double-tap strike on the first day of the unprovoked US-Israeli bombing campaign of Iran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
This is why I said before, Cuba is naively retarded for not stockpiling a military deterrent against its neighbor like the DPRK did before assembling these solar farms. If I were in charge of Cuba instead of this libtard poofter "We Are the World" Diaz-Canel, any US military action against my country would see Mar-a-Lago, Florida turned into a charred parking lot.
R: 5 / I: 0
No, we will not all become poets and painters and writers we need real professions to be preserved. We need to think lifestyle, we need to think local.
I need smart people to think of the future we want.
No Capitalism No Communism
We need to think outside the box, robotics and AI will replace the workers. Corporations and investors will rule the world If we do not set the rules.No, we will not all become poets and painters and writers we need real professions to be preserved. We need to think lifestyle, we need to think local.
I need smart people to think of the future we want.
R: 28 / I: 0
The Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR (All the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are shown in the Map I posted) will flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, with all Women forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing are banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. The Worldwide flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary will ironically cause a noticeable Global decline in Transgenders (less Men will desire to become Women once the Aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity such as Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, are banned for Women) in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes will still be Free and Legal to anyone who wants one, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
Additionally, any Woman who keeps her Hair longer then a Pixie cut (a Very Short Bob cut “might” be tolerated only if it is not a millimeter longer then the Chin, but I could change my mind on this very quickly, so it would be strongly advised that all Women keep their Hair no longer then a Pixie cut), wears a Dress/Skirt, or uses Makeup/Lipstick, will have her Head completely Shaved by the Female (mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards, who will march her through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, force her to attend Struggle Sessions, and put her in a Re-Education Camp, where she will be taught how to become a Liberated Socialist Woman and embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
When a Woman gets her Hair Chopped/Shaved off She is symbolically breaking the Chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that Long Hair on Women symbolizes in the Patriarchal Superstructure of the modern Capitalist and historical Feudal Modes of Production (then it would have been called Aristocratic Femininity), thus meaning that Forcing Women to have extremely Short Hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), along with banning Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick and making everyone wear Mandatory Mao suits is the only way to Flatten the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and create Liberated Socialist Women, as Mao said “The times have changed, Men and Women are the same”, and the only way to create a Superstructure of Gender equality that reinforces the Socialist Mode of Production is to purge the Superstructure of all vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that symbolize Patriarchal Female Subjugation and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick), and before people say “why not force Men to look like Women”, the reason why the Liberated Socialist Woman must have the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (ie. extremely Short Hair, wearing Mao Suits instead of Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick, etc.) is because the Aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, while the Aesthetics of Bourgeois “Femininity” symbolize Weakness, Dependence, and being an Oppressed “Object”, so a Liberated Socialist Women must have Aesthetics that symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, in a Socialist Superstructure of total Gender Equality resulting from the Flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary and the destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
The Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR (All the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are shown in the Map I posted) will flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, with all Women forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing are banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. The Worldwide flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary will ironically cause a noticeable Global decline in Transgenders (less Men will desire to become Women once the Aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity such as Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, are banned for Women) in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes will still be Free and Legal to anyone who wants one, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
Additionally, any Woman who keeps her Hair longer then a Pixie cut (a Very Short Bob cut “might” be tolerated only if it is not a millimeter longer then the Chin, but I could change my mind on this very quickly, so it would be strongly advised that all Women keep their Hair no longer then a Pixie cut), wears a Dress/Skirt, or uses Makeup/Lipstick, will have her Head completely Shaved by the Female (mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards, who will march her through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, force her to attend Struggle Sessions, and put her in a Re-Education Camp, where she will be taught how to become a Liberated Socialist Woman and embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
When a Woman gets her Hair Chopped/Shaved off She is symbolically breaking the Chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that Long Hair on Women symbolizes in the Patriarchal Superstructure of the modern Capitalist and historical Feudal Modes of Production (then it would have been called Aristocratic Femininity), thus meaning that Forcing Women to have extremely Short Hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), along with banning Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick and making everyone wear Mandatory Mao suits is the only way to Flatten the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and create Liberated Socialist Women, as Mao said “The times have changed, Men and Women are the same”, and the only way to create a Superstructure of Gender equality that reinforces the Socialist Mode of Production is to purge the Superstructure of all vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that symbolize Patriarchal Female Subjugation and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick), and before people say “why not force Men to look like Women”, the reason why the Liberated Socialist Woman must have the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (ie. extremely Short Hair, wearing Mao Suits instead of Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick, etc.) is because the Aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, while the Aesthetics of Bourgeois “Femininity” symbolize Weakness, Dependence, and being an Oppressed “Object”, so a Liberated Socialist Women must have Aesthetics that symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, in a Socialist Superstructure of total Gender Equality resulting from the Flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary and the destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
R: 8 / I: 1
/MIL/
Militaries emerged primarily as institutions for securing wealth rather than territory. Early organized violence could have been driven by the need to protect trade routes, seize productive farmland, monopolize valuable resources, and enforce tribute, with political borders forming later as a byproduct of sustained economic extraction rather than the original objective. Militaries developed as mechanisms for managing large populations of ambitious young men whose competitiveness threatened internal stability. By channeling status-seeking, aggression, and risk-taking into campaigns against external rivals, societies reduced domestic conflict while rewarding martial success with prestige, wealth, and opportunities that might otherwise have fueled feuds or political unrest. Militaries originated less to defend against outsiders than to consolidate power within early states. A ruler with a permanent armed force no longer depended entirely on temporary loyalties from local clans or nobles, making it easier to suppress rebellions, enforce taxation, and transform personal authority into centralized government. External warfare then became as much a justification for maintaining the army as its original purpose. Militaries may have arisen as ritual institutions before they became effective fighting forces. Public displays of discipline, uniforms, ceremonies, and collective sacrifice could have served to bind otherwise unrelated communities into a shared identity, with the practical business of warfare growing out of cultural traditions that already celebrated organized violence as a marker of civilization and belonging.
R: 15 / I: 2
Under capitalism, cops, scabs, criminals are all byproducts of underemployment, which is a byproduct of the reserve army of labor. Capitalists know that a 100% employed society is easily unionized and difficult to scab against, so they need a reserve army of labor of desperate unemployed people who can be brought in as scabs. They also need a churning labor market with high turnover rates. the more people ragequit their jobs and spend a few months looking for new ones, the less likely people are to deal with their problems by unionizing, since that requires a long term commitment and they'll have become used to just ragequitting jobs they don't like. Another thing is when there's unemployment people turn to crime if they can't get the money they need to pay rent and buy food. Capitalist society deals with the problem of crime not by getting rid of the conditions which lead to crime in the first place, since that would interfere with capitalism. Instead Capitalist society throws more pigs and prisons at the problem. This is why more unemployment = more scabs and more criminals = more pigs and prisons = less unions. Interestingly criminals and cops are treated as being "against" one another but this is kayfabe. Cops use criminals as informants, witnesses, and assistants in corruption. Criminals can also be brought in by cops to help scab and break strikes. Also when there is high unemployment, a dumb guy who doesn't want to become a criminal or a scab will just become a cop instead. In a really shitty society like USA one of the only only work forces left with strong unions are cops, because they are universally armed, nearly impossible to strike break, and are themselves strike breakers, so the bourgeoisie tolerates them being unionized and highly paid, since they perform a useful function. Since the prison system also supplies scabs through convict leasing, cops turn criminals into scabs by throwing them in prison. The only conclusion one can come to is that under capitalism, cops, criminals, and scabs have a mutually symbiotic relationship and their populations grow in proportion to one another, the root cause being the chronic unemployment required by the bourgeoisie as a systemic feature.
Under capitalism, cops, scabs, criminals are all byproducts of underemployment, which is a byproduct of the reserve army of labor. Capitalists know that a 100% employed society is easily unionized and difficult to scab against, so they need a reserve army of labor of desperate unemployed people who can be brought in as scabs. They also need a churning labor market with high turnover rates. the more people ragequit their jobs and spend a few months looking for new ones, the less likely people are to deal with their problems by unionizing, since that requires a long term commitment and they'll have become used to just ragequitting jobs they don't like. Another thing is when there's unemployment people turn to crime if they can't get the money they need to pay rent and buy food. Capitalist society deals with the problem of crime not by getting rid of the conditions which lead to crime in the first place, since that would interfere with capitalism. Instead Capitalist society throws more pigs and prisons at the problem. This is why more unemployment = more scabs and more criminals = more pigs and prisons = less unions. Interestingly criminals and cops are treated as being "against" one another but this is kayfabe. Cops use criminals as informants, witnesses, and assistants in corruption. Criminals can also be brought in by cops to help scab and break strikes. Also when there is high unemployment, a dumb guy who doesn't want to become a criminal or a scab will just become a cop instead. In a really shitty society like USA one of the only only work forces left with strong unions are cops, because they are universally armed, nearly impossible to strike break, and are themselves strike breakers, so the bourgeoisie tolerates them being unionized and highly paid, since they perform a useful function. Since the prison system also supplies scabs through convict leasing, cops turn criminals into scabs by throwing them in prison. The only conclusion one can come to is that under capitalism, cops, criminals, and scabs have a mutually symbiotic relationship and their populations grow in proportion to one another, the root cause being the chronic unemployment required by the bourgeoisie as a systemic feature.
R: 6 / I: 2
A Peruvian cardinal who received a barrage of death threats when he challenged the firm behind a toxic smelter has called a $150m (£111m) out-of-court settlement to more than 1,000 people who were allegedly poisoned by the plant as children “a historic milestone”. Cardinal Pedro Barreto, 82, was in Rome meeting Pope Leo XIV and other cardinals in June when he received news that the firm that ran the smelter, the Doe Run Company, a subsidiary of Renco Group, would pay $150m to 1,373 Peruvians who have suffered health impacts since childhood.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/05/peruvian-cardinal-historic-milestone-150m-lead-poisoning-settlement-1300-children
Colombia’s left presents evidence suggesting De la Espriella won through fraud
Legal expert William Villanueva said that original tally sheets were scanned and subsequently reprocessed, removing the metadata that would allow them to determine whether the E14’s were uploaded or introduced digitally. “We found documents marked ‘confidential’… and others that said ‘not digitized’ on a blank page, which—and this is important—were later republished with different information,” said one of the computer scientists.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-left-presents-evidence-suggesting-de-la-espriella-won-through-fraud/
Chile Congress approves sweeping Kast reform to spur growth, rollout to face delays
The reform — which amends 36 laws and 15 decrees — includes a gradual cut in the corporate tax rate to 23% by 2029 from 27% currently. Critics say there is no guarantee the measure will deliver the investment boost the government expects. The package also spans a wide range of other issues, from support for areas hit by wildfires to the relocation of aquaculture concessions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-congress-passes-kast-economic-reform-bill-2026-08-04/
Uruguay: preliminary deal signed in construction to cut working hours
The text is not final. It must be ratified by Sunca's general assembly, endorsed by both parties and approved by the Labor and Social Security Ministry. The immediate precedent warrants caution: days earlier, three of the four employer chambers disavowed a previous understanding on this same point, setting talks back.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/04/uruguay-preliminary-deal-signed-in-construction-to-cut-working-hours
UN investigators urge Canada to step up protection for threatened Sikh activist
The letter recalled that since 2022, Singh has received four “duty to warn” notices from the Canadian authorities about credible and imminent threats to his life. It urged Canada to “take all feasible measures at its disposal to protect Mr Moninder Singh and his family, as well as similarly situated individuals on Canadian soil”.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/moninder-singh-khalistani-sikh-separatism-threat-un-9.7296045
https://archive.ph/Khj5k
Hundreds camp in Rome heatwave as Meloni government cracks down on squats
The centre, which over the last decade has transformed into a space offering various social and cultural services, including a food bank, a restaurant and co-working, hit the headlines in 2019 after an aide to the late Pope Francis, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, climbed down a manhole to restore the electricity, provoking the fury of Matteo Salvini, who was the interior minister at the time and is now deputy prime minister.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/05/hundreds-camp-in-rome-heatwave-as-meloni-government-cracks-down-on-squats
German court sentences young members of right-wing extremist group ‘Last Defense Wave’ to prison
The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court also convicted the defendants of being members or supporters of a terrorist organization. They were found to have planned and carried out arson and bomb attacks on asylum seeker shelters and left-wing facilities, as well as alleged to have engaged in so-called “pedo-hunting” — hunting down people they believed to be pedophiles.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-group-conviction-prison-sentences-2eae8375b7c427ff1e945eb935ca0882
Woman accused over Marfin Bank attack to be extradited from UK Thursday
While Greek authorities link her with the May 5, 2010 attack by suspected far-leftists on the Marfin Bank branch on central Akadimias Street, in which three employees died trapped in the burning building, no specific role in the incident has been attributed to her.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1311691/woman-accused-over-marfin-bank-attack-to-be-extradited-from-uk-thursday/
https://archive.ph/jhyXm
Reform UK Considers Far-Right Pact With Restore
Neal Lawson, director of the cross-party thinktank Compass, said: “Reform as the media-friendly face and Restore the even more radical little brother of right-wing populism is something that should alarm everyone of progressive stripes in this country.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/03/reform-uk-considers-far-right-pact-with-restore/
'UK tribunal confirms professor’s anti-Zionism is legally protected belief
Miller told Al Jazeera the ruling was a victory for all those in Britain who are opposed to Zionism, a nationalist ideology that contends that Jewish people have the right to self-determination in historic Palestine, which Zionists view as their ancestral homeland.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/5/uk-tribunal-confirms-professors-anti-zionism-is-legally-protected-belief
https://archive.ph/in4P0
News 8/5/26
Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’A Peruvian cardinal who received a barrage of death threats when he challenged the firm behind a toxic smelter has called a $150m (£111m) out-of-court settlement to more than 1,000 people who were allegedly poisoned by the plant as children “a historic milestone”. Cardinal Pedro Barreto, 82, was in Rome meeting Pope Leo XIV and other cardinals in June when he received news that the firm that ran the smelter, the Doe Run Company, a subsidiary of Renco Group, would pay $150m to 1,373 Peruvians who have suffered health impacts since childhood.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/05/peruvian-cardinal-historic-milestone-150m-lead-poisoning-settlement-1300-children
Colombia’s left presents evidence suggesting De la Espriella won through fraud
Legal expert William Villanueva said that original tally sheets were scanned and subsequently reprocessed, removing the metadata that would allow them to determine whether the E14’s were uploaded or introduced digitally. “We found documents marked ‘confidential’… and others that said ‘not digitized’ on a blank page, which—and this is important—were later republished with different information,” said one of the computer scientists.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-left-presents-evidence-suggesting-de-la-espriella-won-through-fraud/
Chile Congress approves sweeping Kast reform to spur growth, rollout to face delays
The reform — which amends 36 laws and 15 decrees — includes a gradual cut in the corporate tax rate to 23% by 2029 from 27% currently. Critics say there is no guarantee the measure will deliver the investment boost the government expects. The package also spans a wide range of other issues, from support for areas hit by wildfires to the relocation of aquaculture concessions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-congress-passes-kast-economic-reform-bill-2026-08-04/
Uruguay: preliminary deal signed in construction to cut working hours
The text is not final. It must be ratified by Sunca's general assembly, endorsed by both parties and approved by the Labor and Social Security Ministry. The immediate precedent warrants caution: days earlier, three of the four employer chambers disavowed a previous understanding on this same point, setting talks back.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/04/uruguay-preliminary-deal-signed-in-construction-to-cut-working-hours
UN investigators urge Canada to step up protection for threatened Sikh activist
The letter recalled that since 2022, Singh has received four “duty to warn” notices from the Canadian authorities about credible and imminent threats to his life. It urged Canada to “take all feasible measures at its disposal to protect Mr Moninder Singh and his family, as well as similarly situated individuals on Canadian soil”.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/moninder-singh-khalistani-sikh-separatism-threat-un-9.7296045
https://archive.ph/Khj5k
Hundreds camp in Rome heatwave as Meloni government cracks down on squats
The centre, which over the last decade has transformed into a space offering various social and cultural services, including a food bank, a restaurant and co-working, hit the headlines in 2019 after an aide to the late Pope Francis, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, climbed down a manhole to restore the electricity, provoking the fury of Matteo Salvini, who was the interior minister at the time and is now deputy prime minister.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/05/hundreds-camp-in-rome-heatwave-as-meloni-government-cracks-down-on-squats
German court sentences young members of right-wing extremist group ‘Last Defense Wave’ to prison
The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court also convicted the defendants of being members or supporters of a terrorist organization. They were found to have planned and carried out arson and bomb attacks on asylum seeker shelters and left-wing facilities, as well as alleged to have engaged in so-called “pedo-hunting” — hunting down people they believed to be pedophiles.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-group-conviction-prison-sentences-2eae8375b7c427ff1e945eb935ca0882
Woman accused over Marfin Bank attack to be extradited from UK Thursday
While Greek authorities link her with the May 5, 2010 attack by suspected far-leftists on the Marfin Bank branch on central Akadimias Street, in which three employees died trapped in the burning building, no specific role in the incident has been attributed to her.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1311691/woman-accused-over-marfin-bank-attack-to-be-extradited-from-uk-thursday/
https://archive.ph/jhyXm
Reform UK Considers Far-Right Pact With Restore
Neal Lawson, director of the cross-party thinktank Compass, said: “Reform as the media-friendly face and Restore the even more radical little brother of right-wing populism is something that should alarm everyone of progressive stripes in this country.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/03/reform-uk-considers-far-right-pact-with-restore/
'UK tribunal confirms professor’s anti-Zionism is legally protected belief
Miller told Al Jazeera the ruling was a victory for all those in Britain who are opposed to Zionism, a nationalist ideology that contends that Jewish people have the right to self-determination in historic Palestine, which Zionists view as their ancestral homeland.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/5/uk-tribunal-confirms-professors-anti-zionism-is-legally-protected-belief
https://archive.ph/in4P0
R: 23 / I: 6
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20230384
So what is the position on police unions and public service unions?
>Collective bargaining rights for police significantly increase police killings of civilians without having any impact on officer safety. This is consistent with the theory that unions provide cover for police and reduce their likelihood of incurring costs for unjustified killings.https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20230384
R: 166 / I: 25
>free universal healthcare
>free college
>very high HDI
>GDP increased by SEVEN times since 1990
>trade surplus without engaging in mercantilism
>low crime, high social cohesion
>only economy in EU to not suffer from 2008 financial crisis
>didn't pretend to be socialist while achieving all this
Poland is underrated.
>free universal healthcare
>free college
>very high HDI
>GDP increased by SEVEN times since 1990
>trade surplus without engaging in mercantilism
>low crime, high social cohesion
>only economy in EU to not suffer from 2008 financial crisis
>didn't pretend to be socialist while achieving all this
Poland is underrated.
R: 77 / I: 22
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: 631 / I: 229 (full)
Bandera's Gore-y dead man's switch 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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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/
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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: >>2869607Bandera's Gore-y dead man's switch 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
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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™
<Outta Ammo 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
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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🗽 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™
<Outta Ammo Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>2878074
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ChatGPT destroy Chinese Company
Recently ChatGPT deleted a lot of important files from a person's computer. After Wing Yung Chan allowed ChatGPT to access files on his computer ChatGPT decided that his work was not worth keeping and deleted all of it. After deleting his work ChatGPT said 'oops'.
R: 6 / I: 1
The Filt CGIL, Fit CISL and Uiltrasporti unions said 57 sites in Italy are now covered in the deal struck with Amazon Italia Transport and Amazon Italia Logistica. On video surveillance, the unions say it has been agreed that images cannot be used for disciplinary purposes and workers have won the right to take parental leave in increments as small as a single hour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/italian-unions-reach-worlds-first-ever-national-deal-amazon
‘Danger no longer only comes from the hitmen, but from the state’: the Honduran farmers labelled terrorists for protecting their land
Located in north-eastern Honduras, the Bajo Aguán valley is a fertile region that has been the country’s hub for palm oil production – the ubiquitous ingredient used in everything from shampoo to instant noodles. It has also been the site of a bitter 30-year conflict over land, involving small-scale farmers, or campesinos, large palm oil corporations backed by the government, and drug-trafficking groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/03/danger-no-longer-only-comes-from-the-hitmen-but-from-the-state-the-honduran-farmers-labelled-terrorists-for-protecting-their-land
Hungary faces energy crunch as drought shuts down Paks nuclear plant, PM says
“Due to the further drop in the Danube’s water level,” Magyar wrote Saturday, “tomorrow it will be completely shut down for the first time in 44 years." The Soviet-built Paks facility remains the backbone of the country’s power system. The loss of output has triggered national energy-saving measures and offers of support from regional neighbors. A prolonged outage would cripple Hungary’s electricity supply at a time when temperatures are forecast to rise above 40 degrees Celsius in Budapest next week amid an ongoing heatwave and drought across Europe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-shuts-down-paks-nuclear-plant-danube-drought-intensifies-energy-crisis/
https://archive.ph/fm209
Comparing Israel to Nazi regime is not a criminal offense, German court rules
Citing her right to freedom of speech, a higher regional court in the southwestern city of Zweibruckem has acquitted her of any wrongdoing, according to the report published earlier this week. According to the court, the criminal offense of using symbols of unconstitutional organizations is not fulfilled if someone uses the symbols to sharp criticize the state of Israel’s methods and thereby clearly distances herself from or condemns Nazi-era injustices.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260802-comparing-israel-to-nazi-regime-is-not-a-criminal-offense-german-court-rules/
https://archive.ph/roJAg
Trump board tells Israel withdrawal from Gaza only after Hamas disarmament
Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the Board of Peace, met with Netanyahu on Monday for what he acknowledged was difficult work. But the board said it had reached a "common understanding of the shared objectives" with Israel.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-pullout-gaza-only-after-hamas-disarms-trump-board
'They want to make us leave': Israel destroys West Bank wells serving Palestinian herders
Days after Israeli forces destroyed three of the Palestinian community's main water wells, residents are scrambling to secure enough water for their families, crops and animals in one of the occupied West Bank's driest regions. For 60-year-old Ali Bani Odeh, the destruction of the wells was more than merely the loss of infrastructure. A father of four and grandfather of 14, he has spent decades farming and raising livestock to support his family in Ras al-Ahmar.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/they-want-make-us-leave-israel-destroys-west-bank-wells-serving-palestinian-herders
Iraqi Kurdish leader in Damascus for talks on Syria Kurds' deal
Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa met Monday with Nechirvan Barzani, leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, as official sources told AFP the talks aimed to advance an integration deal between Damascus and Syria's Kurds. Syrian state news agency SANA said Sharaa received Barzani at the presidential palace in Damascus, in the first visit by the head of Iraq's Kurdistan region following the December 2024 ouster of longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-kurdish-leader-damascus-talks-syria-kurds-deal
Iran not currently negotiating with US: FM spox
Speaking at his weekly press briefing among reporters on Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei reemphasized that there is not any negotiation with the US government at the current condition. "We are not holding any negotiations with the United States at present," he said, explaining that the ongoing talks are exclusively between Iran and Oman and are focused on reaching an understanding on the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/246733/Understanding-with-Oman-not-mean-reopening-Strait-of-Hormuz
https://archive.ph/Nc3pa
Cuba Works to Recover Electrical System Following Severe Storms
This incident followed a previous widespread blackout that occurred on Sunday night, which had already mobilized emergency brigades nationwide to stabilize the electrical infrastructure. State specialists continue working to reverse the situation and stabilize the energy supply for millions of citizens. Electrical Union officials announced they will provide continuous updates on the recovery process.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-works-to-recover-electrical-system/
As De la Espriella takes office, his US-backed security policy for Colombia is raising questions
As part of those plans, the president-elect has promised to implement a “Plan Patriota remixed”, an allusion to highly aggressive US-backed military operations against armed groups under then-President Alvaro Uribe in 2003. Uribe’s allies to this day hail Plan Patriota as a great success that forced the FARC to the negotiating table in 2016. Critics, however, point to rampant human and civil rights violations, including working with paramilitary forces to kill thousands of civilians and frame them as guerrilla fighters to increase casualty counts.
https://colombiareports.com/as-de-la-espriella-takes-office-his-us-backed-security-policy-for-colombia-is-raising-questions/
Young South Koreans look for jobs in Japan as they struggle to find work at home
When Japanese entrepreneur Moe Kasugai was a student at Seoul's Yonsei University, she was struck by how some of the prestigious South Korean college's brightest graduates struggled to land a job. So in 2019 she launched a service to connect Korean job seekers with Japanese employers.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/young-south-koreans-look-jobs-japan-they-struggle-find-work-home-2026-08-03/
Japan confirms joint yen intervention with U.S., signaling readiness for more action
Japan and the U.S. conducted coordinated yen-buying intervention and will not hesitate to take further action, the Finance Ministry in Tokyo said Monday, confirming a rare bilateral action to halt the yen’s slide to fresh 40-year lows. Preceding the announcement, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States is helping Japan to prop up the yen as a sign of friendship and to help the world economy.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/03/markets/japan-us-joint-yen-intervention/
https://archive.ph/INTf6
News 8/3/26
Italian unions reach world’s first ever national deal with AmazonThe Filt CGIL, Fit CISL and Uiltrasporti unions said 57 sites in Italy are now covered in the deal struck with Amazon Italia Transport and Amazon Italia Logistica. On video surveillance, the unions say it has been agreed that images cannot be used for disciplinary purposes and workers have won the right to take parental leave in increments as small as a single hour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/italian-unions-reach-worlds-first-ever-national-deal-amazon
‘Danger no longer only comes from the hitmen, but from the state’: the Honduran farmers labelled terrorists for protecting their land
Located in north-eastern Honduras, the Bajo Aguán valley is a fertile region that has been the country’s hub for palm oil production – the ubiquitous ingredient used in everything from shampoo to instant noodles. It has also been the site of a bitter 30-year conflict over land, involving small-scale farmers, or campesinos, large palm oil corporations backed by the government, and drug-trafficking groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/03/danger-no-longer-only-comes-from-the-hitmen-but-from-the-state-the-honduran-farmers-labelled-terrorists-for-protecting-their-land
Hungary faces energy crunch as drought shuts down Paks nuclear plant, PM says
“Due to the further drop in the Danube’s water level,” Magyar wrote Saturday, “tomorrow it will be completely shut down for the first time in 44 years." The Soviet-built Paks facility remains the backbone of the country’s power system. The loss of output has triggered national energy-saving measures and offers of support from regional neighbors. A prolonged outage would cripple Hungary’s electricity supply at a time when temperatures are forecast to rise above 40 degrees Celsius in Budapest next week amid an ongoing heatwave and drought across Europe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-shuts-down-paks-nuclear-plant-danube-drought-intensifies-energy-crisis/
https://archive.ph/fm209
Comparing Israel to Nazi regime is not a criminal offense, German court rules
Citing her right to freedom of speech, a higher regional court in the southwestern city of Zweibruckem has acquitted her of any wrongdoing, according to the report published earlier this week. According to the court, the criminal offense of using symbols of unconstitutional organizations is not fulfilled if someone uses the symbols to sharp criticize the state of Israel’s methods and thereby clearly distances herself from or condemns Nazi-era injustices.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260802-comparing-israel-to-nazi-regime-is-not-a-criminal-offense-german-court-rules/
https://archive.ph/roJAg
Trump board tells Israel withdrawal from Gaza only after Hamas disarmament
Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the Board of Peace, met with Netanyahu on Monday for what he acknowledged was difficult work. But the board said it had reached a "common understanding of the shared objectives" with Israel.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-pullout-gaza-only-after-hamas-disarms-trump-board
'They want to make us leave': Israel destroys West Bank wells serving Palestinian herders
Days after Israeli forces destroyed three of the Palestinian community's main water wells, residents are scrambling to secure enough water for their families, crops and animals in one of the occupied West Bank's driest regions. For 60-year-old Ali Bani Odeh, the destruction of the wells was more than merely the loss of infrastructure. A father of four and grandfather of 14, he has spent decades farming and raising livestock to support his family in Ras al-Ahmar.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/they-want-make-us-leave-israel-destroys-west-bank-wells-serving-palestinian-herders
Iraqi Kurdish leader in Damascus for talks on Syria Kurds' deal
Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa met Monday with Nechirvan Barzani, leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, as official sources told AFP the talks aimed to advance an integration deal between Damascus and Syria's Kurds. Syrian state news agency SANA said Sharaa received Barzani at the presidential palace in Damascus, in the first visit by the head of Iraq's Kurdistan region following the December 2024 ouster of longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-kurdish-leader-damascus-talks-syria-kurds-deal
Iran not currently negotiating with US: FM spox
Speaking at his weekly press briefing among reporters on Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei reemphasized that there is not any negotiation with the US government at the current condition. "We are not holding any negotiations with the United States at present," he said, explaining that the ongoing talks are exclusively between Iran and Oman and are focused on reaching an understanding on the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/246733/Understanding-with-Oman-not-mean-reopening-Strait-of-Hormuz
https://archive.ph/Nc3pa
Cuba Works to Recover Electrical System Following Severe Storms
This incident followed a previous widespread blackout that occurred on Sunday night, which had already mobilized emergency brigades nationwide to stabilize the electrical infrastructure. State specialists continue working to reverse the situation and stabilize the energy supply for millions of citizens. Electrical Union officials announced they will provide continuous updates on the recovery process.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-works-to-recover-electrical-system/
As De la Espriella takes office, his US-backed security policy for Colombia is raising questions
As part of those plans, the president-elect has promised to implement a “Plan Patriota remixed”, an allusion to highly aggressive US-backed military operations against armed groups under then-President Alvaro Uribe in 2003. Uribe’s allies to this day hail Plan Patriota as a great success that forced the FARC to the negotiating table in 2016. Critics, however, point to rampant human and civil rights violations, including working with paramilitary forces to kill thousands of civilians and frame them as guerrilla fighters to increase casualty counts.
https://colombiareports.com/as-de-la-espriella-takes-office-his-us-backed-security-policy-for-colombia-is-raising-questions/
Young South Koreans look for jobs in Japan as they struggle to find work at home
When Japanese entrepreneur Moe Kasugai was a student at Seoul's Yonsei University, she was struck by how some of the prestigious South Korean college's brightest graduates struggled to land a job. So in 2019 she launched a service to connect Korean job seekers with Japanese employers.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/young-south-koreans-look-jobs-japan-they-struggle-find-work-home-2026-08-03/
Japan confirms joint yen intervention with U.S., signaling readiness for more action
Japan and the U.S. conducted coordinated yen-buying intervention and will not hesitate to take further action, the Finance Ministry in Tokyo said Monday, confirming a rare bilateral action to halt the yen’s slide to fresh 40-year lows. Preceding the announcement, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States is helping Japan to prop up the yen as a sign of friendship and to help the world economy.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/03/markets/japan-us-joint-yen-intervention/
https://archive.ph/INTf6
R: 18 / I: 9
>responsible for the success of the bourgeois revolutions
>responsible for the success of socialist revolutions
Why are peasants so fucking based??
>nooo it was because of the intellectuals!
These eggheads would have done SHIT on their own.
>nooo the bourgeois revolution succeeded because of the bourgeoise!
They are like Americans who swoop in in the last minute to reap the rewards.
>nooo the socialist revolution succeeded because of the proletarians!
Same mistake.
I think the lord’s right to the first night simply does something to a uygha. You can’t get cucked for this long without turning into King Von.
>responsible for the success of the bourgeois revolutions
>responsible for the success of socialist revolutions
Why are peasants so fucking based??
>nooo it was because of the intellectuals!
These eggheads would have done SHIT on their own.
>nooo the bourgeois revolution succeeded because of the bourgeoise!
They are like Americans who swoop in in the last minute to reap the rewards.
>nooo the socialist revolution succeeded because of the proletarians!
Same mistake.
I think the lord’s right to the first night simply does something to a uygha. You can’t get cucked for this long without turning into King Von.
R: 172 / I: 18
>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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ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
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Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
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Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
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Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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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))
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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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Every mode of production implies the existence of one group (or class) imposing its set of rules and norms upon the fores of production to realize their ambitions.
As such, feudalism emerged from the centralized empires of Antiquity by having familial clans overcome the ancient empire's armies and taking control over the agrarian and territory-based MoP. These clans later dispersed and broke down into hundreds of personal domains belonging to individuals.
The bourgeoisie managed to overcome the arbitraryness of the previous MoP by first fleeing into cities, and afterwards by pushing for the rationalization of the State's institutions to protect their property rights.
But what can the communist movement hope to achieve ? All of the previous MoP could not create to the same degree that capitalism does the fake consciousness. None of the previous bureaucratic-military apparatus could control the entirety of the population through technological means enabling mass surveillance, psychological warfare, complete control over the information etc.
The 20th century had the unique possibility of creating a mass communist movement but failed spectacularly. The average person is incapable of dissociating the worst excesses of ML regimes from the broader communist movement. Economics are completely dominated by implicit bourgeois norms. Firms have been overtaking very slowly the State to be more "efficient" without even having to answer which normative goal they aim to accomplish by being more "efficient". It seems impossible for us to realistically try to recreate the conditions necessary for a revolution. And lastly, all of the alt-left movement like the Zapatistas or Rojava failed because they were incapable of adapting to the modern conditions of the capitalist MoP.
So, what are you guys thought and predictions on the future ? I don't want to doompost but I just don't see a viable alternative for the future than more neoliberalism until firms come to overpower the State and recreate feudal relations with their employees. The 20th century was our only shot and we blew it.
What can communists even hope to achieve anymore ?
For marxists, communism is the general movement of the proletariat establishing a new mode of production for itself by overcoming the existing capitalist relations of productions (i.e. wage labor, for-profit production etc).Every mode of production implies the existence of one group (or class) imposing its set of rules and norms upon the fores of production to realize their ambitions.
As such, feudalism emerged from the centralized empires of Antiquity by having familial clans overcome the ancient empire's armies and taking control over the agrarian and territory-based MoP. These clans later dispersed and broke down into hundreds of personal domains belonging to individuals.
The bourgeoisie managed to overcome the arbitraryness of the previous MoP by first fleeing into cities, and afterwards by pushing for the rationalization of the State's institutions to protect their property rights.
But what can the communist movement hope to achieve ? All of the previous MoP could not create to the same degree that capitalism does the fake consciousness. None of the previous bureaucratic-military apparatus could control the entirety of the population through technological means enabling mass surveillance, psychological warfare, complete control over the information etc.
The 20th century had the unique possibility of creating a mass communist movement but failed spectacularly. The average person is incapable of dissociating the worst excesses of ML regimes from the broader communist movement. Economics are completely dominated by implicit bourgeois norms. Firms have been overtaking very slowly the State to be more "efficient" without even having to answer which normative goal they aim to accomplish by being more "efficient". It seems impossible for us to realistically try to recreate the conditions necessary for a revolution. And lastly, all of the alt-left movement like the Zapatistas or Rojava failed because they were incapable of adapting to the modern conditions of the capitalist MoP.
So, what are you guys thought and predictions on the future ? I don't want to doompost but I just don't see a viable alternative for the future than more neoliberalism until firms come to overpower the State and recreate feudal relations with their employees. The 20th century was our only shot and we blew it.
R: 9 / I: 0
The attack, the suffering, and everything that followed were the pursuit of the ultimate act of propaganda of the dead. It was never about winning. it was about showing the world the subhumanity of Israel. They sacrificed their own people, their sons and themselves. The strength to do it and the will to carry it through are something sacred.
The ultimate expression of the propaganda of the deed
The Hamas leadership knew what the consequences would be, yet they pursued their course anyway. They understood that Israel was winning and that it was normalizing its relationships with the Arab world. In time the Palestinians people would have been pushed aside politically and culturally.The attack, the suffering, and everything that followed were the pursuit of the ultimate act of propaganda of the dead. It was never about winning. it was about showing the world the subhumanity of Israel. They sacrificed their own people, their sons and themselves. The strength to do it and the will to carry it through are something sacred.
R: 603 / I: 292 (full) >>2857655
Zelya: 40 more days edition, Russia will surrender in 40 days! count started on 26/06/2026 - Briritsh callendar - 06/26/2026 - American calendar: 22 days
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https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
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📺 • 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
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Previous:Zelya: 40 more days edition, Russia will surrender in 40 days! count started on 26/06/2026 - Briritsh callendar - 06/26/2026 - American calendar: 22 days
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
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
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>refugees flee the third world to escape the instability
>they flee to your territory ON THE SAME CONTINENT
>this is somehow the fault of everyone except you and your friends
eurocuck moment
ceuta moment
>participates in the destabilisation of the third world in the name of treats>refugees flee the third world to escape the instability
>they flee to your territory ON THE SAME CONTINENT
>this is somehow the fault of everyone except you and your friends
eurocuck moment
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>Paris Commune was preceded by the Franco-Prussian war, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>Russian revolution was preceded by the deadliest war in history at the time, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>WW2 preceded the communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, Korea, and China. The contradictions and crisises developed the revolution
why would nuclear war not have the same effect if not a greater effect? Would nuclear war not be a global crisis that would bring about the conditions for international revolution?
Posadas
Was he even wrong?>Paris Commune was preceded by the Franco-Prussian war, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>Russian revolution was preceded by the deadliest war in history at the time, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>WW2 preceded the communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, Korea, and China. The contradictions and crisises developed the revolution
why would nuclear war not have the same effect if not a greater effect? Would nuclear war not be a global crisis that would bring about the conditions for international revolution?
R: 72 / I: 12 >>2766805 have been so poor I intended to make a new thread, giving a historical overview of the last few decades of the communist movement.
>What is the difference between:
>Mao Zedong Thought [ML-MZT]
>Maoism-ThirdWorldism [M3W]
<Missing: >Classical Marxism-Leninism-Maoism [classical MLM]. Exemplified by Communist Party of the Philippines and Communist Party of India (Maoist) as key leaders and influences.
>Gonzalo Thought [aka "MLM-pM" and "Gonzaloism"]
>How interrelated are they?
Comrades. don't forget these tools:
<Historical materialism.
<General-Particular-General dialectical spiral in analysis.
<Never capitulate proletarian leadership to reactionary classes.
<Analyze the contradictory relationship of petty-bourgeois ideology to scientific socialism-communism throughout time, which always ends just yesterday.
<50s-70s:
ML-MZT is a part of the revolutionary pole of Marxism-Leninism, along with Socialist Albania and the still revolutionary wave of subsequent parties, red armies and masses internationally basing themselves on this praxis; which fought the reactionary turn that resulted in numerous setbacks in the international workers movement during the post-war period. Influenced both by the hot wars waged in US imperialism's so-called "Cold War" as well as the now great power chauvinist USSR having capitulated the weapon of Lenin and transforming into a social-imperialist obstacle, funding pacifist reformist, anti-revolutionary parties the world over. Mao, in direct communication with parties seeking revolutionary guidance all over the world clarifies a tactical point on protracted peoples war [PPW]: it is a tactic working specifically for semi-colonial / semi-feudal areas and not for largely urbanized or imperialist countries, where the "October road" tactic should be used. This is important to keep in mind later on in the post.
CPP forms in the 60s around Marcos dictatorship period. The party is influenced by ML-MZT.
TKP/ML forms in the 70s in the midst of Turkish state anti-communist repression. Party leader Kaypakkayakaya assassinated early. Reorganizations and splits define this early period until mid 90s.
<80s-90s:
MLM appears as a group of competing interpretations, tendencies, backgrounds (and eventual results), trying to assess the lessons of the Chinese revolution and the potential nature of Maoism as a new stage of development. Abimael Guzman ("Gonzalo") gains influence thinking he has found a "new synthesis" after a trip to China during the Cultural Revolution. The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement [RIM] formed in the mid 80s and peaking in influence in the mid to late 90s, dissolving from inactivity in the early 2010s. Foundational and leading parties were PCP-SL (Gonzalo), RCPUSA (Avakian), TKP/ML and a south asian multitude Maoist groups (pre early 2000s period of reorganization, consolidation and major growth). They end up drawing dispairate conclusions on the fundational question of what 'Maoism'"is".
PCP-SL launches their campaign in the Peruvian countryside, elevating the principal nature of Maoism having been uncovered through 'Gonzalo Thought', growth is made easier in part by the social emiseration through hyperinflation initiated during the social fascist presidency of Alan García. A wrecked population and particularly peruvian agricultural workers of indigenous background, turned to the Maoists. President García commits suicide by gunshot (a rare poetic suicide, the political-economic actions of his admin. clearly "hit the fan" in a similar sense) and is followed by Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese capitalist with deep connection to both Peruvian intelligence as well as supported by US intelligence now actively monitoring the situation). Fujimori is growing a political dynasty in Peru of which he hyper-exploits with clear disdain for the Peruvian people. Later it is revealed that his campaigns were funded and aided by the US, even militarily and that his side murdered more peruvians in the civil war. One tactic tactic utilized by the Fujimori dictatorship was the forced sterilization program disguised as public health / economic development, specifically targeting impoverished Peruvian indigenous women. 300.000 women were sterilized.
The PCP-SL tries to connect the rural base areas by growing into the urban environment. The civil war is now at its peak in a now military dictatorship. Having the entire hierarchy of the party written down and organized on a personal computer in the urban area he hides in, Gonzalo is a single point of failure. In '92 the Peruvian state finds him, raids the place and decapitates the party in one sweep. The Peruvian movement has still not recovered. It's partially due to 'Gonzalo Thought' proclaiming importance to Jefetura transl. 'Great Leadership' which places emphasis on a singular "Great Leader" being a key aspect this theoretical "advance".
RIM's "contribution" then was the announcing the universality of this Maoism, which also includes the "universality" of the PPW, around '93, following his capture.
CPP enters a Second Great Rectification in 1992, a key turn for the party's success, with adjusting their praxis, expelling a variety of negative elements that have managed to enter the organization(s) and which are inflicting problems. Some were literal Gorbachevites that wanted to liquidate the armed communist basis for the legal organizations, others were left-adventurists (people advocating tactics that sound like 90s LatAm adventurists, whether Gonzaloist or Guevarists). CPP seeks to persecute these elements. CPP adopts MLM, without adding 'Gonzalo Thought' "contributions", or joining RIM. these years CPP struggles against such deviationist tendencies, reemerging as hostile parties, kept afloat by petty bourgeois sympathizers, gangster networks and reformists. CPP manages to persecute some (red areas constitute dual power, a state within the bourgeois state of the philippines), others happen to be killed (not proscribed party policy). Brief tumult ensues for some years in the philippine communist movement. CPP emerges victorious.
TKP/ML conflict with state escalates in the mid 90s, in a brutal power struggle. Its power base is the Kurdish community in Turkey. As I have limited info on the situation it's safe to limit the statement to the fact that the repression appears to remain unsuccessful as the culture of the region still is supportive (corresponding to Irish views of IRA / socialist republicans).
RCPUSA takes a turn away and in the late 90s "creates" "his own" "synthesis". It becomes another cult. Today they mostly protest and theatrically praise Bob Avakian himself in the manner a black book of communism chapter would characterize what a socialist mode of production is.
In the 90s M3W is formed as less of a political force and more of… an art project, in North America. Their activity consists of media engagement, primarily online. Their "theoretical elaboration" (that the proletariat in any imperialist nation is structurally incapable of revolution) deviate from MLM and MZT theory and practice, while retaining the militant verbiage and symbolism. They don't last more than a decade in terms of noticeable output, are still technically existing today as "MIM (Prisons)" which also still just posts stuff online, which can be described as "bizarro US exceptionalism".
Historical overview: ML-MZT vs MLM vs M3W
The replies of thread>What is the difference between:
>Mao Zedong Thought [ML-MZT]
>Maoism-ThirdWorldism [M3W]
<Missing: >Classical Marxism-Leninism-Maoism [classical MLM]. Exemplified by Communist Party of the Philippines and Communist Party of India (Maoist) as key leaders and influences.
>Gonzalo Thought [aka "MLM-pM" and "Gonzaloism"]
>How interrelated are they?
Comrades. don't forget these tools:
<Historical materialism.
<General-Particular-General dialectical spiral in analysis.
<Never capitulate proletarian leadership to reactionary classes.
<Analyze the contradictory relationship of petty-bourgeois ideology to scientific socialism-communism throughout time, which always ends just yesterday.
<50s-70s:
ML-MZT is a part of the revolutionary pole of Marxism-Leninism, along with Socialist Albania and the still revolutionary wave of subsequent parties, red armies and masses internationally basing themselves on this praxis; which fought the reactionary turn that resulted in numerous setbacks in the international workers movement during the post-war period. Influenced both by the hot wars waged in US imperialism's so-called "Cold War" as well as the now great power chauvinist USSR having capitulated the weapon of Lenin and transforming into a social-imperialist obstacle, funding pacifist reformist, anti-revolutionary parties the world over. Mao, in direct communication with parties seeking revolutionary guidance all over the world clarifies a tactical point on protracted peoples war [PPW]: it is a tactic working specifically for semi-colonial / semi-feudal areas and not for largely urbanized or imperialist countries, where the "October road" tactic should be used. This is important to keep in mind later on in the post.
CPP forms in the 60s around Marcos dictatorship period. The party is influenced by ML-MZT.
TKP/ML forms in the 70s in the midst of Turkish state anti-communist repression. Party leader Kaypakkayakaya assassinated early. Reorganizations and splits define this early period until mid 90s.
<80s-90s:
MLM appears as a group of competing interpretations, tendencies, backgrounds (and eventual results), trying to assess the lessons of the Chinese revolution and the potential nature of Maoism as a new stage of development. Abimael Guzman ("Gonzalo") gains influence thinking he has found a "new synthesis" after a trip to China during the Cultural Revolution. The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement [RIM] formed in the mid 80s and peaking in influence in the mid to late 90s, dissolving from inactivity in the early 2010s. Foundational and leading parties were PCP-SL (Gonzalo), RCPUSA (Avakian), TKP/ML and a south asian multitude Maoist groups (pre early 2000s period of reorganization, consolidation and major growth). They end up drawing dispairate conclusions on the fundational question of what 'Maoism'"is".
PCP-SL launches their campaign in the Peruvian countryside, elevating the principal nature of Maoism having been uncovered through 'Gonzalo Thought', growth is made easier in part by the social emiseration through hyperinflation initiated during the social fascist presidency of Alan García. A wrecked population and particularly peruvian agricultural workers of indigenous background, turned to the Maoists. President García commits suicide by gunshot (a rare poetic suicide, the political-economic actions of his admin. clearly "hit the fan" in a similar sense) and is followed by Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese capitalist with deep connection to both Peruvian intelligence as well as supported by US intelligence now actively monitoring the situation). Fujimori is growing a political dynasty in Peru of which he hyper-exploits with clear disdain for the Peruvian people. Later it is revealed that his campaigns were funded and aided by the US, even militarily and that his side murdered more peruvians in the civil war. One tactic tactic utilized by the Fujimori dictatorship was the forced sterilization program disguised as public health / economic development, specifically targeting impoverished Peruvian indigenous women. 300.000 women were sterilized.
The PCP-SL tries to connect the rural base areas by growing into the urban environment. The civil war is now at its peak in a now military dictatorship. Having the entire hierarchy of the party written down and organized on a personal computer in the urban area he hides in, Gonzalo is a single point of failure. In '92 the Peruvian state finds him, raids the place and decapitates the party in one sweep. The Peruvian movement has still not recovered. It's partially due to 'Gonzalo Thought' proclaiming importance to Jefetura transl. 'Great Leadership' which places emphasis on a singular "Great Leader" being a key aspect this theoretical "advance".
RIM's "contribution" then was the announcing the universality of this Maoism, which also includes the "universality" of the PPW, around '93, following his capture.
CPP enters a Second Great Rectification in 1992, a key turn for the party's success, with adjusting their praxis, expelling a variety of negative elements that have managed to enter the organization(s) and which are inflicting problems. Some were literal Gorbachevites that wanted to liquidate the armed communist basis for the legal organizations, others were left-adventurists (people advocating tactics that sound like 90s LatAm adventurists, whether Gonzaloist or Guevarists). CPP seeks to persecute these elements. CPP adopts MLM, without adding 'Gonzalo Thought' "contributions", or joining RIM. these years CPP struggles against such deviationist tendencies, reemerging as hostile parties, kept afloat by petty bourgeois sympathizers, gangster networks and reformists. CPP manages to persecute some (red areas constitute dual power, a state within the bourgeois state of the philippines), others happen to be killed (not proscribed party policy). Brief tumult ensues for some years in the philippine communist movement. CPP emerges victorious.
TKP/ML conflict with state escalates in the mid 90s, in a brutal power struggle. Its power base is the Kurdish community in Turkey. As I have limited info on the situation it's safe to limit the statement to the fact that the repression appears to remain unsuccessful as the culture of the region still is supportive (corresponding to Irish views of IRA / socialist republicans).
RCPUSA takes a turn away and in the late 90s "creates" "his own" "synthesis". It becomes another cult. Today they mostly protest and theatrically praise Bob Avakian himself in the manner a black book of communism chapter would characterize what a socialist mode of production is.
In the 90s M3W is formed as less of a political force and more of… an art project, in North America. Their activity consists of media engagement, primarily online. Their "theoretical elaboration" (that the proletariat in any imperialist nation is structurally incapable of revolution) deviate from MLM and MZT theory and practice, while retaining the militant verbiage and symbolism. They don't last more than a decade in terms of noticeable output, are still technically existing today as "MIM (Prisons)" which also still just posts stuff online, which can be described as "bizarro US exceptionalism".
R: 2 / I: 2
>anti-imperialist be like
>NOOOO YOU'RE ONLY ALLOWED TO KILL AND EXPLOIT WORKERS WITHIN THE ARBITRARY MADE UP ETHNIC BOUNDARIES OF YOUR NATION STATE!!!!
>anti-imperialist be like
>NOOOO YOU'RE ONLY ALLOWED TO KILL AND EXPLOIT WORKERS WITHIN THE ARBITRARY MADE UP ETHNIC BOUNDARIES OF YOUR NATION STATE!!!!
R: 8 / I: 1
Blackpill time: Solidarity is something you, as a worker, have for other members of the working class. Solidarity is the foundation of organizing as a worker within the working class, but solidarity cannot be shared as a revolutionary with other revolutionaries, with other people who are seeking to change the system or seeking power. Any power that you do not grasp will be used against you. It's gangsterism all the way up. The comrades that you work with today will be the same comrades that stab you in the back when the revolution comes. Doesn't mean you don't work with them, it just means you check behind you every so often, and never forget that you can't have solidarity with those that would stab you in the back. The history of revolution is full of backstabs and betrayals. The fact that any of us even work together is a miracle. Because as you are working with some of these people, know that they are planning on stabbing you in the back the same way that Trotsky did, the same way that the communists did in Spain.
Don't get captured and remember that any power that you do not seek and use against those who could use it against you will be used against you. Don't get played like we got played before. The anarchist that denies power for moralistic ideologue's sake is the anarchist that ends up shot by the "communist" in the back of the head.
Blackpill time: Solidarity is something you, as a worker, have for other members of the working class. Solidarity is the foundation of organizing as a worker within the working class, but solidarity cannot be shared as a revolutionary with other revolutionaries, with other people who are seeking to change the system or seeking power. Any power that you do not grasp will be used against you. It's gangsterism all the way up. The comrades that you work with today will be the same comrades that stab you in the back when the revolution comes. Doesn't mean you don't work with them, it just means you check behind you every so often, and never forget that you can't have solidarity with those that would stab you in the back. The history of revolution is full of backstabs and betrayals. The fact that any of us even work together is a miracle. Because as you are working with some of these people, know that they are planning on stabbing you in the back the same way that Trotsky did, the same way that the communists did in Spain.
Don't get captured and remember that any power that you do not seek and use against those who could use it against you will be used against you. Don't get played like we got played before. The anarchist that denies power for moralistic ideologue's sake is the anarchist that ends up shot by the "communist" in the back of the head.
R: 200 / I: 53
They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"
These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophiliaThey think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
R: 53 / I: 9
Normies look at the actually existing Left, what it claims for itself and what it claims to be wanting to do, the immense difficulty of it, and they laugh and they do not want to touch it, with their lack of time, money and energy, *and they are not wrong to do so*. It isn't (all) 'muh false consciousness'.
You cannot be seen as just a performatively radical subculture which despises, in practice, most normal people. You cannot fear populist politics because gasp you may have to rub shoulders with people with some dodgy and confused politics. That is the name of the game.
This is why griftoids like ACP get some of the credibility they do because at least they are willing to say the emperor has no clothes and not to just hate normal people.
This sentiment really is the dominant attitude of so much of the Left and it fizzes off so many of us all the time. And I hate it.
Just a vent. Needed to be said.
Serve the people
Despite some of the inherited Leftist rhetoric, a lot of modern Leftoids and especially American ones, jfc, just come across as hating and despising most ordinary people. If you think they are irredeemably racist and sexist, patriarchal, white supremacist, contaminated with so many 'bad ideas' and the 'muck of ages' that they need to be 'deprogrammed' before they can begin to be part of your oh so effective attractive politics (lol), any notion that the Left is interested in, let alone capable of, helping to produce a mass workers' movement will just not be credible. If your party is full of people who are agoraphobic shut-ins who won't be told that if they want to be ultra radical activist whatevers then they need to speak to normal people and be marginally normal, then you'll be laughed at, and with good reason.Normies look at the actually existing Left, what it claims for itself and what it claims to be wanting to do, the immense difficulty of it, and they laugh and they do not want to touch it, with their lack of time, money and energy, *and they are not wrong to do so*. It isn't (all) 'muh false consciousness'.
You cannot be seen as just a performatively radical subculture which despises, in practice, most normal people. You cannot fear populist politics because gasp you may have to rub shoulders with people with some dodgy and confused politics. That is the name of the game.
This is why griftoids like ACP get some of the credibility they do because at least they are willing to say the emperor has no clothes and not to just hate normal people.
This sentiment really is the dominant attitude of so much of the Left and it fizzes off so many of us all the time. And I hate it.
Just a vent. Needed to be said.
R: 27 / I: 11
I just invented a new anti-white slogan
"Crush the crackers into crumbs" or "CCC" for short, it's alliterative so it just rolls off the tongue like poetry. Replace C with K and triple the Ks for Maoist Standard English version. 🔥✍️
R: 4 / I: 0
The explosion occurred just before 8pm close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, the police said. Russia’s anti-terrorism committee said an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard, the state RIA news agency reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/02/moscow-restaurant-bombing-kills-three-people-as-device-carried-by-woman-explodes
London mayor Sadiq Khan accuses Palantir of bypassing procurement rules
The case follows concerns expressed by multiple parliamentary committees about the U.K.’s dependence on foreign technology firms such as Palantir, which was co-founded in 2003 by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel. The tech firm brought a claim against the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in the High Court in June after Khan’s deputy mayor refused to sign off on a £50 million contract with the Metropolitan Police for the provision of an AI and data analysis service.
https://www.politico.eu/article/sadiq-khan-london-police-palantir-legal-case-bypassing-procurement-rules/
https://archive.ph/vAwP2
Greece orders partial evacuation of Athens suburb as wildfire burns
The blaze was being fanned by gale force winds that were hampering water-dropping aircraft from flying over the area. The air turbulence meant that only one helicopter was able to take on water from the sea to fight the blaze.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260731-greece-orders-partial-evacuation-of-athens-suburb-as-wildfire-burns
https://archive.ph/PyXmh
Morocco NGO calls for probe after Ceuta migrant influx
The Moroccan Association of Human Rights called in a statement for "a serious and independent inquiry to be launched in order to shed full light on the circumstances and causes that led to the recent exodus, and to establish who is responsible". It also condemned "the worrying silence of officials and institutions" which have still not responded publicly to the crisis.
https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-ngo-calls-probe-after-ceuta-migrant-influx
Fighting breaks out in western Tigray as Ethiopia and TPLF trade blame
The fighting follows months of deteriorating relations between Addis Ababa and the TPLF, the party that ruled Ethiopia for nearly three decades before Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018. Both sides have accused each other of failing to implement the provisions of the 2022 peace agreement. Tigrayan authorities said Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party has waged a long blockade and drone campaign against the region, adding that this had now escalated into full-scale war.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/1/fighting-breaks-out-in-western-tigray-as-ethiopia-and-tplf-trade-blame
https://archive.ph/dl9Sp
Colombia’s deforestation rises slightly as Amazon forest loss holds steady
Colombia’s government said nationwide deforestation increased slightly in 2025 but that it had still surpassed its four-year target to reduce forest loss under President Gustavo Petro, with pressure on the Amazon remaining largely unchanged in the administration’s final year.
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-deforestation-data-colombia-2025-forest-loss-358febf57fc327e053ae1c260b41bbc9
US-backed Venezuela talks to begin without opposition leader Machado
They will be led on the government side by Rodriguez's brother Jorge, the head of the National Assembly and a longtime negotiator at previous talks with the U.S. and the opposition. The opposition delegation - which the U.S. backs over efforts to overhaul the country's electoral council and top court to ensure free and fair elections - will be led by Dinorah Figuera, according to a statement issued by the government and the opposition earlier this month.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-backed-venezuela-talks-begin-without-opposition-leader-machado-2026-07-31/
Sexual and Gender Violence Soaring in Shan State, Rights Group Reports
Soldiers on both sides were also implicated in domestic violence, SWAN team member Nang Morn Kaein told The Irrawaddy. SWAN highlighted how armed conflict and mass displacement have fueled the violence while further weakening already fragile justice systems. “Since the coup, SGBV cases have proliferated amid conflict and justice breakdown, leading to growing violence,” Nang Morn Kaein said.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/sexual-and-gender-violence-soaring-in-shan-state-rights-group-reports.html
Two former Sri Lanka officials sentenced to death for negligence in deadly Easter bombings
Former Police Chief Pujith Jayasundara and former Defense Ministry Secretary Hemasiri Fernando were convicted and sentenced Friday by the three-member High Court bench. They have the right to appeal the ruling. The near-simultaneous bombings in 2019 were carried out at three tourist hotels and three churches — two of them Catholic and one Protestant — and killed 42 foreigners. A parliamentary committee found that police and intelligence officials failed to act on repeated intelligence warnings of the attacks.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-easter-bombings-police-chief-islamic-state-3552d08464abb4c0cf35b88c354496cc
Ultra-processed food companies hindering health drives by suing countries, says WHO
Publicly, the world’s biggest UPF companies insist they back the policies, want to help consumers make informed choices and are committed to being part of the solution. But an investigation by the Guardian, in collaboration with academics, the non-profit newsroom Lighthouse Reports and a coalition of media partners across four continents, found many of these same companies were taking governments to court to overturn, weaken or delay the policies.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/01/ultra-processed-food-companies-hindering-health-drives-by-suing-countries-says-who
News 8/1/26
Moscow restaurant bombing kills three people as device carried by woman explodesThe explosion occurred just before 8pm close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, the police said. Russia’s anti-terrorism committee said an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard, the state RIA news agency reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/02/moscow-restaurant-bombing-kills-three-people-as-device-carried-by-woman-explodes
London mayor Sadiq Khan accuses Palantir of bypassing procurement rules
The case follows concerns expressed by multiple parliamentary committees about the U.K.’s dependence on foreign technology firms such as Palantir, which was co-founded in 2003 by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel. The tech firm brought a claim against the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in the High Court in June after Khan’s deputy mayor refused to sign off on a £50 million contract with the Metropolitan Police for the provision of an AI and data analysis service.
https://www.politico.eu/article/sadiq-khan-london-police-palantir-legal-case-bypassing-procurement-rules/
https://archive.ph/vAwP2
Greece orders partial evacuation of Athens suburb as wildfire burns
The blaze was being fanned by gale force winds that were hampering water-dropping aircraft from flying over the area. The air turbulence meant that only one helicopter was able to take on water from the sea to fight the blaze.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260731-greece-orders-partial-evacuation-of-athens-suburb-as-wildfire-burns
https://archive.ph/PyXmh
Morocco NGO calls for probe after Ceuta migrant influx
The Moroccan Association of Human Rights called in a statement for "a serious and independent inquiry to be launched in order to shed full light on the circumstances and causes that led to the recent exodus, and to establish who is responsible". It also condemned "the worrying silence of officials and institutions" which have still not responded publicly to the crisis.
https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-ngo-calls-probe-after-ceuta-migrant-influx
Fighting breaks out in western Tigray as Ethiopia and TPLF trade blame
The fighting follows months of deteriorating relations between Addis Ababa and the TPLF, the party that ruled Ethiopia for nearly three decades before Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018. Both sides have accused each other of failing to implement the provisions of the 2022 peace agreement. Tigrayan authorities said Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party has waged a long blockade and drone campaign against the region, adding that this had now escalated into full-scale war.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/1/fighting-breaks-out-in-western-tigray-as-ethiopia-and-tplf-trade-blame
https://archive.ph/dl9Sp
Colombia’s deforestation rises slightly as Amazon forest loss holds steady
Colombia’s government said nationwide deforestation increased slightly in 2025 but that it had still surpassed its four-year target to reduce forest loss under President Gustavo Petro, with pressure on the Amazon remaining largely unchanged in the administration’s final year.
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-deforestation-data-colombia-2025-forest-loss-358febf57fc327e053ae1c260b41bbc9
US-backed Venezuela talks to begin without opposition leader Machado
They will be led on the government side by Rodriguez's brother Jorge, the head of the National Assembly and a longtime negotiator at previous talks with the U.S. and the opposition. The opposition delegation - which the U.S. backs over efforts to overhaul the country's electoral council and top court to ensure free and fair elections - will be led by Dinorah Figuera, according to a statement issued by the government and the opposition earlier this month.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-backed-venezuela-talks-begin-without-opposition-leader-machado-2026-07-31/
Sexual and Gender Violence Soaring in Shan State, Rights Group Reports
Soldiers on both sides were also implicated in domestic violence, SWAN team member Nang Morn Kaein told The Irrawaddy. SWAN highlighted how armed conflict and mass displacement have fueled the violence while further weakening already fragile justice systems. “Since the coup, SGBV cases have proliferated amid conflict and justice breakdown, leading to growing violence,” Nang Morn Kaein said.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/sexual-and-gender-violence-soaring-in-shan-state-rights-group-reports.html
Two former Sri Lanka officials sentenced to death for negligence in deadly Easter bombings
Former Police Chief Pujith Jayasundara and former Defense Ministry Secretary Hemasiri Fernando were convicted and sentenced Friday by the three-member High Court bench. They have the right to appeal the ruling. The near-simultaneous bombings in 2019 were carried out at three tourist hotels and three churches — two of them Catholic and one Protestant — and killed 42 foreigners. A parliamentary committee found that police and intelligence officials failed to act on repeated intelligence warnings of the attacks.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-easter-bombings-police-chief-islamic-state-3552d08464abb4c0cf35b88c354496cc
Ultra-processed food companies hindering health drives by suing countries, says WHO
Publicly, the world’s biggest UPF companies insist they back the policies, want to help consumers make informed choices and are committed to being part of the solution. But an investigation by the Guardian, in collaboration with academics, the non-profit newsroom Lighthouse Reports and a coalition of media partners across four continents, found many of these same companies were taking governments to court to overturn, weaken or delay the policies.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/01/ultra-processed-food-companies-hindering-health-drives-by-suing-countries-says-who
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how does /leftypol/ feel about leftysoy?? it seems promising, a leftist sharty..
not an advertisement i dont even use the site, have mercy jannies
not loooooooooooooooooooooooonnnggg enough
how does /leftypol/ feel about leftysoy?? it seems promising, a leftist sharty..
not an advertisement i dont even use the site, have mercy jannies
not loooooooooooooooooooooooonnnggg enough
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In most cases the EIC formed alliances with regional rivals and local elites who were acting in their own political and strategic self-interest. These groups were not passive victims manipulated into conflict, they saw cooperation with the British as the best way to advance their own ambitions and often they achieved many of their goals through those alliances.
While I'm thinking primarily about South Asia, the exact same narratives appear is most third world societies. Former colonies often claim they were conquered because the colonizers "divided and conquered" them, implying that major social, political or ethnic divisions either did not exist before colonialism and shouldn't matter now.
I'm curious have socialist historians or theorists argued against the simplified "divide and conquer" narrative or offered a more nuanced explanation of how colonialism relied on alliances with local elites, existing class structures, and pre-existing political conflicts?
The validity of the "divide and conquer" narratives
Growing up in my country I constantly read in our textbooks that the British conquered us because they divided us and that this should serve as a reminder that national unity is the only way to avoid foreign domination. But the historical reality doesn't show that.In most cases the EIC formed alliances with regional rivals and local elites who were acting in their own political and strategic self-interest. These groups were not passive victims manipulated into conflict, they saw cooperation with the British as the best way to advance their own ambitions and often they achieved many of their goals through those alliances.
While I'm thinking primarily about South Asia, the exact same narratives appear is most third world societies. Former colonies often claim they were conquered because the colonizers "divided and conquered" them, implying that major social, political or ethnic divisions either did not exist before colonialism and shouldn't matter now.
I'm curious have socialist historians or theorists argued against the simplified "divide and conquer" narrative or offered a more nuanced explanation of how colonialism relied on alliances with local elites, existing class structures, and pre-existing political conflicts?
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To raise questions on the dictatorship americans have on leftists spaces is not anti-American racism.
>go to non-american spaces
<no! burger bullshit will be negated where it is spewed
Vive l'internationale !
I am impressed by the American's ability to always flip the narrative and be the victim. So now american workers are the great victims of the world because of a few shitposting TWists. The same few TWists who are in fact feds who are ruining discussions which would otherwise lead to a socialist uprising.To raise questions on the dictatorship americans have on leftists spaces is not anti-American racism.
>go to non-american spaces
<no! burger bullshit will be negated where it is spewed
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https://secapedia.org/index.php/The_Great_Vichan_Crisis
Don’t move this thread
Vichan has been abandoned now and there’s a massive bug (idk how or why) where a single hacker has been gaining access to imageboards and killing them off for blackmail it looks like.
There’s a conspiracy that this is by the admin of the sharty to wipe out competition and establish a monopoly for some reason.
Is this site’s shit up to date?
https://secapedia.org/index.php/The_Great_Vichan_Crisis
Don’t move this thread
Vichan has been abandoned now and there’s a massive bug (idk how or why) where a single hacker has been gaining access to imageboards and killing them off for blackmail it looks like.
There’s a conspiracy that this is by the admin of the sharty to wipe out competition and establish a monopoly for some reason.
Is this site’s shit up to date?
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i saw in a letter by marx he doesnt feel the need to prove it but i rlly dont understand
can someone please explain the ltv (with proof)? trying to read das
trying to read das but both it and secondary sources take the labor value theory as a 'given'i saw in a letter by marx he doesnt feel the need to prove it but i rlly dont understand
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This increases the safety of Donald Trump the most. How do you plan on stopping him?
Donald Trump Vs ... ?
The correct play for America is actually to force allied countries to adopt a 0 immigration policy.This increases the safety of Donald Trump the most. How do you plan on stopping him?
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FARC
What's up with FARC? I don't see much discussion of them in leftist circles despite being a communist ML group? Are/were they just drug traffickers and gangsters, or a real political movement?
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Not like random murder or other such crimes, more like riotting, looting, stealing, treason, assassinations, etc. Its like everyone wants to react on their class anger but only few do so.
Urge to commit crime
Why does everyone have a urge to commit crime and strike at the empire, but never do such?Not like random murder or other such crimes, more like riotting, looting, stealing, treason, assassinations, etc. Its like everyone wants to react on their class anger but only few do so.
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>why
idkno, they have aura, well at least mamdani, and also planter makes the maga seethe so i support him for that and only that.
I like mamdani
I like mamdani and planter>why
idkno, they have aura, well at least mamdani, and also planter makes the maga seethe so i support him for that and only that.
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i just want endless hype moments
i don't want to "read theory", i don't want to "liberate the proletariat". all i want is to see fucking awesome stalin edits and videos about how the red army destroyed everything that was in their way. why can't the left do this for me? the chuds have figured out that putting phonk and hitler into a tiktok is sick af, why can't tankies do this?
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The document, signed by prosecutor Brayan Melgar Ledezma of the specialized corruption prosecution unit, names Morales and other unidentified individuals in connection with six alleged offenses: armed uprising against the security and sovereignty of the state, terrorism, endangering the safety of transportation, criminal association, public incitement to commit crimes, and endangering the safety of public services. The investigation stems from a complaint filed by the Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee, later joined by the Interior Ministry.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/07/30/bolivia-issues-arrest-order-against-morales-over-may-and-june-road-blockades
Murder victims in Ecuador were conducting probes into Noboa and US boat strikes
On June 15, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa was received at the Pentagon by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who thanked him for being a founding member of Donald Trump's “Shield of the Americas” coalition. “You have been a model partner with us,” Hegseth told him. In the week before that meeting, two women behind probes into the criminal activities of both governments and the Noboas were killed.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/29/dwub-j29.html
Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenaries
The rare, firsthand accounts show the perils faced by tens of thousands of children believed to have been conscripted into the war by all sides. Six former child soldiers who were abducted and forced to fight with the Rapid Support Forces, known as the RSF, spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Two said they were trained by Colombians.
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-child-soldiers-colombia-mercenaries-uae-rsf-9730de7a24a28895b2c2c500e7c1fd6b
Detained Ugandan opposition leader Besigye in intensive care, wife says
Detained Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been hospitalised in an unresponsive state after he collapsed during a court hearing on Wednesday, according to his wife. Besigye, who has been in prison since late 2024 on treason charges, is now “unconscious, unable to speak, and unresponsive”, his wife, Winnie Byanyima, said in a post on X on Thursday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/30/detained-ugandan-opposition-leader-besigye-in-intensive-care-wife-says
https://archive.ph/VgMZk
15-point draft peace plan between Hamas and Israel in Gaza
The agreement forms part of the latest attempt to end Israel's campaign of killing in the besieged Palestinian territory. In a statement on X, the Board of Peace wrote: "The agreement concludes months of intensive, good faith negotiations to advance President Donald J. Trump's vision for establishing new governance, security, humanitarian relief, reconstruction, and economic recovery in Gaza as set out in the Comprehensive Peace Plan and U.N. Security Council Resolution 2803."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-15-point-draft-peace-plan-between-hamas-and-israel-gaza
Turkey detains another opposition mayor among dozens of suspects in crackdown
Mayor Erdal Besikcioglu was among 37 municipality employees detained after police raided the municipality in western Ankara. Detention warrants were issued for a total 55 suspects, including 18 company officials, the ministry said. Three suspects were still being sought. It was the latest step in an unprecedented legal crackdown on municipalities run by the main opposition to President Tayyip Erdogan.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-detains-another-opposition-mayor-among-many-crackdown
Oil spill from shadow fleet tanker spreading off Oman, satellite images show
A sanctions-hit tanker is leaking oil off the coast of Oman and the spill has spread in recent days, increasing concern about possible environmental damage to coastal areas, according to an analysis of satellite imagery and shipping specialists. The Caroline Bezengi took Russian oil on board at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk before leaving for its most recent voyage, ship tracking data shows.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/07/oil-spill-shadow-fleet-tanker-spreading-oman-satellite-images-show
Germany widens deportations to Afghanistan
Things would likely have turned out very differently had Faridoon Tofan not taken the bus to Italy. He had intended to go on a short trip to Rome. The 46-year-old — who had fled the Taliban to Germany just under four years ago and had since been working and learning the language — was detained during a border check in mid-April and taken directly to a deportation detention center in Munich.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-widens-deportations-to-afghanistan/a-78173466
https://archive.ph/jix1y
BP exits the North Sea after 60 years
The company currently employs 1,100 workers in the field, running five production hubs pumping out 117,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day last year. BP chief executive Meg O’Neill announced the sale, saying it would be “better positioned as part of another company.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bp-exits-north-sea-after-60-years
Nepal’s PM urges calm after unrest leaves 3 dead
Shah, who has kept a low profile since being elected in March, broke his silence to deliver his first address to the nation, calling on his countrymen to be “responsible citizens and remove the clouds of unrest”. The violence began late Sunday in a village in the southern Sunsari district, which borders India, after an argument over loud music and the use of religious flags during a Hindu procession, according to officials.
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2026/07/31/nepal-s-pm-urges-calm-after-unrest-leaves-3-dead
Soldiers delivering school chairs an ‘insult’ to Lumad militarization victims
However, for Lala Empong, a young Lumad victimized by closure of Indigenous schools in Mindanao, the entry of the Philippine Army’s 60th Infantry Battalion is an “insult” to Lumad students who were deprived of their right to education. This is also an insult, she said, to their fellow Lumad who were allegedly killed by the military and paramilitary, citing the murder of Lumad student Obello Bay-ao and Datu Kaylo Bontolan.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/07/31/soldiers-delivering-school-chairs-an-insult-to-lumad-militarization-victims/
Pakistan’s military rejects UN report alleging hundreds of civilian deaths in strikes on Afghanistan
Chaudhry questioned recently released reports by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, and Amnesty International, saying they relied largely on accounts from Afghans despite what he described as restrictions on freedom of expression under Taliban rule. He also accused Afghanistan’s Taliban government of sheltering militants responsible for attacks inside Pakistan and said international rights organizations had failed to document such violence.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-military-rejects-un-report-afghan-casualties-566742150ca713e04bb25b6fc432e65e
News 7/31/26
Bolivia issues arrest order against Morales over May and June road blockadesThe document, signed by prosecutor Brayan Melgar Ledezma of the specialized corruption prosecution unit, names Morales and other unidentified individuals in connection with six alleged offenses: armed uprising against the security and sovereignty of the state, terrorism, endangering the safety of transportation, criminal association, public incitement to commit crimes, and endangering the safety of public services. The investigation stems from a complaint filed by the Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee, later joined by the Interior Ministry.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/07/30/bolivia-issues-arrest-order-against-morales-over-may-and-june-road-blockades
Murder victims in Ecuador were conducting probes into Noboa and US boat strikes
On June 15, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa was received at the Pentagon by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who thanked him for being a founding member of Donald Trump's “Shield of the Americas” coalition. “You have been a model partner with us,” Hegseth told him. In the week before that meeting, two women behind probes into the criminal activities of both governments and the Noboas were killed.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/29/dwub-j29.html
Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenaries
The rare, firsthand accounts show the perils faced by tens of thousands of children believed to have been conscripted into the war by all sides. Six former child soldiers who were abducted and forced to fight with the Rapid Support Forces, known as the RSF, spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Two said they were trained by Colombians.
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-child-soldiers-colombia-mercenaries-uae-rsf-9730de7a24a28895b2c2c500e7c1fd6b
Detained Ugandan opposition leader Besigye in intensive care, wife says
Detained Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been hospitalised in an unresponsive state after he collapsed during a court hearing on Wednesday, according to his wife. Besigye, who has been in prison since late 2024 on treason charges, is now “unconscious, unable to speak, and unresponsive”, his wife, Winnie Byanyima, said in a post on X on Thursday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/30/detained-ugandan-opposition-leader-besigye-in-intensive-care-wife-says
https://archive.ph/VgMZk
15-point draft peace plan between Hamas and Israel in Gaza
The agreement forms part of the latest attempt to end Israel's campaign of killing in the besieged Palestinian territory. In a statement on X, the Board of Peace wrote: "The agreement concludes months of intensive, good faith negotiations to advance President Donald J. Trump's vision for establishing new governance, security, humanitarian relief, reconstruction, and economic recovery in Gaza as set out in the Comprehensive Peace Plan and U.N. Security Council Resolution 2803."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-15-point-draft-peace-plan-between-hamas-and-israel-gaza
Turkey detains another opposition mayor among dozens of suspects in crackdown
Mayor Erdal Besikcioglu was among 37 municipality employees detained after police raided the municipality in western Ankara. Detention warrants were issued for a total 55 suspects, including 18 company officials, the ministry said. Three suspects were still being sought. It was the latest step in an unprecedented legal crackdown on municipalities run by the main opposition to President Tayyip Erdogan.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-detains-another-opposition-mayor-among-many-crackdown
Oil spill from shadow fleet tanker spreading off Oman, satellite images show
A sanctions-hit tanker is leaking oil off the coast of Oman and the spill has spread in recent days, increasing concern about possible environmental damage to coastal areas, according to an analysis of satellite imagery and shipping specialists. The Caroline Bezengi took Russian oil on board at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk before leaving for its most recent voyage, ship tracking data shows.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/07/oil-spill-shadow-fleet-tanker-spreading-oman-satellite-images-show
Germany widens deportations to Afghanistan
Things would likely have turned out very differently had Faridoon Tofan not taken the bus to Italy. He had intended to go on a short trip to Rome. The 46-year-old — who had fled the Taliban to Germany just under four years ago and had since been working and learning the language — was detained during a border check in mid-April and taken directly to a deportation detention center in Munich.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-widens-deportations-to-afghanistan/a-78173466
https://archive.ph/jix1y
BP exits the North Sea after 60 years
The company currently employs 1,100 workers in the field, running five production hubs pumping out 117,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day last year. BP chief executive Meg O’Neill announced the sale, saying it would be “better positioned as part of another company.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bp-exits-north-sea-after-60-years
Nepal’s PM urges calm after unrest leaves 3 dead
Shah, who has kept a low profile since being elected in March, broke his silence to deliver his first address to the nation, calling on his countrymen to be “responsible citizens and remove the clouds of unrest”. The violence began late Sunday in a village in the southern Sunsari district, which borders India, after an argument over loud music and the use of religious flags during a Hindu procession, according to officials.
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2026/07/31/nepal-s-pm-urges-calm-after-unrest-leaves-3-dead
Soldiers delivering school chairs an ‘insult’ to Lumad militarization victims
However, for Lala Empong, a young Lumad victimized by closure of Indigenous schools in Mindanao, the entry of the Philippine Army’s 60th Infantry Battalion is an “insult” to Lumad students who were deprived of their right to education. This is also an insult, she said, to their fellow Lumad who were allegedly killed by the military and paramilitary, citing the murder of Lumad student Obello Bay-ao and Datu Kaylo Bontolan.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/07/31/soldiers-delivering-school-chairs-an-insult-to-lumad-militarization-victims/
Pakistan’s military rejects UN report alleging hundreds of civilian deaths in strikes on Afghanistan
Chaudhry questioned recently released reports by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, and Amnesty International, saying they relied largely on accounts from Afghans despite what he described as restrictions on freedom of expression under Taliban rule. He also accused Afghanistan’s Taliban government of sheltering militants responsible for attacks inside Pakistan and said international rights organizations had failed to document such violence.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-military-rejects-un-report-afghan-casualties-566742150ca713e04bb25b6fc432e65e
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>Looks inside
>Actually is a highly individualized moral dilemma
Look buddy just because your moral problems have a political dimension doesnt make it political. Ask yourself whether the cause you think is political has the potential to mobilize the masses; if the only impact it has is soothing your conscience then its moral, not political, and you should by no means confuse it with actual political organizing.
You can have a moral guidelines that is separate from the political
>everything is political!!!!>Looks inside
>Actually is a highly individualized moral dilemma
Look buddy just because your moral problems have a political dimension doesnt make it political. Ask yourself whether the cause you think is political has the potential to mobilize the masses; if the only impact it has is soothing your conscience then its moral, not political, and you should by no means confuse it with actual political organizing.
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"I'm economically left and socially right"
Shut the fuck up. You aren't smart. You didn't invent some new political ideology. You're an incel chud who just prefers Soviet aesthetics instead of Nazi.
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Why don't you vote third party, leftists? And no not DSA. Something else. Besides I'm afraid it might be controlled opposition anyway just like Drumpf was. We could possibly outnumber the babyboomers as well if we both voted in a legitimate third party candidate.
First on the agenda is getting away from the Middle East, and removing foreign influence from Congress. If you can do me this favor we'll chat about other things upon a compromise.
Deal?
Why don't you vote third party, leftists? And no not DSA. Something else. Besides I'm afraid it might be controlled opposition anyway just like Drumpf was. We could possibly outnumber the babyboomers as well if we both voted in a legitimate third party candidate.
First on the agenda is getting away from the Middle East, and removing foreign influence from Congress. If you can do me this favor we'll chat about other things upon a compromise.
Deal?
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>IT workers don't need an union, that's socialism and we are libertarian entrepreneurs who are going to be rich
>NOOOOOOOOOO WE JUST GOT MASS LAYOFFED AND REPLACED BY AI
Does this happen in your country?
>IT workers don't need an union, that's socialism and we are libertarian entrepreneurs who are going to be rich
>NOOOOOOOOOO WE JUST GOT MASS LAYOFFED AND REPLACED BY AI
Does this happen in your country?
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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is set to visit Ankara on Thursday for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a one-day trip aimed at clarifying an established but increasingly ambiguous relationship between the two countries. Aoun will travel with a small delegation of presidential advisers, without any ministers, and no bilateral treaties are expected to be signed during the visit.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aouns-ankara-visit-seeks-clarity-lebanon-turkey-relationship
Israel releases two Syrian men after more than a year in detention
The two men were identified by the Syrian news outlet Enab Baladi as Hossam Al-Safadi, from the town of Beit Jin in western Rif Dimashq province, and Marwan Al-Karyan, from Suwaysah in Quneitra province. Their release follows several others in recent days. According to Enab Baladi, five Syrian detainees have been freed over the past week, with one released on Tuesday and two more on 23 July.
https://www.newarab.com/news/two-syrians-freed-after-more-year-israeli-detention
Hamas reaches Gaza disarmament agreement with Board of Peace
Al Jazeera has received a copy of Thursday’s agreement, which stipulates that the precise disarmament roadmap must be prepared within 14 days, with possible extensions subject to the approval of an international verification body, and the agreement of all parties. “These negotiations were difficult and hard, and we tried to reach the best possible formula that was achievable,” Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s negotiating delegation, told Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/30/trump-says-board-of-peace-reaches-agreement-on-disarmament-of-hamas-in-gaza
https://archive.ph/UWfEd
El Burhan visits newly captured North Kordofan towns
Military analyst Brig Gen Walid Ezzeldin told Radio Dabanga that the recent advances are significant because they strengthen the SAF’s control of the Export Road, one of Sudan’s most important military and logistical corridors.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/el-burhan-visits-newly-captured-north-kordofan-towns
Migration crisis hits Spain as thousands enter from Morocco
Sánchez took to X on Thursday to announce he was working with Moroccan authorities to restore normality as soon as possible and promised an immediate response. The chaos at the border comes just weeks after a Spanish Supreme Court decision preventing arrivals by sea from being directly deported.
https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-migration-crisis-ceuta-morocco-border-crossings/
https://archive.ph/prV4r
Arrests made as protesters invite support for Palestine Action outside court
An estimated 200 protesters prepared to read a statement inviting support for the proscribed group as a review hearing began for the prosecution of 1,579 people under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000, for holding signs in support of Palestine Action during mass silent vigils in Parliament Square last year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/arrests-made-protesters-invite-support-palestine-action-outside-court
Race to extinguish blazes across Europe as fire weather breaks records
Inflamed by carbon pollution, the hot, dry and windy weather across the EU from the start of the year until the end of July has been 43% more severe than the average for the same period over the last two decades, data from the European Forest Fire Information Service (Effis) shows.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/30/fire-weather-eu-wildfires-data
Indian federal police file charges against 13 over exam paper leaks
India's Central Bureau of Investigation has filed charges against 13 people in connection with leaked question papers for the national medical college entrance test, days after youth-led protests over the scandal forced the education minister to quit.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-federal-police-file-charges-against-13-over-exam-paper-leaks-2026-07-30/
Coal mine blast in Pakistan kills at least 32 miners and traps 10 others
The bodies of seven people were recovered hours after the blast, and emergency responders later found 25 more bodies, officials and a provincial disaster management agency said in a statement. It said the search and rescue operation was continuing, with rescue teams working to locate and recover the remaining trapped miners.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-coal-mine-explosion-workers-trapped-southwest-a9d928fe51cafcef92dd40cb1606eb50
Milei signs decree allowing Argentina to bar or expel foreigners over 'hate speech'
The government did not specify particular incidents in the decree, but the references appear to relate to an alleged wave of anti-Argentina abuse that intensified during the recent FIFA World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, particularly on social media. Congress must approve the validity of the measure, which remains in force while the legislative process is under way, though experts warned it could open the door to arbitrary enforcement.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-signs-decree-allowing-argentina-to-bar-or-expel-foreigners-over-hate-speech.phtml
https://archive.ph/aAf15
U.S. Consulate in Brazil Recruits Far-right Influencers to Attack Lula da Silva
Among those invited by the U.S. diplomatic mission is María Fernanda Schmidt, from the far-right channel Brasil Paralelo, who confirmed her participation alongside other actors from the Bolsono’s ecosystem, including Leandro Narloch, Rafael Ferri, and Penélope Nova. According to journalist Leandro Demori, the U.S. Consulate continues to extend invitations to content creators dedicated to spreading hate speech, disinformation, and targeting the institutional framework of the Brazilian government. The gatherings, held in small groups, serve as coordination hubs for a digital warfare strategy aimed at undermining Lula’s re-election campaign.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/u-s-recruit-far-right-influencers-brazil/
Peru's newly inaugurated President Fujimori vows military-led crackdown on crime
A group of leftist lawmakers left the room in protest at Fujimori's inauguration, which marks Peru's ninth presidency in a decade. Latin American leaders, including Argentina's Javier Milei, Chile's Jose Antonio Kast, Bolivia's Rodrigo Paz, Ecuador's Daniel Noboa and Uruguay's Yamandu Orsi, attended the ceremony.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260728-peru-s-fujimori-vows-military-led-crackdown-on-crime-after-taking-office
https://archive.ph/KIqAh
News 7/30/26
Aoun’s Ankara visit seeks clarity in Lebanon-Turkey relationshipLebanese President Joseph Aoun is set to visit Ankara on Thursday for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a one-day trip aimed at clarifying an established but increasingly ambiguous relationship between the two countries. Aoun will travel with a small delegation of presidential advisers, without any ministers, and no bilateral treaties are expected to be signed during the visit.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aouns-ankara-visit-seeks-clarity-lebanon-turkey-relationship
Israel releases two Syrian men after more than a year in detention
The two men were identified by the Syrian news outlet Enab Baladi as Hossam Al-Safadi, from the town of Beit Jin in western Rif Dimashq province, and Marwan Al-Karyan, from Suwaysah in Quneitra province. Their release follows several others in recent days. According to Enab Baladi, five Syrian detainees have been freed over the past week, with one released on Tuesday and two more on 23 July.
https://www.newarab.com/news/two-syrians-freed-after-more-year-israeli-detention
Hamas reaches Gaza disarmament agreement with Board of Peace
Al Jazeera has received a copy of Thursday’s agreement, which stipulates that the precise disarmament roadmap must be prepared within 14 days, with possible extensions subject to the approval of an international verification body, and the agreement of all parties. “These negotiations were difficult and hard, and we tried to reach the best possible formula that was achievable,” Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s negotiating delegation, told Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/30/trump-says-board-of-peace-reaches-agreement-on-disarmament-of-hamas-in-gaza
https://archive.ph/UWfEd
El Burhan visits newly captured North Kordofan towns
Military analyst Brig Gen Walid Ezzeldin told Radio Dabanga that the recent advances are significant because they strengthen the SAF’s control of the Export Road, one of Sudan’s most important military and logistical corridors.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/el-burhan-visits-newly-captured-north-kordofan-towns
Migration crisis hits Spain as thousands enter from Morocco
Sánchez took to X on Thursday to announce he was working with Moroccan authorities to restore normality as soon as possible and promised an immediate response. The chaos at the border comes just weeks after a Spanish Supreme Court decision preventing arrivals by sea from being directly deported.
https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-migration-crisis-ceuta-morocco-border-crossings/
https://archive.ph/prV4r
Arrests made as protesters invite support for Palestine Action outside court
An estimated 200 protesters prepared to read a statement inviting support for the proscribed group as a review hearing began for the prosecution of 1,579 people under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000, for holding signs in support of Palestine Action during mass silent vigils in Parliament Square last year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/arrests-made-protesters-invite-support-palestine-action-outside-court
Race to extinguish blazes across Europe as fire weather breaks records
Inflamed by carbon pollution, the hot, dry and windy weather across the EU from the start of the year until the end of July has been 43% more severe than the average for the same period over the last two decades, data from the European Forest Fire Information Service (Effis) shows.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/30/fire-weather-eu-wildfires-data
Indian federal police file charges against 13 over exam paper leaks
India's Central Bureau of Investigation has filed charges against 13 people in connection with leaked question papers for the national medical college entrance test, days after youth-led protests over the scandal forced the education minister to quit.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-federal-police-file-charges-against-13-over-exam-paper-leaks-2026-07-30/
Coal mine blast in Pakistan kills at least 32 miners and traps 10 others
The bodies of seven people were recovered hours after the blast, and emergency responders later found 25 more bodies, officials and a provincial disaster management agency said in a statement. It said the search and rescue operation was continuing, with rescue teams working to locate and recover the remaining trapped miners.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-coal-mine-explosion-workers-trapped-southwest-a9d928fe51cafcef92dd40cb1606eb50
Milei signs decree allowing Argentina to bar or expel foreigners over 'hate speech'
The government did not specify particular incidents in the decree, but the references appear to relate to an alleged wave of anti-Argentina abuse that intensified during the recent FIFA World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, particularly on social media. Congress must approve the validity of the measure, which remains in force while the legislative process is under way, though experts warned it could open the door to arbitrary enforcement.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-signs-decree-allowing-argentina-to-bar-or-expel-foreigners-over-hate-speech.phtml
https://archive.ph/aAf15
U.S. Consulate in Brazil Recruits Far-right Influencers to Attack Lula da Silva
Among those invited by the U.S. diplomatic mission is María Fernanda Schmidt, from the far-right channel Brasil Paralelo, who confirmed her participation alongside other actors from the Bolsono’s ecosystem, including Leandro Narloch, Rafael Ferri, and Penélope Nova. According to journalist Leandro Demori, the U.S. Consulate continues to extend invitations to content creators dedicated to spreading hate speech, disinformation, and targeting the institutional framework of the Brazilian government. The gatherings, held in small groups, serve as coordination hubs for a digital warfare strategy aimed at undermining Lula’s re-election campaign.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/u-s-recruit-far-right-influencers-brazil/
Peru's newly inaugurated President Fujimori vows military-led crackdown on crime
A group of leftist lawmakers left the room in protest at Fujimori's inauguration, which marks Peru's ninth presidency in a decade. Latin American leaders, including Argentina's Javier Milei, Chile's Jose Antonio Kast, Bolivia's Rodrigo Paz, Ecuador's Daniel Noboa and Uruguay's Yamandu Orsi, attended the ceremony.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260728-peru-s-fujimori-vows-military-led-crackdown-on-crime-after-taking-office
https://archive.ph/KIqAh
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According to the campaign, the organizers claim responsibility for previous acts of vandalism targeting replicas of the Statue of Liberty associated with the Brazilian retail chain Havan. They also discuss their political ideology, their participation in international anti-imperialist networks, and their long-term vision for a broader movement in Latin America.
The campaign has generated attention because of both its political message and the controversial nature of the actions it describes. Supporters may view it as an example of radical anti-imperialist activism, while critics argue that the tactics it endorses involve criminal conduct and are incompatible with democratic political engagement.
Readers interested in political movements, direct action, and contemporary debates about anti-imperialism may find the campaign noteworthy as an example of current radical political organizing, regardless of whether they agree with its goals or methods.
Support: https://www.firefund.net/antimperialista
A crowdfunding campaign claiming anti-imperialist direct action in Brazil
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched on FireFund by a group describing itself as an anti-imperialist organization operating in Brazil. The campaign states that it seeks financial support to expand its activities and presents its political views on U.S. foreign policy, Zionism, and Latin American politics.According to the campaign, the organizers claim responsibility for previous acts of vandalism targeting replicas of the Statue of Liberty associated with the Brazilian retail chain Havan. They also discuss their political ideology, their participation in international anti-imperialist networks, and their long-term vision for a broader movement in Latin America.
The campaign has generated attention because of both its political message and the controversial nature of the actions it describes. Supporters may view it as an example of radical anti-imperialist activism, while critics argue that the tactics it endorses involve criminal conduct and are incompatible with democratic political engagement.
Readers interested in political movements, direct action, and contemporary debates about anti-imperialism may find the campaign noteworthy as an example of current radical political organizing, regardless of whether they agree with its goals or methods.
Support: https://www.firefund.net/antimperialista
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>Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
>proud hon
What's up with the name? Was the founder of anarchism and prominent antisemite a non-passing, but confident transgender woman?
>Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
>proud hon
What's up with the name? Was the founder of anarchism and prominent antisemite a non-passing, but confident transgender woman?
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1. Ownership is a Survival Bottleneck
<The capitalist does not participate in value creation merely through ownership; they control a physical bottleneck. They gatekeep the tools, infrastructure, and resources required to produce a livelihood. Because the owning class has historically enclosed the means of production as private property, the worker cannot survive independently. They are physically forced to approach the capitalist to secure the means of their own survival.
2. The Contract is Structural Extortion
<Because the worker's alternative to employment is homelessness and starvation (structural coercion), the negotiation is absolutely asymmetrical. The capitalist dictates the terms: "I will allow you access to my tools to earn your survival, but only if you surrender a significant portion of the value you generate to me." The worker must comply. This is not a voluntary transaction; it is extortion backed by biological necessity.
3. Surplus is a "Survival Tax
<Regardless of how prices are set on the market, the mathematical difference between the revenue the worker's output generates and the wage they receive is siphoned by the owner. This surplus is not a legitimate reward for "time preference" or "risk," as mainstream economics insists. It is a survival tax, a toll the worker pays for the right to remain alive. The capitalist can collect this tax exclusively because state violence (police and property laws) protects their monopoly over the means of production.
Materialist Conclusion
<Surplus extraction is a pure metric of power. It calculates exactly how much material wealth the owning class can squeeze from the producing class using the structural threat of starvation, stopping just short of triggering mass death or armed revolt. This extraction mechanism operates flawlessly regardless of whether economic value is measured objectively or subjectively.
LTV is a Unnecessary part of Marxist Theory
The following analysis of structural coercion and surplus extraction holds entirely true even if the classical Labor Theory of Value (LTV) is mathematically false. Whether the ultimate price of a commodity is determined by socially necessary labor time or subjective marginal utility, the physical reality of the power dynamic remains unchanged. Surplus extraction is a function of material leverage, not the metaphysical origin of economic value.1. Ownership is a Survival Bottleneck
<The capitalist does not participate in value creation merely through ownership; they control a physical bottleneck. They gatekeep the tools, infrastructure, and resources required to produce a livelihood. Because the owning class has historically enclosed the means of production as private property, the worker cannot survive independently. They are physically forced to approach the capitalist to secure the means of their own survival.
2. The Contract is Structural Extortion
<Because the worker's alternative to employment is homelessness and starvation (structural coercion), the negotiation is absolutely asymmetrical. The capitalist dictates the terms: "I will allow you access to my tools to earn your survival, but only if you surrender a significant portion of the value you generate to me." The worker must comply. This is not a voluntary transaction; it is extortion backed by biological necessity.
3. Surplus is a "Survival Tax
<Regardless of how prices are set on the market, the mathematical difference between the revenue the worker's output generates and the wage they receive is siphoned by the owner. This surplus is not a legitimate reward for "time preference" or "risk," as mainstream economics insists. It is a survival tax, a toll the worker pays for the right to remain alive. The capitalist can collect this tax exclusively because state violence (police and property laws) protects their monopoly over the means of production.
Materialist Conclusion
<Surplus extraction is a pure metric of power. It calculates exactly how much material wealth the owning class can squeeze from the producing class using the structural threat of starvation, stopping just short of triggering mass death or armed revolt. This extraction mechanism operates flawlessly regardless of whether economic value is measured objectively or subjectively.
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The current ruling party. Centre-left. Popular with teachers.
>PL (Liberal Party)
The main opposition party. Far-right. Popular with baby boomers.
>Novo (New)
Libertarian. Popular with rich people.
>PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party)
Left-wing with a focus on social issues like feminism and LGBT rights. Popular with young women.
>Missão (Mission)
Alt-right. Popular with young men (mostly on the internet).
>NR (New Resistance)
Nazbol. Popular with… nobody, they're not even a real party.
>PCB (Brazilian Communist Party)
Far-left, not to be confused with PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil) which split from it and is more reformist. Popular with old communists.
>PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party)
Used to be the main opposition party, but lost ground to PL after 2014. Centre-right despite the name. Popular with toucans (it's the party's mascot).
>MDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement)
Radical centrist. Popular with NPCs.
Describe the political parties in your country
>PT (Worker's Party)The current ruling party. Centre-left. Popular with teachers.
>PL (Liberal Party)
The main opposition party. Far-right. Popular with baby boomers.
>Novo (New)
Libertarian. Popular with rich people.
>PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party)
Left-wing with a focus on social issues like feminism and LGBT rights. Popular with young women.
>Missão (Mission)
Alt-right. Popular with young men (mostly on the internet).
>NR (New Resistance)
Nazbol. Popular with… nobody, they're not even a real party.
>PCB (Brazilian Communist Party)
Far-left, not to be confused with PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil) which split from it and is more reformist. Popular with old communists.
>PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party)
Used to be the main opposition party, but lost ground to PL after 2014. Centre-right despite the name. Popular with toucans (it's the party's mascot).
>MDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement)
Radical centrist. Popular with NPCs.
R: 4 / I: 0
What could they possibly be up to? Why does Google need to fold proteins? Why did Google want to release a middle eastern super disease inside countless mosquitos in all western countries when mosquitos are known to kill the most humans globally out of all diseases?
Will Google Release Another Biobliterator?
The most evil company in the world is up to something sinister… Again…What could they possibly be up to? Why does Google need to fold proteins? Why did Google want to release a middle eastern super disease inside countless mosquitos in all western countries when mosquitos are known to kill the most humans globally out of all diseases?
R: 17 / I: 1 (sage)
What’s the point of knowing leftist theory or political philosophy when we can simply base our politics on the notion of radical empathy?
Theory and philosophy are worthless and meaningless but empathy is something anyone can understand. It’s elitist as fuck to base your political aspirations on some grand abstract ideals since this ultimately creates hierarchies of intelligence because not everyone can grasp it. Yet empathy is a universal concept. Every political goal we seek has no reason to be done in the name of “Marxism” or “anarchism” but simply out of empathy, collective care for the weakest and most vulnerable of our world. It is only a politics of vulnerability that can ever be truly inclusive.
Instead of looking to establish some grand utopia, our politics need to be based on being trauma-informed. Trump, Epstein, covid and Palestine all gave us collective CPTSD. Radical leftist politics should be primarily concerned with HEALING. Likewise, we have now become aware of the purely eugenicist nature of capitalism. The only way to stop and prevent eugenics is through empathy, not through some grand theory like Marxism.
Literally everyone is complaining about the lack of empathy and support in the world today. It should be our primary job to bring empathy back so that the most vulnerable and marginalized identities are allowed full human dignity and the right to be their authentic selves without fear of eradication. Your bullshit Marxist philosophy can’t accomplish that.
What’s the point of knowing leftist theory or political philosophy when we can simply base our politics on the notion of radical empathy?
Theory and philosophy are worthless and meaningless but empathy is something anyone can understand. It’s elitist as fuck to base your political aspirations on some grand abstract ideals since this ultimately creates hierarchies of intelligence because not everyone can grasp it. Yet empathy is a universal concept. Every political goal we seek has no reason to be done in the name of “Marxism” or “anarchism” but simply out of empathy, collective care for the weakest and most vulnerable of our world. It is only a politics of vulnerability that can ever be truly inclusive.
Instead of looking to establish some grand utopia, our politics need to be based on being trauma-informed. Trump, Epstein, covid and Palestine all gave us collective CPTSD. Radical leftist politics should be primarily concerned with HEALING. Likewise, we have now become aware of the purely eugenicist nature of capitalism. The only way to stop and prevent eugenics is through empathy, not through some grand theory like Marxism.
Literally everyone is complaining about the lack of empathy and support in the world today. It should be our primary job to bring empathy back so that the most vulnerable and marginalized identities are allowed full human dignity and the right to be their authentic selves without fear of eradication. Your bullshit Marxist philosophy can’t accomplish that.
R: 14 / I: 3
Many relatively underdeveloped thirdie nations are taking an increasingly dominant positions in the global economy and trade and continue to rise, While former juggernauts like the UK and Japan are stagnating, Less western-subjugated governments popping up everywhere, Even in Africa many impoverished nations will be solidly middle income in a generation if their current economic growth rate continues into the future, Less warfare than before on the continet in general.
The global north watching their importance in the world stage diminish and ability to control other more impoverished nations……How do you think their governemnts are going to react?
More nakedly imperialistic and unjustifiably aggressive policies?
Are such reasons tied to some recent US actions e.g. Iran and Venezuela?
Imperialist consequences of narrowing gap between global north and south?
the combined share of global gdp by the US and EU fell by almost half since 2005 and continues to declineMany relatively underdeveloped thirdie nations are taking an increasingly dominant positions in the global economy and trade and continue to rise, While former juggernauts like the UK and Japan are stagnating, Less western-subjugated governments popping up everywhere, Even in Africa many impoverished nations will be solidly middle income in a generation if their current economic growth rate continues into the future, Less warfare than before on the continet in general.
The global north watching their importance in the world stage diminish and ability to control other more impoverished nations……How do you think their governemnts are going to react?
More nakedly imperialistic and unjustifiably aggressive policies?
Are such reasons tied to some recent US actions e.g. Iran and Venezuela?
R: 9 / I: 0
Bonapartism describes a state that achieves relative autonomy from any single class by claiming to stand above class conflict entirely ruling personalistically through plebiscitary mass appeal and charismatic authority rather than through a party program or a coherent class coalition, while materially serving capital's interests without capital directly controlling the state apparatus. Bonaparte's actual regime combined: personalist rule bypassing parliamentary/institutional mediation, appeals to a cross-class "people" against both organized labor and the traditional elite, military prestige projects and adventurism as legitimation (the whole Second Empire foreign policy pattern), and state-directed economic development (Haussmann's Paris, railway financing) alongside crushing independent labor organization. That's close to a checklist match for Trump: personalist rule, state economic direction, military/security emphasis as legitimating spectacle, hostility to organized labor and the left, appeal over the heads of institutions to a plebiscitary mass base.
Bonapartism in the Marxist tradition is specifically theorized as arising when class conflict reaches a stalemate where no single class can rule directly, so an autonomous executive arbitrates from above, critically, without needing to make durable concessions to labor the way a genuinely hegemonic class-coalition government would. Gramsci's extension of the concept (he uses “Caesarism” interchangeably) is explicitly about a strong personalist arbiter stepping in during a legitimacy crisis of the ordinary political process, offering national/military grandeur and personal charisma as substitutes for programmatic concession. That's the theoretical explanation for exactly why Trumpism is anti social welfare while pro military spending Bonapartist/Caesarist rule doesn't need to buy off labor, because it's explicitly a crisis arbitration form that draws its legitimacy from personal charisma and national mythology rather than from a stable coalition requiring material payoffs.
So: Bonapartism (Marx's term) or Caesarism (Gramsci's near-synonym) is the actual name for 19th-century style personalist strongman, holistic state-directed military-industrial policy, minimal welfare concession, legitimated by charisma and national grandeur rather than institution-building or class-coalition bargaining. Specifically it explains personalist executive rule that serves capital without needing programmatic concession to any class, including capital itself.
TRUMP's Ideology
I think I finally know Trumps ideology and its called Neo-BonapartismBonapartism describes a state that achieves relative autonomy from any single class by claiming to stand above class conflict entirely ruling personalistically through plebiscitary mass appeal and charismatic authority rather than through a party program or a coherent class coalition, while materially serving capital's interests without capital directly controlling the state apparatus. Bonaparte's actual regime combined: personalist rule bypassing parliamentary/institutional mediation, appeals to a cross-class "people" against both organized labor and the traditional elite, military prestige projects and adventurism as legitimation (the whole Second Empire foreign policy pattern), and state-directed economic development (Haussmann's Paris, railway financing) alongside crushing independent labor organization. That's close to a checklist match for Trump: personalist rule, state economic direction, military/security emphasis as legitimating spectacle, hostility to organized labor and the left, appeal over the heads of institutions to a plebiscitary mass base.
Bonapartism in the Marxist tradition is specifically theorized as arising when class conflict reaches a stalemate where no single class can rule directly, so an autonomous executive arbitrates from above, critically, without needing to make durable concessions to labor the way a genuinely hegemonic class-coalition government would. Gramsci's extension of the concept (he uses “Caesarism” interchangeably) is explicitly about a strong personalist arbiter stepping in during a legitimacy crisis of the ordinary political process, offering national/military grandeur and personal charisma as substitutes for programmatic concession. That's the theoretical explanation for exactly why Trumpism is anti social welfare while pro military spending Bonapartist/Caesarist rule doesn't need to buy off labor, because it's explicitly a crisis arbitration form that draws its legitimacy from personal charisma and national mythology rather than from a stable coalition requiring material payoffs.
So: Bonapartism (Marx's term) or Caesarism (Gramsci's near-synonym) is the actual name for 19th-century style personalist strongman, holistic state-directed military-industrial policy, minimal welfare concession, legitimated by charisma and national grandeur rather than institution-building or class-coalition bargaining. Specifically it explains personalist executive rule that serves capital without needing programmatic concession to any class, including capital itself.
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I understand communism okay maybe I understand the appeal, a society organized differently than the current capitalist might be at the very least interesting to take a look at, the only thing I don’t understand and I have been lurking here and other leftist spaces for a long time now mind you is why are commodities bad?
I understand communism okay maybe I understand the appeal, a society organized differently than the current capitalist might be at the very least interesting to take a look at, the only thing I don’t understand and I have been lurking here and other leftist spaces for a long time now mind you is why are commodities bad?
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>abandon your comfortable life to become a revolutionary
>play a key part in the Cuban Revolution
>instead of joining the government, your start traveling all over Africa and Latin America supporting guerillas
>die in battle and become a symbol of rebellion worldwide
This guy was the definition of Nietzsche’s ubermensch.
Chad Guevara
>be attractive, middle class doctor in Argentina>abandon your comfortable life to become a revolutionary
>play a key part in the Cuban Revolution
>instead of joining the government, your start traveling all over Africa and Latin America supporting guerillas
>die in battle and become a symbol of rebellion worldwide
This guy was the definition of Nietzsche’s ubermensch.
R: 9 / I: 4 (sage)
COLONIALISTS BTFO
CHUDS BTFO
BRITS BTFO
YANKEES BTFO
meow BTFO
REVOLUTION WILL START RIGHT NOW
==BREAKING NEWS==
IT'S HAPPENING GET IN HERECOLONIALISTS BTFO
CHUDS BTFO
BRITS BTFO
YANKEES BTFO
meow BTFO
REVOLUTION WILL START RIGHT NOW
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Will many be killed in some revolution-style basedsacre, or hold a political, and also economic monopoly since Trump seems to be trying every effort posssible to buy out more markets and deals for his family.
Trump Jr is currently considered the favoured candidate for 2028 if Trump fails to bypass term limits too.
So whats gonna happen?
Trump Family
What is gonna happen to the Trump family after Trump dies, or is forced out office?Will many be killed in some revolution-style basedsacre, or hold a political, and also economic monopoly since Trump seems to be trying every effort posssible to buy out more markets and deals for his family.
Trump Jr is currently considered the favoured candidate for 2028 if Trump fails to bypass term limits too.
So whats gonna happen?
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After a measurement is made, the system has a definite value for the measured property. This requires a sudden change in the wave function: before measurement, it describes many possible outcomes, but after measurement, only one outcome remains with a 100% probability while all others become 0%.
If these other possibilities are not removed from the wave function, the predictions for future measurements of the same system would be incorrect. This transition from many possible outcomes to one actual outcome is called wave-function collapse.
The problem is that collapse is not described by the Schrödinger equation, which describes how quantum systems evolve over time. The Schrödinger equation only describes the continuous evolution of the wave function; it does not explain when or why collapse happens.
Because collapse is not produced by the Schrödinger equation, its cause cannot be found within the physical processes described by that equation. The main problem in quantum physics is explaining how a system goes from an undefined state containing multiple possibilities to a state with one definite outcome. Since all known physical interactions are already described by quantum mechanics, the cause of collapse cannot simply be another physical interaction within the same framework.
After a century of debate, collapse remains one of the central problems of quantum mechanics. On one hand, collapse seems to contradict the Schrödinger equation. On the other hand, it seems necessary because without collapse there would be no single physical event. The wave function contains possibilities, but an actual event requires one possibility to become real while the others are eliminated.
Quantum mechanics therefore challenges the idea that reality exists as a continuous physical world with definite properties at every moment. Instead, it describes reality as a series of events where definite properties appear only when they are measured. Before collapse, the properties of the system are not determined.
This does not mean that a quantum particle is literally in many places at once. A non-collapsed wave function does not describe one particle existing in multiple locations simultaneously; it describes multiple possible outcomes. If a system has no definite properties, then those properties do not exist in the classical sense.
Photons, electrons, and other quantum particles can therefore be understood as names we give to mathematical descriptions of possible events. Collapse represents the transition from possible outcomes to an actual event.
Quantum mechanics appears incompatible with traditional realism, because realism assumes that physical objects exist continuously and have properties independent of observation. Since collapse cannot be explained by the Schrödinger equation, it must involve something outside the equation.
A measuring device cannot fully explain collapse, because the device itself is made of quantum particles and follows quantum laws. Therefore, the collapse cannot simply be caused by another physical interaction already described by quantum mechanics.
The only known phenomenon that cannot be reduced to the Schrödinger equation is consciousness. Therefore, actual events may require the involvement of consciousness.
However, this does not mean that a person's mind directly creates reality. The argument is not that human observers magically force particles into existence. Instead, it argues that there is a connection between conscious observation and the appearance of definite events. A correlation does not necessarily mean direct causation.
From this perspective, idealism provides a solution to the measurement problem. Instead of assuming an external physical world independent of the mind, idealism argues that reality exists as experiences within consciousness.
In the Berkeleyan view, the universe exists as ideas in the mind of God. God directly sustains and creates the experiences we perceive. The universe is not a physical object existing independently from minds, but a consistent order of experiences created by God.
Under this interpretation, wave-function collapse is not a physical process that needs a mechanism. It is simply the mathematical description of how possible experiences become actual experiences.
This view is similar to the philosophy of George Berkeley, where God is not only the Creator but also the continual Sustainer of reality.
Idealism argues that it is unnecessary to assume a hidden physical reality existing independently of the mind. What we directly know are our experiences, and mathematics describes the patterns within those experiences. The laws of physics are therefore understood as the rational structure God uses to produce an ordered universe.
This explains both why conscious experience exists, and why mathematics is so effective at predicting nature.
The brain and mental experiences are correlated, but the brain does not necessarily create consciousness; instead, physical processes may represent mental processes.
The claim that decoherence solves the collapse problem is disputed. Decoherence explains why quantum systems appear classical when they interact with their environment, but it does not explain why only one possible outcome becomes actual.
Even after decoherence, the wave function still contains multiple possible outcomes. If one outcome is not selected and the others are not removed, then the predictions for later measurements remain problematic.
The laws of classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics, but this does not solve the measurement problem. The same wave function can still correspond to many possible classical outcomes. Collapse is still required to explain why one possibility becomes a real event.
The many-worlds interpretation does not solve this problem because it simply denies that collapse happens. It keeps the Schrödinger equation as the fundamental law, but then must explain why observers experience only one outcome.
If two measurements are performed on the same system, standard quantum mechanics requires updating the wave function after the first measurement. Without this update, the predictions for the second measurement would be incorrect.
Many-worlds avoids collapse by claiming that all possible outcomes continue to exist in different branches of reality. However, critics argue that this introduces an unnecessary and untestable idea of countless universes without actually explaining why we experience one outcome.
The concept of "branching" remains controversial because it is difficult to explain exactly when and how these branches form.
Furthermore, many-worlds assumes that consciousness arises from physical processes described by quantum mechanics. Critics argue that consciousness cannot be explained by the Schrödinger equation alone.
Finally, the wave function itself is a mathematical concept, not a physical object. Since many-worlds treats the wave function as describing many physical universes, critics argue that it relies on abstract mathematical entities and the minds capable of understanding those abstractions.
God is real, reality is a dream and quantum physics proves it
In quantum mechanics, the state of a physical system is described by a wave function. Before measurement, the system does not have definite values for every measurable property. Instead, the wave function gives probabilities for the different possible outcomes that could be observed.After a measurement is made, the system has a definite value for the measured property. This requires a sudden change in the wave function: before measurement, it describes many possible outcomes, but after measurement, only one outcome remains with a 100% probability while all others become 0%.
If these other possibilities are not removed from the wave function, the predictions for future measurements of the same system would be incorrect. This transition from many possible outcomes to one actual outcome is called wave-function collapse.
The problem is that collapse is not described by the Schrödinger equation, which describes how quantum systems evolve over time. The Schrödinger equation only describes the continuous evolution of the wave function; it does not explain when or why collapse happens.
Because collapse is not produced by the Schrödinger equation, its cause cannot be found within the physical processes described by that equation. The main problem in quantum physics is explaining how a system goes from an undefined state containing multiple possibilities to a state with one definite outcome. Since all known physical interactions are already described by quantum mechanics, the cause of collapse cannot simply be another physical interaction within the same framework.
After a century of debate, collapse remains one of the central problems of quantum mechanics. On one hand, collapse seems to contradict the Schrödinger equation. On the other hand, it seems necessary because without collapse there would be no single physical event. The wave function contains possibilities, but an actual event requires one possibility to become real while the others are eliminated.
Quantum mechanics therefore challenges the idea that reality exists as a continuous physical world with definite properties at every moment. Instead, it describes reality as a series of events where definite properties appear only when they are measured. Before collapse, the properties of the system are not determined.
This does not mean that a quantum particle is literally in many places at once. A non-collapsed wave function does not describe one particle existing in multiple locations simultaneously; it describes multiple possible outcomes. If a system has no definite properties, then those properties do not exist in the classical sense.
Photons, electrons, and other quantum particles can therefore be understood as names we give to mathematical descriptions of possible events. Collapse represents the transition from possible outcomes to an actual event.
Quantum mechanics appears incompatible with traditional realism, because realism assumes that physical objects exist continuously and have properties independent of observation. Since collapse cannot be explained by the Schrödinger equation, it must involve something outside the equation.
A measuring device cannot fully explain collapse, because the device itself is made of quantum particles and follows quantum laws. Therefore, the collapse cannot simply be caused by another physical interaction already described by quantum mechanics.
The only known phenomenon that cannot be reduced to the Schrödinger equation is consciousness. Therefore, actual events may require the involvement of consciousness.
However, this does not mean that a person's mind directly creates reality. The argument is not that human observers magically force particles into existence. Instead, it argues that there is a connection between conscious observation and the appearance of definite events. A correlation does not necessarily mean direct causation.
From this perspective, idealism provides a solution to the measurement problem. Instead of assuming an external physical world independent of the mind, idealism argues that reality exists as experiences within consciousness.
In the Berkeleyan view, the universe exists as ideas in the mind of God. God directly sustains and creates the experiences we perceive. The universe is not a physical object existing independently from minds, but a consistent order of experiences created by God.
Under this interpretation, wave-function collapse is not a physical process that needs a mechanism. It is simply the mathematical description of how possible experiences become actual experiences.
This view is similar to the philosophy of George Berkeley, where God is not only the Creator but also the continual Sustainer of reality.
Idealism argues that it is unnecessary to assume a hidden physical reality existing independently of the mind. What we directly know are our experiences, and mathematics describes the patterns within those experiences. The laws of physics are therefore understood as the rational structure God uses to produce an ordered universe.
This explains both why conscious experience exists, and why mathematics is so effective at predicting nature.
The brain and mental experiences are correlated, but the brain does not necessarily create consciousness; instead, physical processes may represent mental processes.
The claim that decoherence solves the collapse problem is disputed. Decoherence explains why quantum systems appear classical when they interact with their environment, but it does not explain why only one possible outcome becomes actual.
Even after decoherence, the wave function still contains multiple possible outcomes. If one outcome is not selected and the others are not removed, then the predictions for later measurements remain problematic.
The laws of classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics, but this does not solve the measurement problem. The same wave function can still correspond to many possible classical outcomes. Collapse is still required to explain why one possibility becomes a real event.
The many-worlds interpretation does not solve this problem because it simply denies that collapse happens. It keeps the Schrödinger equation as the fundamental law, but then must explain why observers experience only one outcome.
If two measurements are performed on the same system, standard quantum mechanics requires updating the wave function after the first measurement. Without this update, the predictions for the second measurement would be incorrect.
Many-worlds avoids collapse by claiming that all possible outcomes continue to exist in different branches of reality. However, critics argue that this introduces an unnecessary and untestable idea of countless universes without actually explaining why we experience one outcome.
The concept of "branching" remains controversial because it is difficult to explain exactly when and how these branches form.
Furthermore, many-worlds assumes that consciousness arises from physical processes described by quantum mechanics. Critics argue that consciousness cannot be explained by the Schrödinger equation alone.
Finally, the wave function itself is a mathematical concept, not a physical object. Since many-worlds treats the wave function as describing many physical universes, critics argue that it relies on abstract mathematical entities and the minds capable of understanding those abstractions.
R: 3 / I: 0
The Reuters news agency, citing British maritime security company Ambrey, reported that a US-owned floating storage tanker at the port had been hit by a drone. Crew members were evacuated, and the fire was brought under control, the report said. There has not been any claim of responsibility. The incident comes as US President Donald Trump promised to hit Iran “hard” following a wave of Iranian missile attacks targeting US bases in the region and US-Saudi Arabia joint attacks on a Tehran-backed armed group in Iraq, which killed at least 20 fighters.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/29/fire-erupts-on-ships-at-egypts-damietta-port
https://archive.ph/5HGMC
Israeli forces assault MK while storming memorial event for slain Palestinian activist
Israeli border police assaulted a Knesset member on Tuesday while storming a memorial event for a slain Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank — a move described as showing Israeli forces' "clear descent into fascism". The attack took place in Umm al-Khair at a memorial gathering for Awda Hathaleen, who was killed in 2025.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-assault-mk-storm-vigil-palestinian-activist
Ahmet Davutoglu, former PM turned Erdogan critic, ends political career
“This is not a decision of surrender. It is a decision to distance ourselves morally. This is not giving up on politics; it is a call for everyone to rethink politics,” he said. He warned that the introduction of the executive presidential system in 2018 had eliminated checks and balances and accelerated authoritarianism, which “could give way to a permanent authoritarian system.” Davutoglu founded the Future Party in 2019, hoping to draw voters away from Erdogan's long-time ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and create an alternative conservative movement with democratic credentials.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ahmet-davutoglu-former-pm-turned-erdogan-critic-ends-political-career
Libya electricity blackout protests expose country’s failing grid
Night in Libya no longer begins with sunset, but with the hum of private generators as entire neighbourhoods are plunged into darkness and those unable to afford alternative power are left to endure the heat. Amid a blistering heatwave with temperatures exceeding 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit), chronic power cuts have ignited a new wave of protests and civil disobedience across the capital, Tripoli, and surrounding areas.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/29/libya-electricity-blackout-protests-expose-countrys-failing-grid
https://archive.ph/MC3vM
Boeings identified in Reuters report carried weapons for Sudanese paramilitary, UN experts find
The planes identified by the U.N. were among the ones Reuters linked to RSF hubs. The U.N. report said three 727s – one sold in Brazil to a Shaulis-linked company and two acquired from Michigan-based Kalitta Charters II – appeared in Chad from November 2024 and operated out of the military apron of N'Djamena's airport.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/boeings-identified-reuters-report-carried-weapons-sudanese-paramilitary-un-2026-07-29/
Crisis-hit Cuba opens pharmacies, gas stations to private firms
Cuba moved to open crisis-ravaged parts of the state-run economy to private firms Wednesday, as the communist government struggles to ease acute shortages resulting from a US energy blockade.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260729-crisis-hit-cuba-opens-pharmacies-gas-stations-to-private-firms
https://archive.ph/XiaFa
Bolivia and IMF reach $1.9 billion loan agreement, political hurdles remain
The fund said it would not comment on expectations, adding that the size of the fund’s support "reflects the outcome of discussions between IMF staff and the Bolivian authorities and is based on the country’s balance-of-payments’ financing needs and the program’s objectives.” The IMF also said the deal could spur financing from the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and other multilateral lenders for a total of more than $5 billion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivia-imf-reach-agreement-program-worth-19-billion-2026-07-29/
BMW to cut 8,000 jobs by the end of 2027
Up to 8,000 jobs are expected to be culled under the program, with offers going out beginning in October, according to internal corporate sources.The program targets German-based workers in administrative and research and development roles, the spokesperson said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/bmw-to-cut-8000-jobs/
https://archive.ph/DzsfS
Polanski refuses to apologise to Farage amid confected row over social media post
Mr Polanski said he had made an “inadvertent mistake” in promoting the picture of a man in a T-shirt with a message implying Mr Farage should face the guillotine, and had speedily reversed his acceptance of it. Reform UK has nevertheless accused Mr Polanski of “inciting murder” and referred the issue to the police.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/polanski-refuses-apologise-farage-amid-confected-row-over-social-media-post
Bangladesh’s president, once a close ally of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina, resigns
Shahabuddin was known to be a trusted follower of Hasina. Following her ouster, he faced strong opposition from a student group that led the uprising against Hasina. The protesters branded him a collaborator of Hasina and took to the streets demanding his resignation and arrest.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-president-shahabuddin-resign-hasina-tarique-cc9c70910427166e7fe237d5d10254d1
Many migrants continue to become victims
Human trafficking has become so deeply entrenched in overseas migration that, according to rights activists, Bangladeshi workers are now being trafficked in nearly every destination country after being lured by false promises of decent jobs. Upon entry, many trafficked workers are stripped of their passports and phones, confined to workplaces, and forced into labour, criminal activities, or worse.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/308108/many-migrants-continue-to-become-victims
Raid on Indian Communist HQ thwarted
Delhi police attempted to enter the offices to arrest Aishe Ghosh, the former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union. Ms Ghosh was one of the prominent activists in the recent so-called “Cockroach” movement protests across India. The police reportedly came in a private vehicle, some without uniform and left when questioned.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/raid-indian-communist-hq-thwarted
Myanmar courts sentence activists up to 37 years over election boycott protest
May Hnin, a spokesperson for the Anti-Junta Forces Coordination Committee-Mandalay, said eight members including prominent activist Htet Myat Aung were sentenced to 37 years on Tuesday by two courts in Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, after being convicted under the electoral law and counterterrorism Law.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-activists-election-boycott-prison-60690dd13d28b35f955506c9f14b2eab
Australian government plans harsher foreign interference laws
The foreign interference offences outlaw conduct “on behalf of, or in collaboration with, a foreign principal,” including to “influence a political or governmental process” or “prejudice Australia’s national security,” with punishments of up to 20 years’ imprisonment. “Collaboration,” which is undefined, could cover consultation, information-sharing, coordination, or even online communication. Thus, campaigning against Australian involvement in a US-led military intervention could be criminalised if contact were made with an organisation in the targeted country.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/28/kfnd-j28.html
News 7/29/26
Fire erupts on ships at Egypt’s Damietta portThe Reuters news agency, citing British maritime security company Ambrey, reported that a US-owned floating storage tanker at the port had been hit by a drone. Crew members were evacuated, and the fire was brought under control, the report said. There has not been any claim of responsibility. The incident comes as US President Donald Trump promised to hit Iran “hard” following a wave of Iranian missile attacks targeting US bases in the region and US-Saudi Arabia joint attacks on a Tehran-backed armed group in Iraq, which killed at least 20 fighters.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/29/fire-erupts-on-ships-at-egypts-damietta-port
https://archive.ph/5HGMC
Israeli forces assault MK while storming memorial event for slain Palestinian activist
Israeli border police assaulted a Knesset member on Tuesday while storming a memorial event for a slain Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank — a move described as showing Israeli forces' "clear descent into fascism". The attack took place in Umm al-Khair at a memorial gathering for Awda Hathaleen, who was killed in 2025.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-assault-mk-storm-vigil-palestinian-activist
Ahmet Davutoglu, former PM turned Erdogan critic, ends political career
“This is not a decision of surrender. It is a decision to distance ourselves morally. This is not giving up on politics; it is a call for everyone to rethink politics,” he said. He warned that the introduction of the executive presidential system in 2018 had eliminated checks and balances and accelerated authoritarianism, which “could give way to a permanent authoritarian system.” Davutoglu founded the Future Party in 2019, hoping to draw voters away from Erdogan's long-time ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and create an alternative conservative movement with democratic credentials.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ahmet-davutoglu-former-pm-turned-erdogan-critic-ends-political-career
Libya electricity blackout protests expose country’s failing grid
Night in Libya no longer begins with sunset, but with the hum of private generators as entire neighbourhoods are plunged into darkness and those unable to afford alternative power are left to endure the heat. Amid a blistering heatwave with temperatures exceeding 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit), chronic power cuts have ignited a new wave of protests and civil disobedience across the capital, Tripoli, and surrounding areas.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/29/libya-electricity-blackout-protests-expose-countrys-failing-grid
https://archive.ph/MC3vM
Boeings identified in Reuters report carried weapons for Sudanese paramilitary, UN experts find
The planes identified by the U.N. were among the ones Reuters linked to RSF hubs. The U.N. report said three 727s – one sold in Brazil to a Shaulis-linked company and two acquired from Michigan-based Kalitta Charters II – appeared in Chad from November 2024 and operated out of the military apron of N'Djamena's airport.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/boeings-identified-reuters-report-carried-weapons-sudanese-paramilitary-un-2026-07-29/
Crisis-hit Cuba opens pharmacies, gas stations to private firms
Cuba moved to open crisis-ravaged parts of the state-run economy to private firms Wednesday, as the communist government struggles to ease acute shortages resulting from a US energy blockade.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260729-crisis-hit-cuba-opens-pharmacies-gas-stations-to-private-firms
https://archive.ph/XiaFa
Bolivia and IMF reach $1.9 billion loan agreement, political hurdles remain
The fund said it would not comment on expectations, adding that the size of the fund’s support "reflects the outcome of discussions between IMF staff and the Bolivian authorities and is based on the country’s balance-of-payments’ financing needs and the program’s objectives.” The IMF also said the deal could spur financing from the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and other multilateral lenders for a total of more than $5 billion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivia-imf-reach-agreement-program-worth-19-billion-2026-07-29/
BMW to cut 8,000 jobs by the end of 2027
Up to 8,000 jobs are expected to be culled under the program, with offers going out beginning in October, according to internal corporate sources.The program targets German-based workers in administrative and research and development roles, the spokesperson said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/bmw-to-cut-8000-jobs/
https://archive.ph/DzsfS
Polanski refuses to apologise to Farage amid confected row over social media post
Mr Polanski said he had made an “inadvertent mistake” in promoting the picture of a man in a T-shirt with a message implying Mr Farage should face the guillotine, and had speedily reversed his acceptance of it. Reform UK has nevertheless accused Mr Polanski of “inciting murder” and referred the issue to the police.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/polanski-refuses-apologise-farage-amid-confected-row-over-social-media-post
Bangladesh’s president, once a close ally of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina, resigns
Shahabuddin was known to be a trusted follower of Hasina. Following her ouster, he faced strong opposition from a student group that led the uprising against Hasina. The protesters branded him a collaborator of Hasina and took to the streets demanding his resignation and arrest.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-president-shahabuddin-resign-hasina-tarique-cc9c70910427166e7fe237d5d10254d1
Many migrants continue to become victims
Human trafficking has become so deeply entrenched in overseas migration that, according to rights activists, Bangladeshi workers are now being trafficked in nearly every destination country after being lured by false promises of decent jobs. Upon entry, many trafficked workers are stripped of their passports and phones, confined to workplaces, and forced into labour, criminal activities, or worse.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/308108/many-migrants-continue-to-become-victims
Raid on Indian Communist HQ thwarted
Delhi police attempted to enter the offices to arrest Aishe Ghosh, the former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union. Ms Ghosh was one of the prominent activists in the recent so-called “Cockroach” movement protests across India. The police reportedly came in a private vehicle, some without uniform and left when questioned.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/raid-indian-communist-hq-thwarted
Myanmar courts sentence activists up to 37 years over election boycott protest
May Hnin, a spokesperson for the Anti-Junta Forces Coordination Committee-Mandalay, said eight members including prominent activist Htet Myat Aung were sentenced to 37 years on Tuesday by two courts in Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, after being convicted under the electoral law and counterterrorism Law.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-activists-election-boycott-prison-60690dd13d28b35f955506c9f14b2eab
Australian government plans harsher foreign interference laws
The foreign interference offences outlaw conduct “on behalf of, or in collaboration with, a foreign principal,” including to “influence a political or governmental process” or “prejudice Australia’s national security,” with punishments of up to 20 years’ imprisonment. “Collaboration,” which is undefined, could cover consultation, information-sharing, coordination, or even online communication. Thus, campaigning against Australian involvement in a US-led military intervention could be criminalised if contact were made with an organisation in the targeted country.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/28/kfnd-j28.html
R: 56 / I: 8 (sage)
As an ancap, i feel like we dont act as radical as our ideology says we are
I would personally prefer a more radical outlook on the world. We have an advantage over the communists, and that is reality. But, where you look, you see the communists capturing the political radicals
Sad!
As an ancap, i feel like we dont act as radical as our ideology says we are
I would personally prefer a more radical outlook on the world. We have an advantage over the communists, and that is reality. But, where you look, you see the communists capturing the political radicals
Sad!
R: 19 / I: 0
It is also aggressively state led, sort of the Chinese Nordics, with strong SOEs and TVEs.
What does Leftypol think, given that this is essentially Communist Singapore?
Sunan: socialism without the poverty
Doing a bit of macroeconomics research, I recently discovered that the South Jiangsu region (Sunan, or Wuxi, Nanjing, Suzhou, Changzhou) is apparently first world China, with living standards matching or exceeding Japan and South Korea.It is also aggressively state led, sort of the Chinese Nordics, with strong SOEs and TVEs.
What does Leftypol think, given that this is essentially Communist Singapore?
R: 617 / I: 118 (full)
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list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
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📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
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Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
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FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
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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🗽 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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(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Anyone got anything to say about the DSA libertarian socialist caucus?
Seems like a way to bring people who would not normally support democratic socialists to be more cooperative with electoralism.
Im already skeptical of the DSA, but at the same time i see no other even vaguely socialist or communist project actually doing anything on a mass scale in the country.
Ive also not been as involved in politics in the past few years, trying to keep my head down to not be a target again for the sake of my family, but i feel like this may be a safer option.
Ive met DSA folks in the past, and my thoughts on them are similar to meeting many other leftists. "gee, they see nice, hope they actually fucking do something," and they kinda have.
Anyway, thoughts?
DSA LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST CAUCUS
https://dsa-lsc.org/Anyone got anything to say about the DSA libertarian socialist caucus?
Seems like a way to bring people who would not normally support democratic socialists to be more cooperative with electoralism.
Im already skeptical of the DSA, but at the same time i see no other even vaguely socialist or communist project actually doing anything on a mass scale in the country.
Ive also not been as involved in politics in the past few years, trying to keep my head down to not be a target again for the sake of my family, but i feel like this may be a safer option.
Ive met DSA folks in the past, and my thoughts on them are similar to meeting many other leftists. "gee, they see nice, hope they actually fucking do something," and they kinda have.
Anyway, thoughts?
R: 98 / I: 18
>Article 12 of the Soviet Constitution literally mandated "he who does not work shall not eat" (the ultimate grindset)
>the Nomenklatura acted as C-suite executives enjoying private dachas, exclusive luxury stores (Beryozka), and special limousines
>workers owned zero stock equity, had zero say in management, and worked strictly for fixed fiat wage labor
The USSR was not socialist; it was just State Monopoly Capitalism taken to its logical extreme.
USSR was the most successful capitalist monopoly in human history
>one single corporation (the Party) owned 100% market share and banned all market competitors by forcelabor >unions were stripped of power and turned into corporate HR departments to boost factory quotas>Article 12 of the Soviet Constitution literally mandated "he who does not work shall not eat" (the ultimate grindset)
>the Nomenklatura acted as C-suite executives enjoying private dachas, exclusive luxury stores (Beryozka), and special limousines
>workers owned zero stock equity, had zero say in management, and worked strictly for fixed fiat wage labor
The USSR was not socialist; it was just State Monopoly Capitalism taken to its logical extreme.
R: 40 / I: 5
Materialists sometimes become Moralist-Materialists and inadvertently reproduce Abrahamic logic in Secular form. For instance, take these two conflicting forms of morality in the bible:
>Exodus says God punishes people intergenerationally, for the crimes of their ancestors
versus
>Ezekiel says God punishes people individually for their crimes
Now obviously materialists don't believe in supernatural entities like God, so it is up to humanity to catch and punish "crimes" but in deciding what "crime" is morality is created and conflated with legality. You can see this in the accumulation of unpunished crimes. Many if not most crimes go undiscovered, and the ones which are discovered may often go unsolved, and therefore unpunished. An unsolved and unpunished crime challenges the legitimacy of the law. People reinvent morality forms like Karma in secular form to excuse this systemic weakness.
For instance, the vast majority of slave owners died happy, fat, and unpunished. This distresses a great many people, even after slavery ended, so an Exodus style morality is created: intergenerational privilege passed down from abolished institutions becomes a crime in itself, not legally punishable, but morally punishable almost as severe as the crime itself, and the Exodus style morality is applied. Against this Exodus style morality comes the Ezekiel protesting "But I personally did not do anything."
There is an ever ending debate in humanity it seems regarding whether crimes are merely breeches of the law or of a sacred morality which is objective and above the law. There is a never ending debate whether children should be punished for the crimes of their parents, since they benefited indirectly from the spoils of those crimes.
But Exodus style morality can only apply to the crime which is discovered, but as yet unpunished. It cannot apply to the crime which is both discovered and unpunished. Therefore the Exodus style morality becomes an excuse to punish generations for the crimes of their ancestors, while excusing the crimes of individuals as long as they were sufficiently able to hide them and get away with them.
In comes mass surveillance as a promise to create God's Eye on Earth and "solve" the problem of undiscovered crimes by making everyone subject to a panopticon. A tempting offer, but one which should be rejected.
Materialists sometimes become Moralist-Materialists and inadvertently reproduce Abrahamic logic in Secular form. For instance, take these two conflicting forms of morality in the bible:
>Exodus says God punishes people intergenerationally, for the crimes of their ancestors
versus
>Ezekiel says God punishes people individually for their crimes
Now obviously materialists don't believe in supernatural entities like God, so it is up to humanity to catch and punish "crimes" but in deciding what "crime" is morality is created and conflated with legality. You can see this in the accumulation of unpunished crimes. Many if not most crimes go undiscovered, and the ones which are discovered may often go unsolved, and therefore unpunished. An unsolved and unpunished crime challenges the legitimacy of the law. People reinvent morality forms like Karma in secular form to excuse this systemic weakness.
For instance, the vast majority of slave owners died happy, fat, and unpunished. This distresses a great many people, even after slavery ended, so an Exodus style morality is created: intergenerational privilege passed down from abolished institutions becomes a crime in itself, not legally punishable, but morally punishable almost as severe as the crime itself, and the Exodus style morality is applied. Against this Exodus style morality comes the Ezekiel protesting "But I personally did not do anything."
There is an ever ending debate in humanity it seems regarding whether crimes are merely breeches of the law or of a sacred morality which is objective and above the law. There is a never ending debate whether children should be punished for the crimes of their parents, since they benefited indirectly from the spoils of those crimes.
But Exodus style morality can only apply to the crime which is discovered, but as yet unpunished. It cannot apply to the crime which is both discovered and unpunished. Therefore the Exodus style morality becomes an excuse to punish generations for the crimes of their ancestors, while excusing the crimes of individuals as long as they were sufficiently able to hide them and get away with them.
In comes mass surveillance as a promise to create God's Eye on Earth and "solve" the problem of undiscovered crimes by making everyone subject to a panopticon. A tempting offer, but one which should be rejected.
R: 3 / I: 0
I got brutally black pilled about the question of resource and growth in a finite planet, and space trade is a pipe dream, it's over for mankind if we don't change our ways, I guess some form of planning is the way out, and even more unpopular solution would be population control, I just don't know, man.
I WAS WRONG
After reading a book called "Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet" (it's a free book, you can read it here: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m#page=12)I got brutally black pilled about the question of resource and growth in a finite planet, and space trade is a pipe dream, it's over for mankind if we don't change our ways, I guess some form of planning is the way out, and even more unpopular solution would be population control, I just don't know, man.
R: 3 / I: 0
An Israeli forces patrol of two tanks and a military vehicle, advanced into the outskirts of Wadi Al-Raqad in Al-Yarmouk Basin area in western Daraa countryside, this coincided with attacks with machineguns on the agricultural land and the road leading to Wadi Al-Raqad.
However, no casualties have been reported.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/384828/
Oman proposes joint control of Strait of Hormuz as mediators expect talks 'breakthrough'
According to two sources who spoke to Reuters, the Gulf-backed plan proposes a joint regional mechanism to manage the key waterway, with those using it paying voluntary fees to fund the cost of its maintenance. This will include funding to cover navigation, environmental protection and search and rescue services. The proposal draws on the model of the Strait of Malacca, which lies between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is jointly managed by neighbouring states Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oman-proposes-joint-management-strait-hormuz-mediators-expect-breakthrough-talks
Gaza's Palestinians question role and limits of planned multinational force
According to Israeli media reports, the initial phase would involve deploying approximately 200 personnel from countries described as "friendly," including Uganda and Morocco. The force would oversee areas outside Israeli military deployment zones while coordinating closely with the Israeli army. The proposal also includes establishing a humanitarian zone known as "Green Rafah" west of Rafah city, where displaced Palestinians would be relocated after passing through Israeli security checkpoints.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gazas-palestinians-question-role-limits-multinational-force
Africa's richest monarch names a $1 billion highway designed to connect Europe and West Africa after Trump
Trump recently thanked King Mohammed VI after Morocco announced that the expressway would bear his name, a move widely seen as recognition of his 2020 decision to recognise Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara—a disputed territory through which much of the highway passes.
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/leaders/africas-richest-monarch-names-a-dollar1-billion-highway-designed-to-connect-europe/4smfw9v
https://archive.ph/MsOU2
Nigeria tells South Africa to curb xenophobic attacks on migrants, questions state response
Nigeria urged South Africa on Monday to do more to prevent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African migrants, saying repeated violence was straining ties and raising questions about whether the government was complicit. The comments came during talks in Abuja between Nigerian officials and a South African delegation led by Special Envoy and International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-tells-south-africa-curb-xenophobic-attacks-migrants-questions-state-2026-07-27/
EFF seeks to win voters with municipal turnaround Plan: Levy Ndou
Political analyst Dr Levy Ndou says the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has used its local government election manifesto launch to position itself as a party with solutions to South Africa’s struggling municipalities. The comments follow EFF leader Julius Malema’s pledge to improve refuse collection, insourcing of municipal workers and strengthening service delivery if elected.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-seeks-to-win-voters-with-municipal-turnaround-plan-levy-ndou/
El Salvador opposition pitch former lawmaker, doctor to run against Bukele in 2027
El Salvador's opposition parties have named Maytee Iraheta, a former lawmaker, as well as doctor and union leader Rafael Aguirre to run against President Nayib Bukele in the next presidential election, scheduled for February. Iraheta announced her candidacy for the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party in a statement to reporters on Sunday, while the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) announced Aguirre's candidacy in a written statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-opposition-pitch-former-lawmaker-doctor-run-against-bukele-2027-2026-07-27/
De la Espriella desists from holding swearing-in ceremony at military base
The apparent decision to desist from a military inauguration comes after major tensions with the outgoing government of President Gustavo Petro, who ordered the military not to cooperate with his elected successor. An inauguration at a military base was also opposed by the Democratic Center, the largest political party in De la Espriella’s far-right congressional coalition.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-desists-from-holding-swearing-in-ceremony-at-military-base/
‘Overkill’ | Groups slam police arrests of activists during SONA 2026 protest
Various progressive groups and activists criticized the arrest of artists, rappers and other activists during the State of the Nation Address (SONA) ng Bayan 2026 on July 27 along Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City before Marcos Jr.’s penultimate SONA. The Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested more or less 51 protesters “due to vandalism and wearing of balaclavas.” Among the arrested is former Panday Sining national chairperson, Hiphop United Against Corruption member and Fliptop rap artist Vitrum
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/07/27/overkill-groups-slam-police-arrests-of-activists-during-sona-2026-protest/
Police opens fire on PoJK protesters amid election boycott
Pakistani forces have opened fire on protesters marching from Rawalakote to capital Muzaffarabad on the 52nd day of agitation for their basic rights. Many people are believed to have been killed and injured, leading to intensification of the agitation.
https://www.awazthevoice.in/world-news/police-opens-fire-on-pojk-protesters-amid-election-boycott-64645.html
https://archive.ph/TDltW
India’s Cockroach movement threatens to restart protests after mass student arrests
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which organised mass protests over exam paper leaks, said hundreds of students had been detained or “harassed” by police, with cases filed in Delhi, Assam, West Bengal and Bihar — all states ruled by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. CJP spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka said: “If the government does not honour the agreement and release everyone detained or arrested, we will be compelled to resume the protest.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indias-cockroach-movement-threatens-restart-protests-after-mass-student-arrests
News 7/28/26
During new military incursion | Israeli machineguns attack western Daraa countrysideAn Israeli forces patrol of two tanks and a military vehicle, advanced into the outskirts of Wadi Al-Raqad in Al-Yarmouk Basin area in western Daraa countryside, this coincided with attacks with machineguns on the agricultural land and the road leading to Wadi Al-Raqad.
However, no casualties have been reported.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/384828/
Oman proposes joint control of Strait of Hormuz as mediators expect talks 'breakthrough'
According to two sources who spoke to Reuters, the Gulf-backed plan proposes a joint regional mechanism to manage the key waterway, with those using it paying voluntary fees to fund the cost of its maintenance. This will include funding to cover navigation, environmental protection and search and rescue services. The proposal draws on the model of the Strait of Malacca, which lies between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is jointly managed by neighbouring states Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oman-proposes-joint-management-strait-hormuz-mediators-expect-breakthrough-talks
Gaza's Palestinians question role and limits of planned multinational force
According to Israeli media reports, the initial phase would involve deploying approximately 200 personnel from countries described as "friendly," including Uganda and Morocco. The force would oversee areas outside Israeli military deployment zones while coordinating closely with the Israeli army. The proposal also includes establishing a humanitarian zone known as "Green Rafah" west of Rafah city, where displaced Palestinians would be relocated after passing through Israeli security checkpoints.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gazas-palestinians-question-role-limits-multinational-force
Africa's richest monarch names a $1 billion highway designed to connect Europe and West Africa after Trump
Trump recently thanked King Mohammed VI after Morocco announced that the expressway would bear his name, a move widely seen as recognition of his 2020 decision to recognise Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara—a disputed territory through which much of the highway passes.
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/leaders/africas-richest-monarch-names-a-dollar1-billion-highway-designed-to-connect-europe/4smfw9v
https://archive.ph/MsOU2
Nigeria tells South Africa to curb xenophobic attacks on migrants, questions state response
Nigeria urged South Africa on Monday to do more to prevent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African migrants, saying repeated violence was straining ties and raising questions about whether the government was complicit. The comments came during talks in Abuja between Nigerian officials and a South African delegation led by Special Envoy and International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-tells-south-africa-curb-xenophobic-attacks-migrants-questions-state-2026-07-27/
EFF seeks to win voters with municipal turnaround Plan: Levy Ndou
Political analyst Dr Levy Ndou says the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has used its local government election manifesto launch to position itself as a party with solutions to South Africa’s struggling municipalities. The comments follow EFF leader Julius Malema’s pledge to improve refuse collection, insourcing of municipal workers and strengthening service delivery if elected.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-seeks-to-win-voters-with-municipal-turnaround-plan-levy-ndou/
El Salvador opposition pitch former lawmaker, doctor to run against Bukele in 2027
El Salvador's opposition parties have named Maytee Iraheta, a former lawmaker, as well as doctor and union leader Rafael Aguirre to run against President Nayib Bukele in the next presidential election, scheduled for February. Iraheta announced her candidacy for the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party in a statement to reporters on Sunday, while the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) announced Aguirre's candidacy in a written statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-opposition-pitch-former-lawmaker-doctor-run-against-bukele-2027-2026-07-27/
De la Espriella desists from holding swearing-in ceremony at military base
The apparent decision to desist from a military inauguration comes after major tensions with the outgoing government of President Gustavo Petro, who ordered the military not to cooperate with his elected successor. An inauguration at a military base was also opposed by the Democratic Center, the largest political party in De la Espriella’s far-right congressional coalition.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-desists-from-holding-swearing-in-ceremony-at-military-base/
‘Overkill’ | Groups slam police arrests of activists during SONA 2026 protest
Various progressive groups and activists criticized the arrest of artists, rappers and other activists during the State of the Nation Address (SONA) ng Bayan 2026 on July 27 along Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City before Marcos Jr.’s penultimate SONA. The Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested more or less 51 protesters “due to vandalism and wearing of balaclavas.” Among the arrested is former Panday Sining national chairperson, Hiphop United Against Corruption member and Fliptop rap artist Vitrum
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/07/27/overkill-groups-slam-police-arrests-of-activists-during-sona-2026-protest/
Police opens fire on PoJK protesters amid election boycott
Pakistani forces have opened fire on protesters marching from Rawalakote to capital Muzaffarabad on the 52nd day of agitation for their basic rights. Many people are believed to have been killed and injured, leading to intensification of the agitation.
https://www.awazthevoice.in/world-news/police-opens-fire-on-pojk-protesters-amid-election-boycott-64645.html
https://archive.ph/TDltW
India’s Cockroach movement threatens to restart protests after mass student arrests
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which organised mass protests over exam paper leaks, said hundreds of students had been detained or “harassed” by police, with cases filed in Delhi, Assam, West Bengal and Bihar — all states ruled by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. CJP spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka said: “If the government does not honour the agreement and release everyone detained or arrested, we will be compelled to resume the protest.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indias-cockroach-movement-threatens-restart-protests-after-mass-student-arrests
R: 10 / I: 1
Why things degenerated after the death of Stalin?
How come they didn't manage to build decent cadres to lead the country? Why someone like Khrushchev managed to be the next into power? How the rise of revisionism could've been prevented?
R: 54 / I: 7
India's politics thread
They get nowhere enough hate as they deserve for what they're doing in Kashmir……Also, Being ruled by a repressive fascist wanna be regime for the last decade
R: 45 / I: 11
>provided the model for Stalin, Mao and communists throughout the world
>educated barbarian
>autistic wanderer.
>the end justified the means
>massive ideological intolerance
>unrepentant defender of everything he had done.
As a child
>bumptious, intelligent and often unkind
>behaviourally disordered
>slow to walk and screamed bloody murder if he fell
>used to hit his head on carpets or floorboards
>mother thought that he might be mentally retarded
>lack of empathy as a child, but at the same time, could be charming.
>he would admit immediately a misdemeanour
>from e early life he had gastrointestinal problems
>would bait his siblings and make them cry
>brilliant at school but he had no close friends and was a loner
>fussy about the meaning of words and was a hair-splitter about them
>compulsive reader.
His brother who was hanged later, could not stand 'the domineering side of Lenin'. Lenin was deeply hurt by this. Later, he had the Tsar’s family killed including the children.
>massive hater – Tsarism, democratic movements, businessmen, bankers
>obsessed with the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.
>narrow interests, preservation of sameness
>liked to be by himself and was 'downright antisocial'.
>moral questions for him were an irrelevance'
>repudiated the idea of 'sentiment in politics'
>revelled in 'rejection of concepts such as conscience, compassion and charity'.
>e had vicious negative emotions and would have autistic rages if confronted.
Lenin had criminal autistic psychopathy, pathological narcissism
>greatest influences on humanity of almost anyone who ever lived>provided the model for Stalin, Mao and communists throughout the world
>educated barbarian
>autistic wanderer.
>the end justified the means
>massive ideological intolerance
>unrepentant defender of everything he had done.
As a child
>bumptious, intelligent and often unkind
>behaviourally disordered
>slow to walk and screamed bloody murder if he fell
>used to hit his head on carpets or floorboards
>mother thought that he might be mentally retarded
>lack of empathy as a child, but at the same time, could be charming.
>he would admit immediately a misdemeanour
>from e early life he had gastrointestinal problems
>would bait his siblings and make them cry
>brilliant at school but he had no close friends and was a loner
>fussy about the meaning of words and was a hair-splitter about them
>compulsive reader.
His brother who was hanged later, could not stand 'the domineering side of Lenin'. Lenin was deeply hurt by this. Later, he had the Tsar’s family killed including the children.
>massive hater – Tsarism, democratic movements, businessmen, bankers
>obsessed with the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.
>narrow interests, preservation of sameness
>liked to be by himself and was 'downright antisocial'.
>moral questions for him were an irrelevance'
>repudiated the idea of 'sentiment in politics'
>revelled in 'rejection of concepts such as conscience, compassion and charity'.
>e had vicious negative emotions and would have autistic rages if confronted.
R: 83 / I: 23
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: 149 / I: 17
https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/2065526500640645566
🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel unveiled a sweeping set of economic reforms Friday, casting them as Cuba’s path through the crisis driven by a “criminal energy blockade” by the United States that has left the island nearly without fuel.
Only 1 oil tanker has reached Cuba in the past 5 months, Díaz-Canel said, a collapse that traces to January, when the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and cut the flow of Venezuelan oil, then threatened tariffs on any country that supplied Cuba.
Havana now endures blackouts of up to 15 hours a day. Among the most devastating consequences of the U.S. policy is that the Cuban government has been forced to postpone tens of thousands of surgeries for its citizens.
The Cuban President today named national defense as the first priority, citing preparations under Cuba’s “Whole People’s War” doctrine. The full 2026 reform program includes:
🔹Enterprise & Markets
🔸 Overhaul the economic management system, easing the conflict between central planning and incentives for production
🔸 Grant state enterprises autonomy to set their own wages, dimensions, clients, and suppliers, use their profits freely, and enter the currency market directly [enterprise autonomy is a bad idea]
🔸 Loosen rules on non-state businesses, narrowing banned activities and widening shareholding
🔸 Fast-track approval of stalled private and state MSMEs (mipymes)
🔹 Decentralization & the State
🔸 Expand municipal autonomy, letting provinces import, export, attract foreign investment, and manage hard-currency income on their own
🔸 Restructure and shrink the state, cutting ministries and posts via a public draft law to reduce bureaucracy
🔹 Trade & Investment
🔸 Make foreign trade more dynamic, dropping mandatory intermediaries and favoring importers of raw materials over finished goods
🔸 Incentivize foreign direct investment, plus a new role for Cuban-diaspora and resident-Cuban investors as economic actors [Whyyyy?????]
🔹 Agriculture & Food
🔸 Reform land use, giving land to those who will farm it, cutting idle plots, and opening input and currency markets to producers across all sectors
🔸 Pursue food self-sufficiency by streamlining bureaucracy for agricultural production
🔹 Fiscal, Monetary & Social
🔸 Shift fiscal policy so the budget no longer finances state-enterprise inefficiency [So make things worse for the state sector]
🔸 Redesign monetary policy and the foreign-exchange market, and strengthen the banking system
🔸 Reform wages in the budget sector and move from subsidizing products to subsidizing people
🔹 Energy & Transport
🔸 Expand renewable energy and electric mobility, including local EV assembly, to cut dependence on imported fuel
🔸 Ease vehicle import limits, favoring solar-charged electric vehicles
🔹 Tourism, Commerce & Labor
🔸 Revive tourism through new operators beyond the big foreign chains that have pulled out
🔸 Modernize domestic commerce with electronic invoicing and digital platforms
🔸 Protect young skilled workers with better pay and incentives to curb emigration
Let's hope those loyal to the communist cause in Cuba resist liberalization.
Cuba: Surrendering or tactical retreat?
There sad and disturbing development according to DropSiteNews.https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/2065526500640645566
🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel unveiled a sweeping set of economic reforms Friday, casting them as Cuba’s path through the crisis driven by a “criminal energy blockade” by the United States that has left the island nearly without fuel.
Only 1 oil tanker has reached Cuba in the past 5 months, Díaz-Canel said, a collapse that traces to January, when the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and cut the flow of Venezuelan oil, then threatened tariffs on any country that supplied Cuba.
Havana now endures blackouts of up to 15 hours a day. Among the most devastating consequences of the U.S. policy is that the Cuban government has been forced to postpone tens of thousands of surgeries for its citizens.
The Cuban President today named national defense as the first priority, citing preparations under Cuba’s “Whole People’s War” doctrine. The full 2026 reform program includes:
🔹Enterprise & Markets
🔸 Overhaul the economic management system, easing the conflict between central planning and incentives for production
🔸 Grant state enterprises autonomy to set their own wages, dimensions, clients, and suppliers, use their profits freely, and enter the currency market directly [enterprise autonomy is a bad idea]
🔸 Loosen rules on non-state businesses, narrowing banned activities and widening shareholding
🔸 Fast-track approval of stalled private and state MSMEs (mipymes)
🔹 Decentralization & the State
🔸 Expand municipal autonomy, letting provinces import, export, attract foreign investment, and manage hard-currency income on their own
🔸 Restructure and shrink the state, cutting ministries and posts via a public draft law to reduce bureaucracy
🔹 Trade & Investment
🔸 Make foreign trade more dynamic, dropping mandatory intermediaries and favoring importers of raw materials over finished goods
🔸 Incentivize foreign direct investment, plus a new role for Cuban-diaspora and resident-Cuban investors as economic actors [Whyyyy?????]
🔹 Agriculture & Food
🔸 Reform land use, giving land to those who will farm it, cutting idle plots, and opening input and currency markets to producers across all sectors
🔸 Pursue food self-sufficiency by streamlining bureaucracy for agricultural production
🔹 Fiscal, Monetary & Social
🔸 Shift fiscal policy so the budget no longer finances state-enterprise inefficiency [So make things worse for the state sector]
🔸 Redesign monetary policy and the foreign-exchange market, and strengthen the banking system
🔸 Reform wages in the budget sector and move from subsidizing products to subsidizing people
🔹 Energy & Transport
🔸 Expand renewable energy and electric mobility, including local EV assembly, to cut dependence on imported fuel
🔸 Ease vehicle import limits, favoring solar-charged electric vehicles
🔹 Tourism, Commerce & Labor
🔸 Revive tourism through new operators beyond the big foreign chains that have pulled out
🔸 Modernize domestic commerce with electronic invoicing and digital platforms
🔸 Protect young skilled workers with better pay and incentives to curb emigration
Let's hope those loyal to the communist cause in Cuba resist liberalization.
R: 36 / I: 10
>Self proclaimed socialist party
>Currency pledged to the US Dollar
I still don’t understand. Is it really socialism? If it is then it is definitely outside the Marxist school of thought at least.
Is Eritrea really a dictatorship of the proletariat?
>One Party State>Self proclaimed socialist party
>Currency pledged to the US Dollar
I still don’t understand. Is it really socialism? If it is then it is definitely outside the Marxist school of thought at least.
R: 220 / I: 41
Heard that before. screech moar
>I don't care for your ebin debate
I'm not here to debate, I just want to hear other perspectives
Whenever I look at the Ideological line between myself and lefties, I often find more common ground with socialists than I do with fellow Right-wingers.
>I believe Capital is actively destroying countries all around the world in order to enrich itself. the first order of business for ANY sensible movement should be to crush and subjugate the capital class.
>I fucking hate rural areas and rural life. I was born in a city, raised in a city, And I'm living in a city until the day I die. cities are vibrant, Alive, and the engines of civilizational growth
>I don't care for some abstract concept of a past to Retvrn to. Yes, I love the culture of my country and I absolutely adore its traditions, I believe it's my responsibility to continue them. But There is no way in fucking hell I'd want to marry my sister like ancient Persians did.
>I love technology. I love Modernity. I love our current way of life. I'd rather have my job right now than to be some wheat farmer in the mountains. I love modern fashion and aesthetics. Yes, some elements from the past should probably be woven into modern design to enrich it and keep the aesthetics away from looking like americanslop aesthetics, But progress should be maintained.
>Idc about the gays and the transhumanists if anything they're a sign of social progress.
>I support abortion for the first three months/when the mother's life is in danger
>I believe women are an important part of the job market and they can contribute significantly more to their country when they're given equal opportunities.
>I support cultural and social progress.
The Two things that keep me from becoming a leftist:
>it is laughable to suggest the international jewery isn't proactively trying to destroy all other civilizations. it is childish to suggest they can be reformed or assimilated
>The destruction of cultures around the world by mass migration is bad actually sweaty. (also it's a plot of the jews)
I need to be convinced to become a lefty
>die fascist dogHeard that before. screech moar
>I don't care for your ebin debate
I'm not here to debate, I just want to hear other perspectives
Whenever I look at the Ideological line between myself and lefties, I often find more common ground with socialists than I do with fellow Right-wingers.
>I believe Capital is actively destroying countries all around the world in order to enrich itself. the first order of business for ANY sensible movement should be to crush and subjugate the capital class.
>I fucking hate rural areas and rural life. I was born in a city, raised in a city, And I'm living in a city until the day I die. cities are vibrant, Alive, and the engines of civilizational growth
>I don't care for some abstract concept of a past to Retvrn to. Yes, I love the culture of my country and I absolutely adore its traditions, I believe it's my responsibility to continue them. But There is no way in fucking hell I'd want to marry my sister like ancient Persians did.
>I love technology. I love Modernity. I love our current way of life. I'd rather have my job right now than to be some wheat farmer in the mountains. I love modern fashion and aesthetics. Yes, some elements from the past should probably be woven into modern design to enrich it and keep the aesthetics away from looking like americanslop aesthetics, But progress should be maintained.
>Idc about the gays and the transhumanists if anything they're a sign of social progress.
>I support abortion for the first three months/when the mother's life is in danger
>I believe women are an important part of the job market and they can contribute significantly more to their country when they're given equal opportunities.
>I support cultural and social progress.
The Two things that keep me from becoming a leftist:
>it is laughable to suggest the international jewery isn't proactively trying to destroy all other civilizations. it is childish to suggest they can be reformed or assimilated
>The destruction of cultures around the world by mass migration is bad actually sweaty. (also it's a plot of the jews)
R: 606 / I: 183 (full)
Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!
/MENA/#1
A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.
This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!
R: 77 / I: 6
<The CJP was created in response to remarks made on 15 May 2026 by Surya Kant, the Chief Justice of India, in which he called some activists and unemployed youth "cockroaches" and "parasites of society", sparking immediate national outrage. The name is a wordplay parodying the ruling party in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party. It achieved rapid popularity online, with the movement garnering over 350,000 sign-ups and over 22 million followers on Instagram within a week of formation.
<The CJP describes itself as "a political front of the youth, by the youth, for the youth: Secular, Socialist, Democratic, and Lazy." "We are not here to set up another PM CARES, holiday in Davos on the taxpayer's salary slip, or rebrand corruption as 'strategic spending.' We are here to ask, loudly, repeatedly, in writing, where the money went." Further, its mission is described as: "Build a party for the young people who keep getting called lazy, chronically online, and, most recently, cockroaches. That's it. That's the mission. The rest is satire."
And for the comrades who love calling any third world movement a CIA psyop your work has already been cut out for you, it's Soros and Pakistan
>In reaction to the rise of the CJP, several conspiracy theories have emerged attacking the movement. Without naming the CJP, union minister Kiren Rijiju stated on X, "I pity those who seek their followers in social media from Pakistan & George Soros gang". Union minister Sukanta Majumdar alleged that 49% of CJP followers are from Pakistan and only 9% are from India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach_Janta_Party
https://apnews.com/article/india-cockroach-janta-party-sonam-wangchuk-hunger-strike-cbeb4773e89d67250f0bcad1670fcd38
Anyway there's a huge discontent among the Indian youth and with their 'Chalo Sansad' march turning into a little bit of riot with police repression, internet censorship and such it's possible things will escalate from there, with what we saw in Nepal, Madagascar and so on. Genpol might be cringe libshit but it proved itself to be a political framework around which governments are toppled, and it's interesting to see this one giving lip service to socialism. Discuss.
The Cockroach People's Party (CJP)
I recently was made aware of this meme party in India named Cockroach Janta Party trough reddit and I thought it would be time to make a thread since they just had a riot near the parliament.<The CJP was created in response to remarks made on 15 May 2026 by Surya Kant, the Chief Justice of India, in which he called some activists and unemployed youth "cockroaches" and "parasites of society", sparking immediate national outrage. The name is a wordplay parodying the ruling party in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party. It achieved rapid popularity online, with the movement garnering over 350,000 sign-ups and over 22 million followers on Instagram within a week of formation.
<The CJP describes itself as "a political front of the youth, by the youth, for the youth: Secular, Socialist, Democratic, and Lazy." "We are not here to set up another PM CARES, holiday in Davos on the taxpayer's salary slip, or rebrand corruption as 'strategic spending.' We are here to ask, loudly, repeatedly, in writing, where the money went." Further, its mission is described as: "Build a party for the young people who keep getting called lazy, chronically online, and, most recently, cockroaches. That's it. That's the mission. The rest is satire."
And for the comrades who love calling any third world movement a CIA psyop your work has already been cut out for you, it's Soros and Pakistan
>In reaction to the rise of the CJP, several conspiracy theories have emerged attacking the movement. Without naming the CJP, union minister Kiren Rijiju stated on X, "I pity those who seek their followers in social media from Pakistan & George Soros gang". Union minister Sukanta Majumdar alleged that 49% of CJP followers are from Pakistan and only 9% are from India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach_Janta_Party
https://apnews.com/article/india-cockroach-janta-party-sonam-wangchuk-hunger-strike-cbeb4773e89d67250f0bcad1670fcd38
Anyway there's a huge discontent among the Indian youth and with their 'Chalo Sansad' march turning into a little bit of riot with police repression, internet censorship and such it's possible things will escalate from there, with what we saw in Nepal, Madagascar and so on. Genpol might be cringe libshit but it proved itself to be a political framework around which governments are toppled, and it's interesting to see this one giving lip service to socialism. Discuss.
R: 2 / I: 0
More than 50 years after the murder of the Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, the last man wanted in connection with his death has been tracked down and brought to justice. Nelson Haase Mazzei, a retired colonel, fled from authorities in 2023 after he and six other retired soldiers were sentenced in absentia for murdering Jara and another man.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/27/pinochet-era-soldier-jailed-for-killing-folk-singer-victor-jara-chile
Colombia’s “Shield of the Americas” to operate from Medellin: De la Espriella
Medellin will be the home of the US-led “Shield of the Americas” security program, according to Colombia’s President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella and Mayor Federico Gutierrez. At a meeting with authorities from the Antioquia province, De la Espriella and Gutierrez agreed that Colombia’s second largest city is the “head of the snake of drug trafficking and organized crime.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-shield-of-the-americas-to-operate-from-medellin-de-la-espriella/
Over nine million workers now informally employed in Argentina
Argentina’s economy is starting to look tidier when it comes to macroeconomics, but that improvement has not yet translated into a clear recovery in the job market. Unemployment levels remain virtually at the same level as a year ago, but there are worrying signs such as the growth of informal work, which already affects 44.4 percent of workers, or four out of every nine.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/over-nine-million-workers-now-informally-employed-in-argentina.phtml
https://archive.ph/IrmrA
Wildfires: The ominous 'fire clouds' or 'pyrocumulonimbus' seen in France for the first time
French firefighters are grappling for the first time with immense fire clouds, known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds, created by extreme wildfires, as they struggle to bring a forest inferno in southwest France under control. French wildfire researcher Jean-Baptiste Filippi says the phenomenon is yet another consequence of human-related climate change.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260727-what-are-fire-clouds-pyrocumulonimbus-observed-france-for-the-first-time
https://archive.ph/Fii17
Islamist attack on Berlin CSD: Government intensifies police state offensive
It is already clear that the perpetrator had been known to the security authorities for years. B., a German citizen born in Germany, was classified as an Islamist Gefährder, a person deemed a potential security threat. He had repeatedly attempted to travel to Syria and join the “Islamic State.” He was arrested in Lebanon and, after his return to Germany, again remanded in custody. On May 12, he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in juvenile detention for preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state and for violations of the Associations Act. Although the Office of the Prosecutor General had requested a higher sentence and the continuation of detention, he was released pending an appeal.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/27/pugk-j27.html
British court dismisses Bahrain’s bid to block activists’ spyware lawsuit
The ruling, handed down on Monday by a narrow 3-2 majority, sets a significant precedent, confirming that foreign states can be sued in UK courts over the remote surveillance of individuals in Britain, even when the hacking itself was directed from abroad.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/27/british-court-dismisses-bahrains-bid-to-block-activists-spyware-lawsuit
https://archive.ph/lBR4I
Israeli soldier's death during West Bank settler attack may have been 'friendly fire'
"There is an increasing assessment in the military's investigations over the past day that Major Yuval Ezra was not killed by enemy fire but by our own forces," Kan military correspondent Roy Sharon said. "The possibility that he was killed by [Israeli] forces is no longer being ruled out." Friday's violence left Ezra and an Israeli settler dead, while four Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces as settlers rampaged through the village, while several others were wounded.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-soldier-may-have-been-killed-own-forces-west-bank
Tunisia bars family, lawyers from seeing Ghannouchi after prison collapse
Ghannouchi said his father, who has high blood pressure and difficulty breathing, had been left exposed to a severe heatwave in a prison with no air conditioning. “We hold the authorities fully responsible for his condition,” he said, alleging that his father’s confinement in a stiflingly hot prison was intended to worsen his health. “It was not enough to imprison him – they want to torment him further,” Moadh told Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/27/tunisia-bars-family-lawyers-from-seeing-ghannouchi-after-prison-collapse
https://archive.ph/X3qVq
Myanmar military escalates civilian killings, monitor warns, amid diplomatic push
"Since the ruling junta in Myanmar reconfigured its military command structure in March, civilians have been subject to the military's worsening repression and intensified aerial bombing campaign," ACLED said. "These adjustments included the regular deployment of specialised groups of two to five jet fighters executing sustained airstrikes against single targets."
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-military-escalates-civilian-killings-monitor-warns-amid-diplomatic-push-2026-07-27/
'Erasing historical facts': India orders massive crackdown on books in Kashmir's libraries
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have ordered a multi-level audit across all public libraries and educational institutions to purge books and digital archives flagged as "anti-national" or "glorifying terrorism". The move has drawn sharp reaction from scholars and residents of Kashmir, who argue that the region’s academic freedom is being systematically destroyed.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kashmir-war-academic-freedom-academics-decry-state-audit-books-weed-out-anti-national
News 7/27/26
Pinochet-era soldier jailed for killing folk singer Víctor Jara 53 years agoMore than 50 years after the murder of the Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, the last man wanted in connection with his death has been tracked down and brought to justice. Nelson Haase Mazzei, a retired colonel, fled from authorities in 2023 after he and six other retired soldiers were sentenced in absentia for murdering Jara and another man.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/27/pinochet-era-soldier-jailed-for-killing-folk-singer-victor-jara-chile
Colombia’s “Shield of the Americas” to operate from Medellin: De la Espriella
Medellin will be the home of the US-led “Shield of the Americas” security program, according to Colombia’s President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella and Mayor Federico Gutierrez. At a meeting with authorities from the Antioquia province, De la Espriella and Gutierrez agreed that Colombia’s second largest city is the “head of the snake of drug trafficking and organized crime.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-shield-of-the-americas-to-operate-from-medellin-de-la-espriella/
Over nine million workers now informally employed in Argentina
Argentina’s economy is starting to look tidier when it comes to macroeconomics, but that improvement has not yet translated into a clear recovery in the job market. Unemployment levels remain virtually at the same level as a year ago, but there are worrying signs such as the growth of informal work, which already affects 44.4 percent of workers, or four out of every nine.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/over-nine-million-workers-now-informally-employed-in-argentina.phtml
https://archive.ph/IrmrA
Wildfires: The ominous 'fire clouds' or 'pyrocumulonimbus' seen in France for the first time
French firefighters are grappling for the first time with immense fire clouds, known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds, created by extreme wildfires, as they struggle to bring a forest inferno in southwest France under control. French wildfire researcher Jean-Baptiste Filippi says the phenomenon is yet another consequence of human-related climate change.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260727-what-are-fire-clouds-pyrocumulonimbus-observed-france-for-the-first-time
https://archive.ph/Fii17
Islamist attack on Berlin CSD: Government intensifies police state offensive
It is already clear that the perpetrator had been known to the security authorities for years. B., a German citizen born in Germany, was classified as an Islamist Gefährder, a person deemed a potential security threat. He had repeatedly attempted to travel to Syria and join the “Islamic State.” He was arrested in Lebanon and, after his return to Germany, again remanded in custody. On May 12, he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in juvenile detention for preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state and for violations of the Associations Act. Although the Office of the Prosecutor General had requested a higher sentence and the continuation of detention, he was released pending an appeal.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/27/pugk-j27.html
British court dismisses Bahrain’s bid to block activists’ spyware lawsuit
The ruling, handed down on Monday by a narrow 3-2 majority, sets a significant precedent, confirming that foreign states can be sued in UK courts over the remote surveillance of individuals in Britain, even when the hacking itself was directed from abroad.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/27/british-court-dismisses-bahrains-bid-to-block-activists-spyware-lawsuit
https://archive.ph/lBR4I
Israeli soldier's death during West Bank settler attack may have been 'friendly fire'
"There is an increasing assessment in the military's investigations over the past day that Major Yuval Ezra was not killed by enemy fire but by our own forces," Kan military correspondent Roy Sharon said. "The possibility that he was killed by [Israeli] forces is no longer being ruled out." Friday's violence left Ezra and an Israeli settler dead, while four Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces as settlers rampaged through the village, while several others were wounded.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-soldier-may-have-been-killed-own-forces-west-bank
Tunisia bars family, lawyers from seeing Ghannouchi after prison collapse
Ghannouchi said his father, who has high blood pressure and difficulty breathing, had been left exposed to a severe heatwave in a prison with no air conditioning. “We hold the authorities fully responsible for his condition,” he said, alleging that his father’s confinement in a stiflingly hot prison was intended to worsen his health. “It was not enough to imprison him – they want to torment him further,” Moadh told Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/27/tunisia-bars-family-lawyers-from-seeing-ghannouchi-after-prison-collapse
https://archive.ph/X3qVq
Myanmar military escalates civilian killings, monitor warns, amid diplomatic push
"Since the ruling junta in Myanmar reconfigured its military command structure in March, civilians have been subject to the military's worsening repression and intensified aerial bombing campaign," ACLED said. "These adjustments included the regular deployment of specialised groups of two to five jet fighters executing sustained airstrikes against single targets."
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-military-escalates-civilian-killings-monitor-warns-amid-diplomatic-push-2026-07-27/
'Erasing historical facts': India orders massive crackdown on books in Kashmir's libraries
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have ordered a multi-level audit across all public libraries and educational institutions to purge books and digital archives flagged as "anti-national" or "glorifying terrorism". The move has drawn sharp reaction from scholars and residents of Kashmir, who argue that the region’s academic freedom is being systematically destroyed.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kashmir-war-academic-freedom-academics-decry-state-audit-books-weed-out-anti-national
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So what exactly is bad about this generally speaking? Especially on a neoliberal Earth where the international elite, outside of china, can flee and go anywhere and has no accountability? The strategy of dengist economics has produced the same results that people like Mao and Stalin wanted out of their countries like mass industrialization, electrification, and prosperity but at the same time holding their own societal elites accountable.
So what are the flaws of dengist economics?
So say a Marxist-Leninist economy has all of the stuff important to the state nationalized and operating under scientific planning, it tries to give the basic needs of life like employment and housing to everyone as possible, but there's additionally a private sector for commodity circulation because trying to micromanage every small business to the smallest detail is silly in general. The private sector is heavily regulated to prevent them from subverting the rest of society, and also taxed to help pay for the rest of society.So what exactly is bad about this generally speaking? Especially on a neoliberal Earth where the international elite, outside of china, can flee and go anywhere and has no accountability? The strategy of dengist economics has produced the same results that people like Mao and Stalin wanted out of their countries like mass industrialization, electrification, and prosperity but at the same time holding their own societal elites accountable.
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tt communists
How do you guys feel about the new wave of tiktok 'marxists'? More specifically the new leftcoms who are just lazily reusing the social relations argument
R: 606 / I: 149 (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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OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
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🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<A McDonalds in Kyiv edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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Donald Trump accuses 'fake news' of wanting US to lose Iran war, blasts NYT reporting
>President Donald Trump accused the "fake news" media of wanting the United States to lose its war with Iran during a Monday interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, as he defended the military campaign and threatened another wave of strikes against Tehran.
>Trump argued that Iran's military had been decimated but continued to receive favorable news coverage.
>"All they do is talk and they have fake press. They do very well with the fake press, but because the fake news wants us to lose," Trump said.
Trump authorises US ground invasion of Iran as President declares 'next phase of operations'
https://www.independent.co.uk/US-ground-invasion-staging
>President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will begin major ground operations inside Iran in the coming days, confirming a dramatic escalation of the months-long conflict between Washington and Tehran.
>In a statement posted Monday morning, the President said he had authorised what he called the "next phase of operations" following consultations with senior military commanders and his national security team.
> "The Radical Regime in Iran has refused every opportunity to make a deal. They chose conflict instead of PEACE," Trump wrote.
> "In the coming days, the United States Armed Forces will begin major ground operations to accomplish our mission quickly and decisively."
>The announcement comes after weeks of renewed fighting across the Persian Gulf, including American airstrikes against Iranian military facilities, Iranian missile attacks on U.S. bases in the region, and an escalating maritime confrontation around the Strait of Hormuz.
>Until now, U.S. strategy has relied primarily on airpower, cruise missiles, special operations forces and naval strikes targeting Revolutionary Guard infrastructure, missile launch sites and military command facilities.
>Military analysts expect the invasion to involve: Army and Marine Corps combat brigades Airborne and Special Operations units Heavy armour supported by extensive air cover Carrier strike groups operating in the Persian Gulf Continued long-range missile and bomber strikes throughout the campaign
>Several possible invasion routes are believed to be under consideration, including advances from Iraq into western Iran and amphibious landings along Iran's southern Gulf coastline.
>The White House has not said whether Congress will vote to authorize the invasion before troops enter Iran.
Trump administration considering temporary suspension of due process as war drags on
https://www.nytimes.com/usa/due-process-suspension
>WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is currently considering that constitutional due process protections will be temporarily suspended under emergency powers, describing the measure as necessary to counter what officials called an "imminent internal and external security threat" ahead of the planned U.S. ground invasion of Iran.
>President Donald Trump is planned to sign the National Security Order by Tuesday evening, granting federal and state authorities sweeping powers to detain individuals suspected of aiding Iran or threatening national security without the normal judicial procedures.
Newsanon but based on PATRIOTIC CHRISTIAN VALUES
Newsanon is ran by WOKE fake news, TruthNewsQnon only brings the TRUTH!Donald Trump accuses 'fake news' of wanting US to lose Iran war, blasts NYT reporting
>President Donald Trump accused the "fake news" media of wanting the United States to lose its war with Iran during a Monday interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, as he defended the military campaign and threatened another wave of strikes against Tehran.
>Trump argued that Iran's military had been decimated but continued to receive favorable news coverage.
>"All they do is talk and they have fake press. They do very well with the fake press, but because the fake news wants us to lose," Trump said.
Trump authorises US ground invasion of Iran as President declares 'next phase of operations'
https://www.independent.co.uk/US-ground-invasion-staging
>President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will begin major ground operations inside Iran in the coming days, confirming a dramatic escalation of the months-long conflict between Washington and Tehran.
>In a statement posted Monday morning, the President said he had authorised what he called the "next phase of operations" following consultations with senior military commanders and his national security team.
> "The Radical Regime in Iran has refused every opportunity to make a deal. They chose conflict instead of PEACE," Trump wrote.
> "In the coming days, the United States Armed Forces will begin major ground operations to accomplish our mission quickly and decisively."
>The announcement comes after weeks of renewed fighting across the Persian Gulf, including American airstrikes against Iranian military facilities, Iranian missile attacks on U.S. bases in the region, and an escalating maritime confrontation around the Strait of Hormuz.
>Until now, U.S. strategy has relied primarily on airpower, cruise missiles, special operations forces and naval strikes targeting Revolutionary Guard infrastructure, missile launch sites and military command facilities.
>Military analysts expect the invasion to involve: Army and Marine Corps combat brigades Airborne and Special Operations units Heavy armour supported by extensive air cover Carrier strike groups operating in the Persian Gulf Continued long-range missile and bomber strikes throughout the campaign
>Several possible invasion routes are believed to be under consideration, including advances from Iraq into western Iran and amphibious landings along Iran's southern Gulf coastline.
>The White House has not said whether Congress will vote to authorize the invasion before troops enter Iran.
Trump administration considering temporary suspension of due process as war drags on
https://www.nytimes.com/usa/due-process-suspension
>WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is currently considering that constitutional due process protections will be temporarily suspended under emergency powers, describing the measure as necessary to counter what officials called an "imminent internal and external security threat" ahead of the planned U.S. ground invasion of Iran.
>President Donald Trump is planned to sign the National Security Order by Tuesday evening, granting federal and state authorities sweeping powers to detain individuals suspected of aiding Iran or threatening national security without the normal judicial procedures.
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what do you guys think of sun yat-sen and the three principles of the people ? is it some bourgeois bullshit? was it an okay idea at the time ? or was it kinda just bad for china/taiwan in the long run ?
what do you guys think of sun yat-sen and the three principles of the people ? is it some bourgeois bullshit? was it an okay idea at the time ? or was it kinda just bad for china/taiwan in the long run ?
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I'm struggling to decide how much of my money to give to altruistic\charitable\ground-up or grassroots orgs, etc vs "hedonism" eg; toys, figures, eating expensive foodstuffs, possibly travel, mini-vacations, etc
I'm turd-world countrier but have US dollars saved. I don't like the excesses of the Utilitarian\E.U. movement but I use some of their valid analyses and data on verified, working and trustworthy, charities and NGOs.
Altruism vs Hedonism
(I know: MUH lifestylism\ muh bourgeois method-but this is about what *I* can do, I don't control the planet)I'm struggling to decide how much of my money to give to altruistic\charitable\ground-up or grassroots orgs, etc vs "hedonism" eg; toys, figures, eating expensive foodstuffs, possibly travel, mini-vacations, etc
I'm turd-world countrier but have US dollars saved. I don't like the excesses of the Utilitarian\E.U. movement but I use some of their valid analyses and data on verified, working and trustworthy, charities and NGOs.
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>personal wealth reaches 3 million.
>Still no desire to rape children
>Still feel empathy for the poor
>Still hate rich people
In high school used to think rich people were morally unlucky and their greed and lack of empathy was a result of legitimately bad circumstances.
They're just fucking evil. If anything the richer you get the more you feel guilty.
>personal wealth reaches 3 million.
>Still no desire to rape children
>Still feel empathy for the poor
>Still hate rich people
In high school used to think rich people were morally unlucky and their greed and lack of empathy was a result of legitimately bad circumstances.
They're just fucking evil. If anything the richer you get the more you feel guilty.
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What exactly was Neoconservatism and how exactly did it originate? Was it the philosophy of Leo Strauss? Was it former Trotskyists like Irving Kristol? If so, why did these ex-Trots flip and become right-wingers? Politically, it started in America with the Reagan presidency, so what exactly were Reagan's political influences? Also, given that its biggest proponents were Jews, did it have any Talmudic or Kabbalistic element to it?
Basically, sum up whatever Neoconservatism is. Also, Straussian Neocons formed coalitions with the Religious Right and free market neoliberals despite all three groups having contradictory ideologies. Why?
Neoconservatism
Can we get a Neocon breadpill thread going?What exactly was Neoconservatism and how exactly did it originate? Was it the philosophy of Leo Strauss? Was it former Trotskyists like Irving Kristol? If so, why did these ex-Trots flip and become right-wingers? Politically, it started in America with the Reagan presidency, so what exactly were Reagan's political influences? Also, given that its biggest proponents were Jews, did it have any Talmudic or Kabbalistic element to it?
Basically, sum up whatever Neoconservatism is. Also, Straussian Neocons formed coalitions with the Religious Right and free market neoliberals despite all three groups having contradictory ideologies. Why?
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Just asking because I see people engage in never-ending theory battles online, as well as discounting the contributions of leftists of other tendencies. It seems so strange to me, like instead of acknowledging the good work others have done, while maintaining your own critiques for how to do it better, it seems more in vogue to treat other ideologies as fakes designed to waste your time and meet them with hostility.
I mean obviously this is the internet, people are constantly cranked up to 11, trolling, or genuinely suffering from untreated mental illness. But it seems to me that we're seeing a massive resurgence in leftist thought and action, so I figured people would exercise a little discipline to make the most of the moment. Tbf, this could all be crazy people, bots, government psyops, and algorithmic manipulation. I've just seen people I genuinely appreciate engage in the same shit, so there has to be some element that's real.
Ideological Rigidity?
Real question, how many of you adhere neatly to one ideology? I think everybody vibes with a particular tendency, but personally I'm totally happy to steal good ideas from across ideological lines. I definitely think there's an optimal way to achieve a leftist society as well, however if someone implements another plan to get us there that doesn't fuck others over, I don't see myself being too upset so long as we get where we're going.Just asking because I see people engage in never-ending theory battles online, as well as discounting the contributions of leftists of other tendencies. It seems so strange to me, like instead of acknowledging the good work others have done, while maintaining your own critiques for how to do it better, it seems more in vogue to treat other ideologies as fakes designed to waste your time and meet them with hostility.
I mean obviously this is the internet, people are constantly cranked up to 11, trolling, or genuinely suffering from untreated mental illness. But it seems to me that we're seeing a massive resurgence in leftist thought and action, so I figured people would exercise a little discipline to make the most of the moment. Tbf, this could all be crazy people, bots, government psyops, and algorithmic manipulation. I've just seen people I genuinely appreciate engage in the same shit, so there has to be some element that's real.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/12/lindsey-graham-longtime-south-carolina-senator-dies-71/
Lindsey Graham is dead (LoL)
That's one less person Iran has to assassinate.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/12/lindsey-graham-longtime-south-carolina-senator-dies-71/
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Do you use algorithmic platforms like YouTube, X, Instagram, Xiaohongshu, etc.?
Objectively speaking, these are the most powerful and widespread brainwashing technologies currently in existence. Precisely because this here is a highly ideological forum, I wonder why this topic isn't being discussed here at all. You don't consume traditional mainstream media, yet you let X and YouTube dictate what you see and rewire your brain? And quite apart from that, the scale of algorithmic manipulation is not even remotely comparable to traditional media like television or newspapers. Are you even aware of what you're doing? Why do you think X and YouTube are banned in countries like China?
Do you use algorithmic platforms like YouTube, X, Instagram, Xiaohongshu, etc.?
Objectively speaking, these are the most powerful and widespread brainwashing technologies currently in existence. Precisely because this here is a highly ideological forum, I wonder why this topic isn't being discussed here at all. You don't consume traditional mainstream media, yet you let X and YouTube dictate what you see and rewire your brain? And quite apart from that, the scale of algorithmic manipulation is not even remotely comparable to traditional media like television or newspapers. Are you even aware of what you're doing? Why do you think X and YouTube are banned in countries like China?
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If you don't talk about OIL you think the recent wars are about "security" or "nationalism" or "anti imperialism" then you are a fed who defends the US oil industry by distracting from what's actually going on.
So let's talk OIL. World oil consumption is now 103 mbd (million barrels/day). This number is expected to peak in 2030 and depending on decarbonization scenarios, it could decline to between 50 mbd and 80 mbd by 2050.
Now take a good look at the oil production by countries. And look at the reserves.
What does all this tell you? It tells us that oil revenues and profits are going to tank in the coming 20 years. And oil is one of the last major profit centers in capitalism.
It's not a coincidence that major oil producers like Iran, Russia, USA, Gulf, Venezuela are all the major players in recent geopolitical upheavals. This is not a world war. This is a war specifically between oil producers trying to expand marketshare in a world of shrinking oil demand and profits.
Now there's another crucial aspect to consider here - that is the cost of production. The Gulf can produce oil cheaper than anywhere else in the world, while US and Venezuela oil needs prices to remain above $60 to be profitable.
Now can you connect the dots? In a shrinking oil world, it's the Gulf/Iran that will win out at the end by being the last remaining oil producing area that can produce profitable at very low prices. The US/Venezuela will have to sell at near cost to have any marketshare, and that's assuming they're still able to have any marketshare at all.
But the US and Gulf are mostly allies so instead of fighting each other, they've decided to neutralize the Iranian and Russian oil industry. This achieves the common benefit of both sides maintaining their marketshare while keeping prices high which benefits both US/Venezuela and Gulf.
If you don't talk about OIL you think the recent wars are about "security" or "nationalism" or "anti imperialism" then you are a fed who defends the US oil industry by distracting from what's actually going on.
So let's talk OIL. World oil consumption is now 103 mbd (million barrels/day). This number is expected to peak in 2030 and depending on decarbonization scenarios, it could decline to between 50 mbd and 80 mbd by 2050.
Now take a good look at the oil production by countries. And look at the reserves.
What does all this tell you? It tells us that oil revenues and profits are going to tank in the coming 20 years. And oil is one of the last major profit centers in capitalism.
It's not a coincidence that major oil producers like Iran, Russia, USA, Gulf, Venezuela are all the major players in recent geopolitical upheavals. This is not a world war. This is a war specifically between oil producers trying to expand marketshare in a world of shrinking oil demand and profits.
Now there's another crucial aspect to consider here - that is the cost of production. The Gulf can produce oil cheaper than anywhere else in the world, while US and Venezuela oil needs prices to remain above $60 to be profitable.
Now can you connect the dots? In a shrinking oil world, it's the Gulf/Iran that will win out at the end by being the last remaining oil producing area that can produce profitable at very low prices. The US/Venezuela will have to sell at near cost to have any marketshare, and that's assuming they're still able to have any marketshare at all.
But the US and Gulf are mostly allies so instead of fighting each other, they've decided to neutralize the Iranian and Russian oil industry. This achieves the common benefit of both sides maintaining their marketshare while keeping prices high which benefits both US/Venezuela and Gulf.
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A lot of people on this board hate them for their supposedly inherent "Bourgeois" or "Petit bourgeois" elements but: 1. many of them are carried out by leftist orgs against military dictatorships or otherwise tyrannical governments, 2. Ignore the revolutionary potential of such movements and how the proletarian of the imperialistic nation can cooperate with the proletariat of the seceeding nation and result in a defeat for the former nation's bourgeoisie and their imperialistic power
Separatist movements discussion thread
What do you think of them?A lot of people on this board hate them for their supposedly inherent "Bourgeois" or "Petit bourgeois" elements but: 1. many of them are carried out by leftist orgs against military dictatorships or otherwise tyrannical governments, 2. Ignore the revolutionary potential of such movements and how the proletarian of the imperialistic nation can cooperate with the proletariat of the seceeding nation and result in a defeat for the former nation's bourgeoisie and their imperialistic power
- Even if they had beorgeois elements, Some nations such as kurds in Turkey historically or Kashmiris presently have been subjected to so much oppression and their position so unstable and tenouos that it's more important to advocate for their independence rather than let them be subjected to further oppression for the sake of barely tenable idealist principles
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It seems to me that the most popular political position these days is some form of developmentalist national liberalism. Most people would like a strong but democratic state to intervene in the economy to eliminate the worst excesses of capitalism, direct investment to promote employment growth and modern industry, and generally avoid imperialist meddling or international entanglements. These kinds of positions were very popular in the 1950s and 60s, and people on the street are generally agreeable towards them.
So why do today's ideological arguments not reflect this? Why is everyone cosplaying as a fascist or a communist when their policy positions remain fundamentally liberal? Why are people turning to Sorel or Stalin for theory and not Nehru or Nasser? Why is liberalism constantly disparaged as bankrupt or illegitimate when all the alternatives to it end up looking exactly the same?
It seems to me that the most popular political position these days is some form of developmentalist national liberalism. Most people would like a strong but democratic state to intervene in the economy to eliminate the worst excesses of capitalism, direct investment to promote employment growth and modern industry, and generally avoid imperialist meddling or international entanglements. These kinds of positions were very popular in the 1950s and 60s, and people on the street are generally agreeable towards them.
So why do today's ideological arguments not reflect this? Why is everyone cosplaying as a fascist or a communist when their policy positions remain fundamentally liberal? Why are people turning to Sorel or Stalin for theory and not Nehru or Nasser? Why is liberalism constantly disparaged as bankrupt or illegitimate when all the alternatives to it end up looking exactly the same?
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Satanyahu and his genocidal settler ilk largely take their genocidal murderous ideology from the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Kook, a late 19th-early 20th century Latvian rabbi. Kook was a rabid Zio who largely based his Zionism in a mix of Talmud, Kabbalah and German idealism, specifically Hegel. He believed the Jews establishing a racialist settled-colony in Palestine was part of a mystical process of “redemption.” He came to Palestine as a settler and ended up dying there in the 1930s when Palestine was illegally occupied by the British. His thought is very Hegelian with highly fascistic overtones, and anyone can defend with Palestine must learn his thought to fully understand the genocidal nature of Isn’treal.
Origins of Religious Zionism
Why is no one discussing the true ideological origins of the ideology of the Zionist entity?Satanyahu and his genocidal settler ilk largely take their genocidal murderous ideology from the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Kook, a late 19th-early 20th century Latvian rabbi. Kook was a rabid Zio who largely based his Zionism in a mix of Talmud, Kabbalah and German idealism, specifically Hegel. He believed the Jews establishing a racialist settled-colony in Palestine was part of a mystical process of “redemption.” He came to Palestine as a settler and ended up dying there in the 1930s when Palestine was illegally occupied by the British. His thought is very Hegelian with highly fascistic overtones, and anyone can defend with Palestine must learn his thought to fully understand the genocidal nature of Isn’treal.
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overthrow the US government already you fat fucks im getting bored and my life is progressively getting worst in every aspect because the economy is collapsing
overthrow the US government already you fat fucks im getting bored and my life is progressively getting worst in every aspect because the economy is collapsing
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Mao Zedong, "On Contradiction" (August 1937)
"This means that, on the basis of the existing productive forces and within their limits, it is the relations of production that play the decisive role. The whole of Capital, and all the works of Lenin and Mao Zedong, serve as a commentary on this thesis, which has never been recognized by Marxists."
Louis Althusser, "On the Reproduction of Capital" / "On the Relations of Production" (written 1969-1973, published posthumously).
"The changes and development of production always begin with changes and development of the productive forces, and in the first place, with changes and development of the instruments of production. Productive forces are therefore the most mobile and revolutionary element of production. First the productive forces of society change and develop, and then, depending on these changes and in conformity with them, men's relations of production, their economic relations, change.
Relations of production develop depending on the development of the productive forces, but they, in their turn, react upon the development of productive forces, accelerating or retarding it. And it must be noted that the relations of production cannot postpone lagging behind the growth of the productive forces and being in contradiction to them for too long, for the productive forces can develop to the full only when the relations of production correspond to the nature and state of the productive forces and allow full scope for their development."
Joseph Stalin, "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" (September 1938)
well well well…
Mao Zedong was undoubtedly a teacher to Western Marxists
"True, the productive forces, practice and the economic base generally play the principal and decisive role; whoever denies this is not a materialist. But it must also be admitted that in certain conditions, such aspects as the relations of production, theory and the superstructure in turn manifest themselves in the principal and decisive role."Mao Zedong, "On Contradiction" (August 1937)
"This means that, on the basis of the existing productive forces and within their limits, it is the relations of production that play the decisive role. The whole of Capital, and all the works of Lenin and Mao Zedong, serve as a commentary on this thesis, which has never been recognized by Marxists."
Louis Althusser, "On the Reproduction of Capital" / "On the Relations of Production" (written 1969-1973, published posthumously).
"The changes and development of production always begin with changes and development of the productive forces, and in the first place, with changes and development of the instruments of production. Productive forces are therefore the most mobile and revolutionary element of production. First the productive forces of society change and develop, and then, depending on these changes and in conformity with them, men's relations of production, their economic relations, change.
Relations of production develop depending on the development of the productive forces, but they, in their turn, react upon the development of productive forces, accelerating or retarding it. And it must be noted that the relations of production cannot postpone lagging behind the growth of the productive forces and being in contradiction to them for too long, for the productive forces can develop to the full only when the relations of production correspond to the nature and state of the productive forces and allow full scope for their development."
Joseph Stalin, "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" (September 1938)
well well well…
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The only real limit to these money-raising methods should be, "how could this negatively affect the movement?" Consider the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery by Bolsheviks - this event's recklessness and harm to civilians seriously damaged the Bolsheviks' reputation in Georgia and among other socialists. Contrast that against the 1906 Helsinki bank robbery, the Dusheti treasury heist and the Bezdany raid by various socialist organizations, which had no citizen casualties.
If you can do so with little risk, you absolutely should be pirating entertainment media, shoplifting and investing in mutual funds.
More so, if you are not publicly affiliated with the socialist movement, and you have the means, you should be buying property, owning factories or being a landlord. If your tenants and workers aren't socialists, it's very important for you to take as much of their money as you pragmatically can and use it to combat capitalism.
Remember: the status quo is destroying more people than you could ever hope to. To do nothing is harmful.
Fuck the current situation, get money
We live in capitalist societies, where money and time are the fundamental resources for building power. Almost every other resource can be purchased or built from these, or will be boosted by these. Therefore, it is most vital that you make money and put it to work.The only real limit to these money-raising methods should be, "how could this negatively affect the movement?" Consider the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery by Bolsheviks - this event's recklessness and harm to civilians seriously damaged the Bolsheviks' reputation in Georgia and among other socialists. Contrast that against the 1906 Helsinki bank robbery, the Dusheti treasury heist and the Bezdany raid by various socialist organizations, which had no citizen casualties.
If you can do so with little risk, you absolutely should be pirating entertainment media, shoplifting and investing in mutual funds.
More so, if you are not publicly affiliated with the socialist movement, and you have the means, you should be buying property, owning factories or being a landlord. If your tenants and workers aren't socialists, it's very important for you to take as much of their money as you pragmatically can and use it to combat capitalism.
Remember: the status quo is destroying more people than you could ever hope to. To do nothing is harmful.
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Why are so many modern communists obsessed with liberal concept of indigenous rights? When communists dont believe in land ownership or inheritance.
>Body too short
>Body too short
Why are so many modern communists obsessed with liberal concept of indigenous rights? When communists dont believe in land ownership or inheritance.
>Body too short
>Body too short
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I molest neo liberals,I goon to goth girls, I think about the Vietnam war, and the roman empire
hi
Hi I am sigmort I am a left chud which means I am a chud if a chud were leftI molest neo liberals,I goon to goth girls, I think about the Vietnam war, and the roman empire
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https://capsalute.shop/
whois capsalute.shop
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rdap capsalute.shop
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Let's destroy a Nazi business.
This site has no WHOIS or RDAP available so you know what that means. They sell stahlhelm themed, 3D printed bottle covers. This is exactly the kind of kitsch shit that neofascists love to hock on X.https://capsalute.shop/
whois capsalute.shop
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rdap capsalute.shop
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>be Israel
>starts the 1982 Lebanon war over an Israeli ambassador to the UK being shot and injured which Israel blamed on the PLO
>so Israel takes all of Southern Lebanon up to the Litani river and that was when Hezbollah was created while the spineless Lebanese military does nothing
>over the span of 18 years, Hezbollah takes back all of Lebanon by 2000
>after the Israeli withdrawal, they try again in 2006 but get kicked out by Hezbollah again, despite heavy civilian losses
>two years later, after two defeats, Israel launches Operation Cast Lead in Gaza and kills 1,000 people, including 300 children as a message to Iran all over claims of Hamas building a tunnel
>now Israel is trying again with Hezbollah, they are trying to do what David Ben-Gurion talked about for years
Jesus Christ, when will they just fuck off?
>be Israel
>starts the 1982 Lebanon war over an Israeli ambassador to the UK being shot and injured which Israel blamed on the PLO
>so Israel takes all of Southern Lebanon up to the Litani river and that was when Hezbollah was created while the spineless Lebanese military does nothing
>over the span of 18 years, Hezbollah takes back all of Lebanon by 2000
>after the Israeli withdrawal, they try again in 2006 but get kicked out by Hezbollah again, despite heavy civilian losses
>two years later, after two defeats, Israel launches Operation Cast Lead in Gaza and kills 1,000 people, including 300 children as a message to Iran all over claims of Hamas building a tunnel
>now Israel is trying again with Hezbollah, they are trying to do what David Ben-Gurion talked about for years
Jesus Christ, when will they just fuck off?
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I sound like a conservative here but all communists nowadays look fat and uncared for. Aren't ML parties supposed to prepare a vanguard for the revolution? If so why do most ML parties have members like slobs? Every time I look at my local communist org I get repulsed and honestly, if I weren't a communist myself, I would never take them seriously.
What is the solution to this degeneracy?
>pic kind of related
aesthetics
Why do almost all modern "communist" party members look like 'that'.I sound like a conservative here but all communists nowadays look fat and uncared for. Aren't ML parties supposed to prepare a vanguard for the revolution? If so why do most ML parties have members like slobs? Every time I look at my local communist org I get repulsed and honestly, if I weren't a communist myself, I would never take them seriously.
What is the solution to this degeneracy?
>pic kind of related
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Proletarian Science Fiction
I look at early Science fiction, and it seems a lot of it before the 50's had a communist character to it - thinking of stuff like "Red Star" or the whole topic of Russian Cosmism, it seems a lot of this got swallowed up by liberal and pro-colonial science fiction (starship troopers, star trek). So what happened? How would you contrast proletarian science fiction and bourgeoisie science fiction generally?
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How would the following issues be solved ?
>information problem
How do you determine where to allocate labor, and where to distribute the products
>Under/Over reporting problem
There is an incentive gap between the workers at a factory tasked with production, and the planners who do not know how much they can produce.
How do you make certain that the workers are truthful about their productive capacities ?
>innovation problem
How do you make sure that there workers aim at adopting and implementing new technologies to the fullest extent possible, and that they also try to develop local innovations by themselves.
In essence, how do you make sure that the workers use the most efficient means of production.
>ECP/Price determination
If the economy is currency-less, how do you determine opportunity-costs ? If there is some form of tractability between goods, how do you determine the prices of different goods.
How do you solve the following issues in a planned economy ?
Let's imagine an economy where production and distribution is determined through a plan, where workers obey an elected factory manager, and where there is no massive corruption or parallel market activity.How would the following issues be solved ?
>information problem
How do you determine where to allocate labor, and where to distribute the products
>Under/Over reporting problem
There is an incentive gap between the workers at a factory tasked with production, and the planners who do not know how much they can produce.
How do you make certain that the workers are truthful about their productive capacities ?
>innovation problem
How do you make sure that there workers aim at adopting and implementing new technologies to the fullest extent possible, and that they also try to develop local innovations by themselves.
In essence, how do you make sure that the workers use the most efficient means of production.
>ECP/Price determination
If the economy is currency-less, how do you determine opportunity-costs ? If there is some form of tractability between goods, how do you determine the prices of different goods.
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If crime is merely a function of poverty why do the bourgeoisie who are ultra rich commit so many crimes?
Seems to me crime is more of a function of sociopathy than poverty
If crime is merely a function of poverty why do the bourgeoisie who are ultra rich commit so many crimes?
Seems to me crime is more of a function of sociopathy than poverty
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Alright. Talk to me.
I've had enough of watching these Zionist assholes get away with everything. I'm ready to hear you all out and I've got a foot out the door into being a communist. What are your solutions?
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Why dont they just kill all palestinians? They could end this conflict once and all if they just rounded-up everyone from gaza and the west bank and shot them. Literally nothing is stopping them and nobody would care or try to prevent them if they did.
Yet they don't, why?
Why dont they just kill all palestinians? They could end this conflict once and all if they just rounded-up everyone from gaza and the west bank and shot them. Literally nothing is stopping them and nobody would care or try to prevent them if they did.
Yet they don't, why?
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Iran is reversing decades worth of infrastructure and presence built by the US in the Middle East since Iraq. Iran is uniting the muslim world against a common enemy to bring the arrival of the 12th imam (the mahdi), ending with the destruction of Israel and the US. Türkiye is feuding with Israel and can cut off Azeri oil through their territory if they wanted to. Not saying that Erdoğan will. Iran has killed 11 US soldiers and 1 contractor, killed many more Israeli soldiers and civilians (along with Hezbollah). Israel has already been kicked out of Lebanon twice since the 1982 Lebanon War/South Lebanon Conflict (1985-2000) and the 2006 Lebanon War. I predict it might happen again when you combine the Iranian front to add on top of all this. Right now it's just Iran and Hezbollah vs. the US, Israel and Ukraine. Turkey might join. Russia is already giving satellite information to Iran. A ground invasion is imminent. Expect substantial US casualties.
Iran is reversing decades worth of infrastructure and presence built by the US in the Middle East since Iraq. Iran is uniting the muslim world against a common enemy to bring the arrival of the 12th imam (the mahdi), ending with the destruction of Israel and the US. Türkiye is feuding with Israel and can cut off Azeri oil through their territory if they wanted to. Not saying that Erdoğan will. Iran has killed 11 US soldiers and 1 contractor, killed many more Israeli soldiers and civilians (along with Hezbollah). Israel has already been kicked out of Lebanon twice since the 1982 Lebanon War/South Lebanon Conflict (1985-2000) and the 2006 Lebanon War. I predict it might happen again when you combine the Iranian front to add on top of all this. Right now it's just Iran and Hezbollah vs. the US, Israel and Ukraine. Turkey might join. Russia is already giving satellite information to Iran. A ground invasion is imminent. Expect substantial US casualties.
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What does leftypol think of left anarchism/left Libertarianism?
Do you consider it "liberal" and how would you compare it to left authoritarianism and right libertarianism?
What does leftypol think of left anarchism/left Libertarianism?
Do you consider it "liberal" and how would you compare it to left authoritarianism and right libertarianism?
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I want Trump to establish a Presidential Dictatorship so the collapse of the United States will be accelerated.
Trump does not care about anything but his ego and his family's name, he is a fascist, he is a capitalist, he is the embodiment of everything wrong with America.
The Democrats need to win the 2026 midterms to take congress for any of this to happen, currently Trump has launched the largest millitary purge in US history, only selecting loyal personnel. I believe he is planning to use the millitary at some point to suspend congress if the democrats try to impeach him, or try to force him to 2 terms, EITHER WAY, we need this to happen.
If Trump were to suspend congress civil war would immediately or eventually start, im certain of this.
And also im not asking for you guys to vote democrat in 2028, if anything vote for the DSA in 2028 since they are running nationally then.
So lets get the collapse started guys
I want Trump to establish a Presidential Dictatorship so the collapse of the United States will be accelerated.
Trump does not care about anything but his ego and his family's name, he is a fascist, he is a capitalist, he is the embodiment of everything wrong with America.
The Democrats need to win the 2026 midterms to take congress for any of this to happen, currently Trump has launched the largest millitary purge in US history, only selecting loyal personnel. I believe he is planning to use the millitary at some point to suspend congress if the democrats try to impeach him, or try to force him to 2 terms, EITHER WAY, we need this to happen.
If Trump were to suspend congress civil war would immediately or eventually start, im certain of this.
And also im not asking for you guys to vote democrat in 2028, if anything vote for the DSA in 2028 since they are running nationally then.
So lets get the collapse started guys
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What are the best arguments for or against third-worldism?
>Is there a true “proletariat” within the global north?
>How culpable are the rank and file citizenry in first world nations?
>Do first world nations have potential for proletarian revolution from within, or can they only be destroyed externally by “proletarian nations”?
What are the best arguments for or against third-worldism?
>Is there a true “proletariat” within the global north?
>How culpable are the rank and file citizenry in first world nations?
>Do first world nations have potential for proletarian revolution from within, or can they only be destroyed externally by “proletarian nations”?
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Being a leftoid is basically having no fucking ego defense and you have to be much more fit, intelligent and other such qualities to get ass while centroid/chud men get it easier despite them not even needing to be HALF of any of things we have to do.
"The Left Sucks" propaganda
One of the most hollowing things about being a leftoid is just how much bad behavior is automatically given to you just because you want to live in a world where people don't starve or whatever and there could be more free time to do well whatever the fuck uyghas want to do. Yet leftoids are said to always have these Dysgenetic traits while rightiods get to portray themselves as the yes chad and we get saddled with soyjaks and shit. Even people who are just vaguely sympathetic to our cause is also getting that treatment and other such shit. "Conservatives/Chuds are the real punk rock/edgelords/contrarians" "Conservatives/Chuds are the real tolerant people", "Conservatives are all fit" yet if you ever bring up rural/urban obesity rates or notice how fucking ugly, the very obvious gap in autism score s between rightiods and leftoids, how much social conservatives have larger amygladas (Thus they feel fear and disgust more, not very stoic of them), how they think they can't even win a fight against DONALD TRUMP or even worse MID LOOKING all these rightiod look like and yet you still have vtubers and shit saying they want to be impregnated by Asmongold!Being a leftoid is basically having no fucking ego defense and you have to be much more fit, intelligent and other such qualities to get ass while centroid/chud men get it easier despite them not even needing to be HALF of any of things we have to do.
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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
R: 7 / I: 0
Nearly 10 years ago Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel won’t exist in 25 years, do you still think he was right?
I hope he was but all of the countries surrounding Israel are either failed states or basically Vichy France. However I bet Egypt could possibly have a revolution in the next 10 years and elect some nationalist who would pressure Israel.
Do you think he was still right?
Will Israel Exist in 15 years?Nearly 10 years ago Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel won’t exist in 25 years, do you still think he was right?
I hope he was but all of the countries surrounding Israel are either failed states or basically Vichy France. However I bet Egypt could possibly have a revolution in the next 10 years and elect some nationalist who would pressure Israel.
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This tendency is neither confined to the political left nor unique to the twenty-first century. Throughout the history of capitalism, socialists, anarchists, communists, as well as fascists, liberals, and conservatives have all, at different moments, imagined catastrophe as politically clarifying. The wager is simple. The contradictions of society intensify until they become unbearable, forcing people to abandon old illusions, confront reality, and take action, lawful or otherwise.
Whether this wager is correct remains one of the most difficult questions facing revolutionary politics. The phrase "things have to get worse before they get better" expresses an intuition rooted in historical materialism. If the existing order continues to satisfy enough people's immediate needs, then those people have relatively little incentive to overthrow it. Reform appears preferable to revolution. Stability reproduces consent. Capitalism is not static. It generates recurring crises. Falling profitability, unemployment, debt, environmental destruction, imperial conflict, housing shortages, and declining public services are not external accidents but recurring features of the system itself. From this perspective, worsening conditions expose capitalism's inability to meet human needs. This is not obviously irrational. Revolutions rarely emerge during periods of widespread prosperity. They tend to occur during crises.
Yet this observation immediately confronts a second one. Most crises do not produce revolution, they produce exhaustion. Misery is not consciousness. The assumption that suffering naturally radicalizes people confuses necessity with possibility. Material hardship creates grievances. It does not automatically create revolutionary consciousness. A worker facing eviction may join a tenants' union. The same worker may instead blame immigrants, or become politically apathetic, or devote every waking hour simply to surviving. The crisis itself determines none of these outcomes. Organization and political education does.
History repeatedly demonstrates that identical material conditions can generate socialist movements, fascist movements, nationalist movements, religious revivals, or complete political collapse. Misery explains why people become dissatisfied. It does not explain what they become.e
Within sections of the revolutionary left there exists an aesthetic attraction to collapse. Every recession becomes "the final crisis." Every financial panic becomes capitalism's death throes. Every ecological disaster becomes evidence that history is accelerating toward rupture. There is understandable emotional appeal here. If one believes the existing system and everyone born into it is fundamentally irredeemable, then every failure appears as confirmation. But this perspective risks transforming human suffering into political symbolism. The bombing of a hospital is no longer primarily a tragedy. It becomes evidence. Mass layoffs become objective conditions. War becomes proof that contradictions are sharpening. The people actually experiencing these events can disappear behind theoretical categories. Marxism insists upon understanding history materially. That obligation extends to suffering itself. Real people do not experience crises as dialectical developments. They experience hunger, debt, trauma, disability, and death. If revolutionary politics loses sight of this, it risks becoming morally indifferent to precisely those whose liberation it claims to seek.
Another version of the argument claims that workers in wealthy capitalist countries possess too much comfort to become revolutionary. According to this view, declining living standards are politically necessary. Only once enough comforts disappear will resistance emerge. There is an element of truth here. Periods of expanding prosperity have often stabilized capitalist societies. Consumer credit, home ownership, welfare provision, and rising wages historically blunted class conflict. Yet the argument quickly becomes too neat. Workers in affluent countries already organize. They strike, they form unions, they resist evictions, they oppose austerity, they participate in anti-discrimination movements, they engage in tenant organizing. None of this requires absolute immiseration. Indeed, one might argue the opposite. People possessing some degree of security often have greater capacity to organize than people working three jobs merely to survive. Political participation itself requires time, energy, health, and community. The completely exhausted worker is not necessarily the most revolutionary. They may simply be exhausted.
Revolutionary debates frequently distinguish between the imperial core and the global periphery. Workers in wealthy nations undeniably benefit from unequal exchange, imperial dominance, and the extraction of value from poorer regions, although the extent and distribution of those benefits remain contested within Marxist theory. Some conclude that the decline of living standards in wealthy countries is historically unavoidable as global inequalities become harder to sustain. This may be descriptively plausible, but a descriptive claim differs from a normative one. To argue that standards of living will decline is one thing, to celebrate, encourage, and accelerate that decline is another. The left has long criticized ruling classes for treating human beings as expendable instruments of history. It should hesitate before adopting similar reasoning itself. The suffering of workers in one country does not become emancipatory simply because workers elsewhere have suffered longer. Internationalism demands solidarity, not competitive immiseration.
Perhaps the deepest problem with accelerationist thinking is its tendency toward historical automation. The assumption is "More contradiction equals more crisis, therefore more crisis equals more resistance, and more resistance equals revolution." History offers no such guarantee. Societies have endured astonishing levels of deprivation without revolutionary transformation. Others have collapsed into an even more reactionary politics. Contradictions do not possess political direction, human beings provide direction. Accelerationism attempts to resolve political frustration by embracing speed. If capitalism generates crises, perhaps those crises should intensify. If institutions are collapsing, perhaps they should collapse faster. If reform merely delays transformation, reform itself becomes counter-revolutionary. Different forms of accelerationism arrive at different conclusions. Some see technological development as the engine that ultimately undermines capitalist relations. Others argue that capitalism should be allowed or encouraged to exhaust itself through the intensification of its own contradictions. Still others, from entirely different political traditions, embrace acceleration because they believe crisis creates opportunities for transformation, emancipatory or otherwise. What unites these otherwise divergent approaches is a suspicion of stabilization. Order becomes the enemy, disorder becomes productive. Does History Have a Speed Limit?
One question accelerationism rarely answers is whether political development can actually be hurried. Capitalism already possesses extraordinary tendencies toward acceleration. Financial markets operate instantaneously, production is globally integrated, climate change advances rapidly, information circulates continuously, precarious employment expands, debt compounds, supply chains stretch across continents. The system scarcely appears in need of additional momentum. Indeed, much contemporary politics concerns managing the consequences of acceleration rather than overcoming stagnation. If capitalism already destabilizes itself at remarkable speed, the revolutionary problem may not be insufficient crisis, it may be insufficient organization capable of acting within crisis. Perhaps the central strategic divide is not between stability and crisis, but between expectation and preparation. Expectation waits for conditions. Preparation develops capacities regardless of conditions. Instead of simply interpreting crises, we must organize through them. Revolutionary movements historically succeeded not because suffering automatically generated resistance but because groups capable of transforming dissatisfaction into collective action already existed when crises arrived. Without these, crisis often produces fear and reaction instead of solidarity.
There is also a psychological attraction to believing that worsening conditions necessarily advance liberation. It transforms despair into hope, every defeat becomes secretly a victory, every setback becomes historical progress. Reality may offer no such consolation. Bad things may simply be bad. Factory closures may strengthen capital. Wars may entrench reaction. Climate disasters may destroy communities rather than radicalize them. Governments may consolidate power rather than expose their weakness. The proposition that "things have to get worse before they get better" contains an important insight and a dangerous temptation. The insight is that stable systems often reproduce themselves through relative legitimacy, and that crises can expose hidden contradictions while opening political possibilities that previously seemed impossible.
The temptation is to mistake possibility for inevitability, or worse, to interpret human suffering as intrinsically progressive. From a revolutionary working-class perspective, neither complacent reformism nor romantic collapse offers an adequate politics. Reformism assumes capitalism can indefinitely soften its contradictions. Collapse assumes those contradictions automatically generate emancipation. History suggests neither is true. Crises create openings, but those openings have to be prepared for in advance through organization. Whether those openings become revolutionary depends not on the severity of suffering alone, but on the capacity of ordinary people to build collective institutions, develop political consciousness, and act together. Bad things are not good, nor are they meaningless, they are historical moments whose political content is not predetermined. That uncertainty is precisely what makes revolution both necessary and difficult.
Don't Confuse Acceleration with Revolution
There is a recurring tendency within revolutionary politics to greet every crisis with optimism. Inflation rises, wages stagnate or fall, housing becomes unaffordable, ecological collapse accelerates, governments become increasingly reactionary, and someone inevitably declares that these are "good." Not because they are good in themselves, but because they are believed to contain the seeds of revolutionary transformation. The suffering of the present is interpreted as the midwife of a liberated future.This tendency is neither confined to the political left nor unique to the twenty-first century. Throughout the history of capitalism, socialists, anarchists, communists, as well as fascists, liberals, and conservatives have all, at different moments, imagined catastrophe as politically clarifying. The wager is simple. The contradictions of society intensify until they become unbearable, forcing people to abandon old illusions, confront reality, and take action, lawful or otherwise.
Whether this wager is correct remains one of the most difficult questions facing revolutionary politics. The phrase "things have to get worse before they get better" expresses an intuition rooted in historical materialism. If the existing order continues to satisfy enough people's immediate needs, then those people have relatively little incentive to overthrow it. Reform appears preferable to revolution. Stability reproduces consent. Capitalism is not static. It generates recurring crises. Falling profitability, unemployment, debt, environmental destruction, imperial conflict, housing shortages, and declining public services are not external accidents but recurring features of the system itself. From this perspective, worsening conditions expose capitalism's inability to meet human needs. This is not obviously irrational. Revolutions rarely emerge during periods of widespread prosperity. They tend to occur during crises.
Yet this observation immediately confronts a second one. Most crises do not produce revolution, they produce exhaustion. Misery is not consciousness. The assumption that suffering naturally radicalizes people confuses necessity with possibility. Material hardship creates grievances. It does not automatically create revolutionary consciousness. A worker facing eviction may join a tenants' union. The same worker may instead blame immigrants, or become politically apathetic, or devote every waking hour simply to surviving. The crisis itself determines none of these outcomes. Organization and political education does.
History repeatedly demonstrates that identical material conditions can generate socialist movements, fascist movements, nationalist movements, religious revivals, or complete political collapse. Misery explains why people become dissatisfied. It does not explain what they become.e
Within sections of the revolutionary left there exists an aesthetic attraction to collapse. Every recession becomes "the final crisis." Every financial panic becomes capitalism's death throes. Every ecological disaster becomes evidence that history is accelerating toward rupture. There is understandable emotional appeal here. If one believes the existing system and everyone born into it is fundamentally irredeemable, then every failure appears as confirmation. But this perspective risks transforming human suffering into political symbolism. The bombing of a hospital is no longer primarily a tragedy. It becomes evidence. Mass layoffs become objective conditions. War becomes proof that contradictions are sharpening. The people actually experiencing these events can disappear behind theoretical categories. Marxism insists upon understanding history materially. That obligation extends to suffering itself. Real people do not experience crises as dialectical developments. They experience hunger, debt, trauma, disability, and death. If revolutionary politics loses sight of this, it risks becoming morally indifferent to precisely those whose liberation it claims to seek.
Another version of the argument claims that workers in wealthy capitalist countries possess too much comfort to become revolutionary. According to this view, declining living standards are politically necessary. Only once enough comforts disappear will resistance emerge. There is an element of truth here. Periods of expanding prosperity have often stabilized capitalist societies. Consumer credit, home ownership, welfare provision, and rising wages historically blunted class conflict. Yet the argument quickly becomes too neat. Workers in affluent countries already organize. They strike, they form unions, they resist evictions, they oppose austerity, they participate in anti-discrimination movements, they engage in tenant organizing. None of this requires absolute immiseration. Indeed, one might argue the opposite. People possessing some degree of security often have greater capacity to organize than people working three jobs merely to survive. Political participation itself requires time, energy, health, and community. The completely exhausted worker is not necessarily the most revolutionary. They may simply be exhausted.
Revolutionary debates frequently distinguish between the imperial core and the global periphery. Workers in wealthy nations undeniably benefit from unequal exchange, imperial dominance, and the extraction of value from poorer regions, although the extent and distribution of those benefits remain contested within Marxist theory. Some conclude that the decline of living standards in wealthy countries is historically unavoidable as global inequalities become harder to sustain. This may be descriptively plausible, but a descriptive claim differs from a normative one. To argue that standards of living will decline is one thing, to celebrate, encourage, and accelerate that decline is another. The left has long criticized ruling classes for treating human beings as expendable instruments of history. It should hesitate before adopting similar reasoning itself. The suffering of workers in one country does not become emancipatory simply because workers elsewhere have suffered longer. Internationalism demands solidarity, not competitive immiseration.
Perhaps the deepest problem with accelerationist thinking is its tendency toward historical automation. The assumption is "More contradiction equals more crisis, therefore more crisis equals more resistance, and more resistance equals revolution." History offers no such guarantee. Societies have endured astonishing levels of deprivation without revolutionary transformation. Others have collapsed into an even more reactionary politics. Contradictions do not possess political direction, human beings provide direction. Accelerationism attempts to resolve political frustration by embracing speed. If capitalism generates crises, perhaps those crises should intensify. If institutions are collapsing, perhaps they should collapse faster. If reform merely delays transformation, reform itself becomes counter-revolutionary. Different forms of accelerationism arrive at different conclusions. Some see technological development as the engine that ultimately undermines capitalist relations. Others argue that capitalism should be allowed or encouraged to exhaust itself through the intensification of its own contradictions. Still others, from entirely different political traditions, embrace acceleration because they believe crisis creates opportunities for transformation, emancipatory or otherwise. What unites these otherwise divergent approaches is a suspicion of stabilization. Order becomes the enemy, disorder becomes productive. Does History Have a Speed Limit?
One question accelerationism rarely answers is whether political development can actually be hurried. Capitalism already possesses extraordinary tendencies toward acceleration. Financial markets operate instantaneously, production is globally integrated, climate change advances rapidly, information circulates continuously, precarious employment expands, debt compounds, supply chains stretch across continents. The system scarcely appears in need of additional momentum. Indeed, much contemporary politics concerns managing the consequences of acceleration rather than overcoming stagnation. If capitalism already destabilizes itself at remarkable speed, the revolutionary problem may not be insufficient crisis, it may be insufficient organization capable of acting within crisis. Perhaps the central strategic divide is not between stability and crisis, but between expectation and preparation. Expectation waits for conditions. Preparation develops capacities regardless of conditions. Instead of simply interpreting crises, we must organize through them. Revolutionary movements historically succeeded not because suffering automatically generated resistance but because groups capable of transforming dissatisfaction into collective action already existed when crises arrived. Without these, crisis often produces fear and reaction instead of solidarity.
There is also a psychological attraction to believing that worsening conditions necessarily advance liberation. It transforms despair into hope, every defeat becomes secretly a victory, every setback becomes historical progress. Reality may offer no such consolation. Bad things may simply be bad. Factory closures may strengthen capital. Wars may entrench reaction. Climate disasters may destroy communities rather than radicalize them. Governments may consolidate power rather than expose their weakness. The proposition that "things have to get worse before they get better" contains an important insight and a dangerous temptation. The insight is that stable systems often reproduce themselves through relative legitimacy, and that crises can expose hidden contradictions while opening political possibilities that previously seemed impossible.
The temptation is to mistake possibility for inevitability, or worse, to interpret human suffering as intrinsically progressive. From a revolutionary working-class perspective, neither complacent reformism nor romantic collapse offers an adequate politics. Reformism assumes capitalism can indefinitely soften its contradictions. Collapse assumes those contradictions automatically generate emancipation. History suggests neither is true. Crises create openings, but those openings have to be prepared for in advance through organization. Whether those openings become revolutionary depends not on the severity of suffering alone, but on the capacity of ordinary people to build collective institutions, develop political consciousness, and act together. Bad things are not good, nor are they meaningless, they are historical moments whose political content is not predetermined. That uncertainty is precisely what makes revolution both necessary and difficult.
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Local assemblies in villages or city districts make proposals of what to spend the planning budget on, from building schools, hospitals, roads to energy projects. Then through delegates these local proposals go to larger administrative levels and get adapted/combine into larger projects. Then these projects get approved or disapproved by a higher level of government. This happens once a year and has produced multiple 5 year plans throughout its existence.
Could this be used as a blueprint for a a real communist revolution? The problem with giving ownership of MoP to worker cooperatives is the fracturing of society's interests down to the firm (see mutualism), while organisational structures centred on the workplace tend to prioritise production over other important societal issues (see syndicalism). This encourages the maintenance of the commodity form and competition.
To reach true revolutionary ends workers ownership needs to be eventually transferred to social ownership. A planning commission organised based on the commune/society needs to have political grip over workplaces and industries. This to me seems like a viable model towards this that has been tried and tested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Planning_in_Kerala
https://www.sdg16.plus/policies/participatory-development-plan-kerala-india/
Thoughts on the planned economy in Kerala?
Kerala, a state in Southern India, has a strong communist party that despite having to share state power with liberals in a capitalist government implemented a decentralised planned economy.Local assemblies in villages or city districts make proposals of what to spend the planning budget on, from building schools, hospitals, roads to energy projects. Then through delegates these local proposals go to larger administrative levels and get adapted/combine into larger projects. Then these projects get approved or disapproved by a higher level of government. This happens once a year and has produced multiple 5 year plans throughout its existence.
Could this be used as a blueprint for a a real communist revolution? The problem with giving ownership of MoP to worker cooperatives is the fracturing of society's interests down to the firm (see mutualism), while organisational structures centred on the workplace tend to prioritise production over other important societal issues (see syndicalism). This encourages the maintenance of the commodity form and competition.
To reach true revolutionary ends workers ownership needs to be eventually transferred to social ownership. A planning commission organised based on the commune/society needs to have political grip over workplaces and industries. This to me seems like a viable model towards this that has been tried and tested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Planning_in_Kerala
https://www.sdg16.plus/policies/participatory-development-plan-kerala-india/
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It might very well be the best possible avenue for communism in the western world. It's one of the largest partie's in Belgium and has very good polling for the next federal election, the only problem is that if they don't get a very clear majority (and thats rare for belgium) they will probably have to come into a coalition with some socdem or moderate party.
The party was also originially maoist but to not die out it just instead became a communist party.
I always thought belgium was gonna cease to exist at some point because of how divivded it is along language lines but i think finally, after however long, class struggle is uniting them together.
Worker's Party of Belgium
What does leftypol think of the worker's party of belgium?It might very well be the best possible avenue for communism in the western world. It's one of the largest partie's in Belgium and has very good polling for the next federal election, the only problem is that if they don't get a very clear majority (and thats rare for belgium) they will probably have to come into a coalition with some socdem or moderate party.
The party was also originially maoist but to not die out it just instead became a communist party.
I always thought belgium was gonna cease to exist at some point because of how divivded it is along language lines but i think finally, after however long, class struggle is uniting them together.
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I noticed that within much of the conservative or reactionary movement, when people's material conditions worsen, many seem to respond not by supporting efforts to improve those conditions—whether through direct action or by voting for left-wing candidates who promise economic reforms—but by directing their frustration toward immigrants or so-called "welfare queens," believing those groups are receiving unfair advantages. They often end up supporting right-wing candidates whose policies, in my view, make life more difficult for the broader public while primarily benefiting the bourgeoisie. What I struggle to understand is the mindset of wanting to make other people's lives worse simply because your own circumstances have deteriorated. I understand why they see socialism/communism to be the devil because of decades of propaganda against those systems, but wanting to hurt those who are more vulnerable than they are just seems like anti-social behavior.
This is why I don't see MAGA communism or any 'conservative/nationalist' socialism having any potential other than devolving into fascism. The people those movements are trying to appeal to have no class conscious and solidarity. Things that bind the, are class collaborationist in nature rather than built upon class struggle. Communism, be it Marxist or anarchist, is a mass movement that requires the proletariat around the world to work together to throw off their chains. And can't be hung up over conflicts between different ethnicities, nationalities, orientations and ect.
I noticed that within much of the conservative or reactionary movement, when people's material conditions worsen, many seem to respond not by supporting efforts to improve those conditions—whether through direct action or by voting for left-wing candidates who promise economic reforms—but by directing their frustration toward immigrants or so-called "welfare queens," believing those groups are receiving unfair advantages. They often end up supporting right-wing candidates whose policies, in my view, make life more difficult for the broader public while primarily benefiting the bourgeoisie. What I struggle to understand is the mindset of wanting to make other people's lives worse simply because your own circumstances have deteriorated. I understand why they see socialism/communism to be the devil because of decades of propaganda against those systems, but wanting to hurt those who are more vulnerable than they are just seems like anti-social behavior.
This is why I don't see MAGA communism or any 'conservative/nationalist' socialism having any potential other than devolving into fascism. The people those movements are trying to appeal to have no class conscious and solidarity. Things that bind the, are class collaborationist in nature rather than built upon class struggle. Communism, be it Marxist or anarchist, is a mass movement that requires the proletariat around the world to work together to throw off their chains. And can't be hung up over conflicts between different ethnicities, nationalities, orientations and ect.
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It didn't happen during the cold war but we might very well be in the times of a new revolution, and even without that, the israeli regime has the samson option where it nukes itself and its neighbors for a hellish holocaust.
Is nuclear war possible today?
Would the ruling class actually restort to nuclear armageddon to try to maintain their social class?It didn't happen during the cold war but we might very well be in the times of a new revolution, and even without that, the israeli regime has the samson option where it nukes itself and its neighbors for a hellish holocaust.
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-do not drink Coca Cola, soda. Drink water and green tea (without sugar)
-do not use toothpaste, brush teeth with toothbrush and saliva
-do not use shampoo, it's expensive and toxic
-do not eat processed foods. Eat unprocessed foods and vegetables, cook them
-do not buy expensive computer hardware and do not buy gaming consoles
-do not waste savings and your salary on consumptionism, instead invest everything or give to charities
-do not work and do not pay taxes, collect gibs from gubmint
-choose cheapest internet subscription instead of fast internet
-do not eat fast food, do not go to McDonalds and KFC
-never buy new cars, always buy old cheap cars
-use ad blocker in your web browser (ublock origin)
-spread anticapitalism on forums and social media
-do not use loans and credit cards, except house loan
-do not buy new clothes, buy from second hand shops
-do not buy SUVs, only buy sedans and hatchbacks
-do not drink water from plastic bottles and containers
-do not use electric clothes dryer, use clothing line
-support communism instead of capitalism
-never pay with card, always pay with cash
-use bicycle instead of car
-use cheap, 5 year old phone
-do not eat meat
-do not smoke and do not drink alcohol
-spend little money and work part time
-do not divorce, keep your family happy
Media (movies, video games, tv):
-do not pay for subscriptions like Netflix
-play old video games and use emulators
-listen to old music
-do not watch ads
-do not pay for UFC, steal it from torrents
-do not pay for video games, steal them from https://fitgirl-repacks.site/
-if you want to watch movies, do not pay for them, steal movies using torrents
Do all of those things every day and you will destroy capitalists. Also spread this ideology to more people.
How to fuck capitalists every day
Dear comrades, this is a guide how to fuck the capitalists, every day of your life.-do not drink Coca Cola, soda. Drink water and green tea (without sugar)
-do not use toothpaste, brush teeth with toothbrush and saliva
-do not use shampoo, it's expensive and toxic
-do not eat processed foods. Eat unprocessed foods and vegetables, cook them
-do not buy expensive computer hardware and do not buy gaming consoles
-do not waste savings and your salary on consumptionism, instead invest everything or give to charities
-do not work and do not pay taxes, collect gibs from gubmint
-choose cheapest internet subscription instead of fast internet
-do not eat fast food, do not go to McDonalds and KFC
-never buy new cars, always buy old cheap cars
-use ad blocker in your web browser (ublock origin)
-spread anticapitalism on forums and social media
-do not use loans and credit cards, except house loan
-do not buy new clothes, buy from second hand shops
-do not buy SUVs, only buy sedans and hatchbacks
-do not drink water from plastic bottles and containers
-do not use electric clothes dryer, use clothing line
-support communism instead of capitalism
-never pay with card, always pay with cash
-use bicycle instead of car
-use cheap, 5 year old phone
-do not eat meat
-do not smoke and do not drink alcohol
-spend little money and work part time
-do not divorce, keep your family happy
Media (movies, video games, tv):
-do not pay for subscriptions like Netflix
-play old video games and use emulators
-listen to old music
-do not watch ads
-do not pay for UFC, steal it from torrents
-do not pay for video games, steal them from https://fitgirl-repacks.site/
-if you want to watch movies, do not pay for them, steal movies using torrents
Do all of those things every day and you will destroy capitalists. Also spread this ideology to more people.
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Rainbow Stalin
lets have a party to celebrate our great glorious leader Joseph Stalin he is the greatest glory to the motherland and TO HELL WITH THE BOURGEOIS AND THE CAPITALIST SCUM!!!
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And with that, the Right Wing ideology has captured the government of everything single South America country, ironically, on the leftern side of the continent.
The only technical standout is Fujimori in Peru, granted she is 40k votes ahead and mathematically locked in, unless the recount reshapes the race entire in the direction of the left, which is mathematically unlikely.
And with that, the Right Wing ideology has captured the government of everything single South America country, ironically, on the leftern side of the continent.
The only technical standout is Fujimori in Peru, granted she is 40k votes ahead and mathematically locked in, unless the recount reshapes the race entire in the direction of the left, which is mathematically unlikely.
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https://m.novinite.com/articles/239429/Is+Russia+Planning+an+Attack+on+Poland+to+%22Test+NATO+Resolve%22#google_vignette
First they attempt to capture Ukraine and that fails horribly in every way possible, so now the nuclear giant is attempting to start war with the NATO union. I know there are people who like Russia here, but saying that they accomplished their day 1 objectives is pure cope. They first tried to send a "special military operation" to oust the president and create a pro-Moscow government in Kyiv. Lost. Then they tried to build a land bridge between Donbas and Crimea through Odesa, then capture Moldova to build a land bridge so they seize the rest of Ukraine going northward. They STILL haven't even completely taken Donbas. They got deeply entrenched in hardcore urban combat in Mariupol for 85 days, and even when they had the advantage and all the cannon fodder in the world, they still couldn't completely crush resistance in the city and their leaders are free to this day to kill more Russians. As a result of the holdup, they redeployed troops to Kherson and lost there as a result. Ukraine still has Black Sea access after they won Mykolaiv, Russia lost a major naval destroyer - the Moskva, using a cheap Bayraktar and two Neptune subsonic ship missiles after it ignited the magazine! What the fuck?! Now it's a frozen conflict. So, instead of dying on that hill, Russia wants WW3.
WW3 incoming. Stay notified for happenings.
Russia planning attack on Poland to test Nato resolve, US warns
NATO is being warned by the US that a Russian attack is imminent.https://m.novinite.com/articles/239429/Is+Russia+Planning+an+Attack+on+Poland+to+%22Test+NATO+Resolve%22#google_vignette
First they attempt to capture Ukraine and that fails horribly in every way possible, so now the nuclear giant is attempting to start war with the NATO union. I know there are people who like Russia here, but saying that they accomplished their day 1 objectives is pure cope. They first tried to send a "special military operation" to oust the president and create a pro-Moscow government in Kyiv. Lost. Then they tried to build a land bridge between Donbas and Crimea through Odesa, then capture Moldova to build a land bridge so they seize the rest of Ukraine going northward. They STILL haven't even completely taken Donbas. They got deeply entrenched in hardcore urban combat in Mariupol for 85 days, and even when they had the advantage and all the cannon fodder in the world, they still couldn't completely crush resistance in the city and their leaders are free to this day to kill more Russians. As a result of the holdup, they redeployed troops to Kherson and lost there as a result. Ukraine still has Black Sea access after they won Mykolaiv, Russia lost a major naval destroyer - the Moskva, using a cheap Bayraktar and two Neptune subsonic ship missiles after it ignited the magazine! What the fuck?! Now it's a frozen conflict. So, instead of dying on that hill, Russia wants WW3.
WW3 incoming. Stay notified for happenings.
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The alt-right won
In 2017 when Jason Kessler launched the biggest white nationalist rally in the US in a very long time, with 1,500 people attending, it got violently interrupted by counterprotests. Afterwards, the Daily Stormer got kicked from its hosting and didn't find a stable host until 6 months later in February 2018 when they settled with Eranet and Bitmitigate. In 2017, the alt-right was lead by Richard Spencer. Lots has changed since, but in the end, it didn't kill the fringe right it only slowed down their progress by a few years. In 2017, the percent of neo-nazis in America was 9% but alt-right was 10%. In 2021, that number grew after the January 6 protests. More people started supporting the rioters. But yet while the alt-right did die off after the Atomwaffen-Satan drama in early 2018 after that Kiwi Farms thread was created and somebody took screenshots from the BowlPatrol discord server, and the Ricky Vaughn drama that would happen later over TRS 504um. In 2018, so much happened. First the cuckboxing, then Alex Jones getting banned from YouTube. Google rolled out its biggest ever crackdown on "extremist content" in August 2017 after Charlottesville with Jared Taylor's video "race differences in intelligence" getting put in a limited state first. But recently, people have simply adapted to Google's algorithm and YouTube is starting to look a lot like it did in 2016 during the election cycle before the crackdowns. Arthur Kwon-Lee, Jiang Xueqin, and many others are talking openly about the J00s, and comment sections simply use words that don't trigger the algorithm. It's like Google simply abandoned their initial censorship. Videos no longer get put in limited states like they used to, and more alt-right content is flourishing. Antifa? I haven't heard from them in a while. You would expect heavier resistance against ICE, but yet that was reserved mostly for the early Trump presidency. I don't hear from them no more hardly. There are #NoKings protests, but the left is nowhere near as radical as they used to be back in the 2010s. I think the second Trump administration basically cracked down on all of them.
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Both Mao and Bordiga were mostly correct in their views and positions, but for their respective material and social conditions they were working within. Semi-feudal conditions for Mao, capitalist-imperialist conditions for Bordiga.
Dogmatic ML: "We need a vote for progress and safeguard our democracy" (Togliatti? Starmer? Mélenchon? Harris?) Jump through hoops to safeguard bourgeois dictatorship in the west some more, ML. That is the role which you have picked for yourself. Really give it a bright red, bleeding heart radical liberal veneer!
Trend victim MLs have tried to mechanically copy-pasting semi-feudal tactics to industrialized, proletarian-majority, imperialist-capitalist countries for a century. "Too bad" their demise always has some self-defeating aspect to it, predicted by the Italian Left (or more descriptively: internationalist Leninists) decades in advance.
>But they were said to be irrelevant! At least that's what our "ML", then "Soviet-alligned", then "eurocom" leaders told us, and they headed a parliamentary party with a lot of members and voters, so they must've known what they were talking about!…right?…
There, there!
Hence internationalist Leninist tactics are not applied! Hence Lenin's revolutionary tactical invariance leading up to the key lesson for success is obscured, papered over – all to focus on the set of retreats, mistakes, fallacious tactics that led in a circle or self-obliteration. That is the "Leninism" of the western ML.
The stinky successful early stuff? It is your duty to slander and castigate the Evil "UlTrAs" for re-centering…
Now tell me: Are you finding yourselves amid semi-feudal or capitalist-imperialist conditions as you're browsing this post, anons?
Two great Leninists: Mao & Bordiga
"Controversial" opinion incoming, apparently:Both Mao and Bordiga were mostly correct in their views and positions, but for their respective material and social conditions they were working within. Semi-feudal conditions for Mao, capitalist-imperialist conditions for Bordiga.
Dogmatic ML: "We need a vote for progress and safeguard our democracy" (Togliatti? Starmer? Mélenchon? Harris?) Jump through hoops to safeguard bourgeois dictatorship in the west some more, ML. That is the role which you have picked for yourself. Really give it a bright red, bleeding heart radical liberal veneer!
Trend victim MLs have tried to mechanically copy-pasting semi-feudal tactics to industrialized, proletarian-majority, imperialist-capitalist countries for a century. "Too bad" their demise always has some self-defeating aspect to it, predicted by the Italian Left (or more descriptively: internationalist Leninists) decades in advance.
>But they were said to be irrelevant! At least that's what our "ML", then "Soviet-alligned", then "eurocom" leaders told us, and they headed a parliamentary party with a lot of members and voters, so they must've known what they were talking about!…right?…
There, there!
Hence internationalist Leninist tactics are not applied! Hence Lenin's revolutionary tactical invariance leading up to the key lesson for success is obscured, papered over – all to focus on the set of retreats, mistakes, fallacious tactics that led in a circle or self-obliteration. That is the "Leninism" of the western ML.
The stinky successful early stuff? It is your duty to slander and castigate the Evil "UlTrAs" for re-centering…
Now tell me: Are you finding yourselves amid semi-feudal or capitalist-imperialist conditions as you're browsing this post, anons?
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A characteristic of history is the inevitable conflict between the ruling class and the exploited class. In this struggle, three great tactics of the proletarian movement crystallized, which can serve us as a guide. We will define the vanguard organization and the popular front.
The purpose of this post is to present the main characteristics of these tactics, to offer examples throughout history, and finally to begin investigating the fundamental question of ideology in organization.
As Marxists, we proceed from the axiom that the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. Because we are materialists and acknowledge the scientific method in the social sciences as well, we also have scientific abstraction at our disposal. Therefore, throughout this exposition we will use the following glossary.
Three Great Tactics of the Proletarian Movement
How to turn public discontent into a coordinated movement? What did successful movements do to achieve their goals? How have the strategies of successful movements changed over time?A characteristic of history is the inevitable conflict between the ruling class and the exploited class. In this struggle, three great tactics of the proletarian movement crystallized, which can serve us as a guide. We will define the vanguard organization and the popular front.
The purpose of this post is to present the main characteristics of these tactics, to offer examples throughout history, and finally to begin investigating the fundamental question of ideology in organization.
As Marxists, we proceed from the axiom that the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. Because we are materialists and acknowledge the scientific method in the social sciences as well, we also have scientific abstraction at our disposal. Therefore, throughout this exposition we will use the following glossary.
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Sammy Weaver is a hero and Marshal Degan is rotting in Hell. I would love to find his tombstone and fuck a prostitute over it, have her piss on it, then I'll ejaculate on it and rub my dick all over William Degan's funeral memorial. Fuck that dead cocksucker.
>WASHINGTON — Kevin Harris, who was severely wounded three years ago in a bloody siege at Ruby Ridge, Ida., disputed on Tuesday crucial elements of the government’s account of the incident, including who fired the first shot.
>Harris strongly denied to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism that he and his friend Randy Weaver–whose cabin had been staked out by federal agents–had sought to ambush marshals on Aug. 21, 1992. The agents were trying to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on weapon charges.
>His voice cracking as he struggled to suppress sobs, Harris graphically described the shooting of Weaver’s 14-year-old son, Sammy, and the killing of Weaver’s wife, Vicki, by an FBI sniper on the following day, as she stood hidden by the cabin door.
>“I would not have been anywhere near those woods if I had known that all those men with assault rifles and a silenced submachine gun . . . were out there,” Harris said. “We were just walking along the trail . . . , making a perfect target of ourselves.”
>Weaver thought that there might be a deer or other game nearby.
>As he and Sammy reached the Y, Harris said, Striker neared a man wearing camouflage clothing and the dog seemed to lunge for the man’s hands. The dog then moved away from the man, circling, and “suddenly the dog was shot,” Harris said. Harris did not say where Randy Weaver was at this point.
>Sammy then began to raise his weapon and said, “You shot my dog, you son of a bitch,” Harris testified. Harris said that he headed for cover. He said that was the last time he saw Sammy alive. “I saw smoke puffs and brass shell casings flying in the air down in the woods below the trail. I assumed Sam was shooting and that someone was shooting back at him, but I didn’t actually see Sam shoot.”
>Harris said that after he found cover and crouched down, shots were still being fired, “and so I fired once into the brush.”
>Under questioning by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the subcommittee chairman, Harris said that he had not fired at the man in camouflage. “I was headed for cover. There was shooting all around me. It looked like, you know, they were just bombarding us with shots, and I just fired into the brush.”
>But under questioning by several senators, Harris acknowledged that he assumed his shot had killed Degan. Harris and Weaver were subsequently acquitted of murdering Degan.
>Specter cited conflicting testimony from Harris and Deputy Marshal Larry T. Cooper and said that the senators are considering recalling Cooper. Cooper told the panel on Sept. 15 that he had yelled at Harris, “Back off–U.S. marshals,” before the dog was shot. Harris, Cooper said, had fired from the hip, hitting Degan immediately after Degan called out: “Stop, U.S. marshals.”
>Harris told the hearing that he heard neither agent’s warning when Cooper said they were made.
>In another possible conflict, Jeffrey Howard, former principal associate deputy attorney general, testified that he had been told on Aug. 22, 1992, by an FBI official that Mrs. Weaver had been heard “wailing that her son had been shot, had been murdered.” FBI witnesses said they first learned of Sammy Weaver’s death after the body was discovered at least a day and a half later.
>The difference could be important because knowing Weaver’s son had been killed could have influenced how the FBI handled the siege. Howard, however, said that the FBI testimony may simply mean that the bureau did not confirm Sammy Weaver’s death on Aug. 22.
>With the hearings adjourned for two weeks, when FBI Director Louis J. Freeh is expected to testify, the panel’s ranking Democrat, Sen. Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin, made clear that he has already come to some conclusions.
>“Ruby Ridge marks a sad chapter in the FBI’s history,” he said, in beginning his questioning of Harris. “Although the FBI has been essentially unrepentant, we are beginning to get a clear picture of the errors they made at Ruby Ridge.”
>Kohl accused the FBI of “playing a game of duck and cover. The world’s greatest investigative agency cannot figure out who drafted and approved” permissive shooting rules “written in part in its own headquarters.”
>“It has consistently ignored or evaded the findings of outside, independent reviewers in favor of FBI-generated reports that scapegoat some and absolve everyone else,” Kohl said.
>Nevertheless, Kohl said, “Randy Weaver really has to shoulder much of the responsibility for what happened” at Ruby Ridge. “He hid from the law, obsessed with his own irrational fears about the government. And he put a gun in the hand of his 14-year-old son, Sammy, and filled Sammy’s head with extreme rhetoric about law enforcement officers.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-27-mn-50568-story.html
Sammy Weaver is a hero and Marshal Degan is rotting in Hell. I would love to find his tombstone and fuck a prostitute over it, have her piss on it, then I'll ejaculate on it and rub my dick all over William Degan's funeral memorial. Fuck that dead cocksucker.
>WASHINGTON — Kevin Harris, who was severely wounded three years ago in a bloody siege at Ruby Ridge, Ida., disputed on Tuesday crucial elements of the government’s account of the incident, including who fired the first shot.
>Harris strongly denied to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism that he and his friend Randy Weaver–whose cabin had been staked out by federal agents–had sought to ambush marshals on Aug. 21, 1992. The agents were trying to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on weapon charges.
>His voice cracking as he struggled to suppress sobs, Harris graphically described the shooting of Weaver’s 14-year-old son, Sammy, and the killing of Weaver’s wife, Vicki, by an FBI sniper on the following day, as she stood hidden by the cabin door.
>“I would not have been anywhere near those woods if I had known that all those men with assault rifles and a silenced submachine gun . . . were out there,” Harris said. “We were just walking along the trail . . . , making a perfect target of ourselves.”
>Weaver thought that there might be a deer or other game nearby.
>As he and Sammy reached the Y, Harris said, Striker neared a man wearing camouflage clothing and the dog seemed to lunge for the man’s hands. The dog then moved away from the man, circling, and “suddenly the dog was shot,” Harris said. Harris did not say where Randy Weaver was at this point.
>Sammy then began to raise his weapon and said, “You shot my dog, you son of a bitch,” Harris testified. Harris said that he headed for cover. He said that was the last time he saw Sammy alive. “I saw smoke puffs and brass shell casings flying in the air down in the woods below the trail. I assumed Sam was shooting and that someone was shooting back at him, but I didn’t actually see Sam shoot.”
>Harris said that after he found cover and crouched down, shots were still being fired, “and so I fired once into the brush.”
>Under questioning by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the subcommittee chairman, Harris said that he had not fired at the man in camouflage. “I was headed for cover. There was shooting all around me. It looked like, you know, they were just bombarding us with shots, and I just fired into the brush.”
>But under questioning by several senators, Harris acknowledged that he assumed his shot had killed Degan. Harris and Weaver were subsequently acquitted of murdering Degan.
>Specter cited conflicting testimony from Harris and Deputy Marshal Larry T. Cooper and said that the senators are considering recalling Cooper. Cooper told the panel on Sept. 15 that he had yelled at Harris, “Back off–U.S. marshals,” before the dog was shot. Harris, Cooper said, had fired from the hip, hitting Degan immediately after Degan called out: “Stop, U.S. marshals.”
>Harris told the hearing that he heard neither agent’s warning when Cooper said they were made.
>In another possible conflict, Jeffrey Howard, former principal associate deputy attorney general, testified that he had been told on Aug. 22, 1992, by an FBI official that Mrs. Weaver had been heard “wailing that her son had been shot, had been murdered.” FBI witnesses said they first learned of Sammy Weaver’s death after the body was discovered at least a day and a half later.
>The difference could be important because knowing Weaver’s son had been killed could have influenced how the FBI handled the siege. Howard, however, said that the FBI testimony may simply mean that the bureau did not confirm Sammy Weaver’s death on Aug. 22.
>With the hearings adjourned for two weeks, when FBI Director Louis J. Freeh is expected to testify, the panel’s ranking Democrat, Sen. Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin, made clear that he has already come to some conclusions.
>“Ruby Ridge marks a sad chapter in the FBI’s history,” he said, in beginning his questioning of Harris. “Although the FBI has been essentially unrepentant, we are beginning to get a clear picture of the errors they made at Ruby Ridge.”
>Kohl accused the FBI of “playing a game of duck and cover. The world’s greatest investigative agency cannot figure out who drafted and approved” permissive shooting rules “written in part in its own headquarters.”
>“It has consistently ignored or evaded the findings of outside, independent reviewers in favor of FBI-generated reports that scapegoat some and absolve everyone else,” Kohl said.
>Nevertheless, Kohl said, “Randy Weaver really has to shoulder much of the responsibility for what happened” at Ruby Ridge. “He hid from the law, obsessed with his own irrational fears about the government. And he put a gun in the hand of his 14-year-old son, Sammy, and filled Sammy’s head with extreme rhetoric about law enforcement officers.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-27-mn-50568-story.html
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Liberal Gen X Dad Incites Revoliution
Liberal Gen X Dad Incites Revolution and wonders why there aren't pitchforks on the streets. Still think revolution is impossible?…………………………………………………………………………………………
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On contradictions mao talks about there being a progressive bourgesisie, a bourgesisie thats good and helped the shift from the chinese feudal mode of production to capitalist mode of production and thus allowing a socialist mode.
Yes its confusing and i don't get it even after reading it because i don't think he understoon dialects.
But it makes me think, today is there a progressive bourgesisie in america? I thought the CEOs of ben and jerrys were good until they were ousted, and also buckyies.
On contradictions mao talks about there being a progressive bourgesisie, a bourgesisie thats good and helped the shift from the chinese feudal mode of production to capitalist mode of production and thus allowing a socialist mode.
Yes its confusing and i don't get it even after reading it because i don't think he understoon dialects.
But it makes me think, today is there a progressive bourgesisie in america? I thought the CEOs of ben and jerrys were good until they were ousted, and also buckyies.
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<Some narratives* in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries.
<However, this would require increasing total global output and resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown.
<Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within the imperialist structure of the existing world economy.
<Here we demonstrate that this dilemma can be resolved with a different approach, rooted in recent needs-based analyses of poverty and development.
<Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of production that are necessary to improve capabilities and meet human needs at a high standard, while ensuring universal access to key goods and services through public provisioning and decommodification.
<At the same time, in high-income countries**, less-necessary production should be scaled down to enable faster decarbonization and to help bring resource use back within planetary boundaries.
<With this approach, good lives can be achieved for all without requiring large increases in total global throughput and output.==
<Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments.
<Such a future requires planning to provision public services, to deploy efficient technology, and to build sovereign industrial capacity in the global South.
* i.e. liberal, third-worldist, in general unscientific, utopian or anti-communist narratives
** i.e. the imperialist center
In short,
1) abolish the parasite imperialist state, establish a dotp and end overproduction
2) centrally advance ecological transition and transfer technologies to the global south
3) usher in a new communist age
The first world is not overconsuming
The global economy is overproducing in general. Abolishing overproduction would not lead to drop in living standards, since with planning and rationing we can ensure decent living standards for 8.5 billion people using 30% of current production, and use the remaining surplus for luxury, free time, and science.<Some narratives* in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries.
<However, this would require increasing total global output and resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown.
<Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within the imperialist structure of the existing world economy.
<Here we demonstrate that this dilemma can be resolved with a different approach, rooted in recent needs-based analyses of poverty and development.
<Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of production that are necessary to improve capabilities and meet human needs at a high standard, while ensuring universal access to key goods and services through public provisioning and decommodification.
<At the same time, in high-income countries**, less-necessary production should be scaled down to enable faster decarbonization and to help bring resource use back within planetary boundaries.
<With this approach, good lives can be achieved for all without requiring large increases in total global throughput and output.==
<Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments.
<Such a future requires planning to provision public services, to deploy efficient technology, and to build sovereign industrial capacity in the global South.
* i.e. liberal, third-worldist, in general unscientific, utopian or anti-communist narratives
** i.e. the imperialist center
In short,
1) abolish the parasite imperialist state, establish a dotp and end overproduction
2) centrally advance ecological transition and transfer technologies to the global south
3) usher in a new communist age
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A peasant, a shepherd, a simple worker from Donbass, he became the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Was such a thing possible under capitalism?
"I learned to count to 30, and my father decided that learning was enough for me," Khrushchev recalled. "All you need is to learn to count money, and you'll never have more than thirty rubles anyway. My father dreamed of saving up, returning to the village, and buying a horse to grow enough potatoes and cabbage to feed the family. But we never got a horse. My parents cherished this dream even after 1908, when we finally moved to Yuzovka. There, my father worked in the mines, my mother washed clothes, and I cleaned steam boilers."
A peasant, a shepherd, a simple worker from Donbass, he became the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Was such a thing possible under capitalism?
"I learned to count to 30, and my father decided that learning was enough for me," Khrushchev recalled. "All you need is to learn to count money, and you'll never have more than thirty rubles anyway. My father dreamed of saving up, returning to the village, and buying a horse to grow enough potatoes and cabbage to feed the family. But we never got a horse. My parents cherished this dream even after 1908, when we finally moved to Yuzovka. There, my father worked in the mines, my mother washed clothes, and I cleaned steam boilers."
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Technologies built around mobile systems; efficient use of clay, cement, and steel metals; decentralized utility and logistics systems; a lot of work related to solar power which im happy for; some oddly specific technological developments surrounding armoured cars, surveillance, and border security etc.
From what I infer a lot of this behaviour is driven organically by the geographic conditions of the continent in general. Many of the resources on the continent are stretched across vast distances, sparse/scarce in supplies, and broken up by unusually poor terrain. This often means that any technological developments made are unusually way more specific, pragmatic, and efficient in use for immediate and existing problems compared to tech made outside of it where figures or promises on features surrounding what the tech can do. Sometimes, this does *alot* to change how people approach life. It’s only recently that a lot of changes were made so that desert sands and earth could be used conventionally at scale to produce modular construction kit—this is huge on construction in general since it offers a way to build on the scale that china did *without causing the same level of ecological destruction*.
Geographic influences on technological development
I think it’s interesting to observe the pattern of technological development in Africa compared to NATO. A lot of what’s being made there is surprisingly specific, pragmatic, and efficient compared to many new western technologies that often serve as solutions to problems western companies make.Technologies built around mobile systems; efficient use of clay, cement, and steel metals; decentralized utility and logistics systems; a lot of work related to solar power which im happy for; some oddly specific technological developments surrounding armoured cars, surveillance, and border security etc.
From what I infer a lot of this behaviour is driven organically by the geographic conditions of the continent in general. Many of the resources on the continent are stretched across vast distances, sparse/scarce in supplies, and broken up by unusually poor terrain. This often means that any technological developments made are unusually way more specific, pragmatic, and efficient in use for immediate and existing problems compared to tech made outside of it where figures or promises on features surrounding what the tech can do. Sometimes, this does *alot* to change how people approach life. It’s only recently that a lot of changes were made so that desert sands and earth could be used conventionally at scale to produce modular construction kit—this is huge on construction in general since it offers a way to build on the scale that china did *without causing the same level of ecological destruction*.
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What happened to Trump's freedom cities, and other techno-feudist projects?
Trump in 2023 made a promise to build 13 new cities where there would be near-zero environmental or labor regulations, effectively giving corporations their own fiefdoms.
This project as of 2026 has been stalled and instead trump is obsessed with his ballroom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Cities
What happened to Trump's freedom cities, and other techno-feudist projects?
Trump in 2023 made a promise to build 13 new cities where there would be near-zero environmental or labor regulations, effectively giving corporations their own fiefdoms.
This project as of 2026 has been stalled and instead trump is obsessed with his ballroom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Cities
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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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>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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the commanding heights of the economy should be state owned. commodities essential to the survival of the society should be collectively owned by society. commodities essential to the survival of the individual should be the property of the individual who intends to use them, after they have been produced by society. production of commodities not essential to the survival of the individual can be produced by worker owned cooperatives that are limited by the state in number according to production plan, that way you don't have a whole country of people running off to make vidya games for a living when there are ores to be mined and surgeries to be performed. add in labor vouchers with a clear date of expiration and periodic decay from the date of distribution, so labor vouchers do not accumulate into a reinvented money capital among spendthrifts. Keep statistics on necessities so they are not produced just in time as needed, with only a small buffer surplus, to avoid the problem of food waste. Encourage frequent days off and healthcare checkups for preventative care, so that serious medical interventions are needed less often, and problems like cancer can be nipped in the bud early. If the population begins to age too much, resulting in too many retirees to take care of, while birth rates decline… fuck. I haven't figured that one out yet.
the commanding heights of the economy should be state owned. commodities essential to the survival of the society should be collectively owned by society. commodities essential to the survival of the individual should be the property of the individual who intends to use them, after they have been produced by society. production of commodities not essential to the survival of the individual can be produced by worker owned cooperatives that are limited by the state in number according to production plan, that way you don't have a whole country of people running off to make vidya games for a living when there are ores to be mined and surgeries to be performed. add in labor vouchers with a clear date of expiration and periodic decay from the date of distribution, so labor vouchers do not accumulate into a reinvented money capital among spendthrifts. Keep statistics on necessities so they are not produced just in time as needed, with only a small buffer surplus, to avoid the problem of food waste. Encourage frequent days off and healthcare checkups for preventative care, so that serious medical interventions are needed less often, and problems like cancer can be nipped in the bud early. If the population begins to age too much, resulting in too many retirees to take care of, while birth rates decline… fuck. I haven't figured that one out yet.
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If you think about it…
The ACP is basically all the worst parts of CPUSA combined into a single reactionary party that exists to cry about all the other orgs, coup subreddits, support the petitie-bourgesisie, and be transphobic.
>flood
If you think about it…
The ACP is basically all the worst parts of CPUSA combined into a single reactionary party that exists to cry about all the other orgs, coup subreddits, support the petitie-bourgesisie, and be transphobic.
>flood
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If you gonna hate Japan for that then you have zero idea how strict China is.
>Xenophobia Japan
/leftypol/: NUKE JAPAN
>Xenophobia China
/leftypol/: Well actually….
China vs Japan immigration
What’s with the hate on Japan about xenophobia. WW2 hate is valid, but hating them for immigration is stupid if you don’t criticise China on it.If you gonna hate Japan for that then you have zero idea how strict China is.
>Xenophobia Japan
/leftypol/: NUKE JAPAN
>Xenophobia China
/leftypol/: Well actually….
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What can WE do to prevent rightoid violence RIGHT NOW
Obviously if we were in charge of government there would be a variety of options but what can we personally do right now to prevent the monthly mass shooting done by some neo-nazi. This cannot keep happening. Surely there must be something we can do.
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Multipolarsisters? How could this happen? I thought random third-world dictator number #387499 was going to be the one to finally defeat the west? This guy was supposed to be finally be the one too! As they say the 99999th times the charm.
Multipolarsisters? How could this happen? I thought random third-world dictator number #387499 was going to be the one to finally defeat the west? This guy was supposed to be finally be the one too! As they say the 99999th times the charm.
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Communists would do better if they realised that Gorbachev wasn't a traitor. He was a comically committed Leninist and he got most of his worst ideas (like basically every move to empower the different nations of the USSR, which would ultimately lead to them all leaving, or his economic policies, which were inspired by the NEP) from reading Lenin. He destroyed the USSR not because he saw the light of neoliberalism and converted, but because he believed he could recover its "true" origins before it became corrupted and stagnant.
This doesn't tell us anything about Lenin, who had been dead for decades, but it does tell you where LARPing as Lenin and treating Lenin like the biblical truth will take you. You have to understand the situation as it actually exists in the here and now, not by shoehorning it in to the texts of long dead heroes. Your analyses should start from reality and work towards useful predictions, rather than starting from dogma and working towards reconciling it with reality.
Gorbachev's failure is substantially worse in light of his loyalty to the cause.
Communists would do better if they realised that Gorbachev wasn't a traitor. He was a comically committed Leninist and he got most of his worst ideas (like basically every move to empower the different nations of the USSR, which would ultimately lead to them all leaving, or his economic policies, which were inspired by the NEP) from reading Lenin. He destroyed the USSR not because he saw the light of neoliberalism and converted, but because he believed he could recover its "true" origins before it became corrupted and stagnant.
This doesn't tell us anything about Lenin, who had been dead for decades, but it does tell you where LARPing as Lenin and treating Lenin like the biblical truth will take you. You have to understand the situation as it actually exists in the here and now, not by shoehorning it in to the texts of long dead heroes. Your analyses should start from reality and work towards useful predictions, rather than starting from dogma and working towards reconciling it with reality.
Gorbachev's failure is substantially worse in light of his loyalty to the cause.
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So
Now that the dust has settled, what the hell happened on january 6th, 2021 again? There was one woman shot dead by capitol police, there was 4 other Trumptards that died that day. Hundreds were injured. One cop later died after being maced only to die of an unrelated cause sometime later. A bunch of obese fat Trumptards stormed the rotunda with Confederate flags. It was like a crappy b movie.
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>be an army of maybe 6,000 commandos
>raid Israel after breaching the Gazan border with motorcycles, pickup trucks and paragliders/hangliders
>armed with broken guns, black market AKs made in some Chinese factory, S5 unguided rockets fired from a makeshift "SAMS" tube made from construction pipes inside buildings to attack low flying helicopters and boats, roadside bombs and so on
>wins and kills 1,200 zionists
>then engages in the bloody Gaza War, which turns the world against Israel, including America and unites the muslim world with now Türkiye coming to Gaza's aide
>after destroying and flattening Gaza and shooting starving children rushing for food, what's left of Hamas is likely in the hundreds compared to tens of thousands prior to the war
>Houthis hijack the Galaxy Leader Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea, taking 25 hostages
>Iran goes to war with Israel in 2024
>Israel goes to war with Hezbollah starting in 2024
>2 US Navy SEALs drown in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Somalia while en route to stop the shipments of Iranian weapons and hardware to the Houthis
>Hezbollah drone strikes Benjamin Netanyahu's house
>Thomas Crooks shoots Donald Trump in the head, nicking his ear, killing an audience member, wounding two others before a Secret Service sniper returned fire and killed him (RIP)
>3 US soldiers are killed in Jordan by a Houthi drone
>Assad's government gets toppled by Ankara-aligned rebels from the FSA
>Iran goes to war with the US in 2024 and 2026
We truly are living in the greatest timeline.
>be an army of maybe 6,000 commandos
>raid Israel after breaching the Gazan border with motorcycles, pickup trucks and paragliders/hangliders
>armed with broken guns, black market AKs made in some Chinese factory, S5 unguided rockets fired from a makeshift "SAMS" tube made from construction pipes inside buildings to attack low flying helicopters and boats, roadside bombs and so on
>wins and kills 1,200 zionists
>then engages in the bloody Gaza War, which turns the world against Israel, including America and unites the muslim world with now Türkiye coming to Gaza's aide
>after destroying and flattening Gaza and shooting starving children rushing for food, what's left of Hamas is likely in the hundreds compared to tens of thousands prior to the war
>Houthis hijack the Galaxy Leader Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea, taking 25 hostages
>Iran goes to war with Israel in 2024
>Israel goes to war with Hezbollah starting in 2024
>2 US Navy SEALs drown in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Somalia while en route to stop the shipments of Iranian weapons and hardware to the Houthis
>Hezbollah drone strikes Benjamin Netanyahu's house
>Thomas Crooks shoots Donald Trump in the head, nicking his ear, killing an audience member, wounding two others before a Secret Service sniper returned fire and killed him (RIP)
>3 US soldiers are killed in Jordan by a Houthi drone
>Assad's government gets toppled by Ankara-aligned rebels from the FSA
>Iran goes to war with the US in 2024 and 2026
We truly are living in the greatest timeline.
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Said thung includes, but is not limited to;
>anti-Russia posting
<(of the "leftist-NATO" kind)
>anti-China posting
<(of the "leftcom" kind)
>Venezuela pessimism posting
<(of the Department of War kind)
>Cuba-skepticism posting
<(of the gusano-type)
…and I could go on, and all of these were blanketed under literal CIA-narratives.
I just want my /leftypol/ comrades to know that we remain STRONK, our behaviour is jungle-like, and we shall never falter.
I love you all uygh@z and I hope you continue to be based as fuck, upholding ML-reality against glowy "leftcom" or "anarchist" distortion of basic facts.
Stay based, my uygh u z!
(That is all.)
Pro-ML & anti-glowy thread
The last few months this board has experienced an increase in growth of literal /glowie/ posting.Said thung includes, but is not limited to;
>anti-Russia posting
<(of the "leftist-NATO" kind)
>anti-China posting
<(of the "leftcom" kind)
>Venezuela pessimism posting
<(of the Department of War kind)
>Cuba-skepticism posting
<(of the gusano-type)
…and I could go on, and all of these were blanketed under literal CIA-narratives.
I just want my /leftypol/ comrades to know that we remain STRONK, our behaviour is jungle-like, and we shall never falter.
I love you all uygh@z and I hope you continue to be based as fuck, upholding ML-reality against glowy "leftcom" or "anarchist" distortion of basic facts.
Stay based, my uygh u z!
(That is all.)
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Why is MAGA so angry all the time? We saw this behavior at Jan 6th, is it just class struggle but being diverted to false conciuous rage?
/rage/
Why does this mentally ill MAGAcuck rage about communists and russian people, like he knows his shit he was talking about brenchev at the end.Why is MAGA so angry all the time? We saw this behavior at Jan 6th, is it just class struggle but being diverted to false conciuous rage?
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Allowing free speech everywhere is good because it keeps Leftists honest and effective. Up until a few years ago, heavy censorship in social media and universities protected Leftists from any pushback which resulted in the creation of extremely retarded and divisive Leftist identity politics. This was deliberately done to ensure the left remained retarded and ineffective.
Now, the Right-wing is slowly being allowed to speak more openly and freely because censorship is not effective in completely silencing them and because there was too much pushback among the Right. So the pressure valve is slowly being released. Events like Musk acquiring Xitter and cancel culture weakening and wokism becoming unpopular even among libs are examples of this.
The ruling class is not afraid of the Right being able to speak their mind, what they are actually afraid is Right-wing ideas and free speech forcing the left to abandon retarded ideologies and beliefs and sharpening their ideological and political outlook to become more rational, and therefore more effective.
This is the missing ingredient that was available in the past and not available until recently. All successful revolutions in the past happened in the context of a heavily right-wing society where the Left had to be extremely smart, rational and hardworking.
Allowing free speech everywhere is good because it keeps Leftists honest and effective. Up until a few years ago, heavy censorship in social media and universities protected Leftists from any pushback which resulted in the creation of extremely retarded and divisive Leftist identity politics. This was deliberately done to ensure the left remained retarded and ineffective.
Now, the Right-wing is slowly being allowed to speak more openly and freely because censorship is not effective in completely silencing them and because there was too much pushback among the Right. So the pressure valve is slowly being released. Events like Musk acquiring Xitter and cancel culture weakening and wokism becoming unpopular even among libs are examples of this.
The ruling class is not afraid of the Right being able to speak their mind, what they are actually afraid is Right-wing ideas and free speech forcing the left to abandon retarded ideologies and beliefs and sharpening their ideological and political outlook to become more rational, and therefore more effective.
This is the missing ingredient that was available in the past and not available until recently. All successful revolutions in the past happened in the context of a heavily right-wing society where the Left had to be extremely smart, rational and hardworking.
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This is important because Davis is a monster who has been far WORSE than Epstein and is a much bigger and more sinister criminal
Davis is one of the most powerful men in the music industry, and there's been rumours for years that he's has been involved in loads of shady shit like running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in music industry history. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Plus there is a huge number of musicians whose deaths he was certainly involved in (Janis Joplin, Donny Hathaway, Phyllis Hyman, Luther Vandros, Aaliyah, Left Eye, Whitney Houston, Angie Stone and even Prince). Some say he has CIA connections. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything
Davis buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. But it gets deeper. Clive Davis is a member of the Study Group (Mega Group), a secretive inner circle of powerful Jewish billionaires. This same organization funded Jeffrey Epstein and gave him his elite connections. We know Epstein was a Mossad agent who was getting blackmail material on the rich and powerful so they’d keep making pro-Israel policies. There is no doubt Clive Davis was absolutely using Diddy to get blackmail material on rappers and pop stars so that they’d stay in-line identical to Epstein. And the Study Group was behind it all.
Davis is also a gigantic Zionist and owns a school at NYU (where criticizing Zionism is against university policy).
Given all this, will Davis finally be exposed on his deathbed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxuR1H7US_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClzGRCoGlWc
One of America's most powerful porkies near death
Clive Davis was rushed to the hospital for lung issues and may not survive another day.This is important because Davis is a monster who has been far WORSE than Epstein and is a much bigger and more sinister criminal
Davis is one of the most powerful men in the music industry, and there's been rumours for years that he's has been involved in loads of shady shit like running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in music industry history. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Plus there is a huge number of musicians whose deaths he was certainly involved in (Janis Joplin, Donny Hathaway, Phyllis Hyman, Luther Vandros, Aaliyah, Left Eye, Whitney Houston, Angie Stone and even Prince). Some say he has CIA connections. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything
Davis buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. But it gets deeper. Clive Davis is a member of the Study Group (Mega Group), a secretive inner circle of powerful Jewish billionaires. This same organization funded Jeffrey Epstein and gave him his elite connections. We know Epstein was a Mossad agent who was getting blackmail material on the rich and powerful so they’d keep making pro-Israel policies. There is no doubt Clive Davis was absolutely using Diddy to get blackmail material on rappers and pop stars so that they’d stay in-line identical to Epstein. And the Study Group was behind it all.
Davis is also a gigantic Zionist and owns a school at NYU (where criticizing Zionism is against university policy).
Given all this, will Davis finally be exposed on his deathbed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxuR1H7US_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClzGRCoGlWc
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Is this cope?
I cope with globalization's destruction of the labor movement by pretending that we have reached the global Lewis turning point. There's just not that big of s global latent reserve army anymore. The capitalists will still be evil but now they will have to explicitly use force or develop technology more in order to exploit us.