Catalog (/sfw/)

Epstein Thread

Since there have been new doc releases and recent new exposures of notorious child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his activities with Israeli intelligence, Donald Trump, Ehud Barak, (former) Prince Andrew, Peter Thiel, and various ops, corporate states, and world governments, and with new information now coming very fast, I thought I'd create a new thread just to collect more of this new stuff in one place, as well as to potentially add previously released info which might be getting memory holed.

Iran War Thread

It's coming in days. Weeks tops. Since the end of the 12 day long Imposed War, the US & Israel have been recuperating, eagerly scheming another attack on Iran since the last one backfired. The EU has played along with this scheme, collaborating with the US and Israel to restore sanctions against Iran, a continued act of aggressive economic warfare.

U.S. Secretary of "Defense" Pete Hegseth has recently called an "unprecedented" number of high ranking U.S. military officials to meet in Virginia for an undisclosed purpose, and in the same week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump.

This is a thread for discussing this war as soon as it kicks off, and the lead-up to it.

/Bolivia/

BOLIVIA ELECTION THREAD
Menshevick implosion edition

This sunday is the election in the land that as Rome didn't called itself Romulus had to call itself Bolivia instead of Bolivar.

Official IRC

Hello everyone. I am making this post to announce the establishment of the leftychan official IRC network: irc.leftychan.net/6697 #leftychan
It took about a days worth of work but we finally managed to get her up and running. We plan to establish a bridge connection in the future to the matrix and fbi.gov chats and possibly a massive bridge room too. Also I2P service is coming in the future. So, come join us, anon! It sure would be nice having you around the IRC!

CPUSA thread

https://cpusa.org/article/imperialism-hurts-workers-everywhere-including-here-in-the-usa/
Imperialism hurts workers everywhere, including here in the USA – Communist Party USA

Genocide

The Netanyahu Israeli government rained down U.S.-made bombs provided by Biden on Gaza killing over 40 thousand Palestinians 80 percent of whom are women and children, destroying most housing, hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, churches, industry, farms. Wantonly killing health care and aid workers, Israel’s siege starves Palestinians of food, water, medicines, sanitation and electricity. Now Trump wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza and turn it into a resort.


Assassinations

On the African continent Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara, Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Guinea-Bissau’s Amilcar Cabral were all overthrown and assassinated to assist the continued transnational theft of each country’s resources.


Blockades

The Cuban people are now suffering from severe poverty because U.S. sanctions on their country make it extremely difficult for Cuba to import sorely needed fuel, food and medical equipment.


Immigration

Poverty and instability lead millions to uproot their families and migrate out of Africa, Asia and the Americas for the sake of their own survival.


Back home

Poverty has become the 4th leading cause of death in the United States, responsible for 295,000 deaths a year – or over 800 deaths a day.

What is the root cause of these wide-ranging atrocities and many other examples of suffering and injustice?
It’s called U.S. imperialism.

Imperialism is the inevitable outgrowth of putting profits before people and nature. It is advanced monopoly capitalism’s economic, political, diplomatic, social and cultural control of society by the richest corporations to control governments, markets, resources and labor, defiling the earth with pollution to extract maximum profits. Those profits benefit the billionaire class while destroying the planet at the expense of the vast majority.

Imperialism foments direct and proxy wars by pitting countries against each other, e.g. Ukraine and Russia. The goal? To gain markets, appropriate Ukraine’s farmland and minerals along with stealing Russia’s natural resources and ensuring low labor costs.

Imperialism also includes financial, trade and industrial policies often implemented through US control of global institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that disadvantage the poorer, less powerful countries and benefit only the wealthiest monopoly corporations and individuals, who attempt exclusive control over markets. Importantly, these policies also immiserate the U.S. working class.

Examples of these monopoly corporations are the weapons contractors – Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, Boeing and General Dynamics; fossil fuel giants – Chevron, Exxon, BP, and Shell; financial institutions – JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo; and hedge funds like Bridgewater and BlackRock. Monopolization also includes pharmaceuticals and high tech.

The billionaires and their companies have bought lock, stock and barrel many of the political candidates on our ballots.

The names of the richest billionaires are well known: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison. These capitalists and others make decisions that affect the lives of billions of people, although we have no vote in the matter. The billionaires and their companies have bought lock, stock and barrel many of the political candidates on our ballots.

These trillion-dollar corporations control much of the world. In 1917, V.I. Lenin called imperialism “The highest stage of capitalism.” Since Lenin’s time imperialism has become more global. Capital is still exported and internationally sourced supply chains are prevalent. Banks and high-tech companies dominate much of the world economy. While the U.S. is the premier imperial power, the E.U. and Japan are next, kept secondary by the U.S. Current imperialism is being challenged by emerging powers, socialist and capitalist, in an increasingly multipolar planet.

In today’s world, state-supported monopoly capitalism and imperialism are essentially the same thing. For us in the United States, fighting imperialism means fighting the capitalists here at home who keep a tight rein on politics, the economy, and maximum profits.
Do working people in the United States benefit from imperialism?

No! Taxpayer money spent on imperialist wars abroad in Ukraine, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and other regions, and on maintaining more than 800 military bases worldwide, almost entirely benefits the armaments industry and other wealthy corporate sectors. The $1.2 trillion military budget, which is 60 percent or more of the Congressional budget, wastes critical resources that could be spent to end poverty, provide housing, health care, infrastructure and all our other essential needs. To survive, workers in our country have to join workers abroad to fight to transition to an alternative, green, peaceful economy, ensuring workers in all industries affected have jobs, appropriate training, or income.

The violence of mass shootings on our streets and by our institutions echoes the mass killings of war that our government wages in other countries. It reflects the “might makes right” mentality, misogyny, and racism imposed by U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. has become the prisonhouse of nations, incarcerating more individuals – disproportionately people of color – than any other nation. Special oppression based on skin color, national origin, sex, and gender divides workers, sapping opportunities and income from the whole working class. Violence meted out to the environment results from the imperative of fossil fuel and other corporations to gain maximum profits and hurts all of us. It generates rapid climate change. It exacerbates environmental injustice to our working class and in particular, people of color.

The U.S. is the richest and most powerful country in history, but living standards are declining with stagnant incomes, unaffordable and substandard housing, education and health care, crumbling infrastructure and increasing insecurity. The extreme right blames the decline in living standards on immigrants entering the southern border and on countries like China, which has gained strength as an economic powerhouse. But these are racist and anti-communist lies. Living standards and the economy for the majority began stagnating in the early 1970s, long before China industrialized. The big capitalists in the U.S. found great profits in moving industries abroad – to China, Mexico, Bangladesh, Indonesia, etc. – to take advantage of their low wages, while destroying domestic manufacturing. These oligarchs are the culprits responsible for the loss of good jobs in the U.S.

Yet rather than cooperating or even accepting a challenge to compete economically our ruling class has chosen to demonize China to prevent its further development and to counter its projects that economically develop the poorer nations with sanctions, trade embargoes and military threats.

Wealthy corporations and individuals almost exclusively benefit from imperialism. As many of us worry whether we’ll have a job to pay the rent, be able to send our kids to college or trade school, be able to cover medical costs, or pay the inflated price of food, the super rich have increased their wealth by leaps and bounds since the Great Recession of 2008. In 2019 the top 10 percent of families owned 76 percent of the country’s wealth. Between 2020-2022 during the height of the Covid pandemic, billionaire wealth grew by $1.5 trillion – more than $2 billion a day For working families, it’s getting worse.

Keeping people in other countries in poverty undercuts the position of the U.S. working class because it motivates corporate outsourcing. We should demonstrate solidarity with all workers everywhere to abolish poverty for good everywhere. We must actively support people in poorer countries who rise up to demand better economic conditions and civil and political rights because their enemy is our enemy and their struggle is our struggle! Communist say: “Workers and oppressed peoples of all countries, unite!”


Demands:

In the Israel–Gaza conflict, we demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire and a massive influx of humanitarian aid leading to a just solution for Palestinians and Israelis. We demand that Israel and its supporters abide by International Law as reiterated by the World Court: End Apartheid, end the wars and occupation, remove the settlements and settlers from stolen territory, and allow all refugees to return to historic Palestine.

We demand an end to all U.S. sanctions against Cuba. Immediately remove Cuba from the bogus “State Sponsor of Terrorism” list. Normalize relations with Cuba, which terrorizes no one but is the victim of U.S. terrorism for over 60 years.

We demand that the U.S. stop interfering in Venezuela’s internal affairs, remove sanctions and return stolen Venezuelan property to the Venezuelan people. End all illegal U.S. sanctions on the dozens of other countries targeted by the U.S. capitalist class.

We demand a peaceful, diplomatic resolution of the war in Ukraine. Stop NATO’s expansion and move to abolish it.

We demand the U.S. military stop threats against China and stop rebuilding bases in the Philippines. Close the anti-China THAAD missile system in South Korea, the military bases in Okinawa, and throughout the Indo-Pacific. Dismantle the several aggressive Indo-Asia-Pacific military pacts like AUKUS and the Quad. Reverse the economic wars against China; instead prioritize cooperation on climate, economic, health, and infrastructure.

We demand an end to first-strike nuclear war policies. Sign and abide by treaties to abolish and dismantle all nuclear weapons everywhere.

We demand the prompt and radical cuts to the bloated military budget. Use the money saved to meet people’s needs and transition workers to green jobs.

First Wave Black Metal Thread

Thread for the thinking man's music.
(speed-black metal / blackened thrash / oldschool first wave black metal / etc.)

Punk

PUNK!!!

Folk music

Anyone fond of it?

Sad, Ghostly Country

Dark country, Gothic Country, ominous depressing old country, depressing country songs, haunting western, death country, eerie country murder ballads… whathaveyou. Post it here!

Black Metal thread

Thread for kvlt shit

The collapse of America is funny to see Bush was Trajan

Black Sabbath "War Pigs"

Old Heavy Metal.

Power Rock

Thread for power rock, propulsive music for working out, cardio, lifting, etc.

Power rock, metal, punk, etc.

Related threads:
>>729
>Upbeat Heavy Metal

>>474
>Speed Metal Hell

>>1212
>Thrash Metal Attack

>>904
>Old Heavy Metal

>>789
>PUNK!!!

>>823
>Big dumb pub hard rock

>>850
>Beatdown Hardcore

>>525
>dance music thread

>>>/hobby/15840
>/fit/ general - Builtfat Edition

Palestine Thread Pt. X

Continued from >>490646

Updates and current status since the start of the last thread:
(largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 70,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

Italian workers' unions launched a massive general strike in October over the shipping of weapons through Italian ports which are being used in Israel's genocide, and launched another strike in November.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Israel unilaterally broke the ceasefire. In October 2025, another ceasefire and prisoner exchange was agreed upon in Gaza, and Israel has proceeded to kill over 300 Palestinians in Gaza since agreeing. Israel has also refused to allow the agreed-upon amount of aid into Gaza.

Israel attacked Iran utilizing a large number of assets embedded in Iran, killing multiple scientists and high ranking Iranian military officials, as well as targeting schools, hospitals, oil assets, and a TV station. Around one thousand Iranians were killed in Israel's strikes on civilian targets like residential buildings. Iran retaliated with a series of waves of missile and drone attacks which hit multiple Israeli military targets including IDF HQ, Mossad HQ, as well as an Israeli oil field. After an Iranian strike on Unit 8200, the number of online Zionist apologists conspicuously reduced for a while. The Israeli government, embarrassed by the damage to Tel Aviv, heavily censored footage and reporting of Iranian strikes on Israel, resulting in the Israeli police arresting journalists and citizens for filming sites of impact, while rich Israelis fled by boat due to the closure of Ben-Gurion airport. Iran began a crackdown on Israeli terror cells, finding and closing multiple Mossad-linked covert drone factories, as well as reportedly arresting groups of Afghan nationals involved in sabotage, and multiple individuals reportedly linked to German & Indian spy agencies.

The US launched airstrikes against multiple Iranian nuclear energy sites, followed by Iran retaliating with a strike on a US airbase in Qatar. A ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been in place since shortly after this, with expectations being that Israel intends to recouperate and try again with more direct US involvement.

The US mercenary front called the GHF has reportedly disbanded.

Israel has continued to violate the ceasefire with Lebanon more than 1000 times, and has refused to leave the country entirely after multiple delays. Israel again returned to bombing Beirut in November.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel has since attacked and continued to occupy Syria with no retaliation, as well as abducting and displacing Syrian citizens while the Syrian government targets only Syrians and Lebanon.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden invited Yoav Gallant to the White House, and the Trump administration invited Netanyahu to the White House multiple times.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join. Nicaragua has withdrawn from the case.

Following the October agreement in Gaza, Yemeni Ansar Allah attacks in solidarity with Gaza have temporarily ceased.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK. Palestine Action broke into a UK military base, damaging two planes of a type which the UK government has used to aid in Israel's genocide of Palestine. Following this, the UK government under Starmer proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group, despite direct action being a legal form of protest in the UK. Hundreds of arrests have followed, and continued for months over people holding placards.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration has started unlawfully abducting students for protest and opposition to genocide. The administration has threatened to deport these students, and has gone after university funding in an effort to suppress anti-genocide speech on campuses and control the narrative. Mahmoud Khalil was later released.

Israel attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla boats, abducting their crews in Palestinian waters and subjecting many to torture.

In June, the Global March to Gaza, a peaceful humanitarian mission to get aid into Gaza through the Egyptian Rafah crossing, was blocked by the US-backed El-Sisi government. Hundreds of marchers were arrested and harrassed at the crossing by the Egyptian military.

Israel's former top military lawyer, major general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was arrested by Israel after leaking a video of the IDF gang raping Palestinian detainees, which was seen by the Israeli state as bad PR.

And much, much more!

South East Asia

Why did Australia not have a Communist movement like most of SEA did? Why were Thailand and Malaysia able to resist Communists?
Was the region of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia the primary red corridor? What happens in Indonesia? I know Suharto murdered communists, but nothing more. Are there regions with more Communists?
Is Myanmar doomed? Do they have a Chinese elite like Thailand does? How was the Filipino government so successful in repressing the Communists?

Speed Metal Hell

YOU KNOW WHAT FUCKING TIME IT IS

Christmas Music

Seasons yuletide festive holiday greetings from the land of tinseltrees!

Death Metal

Death Metal, Death'n'Roll, etc.

Trump to host Netanyahu at White House on December 29: Israeli government

Per AJ:
"United States President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on December 29, according to an Israeli government spokesperson.

The announcement on Monday did not provide any further details of the planned meeting, which the pair had tentatively announced last week."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/8/trump-to-host-netanyahu-at-white-house-on-december-29-israeli-government

In July of 2024, some 30,000 people came to DC to demand Mileikowsky's arrest - it's never been a matter of numbers. Americans definitively have the numbers to end this Holocaust, to end the impunity, to drag the tyrants out of their holes & mansions and hang them from heights corresponding to their elevated hubris. This is the only appropriate response to the genocide and to the war which has been waged upon the American workers for opposing it; the only appropriate response to the espionage, the gas, the beating, the mass arrests and disappearances, the masked secret police abducting exchange students off the street for writing papers saying "don't kill children."

Had even 1/10th those 30,000 marchers in July of 2024 taken direct action instead of marching in circles, history would have been changed. This war would no longer be so one-sided - the desperate censorship and crackdowns pursued by the tyrannical quislings in the Starmer & Trump clown regimes would not continue without opposition. Just one thousand men armed cheaply could sufficiently overwhelm police; armed less cheaply, they could do even better. Every multiplication of that thousand increases the odds of success and increases the amount of informants and traitors which would be necessary in order to stop them from succeeding. And here were 30,000 - who marched around town in the heat shouting slogans until they were tired, and who were attacked by cops with gas anyway.

Every bit of numeric strength which is required to take power from global genocidal pigs and to distribute power among the people is here, available to the American movement. For now, knowledge is at our fingertips. That won't be true forever.

Grindcore / Deathgrind / Goregrind, etc. generall

Thread for stupid extreme grind-based music.

Venezuela mobilizes 4.5 million militia members as US deploys troops to the Caribbean

Maduro activates Bolivarian National Militia in response to US “threats”, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence.
President Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday, August 18, that he is activating “over 4.5 million militia members across the entire national territory” of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in response to the US deployment of three Navy guided-missile destroyers and 4,000 military personnel to the Caribbean. The White House has described the deployment as an anti-drug trafficking operation in the region, while some analysts have called it a new threat against Venezuela – the country with the largest oil reserves in the world.

The US military deployment comes after Washington raised its bounty on the Venezuelan president from USD 25 million to USD 50 million, alleging links to drug cartels.

The “extravagant, bizarre, and outlandish threats” of the United States have been firmly rejected by the Venezuelan government.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Yván Gil described the accusations as a sign of desperation, revealing Washington’s “lack of credibility and the failure of its policies in the region”. He also pointed out that Venezuela has made major gains against drug trafficking after expelling the United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) – who many Venezuelans call “the planet’s chief drug traffickers” – from the country in 2005.

No US agency or international body has produced concrete evidence of drug production and distribution being concentrated in Venezuela or linked to Maduro. In fact, available global drug data makes almost no mention of the Caribbean nation or the alleged “Cartel of Suns” at all. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the epicenter of activity is in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, with the US identified as the main destination for distribution, recording the highest level of drug consumption in the world.

UNODC data reports that only 5% of Colombian drugs transit through Venezuela, and that the country is free of coca leaf cultivation, and marijuana and cocaine processing. The Trump administration, on the other hand, has maintained its position that the Venezuelan government is a “narco-terror cartel”.

Venezuela mobilizes as the US bares its teeth
Last week, mass protests across Venezuela denounced the “interventionist policies of the US government” following the bounty increase on Maduro and the accusation of cartel ties. However, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the deployment of US troops to the region on August 14. On Tuesday, August 19, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked if the administration was open to “boots on the ground” in Venezuela, to which she responded, “[Trump] is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country.”

This week, Venezuela’s “prepared, activated, and armed” militia members are being deployed “throughout the entire territory, and meticulously, sector by sector”, as part of what the government is calling a peace plan to defend the principles of sovereignty and shared economic development.

“The Bolivarian National Militia is the people in arms, it is the genuine expression of civic-military union,” said Maduro in 2019, as he announced the incorporation of the militia that Hugo Chávez created – which has surged to nearly 5 million members, according to the government – into the Armed Forces as an official “combat unit”.

“We are also deployed throughout the Caribbean,” Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello reminded the public. “Our sea, which is Venezuelan territory.”

The Venezuelan government is not alone in speaking out against the escalation of tensions in the Caribbean. When asked about the US military deployment during a regular press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico’s message to the region is, “No to interventionism. This is not just a conviction, it’s in the Constitution.”

To this day, the US does not recognize President Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela, claiming that opposition figure Edmundo González is the true president. In the months following the election, Washington targeted dozens of officials in the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) and other government departments with sanctions and visa bans, on top of the long-standing US economic blockade of the Bolivarian nation.

Despite the mounting pressure, Venezuelan officials are confident that the nation can defend its sovereignty. “It’s not about Maduro, it’s about the ordinary people, the people in the neighborhoods, the communities,” says Nahum Fernández, head of government in Caracas.

“This country belongs to Venezuelans; in the face of any threat, the Venezuelan people will not remain silent.”

How in fuck did Troon shit become completely uncriticizable for much of the left?

>Theory is completely, laughably incoherent and contradictory from one position to the next
>Largely ignores most Marxist and Materialist Feminist positions on gender development
>Largely ignores the role of biological sex.
>Can't even answer basic questions in regards to the theory or identity
>Slippery slopes to absolutely absurd positions that again run contradictory to their standard positions.
>Arguments largely 1:1 the same as gay conversion therapy
>Response to any questions is just calling people "TERF"'s and crybullying like Zionists.
>No meaningful response to why if gender/sex is a metaphysical social role, why you can't be transracial or even transspecies, is furry a legitimate identity?
>Largely ignore the fact that huge amounts of Troons are in fact, predatory sociopaths.
>Largely ignore the rampant misogyny in the movement.
>Rampant hypocrisy in arguments (Noo you side with elites if you are anti-Troon, but also Troons are totally justified because US big pharma says so!)
>Ignores AGP and claim it's just a troonphobic myth by blanchard despite almost half of troons openly identify as it and it being one of the most popular fetishes out there among men.
>The insanely creepy way Troons usually talk about feminity, and they overwhelmingly dominate Bimbofication and other extremely degrading/humiliating women fetish communities.
>If Children are fully self aware, fully developed in self identity and in full self control and understanding of their self and their gender and sexual identity.. isn't this exactly what NAMBLA argues? It's also clearly absurd as dissociative disorders and personality disorders and dysphoric distorders are not even diagnosed in children generally for OBVIOUS FUCKING REASONS.
>Hormones are in fact, super dangerous to fuck around with https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44192-025-00216-3
>Can't even define what a woman or man is.
>Largely moves to actually reinforce gender norms in almost a parody way.
>Muh trans genocide despite it's been debunked repeatedly over the years. Brianna Ghey was literally also murdered over drugs.
and frankly, on and on, there is so many ways you can just rip on Gender ideology bullshit it's endless and that is kind of my point, why in hell has a position, that anybody who has any basic Critical thinking skills, can basically tear to shreads with complete ease, that is completely incoherent and relies largely just on gish galloping, bizarre claims usually about women, very fringe disorders that don't even function in the way they think it does and has no relevence (intersex) and then just crybullying, become like raison d'etat for like most of the Western left? It's honestly fucking cultish the way /tttt/ shit is treated by so much of the left, and watching my pretty autistic, gooner friends start trooning out, it literally exactly felt like they were sucked in by a cult, they even started talking like how you think cultists would talk.
What the actual fuck?

USApol Thread

Big massive thread for American politics.

"Moderate rebels" retake Aleppo

Syrian rebels enter Aleppo three days into surprise offensive
Insurgents had recaptured territory around Syria’s second city with civilians including children killed in fighting

Islamist insurgents have entered Syria’s second city of Aleppo in a shock assault, eight years after forces loyal to Damascus seized control of the city.

Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began a major offensive earlier this week from their base in the Idlib countryside, a slim strip of land in Syria’s north-west. It took only three days for the fighting to reach Aleppo, with insurgents capturing territory around the city’s outskirts for the first time in four years as Syrian government forces pummelled rebel-held areas.

Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency reported on Friday afternoon that the insurgents had entered Aleppo, while unverified images and video circulating online showed armoured vehicles and armed uniformed militants on its streets. The Associated Press said residents reported hearing missiles striking its outskirts.

The fighting over the last three days had killed 27 civilians, including eight children, David Carden, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told Reuters.

The rebels have rapidly recaptured dozens of towns and villages in the Aleppo countryside, seizing a military base, weaponry and tanks from Syrian government forces, while some Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups based elsewhere in north-west Syria joined the fighting.

The UN said Syrian government forces based in Damascus carried out at least 125 airstrikes and shelled areas across Idlib and western Aleppo controlled by the rebels in response to the offensive, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 46 others, and displacing 14,000 people.

Syria has been promised extra Russian military aid to help the army thwart the assault, two Syrian military sources told Reuters on Saturday. Damascus expects new Russian military hardware to start arriving at Russia’s Hmeimim airbase near Syria’s coastal city of Latakia in the next 72 hours, the sources added.

HTS said on Friday that it had captured four more towns including Mansoura, five miles from the centre of Aleppo. Syria’s state news agency said four civilians were killed inside student accommodation in the city when it was struck by projectiles from insurgent forces.

“The regime’s lines of defence have crumbled, I think they were taken aback. No one anticipated how fast the rebels would reach towards the edge of Aleppo,” said Dareen Khalifa, of the nonprofit International Crisis Group.

She added that it remained unclear whether the rebel forces would be able to hold the swath of captured territory, or how Russian forces backing the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus may respond.

Turkey’s foreign ministry called for calm in the region around Idlib, demanding an end to the strikes on the area. “It is of utmost importance for Turkey that yet another and greater instability is avoided and civilians are not harmed,” it said.

…

A delicate balance of power in Syria has been increasingly tested over the past year, however, amid increasing regional fallout from Israel’s battle with the Iranian proxy group Hamas in Gaza.

Israel has dramatically escalated airstrikes against Iranian forces stationed on the ground in Syria, carrying out more than 116 strikes on Syrian territory, according to the UN, and killing more than 100 people, while recent fighting in Lebanon has forced 500,000 people to flee into neighbouring Syria.

The increasing Israeli strikes have put Iranian forces in Syria on the defensive, allowing rebels to exploit a moment where various proxy forces backing Assad are more engaged elsewhere.

Khalifa said Moscow remained focused primarily on the fighting in Ukraine. “The Russians are distracted in Ukraine. They are less invested politically if not military in Syria,” she said. “It’s difficult to tell what the result of this offensive is going to be. The rebels think the other side is vulnerable, and they have leverage.”

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday that Moscow regarded the rebel attack as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty and wanted the authorities to act fast to regain control.

Turkey, which backs rebel groups along Syria’s northern border but has sought recently to normalise relations with Assad, is yet to publicly intervene in the latest round of fighting.

HTS said it would target Iranian forces fighting alongside Syrian government troops as part of the latest offensive. Iran’s Tasnim news agency said a commander from the Revolutionary Guards was killed in western Aleppo late this week.

The fighting and airstrikes appeared to paralyse much of the fragile network of services across rebel-held territory in Idlib, forcing the closure of health services and other infrastructure that sustain millions seeking shelter there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/syrian-rebels-launch-surprise-attack-on-aleppo

Baltics

What is the actual deal with these retarded states? Is everyone who lives here just a completely 24/7 propagandized zombie? Are they all just ruled through an iron fist by a NATO-imposed oligarchy? Is there any possible hope for these basket cases to ever reclaim their sanity?

Old style country

Traditional country, Oldtime, Bluegrass, Western Swing, etc.

Русский народ - народ скотов, рабов и выблядков. Еще 150 лет назад русских рабов-крепостных обменивали на породистых собак, причем 1 собака стоила нескольких русских. Народ, который создан для того, чтобы быть рабами, который без \"твердой руки\" превращается в обнаглевших, но трусливых тварей, которые совершают самые ужасные зверства в своей свободе.
Русские молодые люди: парни и девушки. Парни - трусливые куски дерьма, выблядки, пьющие ягу, безграмотная пища биореактора, гордящаяся своим уебанством.
Русские девушки (если их можно так назвать) - грязные и потасканные бляди, ебущиеся с 12 лет и сосущие хуи у чурбанов. Гордятся своим блядством, выставляют его напоказ.
Русские мужчины недостойны называться мужчинами. Нечистоплотные скоты, которые могут пить лишь водку и бить лишь своих детей и жен.
Вывод: Русские - вонючие скоты, белые негры, скоро вы все выродитесь и останетесь в истории как нация самых отвратительных и безобразных двуногих существ.

Music

Only post bops.

Psychedelic Rock

Thread for psychedelic rock

Galloway Thread

I keep finding myself wanting to post MOATS episodes, but they typically cover so much ground that I don't know where to post them. So here's a thread for discussion of Mother Of All Talk Shows episodes, George Galloway, and the Workers' Party in general.

Today's episode attached - Galloway covers Venezuela, Yemeni retaliations hitting "Israeli" airports, speculates that Iran may respond to "Israeli" threats (in light of previous attacks) with a strike, and more!

WAR GAMES | Pentagon re-named | Venezuela threatened | Russia advances | MOATS LIVE

Ukraine 3.0

Last one is full and the worst thread on leftychan must be contained.

In recent news: Ukies done a successful counteroffensive in Izium, Z gang now in shambles. Biden promises even more money for Ukraine. Putin meets Xi, Erdogan, Modi and others at the SCO summit.


Pro-Russia sources:
https://nitter.net/RWApodcast
https://nitter.net/mdfzeh
https://nitter.net/AZmilitary1
https://nitter.net/wargonzoo
https://nitter.net/TheHumanFund5
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/vorposte

Pro-Ukraine sources:
Everywhere else

Keir Starmer

this fuckin piece of shit this no good fuckin walking genocidal goiter with hair & teeth
if this piece of shit showed up in my neighborhood I'd shove him in a garbage pail and throw it off the nearest cliff
I'm embarrassed to have even saved his pic for this thread I'm gonna immediately delete it after I post this

What do you think of him, /leftypol/?

making a resme

I haven't made a resume in years. I am looking for a new job because the mill has become an oppressive nightmare and i refuse to work there. Can you guys help me with my resume? What website can i go to to use an outline?

American Communist Party /ACP/ General

Party declaration:
https://x.com/ACPMain/status/1815163785134436404

The American Communist Party (ACP) is an organization which aims to reconstitute the historic Communist Party USA, which has become corrupted by federal agents and liberal forces. Look no further than Joe Sims, who supports the genocidal Democratic Party. It was launched in July of 2024, in response to the events of the 32nd Convention of the CPUSA. At this convention, party leadership subverted and betrayed democratic centralism and the freedom of critique which is supposed to follow from it. They claimed to be a genuine Marxist-Leninist party, but the leadership doesn't even follow their own rules. The CPUSA delayed all elections and without a vote made a resolution that they’d basically just campaign for Democrats. Just a bunch of boomers sitting around and writing articles about identity politics rather than organizing.

Already the ACP is far more successful than anyone would have expected from a brand new baby party. They are building reputation locally, taking care of their own communities and making areas safe for children and families to enjoy. Diplomatic ties on the international level have already been established. ACP has garnered more attention in the past couple months than the corrupt, decadent CPUSA leadership has in decades. A huge number of the CPUSA clubs across the entire country had a huge part in making this happen. Will you join up?

Website:
https://acp.us/

Book search engine

Here's a book search engine:
http://nabilagregjcw4j3wpaq5yrbe3rl3cgpmwsgshlw7xvk4uczhsf6ouqd.onion/

lesbian porn

WHY IS LESBIAN PORN SO HAWWWTTTT.
(Lesbian porn/hentai thread)

What is your thoughts on 'gig economy'? What if socialism looked like a 'gig economy'?

what is the point?

Unless you find your dream job and strike it rich, what is the point? To eventually get a house which you don’t even really own? Yours always paying shit anyways. Would rather play Overwatch.

Upbeat Heavy Metal

Thread for upbeat & anthemic metal for lifting, cardio, etc.

More about this game?

I recently saw someone post about the ABOMELOK0408 game that was from the dark web around 2024, I don't know if people are still talking about it or looking for it; If someone previously downloaded that game is unknown. But the person that made the iceberg was some reddit user, I assume they are seeking information about it, what I know about ABOMELOK0408 is that it was made with Godot Engine and it was made by a Snapchat user that distributed it! It contains a lot of viruses, The creator gives her Snapchat name and QR code if you search carefully, She does this for people to ask her questions about it if they have any. She admitted to making the game again you can find that in search results, I highlighted ABOMELOK0408 in yellow, one reddit user asked what it was about and the creator of the iceberg said there's not a lot of information; I know this game was distributed on the TOR network but I didn't bother to download it.

Hi I am from the soysphere and I’m wondering if there could be a /leftysoy/ board here.
Context: https://wiki.soyjak.st/Leftysoy/

The board formerly existed on soyjak.st until it was eventually deleted because of bourgeoisiecucks, I have also been exiled from the new administration on the site and some of the soysphere for bullshit reasons.

I would like a new /leftysoy/ and I think it would bring in many users for the site too

Oldschool R&B and Soul

Thread for ancient Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Black Gospel, New Orleans R&B, Doo Wop, you name it - that stuff from the '50s and '60s, the really old style stuff.

Thrash Metal Attack

A thread for thrash metal, power thrashing death, brutal thrash, Bay Area Thrash, melothrash, Teutonic Thrash, Brazilian Trash Metal, crossover thrash, doomthrash, and all the various kinds of thrash for cardio, lifting, and all your thrashing needs!

Gothic Rock & Post-Punk

Substituted psychedelia for a doomed planet.

What can be done to advertise leftychan and get more users? I'm sick of all new users being sent to .orge and thinking Leftypol is a bunch of histeronic hyper-authoritarian BPD troons.
Leftychan in it's current state is functionally dead. We get maybe like 5-10 unique posts in a day.

Eastern film thread!!!

What's your favorite eastern movie anon?
I recently watched the Turkish film "The color of pomegranates" (which follows the story of poet Sayat-Nova) really great film, instantly spiked to one of my favorites of all time, even if I'm still yet to rewatch it.
That left me thinking, what is YOUR favorite eastern movie and why? I feel like some of the biggest gems in cinema history are hidden in the middle east and south-east Asia, what do you think?

The AI bubble

They're calling it the biggest bubble in US history, bigger than the dot com bubble of the '90s or any other bubble. When it pops, it will likely be disastrous. When will it pop?

Related threads:
>>456057
>>488544

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Garage Rock

Thread for rock of the garage variety.

Once the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution begins

In the future Global USSR, all Women will be given 60 days to get their Hair Cut/Chopped/Shaved off, either at home or at a People’s Barbershop by Female International Red Guards, and once the 60 day window passes, Female (Mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards will patrol the streets looking for Women with Reactionary Bourgeois Patriarchal Hair styles (anything longer then a Pixie Cut), and if/when they find one, they will Shave her head, have her walk through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, attend a Struggle Session wearing a placard that says Revisionist/Bourgeois/Reactionary/Patriarchal, and send her to a Re-Education Camp to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, so She can become a Liberated Socialist Woman and begin traveling the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️💇‍♀️👩‍🦲!

Will this really happen to people from Gaza?

UnitedHealthcare CEO neutralized in New York

Police search for gunman after Brian Thompson, 50, killed in Manhattan in ‘brazen targeted attack’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/04/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-what-we-know-so-far

BreakThrough News: LIVE 2025 Wrap: War on Venezuela, Gaza Genocide, Syria After Assad, and MORE

Live NOW!

1PM EST
On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 12/18 at 1pm ET, Rania Khalek and special guest host Zoe Alexandra are joined by special guests:

Vijay Prashad, journalist, historian and director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, joins the show for a 2025 year-end wrap-up, spanning Trump’s pivot to Latin America, the war in Ukraine, Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the ongoing U.S.-China trade war.

Elijah Magnier, veteran war correspondent and political analyst, joins the show to discuss Syria one year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the recent ISIS attack on U.S. soldiers.

Katie Halper, podcaster and political commentator, joins the show to discuss Israel’s politicization and weaponization of the Bondi Beach mass shooting in Australia.

Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra discuss Trump’s escalating attacks on Venezuela and Cuba, and what this means for the rest of the region.

Zohran Mamdani wins in NYC

Zohran has won the New York City mayoral race today, beating Netanyahu's lawyer & famous sex pest Andy Cummo as well as respectable feline loving Maoist 3rd Worldist Curtis Sliwa. Discuss.
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This stuff has been going crazy lately. What do you think of it?

What material conditions gave rise to this?

What are the actual, materialist basis for this?

/pcb/ - Polcompball General

Thank you to all the autists at PCB for writing down every irrelevant political movement known to mankind.

Discuss the wiki and post the articles, comics and animations you found funny or interesting.

Link to the wiki:
https://polcompball.wikitide.org/wiki/Main_Page

Link to the PCBA wiki:
https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Link to the subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Polcompball/

Link to the PCBA subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Polcompballanarchy/

Bruh, these liberals

just create the breeding ground for the next supervirus that will wipe out the planet.
https://www.parriva.com/flesh-eating-bacteria-surge-in-california-what-you-need-to-know/
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Surge in California: What You Need to Know
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/flesh-eating-zombie-drug-saturating-los-angeles-streets/

https://www.calhealthreport.org/2016/03/21/19002/
Crowding on Skid Row Creates a Breeding Ground for Illnesses

Anti-Imperialism thread

Let the ruling Elites LGBT-westoids tremble at an anti-imperialism reckoning .
The non-westoids have nothing to lose but their chains.
They have a world to win.
Anti Imperialists of the world, Unite!

Bondi Beach attack: Australia’s history of false flags

Janta Ka Reporter did an interesting video on this. It's very weird that the Bondi Beach attack comes after Australia tried to blame a random deli arson on Iran (using only the Mossad as a source), which didn't seem to convince much of anyone, and after more than one zionist false flag has been identified in Australia. And, once again, zionists have rushed to accuse Iran, which has zero motive, and to immediately try to use this incident to cast blame on anti-genocide demonstrators, as Australia has been the site of some massive protests which the Australian government, itself in bed with Zionism and the U.S. imperial agenda, has held a great deal of resentment towards. This all as "Israel" continues to commit mass murder in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria at much higher numbers.

It's very bizarre how every time there is some manner of attack in a "western" (western European or western European accessory) country, there is immediately an extremely aggressive zionist campaign to use it to draw attention away from their own crimes, and to demand that people who had nothing to do with it be even more suppressed.

The death count now stands at 15, with 40 wounded.

Hidden Agenda: A Post-Revolutionary Game

Share you best outcome from playing the game!

This was my best so far. My strategy was to first get the military under control, then do land reform and set up the economy, hold an election with as much legitimacy as possible, and finally to build up stuff like medicine, education, and infrastructure. It went alright for the most part, but the IMF is going to kill the country later, much like what happened in Yugoslavia.

So what did you do? What worked for you?

Is there a framework to predict the likelihood of a revolution?

Praxis and theory set aside, is there any literature dealing with what exact material conditions are required to start a revolution?
I'm learning and I am really interested in what exact conditions could predict the chances of a revolution happening, and what would predict the chances of it not happening and being hindered.
Are there theorists better at this and theorists worse at this? Thank you!

thoughts on ghost relationships?

Real life powers

>Chi Kung Master Burns Paper With His Hand - John Chang

Ancient Civilisations Thread

So, which of you motherfuckers have watched a bunch of Graham Hancock videos and what do you think about the subject?

Obviously there is a big crossover with Nazism and Hyberborea and all that shit, but where are we on the idea that there are ancient lost civilisations, ones which were quite advanced?

I'm fairly sold on it, they keep find new ones, like the one around Ankor watt for example.

Trans happiness x3

Recently got a trans flag and it's hanging above my bed, I really like how it looks x3
Also a few days ago saw a trans flag hanging super obviously on a balcony's pub, and that made me happy :D

I have been a NEET for about two years. I dropped out of school at like 9th grade. I have no idea what I should be doing now. Is it over or should I just make up experience? Do employers even care?

666

AI is the downfall of humanity it is a weapon, oppression, manipulation and dumbing down that controls the world and you are systematically poisoned.

The Chabad tunnel was a botched false flag attempt to kick off a US war with Iran

Before the current war with Iran resumes with full fury, I want to get something off my chest.

Over a year ago, I privately related this thought I had to an acquaintance. Since that time, it has become more than a thought to me. I now believe it is probably likely that the January 2024 Chabad tunnel incident was an attempted false flag which was discovered and thwarted before it could be completed. Until now, I have never said this publicly to anyone, even anonymously, and I have never looked into others ""theories"" about this incident because I am not interested in reading speculation. I have no idea whether or not anyone else has come to the same conclusion. I would not be surprised if they had done so, as it seems like an obvious suspicion to have, but I have never been interested in finding out.

In January of 2024, a number of Israeli citizens were caught digging a tunnel under the World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in New York City, a large synagogue. When the tunnel was discovered, concrete trucks were called to fill it in, as the tunnel created a serious risk to the foundation of the structure. Fights broke out, the police were called, and arrests were made. The explanation given through the confusion, which I initially believed, was that this was an attempt to illegally expand the building - and these being Israelis, that is not an unbelievable explanation by any means. However, since then, I have come to the belief that the real motivation of this project, which must have taken a great deal of very secretive effort, was to destroy the building with people inside and blame it on Iran.

Israel having universal conscription, it is fairly safe to say that these young men were IDF in some capacity. The Israeli MIC has a long history of false flag attacks, including the Lavon Affair in Egypt and the attack on the American USS Liberty in 1967. Whether or not the Mossad bore any involvement in the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, it is a matter of public record that Netanyahu believed that attack was beneficial to Israeli interests, and he eagerly encouraged US wars in western Asia even against Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11. It is also known that the IDF fired on its own people on October 7, 2023, with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant later admitting that the Hannibal Directive was issued.

I believe that these Israelis dug this tunnel in order to either plant charges or allow the synagogue to collapse. I doubt that most of the regulars at the synagogue were aware of this, and I think that these men, in the employ of the IDF, intended to kill a great many of them. This mass-casualty event in the middle of New York City would then, without any real evidence, be blamed on Iran and compared to 9/11 - the US, then under president Joe Biden, would have immediately launched an ill-conceived war of aggression against Iran using the (fake) Chabad attack as a pretext. In the US, massive crackdowns against "anti-semitism" would have dwarfed even the mass-arrests and suppression which the US gov't has pursued since 2023, with opponents of the stupid, suicidal war with Iran being labeled as "Nazis."

If this indeed was the intention, then it's fortunate that it was not allowed to take place. I don't know whether the person who reported the tunnel was aware of the entire plot or simply called out of concern for the foundations. It's not unlikely that they were themselves a regular at the synagogue, but it's not impossible that they weren't, either. Even if they knew about the motivations, or had the same suspicion that I do, I doubt that they would have wanted to alert the country to something like this, which could, genuinely, have had unironic adverse effects for the Jewish population.

As for the stained mattresses, the high chair, etc.; while they were disturbing images, it's difficult to determine what exactly their significance was. I'm not really interested in speculating along those lines, because the possibility that the Israeli military planned to launch a false flag attack in the US seems more significant and politically plausible given their history and current behavior. Whether or not there was some other creepy stuff going on in light of that doesn't really concern me very much, particularly because Israelis already seem to do rapes so often as it is; by contrast, they at least bother to take a breath between committing false flag terror attacks.

I don't believe the world will ever know if this is true, but it would be interesting if leaks were to come out about it linking this incident to Israeli military or espionage operations. Regardless, the US and Israel now frantically look for excuses, increasingly flimsy, to launch further aggressions against Iran, and these pretexts are remarkably poor.

for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_synagogue_tunnel_incident

Doom Metal

DUNNNNN DUNNNN DUNNN DUNNNNNN
Post doom metal

Britpol - Pound Bakery edition

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyj2g5l1g2o - Nazi Troon sentenced for trying to shoot up school in Edinburgh .
https://communist.red/can-we-just-tax-the-rich/ - Can we just tax the rich? Zack Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn have been putting forward the idea of a wealth tax. They claim this could easily raise billions in tax revenue. While their proposals are certainly popular, do they truly offer a way forward?
https://communist.red/a-reply-to-the-new-statesman-britains-middle-class-liberals-are-ready-for-nothing/ - A reply to the New Statesman: Britain’s middle-class liberals are ready for nothing
https://reduxx.info/male-dancer-wins-girls-irish-dance-champion-for-third-year-in-a-row/ - Male Dancer Wins Girls’ Dance Championship For THIRD Year In A Row
https://reduxx.info/new-british-left-wing-party-platforms-trans-identified-male-previously-exposed-for-messaging-minors-at-inaugural-conference/ - UK’s New Left-Wing Party Platforms Trans-Identified Paedophile.

Hot Jazz / Big Band / Swing

Honestly Jump Blues is probably acceptable too but only if that's all ye got. Gimme sounds!!!

The U$ is a Prison house of Nations, which treats the Black/New Afrikan, Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo, and First Nations/Native American populations like they are not U$ citizens (Trump ending birthright citizenship will probably transform this from a De facto to a De jure reality by officially stripping citizenship from most of these populations), with them essentially acting as a permanent domestic underclass with essentially no rights that are exploited for cheap labor and disproportionately suffer from Mass incarceration and police brutality, with their neighborhoods essentially under De facto occupation by militarized police (The ICE raids in Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo communities throughout the U$, and Trumps deployment of the National Guard to Black/New African and Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo neighborhoods in Los Angelas, DC, and Memphis, has essentially made this a De Jure reality), as New Afrika, Aztlan, and the First Nations, are Oppressed Nations/Internal Colonies inside of the U$, and their National Liberation should be the number one goal of U$ Communists (U$ Communists must give up on the Quixotic Bourgeois Electoralist Tailist Chauvinist effort to desperately appeal to the Ultra-Reactionary White Settler Labor Aristocracy) as stipulated by the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination for 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 , which will happen after either the Global Nuclear War Shining Path to Communism that will occur if Trump uses the Insurrection act to declare Martial Law and permanently suspend Liberal Bourgeois Democracy and inevitably launch World War III against China that will escalate into a Global Nuclear War which completely destroys the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allows for a World Maoist PPW (in both the Periphery/Semi-Periphery where Maoist PPW is already viable in the Material Conditions, as proven by the ongoing Maoist PPWs in India, the Philippines, Turkey, and Peru, and in the Imperial Core, where Maoist PPW wont be viable in the Material Conditions until World War III breaks out and/or Liberal Bourgeois Democracy is permanently suspended, with these two events being related and probably happening around the same time), or the Social Democratic/UBI/4th Industrial Revolution/AI/Multipolar Shining Path to Communism that will occur if Trump dose not permanently suspend Liberal Bourgeois Democracy and a Left-Liberal Democrat like Newsom/AOC wins the 2028 U$ Presidential Election, which will have a Social Democratic Imperial Core where UBI allows for Income to be divorced from employment while the 4th Industrial Revolution Automates most of the workforce combined with the Hyper-Rationalization of the Superstructure through the legalization of all Victimless Crimes like Abortion, Birth Control, Pornography, Sex Work/Prostitution, LGBTQIA+, Drug use, Gun ownership, etc. and a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy that accepts Multipolarity, unites with a Maoist Periphery/Semi-Periphery, where Maoist PPWs swept away all Bourgeois Comprador and Imperialist governments after the 4th Industrial Revolution Automated Global Supply Chains and Reshored them back to the Imperial Core and the Green Energy Revolution shut down all Oil/Gas production worldwide, thus collapsing the economies of all Sweatshop countries and Petrostates, that will both create a Global USSR (all of the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are pictured in the map I posted, with the former U$ Balkanized into a New African SSR that includes the Black/New Afrikan majority counties of the Black Belt, a Hispano-American SFSR that includes the Hispanic/Chicano/Mestizo majority counties in the U$ Southwest, along with the rest of the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas, while the English-speaking White Settler majority regions in the rest of the former U$ becomes part of the Anglo-American SFSR, which also includes the English-speaking provinces of Canada, as Quebec will become its own SSR, with all the Native American reservations becoming ASSRs) to Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

News 12/12/25

Israel remained leading killer of journalists in 2025: RSF
Mexico was the second most dangerous country in the world for journalists, with nine killed in the past year. War-ravaged Ukraine, where three journalists were killed in 2025, and Sudan, where four journalists were killed this year, are other highly dangerous countries for reporters, according to RSF.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/9/israel-the-top-killer-of-journalists-worldwide-once-again-says-rsf-report
https://archive.ph/47oN2

Joint Saudi-Emirate delegation in Aden for talks after STC takeover
Discussions to be held by the ​delegation in Aden ⁠will address ways ⁠to rectify recent unilateral actions, including the withdrawal of any forces brought in from outside the eastern provinces, a ‌source in the presidential office ​told the state news agency SABA.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/12/joint-saudi-emirate-delegation-aden-talks-after-stc-takeover

Germany revokes pledges to grant asylum to Afghans
the pledge is being revoked because Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government in Berlin aims to scrap the resettlement programs "as far as possible." This was agreed by the conservative CDU and CSU parties and the Social Democrats in their coalition agreement earlier this year.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-revokes-pledges-to-grant-asylum-to-afghans/a-75106966
https://archive.ph/b4OvU

Homelessness up 8% in the last year
Among them, 350,480 are stuck in temporary accommodation, most of whom are families with children. Another 4,667 people are sleeping rough on any given night — a sharp 20 per cent increase in one year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/homelessness-8-last-year

Bulgarian government resigns after mass anti-corruption protests
Tens of thousands of Bulgarians had rallied on Wednesday evening in the capital, Sofia, and dozens of other towns and cities across the country in the latest in a series of rolling demonstrations giving vent to the public’s growing frustration. Protesters chanted “Resign” and held up “I’m fed up!” signs featuring caricatures of politicians.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/11/bulgarian-government-resigns-mass-anti-corruption-protests

Bolivia judge rules ex-President Arce be held in pre-trial detention for five months
Arce, who left office last month, will be held in a prison in the capital La Paz and will likely be tried for alleged economic misconduct related to the diversion of funds for projects in Indigenous communities while serving as economy minister under ex-leader Evo Morales. A hearing has been scheduled for May 12, 2026.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivia-judge-rules-ex-president-arce-be-held-pre-trial-detention-five-months-2025-12-12/

Senate commission sinks Colombia’s 2026 budget finance plan
The Economy Commission of Colombia’s Senate struck down a law that sought finance the government’s 2026 budget with a tax reform targeting the elite of the country’s elite. The tax reform sought to close a $4.2 billion (COP16.3 trillion) gap in the budget that had been approved by Congress, but was struck down by nine of the 13 senators that make up the commission.
https://colombiareports.com/senate-commission-sinks-colombias-2026-budget-finance-plan/

Employment holds steady in Latin America and the Caribbean, but informality and inequality persist
Informality remains a defining feature of the region's labour landscape. While it declined slightly to 46.7 per cent in the first half of 2025, nearly one in every two employed persons still works under informal conditions.
https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/employment-holds-steady-latin-america-and-caribbean-informality-and

Firefighter killed as out-of-control bushfires destroy homes in Australia
The 59-year-old volunteer died on Sunday night after a tree fell on him while he was working on a fireground near Bulahdelah, around 200km north of Sydney. Emergency crews said he went into cardiac arrest and died at the scene.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/australia-bushfires-nsw-tasmania-firefighter-death-b2879844.html

Bangladesh’s BNP seeks Hasina’s liberal mantle before elections
Addressing party supporters this week, BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rehman invoked the blood-soaked memory of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan, saying “people saw” what happened then. He did not name the Jamaat, but the reference was clearly understood across Bangladesh: The Jamaat had opposed Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan. He also accused the Jamaat of misusing religion to seek votes.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/9/analysis-bangladeshs-bnp-seeks-hasinas-liberal-mantle-before-elections
https://archive.ph/qz5aC

Sri Lanka: Cyclone-affected plantation workers demand decent houses in safe places
Nuwara Eliya District is predominantly inhabited by Tamil-speaking tea plantation workers earning poverty-level wages. It is among the regions most affected by heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides and stone slides triggered by the cyclone. With 89 confirmed deaths, it ranks third after Kandy and Badulla. Another 37 people remain missing—the third highest figure after Kandy and Kegalle—and 63,121 people have been displaced into 211 temporary shelters, the second highest after Kandy District, according to the Disaster Management Centre (DMC).
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/12/aghs-d12.html

Analog horror, night walks, abandoned places, etc.

Just a general thread for lazy spooky stuff.

Scottish rock band Primal Scream reported to the police for displaying anti-israeli imagery

At a show in London.

Kneecap, Massive Attack, Garbage highlight fears for Palestine Action prisoners on hunger strike in

Kneecap, Massive Attack and Garbage have highlighted their fears for a group of Palestine Acton prisoners on hunger strike in the UK.

Eight prisoners are among 24 protesters accused in relation to action at Elbit Systems ​in Filton near Bristol last year, as well as the so-called Brize Norton Five.

According to The Guardian, the Filton 24 are scheduled to be tried on charges of aggravated burglary, criminal damage and violent disorder in April next year. The Crown Prosecution Service said there was a “terrorism connection”, but no charges have been brought under the Terrorism Act.

Those on remand in relation to the damage of two Voyager aircraft during a protest at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on June 20 were previously charged with conspiracy to commit criminal damage, and conspiracy to enter a prohibited place knowingly for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the UK.

They are not scheduled to stand trial until January 2027. Palestine Action claimed responsibility for both incidents.

Now, the likes of Kneecap’s Móglái Bap, Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja and Garbage have shared posts on their Instagram Stories from campaigners who claim that the prisoners “are currently being held without bail in British prisons” and to date “three hunger strikers have been hospitalised”.

Mothers Against Genocide Scotland have also accused the BBC of remaining silent on the issue and have urged them to report on this “urgent, life-threatening crisis,” adding: “We demand you fulfil that duty”.

NME has reached out to the BBC for comment.

Among the prisoners’ demands is the de-proscription of Palestine Action, which was banned under terrorism legislation in July and proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK government.

The group’s proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000 means membership or public support for the group is classified as a criminal offence and could result in up to 14 years in jail.

Last week a three-day judicial review of the Home Office’s unprecedented decision to ban the direct action group, alongside two Russian militias, ended in the High Court. A judgement is expected this week, according to The Observer.

Earlier this summer, Massive Attack slammed the government for allowing the arrest of “peaceful citizens” at a Palestine Action demonstration in London. Over 500 people were arrested at the huge protest in central London organised by the campaign group Defend Our Juries in August. Primal Scream also criticised the arrests.

Later that month, Hozier also used used his set at Reading Festival 2025 to speak out in support of Palestine Action.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/kneecap-massive-attack-garbage-highlight-fears-for-palestine-action-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-in-uk-3917449

News 12/11/25

General strike in Portugal causes major disruptions in national services
Prime Minister Luis Montenegro has insisted that the labour reforms, with more than 100 measures, were intended to “stimulate economic growth and pay better salaries”. But the communist-leaning General Confederation of the Portuguese Worker (CGTP) and more moderate General Union of Workers (UGT) have lambasted the plans. The CGTP organised about 20 demonstrations across the country. Its secretary-general, Tiago Oliveira, called the reforms “among the biggest attacks on the world of work”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/portugal-set-for-major-disruptions-in-first-general-strike-in-12-years
https://archive.ph/n3PhC

Britain threatened to defund ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor
Khan does not name the individual who made the threats, saying the call on 23 April 2024 was with a British official, but reports have suggested the caller may have been the then British foreign secretary, David Cameron. Khan said the official had argued that issuing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister, was disproportionate.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/11/britain-icc-funding-netanyahu-arrest-warrant

Lammy refuses to meet MPs worried about constituents on hunger strike in prison
Five hunger strikers have been taken to hospital. Their lawyers warned of a “real and increasingly likely potential” their clients will die in prison on Tuesday. In his letter, Mr Corbyn said that he would seek assurances from Mr Lammy that he would take steps to protect the political prisoners’ rights. The detainees have all been charged with offences relating to alleged break-ins or criminal damage on behalf of Palestine Action, charges that are denied, before the group was banned under terrorism legislation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lammy-refuses-meet-mps-worried-about-constituents-hunger-strike-prison

France Unbowed 'has become a target' of the UAE, Melenchon says
“LFI has become a target of the Emirates,” he wrote on his blog on Tuesday, shortly after his party, the largest left-wing group in parliament, filed a complaint to the public prosecutor regarding a highly controversial poll on Muslims in France, suggesting it could be part of an Emirati “influence operation” in the country. The survey, which suggests that there is “a phenomenon of 're-Islamisation'" in France "accompanied by a worrying increase in adherence to Islamist ideology”, has been the subject of several legal complaints from Muslim organisations, who accused it of being “based on biased questions” to spread “the poison of hatred in the public sphere”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/france-unbowed-has-become-target-uae-left-wing-party-leader-says

Israel approves nearly 800 housing units in three West Bank settlements
Smotrich, who formulates settlement policy and is a settler himself, called the council's decision part of a "clear strategic move to strengthen settlement and ensure continuity of life, security and growth." Wednesday's decision puts the total of housing units approved in the West Bank since Smotrich assumed his post at 51,370, he said in the statement.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-approves-nearly-800-housing-units-w-bank-settlements

Pro-government protests in Honduras as electoral body vows not to validate presidential poll result
In a statement, the National Electoral Council said: “We denounce the existence of an ongoing electoral coup.” The panel said it “absolutely condemns” the interference of President Trump. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the capital Tegucigalpa on Wednesday to demand a rerun.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pro-government-protests-honduras-electoral-body-vows-not-validate-presidential-poll-result

El Salvador teams up with Elon Musk’s xAI to bring AI to 5,000 public schools
In a statement Thursday, xAI said that its Grok chatbot will bring “personalized learning to over one million students” by creating tutoring “that adjusts to each student’s pace, preferences, and mastery level — ensuring every child, from urban centers to rural communities, receives world-class education tailored to their needs.”
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-xai-schools-artificial-intelligence-a1c6e41b84cf5cfa8a9b20bd15dc12f3

One year since the murder of four Afro-Ecuadorian children, soldiers face up to 34 years in prison
One year after the murder of four Afro-Ecuadorian children in Las Malvinas, Guayaquil, the Ecuadorian prosecutor’s office requested the maximum sentence for the soldiers who are accused of torturing and murdering Steven Medina, Nehemías Arboleda, Josué Arroyo, and Ismael Arroyo. In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office requested that each of the soldiers pay USD 100,000 to the children’s families for the crime of “forced disappearance”.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/10/one-year-since-the-murder-of-four-afro-ecuadorian-children-soldiers-face-up-to-34-years-in-prison/

Argentina's Milei submits labor reform proposal to Congress
The proposed labor bill will seek to give employers more flexibility on working hours and vacations, as well as modify the system of severance pay in order to reduce costs for companies. It also provides financial incentives for employers to hire workers on-the-books and allows salaries to be paid in foreign currencies. Unions have strongly opposed the bill, which also states that unions must receive authorization from employers to hold assemblies in the workplace and characterizes a union takeover or obstruction of entry to a workspace as a "very grave" infraction.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/argentinas-milei-submits-labor-reform-proposal-congress-2025-12-11/

Indian farmers protest new seed bill, calling it a threat to the country’s sovereignty
The proposed bill will establish MNC control over the supply of seeds, ending the existing arrangement, which provides greater flexibility to the farmers to source the required seeds from local or public sectors. The control of MNCs will endanger indigenous varieties, public institutions, and traditional/informal seed networks and “bring disaster for sustenance farming in India,” claims SKM in a statement. The bill will leave the crop cycle in India at the mercy of the MNCs.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/10/indian-farmers-protest-new-seed-bill-calling-it-a-threat-to-the-countrys-sovereignty/

Bangladesh president, feeling 'humiliated', wants to step down halfway through term
He later said that despite his personal desire to resign, he would let the next government decide his future. “If they tell me they plan to choose their own president, I will step aside,” he said late on Thursday. Opinion polls suggest the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former prime minister Khaleda Zia and the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami will be the frontrunners to form the next government. They were part of a coalition that ruled between 2001 and 2006.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-president-wants-quit-halfway-through-term-after-february-election-2025-12-11/

General strike in Portugal causes major disruptions in national services
Three Thai civilians were killed as heavy combat continued along the country’s border, the Thai military said on Thursday, marking the country’s first civilian fatalities since the fighting resumed. Eight Thai soldiers have also been killed in the fighting so far this week, with 80 more wounded, it said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/cross-border-fighting-between-thailand-cambodia-enters-fourth-day
https://archive.ph/nVltZ

dot net and dot org

I remember using /leftypol/ back in 8ch but I didn't care enough to come here after it died. I decided to check again some days ago and I noticed that there are two boards now
what's the lore behind this?
what's the difference between the two?
which one should I use if I don't care about idpol?

News 12/10/25

US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coast
Two US officials told Reuters the operation was led by the US Coast Guard, but did not name the tanker or say specifically where the interception happened. A senior Trump administration official told Bloomberg that the US had conducted a “judicial enforcement action on a stateless vessel” that was last docked in Venezuela.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/us-forces-reportedly-seize-oil-tanker-off-venezuela-coast

Former Bolivian President Arce arrested in corruption investigation
Bolivian law enforcement officials on Wednesday arrested former President Luis Arce as part of a corruption investigation, the country’s vice president said on social media, opening an uncertain new chapter in Bolivia’s politics just a month after the inauguration of conservative President Rodrigo Paz ended 20 years of socialist rule.
https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-luis-arce-arrested-corruption-65566acd1d5cacbd9d650c40394da631

Honduran election turmoil grows as president decries 'electoral coup'
Honduran President Xiomara Castro on Tuesday denounced what she called an "electoral coup" unfolding amid a chaotic vote count from the November 30 presidential election, as hundreds of protesters gathered in the streets of the capital Tegucigalpa to demand clarity over the vote count. The election has been marked by technical failures, unsubstantiated fraud claims and a shadow cast by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has threatened to withdraw funding for the Central American nation if his preferred candidate is not successful.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-backed-asfura-leads-honduras-presidential-race-preliminary-count-nears-end-2025-12-09/

Bill that could reduce Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s prison time advances in Congress
The bill now goes to the Senate. The bill’s centrist sponsor Paulinho da Força said it’s aimed at reconciliation and that if it’s adopted, the right-wing ex-president’s time behind bars could be reduced to two years and four months. But it would need to be sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the leftist president has previously said he would veto it.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-bolsonaro-congress-bill-prison-time-reduction-c3126861a0b4a7c80d97177a742b4890

Trump administration issued ultimatum to ICC
The Trump administration is also demanding the ICC shelve investigations of Israeli politicians over the Gaza war, which has been recognised as a genocide by the United Nations, scholars and historians, and end an investigation into potential war crimes conducted by US troops in Afghanistan. If the ICC does not comply, it could face further sanctions against its staff and the court itself, an unnamed Trump administration official told Reuters.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-administration-ultimatum-international-criminal-court-report

UK's largest pro-Palestine prison hunger strike in decades sends activists to hospital
Kamran Ahmed, who has asthma, was again rushed to hospital after he became unable to stand following nearly a month of refusing food. He has been held on remand at HMP Pentonville in England for over a year after his arrest on 19 November last year in connection with a Palestine Action protest at an Elbit Systems arms facility in Filton, Bristol, which caused more than £1 million in damage.
https://www.newarab.com/news/uk-pro-palestine-prisoners-rushed-hospital-amid-hunger-strike

Anti-bailiff protests disrupt council meetings across England and Wales
CAMPAIGNERS who have piled pressure on local authorities to stop using bailiffs, staging protests at 20 council meetings in a month, warned today that more demonstrations will follow. Community union Acorn has disrupted council meetings in Cardiff, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield, the east London borough of Hackney and elsewhere, with more actions planned in the coming days.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/anti-bailiff-protests-disrupt-council-meetings-across-england-and-wales

EU proposes loosening rules on AI gigafactories in green rollback
Other parts of the simplification plan include repealing a hazardous chemical database that lists “substances of concern in products”; removing requirements on EU polluters to have authorised representatives in member states where they sell their products; and pushing the need for environmental management systems in farms and industry from the level of plants to that of companies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/10/eu-proposes-exempting-ai-gigafactories-from-environmental-assessments

South Korea's Lee calls for probe into links between religious group and politics
Some analysts have said, however, that Lee's comments appeared to be directed at the Unification Church, whose leader Han Hak-ja is currently on trial over allegations she bribed former first lady Kim Keon Hee in return for political favours. The case is part of a series of investigations by special prosecutors into ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and Kim, his wife, in the wake of Yoon's martial law order in December 2024.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-lee-calls-probe-into-links-between-religious-group-politics-2025-12-10/

Starving Myanmar fighters join junta-linked group for money as ‘dirty reality’ bites
A 24-year-old fighter from Myanmar’s pro-democracy People’s Defence Force has said many of those who fight alongside him have switched sides at times in the long-running civil war, with a lack of financial compensation forcing them to temporarily side with a junta-aligned armed group.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3335695/starving-myanmar-fighters-join-junta-linked-group-money-dirty-reality-bites
https://archive.ph/0RGaP

Thailand-Cambodia border clashes enter third day as 500,000 flee fighting
The Thai military also reported that rockets fired from Cambodia had landed near the Phanom Dong Rak Hospital in Surin on Wednesday morning, prompting patients and hospital staff to take cover in a bunker. In neighbouring Cambodia, “101,229 people have been evacuated to safe shelters and relatives’ homes in five provinces”, Cambodian Ministry of National Defence spokeswoman Maly Socheata said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/10/thailand-cambodia-border-clashes-enter-third-day-as-500000-flee-fighting
https://archive.ph/k7IYe

good industrial metal

Really good 1990's industrial metal.

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Industrial music thread

Wake up

New Maduro just dropped

News 12/8/25

Taiwan’s ban on mainland China app RedNote makes it a top download amid fierce pushback
The island’s interior ministry announced on Thursday it had ordered local telecoms and internet providers to block access to the app, also known as Xiaohongshu, for one year over “rising online fraud cases”. Authorities also cited a “lack of cooperation from its operator in Shanghai”. But the move has unleashed a wave of public criticism, with many accusing Taiwan’s ruling independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of overreach and damaging the island’s reputation for open internet access.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3335652/taiwans-ban-mainland-china-app-rednote-makes-it-top-download-amid-fierce-pushback
https://archive.ph/0QevL

Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan's northeast
Tsunami warnings were issued for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate, and tsunamis from 20 to 70 cm (7 to 27 inches) high were observed at several ports, JMA said. In the early hours of Tuesday the JMA downgraded the warnings to advisories, meaning it now sees lower estimated wave heights and less risk of inundation.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/japan-warns-3-metre-high-tsunami-after-magnitude-72-earthquake-2025-12-08/

Thailand launches air attacks along Cambodian border
The Thai Ministry of Defence said that more than 35,000 people have left areas near the border for shelters and more are believed to have fled to stay with relatives elsewhere, while Cambodia’s Information Minister Neth Pheaktra said that residents of several villages near the border have been evacuated.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thailand-launches-air-attacks-along-cambodian-border

Indonesia counts human cost as more climate change warnings sounded
The agency also recorded damage to more than 156,000 homes, and 975,075 people had taken refuge in temporary shelters. Floodwaters have begun to recede in several coastal districts, although large areas in the central highlands are still cut off, BNPB said. However, heavy rain is forecast for parts of the island in the coming days, raising concerns for displaced people.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/8/indonesia-counts-human-cost-as-more-climate-change-warnings-sounded
https://archive.ph/nOcGg

Indian unions claim labor codes seek to “ease exploitation” in the name of business
Elected members of the parliament from the Indian National Congress (INC), Samajwadi Party, and left parties gathered outside the main entry of the Indian Parliament in Delhi carrying banners and shouting slogans against the new codes. The four new labor codes were “rammed” through the parliament five years ago and recently “unilaterally notified”, claimed M A Baby, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in a post on X.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/07/indian-unions-claim-labor-codes-seek-to-ease-exploitation-in-the-name-of-business/

‘Yellow line’ that divides Gaza under Trump plan is ‘new border’ for Israel, says military chief
The Israeli army has built new concrete outposts along the “yellow line” to fortify its positions and declared it a lethal boundary, even though it is not always clearly marked and a ceasefire is in place. Soldiers have repeatedly killed Palestinians they accuse of crossing it, including young children. Concrete bollards laid out to mark some stretches of the line have also been used to expand Israel’s military occupation of Gaza. Satellite images show that some markers have been placed hundreds of metres beyond the boundary agreed on ceasefire maps.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/yellow-line-that-divides-gaza-under-trump-plan-is-new-border-for-israel-says-military-chief

Israel conducting surveillance of US and allies at southern command centre: Report
The Israeli military has been openly and covertly recording meetings and discussions at the Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC) in the town of Kiryat Gat, which is 12 miles from the Gaza frontier, the report says. The US commander of the CMCC, Lieutenant General Patrick Frank, summoned his Israeli counterpart to tell him that “recording has to stop here”, according to sources briefed on disputes about the recordings.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-carrying-out-surveillance-joint-us-and-allies-command-center-south-country-report

Separatists claim broad control of southern Yemen
The eight southern governorates "are under the protection of the Southern Armed Forces," he said by text message. "We are concentrating on unifying the operational theater of our armed forces to enhance coordination and readiness to reinforce stability and security in the south, as well as combatting the Houthis should there be a willingness to head in this direction."
https://www.newarab.com/news/separatists-claim-broad-control-southern-yemen

US attack on Venezuela risks ‘Vietnam-style’ regional conflict, warns Lula adviser
“If there was an invasion, a real invasion … I think undoubtedly you would see something similar to Vietnam – on what scale it’s impossible to say,” added Amorim, who thought even some enemies of Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, would be inclined to join the resistance against such a foreign intervention.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/us-attack-venezuela-risks-vietnam-style-conflict-lula-adviser

Honduras resumes releasing election results, Trump-backed Asfura maintains lead
With 97% of the ballots tallied, Asfura, a 67-year-old former Tegucigalpa mayor, had 40.52% of the vote as election officials resumed releasing updated results for the November 30 vote, leading his closest competitor by just 42,100 votes.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/honduras-resumes-releasing-election-results-trump-backed-asfura-maintains-lead-2025-12-08/

Labour Together 'plotting' to replace Starmer
A LABOUR right-wing think tank that ran Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign is canvassing party members on candidates to replace him — in a suspected plot to prevent a left shift after next May’s local elections. Labour Together was previously run by Sir Keir’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, and its chair Fran Perrin OBE recently made large donations to two of the would-be leadership contenders.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-together-plotting-replace-starmer

ANC-SACP rift exposed: Madala Masuku heckled by delegates at National General Council over election plans
Masuku eventually addressed the delegates on the decision of the SACP to contest the elections alone. “The decision to contest elections is not to contest the ANC. The decision to contest elections is contestation of elections, and this matter is a very critical matter because it has to do with the existential being of the party (SACP) because if the party cannot introduce socialism as a path, its existence will mean nothing.” Masuku says the SACP still remains committed to the alliance.
https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/12/08/sacp-leader-heckled-at-anc-general-council-as-alliance-tensions-flare

Brace Belden

AKA 'PissPigGrandad'
AKA 'Brace Trueanon'
AKA 'Coindexter'
AKA 'Liz Trueanon's Husband'
AKA 'The Gourmand'

What do you make of him?
I'm genuinely not sure what to make of him. On the one hand, I think his show is really good about exposing some really nasty stuff.

On the other hand, the PKK/YPG was really obviously being used as a cover for US/Zionist imperialist ops. PKK-controlled territory operated (and operates?) illegal concentration camps (ostensibly for the "families of ISIS takfiris) in Syria on behalf of the American occupier. Although I used to believe anyone could just have volunteered for the YPG, I realized with Ukraine that sometimes groups will claim that they'll take anyone, regardless of experience, but will then reject most applicants on the grounds that they have no experience or useful skills. I don't know if the YPG claim to be recruiting anyone was a sham or not, but I do wonder in retrospect.

His cred as a unionist might be less questionable, but it wasn't exactly a great success story. He unionized a San Francisco brewery which was being run into the ground under foreign management, and then four years later, foreign management decided to scrap it for parts. I'm not saying I think every try will be a riveting success, but for a guy who is still identified as a prominent present day American labor organizer, this is one pretty monumental failure, and it's his entire record in this field. Like an eerie Japanese Dracula, Sapporo saki'd Anchor Brewing dry, with what ultimately amounted to little resistance from a supposedly militant labor union led by a former machine gunner.

What do you think?

Also, as an addendum, I hadn't realized this until reading about it just now, but apparently after Sapporo closed Anchor Brewing, they sold the brewery to a Turkish-born Kurdish-American guy named Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO of Chobani.

News 12/6/25

Company grabs and illegally fences off land in Taytay, Rizal
More than 60 families from the Sitio Igiban Neigborhood Association suffered from the company’s harassment. Many residents could not go to school or their workplaces because of the barrier. While residents were distressed by the company’s harassment, company personnel ruthlessly cut down their trees and plants. The company also continued with its construction actitivies and hauling materials into the sitio.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/company-grabs-and-illegally-fences-off-land-in-taytay-rizal/

Overnight exchange of fire along the Afghan-Pakistan border kills 5 and wounds 8, officials say
Pakistani police and a hospital official in the Pakistani city of Chaman, Mohammad Awais, said three people, including a woman, were wounded in the shooting and shelling that came from the Afghan side. The clashes lasted until dawn Saturday, police said.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-border-shootout-2d2766c8d15bf94369fb87b46185e1a8

China’s official media calls for end to name-and-shame campaign against grass-roots cadres
The article said this “label-based evaluation … smacked of sensationalism” and warned that it was a barrier to properly understanding the dilemmas and problems grass-roots officials faced. For example, it said, those accused of lying flat might not necessarily be lazy but could be suffering from physical and mental exhaustion as a result of an unfair workload. Alternatively, it said, they might be worried that officials who took the initiative were at greater risk of making mistakes and being punished as a result. It also expressed sympathy for those accused of lying on their side, saying they might face an overly strict authorisation process or have “nitpicking” superiors.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3335383/chinas-official-media-calls-end-name-and-shame-campaign-against-grass-roots-cadres?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection

CPI(M) MP seeks JPC or judicial inquiry into ‘exploitative airfare surge’
“Given this extraordinary concentration of market power, the failure of a single private operator translated into a failure of the entire system,” he said, pointing out that thousands of passengers were stranded, forced to sleep on terminal floors, and compelled to miss medical emergencies.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cpim-mp-seeks-jpc-or-judicial-inquiry-into-exploitative-airfare-surge/article70366149.ece
https://archive.ph/6IaIq

Australian state Labor government to impose life sentences on children as young as 14
The laws target children from 14 to 17 charged with offences including home invasion, carjacking and causing injury. Under the current Children’s Court system, the maximum sentence for any offence is three years. Under the new regime, children will be dragged before the County Court, where the same offences will carry the threat of adult penalties up to life imprisonment. The basic legal principle that detention should be a “last resort” for children—enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child—will be effectively abolished. Judges will instead be directed to prioritise “community safety,” a deliberately vague formulation that subordinates children’s futures to the political requirements of a government seeking to posture as “tough on crime.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/uzww-d05.html

French lawmakers approve taxation part of contested social security budget
Lecornu had warned on Thursday that France risked losing control of social security spending as lawmakers from centrist Horizons and Socialists balked at supporting the bill. Now that the vote has passed, they will hold a final vote on the whole bill – a major part of France's overall public budget – on Tuesday.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251205-french-lawmakers-approve-taxation-part-of-contested-2026-social-security-budget
https://archive.ph/9dHn2

German coalition passes disputed pension package, ending rift
Earlier this week, Germany’s far-left Die Linke (The Left) party announced its lawmakers would abstain from the vote, effectively ensuring its passage by reducing the overall number of votes needed to pass the pension legislation. Still, Merz continued to try to secure the support of young conservatives in order to avoid the politically damaging impression that his coalition was dependent on indirect far-left support to get the package over the line.
https://www.politico.eu/article/german-coalition-passes-disputed-pension-package-ending-rift-friedrich-merz/
https://archive.ph/doWC4

Hundreds in Tunisia protest against government
Hundreds of people demonstrated on Saturday in the Tunisian capital against the government under the slogan "opposition is not a crime", calling for the release of jailed activists. The rally in Tunis was called after the recent arrests of three opposition figures convicted of "conspiracy" against the state.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/12/hundreds-tunisia-protest-against-government

People flee DR Congo fighting one day after peace deal signed in Washington
Thursday’s agreement was meant to stabilise the resource-rich east but it has had little visible effect on the ground so far, in an area plagued by conflict for 30 years. On Friday, fighters from the anti-government armed group M23 battled in South Kivu province with the Congolese army, backed by thousands of Burundian soldiers deployed alongside it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/05/people-flee-dr-congo-fighting-one-day-after-peace-deal-signed-in-washington

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US stock market crash general

Retards here have been claiming an imminent stock market crash for almost 10 years straight.

But it looks like this time we might actually get a crash this time because the Republicans seem to like crashing the market in their second terms.

And it does seem like Trump and his advisors are trying to crash the market.

Either that or Trump's economic advisors are just stupid.

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Can China enforce sanctions through economic coercion?

No, because China doesn't control the international financial system. It can't bully other countries to not trade with Israel like the USA did with Cuba. The only way a blockade would be effective is if the entire world joined in against Israel, the same way the USSR and the USA did against South Africa. That won't happen in the case of Israel. Furthermore, the reason American sanctions are effective (or have been effective until now, as the sanction regimes against Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, etc. are clearly failing) is because they control the global financial system. Why doesn't China control the international financial system? Because it is not an imperialist power and does not desire to become one. Enforcing sanctions without total economic hegemony leads to cases like the notoriously ineffective EU sanctions against Russia.

Why doesn't China use its military to subjugate Israel and enforce Palestinian sovereignty? Becuase China can't project military power outside far away from its borders. Why? Because China is, again, not an imperialist power and it doesn not aspire to become an imperialist power.

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CCR also acceptable.

Mahmoud Khalil forced disappearance thread

On March 9, 2025, US permanent resident and Columbia University graduate student was abducted without charge or trial and sent off to a shady Louisiana site on White House orders over his protests for Columbia to divest from Israel's war crimes.

From DropSite:

NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this week it would begin revoking visas of “Hamas sympathizers,” specifically citing Columbia University students. The detention followed a two-day targeted online campaign against Khalil by pro-Israel groups and individuals, including Columbia’s high-profile pro-Israel professor, Shai Davidai.

Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin and an American green-card holder, was detained by DHS officials around half past eight as he was entering the Columbia residential building he lives in. He was returning from an iftar, breaking the day-long fast observed by many Muslims during the month of Ramadan.

Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, was with him at the time. A statement by the pro-Palestine group Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) stated that he was “abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.”

Khalil was detained at a DHS facility in New Jersey, according to a database for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But when his wife went to try and visit him she was informed he was not there. "He is not at the ICE facility in New Jersey. I can confirm he is not there,” Khalil’s attorney Amy Greer told Drop Site. "At this time, we have an idea [where he is] but we cannot confirm that 100%.”

According to WAWOG, the DHS agents told Khalil that the U.S. Department of State had revoked his student visa. The group said this was “despite the fact that he has a green card, not a visa, and is a lawful permanent resident.”

In response to a request for comment from Drop Site, the DHS first stated, “You need to reach out to the White House.”

On Sunday evening, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin sent a follow-up statement confirming ICE “arrested” Khalil “for activities aligned to Hamas”: “On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student,” McLaughlin wrote. “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. ICE and the Department of State are committed to enforcing President Trump’s executive orders and to protecting U.S. national security.”

McLaughlin did not answer questions about where Khalil is being held.

Columbia University directed Drop Site to a statement on their website. The statement, dated March 9, reads, "There have been reports of ICE around campus. Columbia has and will continue to follow the law. Consistent with our longstanding practice and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, law enforcement must have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including University buildings. Columbia is committed to complying with all legal obligations and supporting our student body and campus community."

Khalil’s wife was unlocking the door to the building when “two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them.” They initially refused to identify themselves, she reported, but then threatened Khalil’s wife that if she remained with him, she would be detained too.

On Wednesday, Khalil was among the protesters at a sit-in at Milstein Library in Columbia University’s Barnard College, protesting the recent expulsion of three Barnard students over pro-Palestine activism. New York Police Department officers later arrested nine individuals from the same protest—the third round of arrests of pro-Palestine demonstrators on Columbia’s campuses in the past year.

Over the course of Thursday and Friday, several prominent pro-Israel groups and individuals published a series of tweets targeting Khalil, mentioning his presence at the sit-in on Wednesday and his history as a lead negotiator with Columbia in April 2024, and demanded that the Trump administration act strongly against him by revoking his visa and deporting him. They tagged President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and US Attorney General Pam Bondi.

read more: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-columbia-university-student-gaza

king crimson / prog

thought i'd finally put this image i made ages ago to use. any KC fans / progheads here?

Be honest…

Has your life gotten materially better or worse since this faggot supposedly got elected.?

Futurism

Thread for Futurist music, the fascinating 20th century musical machine movement which preceded Industrial music by decades, briefly thriving in both Italy and the USSR.

'50s - early '60s pop stuff

Why not?

Atlanta Against Genocide Vol. 2

Out August 15th!
Noise rock, post-punk, post-hardcore, breakbeat, freakcore, folk!

https://atlantaagainstgenocide.bandcamp.com/album/atlanta-against-genocide-vol-2

New Hezbollah just dropped

Bottom text

Reading General

Hello /leftypol/, we noticed an under-appreciation for the theory that upholds our political ideologies: As such, we have decided to revive the reading sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.

But, other than that, we believe there are other important reads that must be addressed, especially, for beginners and those just now getting into leftism.

Don't forget to check out >>>/edu/ for more reading and discussion!

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Common Right Wing Talking Points Debunks
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Check out the /edu/ thread at
https://leftychan.net/edu/res/5576.html

Also see the relevant leftybooru tag
https://lefty.pictures/post/list/debunk/1
Add topics into the tag list to further narrow down your search!


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Introduction to Marxism Reading List - Thanks to the /read/ matrix room (https://app.element.io/#/group/+leftyread:matrix.org)
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Absolute Beginners Tier:

'Principles of Communism' by Friedrich Engels
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

'Three Source and Theree Component Parts of Marxism' by V.I. Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

Not a book but Halim Alrah's youtube channel is good for the absolutely basics of Marxism but obviously not a replacement for reading
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGog4JPn5-W3_XIKccENysg

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Marx and Engles Reading List
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Tier 1:

'Manifesto of the Communist Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

'Critique of the Gotha Programme'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm

Tier 2:

'Wage Labour and Capital'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/

'Value, Price and Profit'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/

'Theses on Feuerback'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

By this point you should have a good understanding of the basics of Marxism and are ready to branch out to other theorists and also read Capital.

Tier 3:

'Capital vol.1'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

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Lenin Reading List - By Moo (aka Zizekposter)
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Lenin Essentials:

'State and Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

'“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Petit Bourgeois Philistine Tier:

'What is to be done'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

'The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/

'Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm

ADHD Tier:

'Socialism and Religion'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm

'Zizek's Introduction to Revolution at the Gates'
https://kabirabud.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/slavoj_zizek_repeating_leninbookfi-org.pdf

'Revolutionary Adventurism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm

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MLM Reading List
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Essentials:

Why MLM?
https://why-mlm.medium.com/why-mlm-af48aba14f8a

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S01-MLM-Basic-Course-Revised-Edition-10th-Printing.pdf

'Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain'
https://libgen.lc/get.php?md5=a00646f118a3427ec19263021b3e84e1&key=06Q5Q1W5DFK8YOHU&mirr=1

Mao:

'On Practice & Contradiction'
https://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/N04-On-Contradiction-Study-2nd.pdf

'On Guerrilla Warfare'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/index.htm

'On Protracted War'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm

China:

'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village'
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=00F5750256E291B678E2A0039D3CF54E

'Red Star Over China' - Edgar Snow
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=BD54E7C5F9CDE90E30BD0CB5E91F0049

'The Unknown Cultural Revolution' - Dongpin Han
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2495C43CFA7395ACA45CA812A304A701

Peru:

Interview With Chairman Gonzalo
https://the-red-flag.org/en/central-committee-of-the-communist-party-of-peru-interview-with-chairman-gonzalo/

General line of the PCP
https://gplpcp.wordpress.com/

'Shining Path: Terror and Revolution in Peru' - Simon Strong
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4FB5D349F9D3250453C5F0525F5890DD

India:

Operation “Green Hunt” in India
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/N08-Operation-Green-Hunt.pdf

Eight Historic Documents (AZAD)
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S18-Historic-Eight-Documents.pdf

'Urban Perspective'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S14-Urban-Perspective-4th-Printing.pdf

Philippines:

Araling Aktibista - Activist Study ARAK
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-2nd-Printing.pdf

'Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S07-Stand-for-Socialism-3rd-Printing.pdf

'Philippine Society and Revolution'
https://bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/1970s PhilippineSocietyAndRevolution-4ed.pdf

Political Economy:

'Rethinking Socialism' – Deng-yuan Hsu & Pao-yu Ching
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S11-Rethinking-Socialism-4th-Printing.pdf

'China: A Modern Social-Imperialist Power' - CPI(Maoist)
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=F68AC84D480D41A222818D802F3AF7CA
or
https://library.bz/uploads/main/c0105702c9219cf136bdae79008daaa4.epub
or
https://why-mlm.medium.com/china-a-modern-social-imperialist-power-d5ac7a9455f7

'Maoist Economics & the Revolutionary Road to Communism' - The Shanghai Textbook
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8B44F61D828997487E2FDE607FCF2FEB

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Leftcom Reading Lists
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r/marxism101's reading list:
https://i.imgur.com/s70UUPQ.jpg

r/bruhinternational's reading list:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bruhinternational/comments/m53hon/official_rbruhinternational_reading_list/

Bordiga:

'The Democratic Principle'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm

'Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm

'The Spirit of Horsepower'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1953/horsepower.htm

'Report on Fascism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/bordiga02.htm

'Activism'
https://libcom.org/library/activism-amadeo-bordiga

'The Lyons Theses'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm

'Theory and Action in Marxist Doctrine'
https://libcom.org/library/theory-action-marxist-doctrine-amadeo-bordiga

'Dialogue with Stalin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm

Pannekoek:

'World Revolution and Communist Tactics'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm

'Party and Class'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/party-class.htm

Herman Gorter:

'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm

'The World Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm

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Bookchin Reading Lists - based off of posts by Gorm1918 (pbuh)
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'The Next Revolution'
https://libcom.org/files/Murray%20Bookchin-The%20Next%20Revolution.%20Popular%20Assemblies%20and%20the%20Promise%20of%20Direct%20Democracy-Verso%20(2015).pdf

'Urbanization Without Cities'
http://188.165.199.119/files/Urbanization_Without_Cities_-_Ebook.pdf

'The 3rd Revolution'
https://libcom.org/library/third-revolution-popular-movements-revolutionary-era

'The Ecology of Freedom'
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom

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Links to Resources and Libraries:
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More Marx and Engels:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm

Lenin:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/

Other Selected Marxists:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/selected-marxists.htm

Classical Works Recommended To High-Ranking Cadres:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_56.htm

Many important books can be found on libgen:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Libcom has some good books/documents:
https://libcom.org/library

Other links:
https://archive.is/L8uFD

Various assortment of historical and biographical works:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate

The Leftist Bookshelf (4.16 GB, 600+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!QUFQSBja!hPbmmLolJBGwSQ848nncnw
This was originally a torrent but I can't find the link anymore. Its description was: "640 eBooks, mostly in PDF format (a bunch are CHM, DJVU or ePUB), from a revolutionary Leftist viewpoint. The main subjects are politics and philosophy, history, economics, and much much more."

Political Theory (MLM) (2.64 GB, 550+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!4M1FnTgI!CdM8WWjpBC_UHGCJk9AHzA
I found this on reddit years ago (circa 2016) Don't really remember who made it or where it came from, but this is a reading course (politics, philosophy, economics, etc) focused on Maoism. Has many books and articles on the USSR, PRC, Stalin, Mao, etc.

The Anarchist Library (669 MB, 4000+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!gRFkQCLY!5gUkmaubpp_P_yKLZiBJ9Q
This is a complete mirror of the anarchist library with pdfs and epubs

Little Bunker of Marxism-Leninism (680 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!0QtCiI7L!MJZJk-SdjyBuBZOuNJuOPQ
Unfinished project focused on M-L with more than 100 books on several topics like history, economics, politics, etc. Lots of stuff on the USSR.

Historical Materialism series (330 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!9IkymYBZ!B8vB2yDP0Qv_-DPS2ro-HA
A pdf archive of over 100 books from the Historical Materialism book series. I got this from thecharnelhouse.org years ago and the website had released many marxist books from other publishers but unfortunately it's been taken down.

/leftypol/ with a slash of liberty (239 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!sFMQXJ6J!JboByVCZScC6Jq2YXE0Exw
I didn't make this, just reuploading it. This is a classic /leftypol/ link, marxist stuff mixed with anarchism.

Marx & Engels Collected Works (900+ MB, 50 files)
https://mega.nz/#F!BJEmkQiZ!vylIbCWFrqIeYaLiuN2szg
The official, complete works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels organized in 50 volumes and 3 categories.

Leftypol.org raid

Stop being nice. LEFTYPOL.org mods are deranged animals who need to be put in their place. Let’s raid and turn the place into a shithole. If we lack numbers, bring over polaks from 4chan and soyjack if need be. The point is not to fraternise with polaks but to ruin LEFTYPOL.org. The mods are assholes who manipulate the discourse and gaslight to no end. We must end them.

I found this abandoned repository https://gitgud.io/parley/Haruko.
It's imageboard software that's not that old but still works. This is what it looked like: https://archive.is/qiLyz.
and I would like your help in updating it. It would be a project for “new” imageboard software made with PHP because, from what I've seen, there aren't many like this left, so I created this repository: https://github.com/bigdustycheese/AobaIB which I will update and you will also help me with.

>>Why should we help you with this? What do I get in return, OP?

It's simply a collaborative fork. If you want to help me, that's fine. No one is forcing you.

(If you see this on other imageboards, it's not spam.)

SHOWTUNES!

We love 'em!

local jobs

switching from working s fuckass grocery job to a dishwasher at a local burger joint is amazing, I love a place I can work and know the guy who owns the restaurant and sometimes even visits to help cook and joke around with the staff, I respect a local owned business more honestly, you guys agree?

New Age

Thread for fans of crystals, compounds, and herbs.

I'm looking for this clip/video/film

Hello i'm looking for this, i've only got a screenshot of it, and i've reverse imaged it alot of times. But no, i cannot find the name or anything

THEL & MTHEL

Tactical High Energy Lasers (THEL) and Mobile Tactical High Energy Lasers (MTHEL), laser weapons/missile defense systems which had been discussed and tested since at least the 1990s. I remember reading about the White Sands missile base testing this stuff all the way back then. Apparently the real purpose was to give the technology to Israel, who reportedly have now completed its successor, the "Iron Beam," for which the first unit will reportedly be operational this month.

Back in the 2000s, there were a number of problems with this system. Firstly, to generate a laser beam with the necessary level of heat required an incredible amount of energy. The equipment was also very heavy at that time, as you can imagine from these illustrations, and aiming the large lens would have required an apparatus with a great deal of speed and precision.

It seems like, after all these decades, these devices may be ready. Whether or not they are effective remains to be seen.

Are they? Will this be a major advantage for the evil empire? If you live near one, would you like to give us some info about it, and/or sabotage it?

My Bloody Valentine joins the "No Music for Genocide" boycott

Iconic shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine joined the "No Music for Genocide" boycott, geo-blocking their music catalog on streaming platforms within ‘Israel’.

The move is part of a growing cultural protest against ‘Israel's’ actions in Gaza, urging artists to reject normalization and exert economic pressure on the music industry.

The campaign, launched on September 18, 2025, by a decentralized network of musicians and independent labels, calls on artists to geo-block their music in ‘Israel’ to reject normalization and exert economic pressure on the music industry.

Drawing inspiration from the cultural boycotts of apartheid-era South Africa and the music industry's response to Russia’s war with Ukraine in 2022, the initiative has rapidly grown from over 400 initial signatories to more than 1,000 artists and labels by late November 2025.

My Bloody Valentine's participation was highlighted in recent announcements alongside other new joiners, including rapper Denzel Curry, singer Shygirl, Paris Paloma, Vacations, Innervisions, Saba, and YHWH Nailgun.

The band, known for seminal albums like Loveless (1991) and their pioneering role in the shoegaze genre, has not issued a direct public statement on the decision.

However, frontman Kevin Shields has previously voiced criticism of US, UK, and ‘Israeli’ policies, stating in a 2025 interview: "The bad things done by the US - UK - Israel will not stop unless you make them stop."

Organizers of "No Music for Genocide" say that the boycott targets ‘Israel's’ violations, including nearly 500 reported breaches of the US-brokered ceasefire deal from October 2023.

Campaign participants argue that withholding music is a non-violent way to support Palestinians and align with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

Earlier waves of joiners include prominent names such as Massive Attack, Fontaines D.C., Rina Sawayama, Japanese Breakfast, Lorde, Paramore, Hayley Williams, Björk, IDLES, Clairo, MUNA, Lucy Dacus, and the estate of Ryuichi Sakamoto.

In October 2025, artists like Clairo, Hot Chip, Nightmare on Wax, Orbital, and boygenius' Lucy Dacus also restricted their music in ‘Israel’, contributing to the boycott's momentum despite the ceasefire.

http://en.royanews.tv/news/65240

Big dumb pub hard rock

Punchy music for punching.

Metal Subgenres

Whats yalls favorite metal subgenre?

Site Updates: i2p, Moderation changes, /k/ board & More

This thread will detail some of the changes made to the site in the past year, as well as our plans for the future.

New i2p Address
As requested by several users, and in accordance with our general ethos of encouraging online anonymity, leftychan now has an i2p address which can be found here:
http://leftychmxz3wczbd4add4atspbqevzrtwf2sjobm3waqosy2dbua.b32.i2p or http://leftychan.i2p/

Moderation Changes
* New spam filter - Thanks to the hard work of our dev and admin Zer0-, leftychan now has an effective countermeasure against the automatic bot spam that plagues alt-chans. Dubbed as the 'spam noticer', the implementation of this system has led to a dramatic fall in malicious advertisement threads being posted to the site.
* New mods & dev - In order to better cover european and asian timezones, two more mods have been voted onto the team. These are sindikat, who has previous moderation experience, and jon, who is also acting as a dev and has made many valuable contributions in this capacity.
* Removal of Zul - In line with the rule that if a mod is inactive for over 15 weeks their status as a mod is called into question, Zul was voted off the mod team.

New Roulette Board
>>>/777/
After some discussion, we decided on /k/ as the new roulette board theme, replacing /CHAD/. Archived threads from previous roulette cycles can still be viewed here >>>/roulette_archive/
Any suggestions for future roulette board rotations are welcome.

Other Updates
* Removal of the post counter - This has been hotly debated for a while, but after several failed votes the motion has finally passed.
* Dealing with AI - In light of the recent spam of AI generated prompts and images, we have voted to formally declare AI content exempt from normal moderation procedures. If you believe your post has been misidentified as AI by a mod, please let us know in /meta/.
* IRC now fully functional & bridged with other chats - ircs://irc.leftychan.net:6697/#leftychan
* Creation of a Telegram chat - https://t.me/+RegtyzzrE0M1NDMx

Plans for the coming year
* Continue to encourage freedom of discussion - We have no intention of clamping down on the ability of users to share their personal opinions and views on this site, despite repeated requests to do so. In fact, we plan on widening the variety of topics that can be discussed by unpinning the 'Right wing blood sport' thread (which we have already done) and having conversations about the status of wordfilters.
* The 2024 US election - We believe the upcoming US election will be an excellent opportunity to grow the userbase of the site. We hope for anons with a wide variety of views on the candidates to share their opinions, fostering a culture of debate online that is absent from many other more partisan platforms.
* Maintain our independence from leftypol.org - As predicted, our sister site has continued to go down the path of censorship, adherence to political correctness and moderator tyranny. For these reasons, any kind of reconciliation between the two sites seems impossible for the foreseeable future. Leftychan continues to welcome anons from .org who seek a more enlightened /leftypol/ experience.

Nuclear War

The nuclear threat is back. But we don't see any nuclear panic like in the 1980s. Why is that? Why does nobody care?

I am not some prepper retard but even I am getting nervous.

Just look at this shit
A time of unprecedented danger: It is 90 seconds to midnight
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
>This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.
>As UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in August, the world has entered “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”

and also this
US Nuclear Test Raises Concerns of New Arms Race With Russia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-19/us-nuclear-test-on-day-of-kremlin-s-treaty-abdication-fuels-doubt

https://archive.ph/EoqWY

>The US conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada just hours after Russia revoked a ban on atomic-weapons testing, prompting concerns of a new arms race between the world’s top nuclear powers.

So, are you going to PROTECT AND SURVIVE, anon? Or are you just going to give up everything and die?

Image Format Wars

So apparently Palemoon became the first browser to officially implemented JPEG XL a week ago. At the same time, Google just dropped it from Chromium despite supporting it behind a flag for months. What the hell is going on here? Is Google that desperate to push their video-codecs-as-image-formats that they're willing to sabotage a massive step forward for the web? JPEG XL is capable of replacing both original JPEG, PNG, and animated GIF/PNG all at once with a single file type that produces superior file sizes for all three categories of use cases. Neither WebP, HEIC, nor AVIF were ever able to make such a broad, sweeping improvement because they are geared more towards features important to video encoding than still images or lossless animation.

It seems like every few weeks these days I find something new to get mad about in the world of web development.

Palestine Thread Pt. IX

Continued from >>489198

Updates and current status since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers. Israel proceeded to violate the ceasefire with airstrikes and a resumption of their illegal blockade of Gaza before resuming full-scale attacks in March and destroying the ceasefire entirely. At least 7,450 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza alone since Israel unilaterally broke the ceasefire.

Israel attacked Iran utilizing a large number of assets embedded in Iran, killing multiple scientists and high ranking Iranian military officials, as well as targeting schools, hospitals, oil assets, and a TV station. Around one thousand Iranians were killed in Israel's strikes on civilian targets like residential buildings. Iran retaliated with a series of waves of missile and drone attacks which hit multiple Israeli military targets including IDF HQ, Mossad HQ, as well as an Israeli oil field. After an Iranian strike on Unit 8200, the number of online Zionist apologists conspicuously reduced for a while. The Israeli government, embarrassed by the damage to Tel Aviv, heavily censored footage and reporting of Iranian strikes on Israel, resulting in the Israeli police arresting journalists and citizens for filming sites of impact, while rich Israelis fled by boat due to the closure of Ben-Gurion airport. Iran began a crackdown on Israeli terror cells, finding and closing multiple Mossad-linked covert drone factories, as well as reportedly arresting groups of Afghan nationals involved in sabotage, and multiple individuals reportedly linked to German & Indian spy agencies.

The US launched airstrikes against multiple Iranian nuclear energy sites, followed by Iran retaliating with a strike on a US airbase in Qatar. A ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been in place since shortly after this, with expectations being that Israel intends to recouperate and try again with more direct US involvement.

Following more than a year of Israeli bombings of UN and NGO aid organizations, the US launched a mercenary front called the GHF under the pretext of providing aid to three sites in Gaza. Since its initiation, the IDF has been shooting Palestinians waiting for aid en masse at GHF sites, with the number of aid seekers killed at these death traps alone now already topping 1,000.

Israel has continued to violate the ceasefire with Lebanon more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country entirely after multiple delays. After months of the IDF violating the ceasefire in the south of Lebanon, Israel returned to bombing Beirut in March.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance. In July, fighting broke out between Jolani's factions and the Syrian Druze religious minority, who Israel has been trying to groom as proxies in Israeli-occupied Syria for months. Israel proceeded to bomb government buildings in Damascus wthout any direct retaliation from Jolani.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited back to the White House for February 4th, 2025, and again on July 7th.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank, and unilaterally broke the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, refusing to move on to phase two of the deal. More sham ceasefire negotiations have occurred since, resulting in Israeli rejections.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join. Nicaragua has withdrawn from the case.

The US entered into a ceasefire agreement with Ansar Allah in May of 2025 after the US navy's strikes on Yemen failed to achieve any goal beyond large amounts of killing. The US lost three planes in the process, and wasted over a billion dollars. The exchange of fire between the US and Yemen began when the US attacked Yemen on Israel's behalf, and the ceasefire only applies to the US and Yemen directly.

Yemeni Ansar Allah attacks in solidarity with Gaza have hit Ben-Gurion airport, as well as sinking two ships headed for Israel in July of 2025, since the resumption of Israel's blockade against Gaza. Yemen's blockade of Israeli shipping continues.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK. Palestine Action broke into a UK military base, damaging two planes of a type which the UK government has used to aid in Israel's genocide of Palestine. Following this, the UK government under Starmer proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group, despite direct action being a legal form of protest in the UK. Hundreds of arrests have followed.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration has started unlawfully abducting students for protest and opposition to genocide. The administration has threatened to deport these students, and has gone after university funding in an effort to suppress anti-genocide speech on campuses and control the narrative. Mahmoud Khalil was later released.

Israel attacked a Freedom Flotilla boat near Malta for trying to break the illegal blockade of Gaza, and attacked a second Freedom Flotilla boat and abducted its crew.

In June, the Global March to Gaza, a peaceful humanitarian mission to get aid into Gaza through the Egyptian Rafah crossing, was blocked by the US-backed El-Sisi government. Hundreds of marchers were arrested and harrassed at the crossing by the Egyptian military.

And much, much more!

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Italian General Strike November 28-29

Video: Italy General Strike & USB Union Appeal To US Workers For Action On Palestine Nov 28 & 29

The Italian union USB is going on a general strike on November 28th and will be rallying on November 29 against the genocide in Gaza. They are also appealing for US workers and unions including the ILWU & ILA to stop the movement of all cargo to Israel to stop the genocide and to work toward a general strike in the US.
"I am Francesco Staccioli, member of the national board of the USB Trade Confederation in Italy. Our comrades in United States with Disarmed Genocide, Labor for Palestine National Network, Lifeline for Palestine, and other groups are organizing in action in solidarity with Palestine on November 28th and November 29th."

For additional info:
USB
https://www.usb.it
Labor For Palestine
https://laborforpalestine.net
Production of Labor Video Project
https://www.labormedia.net

/leftyfashion/

How do you dress? What are you wearing today? How should you dress, as a Marxist? Which trends are proletarian and which are bourgeois?
Discuss.

leftypol.org psyop general

Thread dedicated to psychological operations against the leftypol.org administration.

Things to consider:
<The .org mods will read this thread, use this to your advantage
<Posting over your mobile data will arouse less suspicion than over a proxy
<Threads created over an IP with no post history are heavily scrutinized
<Post in /meta/ and try to appeal any mod action against you
<Abuse the report feature
<Use a wide variety of proxy services
<Antagonize individual moderators
<Create as many personas as possible, try to have the mods always chasing a previous persona and not your current one
<The less consistency between the ideological beliefs of your personas the better
<Be consciously aware of your writing style
<Fermenting internal conflict among the mod team is of the upmost importance
<Sow dissent among the userbase whenever possible
<Have fun :)

Top Israeli Cyber Official Arrested in US Child Predator Sting Then Freed Without Explanation

Las Vegas (Quds News Network)- Las Vegas police, working with the FBI, Homeland Security, and Nevada’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, announced the arrest of eight men on Wednesday. One of them was Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, a top Israeli cyberwarfare official.

Alexandrovich works directly under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He serves as Acting Head of Data & AI at Israel’s National Cyber Directorate. His job safeguards Israel’s critical infrastructure, including power grids, airports, and sensitive intelligence networks.

According to Las Vegas authorities, Alexandrovich and others were charged with luring a child with a computer for a sexual act. In Nevada, this felony carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

Alexandrovich is the founder of Israel’s multi-million-dollar “Cyber Dome” initiative. The program uses AI to detect, neutralize, and repel cyber threats before they reach critical systems. He has deep access to Israel’s cyber secrets and classified partnerships with foreign powers.

His position makes him one of Israel’s most powerful cyber officials. Experts say any ally, including the United States, would normally monitor such a figure closely. He was in Las Vegas for a professional conference, not as a registered diplomat. He has no diplomatic immunity. Yet U.S. authorities allowed him to board a plane and return to Israel within days, without trial, bail conditions, or public explanation

Israeli outlet Ynet (https://archive.is/dtnCn) reported only that Alexandrovich was “briefly detained for questioning… before his release and return to Israel.” The report did not mention the felony charges or the multi-agency child predator sting led by US authorities.

https://qudsnen.co/top-israeli-cyber-official-arrested-in-us-child-predator-sting-then-freed-without-explanation/

Alongside this high-ranking Israeli official, these others were arrested in this sting:
David Wonnacott-Yahnke, 40, Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, Jose Alberto Perez-Torres, 35, Aniket Brajeshkumar Sadani, 23, James Ramon Reddick, 23, Ramon Manuel Parra Valenzuela, 29, Neal Harrison Creecy, 46, John Charles Duncan, 49.

Of these, Neal Creecy is a pastor (https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/las-vegas-pastor-arrested-in-child-predator-sting-operation/), David Wonnacot-Yahnke (AKA DJ Wonnacott) has been an exec in a couple regional LGBT non-profits, and John Charles Duncan may or may not be a cop. I posted a version of this thread before where I made a "walk into a bar" joke, but I'm not sure if this sting was directed at a single group of associates or was a broader sting against multiple targets, so I rewrote part of it.

News 11/21/25

Nations and environmental groups slam proposals at UN climate talks, calling them too weak
Several nations and environmental groups on Friday slammed proposals in the final stages of this year’s U.N. climate talks for failing to explicitly mention the cause of global warming — the burning of fuels such as oil, gas and coal — with one negotiator warning the talks are on “the verge of collapse.” Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, a top negotiator for Panama, said the decades-long United Nations process risks “becoming a clown show” for the omission.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-cop30-c2c66ea017db8984102702320142ce76

Nationwide strikes called in Italy, Belgium and Portugal as social anger erupts across Europe
In Belgium, a nationwide rail and mass transit strike is called for November 24, a nationwide strike of the public sector the day after, and finally a general strike on the 26th. They are called against moves by the right-wing government led by Bart De Wever’s New Flemish Alliance (NVA) to slash pensions, end indexing of wages on inflation and slash benefits including unemployment insurance.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/21/zxyq-n21.html

The Co-Founder of Palestine Action Is Taking the Government to Court
If Ammori wins, the high court will rule that then-home secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action was unlawful, effectively lifting the ban. This means that thousands of arrests and hundreds of charges made under the Terrorism Act since the ban came into force will be quashed.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/11/20/the-co-founder-of-palestine-action-is-taking-the-government-to-court/

Iqbal Mohamed becomes second MP to leave Your Party
The move from Mr Mohamed comes just over a week before the new party’s founding conference in Liverpool is due to take place. He signalled that his decision was over “allegations and smears” made against him, but did not go into detail. “The many false allegations and smears against me and others, and reported as fact without evidence, have been surprising and disappointing.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/second-mp-pulls-out-of-corbyn-backed-your-party-7BPMFNHPHNIITIOXHQ6ESUOLIQ/
https://archive.ph/HoNwI

TNT that Europe needs to defend itself is being used on Gaza, Polish MP claims
Maciej Konieczny, a member of the leftwing Razem party, said the Polish company Nitro-Chem, owned by the Polish Armaments Group, could not keep up with demand partly because it had signed successive contracts to supply TNT to the US, where it is used in bombs supplied to Israel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/europe-tnt-supply-us-export-israel-gaza-polish-mp-claims

Iran's president says capital must move from Tehran over ecological concerns
His government has proposed the underdeveloped Makran region in southeastern Iran as a possible new location. "When we proposed relocating the capital, we lacked the budget - otherwise it might have happened," Pezeshkian told officials. "People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-president-says-capital-must-move-tehran-over-ecological-concerns

Gaza death toll surpasses 69,000 as thousands await medical evacuation
According to The New Arab’s sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Israeli forces opened fire on areas near the al-Bureij camp, while helicopters circled above Khan Younis on Tuesday. Since the ceasefire came into effect, at least 242 Palestinians have been killed and 622 others wounded in Israeli attacks, the ministry of health added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-death-toll-surpasses-69000-thousands-await-evacuation

Thailand Denies Claim Its Soldiers Gang-Raped Cambodian Woman
The alleged incident occurred on November 15 as the migrant workers were attempting to return home, authorities in Phnom Penh said, sparking allegations of gross human rights violations by Thai soldiers amid the two nations’ seemingly intractable border conflict.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/11/thailand-denies-claim-its-soldiers-gang-raped-cambodian-woman/
https://archive.ph/30xqu

India and Afghanistan to launch air cargo services to boost trade
Kabul's air freight corridors with Delhi and the northern Indian city of Amritsar have been "activated", and cargo flights will operate on the sectors "very soon", said Anand Prakash, a joint secretary in the Indian foreign ministry. "All formalities from our side are over. We are waiting for all the papers from their (Afghan) side … Once they complete them, the cargo flights will start," Prakash told Reuters on the sidelines of an India-Afghanistan business conference.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/air-cargo-services-between-india-afghanistan-be-launched-soon-2025-11-21/

Labor to rule out controversial ‘national interest’ exemption for coal and gas if Greens back nature laws
Labor would prevent a contentious “national interest” exemption being used to approve coal and gas projects if the Greens agreed to support its nature laws, Guardian Australia can reveal. The offer follows a groundswell of criticism about the discretionary power, including from the author of the review that inspired the new laws, Graeme Samuel, and the former treasury secretary Ken Henry.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/22/labor-to-rule-out-national-interest-exemption-for-coal-gas-if-greens-back-nature-laws

One in nine Argentines have no access to gas, drinking water or sewers
More than five million people in Argentina live in precarious conditions across 6,467 low-income neighbourhoods. Report by Fundar y Techo NGOs find that socio-urban integration policies have been defunded since 2024, with those living in impoverished areas falling behind.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/one-out-of-every-nine-argentines-have-no-gas-water-or-sewers.phtml

Victims and prosecutor request more time to appeal Uribe’s acquittal
Presidential candidate Ivan Cepeda, former justice minister Eduardo Montealegre, and delegate prosecutor before the Supreme Court of Justice Marlene Orjuela formally requested the 30-day extension to file an appeal before the Supreme Court. The prosecution argued that the decisions of the first and second instances and the dissenting vote are more than two thousand pages in total, and need to be “studied and analyzed with the utmost care to satisfy the argumentative burden required by the extraordinary appeal.”
https://colombiareports.com/victims-and-prosecutor-request-more-time-to-appeal-uribes-acquittal/

Adventurism is based.

One hit wonder assassinations are better than nothing. No, we don't need more theory. Since 2020, most new "theory" has been AI assisted slop anyway. AI can write theory, but it cannot shoot porky. What you call adventurism is actually just a manifestation of your body count chauvinism. Until the kill count gets high enough to be a second 9/11, you will dismiss it as "counter productive adventurism" even if it results in the destruction of our enemies and the intimidation of reactionaries.

How did they know?

is if in of me

world war 3 & ww2 occurred at same time

CORRECT HISTORY OF THIS DECADE

1. EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT DIED OF COVID ACTUALLY EITHER DIED FROM THE COMMON COLD OR THE VACCINE ITSELF (THE ONE MILLION). THE MAJORITY OF THE ONE MILLION ARE LIKE 85 YEAR OLD GEEZERS WHO WOULD'VE DIED ANYWAYS FROM FROM FARTING IN BED. NO YOUNG PEOPLE ACTUALLY DIED FROM COVID. ONE THIRD OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION ARE ALREADY BORN NATURALLY IMMUNE TO THE REAL COROAVIRUSSES FOUND IN NATURE.

2. THE VACCINE WASN'T A VACCINE. REAL VACCINES YOU TAKE ONLY ONCE YEARS BEFORE AND ARE FOREVER SHIELDED, AND ALSO TAKE YEARS TO DEVELOP. TETNUS VACCINATED PEOPLE FOR EXAMPLE YOU NEVER GET TETNUS. THE FACT THAT BOOSTER SHOTS EVEN EXIST PROVES THAT THE COVID VACCINES AREN'T COVID VACCINES.

3. THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF THE WORLD'S AIRPORTS + THE DENSITY OF THE CITIES + THE EIGHT BILLION WORLD POPULATION = SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT A WORLDWIDE VIRUS PANDEMIC WAS INEVITABLE SOME TIME YES. BUT THIS HALF DECADE BIG SHOW WAS STILL METICUOULUSLY PLANNED AHEAD INTENTIONALLY BROUGHT INTO BEING BY THE BOURGS AT A CONFERENCE CALLED EVENT 201.

4. THERE COVID VAX KEEPS GETTING PROMOTED AS BEING GOOD AGAINST SHIT IT'S NOT EVEN "DESIGNED" FOR

5. GETTING GENE THERAPY IS ONLY ASKING FOR CHAOS

6. WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T EVER GET THE VACCINE, DON'T EVER GET THE VACCINE FOR THE SEQUEL TO COVID.

/t/ - torrents and downloads

Things to share: Movies, documentaries and mainly books.
Anything related to socialism, anarchy, communism and so on.

>Absolute beginner material

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm

>More Marx and Engels

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm

>Lenin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/

>Other Selected Marxists

https://www.marxists.org/archive/selected-marxists.htm

>Classical Works Recommended To High-Ranking Cadres

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_56.htm

>Many important books can be found on libgen

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

>Libcom has some good books/documents

https://libcom.org/library

>Other links

https://archive.is/L8uFD

>Various assortment of historical and biographical works.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate

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News 11/14/25

Polish president seeks to have Communist Party of Poland outlawed
His move follows the recent collapse of a long-running attempt initiated by the former national-conservative (PiS) government to have the KPP outlawed. The president’s office announced this week that, on 6 November, Nawrocki had submitted an application to the Constitutional Tribunal (TK), asking the court to determine that the KPP does not conform to the Polish constitution. In his justification for the request, Nawroocki argued that “communist ideology is directed against fundamental human values ​​and the traditions of European and Christian civilisation”. He noted that Poland itself “was and remains one of the greatest victims of communism”.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/14/polish-president-seeks-to-have-communist-party-of-poland-outlawed/

Google snubs EU request for self-imposed breakup
In its decision, the Commission concluded that Google’s abuse was a product of the “inherent conflict of interest” it has by owning such vast swaths of the infrastructure that powers online advertising. A spokesperson for the Commission confirmed in a statement that the EU executive had received Google’s proposal, and that it will now analyse the proposed measures.
https://www.politico.eu/article/google-snubs-eu-request-for-self-imposed-breakup/
https://archive.ph/OgM0z

Mahmood to unveil anti-migration measures modelled on Danish system
Mahmood is also expected to be preparing changes to human rights legislation to make it easier to deport people who cross the Channel in small boats. Changes would include requiring judges to prioritise public safety over migrants’ rights to a family life, or the risk that they would face “inhuman” treatment if returned to their home country, the Telegraph reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/14/shabana-mahmood-changes-illigal-migration-danish-system

Greek dockworker faces prosecution for blocking arms shipment to Israel
News of Bekris facing legal prosecution came shortly after his return from the West Bank, where a delegation from the All-Workers’ Militant Front (PAME) traveled to express support for Palestinian workers and trade unions.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/14/greek-dockworker-faces-prosecution-for-blocking-arms-shipment-to-israel/

Twenty-five states funnelled oil to Israel during genocide: Report
The sharp drop in Brazil's exports to Israel has coincided with a surge in deliveries to the Sarroch refinery in Sardinia, along with a rise in refined products exported from the refinery to Israel. The report also found that 17 countries sent 152 shipments of nearly 3.3 million tonnes of refined petroleum products to Israel in the same period, with 45 percent of shipments coming from Russia. It also noted that the US sent nine shipments carrying 360,000 tonnes of JP-8 - a jet fuel blend used for military aircraft - as well as two shipments of diesel from Valero’s Bill Greehey Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twenty-five-states-funnelled-oil-israel-during-genocide-report

UN peacekeepers say Israel built walls inside Lebanese territory
UNIFIL said another section of the wall, southeast of Yaroun, also extends beyond the Blue Line. “UNIFIL informed the [Israeli army] of our findings and requested that they move the walls,” it said. In response to UNIFIL’s statement on Friday, the Israeli military told the AFP news agency that the wall “is part of a broader plan whose construction began in 2022”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/14/un-peacekeepers-say-israel-built-walls-inside-lebanese-territory
https://archive.ph/yL9GN

South Africa to investigate ‘mysterious’ arrival of 153 Palestinians on plane
Details about how the group left Gaza remain elusive but the Gift of the Givers Foundation, a local nonprofit working in disaster response, said it was the second plane carrying Palestinians to land in South Africa in the last two weeks. “The Palestinians had no idea where they were bundled off to, only when in Kenya did they realise they were coming to South Africa. Some had visas for Canada, Australia and Malaysia, they were eventually permitted to leave for those countries,” said Imtiaz Sooliman, the chair and founder of Gift of the Givers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/14/anger-south-africa-plane-palestinians-held-12-hours

Protesters block the main entrance to COP30 climate talks in Brazil
Munduruku leaders had a series of demands for Brazil. They included revoking plans for commercial development of rivers, canceling a grain railway project that has raised fears of deforestation and clearer demarcations of Indigenous territories. They also want a rejection of deforestation carbon credits.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-cop30-brazil-protest-indigenous-8b3e00085110627a989357434805f920

China is developing the world’s most ambitious network to transport its clean energy
Over the past five years, the total length of China’s UHV transmission lines has increased from 17,400 miles to more than 24,854, according to the latest figures from the National Energy Administration. The country currently has 45 UHV lines (one AC line at ±1,100 kilovolts, 21 AC lines at 1,000 kilovolts, and 23 DC lines at ±800 kilovolts). Beijing anticipates that by the end of 2025, the west-east transmission capacity will exceed 340 GW, a 25% increase over 2020, enough to power approximately 230 million Chinese households.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-14/china-is-developing-the-worlds-most-ambitious-network-to-transport-its-clean-energy.html
https://archive.ph/3lNOx

Socialist Party of Malaysia leaders arrested for opposing illegal home demolitions
Earlier this month, PSM and other organizations had appealed to the state to halt the demolition until alternative arrangements were made, as without such an arrangement over a hundred families would become homeless. However, the company resumed the demolition of all houses in the region on November 10, in complete violation of earlier promises and state assurances.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/14/socialist-party-of-malaysia-leaders-arrested-for-opposing-illegal-home-demolitions/

‘Restricted’: Did US troops try to cordon off a Mexican beach?

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seeks the International Boundary and Water Commission intervention.

US troops appeared to arrive this week on a beach in northeast Mexico where they installed signs declaring the area “restricted” by the US Department of Defense.

Trump and his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, have been engaged in a back-and-forth war of words over the threat of US strikes on what it says are drug cartels in Mexico.

On Monday, unidentified men arrived via boat at a beach in northeast Mexico, where they planted signs in the sand reading: “Warning: Restricted Area” in English and Spanish.

The precise location of the beach has not been confirmed by either side, but a video circulating on social media and local news purports to show Mexican marines removing the signs. The video is described as footage from a beach frequented by locals and fishermen, known as Playa Bagdad, in an area where the Rio Grande, a river which originates in south-central Colorado in the US, flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Al Jazeera has not been able to verify this video.

The signs stated that the area was Department of Defense property and had been declared restricted by “the commander”. They also stated that “unauthorized entry is prohibited” and “if you are found here, you may be detained and searched”. They additionally prohibited photography or drawings.

The Gulf of Mexico is bound by Cuba; eastern states of Mexico, including Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo; and states on the Gulf Coast of the US: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

In January, Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which was rejected by Mexico. The change has been reflected on Google Maps for users in the US.

Late on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the navy had removed the signs because they were on Mexican territory.

On Tuesday, Sheinbaum said the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) would get involved to resolve the dispute. “The river changes its course, it breaks loose, and according to the treaty, you have to clearly demarcate the national border,” she said during her daily news briefing.

…

The most recent treaty the IBWC oversaw was signed in Mexico in 1970 to resolve boundary disputes and maintain the Rio Grande and the Colorado as the international boundary.

The IBWC’s role is to enforce these treaties.

So, has the US violated any of these treaties?
It appears so. “The agency or contractor who placed the signs is in clear violation of the 1970 Boundary Treaty,” Stephen Mumme, a professor at Colorado State University, told Al Jazeera. “The boundary is set at middle of the most substantial and deepest channel of the river as it enters the Gulf of Mexico.”

“The mouth of the river does fluctuate according to river flows, erosion, and siltation,” said Mumme, who specialises in US-Mexican water and environmental relations.

Both the US and Mexican governments and agencies are obliged to consult the IBWC prior to undertaking any project or construction that might plausibly involve or affect the international boundary.

“Mexico was completely within its rights to remove the signs and lodge complaints with the US State Department,” Mumme said.

On Tuesday, the US Embassy in Mexico shared a comment from the Pentagon, stating that US “contractors” had placed signs beside the Rio Grande, marking “National Defense Area III”.

“Changes in water depth and topography altered the perception of the international boundary’s location,” the statement said. “Government of Mexico personnel removed 6 signs based on their perception of the international boundary’s location.”

The Pentagon added that the contractors would work with “appropriate agencies to avoid confusion in the future”.

National Defense Areas (NDAs) are US military zones along the US-Mexico border, managed by the Defense Department.

On May 1 this year, the US Northern Command announced that a new 260-mile (418km) NDA had been established along the southern border of Texas with Mexico.

“The establishment of a National Defense Area increases our operational reach and effectiveness in denying illegal activity along the southern border,” the release quoted General Gregory Guillot, the commander of the Northern Command.

…

The US has deployed a large military force, including B‑52 bombers and elite special operations troops, to the Caribbean in recent months, citing security concerns and the threat of an “invasion” by Venezuelan drug gangs. Trump is also considering land attacks in Venezuela to curb the flow of illegal drugs and has authorised CIA covert operations in Venezuela for the same purpose.

Since September 2, the US has conducted at least 21 military strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, killing about 80 people. Now, Trump seems to have turned his attention to Mexico.

On Monday, Trump threatened to launch strikes on drug cartels in Mexico.

“Would I want strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? OK with me, whatever we have to do to stop drugs,” Trump told a reporter during an Oval Office meeting between Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

“I looked at Mexico City over the weekend. There’s some big problems over there.”

During her daily press briefing on Tuesday morning, Sheinbaum responded to Trump’s comments on Sunday about possible US intervention in Mexico. “It’s not going to happen,” she said.

Sheinbaum said she had told Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio multiple times during telephone conversations that Mexico does not want US intervention on Mexican soil.

“He has suggested on several occasions or has said, ‘We offer you a United States military intervention in Mexico or whatever you need to combat criminal groups’,” she explained.

Sheinbaum said she would accept collaboration and intelligence sharing with the US military, but she reiterated that no outside intervention would be permitted in the country.

“We do not accept an intervention by any foreign government,” Sheinbaum continued. “I’ve told him on the phone. I’ve said it with the State Department, with Marco Rubio.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/19/restricted-did-us-troops-try-to-cordon-off-a-mexican-beach

/edu/ checkpoint

Hello comrades. I propose a general thread in an attempt to get the /edu/ ball rolling again. Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.

Some Questions About Anarchy/Anarchism

I don't know how many anarchists are here, but I've been looking into anarchism, and though I'm pretty sceptical I find some of their points valid. It is easy for me to understand why someone would want to be an anarchist and I am not swayed by the basic, superficial, "On Authority" style "arguments" against it. I both understand and sympathise with their libertarian tendencies and scepticism toward the state.

However, I have some concerns nonetheless.

>1. No prisons, no death penalty, so what instead?

The concept of "crime" is, of course, foreign to anarchy, for there are no laws to violate. But of course anarchists, I hope, would agree something must be done to prevent and address acts like murder, assault, rape, and robbery. Rehabilitation programs have been proposed, which is fine (I would support that, in fact), but how is that substantially different from prison? In many countries (Norway, for instance), prison is basically that already, but no one denies it is prison. Such people would likely not willingly enter reabilitation, so for this to be effective, they'd have to be enrolled without their consent, much like how prisons or asylums work. How is this not, then, simply prison with a red-and-black coat of paint, regardless of how much better the conditions are? I wouldn't oppose such a system, but I'm not sure I would call it anarchist? Failing that, what would you do? And if you do want something like that, how would you enforce and sustain it under anarchy? Who would take away the committers of such acts to be rehabilitated? The anarcho-police? Neighborhood watch?

>2. How? Is this actually possible?

That's my biggest question. In no universe, to me, does it seem that your goal, however noble, is at all attainable. With standard socialism, we've at least gotten pretty close, but with anarchism, no large-scale experiments have survived. Ukraine's experiment was crushed by the USSR, the anarchists in Spain were utterly defeated, and I wouldn't exactly call Rojava anarchist, they just have a more libertarian form of government. My question here especially extends to Western anarchists. Suppose, for example, the USA falls, be that by itself or by some popular uprising. It is not taken over, but abolished entirely, the ideal conditions for anarchists! You and your anarchist org (assuming you're fortunate enough to have one) start organising, let's say you're really successful and get together a neighbourhood. Then what? How do you make decisions? Direct voting? Congratulations, now you're a direct democracy. The people are rulers, and you are no longer anarchists. Perhaps you may create something great, but unless I am misunderstanding something here, it shouldn't really be called anarchism. How exactly is anarchism organised? Total consensus is not possible on the majority of issues, especially politically. People are unlikely, even if the empire falls, to let go of their previous biases. Your neighbour with the Trump-Vance flag probably isn't going to donate much of his labour to the community gardens, nor much of his food to the community food reserve you've set up, unless he thinks you're trying to rebuild the USA from the ashes. But as an anarchist, you aren't, and your org hasn't been secretive about its sympathies and ideological leanings. Supposing he hasn't already done what members of dying cults tend to do, he will, at best, be of no help. The liberals (let's suppose you live in a mostly-liberal neighbourhood), of course, will also be of little help. Perhaps, at first, they will participate in your little democracy, but if it grows enough, they will suggest a republic instead; 'all this voting is so tiresome and inconvenient, what if we appointed representatives instead?', and soon enough you'll have a brand new state. How can we prevent a new state from arising after the empire falls, just as they always have before? The Roman Empire, once fallen, did not result in an anarchist Spain, Italy, Britain, or Germany, and if it did, they gave way to empires anew.

REPORT: Israeli Owned Corporate Landlord Behind Mass US Evictions

Apparently one of the major corporate landlords doing mass evictions in the US is Israeli-owned. Vid attached is Breaking Points going over an article from The Nation, excerpt below:

The Eviction Kings
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
…
Whether they stay or get priced out, these tenants are also linked to a multinational conglomerate that profits from the displacement of people on the other side of the world. That’s because American Landmark is almost entirely owned by Elco, one of Israel’s largest corporations. For years, Elco, via its Electra Super Brand, has done extensive business in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israeli settlements drive many thousands of Palestinians from their homes and are considered illegal under international law. Elco has also maintained deep ties to the Israeli military, including during the genocide in Gaza. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has cited Electra Ltd. in its database of over 150 companies doing business in the settlements. In 2024, the American Friends Service Committee put Electra on its list of companies that “directly facilitate and enable human rights violations and violations of international law as part of Israel’s prolonged military occupations, apartheid, and genocide.” Meanwhile, in a podcast appearance that same year, an Electra executive described American Landmark as a “big winning card” for the company. (Elco and Electra Real Estate, the subsidiary that owns American Landmark, did not respond to requests for comment.)

read more:
https://archive.is/VaUKF
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-landmark-evictions-israel-electra/

How Graham Platner Exposes the U.S. Left

New BadEmpanada just dropped.
Per BE:
Many on the U.S. left believe that killing the world's poorest people for money is fine, and that those who do it bare no responsibility whatsoever - provided they're American. This video explores this common tendency by analyzing recent controversy surrounding Democratic Party U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, a proud & unrepentant occupier of Iraq & Afghanistan and Blackwater mercenary. We will look at & refute the defenses of him by many American self-styled leftists, progressives, and anti-imperialists. Used as examples are Hasan Piker, Chapo Trap House, Breaking Points (Krystal Ball & Ryan Grim), and the Majority Report (Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland) - but there have been many more.

What do you think?

blue eyes and alcoholism

https://rdw.rowan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2571&context=etd

https://www.health.com/condition/alcoholism/people-with-this-eye-color-may-have-a-greater-risk-of-alcoholism

People with blue eyes are more prone to alcohol addiction, which makes sense if you take into account their greater social inhibition. For many alcohol can be a way to feel free of inhibitions, so while darker eyed people may be more likely to drink to feel less depressed (if they are socially disadvantaged espec), light eyed people are more likely to drink to become more impulsive.

But ofc, blue eyes aren't making someone less impulsive. It's a Neanderthal trait, so anyone with it is more likely to have another set of Neanderthal traits, correlated with being antisocial.

Should I start a carnivore/raw primal/high cholesterol ,high-fat diet?
I know how terribly unhealthy this all sounds but it also sounds hyper-masculine and caveman. I know some bodybuilders have 40 eggs a day and theyre fine(inb4 Gaston)
a Builder of Communism must be strong and manly!

This board has been pretty dead so I will make a post. I really like sexy traps, but, not traps that don't pass. Does this make me gay?

Рушана – Углами (лайв в коридоре)

New video from Рушана. What does Leftychan think of it?

I think I'm into femboys with vaginas, how do you call that?

News 11/15/25

Kashmir is focus of arrests after Delhi car blast linked to ‘terror module’
Seven people were arrested as a result of the inquiries, including two Kashmiri doctors working in other Indian states. During a raid of one of the doctors’ homes in the city of Faridabad, in Haryana state, police said they had uncovered 2,900kg of explosive materials as well as chemicals, detonators and assault rifles, which they now believe were being readied for a multi-target attack.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/14/kashmir-is-focus-of-arrests-after-delhi-car-blast-linked-to-terror-module

New rulers, old killers: Bangladesh extrajudicial deaths mount under Yunus
The report categorises 19 victims as shot dead in “crossfire” or “encounters”, 14 as killed under torture and seven as beaten to death in custody. These deaths bear what human rights activists said are hallmarks of impunity: arrests without warrants, denial of due process and an absence of credible investigation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/11/13/have-extrajudicial-killings-continued-under-bangladeshs-yunus-government
https://archive.ph/y1tP5

South Korean growers sue state power utility, blaming climate change for crop damage
Hwang is one of five South Korean farmers who recently sued the state utility Korea Electric Power Corporation and its power-generating subsidiaries, alleging that their reliance on coal and other fossil fuels has accelerated climate change and damaged their crops.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-farmers-climate-suit-state-utility-ccba7b8ed6598895023a75edb1fb75c7

Protesters in Lima Decry Impunity, Police Killing of Young Demonstrator
Leading the march was a delegation from the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), the country’s largest labor union. They carried a banner calling for the protection of jobs, safety, and life in response to the recent surge in violent crimes committed by hitmen and extortion gangs targeting transport workers, merchants, and construction laborers.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/protesters-in-lima-decry-impunity-police-killing-of-young-demonstrator/

Thousands march at COP30 to demand end to deforestation and fossil fuels
Thousands of people thronged the streets of the Amazonian city of Belem in Brazil on Saturday, urging COP30 negotiators to take urgent action against climate change and halt the use of fossil fuels and the devastating deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. “We are witnessing a massacre,” one protester said of the Amazon, often known as the lungs of the earth.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251115-climate-protesters-to-rally-at-cop30-s-halfway-mark
https://archive.ph/xJYe5

Thousands protest crime and corruption in Mexico City as ‘Gen Z’ protests gain momentum
In the days leading up to Saturday’s protest, Sheinbaum accused right-wing parties of trying to infiltrate the Gen Z movement, and of using bots on social media to try to increase attendance. This week some “Gen Z” social media influencers said they no longer backed Saturday’s protests. While elderly figures like former President Vicente Fox, and Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego published messages in support of the protests.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-generation-z-protest-9b0a8b1461a1ec47cce696d25e04feb5

Government forces and their allied groups attack two vehicles in Al-Suwaidaa
Similarly, a mini-bus, carrying female agricultural workers, was also attacked on the road to Al-Aslahyah village in western Al-Suwaidaa countryside, but no casualties were reported. This comes in light of growing security tension in Al-Suwaidaa and the countryside.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/373404/

Israeli media report plans for 'limited offensive' on Lebanon
The timing of these media reports mirrors a broader Israeli narrative portraying Hezbollah as resurgent. The New Arab's Arabic edition notes that this messaging aims to pressure Beirut over disarmament demands while conditioning Israeli public opinion for a possible escalation that goes beyond Israel’s current pattern of unlawful daily strikes.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-media-report-plans-limited-offensive-lebanon

US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops
A US “concept of operation” for the ISF specifies that troops will serve in the “green zone only”. The US envisages the deployment “starting small” in a limited area with a few hundred troops, then expanding slowly to a full strength of 20,000 across the area. … US military planners also see reconstruction inside the “green zone” as part of a nebulous path to reuniting Gaza by convincing Palestinian civilians to move across the line of Israeli control.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/14/us-military-plan-divided-gaza-green-zone

Shooting at Rhodes businessman’s home, property damaged
The attack reportedly occurred shortly after 5:00 am. The perpetrators fired repeatedly and left a black wreath at the main entrance as they departed. Local police collected 14 shell casings from the garden and took the wreath as evidence. The findings have been sent for laboratory testing to help identify the perpetrators.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1286712/shooting-at-rhodes-businessmans-home-leaves-property-damage/
https://archive.ph/d8RqN

MP pulls out of Your Party over ‘persistent infighting’ and 'veiled prejudice' against Muslim men
In a statement published on X, he said that he had been disillusioned by “persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good.” He added that he had also been “deeply troubled” by the way “certain figures” within the new party had been treated, particularly Muslim men.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mp-pulls-out-your-party-over-persistent-infighting-and-veiled-prejudice-against-muslim-men

State Duma Passes Bill Reviving Soviet-Era Mandatory Work Placements for Young Doctors
State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said overworked hospital staff and high numbers of medical patients that exceed recommended norms are taking a toll on Russia’s public health system, leading to poorer healthcare quality. He cited data claiming that Russia lacked around 23,300 doctors and 63,600 mid-level medical personnel in early 2025. The lower house of parliament passed the work requirement bill on Tuesday with a unanimous vote following minor procedural corrections, according to independent journalist Farida Rustamova.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/11/state-duma-passes-bill-reviving-soviet-era-mandatory-work-placements-for-young-doctors-a91099
https://archive.ph/sEPbd

Is it me or shit has been happening with an interval of every 4 years in this new millennium? I know y2k was supposed to happen in 2000 and 2004 was ok (unless one considers election of Bush to be that kind of happenings), what I have seen is that
>2008 - stock market crash
>2012 - world was supposed to end hysteria
>2016 - brexit and Trump
>2020 - Covid-19

Is 2024 going to be the year where it will be ogre?

If you aren't posting on 4chan you are doing it wrong

If you are not posting on 4chan you are failing as a leftist in the most fundemental way possible. Right now there is a huge opportunity to use the market crash and consequential recession that is coming to turn a lot of dissolusioned right wingers over to our side. To the side of truth, reason and sanity. I post on /b/ at the very least when a thread comes up revolving around trump and go on pol daily. We have to be where they are. We cannot just keep sequestering ourselves off in our hug boxes all the time. You have to be posting on 4chan as well.

Doctor Nowhere

Thread for animator Doctor Nowhere and his Doctor Nowhere stuff.

Animated Music Videos

Post 'em if you got 'em

Virginia Giuffre dies "by suicide"

Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, dies aged 41
Giuffre’s family issued a statement confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years
Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who also alleged she was sexually trafficked to Prince Andrew, has died. She was 41.

Her family issued a statement on Saturday confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years.

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” the statement read.

“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

Giuffre was one of the most vocal victims of Epstein, alleging she had been groomed and sexually abused by him and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, beginning in her teens.

The family described her as a “fierce warrior” against sexual abuse and sex trafficking and a “light that lifted so many survivors”.

“Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure,” they said.

Giuffre is survived by her three children, Christian, Noah and Emily, who her family said were the “light of her life”.

“It was when she held her newborn daughter in her arms that Virginia realized she had to fight back against those who had abused her and so many others,” they said.

“There are no words that can express the grave loss we feel today with the passing of our sweet Virginia. She was heroic and will always be remembered for her incredible courage and loving spirit.”

…

Josh Schiffer, a lawyer who represents one of Epstein’s victims, said Giuffre was integral to exposing the financier.

“The case wouldn’t have existed without the input, her cooperation, her bravery at the beginning, inspiring so many other people to come forward,” he told US cable network NewsNation.

“Her loss will hopefully be a marker and almost an inspiration for people to calling attention to the epidemic that is sex trafficking, that is the international sex industry.

“This is an issue that still persists. It changes its form all the time and it exists all around the world. This just happened to be a really prominent example.”

Western Australia police did not publicly confirm Giuffre had died, but said emergency services responded to reports a 41-year-old woman was unresponsive at a home in Neergabby, about 75km north of Perth, about 9.50pm on Friday.

The woman was given emergency first aid but was pronounced dead, they said.

The death will be investigated but is not considered suspicious.

Earlier this month, Giuffre posted on social media that she had just days to live after a school bus crashed into her car.

WA police later confirmed a 41-year-old woman was in a car that collided with a bus on 24 March but there were no reported injuries. It is understood Giuffre presented to a Perth hospital emergency department on 1 April.

Giuffre, who is American, said she met Maxwell, a British socialite, in 2000 when working as a locker-room assistant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Maxwell offered her a job as massage therapist to Epstein, during which she alleged she was trafficked to the financier’s friends and clients – “passed around like a platter of fruit”.

In a 2009 civil lawsuit against Epstein, under the pseudonym “Jane Doe 102”, she alleged that her duties included being “sexually exploited by Epstein’s adult male peers including royalty”. Giuffre reached a settlement with Epstein in that case before it went to trial.

In 2021, Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew in the federal court in New York, alleging he sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17.

Andrew has repeatedly and strongly denied the accusations.

In the lawsuit, Giuffre alleged Epstein and Maxwell had introduced her to Andrew in 2001, and alleged that Maxwell forced her to have sex with Andrew.

In 2022, Andrew and Giuffre agreed to an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed sum.

Maxwell, who has maintained her innocence, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for sex trafficking.

Epstein was arrested by federal authorities in July 2019 and charged with sex-trafficking counts. Shortly after, he died by suicide while awaiting trial.

https://archive.is/LtWM0
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/virginia-giuffre-suicide-dead-aged-41

Western pop culture does (not) suck

I'm tired of weebs shitting on Western pop culture. What excuse do these mfs have to shit on Western pop culture if they themselves watch some mediocre harem and isekai slop? Western pop culture isn't bad, we have a rich back catalog of great Western works waiting for us to discover them. Neither did it become worse, all the good and promising talent just went into the indie and AA segments so basically the West sorta relies on doujin circles for releasing great games, comics, cartoons and music which is fairly unique to it compared to the Far East. And even AAA game studios, Netflix and cartoon channels, with all their DEI, dwindling quality and appeals to the lowest common denominator, still occasionally produce some bangers (CDPR, Rockstar, id Software, MachineGames, io Interactive and [adult swim] still look promising despite all the fuckups).

So here's my message to the weeaboos: stop shitting on something you don't understand and having a superiority complex because you watch moe girls flashing their panties and jiggling their tits on-screen. Sure, Western pop culture is in its late-capitalist casual-friendly pandering enshittification phase but it's not all doom and gloom, even though it used to be better when it comes to the mainstream pop culture. Or maybe it became too mainstream so the indie scene is sort of a counterbalance to that? Remember how gamers were often bullied for their hobby? Now everyone and your dad plays video games and it obviously affects their quality.

What is your cultural heritage?

I am curious what the cultural composition of the board is. I am dutch/netherlanders who immigrated or 4 generations ago. We used to have traditional dutch festivals with wood clogs and everything. The city hasn't done them in a while though. My ancestors would have followed a form of Frisian Paganism worshipping wodan and such. It's hard to find history about that though as the church destroyed most of our history (along with many other cultures history) through out time.

My best friend also has a son who is Native and I have learned a lot about native culture that way.
What kind of cultural heritage do you have?

Maylasia Flight 370/21st Century Mysteries thread

So, what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370? It was a Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard–all gone. This happened in the age of satellites, tracking, and personal cellular devices, but no clues. There were no important personages aboard to my knowledge, but I'm having trouble finding a passenger manifest. Was it aliens? The Mossad? Or something more sinister?

Also post other modern mysteries

Anyone here gay incel?

I'm to ugly to get tail. I'm bisexual and cant get ass or pussy. Help

Taking estradiol to stop balding

So, I don't want to go bald. My body had other plans
No shame to bald guys, it's actually a bit of a turn on for me.
I looked up the effects of estrogen, it helps with hair and nails, as well as making skin softer and lips fuller.
I'm taking 5mg Finasteride and 1mg Estradiol. I still identify as a he/him male and have not ever wanted to be a woman. If I grow breasts from this I will have them removed. I'm fine with being a they/them nonbinary shemale type of person though.

Is this problematic?
I don't think so. I think everyone should explore the wild varieties their bodies can take, and hormones help with that!
What say you?

boycott porn?

ýeah, we should boycott porn worldwide because it's bad for mental health and also exploits women

who's with me?

Dark Classical

Can be dark, ominous, mournful, apocalyptic… modern, romantic, whatever.

Opening with one of the greatest, Scriabin's incomplete Mysterium. The writing of this one started in 1903, and Scriabin died before it could be completed, with it later being pieced together by Alexander Nemtin over the course of 28 years. This was only intended to be the first part in a much longer piece which would last a week and be followed by armageddon.

Blinken’s Manila visit triggers protest against US presence in Philippines

Manila: Protesters rallied against American presence in the Philippines on Tuesday as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Manila to reinforce support against Chinese influence in the region.

The Philippines is Washington’s key security partner in Asia under a decades-long alliance, which allows the US to rotate troops into the Philippines for extended stays and build and operate facilities on Philippine military bases.

In the past two years, the partnership has expanded under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who in February last year permitted American troops to increase their footprint in the country.

China claims the disputed area almost in entirety and its military activity in the territory has been increasing, regularly encroaching on the Philippine part of the waters, the West Philippine Sea.

“These waterways are critical to the Philippines, to its security, to its economy, but they’re also critical to the interests of the region, the United States and the world,” Blinken said at a joint press conference with his Philippine counterpart Enrique Manalo.

“That’s why we stand with the Philippines and stand by our ironclad defense commitments, including under the mutual defense treaty.”

The 1951 agreement obliges the US to defend its ally in the case of external attack.

Philippine vessels have been regularly attacked by Chinese ships in the parts of the South China Sea that are internationally recognized as belonging to the Philippines.

American troops have been patrolling the maritime area with Philippine forces since November, despite protests from Beijing, which says the US is not a party to the maritime dispute.

“Article 4 of that treaty extends to any armed attacks on Filipino armed forces, on public vessels, on aircraft, and that would include its coast guard and that would also be anywhere in the South China Sea,” Blinken said.

As he told reporters that the two countries have seen an “extraordinary expansion” in their partnership, protesters in Manila carried banners reading: “US troops out of the Philippines,” “Blinken war criminal, not welcome,” “No to US intervention in PH and Asia.”

The demonstration was organized by civil society, including BAYAN — the Philippines’ largest alliance of grassroots groups — near the Presidential Palace, ahead of Blinken’s meeting with Marcos.

BAYAN said in a statement that Marcos was “advancing the geopolitical interest of the US in the region” and “offering the Philippines as an extension” of the US military network.

“The country’s assertion of sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea against China’s aggression should not involve the opportunistic meddling of a former colonizer whose real motive is to preserve and expand its imperialist hegemony in the Asia-Pacific,” the group said.

It also drew attention to Gaza, where Washington’s other key ally, Israel, has killed over 30,000 Palestinians in daily airstrikes and land assaults since October.

BAYAN said the US was “the main supporter and enabler of the ongoing genocide in Palestine” and was “actively fanning proxy wars and conflicts in various parts of the world.”

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2479226/world

Leftists should be against immigration

Immigration lowers wages and allows the corpos to make high profits off the exploitation of our labor. Simple as. It's bad for native populations and drives the standard of living into the ground. I support people who, you know, actually desperately need to immigrate to a different country to flee some horrid circumstance, but, if they dont need to they should not be allowed to immigrate.

basic info sheet for download/stream culture

artists/labels should be providing postcards/download certificates "proof of download/stream" for those who care?

Leftypol could really learn something from Athenian democracy and the story of Aristides.
The fact Athenian democracy worked so well is what saved them numerous times especially from the advances of the Persian forces.

What the fuck is going on in France?

Seriously wtf
Is Macron dictator for life now? What's happening? What's going on?

/brit/ - Baz Snaps

Football fans and Gregg's connoisseurs from around England are currently rioting following the murder of three schoolchildren by an asylum seeker (Axel Rudakubana) and subsequent non-response by the courts. The riots have only escellated following Starmer's absolutely braindead response & the response of local law enforcement.

Bongs to follow for updates:
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK
https://x.com/visegrad24
https://x.com/Sargon_of_Akkad
https://x.com/AkkadSecretary
https://x.com/9mm_smg
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra

India fires missiles into Pakistan

Pakistan vows retaliation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/6/india-pakistan-fighting-live-india-fires-missiles-into-pakistan
https://aje.io/ur4viu?update=3692299

How The CIA & Mossad Set Up Sudan for Genocide since the 1990s

From MintPress:
Sudan is being systematically destroyed - not by accident, but by design. This investigation reveals how US imperialism, through Israeli and UAE proxies, has engineered Sudan's collapse since the 1990s to crush the axis of resistance, block China's Belt and Road, and loot Africa's resources families are killed, children starve, and the west profits.

Boycott Radiohead concerts

Radiohead is still refusing to distance itself from Jonny Greenwood's continued insistence on crossing our picket line. By performing in apartheid Tel Aviv, alongside an Israeli artist who has repeatedly entertained the genocidal Israeli military, Greenwood is artwashing Israel's genocide against 2.3M Palestinians in Gaza.

Of Greenwood's shameful stance, Thom Yorke says "I get it." Well, Palestinians don't. Drummer Phil Selway says it's "impossible" for Radiohead to distance itself from Jonny Greenwood's artwashing of genocide. That's their choice. Here's ours: the Palestinian-led global BDS movement reiterates its call for the boycott and peaceful protest of Radiohead's now-confirmed tour, which starts [this] week.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQbeyLAjGiG/?hl=en

Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Sell a Surveillance State to Côte d’Ivoire

From Drop Site:
…

Jeffrey Epstein and Ehud Barak were specialists in war profiteering. At the end of his tenure as Israel’s defense minister and after his supposed “retirement,” Barak embraced a role as a salesman of Israeli security services to embattled governments, opening the door for Israeli intelligence leaders to shape the security apparatuses of several African nations, including the country of Côte d’Ivoire.

Quietly facilitating these efforts was Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019. Epstein wrote at one point to Barak: “with civil unrest exploding […] and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you.” Barak replied:, “You’re right [in] a way. But not simple to transform it into a cash flow.” Transforming unrest into cash flow, in the case of Côte d’Ivoire, involved brokering deals between the Israeli state and the embattled West African nation.

New details about Epstein’s role in Israeli intelligence operations in Africa have emerged from two sets of documents: an archive of leaked emails released by the Handala hacking group and hosted by non-profit whistleblower site Distributed Denial of Secrets and documents released by the U.S. House Oversight Committee last month. The latter set includes Epstein’s personal emails and appointment calendars, which provide clear evidence of Epstein’s involvement in Israel’s West African security negotiations in 2012, while Barak was still Israel’s Defense Minister.

The two men worked together as a conduit for Israel’s intelligence sector in Côte d’Ivoire, where Barak was welcomed as a representative of the Israeli government even after leaving public office. Epstein helped Barak deliver a proposal for mass surveillance of Ivorian phone and internet communications, crafted by former Israeli intelligence officials.

As in Mongolia, Epstein and Barak’s private deal-making evolved seamlessly into an official security agreement between Israel and Côte d’Ivoire in 2014. Since the agreement was signed, over a decade ago, President Alassane Ouattara has tightened his grip on power, banning public demonstrations and arresting peaceful protestors. In this October’s election, the octogenarian won a fourth term, in defiance of constitutional term limits, while opposition candidates were barred from participation.

Today, Ouattara continues to enjoy the support of Israeli security firms to help him maintain power. His Israeli-backed police state has squashed civic organizations and silenced critics. In the wake of the recent election, exiled activist Boga Sako Gervais denounced Ouattara’s authoritarian slide: “Under Ouattara, since 2011, freedoms of opinion, thought, and expression have been criminalized,” he said. “It has become forbidden to criticize the head of state.”

The story of Israel’s security agreement with Côte d’Ivoire is only one chapter in the saga of Epstein and Barak’s covert activities in Africa—it is reported here as the next entry in an ongoing series on Epstein’s ties to Israel’s intelligence.

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In late 2010, a disputed presidential election in the west African nation of Côte d’Ivoire triggered political upheaval and violence that rapidly destabilized the country. The UN certified Alassane Ouattara as the winner of a November 2010 runoff vote. But the outcome was not accepted by the rival incumbent, Laurent Gbago. After months of violence, a French and UN military intervention was launched in April 2011 to remove Gbago and drive him from the country.

After Gbagbo’s exile, Ouattara inherited a security apparatus fractured by the crisis, and his own hold on power was uncertain. The new president announced that his government had foiled a coup plot against him by officers still loyal to Gbagbo in June 2012.

Five days after that announcement, the new Ivorian president, who had a long career as an economist at the International Monetary Fund and a reputation as a technocrat, traveled to Jerusalem to meet Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discuss cooperation on science, technology, and counterterrorism. The following month, an Israeli delegation visited Côte d’Ivoire to field Ouattara’s questions about Israel’s security apparatus and rebuilding the Ivorian presidential army.

While Israeli and Ivorian officials sat in hotel conference rooms and took press photographs, American financier Jeffrey Epstein was across the globe, engaged in shadow diplomacy to develop further ties between Israel and the new Ivorian leader.

On June 18, 2012, the very same day Barak was meeting with Alassane Ouattara in Jerusalem, according to Epstein schedules released by the U.S. House Oversight Committee, his son David Dramane Ouattara was in New York City for an appointment with Epstein.

On September 12, three months later, Epstein met with Ouattara’s niece Nina Keita, whom he had known since at least 2002; as a young fashion model in Jean Luc Brunel’s Karin Models agency, she had traveled on his “Lolita Express” plane between New York and Paris. After Keita’s visit, records show that Epstein went straight to the Regency Hotel in New York for a private meeting with the Israeli defense minister.

The next month, Epstein flew to Africa. In a note to his assistant, he instructed her to arrange to switch planes in London before flying to Côte d’Ivoire, Angola, and Senegal. There are no flight logs documenting the Africa trip.

The flurry of visits appeared to pay dividends for Epstein, Barak, and the Israeli government. Two weeks after Epstein’s trip to Africa, the Ivorian Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko was in Tel Aviv to meet with Barak and discuss a bilateral security accord focused on intelligence and cybercrime.

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On March 19, 2013, one day after leaving his government post, Barak received an email from his business partner and brother-in-law Doron Cohen, containing materials prepared by MF Group, a French-Israeli security contractor run by Michel Farjon. The consortium of companies, spread across several European countries, did security work in Africa; the group had been involved in a controversial sale of military helicopters to the government of Cameroon.

An email address associated with Farjon sent details of MF Group’s planned projects in Côte d’Ivoire: a mobile and internet communications surveillance center and a video monitoring center in Abidjan. According to email logs, Barak and Farjon met three days later, on the fourth floor of G Tower in Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2013.

Barak and Cohen made efforts to keep these communications secret. Farjon’s emails to Cohen never mentioned Barak by name—instead using cryptic subject lines like “files to be transferred to your friend”—and Barak and Cohen’s emails referred to Farjon by his initials “MF,” often in connection with another player called “AM,” or “Maoz.” Cohen took precautions to ensure their conversations were not overheard; on April 12, he emailed Barak: “I had a good meeting today with MF and AM. I’ll be glad [to] update you. I’ll be in the car alone at 0415 am until 5am.”

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Since 2004, during the country’s first civil war, Côte d’Ivoire had been subject to a UN arms embargo that blocked weapons sales and applied strict requirements for even “non-lethal” training and equipment transfers. On April 17, 2013, the UN Security Council reported the discovery of “dozens of crates” of Israeli ammunition at the presidential palace and the Attécoubé naval base, likely transferred to Gbagbo’s security forces during the 2010-2011 crisis. The crates had Israel Military Industries labels and Spanish markings; the report suggested the ammunition had been relabelled and retransferred to Côte d’Ivoire from a third country.

read more:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-israel-surveillance-state-cote-d-ivoire-ehud-barak-leaked-emails

Comedy Bang Bang

Any fans?
I used to watch this when I had stuff to watch it on. I don't think I'd seen this skit before, but just put it on and got a chuckle.

News 11/3/25

Israel arrests ex-army lawyer over leaked video showing Palestinian’s abuse
According to a copy of her resignation letter published by Israeli media on Friday, Tomer-Yerushalmi acknowledged that her office had released the video to the media last year. Five reservists were later charged with mistreating prisoners.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/3/israel-arrests-ex-army-lawyer-over-leaked-video-showing-palestinians-abuse
https://archive.ph/JXzno

Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon kill two, wound seven in latest ceasefire violation
Israel in recent days threatened to expand its attacks on Lebanon, despite a ceasefire being in place between Israel and Hezbollah since November 2024. In a preliminary toll, the ministry said that an "Israeli enemy strike" on the town of Doueir in Nabatiyeh district killed one person and wounded seven https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/valencia-regional-president-mazon-resigns-year-after-deadly-floodsothers. The second strike on Aita al-Shaab in the Bint Jbeil district also killed one person, according to the ministry.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-strikes-southern-lebanon-kill-two-wound-seven

Turkey demands UN resolution before deploying troops to Gaza
Fidan noted that the countries considering troop deployment to Gaza, as part of a deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, are keen to first understand the parameters of the proposed force. "The countries would like to see a UN Security Council resolution that establishes the force, defines the mission's terms and grants it legitimacy," Fidan told reporters during a news conference in Istanbul, after meeting with the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, as well as representatives from the UAE and Qatar.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-demands-un-resolution-deploying-troops-gaza

Chile to end Pinochet henchmen’s pampered prison life of tennis and barbecues
The bespoke prison was opened in 1995 to house Gen Manuel Contreras, the head of Pinochet’s intelligence service, and Brig Pedro Espinoza, who alongside Contreras was convicted of the 1976 murder of former foreign minister Orlando Letelier in a car bomb attack in Washington DC. There have been several attempts to close Punta Peuco over the years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/03/chile-prison-punta-pueco-pinochet

Colombia’s liberals team up with far-right to confront left in 2026 elections
Following a meeting with Uribe on Friday, former President and long-time Liberal Party leader Cesar Gaviria said that “we are organizing ourselves to effectively bring together a coalition of parties that are in a position to contribute their electoral strength and their candidates” to oppose the winner of a leftist front candidate.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-liberals-team-up-with-far-right-to-confront-left-in-2026-elections/

Mexican Protests Over the Assassination Of Uruapan Mayor Turns Into Riots
The protesters entered the government building and vandalized the interior, demanding the resignation of Michoacan Governor Alfredo Bedolla. Several protesters also threw objects, broke furniture, and set fire to part of the interior. The mobilization was organized on social media under the slogan “Enough of abuses and omissions,” with attendees demanding an end to violence and impunity in the state, one of the most affected by organized crime.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexican-protests-over-the-assassination-of-uruapan-mayor-turns-into-riots/

Canada’s Liberal party says budget of ‘sacrifice’ needed to avoid recession
Canada’s ruling Liberal party has said a budget of “sacrifice” is required to confront both a trade war with the US and a protracted cost of living crisis that threatens to push the country into a recession. But with opposition parties signalling they won’t support the fiscal plans of the prime minister, Mark Carney, a failed parliamentary vote on the budget could plunge the country into another federal election in the coming weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/03/canada-budget-sacrifice-recession

Third prisoner joins Palestine hunger strike
Heba Muraisi, who has family in Gaza, has been held at New Hall prison without trial since November last year after being linked to a Palestine Action protest. She now joins Amu Gibb and Qesser Zuhrah, who are also linked to the group, and began refusing food on Sunday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/third-prisoner-joins-palestine-hunger-strike

Reform UK's Farage waters down tax pledges in pitch for economic credibility
"We are being mature, we are being sensible, and we are not over-promising," Farage told a press conference in the City of London, the capital's financial district. "Do we want to have a smaller state? Yes. Are we going to cut the benefits bill? Yes. Will the civil service be smaller? Yes. Will we get a grip on public sector pensions? Yes. But we can't have massive tax cuts until the markets can see we've at least got these things in hand."
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/reform-uks-farage-waters-down-tax-pledges-pitch-economic-credibility-2025-11-03/

Valencia regional president Mazon resigns a year after deadly floods
Calls for the right-wing Popular Party politician’s head began within days as it emerged the regional authorities had not issued warnings about the floods until 8pm that day, two hours after they began and over 12 after it had received a red alert warning that they were coming from the Spanish weather agency.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/valencia-regional-president-mazon-resigns-year-after-deadly-floods

Indian financial crimes agency freezes Anil Ambani Group properties worth $853 million
The move relates to cases involving Reliance Communications Ltd (RLCM.NS), opens new tab and its affiliates over the alleged diversion of about 136 billion rupees and loans of more than $569 million taken by the group from India's YES Bank (YESB.NS) between 2017 and 2019 that the ED says were diverted and laundered.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-crime-agency-attaches-anil-ambani-group-properties-worth-over-341-million-2025-11-03/

Groups launch protests and preparatory activities for November 30 massive rally
One month before the scheduled massive people’s protest against corruption on November 30 by the Kilusang Bayan Kontra Kurakot (KBKK or People’s Movement Against Corruption), its allied organizations are launching protests and preparation activities. Pickets, Black Friday protests, marches, parties, gatherings, and other forms of creative protests launched on October 30 and 31 in Metro Manila and some provinces. The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and its allied organizations marched toward Mendiola in Manila on October 31. The group creatively expressed opposition to the Marcos regime’s corruption using a “Halloween” theme and called for holding corrupt officials accountable.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/groups-launch-protests-and-preparatory-activities-for-november-30-massive-rally/

Chinese breakthrough in nuclear power

So it seems that after decades of neglect and sabotage by the cuclear weapons industry, China has successfully built a fully functional molten salt thorium reactor and is preparing to revolutionize global shipping by sticking it in cargo ships.

https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/thorium-powered-nuclear-cargo-ship

They've even appl the supercritical CO2 generator idea that was a nascent engineering concept by Western thorium power advocates. This could have applications even beyond nuclear power generation.

>Some things have happened in China

The Communist Party of China announced the expulsion of nine senior military leaders from the party.The highest-ranking position among them is the Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission：He Weidong

According to Chinese authorities, these people were punished for corruption.

The Sega System

The Sega System


Description
DescriptionShinobi is a series of hack-and-slash action video games created by Sega. The ninja Joe Musashi is the protagonist of the original series of games. The first Shinobi game was released in 1987 for arcades and has since featured in a dozen other Shinobi titles

This board is so fucking embarrassing

Even though this is one of the slowest boards on the site, and I haven't fucking posted a single thing here in forever, there's something a little extra disheartening somehow whenever I see one of the two semi-active threads on this board bumped. There are multiple reasons why I don't show my bf Leftychan, but somehow the fact that our LGBT board is dominated by a "gay incel" thread and a "femboys with vaginas" thread where posters fail to correctly identify the difference between FTM and MTF just adds a little extra embarrassment. Like… when I'm picked up in the coming "anti-antifa" stings, I know the media or somebody will be going through my browser history, and they'll come across this site where anons posted about being "gay incels."

Like, we created this whole extra board and it's just this pathetic sadness. Oh, or occasionally a fedbait/rainbow scare thread shows up, too. It's honestly pretty tame by comparison to some of the inane bullshit that gets posted on this site, but somehow as a gay guy it's even more embarrassing by association.

Dick Cheney dead

Dick Cheney just died.

Live footage of Dick Cheney now attached.

Your reactions?

I don't like reading

I'm a highschool drop out who never had the tension span to read anything more than 200 pages, why should I now read some 700 pages of confusing dialectics? isn't it enough to read some wikipedia articles or something? aren't there any movies that explain all the theory?

drm-web ai-web

Google wants to put DRM into the web, and lock everything into their chrome browser and make privacy violations even worse.

I think this is part of bigG's war on addblocking and of course they're a monopoly that wants to be the entire web. But there is more, web-advertising has been sort of dying a slow death for some time now. Not because of addblock but for other reasons. Neo-liberalism/capitalism is making people poor and that's shrinking the economic pie in general. If people see adds they ignore them more often. And there is of course the scheme for generating fake views for add-farming.

The drm googl wants to insert into the web is super terrible, if they can push this through it will destroy the web. There is no hyperbole here, the web will become like one of those locked down alternate versions of the internet from the 80s that failed so hard that barely anybody remembers that they even existed. It's possible that EU regulations against anti-competitive behavior, and monopoly-busting in the US could cock-block google, but it would be better to fight tooth and nail to kill this one in the crib, before it gets anywhere near that point. And then outlaw DRM for violating personal property (if you can't fully control your gadgets you've been expropriated)

If this monstrosity were to happen, it would probably take over 10 years to polish one of those decentralized peer to peer alternative web-protocols to the point where we get something like an open web back.

For more details see

The Linux Experiment
https://invidious.0011.lt/watch?v=Aj2s3DVSlHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj2s3DVSlHw

Brodie Robertson
https://invidious.0011.lt/watch?v=tm3gH-ycykw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm3gH-ycykw

Louis Rossmann
https://invidious.0011.lt/watch?v=0i0Ho-x7s_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i0Ho-x7s_U

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305

This is probably somewhat related to the AI-web eating the web2.0 by scraping all it's content without generating any add-views/revenue.

The solution to this however is not drm-ing the web to death, but rather replacing the web2.0 web-page front-end interface with an AI interface. That way you can't just scrape an entire website. You're scrape-bot would have to send a bazillion queries to the AI interface. And the AI interface could of course be trained to tell scraping behavior from a normal human interaction and feed the scrape-bot a bunch of "AI-hallucinated" nonsense.

The AI interface would be trained on the content in the database of a website, and converse about a narrow range of topics based on the knowledge that you put into the back-end database. Of course there could be AI-adverts, in the form of the AI trying to work product suggestions into the conversations with users.

A key for making this economically viable is that a bunch of the processing for ai-pages is done on end-user hardware, which would need Machine-Learning Accelerator hardware, to be efficient and fast. Arm-socs for phones had this for a while, x86 desktop processors are somewhat behind on this and only the latest AMD processor already have dedicated MCA-cores. (dedicated gpu-pcie cards can do this too).

I'm not saying ai-adds should be the business model for this. Consider the add-revenue from a single page-view is a tiny fraction of a cent. If users could pay a fix sum of money into a pot and that gets distributed according to user page views, in a privacy respecting way, websites could make money without adds. I'm guessing here but if the average user were to spend 20 bucks a year, website operators would probably get more money than they do now with add-sense and co. Consider this proposal in the context of being limited by capitalism being utter dogshit in producing economic relations that work well with high-tech.

This AI-web would kill traditional web-crawlers/spiderbots (the thing that search engines use to index the web and give you search results). A new method of indexing AI-pages would need to be devised. This would probably be a technical problem google could solve, but they appear to be going into the polar-opposite direction.

Downloading youtube

I'm tryna download this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVlfNtIml2U and yt-dlp gives me a 403 error

wat do

All Their Eggs in One Basket

>Be Northern Virginia.

>Corporations build hundreds of data centers that receive most internet traffic.

>So much demand for data centers here that they are literally shutting down garden centers to build more data centers


(Not saying we should do any trolling, but AI slop is ruining the internet, sooo…)

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the situación of Argentina

This imagen describe some of the situación of Argentina, Miley sells arg to the judaism

Recently, such a phenomenon as "telegram batches" has developed in telegram. People get to know each other in chat rooms, create a "party" channel, and then fight with the same parties. Only a few parties manage to organize themselves into an extremely shaky Marxist circle. What do you think about it?

radiological bombs?

Cobalt-60 could be made by irradiating a regular cobalt with an alpha neutron source, possibly?

hi guys

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Pakistan Massacres Pro-Palestine Demonstrators

Breaking Points did a report on this - the US-backed coup government of Pakistan has been up to some stuff, and there's apparently been an effort to get this to fly under the radar although there are estimates that the massacre could have killed over a thousand people.

Eugene-lit 2.0

My website has been recently updated:
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/

Book 3 is out:
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/book03/index.html

Following Book 2:
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/book02/index.html

And Book 1 (which was originally meant for something else but made the perfect introduction):
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/mymethod.html

Consider this the "Eugene general" where you can ask me random questions or bitch at me.

Virginia Giuffre memoir scheduled for release includes details of rape by Israeli PM Ehud Barak

Per PressTV:
In her book titled Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, Giuffre recounted how she pleaded with Epstein to intervene after the “well-known prime minister” subjected her to terrifying experiences and forced her to beg for her life, but Epstein coldly told her it was simply part of her job.

“After the attack, I couldn’t stay a fool. Having been treated so brutally and then seeing Epstein’s callous reaction to how terrorized I felt, I had to accept that Epstein meted out praise merely as a manipulation to keep me subservient,” she wrote. “Epstein cared only about Epstein.”

Giuffre referred to the man as the 'Prime Minister,' fearing retribution if she revealed his identity, although she had previously pointed to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in court filings as one of the many elites who had raped her, a claim he has repeatedly denied.

According to Giuffre, she first encountered the 'Prime Minister' on Epstein’s private island when she was 18 years old in 2002, where he subjected her to violent and terrifying acts.

She described how he repeatedly choked her to the point of losing consciousness, inflicting extreme fear and violence upon her, which she detailed in her memoir.

The politician “raped me more savagely than anyone had before,” Giuffre said, adding that she immediately went to Epstein to beg him not to send her back to the prime minister.

But Epstein showed indifference, stating, “You’ll get that sometimes,” when confronted with the politician's brutality.

Epstein later allegedly arranged for Giuffre to have a second encounter with the prime minister in a cabin aboard his private plane, the Lolita Express, during which she spent the time in constant fear of further violence.

Giuffre admitted that prior to the traumatic experiences, she had given Epstein the benefit of the doubt, believing he cared for the girls, but she was forced to confront the truth after his indifference to her suffering at the hands of the prime minister.

“I didn’t know it then, but my second interaction with the Prime Minister was the beginning of the end for me,” Giuffre said, adding she stopped recruiting other young girls for Epstein as he had forced her to do in the past.

Giuffre’s memoir, written before her death in April, is scheduled for release next week, offering a detailed account of her harrowing experiences at the hands of powerful individuals. Giuffre was 41 when she died.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/10/19/757203/Israel-Virginia-Roberts-Giuffre-Jeffrey-Epstein-victim-beaten-rape-Israel-prime-minister-Ehud-Barak-

Housing is not just overpriced, its developers and sellers share a collective cartel mindset.

There is no actual material reason for rent to be more than $250. There is also no material reason for full price housing that fits 2 people to be more than $16-20k. Zoning laws, inefficient power delivery systems, and developer/landlord profit seeking aren't 'counterarguments', they are what enable the ridiculous prices.

A post-and-Beam frame using a double wall infill system takes 5 days to build, and yet any kind of "small home" of this kind or similar is disallowed in most of most American counties which only permit them as ADUs.

Let's dig into arguments by the housing cartel and debunk them:

Land cost: No one actually ethically owns exclusive rights to land lmao, it's just threats of violence on a natural commodity like water.

Septic cost: It's called "composting". For legal composting in USA you must apply, meet multiple unecessary criteria, and then use an NSF-Certified unit that runs into the thousands. The crucial point here is that the NSF-certification is a permission slip, not the actual cost of the materials, which are basically negligible.

Greywater: A composting toilet is a millennia old solution, and we know greywater wasn't historically sewage and is perfectly fine as water for plants and soil. The modern solution costs a few hundred bucks and is called a "mulch basin" or a "branched drain system".

Labor and skill: Often quoted as "hundreds of man hours". How much do single individuals work to achieve the "American Dream" of actually owning their home instead of pretending through purposefully patronizingly, misleading laws that allows an illusion of semi-ownership while the bank actually gives permission to reside? Usually takes their whole lives if they can even manage to do it, most can't. Tens of thousands of hours of work in a lifetime without actually achieving the kind of freedom built into the American Dream. This mortgage model is clearly inferior to reserving time in people's lives for dedicated house building. It's been estimated that without data centers, our GDP growth would be less than 0.1%. Therefore most of our economy isn't even contributing to growth, so instead of pretending to grow our economy we invest some time in teaching youngins how to build a home?

Housing structure costs. Local trees can be used to mill a simple post-and-beam frame. A natural byproduct of the milling is sawdust or wood chips. Sawdust or wood chips with borax is just as thermally efficient as fiberglass. A 12-inch thick sawdust-filled wall can have an R-value of over R-20, which is high enough to be compatible with even modern air-conditioning. This method is both primitive, can be built primitively, and adaptable for modern needs, the main cost is labor, which is addressed above.

Water system: $7k for a market price well, can be driven way down with prior approaches.

Power system: Simple enough solution is a "community microgrid", A local, non-profit co-op installs a shared, community-sized solar array with a central battery bank. The cost of this one central system is shared by 50-100 homes. The "hookup" is now just a cheap, small wire running a few hundred yards from your cabin to the central community battery. The expensive transformer and high-voltage lines are eliminated. You are no longer paying for a massive, redundant, coast-to-coast grid. You are only paying for the materials for your local power source. An "old habit" we'd have to abandon is unlimited power/growth. To build a community microgrid that allows everyone to run their modern conveniences all day, we must first abandon the modern notion of sprawling, individualistic housing. The math for the shared solar array and central battery only works if the load is predictable, so the community itself is built on a standard of modest, efficient homes of a similar, limited size. Because this uniformity of housing size makes the peak electrical draw from each home nearly identical, the central system can be engineered to easily handle the entire community's AC load simultaneously. The cost is shared equally because the demand is shared equally. We are no longer paying for a massive, inefficient grid, nor are we subsidizing a neighbor's oversized home, we are simply paying for the materials to power modest, comfortable lives, abandoning architectural excess to gain true energy freedom. I'm not arguing for building a new, for-profit utility company. The $2.1 million per megawatt figure of such a project a "cartel" price. It's bloated with profit, regulatory capture, and "soft costs" that have nothing to do with generating power. Divided by 100 homes, the actual material cost for permanent energy freedom could be as low as $6,000-$7,000 per home.

"Modern overpriced systems eliminate blight and slums": You know what's worse than slums? Check out r/carliving where people without housing hang out, I was reading of someone strapping an industrial cooling system to their torso to avoid heat stroke in the summer.

ICE Database Leak

Anybody here knows where I can download the leaked database of ICE agents? I am absolutely drooling for the chance to whack some of these fucking masked nazi goons upside the head

https://newrepublic.com/post/201926/hackers-dox-ice-dhs-doj

NO MORE MASKED GOONS IN AMERICA!!!! THAT SHIT IS ALL KINDS OF FUCKING WRONG

News 10/18/25

Gaza rights group documents 129 Israeli ceasefire violations since truce began
PCHR said Israel was persisting in "its policy of collective punishment and genocide against Palestinians", and called for an immediate and permanent end to the assault and for Israel to be held accountable under international law. Hamas also condemned the attack, urging US President Donald Trump and ceasefire mediators to pressure Israel to stop its violations.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-commits-129-ceasefire-violations-gaza-truce-began

Rafah border crossing to stay closed ‘until further notice’, says Israel
Hamas has said it is committed to the ceasefire deal, but that the retrieval of remains is hampered by the devastation and the presence of unexploded ordnance. The group has told mediators that some remains are in areas controlled by Israeli troops. Hamas, in turn, has urged mediators to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza for its 2 million people. There are continued closures of crossings and Israeli restrictions on aid groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/rafah-border-crossing-to-stay-closed-until-further-notice-says-israel

Sunni candidate's office attacked in Baghdad
Muthanna Thaer al-Azzawi, a member of the Baghdad Provincial Council and a candidate from the Azm Alliance, said his office came under a "cowardly attack" in Baghdad's Yusufiyah district. … On Wednesday, another candidate vying for a seat in the parliament was assassinated in Baghdad. Safaa al-Mashhadani, who also served on Baghdad’s Provincial Council, was running on the Sunni Arab Sovereignty-Legislation Alliance ticket.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/181020251

US returning Caribbean strike survivors to Colombia and Ecuador, Trump says
Both men have arrived home, according to authorities from the two South American countries. "We have received the Colombian detained on the narco submarine, we are happy he is alive and he will be processed according to the law," Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on X on Saturday afternoon, providing no further information.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-set-transfer-caribbean-strike-survivors-overseas-instead-pow-style-detention-2025-10-18/

President Petro decrees declassification of DAS intelligence files
During the act of recognition of international responsibility and forgiveness of the State to the victims of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective, the Colombian president presented the new decree stating that “it begins now, the reserve of the intelligence and counterintelligence files and the reserved expenses of the extinct Administrative Department is lifted.” The decree allows the declassification of the DAS files that rest in the General Archive of the Nation and the lifting of the reserve of intelligence, counterintelligence and reserved expenses files of the former agency.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/president-petro-decrees-declassification-of-das-intelligence-files/

US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts
Daniel Salas, executive manager of Paho’s special programme for comprehensive immunisation, said: “Having close-knit communities that are often reluctant to receive vaccinations and having large flows [of people] from country to country through the region are aggravating factors.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/17/health-infectious-diseases-vaccination-measles-us-robert-kennedy-latin-america-antivax-blamed-cases-deaths-rise

Taiwan opposition party's firebrand new leader pledges peace with China
"The KMT will make our home the strongest shelter for everyone against life's storms. Because we will safeguard peace across the Taiwan Strait," she said. Cheng, who started out in politics in the DPP, said during the campaign that she did not support increasing the defence budget, a key policy of President Lai Ching-te's administration, spending which also has strong U.S. backing.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Taiwan-opposition-partys-firebrand-new-leader-pledges-peace-with-China
https://archive.ph/7JB1u

Australian banks ignore thousands of customers’ hardship requests
Nearly 2,900 customers complained their bank had failed to respond to pleas for assistance in 2024-25, new data from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (Afca) showed. Non-responses have risen for four consecutive years, even though lenders are legally obliged to consider hardship requests, the Afca’s lead ombudsman for banking and finance, Natalie Cameron, said. Big banks’ automated systems for hardship requests had generated “cookie cutter” responses and failed to account for individual customers’ circumstances, while smaller lenders lacked even those systems, Afca found.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/19/australian-banks-ignore-customer-hardship-requests

Protest hits Rome over Libya migrant deal after boat wreck
During the protest, dozens of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa recounted what they endured in Libya, and a minute of silence was held for those who died trying to cross the Mediterranean. Hundreds of people attended the event, including activist Sarita Fratini.
https://www.newarab.com/news/protest-hits-rome-over-libya-migrant-deal-after-boat-wreck

Burqa ban bill approved by Portugal’s parliament seen as targeting Muslim women
The measure was proposed by the far-right Chega party and would prohibit coverings such as burqas (a full-body garment that covers a woman from head to foot) and niqabs (the full-face Islamic veil with space around the eyes) from being worn in most public places. Face veils would still be allowed in airplanes, diplomatic premises and places of worship.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/burqa-ban-bill-approved-by-portugals-parliament-seen-as-targeting-muslim-women

Unite vows to 'fight for every job' after Nestle announces cuts
Unite represents around 1,000 workers at sites in York, Halifax, Dalston and Tutbury as well as additional staff at Buxton Water. The union’s general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Nestle is a profitable company, selling billions of produce every month. Job losses are simply unacceptable.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unite-vows-fight-every-job-after-nestle-announces-cuts

Alternative chans

Post all obscure and underground imageboards in this thread, the chan must be at least half-dead so no archived chans. >inb4 'hurr durr don't put muh sekrit klub in the limelight'The population here is low as it is, there's also a large overlap between this chan and others.I'll start:Dreamch.netArisuchan.jpUboachan.netThere was this one I faintly remember and I think the theme was either dinosaurs or lizards…

The question is when

The late 2010's and early 2020's upheavals were predicted 10 years ago by a relatively simple model that accounts for elite infighting, income inequality, number of 18-29 y.o. people, etc. The same analysis was retroactively applied to many civil wars and revolutions throughout history and the results were pretty consistent: wars, revolutions and upheavals follow pretty deterministic patterns. The thing that's impossible to predict, is the trigger, the casus belli. In-depth paper in [1], 2020 prediction in [2].

On the other hand the rate of profit is falling (empirically proven in [3]), which makes the contradictions accelerate: median living conditions become increasingly unbearable, inequality between the working population and the elite skyrockets, etc. (coronavirus and climate change are just accelerating even further the process). The question is not if, but when, will capitalism collapse. Two options at that point: regression, the elite fights back and wins (fascism, neo-feudalism, apocalyptic-tier world wars, pick your poison) or progression, the working class fights back and wins (socialism, which means the long term construction of post-scarcity society i.e. communism).

[1]: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qp8x28p
[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/463608a
>Quantitative historical analysis reveals that complex human societies are affected by recurrent — and predictable — waves of political instability (P. Turchin and S. A. Nefedov Secular Cycles Princeton Univ. Press; 2009). In the United States, we have stagnating or declining real wages, a growing gap between rich and poor, overproduction of young graduates with advanced degrees, and exploding public debt. These seemingly disparate social indicators are actually related to each other dynamically. They all experienced turning points during the 1970s. Historically, such developments have served as leading indicators of looming political instability
>Very long 'secular cycles' interact with shorter-term processes. In the United States, 50-year instability spikes occurred around 1870, 1920 and 1970, so another could be due around 2020. We are also entering a dip in the so-called Kondratiev wave, which traces 40-60-year economic-growth cycles. This could mean that future recessions will be severe. In addition, the next decade will see a rapid growth in the number of people in their twenties, like the youth bulge that accompanied the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s. All these cycles look set to peak in the years around 2020.
[3]: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55894/1/MPRA_paper_55894.pdf
>The downward trend of the rate of profit, its empirical confirmation, highlights the historically limited nature of capitalist production. If the rate of profit marks the vitality of the system, the logical conclusion is that it approaches further to an endpoint.

News 10/15/25

Starmer to publish evidence in China 'spy' row
The prosecution was discontinued last month after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) claimed it could not secure government evidence describing China as a threat. Both men strongly denied the charges and insist on their innocence. The Tories have been trying to blame the government for the collapse, while Labour insists the problems lay with the position of the Tories, in power at the time of the alleged offence.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-publish-evidence-china-spy-row

German government attacks the welfare state: Basic support payments to be abolished
The government has long viewed the federal pension subsidies—comprising about 70 percent of the Labour and Social Affairs budget—as a prime target. For now, only the so-called “active pension” has been introduced: starting next year, retirees who continue to work can earn up to €2,000 tax-free.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/15/xczv-o15.html

German conscription plan stalls after defense minister’s objections
several parliamentary officials said the deal was halted after Pistorius expressed concerns over key aspects of the draft during a meeting of the parliamentary group of the Social Democrats on Tuesday evening. The surprise development marks a sudden reversal for the coalition, which had planned to introduce the bill for debate in the Bundestag this week. It now remains unclear when — or if — the government will move ahead with a revised version.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-could-bring-back-conscription-by-lottery/
https://archive.ph/jsrNf

Greek doctors clash with riot police during PM visit
Police fired volleys of pepper spray and used shields and batons to push away doctors at the University General Hospital Attikon, who were demanding to meet with Mr Mitsotakis. The health workers were protesting against staff shortages, low pay and poor working conditions.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/greek-doctors-clash-riot-police-during-pm-visit

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says
Arab Barghouti said his 66-year-old father was assaulted by eight guards on 14 September as he was being transferred between Ganot and Megiddo prisons. Barghouti said that five of the Palestinian prisoners released and deported to Egypt by the Israeli authorities on Monday had heard the Palestinian leader’s account of his treatment when he arrived in Megiddo prison.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-assaulted-by-israeli-prison-guards-son-says

== CPT-Iraqi Kurdistan reports ongoing Turkish mobilization despite the PKK's unilateral ceasefire
According to the CPT statement, Turkey has not withdrawn its forces but instead expanded its military presence. Accordingly, the Turkish army has reinforced its bases on Metina Mountain and begun constructing new roads to connect its extensive network of bases in the Zap and Avashin areas of Amedi. Additionally, on September 14, Turkey completed the construction of a new military road from its base in Kashan village, located in the Batifia district.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/cpt-iraqi-kurdistan-reports-ongoing-turkish-mobilization-despite-ceasefire-81736

Basra rights body decries live rounds as police probe protester assault
Separately, a video circulating on social media showed an attack on a protester on al-Qaim Street. According to a statement, Police Chief Maj. Gen. Latif Abdul-Ridha al-Saad ordered an investigation to determine the circumstances and “take legal action against those involved,” noting that several officers were injured while performing their duty to protect demonstrators and property.
https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Basra-rights-body-decries-live-rounds-as-police-probe-protester-assault

City Power contractors protest over unpaid invoices in Joburg
Contractors who worked with City Power protested on Wednesday over unpaid invoices amounting to R1.2 billion. City Power confirmed the demonstration, outside the its head office in Reuven, was linked to payment disputes. Spokesperson Isaac Mangena said some of the protesting contractors previously worked on the Vlakfontein housing electrification project.
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/johannesburg/city-power-contractors-protest-over-unpaid-invoices-in-joburg/

Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to 48-hour ceasefire after explosions heard in Kabul
Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed Wednesday to a 48-hour “temporary ceasefire” following deadly border clashes that killed more than a dozen civilians, Islamabad said. The truce, requested by Kabul, comes after Pakistani air strikes in Kandahar and Kabul provinces and marks the worst violence between the two neighbours since the Taliban seized power in 2021.
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20251015-pakistan-afghanistan-agree-to-48-hour-ceasefire-after-explosions-heard-in-kabul
https://archive.ph/CumaT

The death of Julia Chuñil in Chile: Boric’s war against the Mapuche people
Pablo, Jeannette, Javier and Andalien, from the beginning pointed the finger at Juan Carlos Morstadt Anwandter. A bourgeois figure in the forestry and agribusiness, he had for years made threats and paid third parties to commit acts against Chuñil in an attempt to kick her off a substantial piece of land that the National Corporation for Indigenous Development (CONADI)—a state body purportedly created to benefit the indigenous population—handed to Morsadt without a cent being exchanged.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/14/udil-o14.html

'Made in Argentina' factories shutter, creating more challenges for Milei
Similar dynamics have forced ceramics company Ilva to close its factory in the Buenos Aires suburb of Pilar, leaving 300 of its former workers camped out in front demanding some form of indemnization.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/made-argentina-factories-shutter-creating-more-challenges-milei-2025-10-15/

‘Deaths of despair’: Global mortality plummets, but increases among young people in North America due to drugs and suicides
This has been true for young people in North America and Latin America since 2011. The largest increases in mortality have been observed there, especially in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil: in the last decade, it has risen by almost 32% among the 25-29 age group; and by 50% among those in their thirties.
https://english.elpais.com/health/2025-10-13/deaths-of-despair-global-mortality-plummets-but-increases-among-young-people-in-north-america-due-to-drugs-and-suicides.html
https://archive.ph/sN2T7

Google Antitrust

https://archive.is/Qt0n1
So it seems a US court has just ruled that Google monopolized the online search market. Now the Department of Justice is "considering" breaking up Google as a potential option in response.

At long last is there finally some hope for the future of the web?

First Aid

What's the best way to get into field medicine? I'm looking for an up-to-date, practical, introduction to first aid.

What the hell?

Are we, the Israelis, interesting at such a high level?
I am very surprised by the level of interest and involvement in everything that happens here.
Is there a multi-country distribution of users?

How redpilled are the rich?

Do they go

>I have to carefully construct what say to get the proles to do what I want and tolerate what I am doing

Or do they go

>I am so fucking god-like, I will use ruling-class language with my people and they will do my bidding.

Basically what I'm asking is do they have ideology of their own that they are unconsciously committed to, or are they blatantly just lying when they talk about things like creating jobs?

wich is the favorite piece of soviet media of you guys?

supercomputer projects

It could be illegal, but perhaps a botnet network could be fashioned from some sort of self written AIs modeled on something like the new Chinese DeepSeek AI?

BREAKING: COPS CLASH With ICE Protesters in Chicago

Video from Status Coup.

Timestamp for the action:
https://youtu.be/23yTM-_6hRI?t=4156

No survivors found after Tennessee explosives plant blast

Operations go from rescue to recovery as no survivors expected to be found, officials say.

Investigators do not expect to find any survivors at the scene of a blast at a Tennessee explosives company, officials say.

The explosion, which was felt for miles, destroyed a building at the headquarters of Accurate Energetic Systems early on Friday in Bucksnort, about an hour’s drive west of Nashville.

“More than 300 people have been through almost every square inch of this facility, and at this time, we’ve recovered no survivors,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis told reporters on Saturday. “It’s a great loss to our communities.”

Officials did not offer a precise death toll but have previously said 18 people were unaccounted for. Davis confirmed the operation had shifted from rescue to recovery and that investigators would use DNA testing to confirm the identities of those who died.

The factory made explosives for both military and demolition purposes.

Investigators, including agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, were still working to determine the cause of the explosion, officials said. The presence of explosives and other ordnance at the property has made searching the scene complicated.

In a statement, the company called the blast “a tragic accident”.

Davis said it could be days, weeks or even months before foul play is ruled out.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/11/no-survivors-found-after-tennessee-explosives-plant-blast

The issue is neoprogressivism

The issue is neoprogressivism and third-/fourth-wave feminism of the New Left, not progressivism and feminism per se.

The Alternative to Dystopia

(Quote is from the documentary *Remember My Lai*)
> My little boy was playing in my grandmother's front yard, here in Jackson, at his grandmother's house, and there were some teenagers across the street that got into an argument. They were 14 and 15, and one went home and got a gun. Another one just ran in the direction where my little boy was playing, and they shot him in the head. I was in the house, and I came out and picked him up, but he was already dead… he was dying. When I looked at him, his face looked like the same face of the child that I had killed, and I said, "This is the punishment for me killing the people that I killed." And the one picture that I have… they had his funeral. I got back from the funeral that night, that's the way it cracked, and I left it like that. It just cracked.
> Yes, I'm ashamed, I'm sorry, I'm guilty, but I did it. What else can I tell you? It happened, you're looking at someone who did it. It can happen… if you go to war, those are the type of things that will happen and can happen to anyone. After they train you, they program you - it can happen, it happens. That's reality, that's what war is.

The Cambridge Dictionary defines dystopia as "a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, after something terrible has happened."

War is the ultimate expression of dystopia, for war is what happens when a society has exhausted and foreclosed every possible good or fair path through its own politics. A society that cannot be maintained without the constant presence of such mass suffering is a dystopian society.

Shortly after being drafted into the U.S. army to fight in the Vietnam War, Varnado Simpson was assigned to the task force that would soon be responsible for the My Lai Massacre. Though initially reluctant to follow the order to kill civilians, such that a superior officer threatened to shoot him if he did not comply, he ultimately killed over 20 out of the 350-500 villagers who were massacred on that day, including young children. After returned to the United States, he was somewhat honest but rather terse and detached when recounting the horrors he witnessed and wrought. Over time, this morphed into an overwhelming and relentless sense of shame. The death of his son in a shooting drove him further into despair, and he grew dependent on a growing cocktail of medication to cope with his severe PTSD and paranoia. A few years after his daughter died of meningitis, he committed suicide.

The key takeaway from this tragedy is not some tepid moral lesson about how war brutalizes soldiers as much as civilians by transforming them into brutes. Rather, Simpson's story is a concrete example of what living in a dystopia really looks like. What destroyed him was not the memory of what he did, but his inability to create a narrative of redemption. What his experience shared with the villagers of My Lai and My Khe, radically different though they might have been, is that of dystopia.

But isn't this just an insensitive attempt to explain away an unforgivable evil? Of course the so-called military theorists can utter cheap aphorisms like "war is politics by other means" given their freedom to play God with innocent lives from a good safe distance. Just what does politics really have to do with Simpson's despicable crimes? He caused horrific suffering and so he deserved to suffer, simple as. His suffering wasn't an example of dystopia at all - it was justice, and even then, it wasn't nearly enough. Is that not the *moral* position to take?

But the failure to make analysis *despite* moral judgments is a mistake, for the moral categories which we judge with are politically preconditioned - that is, *not* innately political. In this way, a vulgar desire for justice is ultimately a dystopian desire, because it eclipses the political center that a dystopian society orbits.

In an article for Sublation Magazine criticizing how contemporary leftists have approached the Gaza war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in general, Chris Cutrone begins by stating that:
> The alternative to extermination is slavery - labor. The only reason for conquerors not to kill the defeated is to put them to work - to make them useful. If they cease to be useful or prove to be more trouble than they are worth, they will be killed. That is the lesson of history.

The blunt coldness of such an opening sets the tone for the rest of the article, in which Cutrone injects a brutal dose of reality into the inflamed veins of the anti-Zionist left. For the socialists who side with the violent misleadership of Hamas and aim to drag others into such conflicts, Cutrone has this to say:
> The Palestinians are a conquered people. Perhaps not for all time, but at least for now. This is not going to change - no amount of protest will change it. This is the reality. The only alternative to extermination is slavery. The only alternative to living with defeat is not living with it: dying from it. But there is an alternative to death: life. Life as a worker - it is actually preferable to death! Every worker knows this.
> It is in fact necessary to surrender to your boss. It is not just, but necessary: necessary to live. Workers are not privileged to do otherwise: they are not bosses; nor do they want to be. They just want to live. Shall we let them? Or do we demand their sacrifice to our crazed ideas? Thankfully, they are not listening.
> Only the bosses are listening: Be careful not to make the workers’ life harder in order to satisfy your own perverse desires and deranged visions. Keep them where they belong: in the monastery or nunnery - get thee there, and stay put in your chosen torture-chamber for the measurement of souls.

Cutrone's point isn't that socialists should stop being political, but that socialists have *already* ceased to be political in a sense. For him, politics is first and foremost a life-or-death struggle for power and freedom, and thus has has little to do with matters of morality and justice, no matter the political justifications such virtues might muster. Therefore, a righteous recasting of politics founded upon rage and ressentiment is actually pseudo-political. Likewise, war is pseudo-political as well, for it quickly devolves into moral blackmail and a perverse desire for justice.

But Cutrone doesn't simply deny the phrase "war is politics by other means," perhaps surprisingly so. In fact, he has directly referenced how Vladimir Lenin quoted Carl von Clausewitz (the originator of the phrase) in a lecture on war and revolution. It's odd enough to find a communist revolutionary quoting a conservative Prussian general, but how isn't this just a contradiction?

In a section titled "The Aim of War Is to Eliminate War" in the essay *Problems of Strategy in China’s Revolutionary War,* Mao Zedong wrote:
> When human society advances to the point where classes and states are eliminated, there will be no more wars, counter-revolutionary or revolutionary, unjust or just; that will be the era of perpetual peace for mankind.

However, such cannot be separated from Mao's belief that progress can only be realized through revolution, and that revolution can only be realized through war:
> Mankind's era of wars will be brought to an end by our own efforts, and beyond doubt the war we wage is part of the final battle. But also beyond doubt the war we face will be part of the biggest and most ruthless of all wars. The biggest and most ruthless of unjust counter-revolutionary wars is hanging over us, and the vast majority of mankind will be ravaged unless we raise the banner of a just war. The banner of mankind's just war is the banner of mankind's salvation.

What makes Mao's position on revolutionary war odd is that it contrasts with that of Lenin. Though Mao faithfully echoes Lenin in declaring that a socialist revolution will bring an end to capitalist wars, it was in his lecture on war and revolution (where he quoted Clausewitz) that Lenin also said:
> All wars are inseparable from the political systems that engender them. The policy which a given state, a given class within that state, pursued for a long time before the war is inevitably continued by that same class during the war, the form of action alone being changed.

Perhaps Mao is right that revolutionary war might necessary to bring about a socialist revolution, but revolutionary war is not enough even if this is the case, for history has shown us that a successful revolution is by no means guaranteed by a successful revolutionary war. The question of politics remains, and therefore:

War is not merely politics by other means. Rather, *war is the failure of politics* given the means that it provides us. What is embedded within the phrase "war is politics by other means" is the secret that the Enlightenment promises congruent with capitalism - such as the utopian promise of perpetual peace - cannot be delivered to us through the politics of capitalism. Like its predecessors, it can only deliver a perpetual oscillation between slavery and extermination, for it cannot provide us the means to progress beyond the contradictions of capitalism which undermine those promises; and therefore, it will forever be haunted by specter of barbarism - the "other means" that it so often tempts and compels us to pursue.

But this still assumes too much. Another crucial mistake being made is to ignore how revolution is actually a *symptom* of the contradictions of capitalism rather than a solution to them. It's no coincidence that the "Age of Revolution" began during the rise of capitalism, nor that the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant would soon author his own proposal to usher in an era of perpetual peace.

How, then, to overcome dystopia? In the last part of the introduction to Mark Fisher's unfinished book *Acid Communism,* where he talks about the revolutionary demands of some New Left radicals, he wrote:
> … the material conditions for such a revolution are more in place in the twenty-first century than they were in 1977. What has shifted beyond all recognition since then is the existential and emotional atmosphere. Populations are resigned to the sadness of work, even as they are told that automation is making their jobs disappear. We must regain the optimism of that Seventies moment, just as we must carefully analyse all the machineries that capital deployed to convert confidence into dejection. Understanding how this process of consciousness-deflation worked is the first step to reversing it.

Unfortunately, the book wasn't finished because he committed suicide shortly after.

Many have diagnosed the compulsion of contemporary socialists to degrade all prospects into futility, ranging widely in expression from "left melancholia" to "nihilist post-modern neo-Marxism" and so on. For Fisher, this is the defeated condition of capitalist realism, where attendance at the funeral of lost futures isn't marked by mourning and reflection, but by an endless weeping and gnashing of teeth that foregoes resolution. But this dystopian resignation is not a moral failing: Even during the era of peak fascism (which is more or less synonymous with dystopia), it was already known to Walter Benjamin that every rise of fascism follows a failed revolution. What this means is, contra the leftist cliche that “fascism is capitalism in decay," the sober truth of our age is that *fascism is socialism in decay.* In other words, if the experience of the contemporary socialists is one of living in a dystopia, then the "something terrible" that caused it is the failure of socialism.

Benjamin's deeper point is that reactionary dystopias (like those run by fascists) thrive by feeding upon the leftovers of scattered utopian energies. It's noteworthy, then, that the earliest forms of modern socialism were later categorized as "utopian socialism" in contrast to the "scientific socialism" that followed. It was Friedrich Engels who first seriously elucidated the meaning of scientific socialism in his work *Socialism: Utopian and Scientific,* where he wrote critically of the utopian socialists:
> The solution of the social problems, which as yet lay hidden in undeveloped economic conditions, the Utopians attempted to evolve out of the human brain. Society presented nothing but wrongs; to remove these was the task of reason. It was necessary, then, to discover a new and more perfect system of social order and to impose this upon society from without by propaganda, and, wherever it was possible, by the example of model experiments. These new social systems were foredoomed as Utopian; the more completely they were worked out in detail, the more they could not avoid drifting off into pure phantasies.

Therefore, it might seem as though the present dystopia is the outcome of so many failed revolutions lead by "scientific socialists" who weren't true to the name: Unable to shed the utopian fantasies that their socialism was founded upon, their unrealistic visions - cloaked in Marxist mythology - inevitably decayed into the fertile ground for dystopia to take root and grow. But just how much is utopianism to blame? What follows the above quote from Engels is the revelation that there was much more to the utopian socialists than "pure phantasies":
> We can leave it to the literary small fry to solemnly quibble over these phantasies, which today only make us smile, and to crow over the superiority of their own bald reasoning, as compared with such “insanity”. For ourselves, we delight in the stupendously grand thoughts and germs of thought that everywhere break out through their phantastic covering, and to which these Philistines are blind.

Far from dismissing the utopian socialists, Engels took them seriously and recognized the true value of their efforts. Similar to how science proper had translated the insights of philosophy and practical experimentation into a systematic enterprise founded upon testable hypotheses and methodical lab work, the scientific socialism of Engels emerged out of critical engagement with the theory and practice of utopian socialism as interpreted through the lens of his materialism. Likewise, similar to the "Philistines" who Engels chastised as being blind to the naive brilliance of the utopian socialists, the socialists of today have blinded themselves by refusing to take a bet on the gamble of utopia. In fearing that further failures will inevitably lead to a deepening of dystopia, they are no longer willing to humor any utopian schemes, yet such is ultimately a *preemptive failure of socialism* that ironically leads to dystopia just the same.

But the point isn't that an anti-utopian attitude has turned socialists into self-defeating losers. Rather, it's that *their refusal to seriously engage with utopia is actually utopian.* In other words, by rejecting the utopian core of socialism, they reject the scientific socialism that emerges in response to it, and thus they reject the only realistically possible path to socialism. This apparent paradox was perhaps best explained by Slavoj Žižek, who wrote that:
> The predominant ideology today is not a positive vision of some utopian future, but a cynical resignation, an acceptance of how "the world really is," accompanied by a warning that, if we want to change it (too much), only totalitarian horror can ensue.
> … the true “utopia” is not the prospect of radical change, but the state of things as they are continuing indefinitely.

Such is both the cause and consequence of capitalist realism, which is where truly unrealistic afflictions - pseudo-revolutionary bloodlust, complacent reformism, hyper-moralizing activism, sneering quasi-intellectualism, despairing avolition and so on - are able to fester and spread like a delusional disease. Engels was right to state with disdainful superiority that the utopians, despite all of their childish flights of fancy, were in the end still less delusional than their supposedly more realistic, midwit counterparts. Engels was right.

The socialism of Engels was more about *the production of means* than the means of production. For him, the mistake of the utopian socialists was not in their desire to impose some unrealistic vision of society onto reality, but in how that very desire ended up turning their brilliant imaginations into absurd fantasy worlds. For him, the ultimate aim of socialism is to create a society that realizes the freedom to change, not just the freedom to exist.

What is lacking in the contemporary socialists is the drive to recognize and realize the latent potentials buried within the historical wreckage of socialism - to change by creating a living narrative of redemption out of the tragedy, instead of floundering in and eventually succumbing to a miserable existence.

The alternative to dystopia is risk - critically engaging with utopia. The only way for dystopia to continue beyond the defeat of utopia is for utopia to never be seriously considered again - to defeat it before it can even fail. If we can't accept the risk of dystopia arising from of the failure of utopia, then dystopia is sustained by default. That is the lesson of politics.

A healthy dose of rehab will be necessary: The socialists need to get a grip - make themselves useful by moving on to more meaningful things. They can start by stopping their preaching of the nihilistic negation of everything existing or otherwise: they can stop preaching capitalist realism; they must cultivate an environment where it is possible to imagine an alternative to capitalism - which the future cannot actually do without, thank you.

What the future can do without is the dismal dilemma of slavery versus extermination - including the decision to debase the struggle for socialism into such a dystopian dichotomy. Let us not have another defeat of socialism by leaving it to the future generations to wretchedly stumble through it. Let them collaborate wisely to design a future that is more realistic than the one that capitalist realism has to offer. Let them awaken reason from its violent slumber, so that they can be free to do their own dreaming instead.

There is an alternative to dystopia.

Carsie Blanton & Leila Hegazy to join Global Sumud Flotilla

Artists Against Apartheid:
Artists Against Apartheid’s Carsie Blanton and Leila Hegazy are part of the Global Sumud Flotilla setting sail on August 31.

This historic flotilla, composed of dozens of small vessels carrying activists, parliamentarians, doctors, artists trade unionists, and humanitarian cargo, brings together delegations from over 39 countries to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza.

Both successful touring musicians and organizers who see their work as a tool for liberation, Carsie Blanton Carsie Blanton is an anti-Zionist Jewish songwriter and organizer, and Leila Hegazy Leila Hegazy is an Egyptian-Italian-American singer-songwriter, social media creator, teacher, and activist based in NYC. These Artists Against Apartheid—two of the 15,000+ in the international network—are joining hands with people around the world to say loud and clear: Let Gaza Live!

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News 10/3/25

Hamas agrees to release hostages but rejects foreign governorship of Gaza
Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera that the group would not disarm before the Israeli occupation ends. "The other issues mentioned in President Trump’s proposal regarding the future of the Gaza Strip and the inherent rights of the Palestinian people are linked to a comprehensive national position based on relevant international laws and resolutions, and are being discussed within a national framework," the Hamas statement said. A Hamas senior representative in Doha, Osama Hamdan, told Al Araby TV following the announcement that Hamas will not accept foreign governorship of the enclave, and that it must be run by Palestinians, even transitionally.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-agrees-release-all-israeli-captives-dead-or-alive

US judge dismisses lawsuit accusing UN agency of aiding Hamas attack on Israel
U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan said the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had "absolute immunity" from the lawsuit because it is a subsidiary of the United Nations, which has immunity from such lawsuits. In her decision made public on Wednesday, Torres also rejected an argument that UNRWA was merely a "specialized agency" not entitled to immunity.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/10/us-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-accusing-un-agency-aiding-hamas-attack-israel

From Ang Bayan: NPA Unit Conducts Successful Attack On AFP Troops In Samar Province
Western Samar (Arnulfo Ortiz Command) unit fired the first shots against the 8th ID troopers operating in Sitio San Pedro, Barangay Poblacion 3, San Jose de Buan, Samar on the afternoon of September 27. With high alertness and guerrilla readiness, the people’s army’s attack killed one soldier and injured many others. The NPA-Western Samar reported that at 5 p.m. that day the 8th ID deployed a helicopter to retrieve its wounded soldiers. The soldiers again squandered funds the next day by flying another helicopter.
https://www.redspark.nu/peoples-war/philippines/from-ang-bayan-npa-unit-conducts-successful-attack-on-afp-troops-in-samar-province/

Protests, Violence Erupt in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir
At the heart of the unrest lies JAAC’s 38-point charter of demands, which channels public anger over soaring electricity tariffs, rising food prices, and entrenched elite privileges. Despite multiple rounds of talks with federal and local authorities, the deadlock persists. What began as issue-based agitation has evolved into one of the most widespread protest movements the region has witnessed in years, exposing a deepening crisis of representation and legitimacy.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/10/protests-violence-erupt-in-pakistan-administered-kashmir/
https://archive.ph/SvOiN

British government exploits Manchester synagogue killings to attack anti-genocide protesters
Within hours of the killing of two Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday, the Labour government and police—backed by a frothing right-wing media—leapt on the tragedy to intensify their crackdown on protests against the Gaza genocide, and the campaign to brand anti-Zionism as “left antisemitism”.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/03/flde-o03.html

Armenian archbishop sentenced to 2 years in prison over alleged coup plot
Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan was arrested in June and accused of being part of an alleged coup plot against the government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The cleric was found guilty on Sept. 24 of calling for the government to be overthrown. His lawyer, Ara Zohrabyan, condemned the verdict as being politically motivated.
https://apnews.com/article/armenia-church-cleric-pashinyan-opposition-prison-9a6db260de55857751aac6701c9a0077

EFF and Operation Dudula clash after child’s death
“What begins as hatred directed at African migrants quickly mutates into the policing of fellow South Africans based on their language, place of origin, or cultural identity,” the party cautioned. Dunga added that Operation Dudula’s actions were obstructing access to healthcare for citizens they labelled as undocumented. “According to them, anyone who comes to these facilities without identification is perceived to be an illegal immigrant,” he said.
https://www.citizen.co.za/alex-news/news-headlines/2025/10/03/eff-at-loggerheads-with-operation-dudula/
https://archive.ph/2bw3i#selection-602.0-602.1

Madagascar president who took power in coup accuses protesters of trying to trigger another one
On Monday, the president dismissed the prime minister and dissolved the government. However, the leaderless Gen Z Madagascar movement called for more protests, demanding the resignation or dismissal of the president, constitutional court judges, election commission members and parliamentary leaders.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/03/madagascar-president-accuses-protesters-coup

US threatens to pull UN support for Colombia’s peace process and war crimes tribunal
Waltz suggested that the administration of US President Donald Trump no longer supports the implementation of the peace deal when it comes to indigenous rights. The ambassador said that his government supports justice for “victims of narcoterrorism,” but rejected UN monitoring of “transnational justice.”
https://colombiareports.com/us-threatens-to-pull-un-support-for-colombias-peace-process-and-war-crimes-tribunal/

The Continuation of Counterinsurgency in Chiapas: Dispossession, Creation of Conflicts, and Incursions by Military and State Forces Against the EZLN
The Assembly of Zapatista Autonomous Government Collectives (ACGAZ)—part of the Zapatista structures that promote El Común—denounced attacks that began in April, which included refusal to engage in dialogue, incursions into and surveying of the autonomous territory recovered in 1994, threats, theft of crops, burning of two houses, and dispossession, perpetrated by a group of civilians together with the Ocosingo municipal police, the State Police, the Government Delegate, the Chiapas State Attorney General’s Office, and members of the Mexican Army.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21656/

El Salvador Bans Inclusive Language in Public Schools
A memorandum issued by the ministry clarified that the ban applies to “all public educational centers and agencies of this ministry” in order to “consolidate clear, uniform, and respectful institutional communication.” It specifically barred expressions such as “amigue, compañere, niñe, todos y todas, alumn@, jóvenxs, nosotras,” or any other linguistic variation “referring to gender ideology.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/el-salvador-bans-inclusive-language-in-public-schools/

Quebec government shifts further right amid collapsing support
Declaring his intention to administer “shock therapy,” Legault announced that his government will “cut deeply into bureaucracy.” This is a euphemism for slashing and privatizing what remains of essential public services, particularly public health care and education, and eviscerating all social supports. He also targeted environmental regulations in a clear signal to big business that it will be given carte blanche to rake in profits by ignoring and trampling on the most basic environmental protections.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/03/gdvn-o03.html

EA private buyout

https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900

What is the geopolitical significance of the most hated American company in video games soon being owned by the Saudi Arabian government?

/acg/

>No animal crossing thread for 10 pages
Absolutely disgusting you uncultured plebs.
Post friend codes and Island codes, or just screenshots in general.

CHAZ: The Anarkiddie Lumpen paradise.

>Take over an entire city block because "ACAB"
>Literally wall it off, then have armed patrols walk around terrorizing locals, while alowing the area to flood with drug addict, antisocial lumpens, drug dealers and schizos and protecting them against any repurcussions.
>Instantly entire thing devolves into a den of crime, drug dealing, gangs. All protected by the Anarkiddies while local proles beg for the police to tear the entire thing down.
>Anarkiddies "not police" shoot 2 young black teens to death for doing a burn out in a car, in under a week.
>Literally cover for the murderers and they never are caught.
How in fuck are Anarkiddies taken seriously at all anymore in the Western left? Chaz more than anything proved that modern Anarchism, is nothing more than a reactionary antisocial Lumpen movement.

>Be once in a millennia genius
>Writes big book detailing and explaining all his ideas and findings
>Explains something via a concept that he hasn't laid out yet and without which nobody can fully understand the explanation
>"Oh, don't worry anon! This concept I use here will be explained in chapter 7 of Volume 3 of this work"
>Goes on eating drinking and smoking like a pig
>Dies before he even finishes Vol 2
>Leaves Engels to guesstimate and extrapolate what he meant

Thanks, Karl, not like we needed all the knowledge we can get to fight the most powerful oppressive force in human history or nothing

Chinese Century Thread /CCT/

This is a general thread for all China-related news.

Gusano fuckers can die. Westoid """maoists""" can sudoku.

We are going to analyize ITT every move by China in their road to a socialist economy.

Netanyahu to speak at UN HQ in NYC on September 26th

While Mileikowsky's in the U.S., he will most likely also request or initiate more U.S. attacks on Iran, and will continue to direct the mass genocide in Palestine, and assaults on Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria. If he enters and leaves the country unimpeded, the genocide will continue, and the U.S. will likely be dragged back into direct involvement in WWIII. The Zionist attack on civil liberties, freedom of speech, and all aspects of life in the U.S. will continue at a clip in order to suppress dissent against U.S. involvement in a homicidal/suicidal war against Iran. Over time, with the opposition blacklisted, disenfranchised, locked up, terrorized, silenced, and murdered, the attack on the truth by the state operatives of Zionism will not cease. Slowly, the history we have watched unfold will be re-written. The records which have not been physically replicated will be methodically erased. The public will be inundated with lies and vapid bullshit so that they will be too distracted to ever bring justice upon Biden, Trump, Blinken, Rubio, Starmer, Baerbock, Merz, Netanyahu, Gallant, Herzog, etc., and in addition to this, they will continue to be saddled with impossible, extortive debts as the U.S. continues to collapse. This is a turning point in history: either a united front takes material decisive action to make Zionism and Zionist genocide collaborationism more dangerous than opposing Zionism, or we get the bad ending where the Zionazi cult wins.

Netanyahu is scheduled to visit the White House again as well.
His plane will most likely fly in on the 25th or earlier. The US has seen large cuts to the FAA, which have resulted in a number of crashes and embarrassing plane accidents.

At this point, there is no excuse.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOExiEqDXfd/?hl=en
https://x.com/palyouthmvmt/status/1967930806669615326

Leftist Argument copypasta general /LACG/

Post Copy pastas, videos and books which debunk common Fascist, Liberal talking points which are repeated often.

US kidnaps prime minister it imposed on Haitian people, as Western hemisphere’s poorest country desc

This story's a month old now, but still bears posting:

March 6, 2024:

On Tuesday, the US government effectively kidnapped Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, a right-wing figure whom it had hitherto staunchly supported, a Miami Herald report has revealed.

Against the will of the vast majority of Haiti’s impoverished people, Washington—backed by Canada and France, the other imperialist powers long involved in Haiti—placed Henry in power following the July 2021 assassination of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse. The US-led “Core Group” of nations has continued to support Henry ever since, although he has no popular or legal-constitutional legitimacy and has refused to hold parliamentary or presidential elections despite the mandates of all elected officials having long expired.

Now, however, under conditions where the country is overrun by criminal gangs, most of which have close ties to rival factions of Haiti’s ruling elite, the Biden administration has apparently concluded Henry is a liability who should be flushed from office. To accomplish this, as the Herald article documents, US imperialism is resorting to its traditional thuggery and criminality.

This is all playing out as Washington and Ottawa scramble to put together a foreign paramilitary force to be deployed to Haiti with US and Canadian logistical support to bloodily restore bourgeois “law and order” on the Caribbean island-nation.

Both the US and Canada have a long history of neo-colonial occupation and military intervention in Haiti, including as recently as 2004 when they deployed troops to oust its elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But under conditions where they are waging war against Russia in Ukraine, supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza and actively preparing for war with China, and where there is visceral opposition among the Haitian masses to an intervention led by either of North America’s twin imperialist powers, they are anxious to contract out the job.

Last week Henry traveled to Kenya, whose avidly pro-imperialist government has volunteered to lead a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to Haiti and staff it with more than a thousand Kenyan national police.

In Henry’s absence, the gangs launched a coordinated offensive, whose purpose it soon became clear was to derail the planned MSS deployment and oust the prime minister. Over the weekend, the gangs stormed two Port-au-Prince prisons, freeing several thousand prisoners, and attacked Haitian National Guard facilities. On Monday, they encircled the capital’s two airports forcing them to suspend operations.

On Tuesday, Henry attempted to return to Haiti via the Dominican Republic, only to find his plans thwarted by his Washington patrons. Even if the Miami Herald exclusive published on Wednesday does not put it in so many words, its account makes clear that the Haitian prime minister was effectively kidnapped so that US officials and those of allied governments could browbeat him into accepting new marching orders.

According to the Herald, Henry, who had spent the previous two days in the United States and had informed Washington and the UN of when and how he intended to return to Haiti, was suddenly informed by Dominican officials as his plane approached Santo Domingo that he would not be allowed to land.

This soon proved to be only an opening gambit. Once his small 13-seat jet changed course for the US territory of Puerto Rico, Henry received a second midair message, this one from the US State Department, asking “him to agree to a new transitional government—and resign.” When Henry’s plane landed in San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital, it was “immediately met by US Secret Service agents” and for hours the Haitian prime minister was refused permission to deplane.

During this time, Washington, working with various CARICOM (Caribbean Community) leaders, was sounding out Haitian opposition and business leaders on putting together some type of new interim government to provide a fig-leaf of “popular support” for another imperialist-backed military/security intervention in Haiti.

According to the Herald, “The US proposal would have Henry usher in a new government structure in which a new prime minister and presidential board will lead a transition to elections and prepare for the Kenya-led mission. He would agree to step down once the new structure has been established, and a new prime minister is appointed or the security mission has deployed—whichever comes first.”

On Tuesday evening, US officials, acting in classic imperial potentate fashion, were making clear that Henry’s days were over. The Herald cited an unnamed US National Security Council official as saying the administration was “not providing any assistance to help the prime minister return to Haiti.”

“Our support,” the official continued, “is focused on helping the [Haiti National Police] restore security, expediting the deployment of the MSS mission, and accelerating a peaceful transition of power via free and fair elections. Our dialogue with Prime Minister Henry has been focused on these efforts and the need for security and a peaceful political transition.”

On Wednesday afternoon, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller clumsily tried to cover up the abundant evidence that Washington is once again carrying out regime change in Haiti, shuffling in figurehead presidents and prime ministers as needed. Miller told a press conference, the Biden administration is “not calling on him [Henry] or pushing for him to resign.”

read more:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/07/yfmf-m07.html

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i made them pls use :3
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Jurassic World Evolution

Can we get a Jurassic thread going?

Drone sightings disrupt flights at Copenhagen, Oslo airports

The drone sightings near Danish and Norwegian airports come amid heightened concerns over Russian violating EU airspace.

Copenhagen airport has reopened after briefly closing due to sightings of “unidentified drones”, even as another drone sighting has prompted Norway’s Oslo airport to shut its airspace.

Earlier on Monday, Copenhagen airport said it closed its airspace “due to two to three unidentified drones”.

Airport spokeswoman Lise Agerley Kurstein said about 15 flights had been diverted to other airports.

Oslo Airport also shut its airspace from midnight local time (2200 GMT) due to a drone observation, a spokesperson for the Norwegian airport operator Avinor said in a statement, adding that all flights were diverted to the nearest airport.

Copenhagen police, meanwhile, said that “three or four big drones” had been observed flying over the airport.

“They are still flying back and forth, coming and going,” duty officer Anette Ostenfeldt told the AFP at 10:45pm (20:45 GMT), adding that police were at the airport investigating.

She could not say if the drones were military or civilian.

“But they are bigger than what you as a private individual can buy,” Ostenfeldt said.

The incidents come as several European countries have reported violations of their airspace by Russia in recent days.

Estonia said on Friday that three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets had entered Estonian airspace without permission.

During a Russian air strike on Ukraine the week before, Poland said about 19 drones flew into its airspace. The Polish Air Force and NATO allies shot down some of the unmanned vehicles, marking the first time Russian drones were downed over NATO territory since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Romania also registered a Russian drone in its airspace.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) convened on Monday to address the issue of airspace violations.

Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, denied the allegations that Moscow’s fighter jets had violated the airspace of neighbouring Estonia, saying that last Friday’s flight of three of its MiG-31 aircraft was done “strictly in accordance with international airspace regulations”.

The Russian Ministry of Defence echoed his remarks, saying that “objective monitoring” confirmed that the MiGs did not breach Estonian borders.

read more:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/22/copenhagen-airport-shut-after-sighting-of-unidentified-drones

Anybody else masturbate? If you don't I think you should give it a try. It's pretty fun and it feels really nice once you get the hang of it. I bet even Stirner enjoyed stroking the ol' unique property if you catch my drift

Your Party self-immolates

Always remember: electoralism is a scam to keep the masses from bringing out the guillotines.

Opinions on Gegenstandpunkt?

Gegenstandpunkt is a German Marxist journal founded in Münich 1992. They primarily focus on Marx's theories and the analysis of current events from a Marxist perspective. They reject parliamentarianism. Their most well known member is Karl Held, who died in 2010.

As far as I know, they are against Leninism and any other Marxist thought that comes from it. They have been identified as a "left-wing extremist group" by the German governments Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, they also say that "Due to their elitist understanding of Marxism, the group is largely isolated in the left-wing extremist scene." (at least according to the German wikipedia article) which I find humorous.

I downloaded two of their English translated books called "The Democratic State Critique of Bourgeois Sovereignty" and "Work and Wealth", and I'm planing on reading them after I've read more Marx's own work, like Capital Volume 1, and the work of other Marxists, namely those from my country of origin and of Left-Communist (Italian Left-Communist, Councilist, Communizers etc.) writers who I'm interested in.

Middle East Terror

recieved intel that isis is coming back in the northern areas of syria. Kurds are unaware. its the fckin isis man spread the WORD theyve amassed 1500 fighters already. under the guise of some kind of muslim organization. SPREAD THE WORD

British artist Roger Waters joins protest outside UN headquarters ahead of vote on Gaza ceasefire

British artist Roger Waters, protesting outside UN headquarters in New York on Thursday, criticised the United States for vetoing a Gaza ceasefire resolution.

Speaking to Middle East Eye Waters emphasised that the US and Israel are obstructing the path to peace and argued that the UN has the power to intervene.

News 9/20/25

NPA Unit Preemptively Strikes AFP Troops In Oriental Mindoro Province
An NPA-Mindoro (Lucio de Guzman Command) unit preemptively struck the attacking 1st IB troops in Sitio Tugas, Barangay San Vicente, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro Province on September 9. According to the unit, it immediately detected the presence of the 1st IB forces, which allowed the Red fighters to promptly prepare, position themselves, and open fire.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21482/

‘This is their attempt to silence him’: Umar Khalid reaches five years in Indian jail without trial
Before his arrest Khalid had emerged as one of the faces of an anti-government protest movement after the Modi government passed a citizenship law in late 2019 that was seen as discriminatory to Muslims. The protests that erupted were the first widespread challenge to the Modi regime and were met with brute force by the state. Dozens were killed by police fire and activists were detained and tortured.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/umar-khalid-five-years-in-jail-without-trial-india

Privatised phone system failure causes deaths in Australia
Optus CEO Stephen Rue held a short snap press conference at 5.30 p.m. on Friday to belatedly announce the breakdown. He provided no details or explanations, other than that an Optus network outage had caused the failure of 600 Triple 0 calls across South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. South Australian police confirmed that two deaths involved a baby boy from Gawler West, 43 kilometres north of Adelaide, the state capital, and a woman from Queenstown, in Adelaide’s northwest. A third death occurred in Western Australia, but that person was yet to be identified.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/20/krql-s20.html

Eswatini activists protest US deportation deal at embassy in South Africa
The activists likened the arrangement to human trafficking, and said their country’s absolute monarch, King Mswati III, entered into the deal without consulting parliament. They also alleged he is secretly obtaining benefits from the arrangement that are not being shared with the Eswatini people. The five men were deported to Eswatini in July and are currently being held at a maximum-security prison where their lawyers allege they have not been granted access to see them.
https://apnews.com/article/eswatini-deportees-trump-immigrants-protest-790ed3939f2fe220b109205b30f29f1c

Hamas shares 'farewell' photo of Israeli captives, warns Gaza war is putting them at risk
The statement added that Al-Qassam had "prepared fighters to plant explosive devices inside [Israeli] occupation vehicles" and that bulldozers would be "high-value targets." It also claimed that "Israeli captives are distributed across neighbourhoods in Gaza City," warning that any expansion of the Israeli operation would eliminate the possibility of recovering the captives – either alive or dead.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hamas-warns-israel-its-captives-are-risk-over-gaza-offensive

Trucks set ablaze as militants block key Senegal-Mali trade route
In a rare acknowledgement of the seriousness of the situation affecting the landlocked country, Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maïga said the authorities were trying to improve security on the routes. The blockade - a potentially serious escalation of Mali's long-running jihadist insurgency - is particularly affecting the supply of fuel, which could cripple the country.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c708n1ry8k4o
https://archive.ph/xRvr8

Sharaa says Turkey might attack Kurdish-led SDF if they don’t integrate into Syrian army
According to Milliyet, Sharaa convinced Turkey not to launch an operation against the SDF after longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled in December 2024 in order to give negotiations a chance. But he hinted that if integration is not achieved by next December, Turkey might resort to military action.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sharaa-says-turkey-may-attack-sdf-if-they-dont-join-syrian-govt

Medium-Term Program: The war against the Turkish working class is escalating
The MTP, presented by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, shows that Turkey’s economic strategy will be based on “sustainable growth,” reducing inflation, and maintaining fiscal discipline to close the budget deficit. As in the program announced last year, frontal attacks on the social conditions of the working class are being stepped up.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/19/tfgk-s19.html

Dutch police clash with anti-immigration protesters in The Hague
Thousands of people joined a protest organised by a rightwing activist demanding stricter immigration policies and a clampdown on asylum seekers, just over a month before a national election. Large groups of protesters, many waving Dutch flags and flags associated with far-right groups, clashed violently with the police, throwing rocks and bottles, footage from broadcaster NOS showed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/dutch-police-clash-with-anti-immigration-protesters-in-the-hague

Germany: Brigitte Asdonk, RAF Co-Founder, Died
She was arrested on 8 October 1970, along with Horst Mahler and other members of the RAF, and sentenced to twelve years in prison in 1973. She was released in 1982. Even in her later years, Asdonk remained active in the internationalist, anti-militarist movement and regularly participated in demonstrations.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21478/

Massive Attack & Kneecap announce new anti-genocide music alliance

Massive Attack announce alliance of artists in support of Gaza, including Fontaines DC, Kneecap and Brian Eno

Massive Attack, Kneecap, Fontaines DC, and Brian Eno have officially formed a syndicate for artists who speak out about “aggressive, vexatious campaigns by pro-Israel advocates” against the people of Gaza.

The news was shared via social media, in a statement that began “the scenes in Gaza have moved beyond description,” before clearly expressing that the UK government has clearly “facilitated” the “genocide”.

The group aims to protect other artists, especially those at the beginning of their careers, from threats experienced as a by-product of speaking out in a similar way. The group revealed that they have been “subject to various infringements from within our industry (live and recorded) and legally via organised bodies such as UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).”

UKLFI reported Bob Vylan for their Glastonbury set, during which they chanted “death to the IDF.” A criminal investigation is currently underway. UKLFI also reported the BBC for broadcasting the set. As a. result, the broadcaster’s Head of Music and a team of senior BBC workers have stepped down while an internal investigation goes ahead.

UKLFI are also at the centre of the Kneecap controversy after Mo Chara was charged with a terrorism offence after he allegedly displayed a Hezbollah flag at a show in 2024 while shouting, “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah.” Hezbollah are a banned organisation in the UK.

Reflecting on these tactics, the post states, “Having withstood these campaigns of attempted censorship, we won’t stand by and allow other artists – particularly those at earlier stages of their careers or in other positions of professional vulnerability – to be threatened into silence or career cancellation.”

It then encourages other artists “who’ve been placed in this position, or those who now wish to use their platforms to talk about Palestine but are concerned about industrial or legal repercussions” to contact them to make a collective stand.

The collective will work together on a list of demands, including “immediate, unfettered access to Gaza for recognised international aid agencies without military threat,” as well as an end to “UK arms sales/licenses to Israel” and an”immediate and permanent ceasefire.”

In a statement further shared with The Guardian, Massive Attack expanded on the collective: “This collective action is really about offering some kind of solidarity to those artists who are living day after day in a screen-time genocide, but are worried about using their platforms to express their horror at that because of the level of censorship within their industry or from highly organised external legal bodies, terrifying them and their management teams with aggressive legal actions. The intention is clear and obvious: to silence them.”

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/massive-attack-alliance-gaza-fontaines-dc-kneecap-brian-eno/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/17/massive-attack-announce-alliance-of-musicians-speaking-out-over-gaza

Transhumanism thread

What do you think of it?

DasHasenhaus end

Bunnyfriend or Bunna is a p-do guy that have a website https://www.dashasenhaus.com where he uploads comics "safe" for childs with a lot of foot fetish, he always focus on the feet or always make mention of them in every comic he makes, he has uploaded edits of girl's feet on Deviantart. He saved and posted a lot of child photos or shared on his facebook account to use them as "inspiration" for his characters clothing.

>Cancel culture never existed
>Woke is just a right wing fantasy
Why can't Shitlibs just admit they absolutely devolved into paranoid witch hunts, slippery sloping purity testing based on whatever Tumblr snowflakes defined as "problematic" and basically just pathetically vindicitive grevience culture for a decade?
It really is annoying you can't even disucss this stuff, without shitlibs and even lots of the left, pretending this whole "woke" era never existed at all and it was just all made up by Fox News.

on gender

How did genderism and transgenders become associated with and straight up completely dominate the left? They're regressive ideals. When I was growing up, I was advocating that people should be free to express themselves no matter their sex. I thought it was the progressive consensus at the time. Now they push for identitarianism and I myself frequently suffered abuse at their hands as an androgynous intersex gay man being strongly pushed not only to identify as a woman (because men are le bad(? - I think anyway)) but also pressured to claim to be attracted to female sex characteristics if the owners didn't claim to identify as women, which would be quickly called homophobic and therefore a bigotry in the past but now is being pushed and homosexuals are called bigots for being homosexual.

The 'leftist' politicians no longer even seem to do anything but peddle the culture war focused on gender, especially transgenderism. The liberals don't even seem to believe in it, they just peddle it, with the new man vs woman divide being mostly men vs non-men but when it comes down to it they divide it as 'amab' vs 'afab'.

There are many issues disproportionely affecting men, but no one speaks about it on the left anyway, no one acknowledges many female privileges which become extremely prelavent when the society is struggling: they don't give a fuck about the huge amount of homeless men, how women avoid sentences and get far less harsh sentences (I work in a prison and everyone here speaks of it and it is materially very blatant), how women's wellbeing both physical and mental are prioritised while men's frequently targetted with the aim of making them worse; how in spite of all the alleged progress men are still fully expected to provide and suck all up; the unnamed androcides which are falsely called 'wars' and so much more.

This isn't to even mention how worldwide collectively male genital mutilation is widely encouraged, misnamed to a 'circumcision', but also including nearly all intersex people who will be operated on to make their genitals appear female, no matter the price (health, chronic pain and so much more) - I myself fell a victim a few months ago when a surgeon during a surgery on my urethra decided to perform a partial vaginoplasty without my consent and hide behind my intersex disease claiming it was needed even though I didn't have a vagina and I cannot even fathom how one could rule making one could ever be medically necessary, yet the hospital complaints board is dismissing me, as are solicitors, because it is fine to mutilate males - I can guarantee if anything like this in reverse was done to a female it would cause a huge backlash.

How did this happen? Why do you get silenced when you try to speak of it in leftist spaces even though it is a culturally regressive movement (genderism), sexist and homophobic?

Charlie Kike is dead. Rest in piss homo.
Truthfully I really can't believe we actually pulled it off. Assuming it was a leftist. If you are reading this gods speed shooter man. You can hide at my place.

Trump orders National Guard troops to Memphis in latest military deployment

The city’s Democratic mayor, Paul Young, says the ‘decision has been made’ but he does not think it will drive down crime.

US President Donald Trump will extend federal law enforcement action to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, in a move that will include sending in National Guard troops and setting up a “Memphis State Task Force” to tackle crime, though police say overall criminal offences are at a 25-year low.

Trump announced the move in an executive order on Monday to rid Memphis of what he called the “tremendous levels of violent crime that have overwhelmed its local government’s ability to respond effectively”.

The executive order did not set out a timeline for when the Memphis task force, which will also include the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Marshals Service, will be deployed.

Trump described the task force as a “replica” of his crackdown on Washington, DC, in August, according to the Associated Press news agency, which saw the US president deploy the National Guard on the streets of the US capital.

Trump has pushed for a similar military involvement in policing in Baltimore and Chicago, which, like Memphis and Washington, DC, are Democratic strongholds.

Trump’s Memphis task force has the backing of Tennessee’s Republican governor, Bill Lee, who joined Trump in the White House for the announcement.

“I have been in office for seven years. I’m tired of crime holding the great city of Memphis back,” Lee said during a signing ceremony.

Memphis’s Democratic mayor, Paul Young, said on X that he did not think deploying the National Guard would drive down crime, but “the decision has been made”.

“Yesterday morning, we learned that the Governor & President have decided to place the National Guard & other resources in Memphis, which they have the authority to do. I want to be clear: I did not ask for the National Guard and I don’t think it is the way to drive down crime,” Young said on X.

Memphis is known globally for its music industry and its historic ties to rock and roll, soul and the blues. Last year, it reported the highest violent crime rate among US cities of 100,000 people or more, according to 2024 FBI crime data.

A review by Al Jazeera of FBI crime statistics found the rate of violent crime – which includes murder, negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault – for Memphis was 2,501 per 100,000 people in 2024. The city was followed by Oakland, California, at 1,925 per 100,000 and Detroit, Michigan, at 1,781 per 100,000 people.

Memphis police, however, say this figure does not paint a full picture of the city’s violent crime situation amid “historic crime reductions” in the first eight months of 2025.

“Overall crime is at a 25-year low, with robbery, burglary, and larceny also reaching 25-year lows. Murder is at a six-year low, aggravated assault at a five-year low, and sexual assault at a twenty-year low,” police said last week.

Despite this decline, the city reported 146 homicides so far in 2025 and 4,308 cases of aggravated assault.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/16/trump-orders-national-guard-troops-to-memphis-in-latest-military-deployment

motherfucker i'm both amen and hallejulah...

what do y'all think of shearling's recent record? i think it's some of the best albums of this year, posssibly the album of the decade as well..!!

Capitol riots

Im making anti-trump propaganda. I was looking for short video showcasing violence at the capitol riots to make a collage.
Can anyone help me?

Thanks.

Teaching English Abroad

Hey anons,
I'm currently an archivist and (substitute) teacher in the US. It's time for me to get the hell out. I know that Taiwan accepts substitute teaching licenses for public schools (most other countries require a real teaching license for public schools)

I know Taiwan was founded by the KMT, are they still fascist? Or Fascist Lite like the US? I'm just starting the process now and it's not like my heart is set on Taiwan or anything.

Has anyone else done this or heard good/bad things about it?

Comradely,

Nepal

What the fuck is going on in Nepal?

Per RT:
"Nepal’s parliament ENGULFED in flames — built in 1903 as the PM’s residence

Protesters broke into the building, looted it, and set it on fire

Singha Durbar (Lion’s Palace) is the largest palace in Asia"

Zohran Mamdani

How will he inevitably betray his voter base?

FUCK SOUTH KOREA

good hip hop

Some good hip hop from Future "Monster" album. Good electronic stuff.

The American Question

Firstly, let me state that I am aware that in *some way* all forms of American socialism will be "anti American" in that it advocates for the removal of the current system, just as all (or most) forms of socialism do. Even demsocs believe that the system under which we currently operate is wrong and must be changed in some way. But American leftists in particular have this very, very anti-American sentiment. And I get it. I hate America too. And the USA is, of course, a colonial state that engaged in genocide. But is it truly beyond redemption?

Moreover, I have to wonder, is it truly expedient to tell people (or at least to imply by our own words and actions) that they have to hate the very *idea* of a united America? I do not necessarily support the ACP, but this is probably why people do. So-called MAGA communism is appealing to many particularly because it lacks this anti-American sentiment.

To be clear, I am anti-America in one sense. I believe that the USA is a genocidal empire, and a force for evil in the world. But in the sense that America must be entirely dissolved, I am not. I do not believe that. Many of the criticism levelled against the USA could have been made against China or Russia. But these were not dissolved; they were simply made into communist versions of themselves. I find America's problem to be capitalism, not the mere existence of a united American nation.

CAPESHIT MOVIES

This is the capeshit film thread
Discuss capeshit
I'll admit I hate Marvel films, first off they're some of the glowies films out there, every single one fellates the Pentagon. The plots are almost all identical, filled with general pro-porky propaganda. The jokes are overdone and stale, literally Adam Sandler humor. The CIA is shit for such expensive productions. The characters are getting stale. Fuck these movies, death of cinema shit piles.

Cloudflare is malicious software

For an entire month now, Cloudflare has been discriminating against alternative web browsers to the Google hegemony by refusing to "verify" them as legitimate browsers through their browser check loop. On some browsers this has been blatantly malicious by designing the loop to hang indefinitely while it rapidly consumes all of the user's memory until a program crash. This has included Palemoon, Librewolf, Waterfox, IceCat, Seamonkey, Falkon, and more. Basically it seems like anything that isn't a subservient Chrome fork or Firefox itself is being gatekept out of the web by Cloudflare. The likelihood that this is being done deliberately is high because a) they have been doing it for an entire month, b) the entire time they have refused to respond to developers reaching out asking them to fix it, and c) Cloudflare themselves have stated that their secret proprietary methods of fingerprinting "human" browsers are tailor-fit to each browser. Some links following this story:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/07/044225
http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Instead_of_DoS_Protection_Cloudflare_is_Allegedly_Conducting_Do.shtml

In only the span of a few years, DDoS "protection" services have grown to exert so much control over the web that they can now play kingmakers in browser competition and coerce user choice. We need a solution to the DDoS protection racket more than ever. What can be done about this?

UN Assembly Moves to Geneva After U.S. Bars Palestinian Delegation

Sep 2, 2025

The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York, following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of senior officials.

The relocation marks a rare institutional challenge to the host nation and reflects mounting global frustration over Washington’s obstruction of Palestinian participation amid Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza.

The U.S. State Department justified the visa denial on grounds of “national security,” accusing the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization of “undermining peace efforts” through legal appeals to the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.

These appeals include formal charges of genocide and apartheid against Israel, claims the U.S. argues breach diplomatic norms and politicize international legal forums.

The decision affects approximately 80 Palestinian officials, although the Palestinian Mission to the UN in New York will continue operating under a limited waiver.

The move has drawn sharp criticism from legal experts and international diplomats, who say it violates the 1947 UN Headquarters Agreement, which obligates the host country to facilitate access for all accredited delegations.

In 1988, the UN relocated its session to Geneva after the U.S. denied a visa to Yasser Arafat, then head of the PLO. The current relocation is similarly aimed at ensuring full Palestinian participation, particularly in a scheduled September 22 segment dedicated to Palestinian rights.

European leaders have condemned the U.S. decision. Spain’s Prime Minister described the move as “unjust,” while France reaffirmed that UN platforms must remain accessible to all recognized delegations.

The Geneva session also coincides with growing momentum among several countries, including France, the United Kingdom, and Canada, to formally recognize Palestinian statehood, adding diplomatic weight to the proceedings.

Palestinian officials have denounced the U.S. action as a deliberate attempt to silence their voice at a time when Gaza faces mass displacement, starvation, and what UN experts have described as genocidal violence.

President Abbas is expected to address the Assembly in Geneva, where he will call for international protection, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty, and accountability for war crimes.

The Geneva session is expected to amplify calls for action under the “Uniting for Peace” resolution, which empowers the General Assembly to recommend collective measures when the Security Council is unable to act due to political obstruction or lack of consensus.

Advocacy groups are urging the UN to consider deploying international protection forces to Gaza and to suspend Israel’s privileges within the UN system until humanitarian access is restored.

Beyond its logistical implications, the relocation signals a deeper shift in global diplomacy, where procedural justice and international law are being reasserted against political obstruction.

The Geneva gathering is expected to draw high-level delegations, legal experts, and civil society leaders, all converging to confront the worsening crisis and to chart a path forward for Palestinian self-determination.

https://imemc.org/article/un-assembly-moves-to-geneva-after-u-s-bars-palestinian-delegation/

>101 Dalmatians live-action
>Beauty and the Beast live-action
>The Jungle Book live-action
>The Lion King live-action
>Alladin live-action
>Dumbo live-action
>Mulan live-action
>The Little Mermaid live-action
<no Cars live-action
Disney, wtf? Of all the cartoons to base a live-action remake on you didn't choose one of the most obvious ones? It could've been something actually refreshing. The plot wouldn't change but at least it'd be something interesting. 90% of them aren't even good, such a waste of money, talent and resources.

5 (or 7?) Shot At The US’s Fort Stewart Military Base In Georgia

Alleged gunman at Army's Fort Stewart was a sergeant who shot 5 coworkers

A sergeant opened fire on his coworkers Wednesday at Fort Stewart, an Army installation in southeast Georgia, leaving five soldiers injured, but in stable condition, according to Army officials.

At a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Brig. Gen. John Lubas, the commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division, identified the suspect as Sgt. Quornelius Radford, who worked in automated logistics. The victims were Radford's coworkers and he used a personal handgun, according to Lubas. He added that Radford has not previously been deployed to a combat zone.

Lubas said several soldiers who witnessed the shooting, "immediately and without hesitation," tackled the shooter and subdued him, allowing law enforcement to take him into custody. The suspect has been interviewed by Army investigators and charges will be determined later.

Lubas says three of the soldiers required surgeries but all five victims were expected to recover. Their families have also been notified.

Law enforcement was sent to the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area at 10:56 a.m. local time and the shooter was apprehended at 11:35 a.m, Fort Stewart said in a post on Facebook. The Army installation, about 40 miles from the city of Savannah, was temporarily on lockdown.

Earlier on Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp released a statement on X saying he and his family were saddened by the violence.

"We are keeping the victims, their families, and all those who answer the call to serve in our hearts and prayers, and we ask that Georgians everywhere do the same," he wrote.

https://archive.is/wip/oZd4E
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5494581/fort-stewart-shooting-army-post

>revolution will never happen in the first wo- YAKC!

https://truthout.org/video/stakes-are-high-for-workers-so-unions-are-mobilizing-for-midterms/

>Polls show 70% of American people support unionization

What do you think of 9/11?

Massive oil plant explosion in Roseland, Louisiana

On August 22nd, 2025, a massive explosion at Smitty’s Supply in Roseland—a small town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Many of Roseland's 880 residents were evacuated as smoke blackened their homes and roads, and oil seeped into their water ways for miles. As of August 25th, 2025, Tangipahoa Parish authorities told residents they could return home, while many questions surround this explosion and their safety remains unanswered.

Status Coup spoke with Louisiana Bucket Brigade's Director Anne Rolfes to help shed more light on this largely ignored crisis.

Old Soviet tank from the 1980's or so

Like one that was used in the Chernobyl accident investigation.

You need to organize an army. You need to do it now.

Read about what the IRA and Spear of the Nation did in their homelands. Read about the Viet Minh and how they were formed. Read Clausewitz and Diem.

You have to start somewhere. Never forget, Castro had 60 fighters on the Granma. Spear of the Nation was five people at first. The Viet Minh had fewer than 500 members for years. The IRA probably never had more than 1000 at a time.

Shit is only going to change if you MAKE it change.

hoe_math

If you aren't familiar with the hoe-math content creator look him up. He makes good videos about the collapse of society due to hypergamy, but, none the less he leaves out capitalist in his analysis. What are our thoughts on such things? Like I believe that we need rules in society and such. But I also thinkt hat capitalism more than anything drives the collapse of society because profits are above all else. Like women walking around hoeing right now chasing 10s is because capitalism and the profit motive have perverted our society to the point it is at now. Liberalism leaves out a critique of capitalism in its analysis as does reactionism. Thoughts? Did china get it right?

Why is the left suddenly pro-Copyright/IP?

Why has so much of the left recently become such fucking puritanical pro-Copyright fags to an absolutely insane level?
From the Anti-AI movement pushing that anybody using AI is "stealing" from fucking slop artists on deviantart, to people whining about "plagerism" because someone has a similar thought to them and they weren't credited. What the fuck is going on?
You have leftists cheering on bills to literally EXPAND COPYRIGHT and IP restrictions. It's fucking bonkers.
I've been arguing with leftists recently who are saying by using AI, I'm "stealing" from creative artisans… and? How is this different from me streaming a show from a non-official streaming site, or pirating a game? Why should I care? What is wrong about democratising the creation of art, or even commodities? Should leftists celebrate the driving of value to 0?

Rao Heidmets - Noblesse Oblige

Soviet animated short film from Estonia circa 1989.

News 9/1/25

Italian dockworkers threaten Israel cargo ban if Gaza flotilla blocked
Speaking at a rally on the docks of Genoa, one of Europe's largest ports, a dockworker representing the USB union said that if communication with the flotilla were lost “even for just 20 minutes,” port workers would immediately block all shipments to Israel, regardless of their content. “Around mid-September, these boats will arrive near the coast of Gaza. If we lose contact with our boats, with our comrades, even for just 20 minutes, we will shut down all of Europe,” said the dockworker, a video of whom has circulated widely online and in Italian media but who has not been identified.
https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-dockworkers-threaten-israel-cargo-ban-gaza-flotilla-departs-genova/
https://archive.ph/26CUH

Palestinian Resistance Ambushes Zionists in al-Zaytoun, Gaza City
Seven Zionist soldiers were injured overnight when an explosive device struck a Namer armored personnel carrier in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, according to Zionist Army Radio on Saturday. The Zionist Broadcasting Corporation reported that the vehicle belonged to the 99th Division and the 7th Brigade, operating in the northern Gaza Strip. Local Palestinian sources described fierce overnight confrontations between Palestinian resistance fighters and occupation invading units attempting to advance into the area.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21190/

Houthis fire missile at Israeli-owned tanker after prime minister killed
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency, which monitors shipping in the region, disputed the claim, reporting the missile missed its target on Sunday. “The crew witnessed a splash in close proximity to their vessel from an unknown projectile and heard a loud bang,” UKMTO said, adding all staff were unharmed and the tanker had resumed its voyage.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/1/houthis-fire-missile-at-israeli-owned-tanker-after-prime-minister-killed
https://archive.ph/nQyFC

Tunisia: French retailer Carrefour security guards assault pro-Palestine protesters
Videos from the Carrefour branch in La Marsa, a seaside suburb of the capital Tunis, showed demonstrators bloodied and dragged across the floor by the store's guards after they tried to storm the store on Saturday 30 August. Some were later carried to hospitals, according to the boycott campaign, which said several of its activists suffered fractures. "This was a peaceful, civic, anti-Zionist protest. We hold the authorities responsible for the consequences of this assault," said Jawaher Channa, a spokesperson for the Carrefour boycott campaign.
https://www.newarab.com/news/carrefour-guards-tunisia-assault-pro-palestine-protesters

Sudan Army Strike Kills At Least 12 In Darfur: War Monitor
The lawyers group said in a statement that four women were killed outside the clinic and a nearby hotel was damaged. Several children who were receiving treatment at the time were among the wounded, it added. There was no immediate comment from the Sudanese army. Medical facilities have repeatedly been targeted during the conflict. Across the country, up to 80 percent of healthcare facilities have been forced to shut down, according to official figures.
https://www.barrons.com/news/sudan-army-strike-kills-at-least-12-in-darfur-war-monitor-4c09b166
https://archive.ph/JnOBX

‘The revolution has been betrayed, the poor are worse off’: Solly Mapaila slams ANC
Mapaila accuses the ANC of abandoning revolutionary ideals by embracing neoliberal policies, privatisation and austerity measures that have deepened inequality 30 years into democracy. The Communist Party is in the “implementation phase” of its congress decision to contest elections alone if the ANC refuses to reconfigure the tripartite alliance structure.
https://www.news24.com/citypress/politics/the-revolution-has-been-betrayed-the-poor-are-worse-off-solly-mapaila-slams-anc-20250901-0796
https://archive.ph/BGOvB

Family of Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike say her health is deteriorating
She launched her hunger strike at HMP Peterborough 22 days ago over the prison’s suspension of her recreational activities, her removal from her job at the prison library, and the withholding of her mail. A member of Hoxha’s family told Middle East Eye they are concerned that her health is rapidly deteriorating. "She's developed a rash and jaw ache on her left side," said the family member, who wished to remain anonymous.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-prisoner-hunger-strike-family-health

Unions celebrate victory after ScotRail abolishes peak fares
Commuters will now pay less to travel in the morning and evening busy periods, with the price of a return ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh falling from £32.60 during peak times to £16.80. The decision followed the cancellation of a year-long pilot in 2024, which provoked condemnation from both commuters and trade unions campaigning for the change.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-celebrate-victory-after-scotrail-abolishes-peak-fares

Indonesian students defy crackdown after deadly riots, demanding reform
Protests began a week ago against the government's spending priorities, such as enhanced perks for lawmakers, and escalated into rioting and looting after a police vehicle hit and killed a motorcycle taxi driver. The homes of political party members, including the finance minister, were looted and state buildings ransacked or set ablaze, in the biggest challenge to President Prabowo Subianto's government since he took office nearly a year ago.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesian-students-defy-crackdown-after-deadly-riots-demanding-reform-2025-09-01/

Bihar SIR: 3 Lakh Voters Served ‘Doubtful Citizen’ Notices by Election Commission
For the first time in decades, the revision is not merely checking age, address, or duplication — it requires proof of Indian citizenship, especially for those enrolled after 2003 or born after July 1, 1987. The verification exercise has flagged individuals despite holding multiple valid Indian IDs like Aadhaar, ration cards, and domicile certificates. However, citizenship status, not document possession, is now the core criterion. Some individuals have been labelled as suspected nationals of Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, or Afghanistan based on undocumented suspicions or familial ties.
https://www.newsclick.in/bihar-sir-3-lakh-voters-served-doubtful-citizen-notices-election-commission

The Playground leaks (Dark Web Child Abuse Forum)

Someone on endchan leaked this and said their father used the site. This has been floating around various imageboards for the past few months. There was a lot of discussion on 8kun.

https://archive.org/details/dark-web-playground-child-abuse-forum-leak-censored-posted-endchan-03.18.2025
https://dump.li/a/29c72d


It's basically a child abuse and sex trafficking ring full of right-wing pedophiles.

Less retarded software

I made a wiki about unretarding technology and society. What do you think? https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/main.html

/fit/ general - Builtfat Edition

Ask your /fit/ related questions here.

Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide, aka "the /fit/ sticky"
http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

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only music

Musik for your tasks:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=atrium+carceri&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7j76GoP88fE

or from fucking youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j76GoP88fE

Harem anime

Who actually watches these and what do they like and dislike about it?

the world run on looks. everybody listen to me, i swear it's important

the world works on looks. looks are important. we human will always fully think and associate people with lighter skin color as looking better, better to look at, and is more beautiful/pretty/handsome.
we all also associate lighter skin color with being more feminine for women consider feminine. we can never change this. not a single thing anyone do and say will ever change this. you can never change how people think like this. man or women everybody think like this.

now then have and obvious answer. for the sake of use call it the “Blond Path". we need to produce white people with blue eyes and green eyes and blond hair and ginger hair. the quota would be 10 times the world population including the world population of whites with natural color hair and eyes. To do this we ignore or erase things that are a hindrance such as marriage, monogamy, family unit, relationship, and romance. Production does not stop there, we also need to group ethnic whites together with the same ethnic whites (Ex: Scotts with Scotts, serbs with serbs, and etc). Although this one is of a different program. This program also require us to get rid of the same hindrance the former program have. Both program do not see heigh, body or looks. As long as your face are not horrendous you are good, so even if your not handsome and beautiful you will still be in the program.

As part of the Blond path and to prevent dehumanization and other such unwanted idea,we will educate people. Specifically we will tell them about that one zoning infrastructure real-estate thing (I forgot the name of it) that put black and brown people in place were the chemicals,paint ,water ,walls and environment in general are doing things to their head (mind and brain) and body. In general everybody need to be educated about racist laws and myth and other such things. Other then that we need to eliminate race science and race bias in science.

In short. The world need to have industry level production of ethnic whites and more importantly whites with blue eyes, green eyes, blond hair and red hair because the world work on looks. But we also educate people so they don’t believe in race science and race biased science.

we must advertise this to every rightoid, boomers, and whites.

I am speaking as a brown.

'50s-'60s Japanese Surf Rock, Psych, and Garage

Saw this clip and thought I'd make a thread for this. What a vibe!

Trump orders Hegseth to form National Guard unit in each state to combat crime, protests

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the National Guard in each state to create a quick-response force to quell protests and deter crime after using troops to assist with security during immigration protests in Los Angeles and patrol in Washington, D.C., as part of a crackdown on crime.

He said other cities, specifically Chicago, should be asking him for help.

“I think we should really let them have their city, let their city go to hell” and then they will ask us for help, Trump told reporters at the White House during a news conference announcing several executive orders.

“These people [troops and federal law enforcement], eventually, they’re going to have to be appreciated for what they are doing, and they’re going to have to be appreciated by the officials that are really happy when we go in because they’ve lost control of their place,” he said.

The executive order about the National Guard signed Monday calls on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to oversee “each state’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized and available to assist federal, state and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law.”

Each state should find an appropriate number of troops to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization and have the resources and training needed to serve nationwide, according to the order titled, “Additional Measures to Address the Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia.”

More than a week ago, Trump deployed 2,000 troops from the D.C. National Guard and six supporting states onto the streets of the nation’s capital to stop what he has referred to as an emergency crime wave. However, D.C. police data stated violent crime is down in the city by 26% compared with last year — which had the lowest levels of violent crimes in 30 years.

Since Guard troops have been on patrol in Washington, there have been no killings in the city, Trump said.
The deployment was seen by some as a test for sending the military into other large U.S. cities, which typically lean Democratic. Trump said he’s considering plans to use Guard troops to target crime in Chicago. He said Monday that he has not reached a decision.

“We may just go in and do it, which is probably what we should do,” he said. “The problem is, it’s not nice when you go in and do it, and somebody else is standing there saying, as we give great results, say, ‘Well, we don’t want the military.’ ”

Chicago, too, has seen lower levels of violent crime in 2025, according to its police department.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Saturday that the state has worked with federal law enforcement in the past, and there is no emergency now that warrants sending in the National Guard or other military troops.

“Donald Trump’s threat to bring the National Guard to Chicago isn’t about safety — it’s a test of the limits of his power and a trial run for a police state,” he said.

Two months ago, Trump activated more than 4,000 members of the California National Guard and 700 Marines stationed within the state to deploy to Los Angeles where immigration protests followed a series of raids by federal agents on area businesses to find people living in the U.S. without authorization. The majority of those troops have since returned home, but they primarily worked to protect federal property and personnel, including federal agents conducting immigration arrests.

In L.A. and D.C., local officials did not support the deployment of troops. California Gov. Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit arguing the deployment was illegal. It is ongoing in federal court.

Military troops are barred from conducting domestic law enforcement activities based on an 1878 law known as the Posse Comitatus Act. However, troops have been used in recent years for crowd control during protests.

https://archive.is/sRatO

Bad-faith Wedgeposting

What are the dumbest fucking wedges that one could make in 'the right'? It has to be something that many of them unironically agree with.

For example: obsessively insisting to any anti-immigration/nationalists that "Italians aren't White and can FUCK OFF".

They Live!

For the past year, it has been so much more viscerally clear how right John Carpenter was with this one.

parties are egregore soul traps run by the archons

capitalism itself will bring about its own downfall not some messiah complex and their disciples cult.

https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/icc/1934/11/permanent-crisis.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1934/fascism-revolution.htm

Did the Bernie Sanders thing actually accomplish anything?

The minimum wage increases ($15 now campaigns etc) started way before Sanders and were almost entirely kickstarted on the group by orgs like Socialist Alternative Party and Working Families Party.

Pretty much nothing else Sanders wanted has come to fruition and minimum wage increases happen in many states without public pressure anyway. Hell, even George Bush raised the minimum wage.

Instead what we got was a two time primary loser, and a two time billionaire as president, exactly what he didn't want.

I attended a few Bernie campaign meetings and it was very depressing. Mostly super old Democrats pushing 50+ mulling about and doing nothing. They'd hire a college student wanting debt relief, who in turn would bring in a few more college students to do phone banking. The social atmosphere of the campaign was dismal and there was no excitement.

Immediately after Sanders would lose and election, my local Sanders campaign office became a de facto Clinton campaign office. The upper class phone bankers who came for a bit of student debt relief were then ordered to start making calls for Clinton.

Both campaigns basically funnelled people into Clinton and Harris' campaign, the latter of which was the most right-wing Democratic campaign I've seen since Gore. She punched left and down, ran ads against even the smallest competitive left-wing electoral organization, and promoted a bill that defined "affordable housing" as $400,000.

The only organizational remnant of his effort weren't intention. The DSA seems to have benefited the most, seeing a 16x increase in membership over years. Even a cursory look at the organization shows a highly dysfunctional group of former Tumblr users who have no idea why they are there or what they want. Because they aren't a party, they just bicker about who to endorse all day, and now most of their alliances in state legislative bodies and Congress or either gone or dying.

Lastly, the Socialist Parties that do run their own candidates ran into larger non-socialist parties and there's probably only like a few hundred people in actual socialist parties nowadays.

He decimated the American left. I've never lived in a more right-wing era.

There are many days where I do not much like being transgender.

The US Socialist Party hasn't won a single partisan election since their reformation in 1973

For those who don't know. And I guess most don't know since this board is like 'lmao weed' gen 'zer former 4channers, America used to have a Socialist Party that won partisan elections on their own ballot line.

This included two Congressmen in the early 20th century.

The party eventually committed suicide for many different reasons, after a slow decline in success, and those committed to continuing to run candidates formed SPUSA or Socialist Party USA.

While those familiar with SPUSA today may consider it among a basket of small socialist parties, for decades, the media used "Socialist Party" interchangeably to refer to SPUSA exclusively, mostly for historical reasons.

Their electoral history since their refounding in the early 1970s is dismal. Since then, they haven't won a single partisan race. Each time they won a local seat, which hasn't been more than 12 times ever, their party name wasn't on the ballot cuz it was for some school board or some shit.

tl;dr NO ONE is electing socialists under a true socialist party banner and haven't since at least the 1970s.

It's a political failure, and the whole socialist label is clearly a curse.

Kent State Massacre

More U.S. war crimes? 1971 or so murder of Kent Stae University students a war crime? Mai Lai Viet Nam massacres every other day or so, according to some U.S. officer?

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New 8/11/25

India’s opposition parties protest against a controversial electoral roll revision
India’s opposition accuses the Election Commission of India of rushing through a mammoth electoral roll revision in eastern Bihar state, saying the exercise could render vast numbers of citizens unable to vote. The revision of nearly 80 million voters involves strict documentation requirements from citizens, triggering concerns it could lead to the exclusion of vulnerable groups, especially those who are unable to produce the paperwork required to prove their citizenship.
https://apnews.com/article/india-opposition-protest-electoral-roll-6aa2366999fde2598bb0603c3d1a69db

Israeli Tourist Boom in Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay Stirs Local Unease
The opposition political parties criticized the government’s alleged tilt toward Israel, pointing to visa-free entry for Israeli tourists as proof that the traditionally pro-Palestinian National People’s Power (NPP) has changed its stance. But the same opposition would likely hit the streets if firm action on Israeli tourists sparked a U.S. tariff snapback or a slump in arrivals. The government is squeezed between values (nonalignment, empathy for Palestinians) and vulnerabilities (dollars, debt, and jobs). In that gap, symbolism often beats substance and enforcement gets deferred.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/08/israeli-tourist-boom-in-sri-lankas-arugam-bay-stirs-local-unease/
https://archive.ph/iUOkT

Nearly 400 “voluntary redundancies” sought at Western Sydney University
Management is now working with faculty and school deans to hand-pick the staff whose applications will be accepted, while still threatening forced redundancies as well. This is another warning of the scale of the job cuts and sweeping restructuring being demanded throughout Australia’s 39 public universities. So far, more than 3,500 job losses have been unveiled across the country during the past 10 months.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/11/ogfk-a11.html

Israeli forces accused of escalating intimidation campaign against journalists in Syria
Multiple reporters told the Committee to Protect Journalists that troops have arrested, injured and fired live rounds at media workers in the southern province of Quneitra, much of which was seized by Israeli forces late last year. Israel invaded southern Syria following the ouster of the Assad regime in December, capturing hundreds of square-kilometres of Syrian land in what it says is an indefinite occupation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-escalate-media-crackdown-south-syria

Kurdish refugee camp to be evacuated under Turkey, Iraq deal
As part of the arrangement, of which the PKK is also a party, the camp is expected to be fully evacuated by September, regional sources said. Under the deal, some camp residents will be resettled within Iraq, while others will be relocated to Turkey. Individuals identified as close to the PKK but not implicated in criminal activity may be temporarily accommodated in Turkey.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kurdish-refugee-camp-be-evacuated-under-turkey-iraq-deal

Nationwide blackout hits Iraq amid record heatwave
The Ministry of Electricity said the Mussayib–Babil 400 kV lines tripped under heavy loads driven by record temperatures above 50°C (122°F) and a surge of millions of pilgrims in Karbala. The outage wiped out more than 6,000 megawatts, triggering a chain reaction that shut down generating units nationwide. Power plants in Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar, Baghdad, Diyala, and al-Anbar went offline. Southern and central provinces, including Basra and the mid-Euphrates region, were hit hardest despite not being the source of the fault.
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Nationwide-blackout-hits-Iraq-amid-record-heatwave

Assaulted charity walkers blame Palestine Action ban for emboldening far-right thugs
Two members of the Hastings-based Friends of Al-Mawasi group told of being viciously attacked by Israel supporters while waiting for fellow demonstrators to arrive for a fundraising walk. Richard Wistreich, who is Jewish and whose father escaped the Holocaust, was repeatedly called a Nazi by Israel supporters, while a woman was pushed to the ground and called a “f** terrorist” for wearing a keffiyeh.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/assaulted-charity-walkers-blame-palestine-action-ban-emboldening-far-right-thugs

Wikipedia operator loses court challenge to UK Online Safety Act regulations
The foundation said if it was subject to so-called Category 1 duties – which would require Wikipedia's users and contributors' identities to be verified – it would need to drastically reduce the number of British users who can access the site. Judge Jeremy Johnson dismissed its case on Monday, but said the Wikimedia Foundation could bring a further challenge if regulator Ofcom "(impermissibly) concludes that Wikipedia is a Category 1 service".
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/wikipedia-operator-loses-court-challenge-uk-online-safety-act-regulations-2025-08-11/

Chad opposition leader, ex-PM sentenced to 20 years for inciting violence
The Ngambaye ethnic group enjoys wide popularity among the predominantly Christian and animist populations of the south, whose members feel marginalised by the largely Muslim-dominated authorities in N’Djamena. Masra left Chad after a bloody crackdown on his followers in 2022, only returning under an amnesty agreed in 2024.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/9/chad-opposition-leader-ex-pm-sentenced-to-20-years-for-inciting-violence
https://archive.ph/5nowy

Mali junta detains dozens of soldiers over alleged coup plot
General Abass Dembele, a famous military commander and former governor of the central Mopti district, was among those seized. …. A member of the National Transition Council, the junta-backed parliament, stated that “around 50 arrests” had occurred. “All are soldiers. Their objective was to overthrow the junta,” the legislator stated.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/mali-junta-coup-attempt-arrests-13923165.html

Colombia rallies against possible US military intervention in Venezuela
Petro’s initial response was an invitation to the US and Venezuela to work together and to coordinate actions against drug cartels. He emphasized that violence would not be the key to overcoming drug cartels. And that decriminalization efforts and economic integration of left-out groups, such as the peasantry and indigenous groups, would be more effective. The president also critiqued the bounty put on Maduro, saying that: “I don’t believe that the solution to Venezuela’s political problems lies in paying to kill or capture political leaders.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-rallies-against-possible-us-military-intervention-in-venezuela/

Colombian senator and presidential hopeful dies 2 months after shooting
Javier Garay, a political science professor at the Externado University of Colombia, said Uribe has already “become a symbol of the Colombian right.” However, he considered it premature to predict whether the senator’s death will strengthen the political faction, given the current lack of unity and diverse proposals from dozens of politicians vying to represent the bloc on next year’s ballot.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-miguel-uribe-senator-shooting-dead-bogota-6c8f32b5e23bedec5f634dee5e334042

Rulers with Severe Cognitive Deficiency

How would you analyze the Western world's more recent crop of imbeciles that oligarchic systems keep installing into power? Are these systems so universally broken now that they cannot even tolerate thinking figureheads? What would Michael Parenti's take on all this be?

News 8/8/25 - 8/9/25

Israel kills senior PFLP official in Lebanon bombing
Mohammed Wishah was a member of the central committee of the PFLP, which is the second-largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organisation — the internationally recognised representative of the Palestinians — after Fatah. His bodyguard was called Mufid Hussein. PFLP official Marwan Abdel-Al said: “We have lost two of the most loyal comrades who gave their precious souls to freedom.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israel-kills-senior-pflp-official-lebanon-bombing

Tunisian president’s supporters protest against UGTT union amid rising tensions
Hundreds of supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied staged a rally outside the headquarters of the powerful UGTT union on Thursday and urged Saied to suspend the union following a transport strike last week that paralysed the country. The rally highlights growing fears among activists and opposition supporters of a possible move by Saied against one of the last major independent organisations in the North African country.
https://www.newarab.com/news/kais-saied-supporters-tunisia-protest-against-ugtt-union

MK Party expels Shivambu over alleged coup plan
The move comes after Shivambu was removed from his position, with party leaders accusing him of plotting to unseat MK Party president, Jacob Zuma. Shivambu, however, denied the allegations and claimed that the intelligence report used against him was fabricated. Despite the MK Party’s announcement of his membership termination, Shivambu insists he has not resigned and is consulting South Africans on whether to form a new political party.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mk-party-expels-shivambu-over-alleged-coup-plan/

After Initial Arrests, As Many As 1,000 Ready to Defend Palestine Action in London Saturday
After police in London arrested more than two dozen people last month for publicly expressing support for the nonviolent direct action group Palestine Action, hundreds more have signaled they won't be intimidated by the U.K. ban on protesting on behalf of the organization—committing to risk arrest at another demonstration scheduled for Saturday.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestine-action

New bin workers’ strike looms over pay and conditions
Members of Unite in Wrexham, north Wales, will walk out for 13 days from August 23 to November 14. Unite members in Birmingham are involved in a long-running dispute which has led to an all-out strike for months. The union said that Wrexham Council had changed the way workers were given overtime without consultation and that every worker stands to lose half a day’s pay every bank holiday as a result.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-bin-workers-strike-looms-over-pay-and-conditions

Bavarian police arrest far-right Reichsbürger suspects
Three people suspected of belonging to the far-right "Reichsbürger" group have been arrested, the Bavarian state criminal police in southern Germany said Thursday. Authorities accuse the suspects of being members of a terrorist organization that aimed to violently overthrow Germany's constitutional order.
https://www.dw.com/en/bavarian-police-arrest-far-right-reichsb%C3%BCrger-suspects/a-73554963
https://archive.ph/Kga5D

Indian activists demand Delhi halt all dealings with Israeli arm companies
In a letter sent to Indian parliamentarians on Wednesday, Bengaluru for Justice and Peace (BfJP) said that nine Bengaluru-based companies were providing Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries and Raphael Advanced Defense Systems with critical weapons components. The group, made up by a coalition of close to two dozen groups in the southern Indian city, called upon parliamentarians to follow a Palestinian demand for an arms embargo, including a ban on the export and transit of weapons from India, as well as for an urgent review and suspension of all contracts linked to the export of weapons and military equipment to Israel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-companies-complicit-israel-war-gaza-activists-warn

Pakistan Fears Strong, Independent Afghan Government, Says Taliban Minister
Speaking in an interview with Shamshad TV on Thursday, Mansoor said: “Some of our neighbours, especially Pakistan, do not want a government in Afghanistan, it doesn’t matter if it’s Taliban, Mujahid, or Communist.” He added: “We now understand that Pakistan doesn’t want an Afghan government that stands on its own feet.” Mansoor accused Islamabad of deliberately fuelling internal divisions and crises in Afghanistan to serve its own political and economic interests.
https://www.afintl.com/en/202508083785

Brazil’s Lula vetoes parts of environment bill pushed by the opposition that could harm the Amazon
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva threw out 63 out of the controversial bill’s 400 measures, the government said, though the significance of the vetoes will be clearer once the bill is published in the official gazette and goes into effect. Lula’s supporters and environmentalists had dubbed the legislation “Devastation Bill,” while allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro, held in house arrest on charges linked to an alleged coup plot, had pushed for its approval in congress.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-lula-veto-environment-licensing-bill-ecfc20b67ce7b4fbaeb2f14ba9f787ee

Chileans Reject Effort to Release Dictatorship-Era Convicts
“In response to the initiative by the Senate and the Supreme Court to seek mechanisms for granting release to those convicted of human rights violations—on the grounds of their advanced age and health conditions—our organization of victims’ relatives expresses its strongest rejection."
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chileans-reject-effort-to-release-dictatorship-era-convicts/

Middle Eastern pop from before the fall of the USSR

Just came across this and think it's nice.

RIP Terry Reid

1949-2025

/leftyco/

Seeing how there’s multiple /co/ related threads on the board. I think we should just put all of them into one general just for clarity’s sake.

Discuss anything related to comics and animations from comic recs, leftist animations to comic writers’ attempts to larp as leftists.

Seriously is there a worse anarchist in the UK than Alan Moore?

News 8/7/25

Myanmar’s acting President Myint Swe dies after a long illness
Myint Swe, who became Myanmar’s acting president under controversial circumstances after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi more than four years ago, died on Thursday, the military said. He was 74. Myint Swe’s death came more than a year after he stopped actively carrying out his presidential duties after he was publicly reported to be ailing.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-acting-president-myint-swe-obituary-dead-3e816743ec95a1ab4b543ab0846615a8

Modi ready to ‘pay a heavy price’ as India seeks to resist Trump tariffs
In a speech on Wednesday night which did not directly mention Trump or the new tariffs, Modi appeared defiant as he addressed one of the biggest sticking points in India’s ongoing trade negotiations with the US over tariffs. According to Indian officials, the US has been pushing India to allow for the import of American genetically modified (GM) crops into the country and for duty-free imports on US farm and dairy products.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/modi-ready-to-pay-a-heavy-price-as-india-seeks-to-resist-trump-tariffs

India bans 25 books in contested Kashmir for ‘secessionism’
Indian authorities in Kashmir have banned 25 books, including a piece of work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles “excite secessionism” in the contested Muslim-majority region. The government order accuses the writers of propagating “false narratives” about Kashmir, “while playing a critical role in misguiding the youth, glorifying terrorism and inciting violence” against the Indian state. It follows orders in February when the authorities seized Islamic literature from bookshops and homes.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-bans-25-books-in-contested-kashmir-for-secessionism
https://archive.ph/VZqEB

How Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is bringing the Israeli army to its knees
This week, Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had decided to order the army to fully occupy the Gaza Strip. According to reports, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is strongly opposed to such a move and has even threatened to resign. If these reports are true, the importance of this moment is difficult to overstate. Such a head-on clash between the government and the army puts Netanyahu and his government in a position that challenges not only the military but also the will of much of the Israeli public.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-netanyahus-plan-occupy-gaza-bringing-israeli-army-its-knees

Algeria bans pro-Palestine protest for 'threatening public order'
The Algerian interior ministry this week rejected a request from a dozen opposition parties to organise a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the capital Algiers. The coalition of parties had sought authorisation on 29 July to march under the banner "Algeria with Palestine, against starvation and displacement," proposing the dates of 7 or 8 August.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-bans-gaza-protest-threatening-public-order

Bolivia's socialists lose support of the Aymara, once their base
Now support for leftist and MAS-affiliated candidates is trailing the right-wing opposition. A July survey by Ipsos CIESMORI showed Andronico Rodriguez, the leading leftist contender, with just 6% support in July, from 19% earlier this year. Another candidate of Aymara heritage, Eva Copa, stood down from the race last week. Such is the rout that the official MAS candidate is polling around 2%, while Rodriguez has distanced himself from the party.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-socialists-lose-support-aymara-once-their-base-2025-08-07/

Brazilian Indigenous Women March Demanting Reproductive Health Access and Land Rights
The march in Brasilia was also marked by criticism of a bill that weakens environmental licensing requirements for infrastructure projects, a measure seen as a serious setback for efforts to combat deforestation and climate change. Approved last month in Congress with support from the agribusiness sector, the protesters urged President Lula to veto the bill.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazilian-indigenous-women-march-demanting-reproductive-health-access-and-land-rights/

Buenos Aires City government to sanction citizens that sort through trash
Buenos Aires City Mayor Jorge Macri has instructed the Security Ministry and City Police to introduce sanctions for citizens – mostly poor – who take rubbish out of bins. … Via a post on X, the mayor reminded that article 94 of the City Misdemeanours Code on “Soiling property” provides that: “Anyone who stains or soils by any medium public or private property shall be sanctioned with one to fifteen days of community service or 81 to 1,217 fixed fine units.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/jorge-macri-orders-sanctions-over-rubbish-removal.phtml
https://archive.ph/fMXed

Mass protest organisers dismiss ‘feeble’ first charges for Palestine Action support
Jeremy Shippam, 71, of West Sussex, Judit Murray, 71, of Surrey, and Fiona Maclean, 53, of Hackney, north-east London, were charged under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. They were arrested in Westminster following a protest in central London on July 5 and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 16. They are accused of displaying an article in a public place, arousing reasonable suspicion that they are a supporter of a proscribed organisation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mass-protest-organisers-dismiss-feeble-first-charges-palestine-action-support

German kebab workers striking for collective agreement and pay transparency in industry first
A new round of negotiations between Birtat Meat World SE, one of the country’s biggest kebab meat factories, based in Murr, Baden-Wurttemberg, and the Food, Beverage and Catering (NGG) union were due to start today, but union officials expressed anger after the company clarified that it was not meeting them to negotiate a collective agreement but merely for an exchange of views.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/german-kebab-workers-striking-collective-agreement-and-pay-transparency-industry-first

France’s top court blocks comeback of controversial insecticide
The judges stressed that neonicotinoids — a class of insecticide that includes acetamiprid and that works by obstructing the nervous systems of insects — can be allowed in exceptional situations but only for a limited time and for well-defined crops. These conditions were not respected in the text of the law, the judges found.
https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-top-court-blocks-comeback-of-controversial-insecticide/
https://archive.ph/Yxntd

Rally demands Vic Labor save public housing towers
Almost 1000 people mobilised on August 2 to oppose Victorian Labor’s destruction and privatisation of 44 public housing towers. The protest was called by Save Public Housing Collective. Public housing tenants, activists and elected representatives from the Greens and Socialist Alliance addressed the protest, saying this is the biggest sell-off of public assets ever attempted by a government. They all called on Labor to stop handing over public housing estates to private developers and to instead expand public housing.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/rally-demands-vic-labor-save-public-housing-towers

News 8/6/25

‘Unprecedented’ wildfire burns area size of Paris in southern France
The fire, which started on Tuesday afternoon, had burned 16,000 hectares (39,537 acres) inland from the Mediterranean near the Spanish border. It began in the village of Ribaute in the Aude department, spreading across the rural, wooded area of the Corbières, famous for its vineyards and medieval villages.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/france-largest-wildfire-this-year-corbieres-hills

Hamburg dockworker demands union action against genocide in Gaza
Mohammed Alattar, who has lost 80 family members in the Gaza massacre, writes in a petition addressed to Verdi that he approached the union leadership with his story and asked what the union was doing in answer. He described the response with anger: “Nothing came back, no chance. Only complete ignorance and silence.” This disregard for the suffering and catastrophe in Gaza, Alattar writes, “reflects the same disregard and isolation that Jewish people in Germany experienced 80 years ago.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/06/fbfe-a06.html

About 300 migrants start walk north from southern Mexico
The group of migrants that left Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, was small in comparison to migrant caravans in years past. There has been very little movement of migrants in public since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January, though migration numbers had been falling even prior to that. Those walking Wednesday said their goal was not to reach the United States, but rather central Mexico. They complained that they had been waiting for months to legalize their status or receive asylum.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrants-us-trump-tapachula-a920fcba8752d1c6f3b1f3eb2c4579aa

Brazil: Opposition lawmakers stay the night in Congress
The opposition was demanding a general and unrestricted amnesty for those convicted of attempting a coup d'état, in addition to De Moraes' impeachment. The magistrate is the rapporteur for the case against Bolsonaro, who is accused of leading an attempt to annul the 2022 presidential elections by putting pressure on military commanders. The complaint also points to plans to assassinate and arrest public officials. Bolsonaro and the others under investigation deny the accusations.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/06/brazil-opposition-lawmakers-stay-the-night-in-congress

Sudan says army destroys Emirati aircraft, killing 40 mercenaries
A military source, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the UAE plane "was bombed and completely destroyed" at Darfur's Nyala airport. The airport has recently come under repeated air strikes by the Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/08/sudan-says-army-destroys-emirati-aircraft-killing-40-mercenaries

Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed
Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press in a statement that the East African country would accept up to 250 deportees from the U.S., with “the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement” under the agreement. Makolo didn’t provide a timeline for any deportees to arrive in Rwanda or say if they would arrive at once or in several batches. She said details were still being worked out. The State Department said the U.S. “works with Rwanda on a range of mutual priorities” but wouldn’t comment on details of the deportation deal and what it called diplomatic conversations with other governments.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigrants-deportees-rwanda-us-bb5edea43bb470e76af3ecee5ddad10c

Large Majority of Israeli Jews Untroubled by Reports of Famine in Gaza, Poll Finds
Among the Arab public, 86 percent said they are "very troubled" or "somewhat troubled" about the situation in Gaza. They also found a much greater degree of concern among left-wing Jews, with 70 percent saying that they, too, are troubled by the situation. Jews and Arabs also have profoundly differing views on whether Israel is making substantial efforts to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to Palestinians in Gaza; 78 percent of Jewish respondents agreed that "Israel's actions are restricted by the fighting, but it is making substantial efforts to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to Palestinians in Gaza." Only 22.5 percent of Arabs said that the claim is correct.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-05/ty-article/.premium/large-majority-of-israeli-jews-untroubled-by-reports-of-famine-in-gaza-poll-finds/00000198-7ab3-d0ce-a5de-fbb374f30000
https://archive.ph/pj4PW

Turkey arrests youth LGBTQ activist following Erdogan criticism at Council of Europe speech
Enes Hocaogullari, 23, gave a speech in Strasbourg in March criticising police violence and detentions plus democratic backsliding in Turkey, saying: "The youth has had enough … We are ready to go on the streets to regain our freedoms." He was detained on Tuesday night on arrival from France at Ankara's Esenboga Airport pending trial on charges of "publicly disseminating misleading information" and "inciting hatred and enmity," according to a court document seen by Reuters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-arrests-youth-lgbtq-activist-following-erdogan-criticism

Sri Lanka’s parliament votes to fire country’s police chief over abuse of power
Lawmakers in Sri Lanka voted Tuesday to fire the country’s police chief for misconduct and gross abuse of power, making him the island nation’s first inspector-general to be impeached. In the 225-member parliament, 117 lawmakers voted to fire Deshabandu Tennakoon. No one opposed, while one member abstained.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-parliament-police-chief-fired-d0cfd69ae1e16d4b0f56188352b6c45f

Unions demand legal action against Tata Consultancy Services over mass layoffs and labor rights violations
One of India’s largest trade union federations, the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) supported demands of legal action against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country’s largest software company, over claims of its violation of the Industrial Dispute Act (IDA) and labor rights.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/unions-demand-legal-action-against-tata-consultancy-services-over-mass-layoffs-and-labor-rights-violations/

TOR and Other Ways to Keep Yourself Hidden

why aren't you using TOR? you know we live in a constantly evolving surveillance state, right?
>Download TOR
>Add it as main browser
>get OrBot on your phone and keep the vpn on at all times
>never post your face on the internet
>never leave a trace
>create a new circuit whenever you change sites
ultimate guide to staying untraceable

The importance of games in politics

For years and years the debate has raged over whether video games qualify as art, and as ridiculous as that debate is there's one undeniable aspect of it: video games have ideological content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TycfDgg4acY

For that reason this thread should be used to approach games from a political standpoint with their political content in mind. The only thing to keep in mind here is that YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT GAMERGATE.

Here's a big list of video games with left wing content to help discussion get going:

holographic communication

In the early 20th century armies used search lights to find airplanes in the sky. They sometimes fitted shutters on these lights and used them for Morse-code. The light was pointed at the sky, sometimes at clouds. That enable transmitting "blinky-messages" beyond line of sight over significant distances. Armies eventually abandoned this method of communication for radios.

But there might be cause to bring this idea back. Science has advanced quite a lot in the last 100 years and we can use light to make tiny low power plasma bubbles in the air that emit brief light pulses. Enabling over the horizon optical communication with minimal to no infrastructure costs.

Imagine projecting a tiny holographic blinking dot of light in the sky to transmit information and a photodetector+optic to receive information.

A communication link is configured in 3D space.
-The upside is that the available volume of sky is functionally unlimited, and you never again have to deal with network-collisions and interference from communication signals of others.
-The Downside, it requires a good deal of precision in mechanical systems, so it'll be fiddly for a while. Picture using Binoculars to look at a firefly floating high up in the sky, you need to get up-down, left-right and focal distance just right to see it. There is a technology upgrade path to a solid-state chip version, that works similarly to matrix array antennas, It needs Terra-hertz switching logic, which requires photon-based micro-controller (it exists but it's very bleeding edge)

The range can be tremendous, there is enough gas molecules in the stratosphere to make this work. It will enable hops over the ocean with a small number of relay buoys.

The military might want this technology because
- it's harder to triangulate the origin of a transmission (you need to intersect the light-beam, to find the source), relay-transmitter-stations, soldiers, planes and ships will suffer fewer attacks from signal homing weapons, making it very robust.
- it's very hard to jam, (you need to flood the sky with very thick smoke, usually associated with forest-fires and volcano eruptions)

Consumers might want this technology because
- the patent for making plasma bubbles ran out, so lots of companies would be competing on price and quality.
- no natural monopolies, same benefit as above.
- might be a fun hobby toy for radio-enthusiast type people.

Technically this seems very feasible, but the current political climate for communications-tech is a minefield.
I'm a little light on theory, will a different communication technology change the political climate, or does political climate need to improve to make a new technology happen ?

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

A lot has been made of the weirdness surrounding the JFK assassination in 1963, but I've realized over the past year that there are a lot of weird details surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln which are not that well known. I genuinely don't know where exactly to talk about this stuff, because it's just kind of bizarre.

Firstly, let's talk about Simon Wolf. Simon Wolf was a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Simon Wolf was also a prominent Freemason, whose chapter gave allegiance to the Charleston, SC Masonic lodge of one Albert Pike. Albert Pike was a Confederate general and preeminent Freemason, whose official title was Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 to 1891, and who was also involved with the Knights of the Golden Circle and, allegedly, the Ku Klux Klan.

Simon Wolf was a prominent member of the Jewish fraternal order the B'nai B'rith, and he would eventually become its president. Before that, he was a close personal friend of the actor John Wilkes Booth, and met with John Wilkes Booth "for drinks" on the morning of April 14, 2025. This little-known fact is detailed in Simon Wolf's 1918 autobiography The Presidents I Have Known: From 1860-1918, from which one of the attached pages was drawn. During the war, Simon Wolf was once arrested by the U.S. gov't as an operative of an enemy organization, a spy for the Confederacy. Some other odd details are outlined in the 2nd attached page, drawn from an Executive Intelligence Review article from May of 1993. I was skeptical when I first saw it, but the article is well-researched and led me directly to the autobiography, a source I had to consult directly just to authenticate what I had read in the article, whose contents I found odd.

After the assassination and the death of John Wilkes Booth, Lafayette C. Baker, the investigator who had charged Simon Wolf with Confederate espionage during the war, announced that he had had John Wilkes Booth's diary. Baker accused Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War, of suppressing the diary's release. When it was released, Baker claimed that 18 vital pages had been removed.

Another odd aspect is in the circumstances of the death of John Wilkes Booth. Booth was ultimately killed while hiding in a barn by a mentally ill street preacher who had castrated himself with a pair of scissors in order to suppress sexual urges. That man, Boston Corbett of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment, was later institutionalized in 1887 and ultimately vanished after escaping the asylum in 1888. It's unclear if there was a chance of catching John Wilkes Booth alive, and most of Booth's co-conspirators, who have largely drifted into obscurity, would captured and formally be executed. One of these co-conspirators, Lewis Powell, was given a legal defense which presumed his guilt. Eventually the defense argued that Powell, who could not remember his age or the country of his birth, was insane, a claim which was supported by the prison guards who had been put in charge of watching him after his capture. However, it was rejected by the prosecution and Powell was hanged alongside the other co-conspirators.

Weird, huh? There's a little bit more!

News 8/5/25

Uruguayan public sector unions call nationwide strike over inadequate wage proposal
Uruguay’s Confederation of State Employees' Organizations (COFE) announced a 24-hour nationwide strike on August 12, rejecting the government’s proposed wage adjustment for public sector workers. The decision was unanimously approved during a national assembly attended by over 35 unions. In an official statement, COFE described the government’s offer as “absolutely insufficient,” arguing it lacks any real wage growth, fails to address the lowest-paid workers, and does not guarantee the current purchasing power of salaries.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/05/uruguayan-public-sector-unions-call-nationwide-strike-over-inadequate-wage-proposal

Evo Morales Backs Null Vote in Bolivia
On Sunday, Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006–2019) said that the proposal to cast null votes in the upcoming Aug. 17 election is gaining momentum amid the possibility he may not be a candidate. … Morales hopes his disqualification as a presidential candidate is “temporary” and emphasized that he will not leave the country, adding, “Those who have stolen are already packing their bags.” The Leftist leader also stated that if he is arrested, he hopes President Luis Arce “doesn’t kill” him. Morales pointed out that “the right wing” is attempting to return to power and urged his followers to remember that “only through union struggle did we defeat the empire.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-backs-null-vote-in-bolivia/

32 bodies found in clandestine graves in central Mexico
The Guanajuato state prosecutor’s office said via X Monday that the bodies were found in clandestine graves on the property in the community of La Calera on Irapuato’s north side, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Mexico City. Forensic teams had working at the site since July 30, prosecutors said. Authorities were working to identify the remaining bodies.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cartels-bodies-guanajuato-graves-e85d7096b1705f1061c9cff8809b1eb5

Argentine Scientists Protest Milei’s Policies Amid Deepening Crisis in Research Sector
Under the slogan “Let This Not Be Argentina’s Last Scientific Generation,” the demonstrations will include a camp-in outside the Scientific and Technological Hub in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. At the former headquarters of the Ministry of Science, Argentines will hold discussions, a torchlight march, and an assembly to determine their next steps.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-scientists-protest-mileis-policies-amid-deepening-crisis-in-research-sector/

Netanyahu set to order full Gaza military occupation despite army opposition
"The die is cast – we are going for a full occupation of the Gaza Strip," a senior official familiar with the plans told Yedioth Ahronoth daily. "There will be operations even in areas where hostages are being held. If the chief of staff doesn't agree, he should resign," the official said. … The Israeli cabinet is expected to discuss the next steps in a meeting later this week. Zamir is reportedly planning to present an alternative strategy focused on encircling Hamas-held areas and using military pressure to force the group into accepting a ceasefire.
https://www.newarab.com/news/netanyahu-order-full-gaza-occupation-despite-army-opposition

Turkish parliamentary commission holds first meeting over Ankara-PKK talks
As part of the peace process, the PKK held a disarmament ceremony in Sulaimani province on July 11, when 30 members and commanders burned their weapons. The group decided to lay down arms after Ocalan urged them to pursue a political solution to obtain rights for Kurds in Turkey instead of armed conflict. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a DEM Party lawmaker, told Rudaw on Monday that the commission’s “biggest task right now is determining the legal status of PKK fighters after disarmament. “There will be discussions around a new law,” he added, noting that “some amendments and reversals of existing laws,” might take place.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/05082025

Iran orders office closures as heatwave strains power grid
Iranian authorities ordered many government offices to close on Wednesday in a bid to cut power consumption as a heatwave strains generating capacity, state media reported. At least 15 of Iran's 31 provinces will see public offices either shut or operating on reduced hours, the official IRNA news agency said.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/iran-orders-office-closures-as-heatwave-strains-power-grid/articleshow/123111818.cms
https://archive.ph/amLwq

Bangladesh national polls by mid-Feb
Several political parties, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, have been pressing for an early election while some others, including the newly floated National Citizen Party, are campaigning for state reforms and completion of trials of the fascist regime and activists of Awami League, whose activities have recently been banned, for their alleged involvement in atrocities before the election.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/272168/bangladesh-national-polls-by-mid-feb

Pakistan arrests over 200 activists as they rally to support former leader Imran Khan
The detainees included Rehana Dar, 73, a politician from Khan’s party known for her fiery speeches against the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. She was seen being thrown into a police truck in the northeastern city of Lahore. Zulfiqar Bukhari, a spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, said police used batons and fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Lahore and the southern provincial capital of Karachi.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-arrest-imran-khan-supporters-a2acb5ee09e62111e46f5b18870b0bf7

Sweden, Norway, Denmark give $500 million to NATO project to send US weapons to Ukraine
Denmark's share is around $90 million while Norway said it will contribute around 1.5 billion Norwegian crowns ($146 million). Sweden said it was contributing $275 million to the package, which includes Patriot missiles and other air defence equipment, as well as anti-tank munitions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/sweden-norway-denmark-give-500-million-nato-project-send-us-weapons-ukraine-2025-08-05/

Overtly leftist anime

.org already has a leftist anime thread so I thought that here we can go further. This thread is for all anime that is overtly leftist. That means no allegories/metaphors/"vibes," no monarchism, no counter-revolutions, no revanchism, no progressivism, no liberalism and no guilt by association with a right-wing fanbase. Go ahead and post your recommendations with an explanation why you picked them.

News 8/4/25

Dockworkers in Italy win against arms shipment to Israel
Italian port workers secured a significant win in their ongoing resistance to militarization and arms transfers, as shipping operators decided they would not unload military cargo destined for Israel from the vessel COSCO Shipping Pisces – returning the containers to their point of origin instead. The announcement came just days before a planned 24-hour strike on August 5 in Genoa, launched to protest the use of Italian ports for arms shipments such as this.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/04/dockworkers-in-italy-win-against-arms-shipment-to-israel/

Brazil supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro
According to the ruling on Monday by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Bolsonaro breached a ban on using social media which was imposed last month, when he was also ordered to wear an electronic ankle tag. Moraes wrote that as demonstrators took to the streets in several cities across the country on Sunday in support of the former president, Bolsonaro used the social media accounts of allies to share messages containing “clear encouragement and incitement to attack the Supreme Federal Court, and overt support for foreign intervention in Brazil’s judiciary”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-house-arrest-supreme-court

Sudan accuses UAE of bringing in Colombian mercenaries to support RSF
Mercenaries have been spotted on both sides, with reports of Colombian fighters first emerging in the western region of Darfur late last year and corroborated by United Nations experts. This week, the Joint Forces, a coalition of armed groups in Darfur aligned with the army, reported more than 80 Colombian mercenaries fighting on the RSF's side in the North Darfur state capital, Al-Fashir.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sudan-accuses-uae-deploying-colombian-mercenaries-back-rsf

ANC NEC to grapple with alliance partner SACP's decision to contest municipal polls on its own
As the African National Congress (ANC)'s national executive committee (NEC) rolls into its fourth and final day, it will have to grapple with its alliance partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP)’s pursuit of contesting next year’s municipal elections on its own. This follows yet another public salvo from the communist party on Sunday, accusing the ANC of being arrogant and relegating its concerns to a permanent discussion of no consequence.
https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/08/04/anc-nec-to-grapple-with-alliance-partner-sacps-decision-to-contest-municipal-polls-on-its-own

Ivory Coast opposition slams arrests as part of political crackdown
Interior Minister Vagondo Diomande said the arrests were linked to an incident in Youpougon, a suburb of the capital Abdijan, where attackers set fire to a bus and assaulted police. He released a video showing a man saying he was a PPA-CI member confessing to the attack, though the opposition party has condemned it.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ivory-coast-opposition-slams-arrests-part-political-crackdown

Israel-Gaza: The International Criminal Court in turmoil
This has been the darkest year for the International Criminal Court (ICC) since it opened its doors in The Hague in 2002. Never before had the institution faced such strong headwinds. The US imposed sanctions on four judges and the chief prosecutor, the British national Karim Khan, while threats, intrigue, and pressure from Washington mounted on state parties. The objective: to annul and prevent any arrest warrants against Israelis, including those targeting Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, issued on November 21, 2024, and to close the ongoing investigation into crimes committed on Palestinian territory.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/04/israel-gaza-the-international-criminal-court-in-turmoil_6744041_4.html
https://archive.ph/hUcnV

Gaza posts blocked on social media under UK Online Safety Act, report finds
BBC Verify found that content on X and Reddit has been restricted on X for those who have not verified their age on the sites. The content includes topics from the war on Gaza and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to parliamentary debates on grooming gangs. The report highlighted that a video posted to X of a man in Gaza searching for his family members under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel had been restricted, despite not showing dead bodies or graphic images.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-posts-blocked-social-media-under-uk-online-safety-act

Syrian democracy campaigners wary of upcoming 'selected' elections
Nawar Najma, spokesperson for the Higher Committee for People’s Assembly Election, told Rudaw last week that two-thirds of the parliament would be elected by "electoral bodies", themselves formed by subcommittees whose members would be selected by his department after "extensive consultations". Each electoral body would be composed of roughly 50 people who would elect a member of the parliament. He added that a "basic condition must be that they absolutely do not support, neither in word nor deed, the defunct [Assad] regime". "They must also have no affiliation with any of the security forces or the army to ensure the neutrality of the military apparatus and the interior ministry as well," he said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-democracy-accused-elections-after-announcement-third-parliament-be-appointed

Thailand’s parliament proposes phoney amnesty bill
Common to all three bills were exclusions for those charged or convicted under the draconian lèse-majesté law, Section 112 of the criminal code, which illegalises any criticism of the monarchy. The BJT added a specific clause banning support for amnesty for lèse-majesté. Section 112 is often used as a catch-all for the state to violate democratic rights and intimidate protesters with potential jail terms of up to 15 years.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/04/inlg-a04.html

Julien Assange joins pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched across Australia's iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday. The crowd included WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who moved back to his native Australia last year after his release from a high-security British prison.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250803-assange-joins-pro-palestinian-protest-on-sydney-harbour-bridge
https://archive.ph/ZL1L2

/CitK/ - Crisis in the Kremlin General

Comrades, it's that time again: Lenin is young and October lies ahead!
Time for a Crisis in the Kremlin game thread like in the good old days. We'll be playing on 'Realism' difficulty and starting at the earliest bookmark, 1985!

And so comrades, take your seats as members of the Central Committee of the CPSU, take up flags, or namefag if you like, for some degree of recognisability when tallying votes and take up the burden of the collective leadership as it is time for you to elect our new General Secretary following the unfortunate passing of Comrade Chernenko.

Your candidates are as follows:
-The young protege of Andropov and stalwart, Comrade Grigory Romanov
-The young up and coming reformist, Comrade Gorbachev
-The trusted Brezhnevite centrist, Comrade Grishin
-The party grandee and diplomatic excellency, Comrade Gromyko
-or perhaps the a previously unknown black horse from the party rank will secure the Central Committee's confidence?

Comrades of the Central Committee, the future of the Party, the Union, the Socialist Camp and the Human Race itself is in your hands!

idk if this is the right board but

how do i overcome laziness / procrastination? please


relating to things such as assignments

How does the left justify it's defense of rape gangs?

How does the left reckon with the fact that Leftists called this a "racist nazi conspiracy theory" for decades, and defended and frankly elements of the left, even protected the rapists and pedophiles, from justice, for a long time?
Now we have evidence of these gangs stretching back decades, arguably to the 1960s. Countless rapes, some estimates over a million, and the left was just like "nah it's racist bullshit by gammon reactionaries and conservative police".
The left has tried to deflect so much from the fact that yes, the left actually did spend decades, protecting rape gangs, because it looked bad from an identity politics/open borders perspective.
I remember myself being part of leftist orgs, and people downplaying this as some bullshit nazi conspiracy…and now it's true, there is just a deafining silence on it.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-audit-on-group-based-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse
As a Leftist, this is just another in the pile of the Left putting optics of inane shitlib positions, over materialist reality and it blowing up in our fucking faces like it does every time. Were we really that fucking up our own asses that we shouted down fucking working class victims of RAPE because it looked bad for fucking "Diversity is strength, open borders now" shitlib bullshit?
Of course, .org literally bans any discussion on these topics immediately, because they are a bunch of antisocial fucktards who's driving force is to make life worse for everyone out of spite, but I know people here are much more willing to discuss these issues. So what went so fucking wrong with the lefts response to this, and what can the left do to not make similar mistakes in the future?

Films You Just Watched Thread

Hello, the most recent movie threads have seemed a bit unfocused, this thread is for the discussion of movies we just watched and other anon's takes on them. So, without further ado I'll begin.

I just watched Parasite last night, it was pretty good I think, but not as cutting edge or witty as I was expecting. I thought it was a bit unfocused and threw a lot at the wall to see what stuck, but on the other hand, it was fun and more interesting than most. A solid 8/10.

I do an IMDB rating for each film I watch, for my own reference mostly, but you can see each film I watched lately and my rating if you're curious or want to ask about them. If other anons have something similar feel free to post.

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur46013471/ratings

Book Reccomendations

Best Book Reccs for AnCom? I've read the communist manifesto, the conquest of bread, anarchy, anarchism and other essays, and industrial society and its future (im not sure if its considered ancom but i consider it to be). i need more books to read. i need knowledge

News 8/2/25

German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software
The surveillance software called Gotham, developed by US company Palantir, is billed as an all-rounder: gigantic amounts of data are brought together at lightning speed. It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer's curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media channels, a comprehensive profile of any person appears in an instant. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), the surveillance program developed by the US technology company seems to make the dreams of police and intelligence agencies come true.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117
https://archive.ph/LrIPJ

Rival anti-migrant and anti-racism protests face off outside a hotel housing migrants in London
Several hundred protesters waving Union Jacks gathered outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in central London, calling for it to be closed as housing for migrants. Chants including “Scum” and “Britain is full” were directed at the hotel. Police separated the demonstrators from a larger group of counter-protesters chanting “refugees are welcome here,” as people inside the hotel watched from windows. Protests against migrants have taken place in recent weeks in Epping, a town on the outskirts of London where an asylum-seeker was accused of sexual assault, and in a smattering of other towns in England.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-migration-protests-asylum-hotels-2271d550f5a3c14e0821f0eb67fbd861

Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave
In Sweden, meteorologists said long-term heatwaves were noted at several stations in the north of the country, with a weather station in Haparanda measuring 25C or more for 14 days in a row. In Jokkmokk, Lappland, the heatwave lasted for 15 days. “To find a longer period at these stations, you have to go back more than a century,” said Sverker Hellström, a scientist at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/nordic-countries-hit-by-truly-unprecedented-heatwave

Violence against Veracruz cab workers: Hitman targets driver who survived an initial attack in hospital
Amid all the violence, Veracruz cab drivers are also demanding action. Since Monday, they have marched in various municipalities demanding better wages, security, and justice for their murdered colleagues. “We fear for our safety; we are single mothers,” and “We no longer live, we survive,” some female drivers chanted during the first demonstration in Xalapa.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-01/violence-against-veracruz-cab-workers-hitman-targets-driver-who-survived-an-initial-attack-in-hospital.html
https://archive.ph/6Toiz

Argentina’s Milei Vetoes Pensions Increase and Disability Emergency Laws
The Argentine Congress now faces the challenge of reversing the presidential vetoes on two key projects: the Retirement Mobility Act and the Disability Emergency Declaration while the Retirement Mobility Act proposed an increase in retirements, increased the bonus and replenished the pension moratorium.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentinas-milei-vetoes-pensions-increase-and-disability-emergency-laws/

The Fine Print of Freedom: Iraq to amend Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly Law
Despite easing some procedural hurdles, the new draft law outlines several prohibitions on protest activity: -Carrying firearms or dangerous materials during demonstrations, regardless of firearm licensing. -Wearing masks or face coverings intended to conceal identity. -Displaying slogans, symbols, or signs considered offensive to public order or morals. The law reaffirms longstanding bans on speech inciting sectarian, racial, or religious hatred, or defaming religious beliefs—provisions that human rights observers have previously warned could be used to silence dissent.
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/The-Fine-Print-of-Freedom-Iraq-to-amend-Freedom-of-Expression-and-Peaceful-Assembly-Law

Video of emaciated Israeli captive in Gaza stirs divisions in Israel
The caption to the video, posted on Telegram, reads that the captive is "waiting to be released in a prisoner swap". The video shows the captive, who was later identified as Israeli soldier Evyatar David, looking markedly thin and sitting on bed in a cramped room. His arms show signs of drastic weight loss, and his ribs are also protruding, in a scene which has become increasingly common in Gaza as Israel obstructs aid.
https://www.newarab.com/news/video-emaciated-israeli-captive-stirs-divisions-israel

'No Other Land' murder: Women in Awdah Hathaleen's village launch hunger strike
More than 70 women in the village where Awdah Hathaleen was killed on Monday have launched a hunger strike, calling for Israeli police to return his body and release residents arrested in the wake of his murder. Their protest comes as they say Israeli forces have raided family homes in the village each night since the killing, arresting their husbands and brothers and beating other family members. "A woman would be not properly dressed, lying in bed, and they would come in and open the door and say, 'We want your husband, we want your brother'," Ikhlas Hazalin, Hathaleen's sister-in-law, told Middle East Eye on Thursday.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/awdah-hathaleen-hunger-strike-women-over-70-body-israeli

Farmer leaders arrested in Pakistan for opposing illegal land grab
Several farmer leaders were arrested after they tried to organize against illegal land grabs in the Hashtnagar region in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province earlier this week. Salar Amjad Ali, Momin Khan Shalmani, Waris Khan Amir, Muhammad Alam, Manzoor Khan, Sparlay Ghorzang, and Zeeshan were arrested after their bails in previous cases were revoked. All the arrested are part of the provincial leadership of the left-wing Mazdoor Kisan Party (Workers-Peasants Party, MKP).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/31/farmer-leaders-arrested-in-pakistan-for-opposing-illegal-land-grab/

Dalit teen gang-raped, local officials ‘push cash deal’
Shockingly, instead of ensuring swift justice, ward officials, including chairperson Uttam Narayan Yadav allegedly convened a forced reconciliation meeting at the local health post on Friday, where they pressured the traumatised family to accept Rs100,000($114) compensation and drop charges—a demand the victim’s brother vehemently rejected, telling media they continue facing daily harassment for refusing the settlement.
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2025/08/02/dalit-teen-gang-raped-in-saptari
https://archive.ph/12jvP

Indo-Myanmar Border: Manipur Naga Groups’ ‘Ultimatum’ to Centre
The four Manipur-based Naga outfits have marked their communication dated July 22, 2025, as an “Ultimatum” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. The ‘ultimatum’ once again reminds the Centre that at stake is ‘ancestral Naga homeland’ and that by not consulting the affected indigenous communities, it is violating the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly Articles 8, 26 and 36 thereof, which have been “endorsed by India”.
https://www.newsclick.in/indo-myanmar-border-manipur-naga-groups-ultimatum-centre

US Law Firm Helped Myanmar Junta Cronies Beat Sanctions
A U.S. Treasury notice on Thursday announced that sanctions had been dropped against four Myanmar nationals—Jonathan Myo Kyaw Thaung (aka Jonathan Kyaw Thaung), Aung Hlaing Oo, Sit Taing Aung, and Tin Latt Min—and an Indian, Deepak Subhash Jadhav, as well as companies they are connected to. All the Myanmar individuals were sanctioned from 2022 to 2024 by the Joe Biden administration for their shady links to the junta, involving among other things the supply of arms, aircraft, and technology, which the regime has been using to kill its own people.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/us-law-firm-helped-myanmar-junta-cronies-beat-sanctions.html

Positive books on Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge.

Most of the books I see about Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge and Kamdoji from those years portray these things as badly as possible, and compare Pol Pot himself to a mini Hitler, or worse. I would like to know if there is a book that justifies Pol Pot and speaks positively about him and the Khmer Rouge. Thank you in advance!

I don't know about you, but 4chan has long needed peace; it has not been anonymous for a long time, it uses a captcha that collects user data, and if it blocks users, that's just life. Where is your anonymity? Reddit, at least, allows you to create an account with a proxy or VPN. And what is 4chan? There is also a Russian-speaking equivalent called Dvach, which is even worse; it even blocks posts that are not from Russia. What kind of nonsense is that? There is also a law prohibiting GPT, and God forbid you joke about politicians; they will simply ask the owner of Dvach to leak your IP, and that's it. So the only anonymity is the absence of identification, but for the provider, you are still the same. In short, these sites are dead. In short, I have long been waiting for your opinions and criticism; if I am mistaken or wrong about something, please let me know.

Stalin

Comrades:

The advance of communism is unstoppable.

We're talking about agriculture.

How do capitalists intend to overcome the planning of the socialist economy?

Capitalist decisions are based on short-term profit, destroying competition to achieve monopoly, and eradicating small farmers and ranchers so that the entire business remains in the hands of the four multinationals.

Thus, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council have published the "Plan to Accelerate the Building of an Agricultural Power (2025-2035)," which states:

"The plan foresees that significant progress will be made in building a strong agricultural country by 2027. Significant progress has been made in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas has reached a new level. By 2035, significant results will have been achieved in the comprehensive development of rural areas, and the modernization of agriculture will have been largely completed. By the middle of this century, China will become a strong agricultural country.

The plan proposes strengthening the foundation for food security in all aspects to ensure food self-sufficiency; promoting innovation in agricultural science and technological equipment in all fields to accelerate the achievement of a high level of scientific and technological independence; improving the modern agricultural management system; further deepening foreign agricultural cooperation to create new advantages in international agricultural competition; and promoting the construction of livable, attractive villages." for businesses and a high quality of life; promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas in order to reduce the gap between them.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Fighters_(video_game)
>What if the Soviet Union INVADED New York, US?
Why are Westards like this? Co-opting revolutionary aesthetics, anti-Soviet US plumbers as protagonists. The fuck is that? How is this not simply hypocrisy and a projection like Red Dawn where 'a larger country invades small town', considering US's track record of foreign intervention/meddling.

Satannyahu in Argentina

I just want to know your opinion on this current thread, how can Argentina let Satannyahu in?

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The police

Assasings We're not going to hold on any longer

kemono friends and spice and wolf thread

>no threads for two of the greatest pieces of fiction of all time
fuck it how about a two in one thread

discussion of both s&w and kf is allowed

News 7/24/25

Thai fighter jet bombs Cambodian targets as border battle escalates
Thailand scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to bomb targets in Cambodia after artillery volleys from both sides killed at least 11 civilians, as border tension boiled over into rare armed conflict between the Southeast Asian countries. Both blamed each other for starting a morning clash at a disputed area of the border, which quickly escalated from small arms fire to heavy shelling in at least six locations 209 kilometres (130 miles) apart along a frontier where sovereignty has been disputed for more than a century.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/567942/thai-fighter-jet-bombs-cambodian-targets-as-border-battle-escalates
https://archive.ph/qNdjM

Sri Lankan court orders owners of container ship to pay $1 billion in marine pollution compensation
The container ship MV X-Press Peal, which was carrying chemicals, sank off Colombo in June, 2021 after catching fire. The Supreme Court said the incident caused “unprecedented devastation to the marine environment of Sri Lanka” and harmed the country’s economy, especially the lives of the fishing communities.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-ship-fire-pollution-singapore-shipping-370ab4b243e761b015ab45976a790b52

Protest Crackdowns Intensify in Argentina as Milei Implements Austerity
In the first six months of 2025, the CPM documented 1,251 cases of injuries or detentions during demonstrations in Buenos Aires—surpassing the total of 1,216 recorded in all of 2024. The organization attributes this rise to a deliberate state strategy to suppress dissent amid the government’s sweeping economic adjustment program.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/protest-crackdowns-intensify-in-argentina-as-milei-implements-austerity/
https://archive.ph/9XNNc

Chile's government to expropriate land tied to Pinochet-era torture
Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's military regime as the government takes another step to shine a light on a dark period of the past. The enclave, originally called Colonia Dignidad and renamed Villa Baviera, was founded in 1961 by Paul Schafer, a former Nazi medic turned evangelical preacher who kept the isolated community under tight control and was later jailed for sexually abusing children.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-government-expropriate-land-tied-pinochet-era-torture-2025-07-23/

Marlon Vargas is the new president of Ecuador’s Indigenous movement CONAIE
Vargas was one of the leaders of the October 2019 social mobilizations against former President Lenin Moreno, over the economic adjustments that the government had agreed to with the International Monetary Fund, including the elimination of gasoline subsidies. He also took part in the June 2022 mobilizations against the economic policies of former President Guillermo Lasso.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/24/marlon-vargas-is-the-new-president-of-ecuadors-indigenous-movement-conaie/

Balloting underway in government-forced vote on Canada Post’s “final” offers
Serious concerns over the use of online balloting have been raised widely by workers. Thousands face practical and technical barriers to casting a vote. Older workers, those with limited digital access, and employees in rural or remote regions have struggled to obtain login credentials or decipher conflicting communications from the union and the unelected Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), which banned a strike by postal workers last December at the orders of Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon. The absence of clear, accessible procedures has left many uncertain if their votes will even be counted.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/24/dovn-j24.html

NHS must resist doctors’ strike, its chief tells hospital leaders
He wants hospitals to press ahead with as many routine operations as possible, even if it means running A&E units with a skeleton staff, rather than cancelling clinics to ensure emergency care runs as normal. Mackey told hospital bosses in a call on Wednesday: “We’ve been very, very clear we want to have a different approach this time. You have noticed already we are in a different space compared to where we were last time, much more instructive to the BMA, much more resistant to their demands. Frankly we and you make decisions about safety, not the BMA. Do what you do best, make sensible decisions and we’ll stick together.”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/wes-streeting-doctors-strike-bma-7slcwknpq
https://archive.ph/sO4yB

Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party
They pledged the creation of “a new kind of political party — one that belongs to you” and looked ahead to a founding conference at which members would “decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society.” The founding process will also determine the name of the new party. It is understood that the process will be overseen by a working group to be established by the Independent Alliance of MPs, of which Corbyn and Sultana are both members.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-kind-political-party

Zelenskyy moves to restore independence of anti-graft agencies after public anger and EU criticism
“The text is balanced,” Zelenskyy said. “The most important thing is real tools, no Russian ties and the independence” of the anti-graft agencies. The new draft underlines that the prosecutor general and his deputies cannot give orders to anti-graft agencies or interfere in their work.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-corruption-protests-zelenskyy-law-6766134c963f0423d88c2ac1749f8c11

Former US guard at GHF speaks of brutality he witnessed against desperate Gaza civilians
He recounts an incident in which American guards pepper-sprayed a Palestinian who was collecting food from the ground and who posed no threat. In another incident, a stun grenade was thrown and directly hit a Palestinian woman. "I collapsed and fell to the ground. That was the moment I realised I couldn't continue working there," the former guard told Channel 12. Recounting another incident, he said once Palestinians finished collecting the aid, the American guards started shooting towards them – in the legs and around them – to force them to leave the site.
https://www.newarab.com/news/american-former-ghf-guard-tells-brutality-against-gazans

Syria is secretly reshaping its economy. The president’s brother is in charge.
Over seven months, the committee has negotiated with the wealthiest Syrian tycoons, including some who are under U.S. sanctions. The committee has also made headway taking over a constellation of companies that were run out of Assad’s palace, the sources said. Many tycoons linked to Assad, including an airline mogul sanctioned in connection with drug and weapons smuggling, and a businessman accused of scavenging and smelting metal from Syrian towns depopulated by Assad’s army, are keeping some profits and avoiding state prosecution, for a price. But that bargain, amnesty in exchange for a mix of cash and corporate control, risks angering Syrians seeking justice.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/syria-is-secretly-reshaping-its-economy-presidents-brother-is-charge-2025-07-24/

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Everyone, what if for example, if I watch or read about Hentai, and if I start, watch something frank video with real people, then I have panic and disgust, it’s just strange that just painted pictures are excited, and real people scare me if you had this, I will be happy with your opinion

USA Kabuki theatre

I believe that Trump wants to use the so-called “Secondary Sanctions” on all countries that import Russian Oil/Gas, as a convenient excuse t dramatically escalate the Trade War with China into a full-decoupling of all Trade between the U$ and China, which combined with Trump forcing the ROC/“Taiwan” U$ puppet state to declare “independence” and/or the U$ recognizing them as the “Real China”, will force China to Invade Taiwan, thus giving the U$ a cactus belli to launch World War III against China, which means Trump will have Bipartisan support to use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law, suspend all Elections, and become De Facto President for Life, though this could dramatically backfire as it will either end in with this either ending in a decisive Conventional U$ victory (due to the U$ B-2 Stealth Bomber and Standoff Stealthy JASSMs, LRASMs, and Tomahawks, launched by B-1/2/52 Bombers in the case of JASSM, B-1 Bombers in the case of the LRASM, and Cruisers, Destroyers, and Submarines, in the case of the Tomahawk, destroying most Chinese Air Bases, Naval Bases, Warships, SRBM/MRBM/IRBM/GLCM launchers, and SAM sites, which despite Chinese DF-21/26 MRBMs/IRBMs and CJ-10 cruise Missiles launched by H-6 Bombers and Type 052D/Type 055 Destroyers, severely damaging many U$ air and naval bases in Japan and South Korea and Anti-Ship Missiles launched by H-6 Bombers and Type 052D/Type 055 Destroyers sinking several U$ Destroyers and Cruisers, causes China to suffer a decisive Conventional Defeat and Capitulate) that will lead to the overthrow of the Chinese Communist Party and the Balkanization of China (Tibet and East Turkestan will gain Independence) in a renewed Century of Humiliation, thus enshrining the Global Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist 1000 year Burgereich under the eternal Trump Dynasty, or escalate into a Global Nuclear War (due to a DF-21D, DF-26, or JY-21 ASBM, launched by a TEL in the case of the DF-21/26, or a H-6 Bomber or Type 055 Destroyer in the case of the YJ-21, penetrating the Aegis ABM system and sinking a U$ Aircraft Carrier, thus provoking a U$ Nuclear First Strike on China, and assuming some Chinese ICBMs survive, and that their MIRVed Nuclear Warheads penetrate the U$ ABM system, a Chinese Nuclear Second Strike on the U$) that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR that will Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

Any of my fellow Comrades interested in giving an Intellectual critique of my In-Depth Dialectical Materialist Effort Post on why Trump is refusing to end the Kabuki theatre Inter-Imperialist Stalemated Retarded Slavic Border War between Banderite Fascist Zionist Bourgeois Ukraine and Vlasovite Fascist Zionist Bourgeois Russia, and what this means for the International Communist Movement, 🤔?

Radlibs are trying to cancel FSF and Stallman

I know I am a little bit late to the party with this but some "anonymous" group tried to cancel rms and the FSF as well: archive.md/Pt37W (stallman-report.org). It's the usual shit: whining about Stallman's comments on Epstein, supposed "sexual harassment" etc. Basically, the author calls for Stallman to step down from the FSF and/or for FSF members to take him down.

It is already known who wrote this "report": Drew DeVault, a developer who worked (or still works?) on Wayland. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793

Palestine Thread Pt. VIII

Continued from >>487384

Updates and current status since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers. Israel proceeded to violate the ceasefire with airstrikes and a resumption of their illegal blockade of Gaza before resuming full-scale attacks in March and destroying the ceasefire entirely.

Israel has continued to violate the ceasefire with Lebanon more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country entirely after multiple delays. After months of the IDF violating the ceasefire in the south of Lebanon, Israel returned to bombing Beirut in March.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance. Meanwhile, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of HTS and current de facto leader of Syria, has launched attacks on Lebanon and attacked Palestinian liberation factions within Syria.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited back to the White House for February 4th, 2025.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank, and unilaterally broke the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, refusing to move on to phase two of the deal.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join. Nicaragua has withdrawn from the case.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on international shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, stopped in accordance with the ceasefire, following multiple successful Yemeni strikes on targets in Israel. After the resumption of the blockade on Gaza by Israel, Yemen's Ansar Allah stated that they would resume attacking Israeli shipping. Following this statement, the US, under Trump, resumed bombing Yemen, hitting multiple civilian targets. Yemen has launched multiple attacks on Israel since this bombing campaign began against them, as well as launching defensive attacks against the US Navy in response.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration has started unlawfully abducting students for protest and opposition to genocide. The administration has threatened to deport these students, and has gone after university funding in an effort to suppress anti-genocide speech on campuses and control the narrative.

Israel attacked a Freedom Flotilla boat near Malta for trying to break the illegal blockade of Gaza.

And much, much more!

Southern Rock thread

I'm forever on the fence about how much I like this stuff, but it's got some good guitar work. The rural vibe with a lot of it is cool, too.

What Would Stalin Do?

When I first started working in the tech industry, I didn't understand the point of Scrum. I couldn't recall a single time when I thought that our daily meetings actually mattered. It wasn't long before my attention was captured by the horrors of writing mountains of documentation that would never be read, living through Jira hell, and nearly going mad from the pointless rituals of test-driven development and eXtreme(ly shitty) Programming.

The story I was sold is that all these big ideas are bigly necessary because big complex systems need big complex teams, which in turn need these big ideas. This struck me as a big damn lie. All you really need is good code, which needs good developers, which needs good teamwork - duh, right? But what follows is a bunch of bullshit boilerplate, standards and methodologies. Why? Because they serve to obscure the root of the problem: people giving a shit about the shit they're doing so that they can do it well.

If you're hiring people to maintain some voodoo code written by an overworked and disgruntled codemonkey ten years ago, or refusing to hire junior devs because you need "real talent" to maintain your Kafkaesque SaaS nightmare, then problem runs a *lot* deeper than just "not being agile enough" or whatever the hell other coping mechanisms we use to repress the problem. These insane business practices that drive insane development practices are literally insane, because they do the same thing over and over and over again - fixing the problems created by fixing the problems created by fixing the problems.

What the professional commentariat - the business gurus and glorified cultists, the chattering classes who preach incessantly on such matters - avoid mentioning is that the crux of good management involves _protecting the workers from such pathologies so that they can do their damn jobs._ The workers can learn to direct and motivate themselves if they want to, and they will if they have the freedom to do it. In one sentence: *They need to be given tools and techniques, not pizzas and parenting.* This has nothing to do with "agile processes" or "servant leadership" or whatever other perverted corporate ideologies that are being peddled to the successfully incompetent - it's a working-class reality.

Pathological business processes that exist solely to paper over the fact that people don't care about their work enough to do it right will inevitably create more problems than they solve, because they pile on even more reasons to not give a damn, and _giving a damn is the ONLY way to create a quality product._ But these firms obviously don't exist to create a quality product, but to create profits, and creating profits in a world where the appearance of productivity matters more than anything else - because it is rewarded with profits more than anything else - can lead only to either enshittification or the mass production of shit.

People won't eat the same shit forever, especially when it's being endlessly repackaged and made worse each time, unless they have no other choice. Our lives are too short to accept this. But our superiors don't view it this way - they apparently live in an eternal present and can't tell the difference between the long-term and the short-term anymore. They've unironically begun to believe that a successful business model resembles Cookie Clicker.

Mark Fisher coined the term "market Stalinism" to show how post-Fordist capitalism seems to have adopted a Stalinist obsession with the symbols of productivity over the real process of production, but I claim that he didn't go far enough. It isn't the case anymore that firms merely value the appearance of achievement more than actual achievements. Now, the moment they actually achieve anything at all, they stop seeking out actual achievements altogether. You already have the product, so why bother making anything new when you can just leech off of it forever? This isn't "market Stalinism" but Cookie Clicker Capitalism.

If I gave Stalin a laptop and asked him to play Cookie Clicker on it, what would he do? Maybe he'd start by setting some quotas for cookie output and creating elaborate bureaucratic processes around it. Maybe he'd make a plan to have this many cookies and that many grandmas by the end of the month, and order some associates to watch over the grandmas to ensure that they aren't trying to sabotage cookie production, only to replace them when they find no sabotage despite all the quotas being unfulfilled.

But I'm pretty sure that what would actually happen is that he would take one look at the game and tell me to piss off. "What is this nonsense, comrade? Stop wasting my time." At best, he'd seize the laptop and let some dorks at Gosplan take a look at it.

In other words, Stalinism's obsession with appearances was ultimately driven by some real interest in material progress. Stalin's approach was in many respects monstrous, but it wasn't meaningless. It had a pioneering logic to it - crash industrialization, planning, statecraft, a communist future - even if that logic relied on paranoid terror. In contrast, "market Stalinism" has turned into Cookie Clicker Capitalism, which has no logic beyond endless repetition. Imagine a mouse clicking on a human-shaped cookie, forever.

It's not like we can't have infinite growth - or at least a couple of million years of growth. The universe has a whole lot of stuff in it, more than we can even imagine. But this actually requires thinking about the far future and carefully planning for it. Cookie Clicker logic can't function when the universe is made to be so small. Yet, the successfully incompetent have managed to delude themselves into believing in a contradiction - a fantasy of infinite growth within a microscopically small fantasy world. Hell, even the "degrowthers" use the same logic! What we end up with are maniacs arguing over whether or not to keep clicking on the same damn cookies, instead of playing a different game.

So, if Mark Fisher were still alive, I would ask him an obscene question: What Would Stalin Do? (WWSD?) A capitalist Stalin might end up being a "market Stalinist" of some sort, sure, but I highly doubt that he would ever become a Cookie Clicker Capitalist. Why? Because Stalin - and Stalinism - was still animated by the spirit of socialism.

So, perhaps we should reclaim this spirit of socialism by flipping "market Stalinism" on its head. To combat the capitalist market economy inversion of the dominating aspects of socialist ideology, we need a socialist planned economy inversion of the liberating aspects of capitalist ideology. We need "planned Reaganism" to defeat "market Stalinism."

The rhetoric of Reaganism revolved around a desire to return to free-market fundamentals to combat the crisis apparently caused by the excesses of Fordist Keynesianism. He attacked the inefficiency and harsh overreach of "big government" and believed that American foreign policy consistently failed to combat the immorality that the USSR (as the "evil Empire") and its supposed leftist sympathizers stood for. He championed an optimistic vision that appealed to "common sense" over out-of-touch elitism, posing individual liberties and moral virtues as the true engine of economic progress.

We should argue that democratic central planning is not "big government" but the opposite - an antidote to an inefficient plutocratic oligarchy that generates mountains of bureaucratic waste to prop up a decaying capitalism and entrench the authority of its elite servants. Our moral outrage should be directed towards the "evil Empire" that is the global system of capitalist political economy as a whole, which cheapens and degrades morality by exploiting it for geopolitical theater and glorified PR stunts that obscure the mass suffering and resentment it causes. We needn't worry about out-of-touch elites when the common person is allowed to truly exercise their common sense through the responsibility of governing. Concepts like individual liberty and moral virtue can only flourish within every individual when it is given a stable foundation of collective material support.

To take this very serious joke even further: if the endpoint of "market Stalinism" is Cookie Clicker Capitalism, then the endpoint of "planned Reaganism" is Smash Bros. Communism. Rather than the trivial and autistic repetition veiled in shallow aesthetics that is Cookie Clicker, Smash Bros. Communism is the vibrant and dynamic confluence of individual agency and meaningful depth with a collective experience that is fun and accessible to all.

Try to say hi

Greeting's from PR.China)
Its my first time using leftypol ,so actually I don't get how to use it correctly ,will keep learning I guess. Cause of the firewall, we Chinese seldom have chances to communicate with foreigners,especially politalcal communication :(
So I'm kind of curious to know how foreigner comrades think of China ,on other websites I can only find tons of, trash informations (Must know what Im saying lol) Also, I may answer some questions too,welcoming communication

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191198.Mankind_Child_of_the_Stars
Mankind Child of the Stars by Max H. Flindt

Is Earth a colony established by creatures from Outerspace?

Scientific evidence to prove that mankind could not possibly evolved naturally. Step by step clues that explore the very real possibility that we are direct descendants of ancient starmen who came from other planets to Earth millions of years ago. Some of the fascinating discoveries revealed in this book:* Earth has been visited more than 5,000 times by creatures from other planets! * There's evidence that starmen deliberately hid any "Missing Link" human fossils in order to keep mankind from knowing it was a colony! * There is a reason to believe that the starmen were the "Angels" of the Bible, carrying on a "Divine" mission to bring human life to Earth! Max H. Flindt was the first to scientifically document from biological evidence the possibility that mankind may be a hybrid from a prehistoric union of terrestrial humanoids and starmen. With a 180,000 copies previously sold, this new Edition of "Mankind" offers a whole new generation a look at these mind-expanding theories.

the sheeple question

what is to be done about the masses of sheeple who always do whatever the empire tells them to do? how are we supposed to organize in solidarity with vaxies who support vax mandates? how am I supposed to deal with people who vote in support of genocidal zionist politicians like Harris, Trump, and Kennedy even though it's clear they are screwing their own voters regardless? what are we supposed to do about the brainwashed, bloodthirsty psychos who support the global 4th reich?

Bannana Republic of Korea ?

Yoon Suk Yeol (emphasis on the suck) has declared martial law, out of the blue. Probably because he's loosing power, his approval rating tanked, there's scandals surrounding his wife and the opposition is blocking his political programs.

The pretext he gave for the martial law was "eradicating the pro north Korean communist forces"
If only there were communist forces about to topple the wannabe dictator of BRoK

Anarcho-capitalism is impossible

Anarcho-capitalism is impossible because no ideal society is possible, anarchy is disobedience to authority and free association and communism is a movement that abolishes the present state of things, not a society. If our history is class struggle then thinking about the future society is a distraction from it. Nothing but praxis matters, the strength of the far-left isn't that its ideal societies are better but rather that they actually do shit instead of sitting on the Internet all day and mining crypto or voting in elections and marching on meaningless protests that lead nowhere and achieve nothing or supporting economic superpowers that don't care about them and barely acknowledge their existence.

Go read Bordiga or Negri or whatever, I dunno.

I think Anarcho Capitalism is fine.

I think reason why we are so unpopular is due to us being cuntish.

the need for a second french revolution?

The Second `French Revolution`

Is increasingly clear there is an intense fight to eliminate nationalism.
Who and why have almost become irrelevant at the face of severity and urgency of the situation.
But my best guest is that the wealthy class coupled with ideological groups like academic communists clique and religious groups (there are intersecting circles as well as opposing circles on other issues. because life is not that simple). They all formed an alliance to suffocate and wipe out nationalism.

Humanity needs to make a choice. Either let it play out and accept the ideals of a unity and try to eradicate the racial differences. Or embrace the differences and take step towards the next level of the nation-sate: ethno-state.


Shall we aspire for popular uprisings to protect the national identities as second 'French Revolution' {actually a Polish Revolution or a Balkan Revolution or a European Spring?} (Since the French is digested anyway by the wealthy global ruling elite) against the global clique of nameless families and individuals who have been pulling the strings behind the scenes for far too long?

(I Dont wanna seem like I like Europeans, I want African states to set colonialism tribunals to punish to EUropeans and demans $trillions in reparations)

{I focus on europe because it is the region getting the most rape from the global ruling class and become their lab for the ethnic experiment. but I guess CHina and India is far from their reach at the moment anyway.}


What was I saying? Look, a group is set to eradicate national identities and most so-called democratic governments become their lap dogs. The aim probably boil down to control. without nation states and national identities humanity becomes just a mindless herd easy to control and own. The incredible thing is they are largely already in control. and THEY WANT MORE AND TIGHTER CONTROL.


lONG STORY short either fight back and protect your national identity or sit back and relax and let them own you, merge with other ethnicities.


tHe white people of the west is a prime target of this campaign. Those who threatened by the WWII seek revenge and a peace of mind in a world without the white men. I personally dont think the white men is any more evil than the brown or black men but the media brainwashing people in that direction. which is an arm of the global wealthy clique.


SO, anyway either protect your nationalities or accept your fate. the things are already in motion, and there's only two options, have fun {tbh, waging war is profit for them anyway. so they win again.}

dance music thread

'90s alt. rock nightmare thread

post it if you've got it.

Conservative politicians' beliefs

Shitlibs seem to think that conservative politicians genuinely believe in their bs if they're not outright Nazis who want to establish the Fourth Reich. But what do you think? Do conservatives genuinely believe what they're saying or are they just vicarious parasites who say it just so the proles leave them alone with their complaints and are actually absolute deviants behind the scenes?

Since most anons here seem clueless about what masculinity actually is, and only seem comfortable posturing about what it isn't, I thought I'd help you.

>The Way of Men
>By Jack Donovan

Read this and maybe (no promises) it will help exorcise the faggy zeitgeist from your skinnyfat body.

While most of you probably won't be able to handle this book (due to deeply engrain ego attachment to muhleftism), a small percentage might. This is for that latter minority.

No God or israel is right?

Will Isreal nuke all the major cities in the middle east to expand and force God to armegeddon and bring back jesus christ?

or the religion is not real? or would nuking all middle east prove israels, evengelicals, or the arabs god or lack there of?

Hey Leftychads
Whatcha readin?
Pic related is the import shipment I just received. Probably going to read the Greene book first since I'm in a springtime lull before I start summer projects. What about u.

the post-trump nuremburg trials are gonna be lit though

The Empire is about to murder millions of people, both through the new concentration camp, the already existing ones, and now through taking away what little medical coverage the American poor had. How many millions of people must die before liberals realise this is bigger than Trump, bigger than the two party system, bigger than the endless game "my guy vs their guy" ad infinitum?

Them...

Any way to target them without looking like complete retards?

Advice for dealing with them…
1. Rules 1 and 2, but apply it to us.
2. Re-read 1.
3. Use a VPN/Proxy, Tor, whatnot
4. Be Anonymous at ALL TIMES.

/dei/ - Woke Agenda and Forced Diversity General

Here we discuss woke agenda and forced diversity in media.

WARNING: just because there is a minority or leftist politics in some work of fiction doesn't mean it's a case of the woke agenda or forced diversity, there should be a valid enough argument why the inclusion of minorities or politics feels forced.