We will be discussing how to confirm ICE sightings, how to do successful outreach around the county, share our experience working with different organizations to train and educate our community members, etc.

Food, snacks and outreach material will be provided! Childcare is also available upon request!

The Empire Files: The U.S. School That Trains Dictators & Death Squads. On November 22, thousands gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, GA at the 25th annual protest of the School of the Americas to memorialize the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives at the hands of the U.S. Empire’s brutally repressive juntas it used to rule Latin America by force. [https://youtu.be/GUtumGk0E6Q?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/GUtumGk0E6Q?feature=shared)

American Imperialism’s Shadow on Latin America w/ Michael Fox: [https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/american-imperialisms-shadow-on-latin-america-w-michael-fox](https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/american-imperialisms-shadow-on-latin-america-w-michael-fox)

Israel” and Its Role in Latin America w/ Alexander Aviña: [https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/israel-and-its-role-in-latin-america-w-alexander-avia](https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/israel-and-its-role-in-latin-america-w-alexander-avia)

Trump Expanding the Empire - Empire Files playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKFPL9JtA3b8EJHhNNGHHcpCmTGR9jU-B&feature=shared

How fascism serves capitalism: https://youtu.be/Mn_RwIcL7cg?feature=shared

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Second volunteer meeting & training this Friday at 6:30 PM in Oxnard! 📣 Join us to discuss how we are coming together as a community to defend our immigrant loved ones and defeat fascism! (Ventura County, California)

We will be discussing how to confirm ICE sightings, how to do successful outreach around the county, share our experience working with different organizations to train and educate our community members, etc.

Food, snacks and outreach material will be provided! Childcare is also available upon request!

The Empire Files: The U.S. School That Trains Dictators &amp; Death Squads. On November 22, thousands gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, GA at the 25th annual protest of the School of the Americas to memorialize the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives at the hands of the U.S. Empire’s brutally repressive juntas it used to rule Latin America by force. https://youtu.be/GUtumGk0E6Q?feature=shared

American Imperialism’s Shadow on Latin America w/ Michael Fox: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/american-imperialisms-shadow-on-latin-america-w-michael-fox

Israel” and Its Role in Latin America w/ Alexander Aviña: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/israel-and-its-role-in-latin-america-w-alexander-avia

Trump Expanding the Empire - Empire Files playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKFPL9JtA3b8EJHhNNGHHcpCmTGR9jU-B&amp;feature=shared

How fascism serves capitalism: https://youtu.be/Mn_RwIcL7cg?feature=shared

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Join the Fediverse: https://jointhefediverse.net/join?lang=en-us

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Cold War 2: US officials call to overthrow China’s gov’t, expand military budget to $1.4 trillion: https://youtu.be/Q3RMl33SqNE?feature=shared


Hi all, so reading Capital is like reading the Bible for Christians. It’s an important thing to do, but not many actually do it.

So, I thought I’d offer some advice. Feel free to disagree, but here are my suggestions:

You could probably fill a library with insightful reviews, responses, commentary, and reflections on Marx's Capital, and many of the reviews on this site do add colour to the illustrious picture. However, since I don't feel that I would be able to add much, I won't waste anybody's time trying to add my own views or commentary.

Instead, I'll offer brief pointers on reading Capital:

*Read the book! Obvious, I know, but if you're like me you've probably expended a great deal of energy reading everything but the book itself, as a kind of countertransference, to escape getting the book read.

*Be wary of guidebooks. It’s more important  to read Capital on your own terms without focusing on somebody's else's perspective (and all of the digressions involved in that)

*Engage with the text, scribble on it, make notes, highlight it, put sticky notes on it, underline sections, take notes, etc. Don't simply scan it passively like a newspaper article. Remember, this is one of the most important and influential texts in the social science canon, regardless of your individual view on its contents and style.

*Acquaint yourself with some of the context of Marx's work. Maybe read an overview of political economy before and during Marx’s time to understand who Adam Smith and the Physiocrats were. Have a look at the Poor Laws, the upheavals of the 1800s and try to find out why Marx was reading Hegel as a student.. Don't distract yourself by trying to get an expansive view of everything around Marx's life and context, but a brief read on Marxism like Isaiah Berlin’s Karl Marx - His Life and Environment may be helpful, or Lenin’s short portrait of Marx.

*Break the book up into chunks. Read it in chapters or 10-50 page bits a day, it’s nothing. Doing this will help you understand the book a lot better.

*READ THE BOOK!

*If you can’t read the full version read one of the abridged versions (e.g. Gareth Stedman Jones’ abridgement or David McLellan’s).

Reading recommendations:
Berlin - Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
Bottomore - A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Brewer - A Guide to Marx’s “Capital.”
Fine - Marx’s “Capital.”
Foley - Understanding Capital
Mandel - An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
Robinson - Reading Marx’s Capital Volumes I–III: A Guide (International Critical Thought)
Rosdolsky - The Making of Marx's Capital
Wheen - Karl Marx: A Life
Wheen - Marx’s Das Kapital: A Biography

Advice for reading Das Kapital

Hi all, so reading Capital is like reading the Bible for Christians. It’s an important thing to do, but not many actually do it.

So, I thought I’d offer some advice. Feel free to disagree, but here are my suggestions:

You could probably fill a library with insightful reviews, responses, commentary, and reflections on Marx&#39;s Capital, and many of the reviews on this site do add colour to the illustrious picture. However, since I don&#39;t feel that I would be able to add much, I won&#39;t waste anybody&#39;s time trying to add my own views or commentary.

Instead, I&#39;ll offer brief pointers on reading Capital:

*Read the book! Obvious, I know, but if you&#39;re like me you&#39;ve probably expended a great deal of energy reading everything but the book itself, as a kind of countertransference, to escape getting the book read.

*Be wary of guidebooks. It’s more important  to read Capital on your own terms without focusing on somebody&#39;s else&#39;s perspective (and all of the digressions involved in that)

*Engage with the text, scribble on it, make notes, highlight it, put sticky notes on it, underline sections, take notes, etc. Don&#39;t simply scan it passively like a newspaper article. Remember, this is one of the most important and influential texts in the social science canon, regardless of your individual view on its contents and style.

*Acquaint yourself with some of the context of Marx&#39;s work. Maybe read an overview of political economy before and during Marx’s time to understand who Adam Smith and the Physiocrats were. Have a look at the Poor Laws, the upheavals of the 1800s and try to find out why Marx was reading Hegel as a student.. Don&#39;t distract yourself by trying to get an expansive view of everything around Marx&#39;s life and context, but a brief read on Marxism like Isaiah Berlin’s Karl Marx - His Life and Environment may be helpful, or Lenin’s short portrait of Marx.

*Break the book up into chunks. Read it in chapters or 10-50 page bits a day, it’s nothing. Doing this will help you understand the book a lot better.

*READ THE BOOK!

*If you can’t read the full version read one of the abridged versions (e.g. Gareth Stedman Jones’ abridgement or David McLellan’s).

Reading recommendations:
Berlin - Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
Bottomore - A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Brewer - A Guide to Marx’s “Capital.”
Fine - Marx’s “Capital.”
Foley - Understanding Capital

Mandel - An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
Robinson - Reading Marx’s Capital Volumes I–III: A Guide (International Critical Thought)
Rosdolsky - The Making of Marx&#39;s Capital
Wheen - Karl Marx: A Life
Wheen - Marx’s Das Kapital: A Biography


Is there somewhere I could find activism near me or? I've been trying to get involved but I genuinely don't know where to get started in terms of organization and not just individual action

How would I get involved in protest?

Is there somewhere I could find activism near me or? I&#39;ve been trying to get involved but I genuinely don&#39;t know where to get started in terms of organization and not just individual action


With Trump getting the CIA, who is going to enforce for capitalism in the Global South?


Twelve Days in Kobane, Where Syrian Kurds Are Under Attack by Turkey


The mathematician Kurt Gödel is said to have found a way that the US constitution would allow for a dictator to take control. Many historians/constitutionalist said he was lying because how did he find something that they couldn’t. So was he right after all? I worried from the first election about this. When Trump nominated a Republican judge on the Supreme Court giving them majority. The fact this election he has both house and senate makes him quite invincible since a-lot of republicans are Trump loyalist. There is also a problem with the fact that Trump has removed the FBI committee that focuses on election interference which is surprising since he cried a-lot about this. Honestly, Im losing all hope. By midterms I think Trump will have done so much damage and will rig elections and nobody will be able to do anything about it because the FBI and CIA will consist of only Trump loyalists.

Gödel's Loophole


Staff at British university back strike action


'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook


What The ‘Bread and Roses’ Strike Can Teach Us About Organizing Today


- 📅 Saturday, February 15th, 2025
- ⏰ 6 - 9 PM
-📍 Bula Arts & Culture | 58-14 Roosevelt Ave https://www.instagram.com/bulababa/?igsh=MWxuNDBvMGh4dzBoeQ%3D%3D
“Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.” – Che Guevara

🎟 Ticket Tiers:
- ❤ Solidarity Sweetheart – $20 (Entry + 1 Raffle Ticket + Food)
- 💞 Comrade’s Embrace – $30 (Entry + 1 Raffle Ticket + Food + 1 Drink Voucher)
- 🔥 Revolutionary Love – $40 (Entry + 2 Raffle Tickets + Food + 1 Drink Voucher)

🎟 Get your ticket & support the movement! Click the link in bio or bit.ly/Heartshammers

🎤 Event Activities:
- 🎟 Raffle Prizes – Win unique gifts like artwork, books, and more (donations welcome!)
- 🍪 Baked Goods & Drinks Stand – Enjoy homemade treats and refreshing beverages.
- 🎨 Socialist Valentine Print Blocks – Create and purchase one-of-a-kind Valentine prints.
-🔮 Tarot Readings – Discover what the cards hold for you with a personal reading.
- 📸 Photobooth – Capture memories with friends and comrades.
- ✍ V-Day Card & Zine Making – Get creative with handmade cards and zines.
- 🛍 Merchandise Sales – Support us by grabbing some socialist swag.
- 🎭 Live Performances – Experience poetry and musical performances from local artists.
Come with a date, a comrade, or solo—either way, you’ll leave with a heart full of revolutionary love. 💖

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⚒ Hearts & Hammers: A Socialist Valentine 💘 Join us for an evening of love, solidarity, and revolution! Hearts & Hammer is more than just a fundraiser—it’s a space to connect, create, and celebrate our shared vision for a better world. All proceeds support our organizing efforts. (NYC)

📅 Saturday, February 15th, 2025

⏰ 6 - 9 PM
-📍 Bula Arts &amp; Culture | 58-14 Roosevelt Ave https://www.instagram.com/bulababa/?igsh=MWxuNDBvMGh4dzBoeQ%3D%3D
“Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.” – Che Guevara

🎟 Ticket Tiers:
- ❤ Solidarity Sweetheart – $20 (Entry + 1 Raffle Ticket + Food)
- 💞 Comrade’s Embrace – $30 (Entry + 1 Raffle Ticket + Food + 1 Drink Voucher)
- 🔥 Revolutionary Love – $40 (Entry + 2 Raffle Tickets + Food + 1 Drink Voucher)

🎟 Get your ticket &amp; support the movement! Click the link in bio or bit.ly/Heartshammers

🎤 Event Activities:
- 🎟 Raffle Prizes – Win unique gifts like artwork, books, and more (donations welcome!)
- 🍪 Baked Goods &amp; Drinks Stand – Enjoy homemade treats and refreshing beverages.
- 🎨 Socialist Valentine Print Blocks – Create and purchase one-of-a-kind Valentine prints.
-🔮 Tarot Readings – Discover what the cards hold for you with a personal reading.
- 📸 Photobooth – Capture memories with friends and comrades.
- ✍ V-Day Card &amp; Zine Making – Get creative with handmade cards and zines.
- 🛍 Merchandise Sales – Support us by grabbing some socialist swag.
- 🎭 Live Performances – Experience poetry and musical performances from local artists.
Come with a date, a comrade, or solo—either way, you’ll leave with a heart full of revolutionary love. 💖

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FBI spotted with ICE


What are fascist ( or just negative) policies trump has pushed out since being in office? Also what unqualified people has he lifted into power?

Trump fascist policies


While it is probably irrelevant to bring up the "Alt-Right" in 2025, it can not be denied that Trump's political ascendance in 2015-2017 was inextricably bound up with it, at least in the mainstream mass media, which gave Trump essentially infinite free publicity for ratings. A major component of the "Alt-Right" & so-called "Alt-Lite" in 2015-2018 or so was the "Counter-Jihad" movement, which is almost exclusively controlled by Zionists. One can criticize Islam, obviously, but "Counter-Jihad" is largely not really about criticizing Islam as a religion but using a hyper-aggressive criticism of not only Muslims but virtually all Arab culture as a vehicle to shill neoconservative and/or Zionist talking points to defend American imperialism and Israeli settler-colonialism.

One major force in the "Counter-Jihad" movement is Daniel Pipes, who is the son of a man named Richard Pipes. The elder Pipes was handpicked by George HW Bush to head "Team B", a group created by Bush to challenge pro-detente positions within the CIA by scrutinizing legitimate reports that the Soviets were not a major nuclear threat and publishing disinformation cooked up in think tanks full of feds and corporate elites like the Committee on the President Danger (CPD), the American Security Council (ASC) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). This network of disinfo/psywar specialists was associated with another network of think tanks and NGOs which formed an early wave of what is today known as the "Israel Lobby" or "Zionist Lobby" in Washington, DC. These include the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) which, as Ed Hermann writes in *The Terrorism Industry,* was full of "“Reagan administration officials as well as members of the Committee on the Present Danger and Committee for a Democratic Majority", the latter of which was more or less the Democratic Party branch of the CPD, started by Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, whose Congressional office was like a [bootcamp for many of the most influential neoconservatives of the last 30 years.](https://jewishcurrents.org/henry-scoop-jackson-and-the-jewish-cold-warriors)

At this time, Donald J. Trump was[ following in his father's footsteps in becoming a major friend of Israel. ](https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/10/16/fred-and-donald-trumps-jewish-connection/)He befriended Roy Cohn, a lawyer for the National Crime Syndicate as well as the American intelligence community, who rose to prominence as an ally of J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy during the Second Red Scare following World War 2. [Cohn was honored in 1983 by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) & B'nai B'rith,](https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cohn-Dinner.pdf) a Jewish fraternal lodge that technically pre-dates the Zionist movement but became one of its most ardent supporters not long after Theodore Herzl birthed it. Cohn was also a part of the "Jewish League Against Communism" which emphatically stated that "Zionism and Communism are incompatible" and worked hard to help what is considered the modern Israeli right-wing usurp power from the Labor Zionist coalition that controlled Israel's government.

Trump and Cohn [became thick as thieves:](https://forward.com/opinion/351591/roy-cohn-and-the-shocking-jewish-mentorship-that-created-donald-trump/) "Cohn would use his connections in government and the mafia to garner massive tax abatements, zoning variances and mob-controlled concrete work, without which Trump’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, Trump Plaza and Trump Tower projects never would have been possible...Cohn would advise Trump in every aspect of his life, business and personal: for years, they would talk on the phone up to five times a day." Cohn introduced Trump to another good friend of his, Rupert Murdoch, who, as he was becoming a member of the American power elite, [used his sway over mass media to help make the Trump brand into what it is today.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/16/donald-trump-rupert-murdoch-friendship-fox-news)

In the the late 1980s, Trump met another of his best friends of all time through these same circles, who happened to be another member of not only the American elite but the Zionist Lobby named Jeffrey Epstein, who got his start as an investment banker managing the portfolio of Edgar Bronfman Sr, a member of [the criminal Bronfman wealth dynasty](https://artvoice.com/2018/03/the-true-history-and-sinister-origin-of-bronfman-family-wealth/) and a the President of the World Jewish Congress, one of the predominant international supporters of Israel. Not long after befriending Trump, Epstein joined his mentor Les Wexner and his former client Edgar Bronfman, as well as Robert Maxwell, the father of his literal partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell, [at the Mega Group, on of the biggest Zionist Lobby organizations of the 1990s and early 2000s.](https://mintpressnews.cn/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/)

To return to Daniel Pipes and the "Counter-Jihad" movement, Pipes started a think tank in the early 2000s called the Middle-East Forum (MEF) which became one of the founding nodes of a new neoconservative/ultra-Zionist network that included the Freedom Center (FC), the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and the Gatestone Institue (GI), founded by Nina Rosenwald. There is ["hardly a single major pro-Israel organization that does not provide Rosenwald with a seat on its board of directors." ](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/sugar-mama-anti-muslim-hate/)The FC was founded by David Horowitz, [a friend of Epstein's pal Alan Dershowitz](https://lobelog.com/alan-dershowitzs-deep-ties-to-trumps-biggest-donors/) and a major supporter of Trump. CSP was started by Frank Gaffney, the top aide of Richard Perle during the Reagan administration. Perle is a descendant of Scoop Jackson's office and a member of the Project for a New American Century, the most well-known neocon think tank which gained infamy for calling for "a catalyzing event" and "a New Pearl Harbor" to justify expanding military spending and invading Iraq *before* 9/11 happened. [Gaffney set up a group he called "Team B 2."](https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/center-security-policy) During the first Trump campaign, [all of these think tanks worked directly with the Mercer Foundation, owned by major Trump patrons Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah Mercer](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/07/tommy-robinson-global-support-brexit-march).

In 2018, Rosenwald's Gatestone Institute was led by John Bolton, yet another major neocon. That same year, Ezra Levant’s *Rebel Media* partnered with GI [to produce anti-Muslim propaganda. ](https://lobelog.com/bolton-led-group-partnered-with-racist-anti-semitic-website/)Levant's media company, which soon became a pillar in the "Alt-Right" despite its leader being both Jewish and an open Zionist, hosted several figures who were also supporters of Israel, including Faith Goldy ([“I am on the record in favor of a one-state solution. I love Israel](https://ravingcanuck.com/2018/09/01/qa-with-dark-horse-toronto-mayoral-candidate-faith-goldy/)”), Sebastian Gorka, who later joined the Trump administration (Gorka has been referred to as a “true friend of Israel and the Jewish people” by journalist Sarah N. Stern, an ardent Zionist, as well as “the staunchest friend of Israel and the Jewish people” by Israel Allies Caucus Co-chair Trent Franks), and Tommy Robinson, who received $60,000 from Daniel Pipes and thousands more from an Israeli-American billionaire named Richard Shillman (yes that's his real last name). Shillman, who donated over a quarter of a million dollars to Trump in 2020, sits on the boards of two of David Horowitz’s organizations and funded Project Veritas. When George W. Bush visited Israel in 2008, he personally asked for Shillman to escort him through the Zionist settler-colony.

Steve Bannon–who describes himself as[ a Christian Zionist](https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-zoa-event-bannon-asks-jews-to-join-his-war-on-gop-establishment/)\-was, when accused of anti-Semitism by liberals in 2016, defended by a plethora of Israelis as well as American neocons, [including David Horowitz](https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/steve-bannon-made-breitbart-space-pro-israel-writers-anti-semitic-readers/). Yossi Dagan, an Israeli politician, [also rushed to Bannon’s defense](https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/steve-bannon-made-breitbart-space-pro-israel-writers-anti-semitic-readers/). Another major ally of Trump’s, tech capitalist Peter Thiel, is, like Bannon, an elitist friend of Israel who calls himself "anti-establishment." Thiel was supported by Irving and Bill Kristol, the father and son neocons,[ as far back as his days at Stanford University in 1987,](https://www.capitalism.com/serial-entrepreneur-peter-thiel-became-billionaire/) and has repeatedly appeared alongside Bill Kristol at speaking events. Thiel is also a major investor in an Israeli surveillance company founded by Amir Elichai, [“a former Israeli army officer who served in different positions in the special elite forces and the intelligence corps.”](https://t.co/BkRa3onB4Q) An early board member of this company, dubbed Carbyne, was Pinhas Buchris, a former leader of  Unit 8200, a special military intelligence unit in Israel. Unit 8200 has a special relationship with Silicon Valley, where, similar to the CIA’s In-Q-Tel, it funds [thousands of tech start-ups and contributes innumerable members of staff to American tech companies](https://www.wsj.com/tech/silicon-valleys-hot-talent-pipeline-is-an-israeli-army-unit-e8368b4d) every year.

Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, is part of a family that has historically been close not only to the Trumps, [but also to the Netanyahus and Israel in general.](https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/137466-170212-nyt-report-reveals-netanyahu-and-kushner-have-long-history-of-friendship) Kushner has suggested ["Gaza's waterfront property could be very valuable." ](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev)The Kushner Foundation has given [hundreds of thousands of dollars to Chabad Lubavitch,](https://forward.com/news/359482/kushner-foundation-gives-342k-to-chabad-still-surprised-about-jared-and-iva/) a doomsday cult masquerading as a Jewish civil society organization controlled by one of the only groups of Hasidic Jews to be overwhelmingly supporting of Israel rather than either critically supportive or outright hostile to its existence. Chabad Lubavitch are major supporters of Trump and seem to be an agent of Israeli soft power that operates across the world, even in countries at war with each other, [including USA, Russia and Ukraine.](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007/)

Before Trump was even sworn-in the first time, his decision to pick Mike Pence as his running mate raised some eyebrows among the “Alt”-Right. While Pence seems to be a good fit for Trump considering he holds one of the most socially conservative voting records in recent Congressional history, he is also a hardline Zionist and unapologetic neocon who seemed to contradict some of Trump’s rhetorical gestures toward “anti-interventionism” on the campaign trail. In 2003, Pence, a major ally of Bush Jr. in the House of Representatives,[ voted for the resolution authorizing the Iraq War](https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/15/politics/mike-pence-foreign-policy-vp-pick/).  In 2014, Pence visited the Zionist settler-colony, and in 2016 made it illegal for his home-state of Indiana to make deals with companies that boycott the Israeli occupation of Palestine. In 2015, Pence told the Republican Jewish Coalition:[ “Israel’s enemies are our enemies, Israel’s cause is our cause. If this world knows nothing else, let it know this: America stands with Israel.”](http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/presidential-candidate-cruz-others-speak-adelson-primary-vegas)

During his first administration, Trump gave the neocons virtually everything they wanted regarding Israel. In 2018, Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and opened a new US embassy there. [As *Vox* reported,](https://www.vox.com/2018/5/14/17340798/jerusalem-embassy-israel-palestinians-us-trump) Trump did this in the middle of protests organized by Palestinians at the Israeli border with Gaza: “The embassy opening also comes right before what Palestinians call Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, where Palestinians commemorate lands they either fled or were evicted from after the creation of the state of Israel. Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, also begins this week.”

[All of this was likely the result of Israel's "interference" in the 2016 presidential election, which was blamed on Russia.](https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-israel-collusion/) In exchange, Trump gave all of these Zionist/neocon forces a return on their investment in him.

Donald Trump is One of the Most Zionist Presidents of All Time, Don't Let the MAGA Cult Fool You or Your Family

While it is probably irrelevant to bring up the &quot;Alt-Right&quot; in 2025, it can not be denied that Trump&#39;s political ascendance in 2015-2017 was inextricably bound up with it, at least in the mainstream mass media, which gave Trump essentially infinite free publicity for ratings. A major component of the &quot;Alt-Right&quot; &amp; so-called &quot;Alt-Lite&quot; in 2015-2018 or so was the &quot;Counter-Jihad&quot; movement, which is almost exclusively controlled by Zionists. One can criticize Islam, obviously, but &quot;Counter-Jihad&quot; is largely not really about criticizing Islam as a religion but using a hyper-aggressive criticism of not only Muslims but virtually all Arab culture as a vehicle to shill neoconservative and/or Zionist talking points to defend American imperialism and Israeli settler-colonialism.

One major force in the &quot;Counter-Jihad&quot; movement is Daniel Pipes, who is the son of a man named Richard Pipes. The elder Pipes was handpicked by George HW Bush to head &quot;Team B&quot;, a group created by Bush to challenge pro-detente positions within the CIA by scrutinizing legitimate reports that the Soviets were not a major nuclear threat and publishing disinformation cooked up in think tanks full of feds and corporate elites like the Committee on the President Danger (CPD), the American Security Council (ASC) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). This network of disinfo/psywar specialists was associated with another network of think tanks and NGOs which formed an early wave of what is today known as the &quot;Israel Lobby&quot; or &quot;Zionist Lobby&quot; in Washington, DC. These include the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) which, as Ed Hermann writes in The Terrorism Industry, was full of &quot;“Reagan administration officials as well as members of the Committee on the Present Danger and Committee for a Democratic Majority&quot;, the latter of which was more or less the Democratic Party branch of the CPD, started by Senator Henry &quot;Scoop&quot; Jackson, whose Congressional office was like a bootcamp for many of the most influential neoconservatives of the last 30 years.

At this time, Donald J. Trump was following in his father&#39;s footsteps in becoming a major friend of Israel. He befriended Roy Cohn, a lawyer for the National Crime Syndicate as well as the American intelligence community, who rose to prominence as an ally of J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy during the Second Red Scare following World War 2. Cohn was honored in 1983 by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) &amp; B&#39;nai B&#39;rith, a Jewish fraternal lodge that technically pre-dates the Zionist movement but became one of its most ardent supporters not long after Theodore Herzl birthed it. Cohn was also a part of the &quot;Jewish League Against Communism&quot; which emphatically stated that &quot;Zionism and Communism are incompatible&quot; and worked hard to help what is considered the modern Israeli right-wing usurp power from the Labor Zionist coalition that controlled Israel&#39;s government.

Trump and Cohn became thick as thieves: &quot;Cohn would use his connections in government and the mafia to garner massive tax abatements, zoning variances and mob-controlled concrete work, without which Trump’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, Trump Plaza and Trump Tower projects never would have been possible...Cohn would advise Trump in every aspect of his life, business and personal: for years, they would talk on the phone up to five times a day.&quot; Cohn introduced Trump to another good friend of his, Rupert Murdoch, who, as he was becoming a member of the American power elite, used his sway over mass media to help make the Trump brand into what it is today.

In the the late 1980s, Trump met another of his best friends of all time through these same circles, who happened to be another member of not only the American elite but the Zionist Lobby named Jeffrey Epstein, who got his start as an investment banker managing the portfolio of Edgar Bronfman Sr, a member of the criminal Bronfman wealth dynasty and a the President of the World Jewish Congress, one of the predominant international supporters of Israel. Not long after befriending Trump, Epstein joined his mentor Les Wexner and his former client Edgar Bronfman, as well as Robert Maxwell, the father of his literal partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell, at the Mega Group, on of the biggest Zionist Lobby organizations of the 1990s and early 2000s.

To return to Daniel Pipes and the &quot;Counter-Jihad&quot; movement, Pipes started a think tank in the early 2000s called the Middle-East Forum (MEF) which became one of the founding nodes of a new neoconservative/ultra-Zionist network that included the Freedom Center (FC), the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and the Gatestone Institue (GI), founded by Nina Rosenwald. There is &quot;hardly a single major pro-Israel organization that does not provide Rosenwald with a seat on its board of directors.&quot; The FC was founded by David Horowitz, a friend of Epstein&#39;s pal Alan Dershowitz and a major supporter of Trump. CSP was started by Frank Gaffney, the top aide of Richard Perle during the Reagan administration. Perle is a descendant of Scoop Jackson&#39;s office and a member of the Project for a New American Century, the most well-known neocon think tank which gained infamy for calling for &quot;a catalyzing event&quot; and &quot;a New Pearl Harbor&quot; to justify expanding military spending and invading Iraq before 9/11 happened. Gaffney set up a group he called &quot;Team B 2.&quot; During the first Trump campaign, all of these think tanks worked directly with the Mercer Foundation, owned by major Trump patrons Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah Mercer.

In 2018, Rosenwald&#39;s Gatestone Institute was led by John Bolton, yet another major neocon. That same year, Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media partnered with GI to produce anti-Muslim propaganda. Levant&#39;s media company, which soon became a pillar in the &quot;Alt-Right&quot; despite its leader being both Jewish and an open Zionist, hosted several figures who were also supporters of Israel, including Faith Goldy (“I am on the record in favor of a one-state solution. I love Israel”), Sebastian Gorka, who later joined the Trump administration (Gorka has been referred to as a “true friend of Israel and the Jewish people” by journalist Sarah N. Stern, an ardent Zionist, as well as “the staunchest friend of Israel and the Jewish people” by Israel Allies Caucus Co-chair Trent Franks), and Tommy Robinson, who received $60,000 from Daniel Pipes and thousands more from an Israeli-American billionaire named Richard Shillman (yes that&#39;s his real last name). Shillman, who donated over a quarter of a million dollars to Trump in 2020, sits on the boards of two of David Horowitz’s organizations and funded Project Veritas. When George W. Bush visited Israel in 2008, he personally asked for Shillman to escort him through the Zionist settler-colony.

Steve Bannon–who describes himself as a Christian Zionist-was, when accused of anti-Semitism by liberals in 2016, defended by a plethora of Israelis as well as American neocons, including David Horowitz. Yossi Dagan, an Israeli politician, also rushed to Bannon’s defense. Another major ally of Trump’s, tech capitalist Peter Thiel, is, like Bannon, an elitist friend of Israel who calls himself &quot;anti-establishment.&quot; Thiel was supported by Irving and Bill Kristol, the father and son neocons, as far back as his days at Stanford University in 1987, and has repeatedly appeared alongside Bill Kristol at speaking events. Thiel is also a major investor in an Israeli surveillance company founded by Amir Elichai, “a former Israeli army officer who served in different positions in the special elite forces and the intelligence corps.” An early board member of this company, dubbed Carbyne, was Pinhas Buchris, a former leader of  Unit 8200, a special military intelligence unit in Israel. Unit 8200 has a special relationship with Silicon Valley, where, similar to the CIA’s In-Q-Tel, it funds thousands of tech start-ups and contributes innumerable members of staff to American tech companies every year.

Jared Kushner, Trump&#39;s son-in-law, is part of a family that has historically been close not only to the Trumps, but also to the Netanyahus and Israel in general. Kushner has suggested &quot;Gaza&#39;s waterfront property could be very valuable.&quot; The Kushner Foundation has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Chabad Lubavitch, a doomsday cult masquerading as a Jewish civil society organization controlled by one of the only groups of Hasidic Jews to be overwhelmingly supporting of Israel rather than either critically supportive or outright hostile to its existence. Chabad Lubavitch are major supporters of Trump and seem to be an agent of Israeli soft power that operates across the world, even in countries at war with each other, including USA, Russia and Ukraine.

Before Trump was even sworn-in the first time, his decision to pick Mike Pence as his running mate raised some eyebrows among the “Alt”-Right. While Pence seems to be a good fit for Trump considering he holds one of the most socially conservative voting records in recent Congressional history, he is also a hardline Zionist and unapologetic neocon who seemed to contradict some of Trump’s rhetorical gestures toward “anti-interventionism” on the campaign trail. In 2003, Pence, a major ally of Bush Jr. in the House of Representatives, voted for the resolution authorizing the Iraq War.  In 2014, Pence visited the Zionist settler-colony, and in 2016 made it illegal for his home-state of Indiana to make deals with companies that boycott the Israeli occupation of Palestine. In 2015, Pence told the Republican Jewish Coalition: “Israel’s enemies are our enemies, Israel’s cause is our cause. If this world knows nothing else, let it know this: America stands with Israel.”

During his first administration, Trump gave the neocons virtually everything they wanted regarding Israel. In 2018, Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and opened a new US embassy there. As Vox reported, Trump did this in the middle of protests organized by Palestinians at the Israeli border with Gaza: “The embassy opening also comes right before what Palestinians call Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, where Palestinians commemorate lands they either fled or were evicted from after the creation of the state of Israel. Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, also begins this week.”

All of this was likely the result of Israel&#39;s &quot;interference&quot; in the 2016 presidential election, which was blamed on Russia. In exchange, Trump gave all of these Zionist/neocon forces a return on their investment in him.


Title, I heard a story about a guy blasting "they're taking the Hobbits to Isengard" at a neo-nazi rally at their university in order to stop anyone from listening to them. So for future reference, what additional songs do you guys know that are the same? Also what is the loudest speaker I can buy?

Any Meme Songs that are antifacist?

Title, I heard a story about a guy blasting &quot;they&#39;re taking the Hobbits to Isengard&quot; at a neo-nazi rally at their university in order to stop anyone from listening to them. So for future reference, what additional songs do you guys know that are the same? Also what is the loudest speaker I can buy?


In the past decade—and especially in just the last few months—the ultra-wealthy have become shameless in revealing how deeply they’ve rigged the system in their favor. America has amassed more wealth than any civilization in human history, yet the vast majority of its people struggle to afford basic necessities.

There are roughly 750 billionaires in the United States, a nation of 335 million people. We all know the answer to the question: “Why do we let this happen?” But the real question is, how much longer will the institutions designed to keep the public just satisfied enough to prevent revolt continue to hold?

For the first time, I believe we may see this system collapse within the next two years—perhaps sooner, depending on how aggressively figures like Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue to erode stability.

There are clear signs that the public is nearing a breaking point:
	•	The widespread sympathy for Luigi Mangione. He has become a modern-day folk hero, a symbol of rage against corporate greed. Many don’t just understand why he did it—they view it as justified.
	•	The GameStop short squeeze wasn’t just about money. Millions of retail investors held their shares not to profit, but to burn Citadel and expose Wall Street’s corruption. It was an act of defiance.
	•	Unionization is surging. Amazon, Starbucks, Boeing, and others are seeing unprecedented worker strikes and union drives, a clear sign that people are done accepting scraps.
	•	Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg have become villains. And not just to the left—resentment against these men is increasingly bipartisan.

The system that protects billionaires at the expense of the people is fragile. Once the illusion of fairness collapses, history tells us what happens next.

The question isn’t if the backlash is coming. It’s when.

Curious to hear others’ thoughts—do you think we’re heading toward a reckoning? And if so, how soon?

Is America on the brink of a reckoning?


As the title states, I want books from a leftist/socialist perspective, or at the very least not American propaganda. *Dark Alliance* is on my list which I heard is tangentially related, as well as Chomsky's *The Culture of Terrorism*. Is there anything I am missing?

Can anyone attest to whether or not Walsh's *Firewall* and/or *Iran-Contra: Reagan’s Scandal & the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power* are neutral enough or even any good? Recommend (or advise against) any of the other books on [here](https://nymag.com/strategist/article/the-best-books-on-the-iran-contra-affair.html)?

I'll of course be critically thinking regardless, but I have limited reading time and I'd hate to waste my time.

Best leftist/non-American propagandist books on the Iran-Contra affair

As the title states, I want books from a leftist/socialist perspective, or at the very least not American propaganda. Dark Alliance is on my list which I heard is tangentially related, as well as Chomsky&#39;s The Culture of Terrorism. Is there anything I am missing?

Can anyone attest to whether or not Walsh&#39;s Firewall and/or Iran-Contra: Reagan’s Scandal &amp; the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power are neutral enough or even any good? Recommend (or advise against) any of the other books on here?

I&#39;ll of course be critically thinking regardless, but I have limited reading time and I&#39;d hate to waste my time.


You all are about to hear many voices whether in the media, online, or in person. These voices will be amplified by coin (counter insurgency) actors as a strategy. I say amplified because these voices won't simply just be from infiltrators or feds, but they'll be an organic result of individuals being restrained by preexisting petite bourgeois perspectives that favor things like respectibility and civility towards political opposition. An example of this was videos of young youth yelling "fuck this place, fuck trump" and all types of profanity, and the comments are flooded with "this won't help but hurt the movement" or "real nice..face tattoos, masks, stealing cars, aggressive music. Yeah this won't appeal to everyone. Keep the spray paint, masks and bad attitudes at home. Hurting the movement".

This sentiment is nothing new. It's not just sentiment though. It's a piece of a larger puzzle. That puzzle is the overall COIN strategy utilized to pacify movements by keeping their praxis within the realm of liberalism. The goal is preventing them from existing as a form of resistance. To do this they utilize NGOs, even compromised leftist groups, the media, rumors and liberalism. They even have so much as directly had these ngos hire security who would police people, doing things such as "demanding" people remove masks or tone down their langauge or rhetoric.

It's important to call this out and expose it for what it is, but also pay attention to it so you don't fall victim to it. This is literally what keeps any movements from growing in America. This is reflected in the following quote in regards to all the anti police brutality movements,

"I think the uprisings are good but we’re seeing that they have limitations as a revolutionary uprising. These limitations allow the state to subvert the nature of uprisings as well as the issues as mere reforms. The state and liberal politicians and others are able to utilize that against the movement. This kind of co-optation has been happening for a while. I’ve watched 60 years of protests and so-called “riots” and rebellions and uprisings in major cities and small towns like Ferguson, Missouri. I’ve watched 60 years of them going back to 1964 with the Harlem rebellion in Harlem, New York. It was always something to do with the police. One form or another, they kill somebody, beat somebody, or just came in the community and did some kind of atrocity. And the people responded with a fight back. What’s been allowed to happen in this instance is that the people rebel, the people fight back, and people put up a mass front of protests. Then the politicians and the others claim to be using their issues or their drive to then turn around and propose some liberal reforms, which aren’t liberal at all, actually."

In the coming months

You all are about to hear many voices whether in the media, online, or in person. These voices will be amplified by coin (counter insurgency) actors as a strategy. I say amplified because these voices won&#39;t simply just be from infiltrators or feds, but they&#39;ll be an organic result of individuals being restrained by preexisting petite bourgeois perspectives that favor things like respectibility and civility towards political opposition. An example of this was videos of young youth yelling &quot;fuck this place, fuck trump&quot; and all types of profanity, and the comments are flooded with &quot;this won&#39;t help but hurt the movement&quot; or &quot;real nice..face tattoos, masks, stealing cars, aggressive music. Yeah this won&#39;t appeal to everyone. Keep the spray paint, masks and bad attitudes at home. Hurting the movement&quot;.

This sentiment is nothing new. It&#39;s not just sentiment though. It&#39;s a piece of a larger puzzle. That puzzle is the overall COIN strategy utilized to pacify movements by keeping their praxis within the realm of liberalism. The goal is preventing them from existing as a form of resistance. To do this they utilize NGOs, even compromised leftist groups, the media, rumors and liberalism. They even have so much as directly had these ngos hire security who would police people, doing things such as &quot;demanding&quot; people remove masks or tone down their langauge or rhetoric.

It&#39;s important to call this out and expose it for what it is, but also pay attention to it so you don&#39;t fall victim to it. This is literally what keeps any movements from growing in America. This is reflected in the following quote in regards to all the anti police brutality movements,

&quot;I think the uprisings are good but we’re seeing that they have limitations as a revolutionary uprising. These limitations allow the state to subvert the nature of uprisings as well as the issues as mere reforms. The state and liberal politicians and others are able to utilize that against the movement. This kind of co-optation has been happening for a while. I’ve watched 60 years of protests and so-called “riots” and rebellions and uprisings in major cities and small towns like Ferguson, Missouri. I’ve watched 60 years of them going back to 1964 with the Harlem rebellion in Harlem, New York. It was always something to do with the police. One form or another, they kill somebody, beat somebody, or just came in the community and did some kind of atrocity. And the people responded with a fight back. What’s been allowed to happen in this instance is that the people rebel, the people fight back, and people put up a mass front of protests. Then the politicians and the others claim to be using their issues or their drive to then turn around and propose some liberal reforms, which aren’t liberal at all, actually.&quot;


Just started. Really excited to learn more about the Bolivarian Struggle. Even just learning about the foundation of the committees and communes under Comandante Chavez.

Why Venezuela? (free download from 1804 Books)


Hey everyone,

I’m working on a Riot Grrrl-inspired zine series for my senior thesis that explores what it means to survive under economic oppression—especially for those in low-income households, women, LGBTQ+ folks, BIPOC, and other marginalized communities. As someone who experiences economic oppression, and in light of the current state of the world,I want to document real stories about struggling with wages, housing, healthcare, food insecurity, workplace exploitation, and the impossible choices we have to make just to get by.

I would love to hear personal stories and experiences and include them in my series (anonymously or not). I thought this would be better than finding random things on the internet. If you’d like to share, here’s an example of what you could discuss: How have recent policies made things harder? What does survival look like for you? What do you wish people understood about your experience?

You can comment here or DM me if you prefer anonymity. I’m posting this on a few pages in an
attempt to reach a lot of people.

No pressure, no judgment—just a space to share and be heard.

Much love & solidarity <3

Seeking Stories: Surviving Under Economic Oppression

Hey everyone,

I’m working on a Riot Grrrl-inspired zine series for my senior thesis that explores what it means to survive under economic oppression—especially for those in low-income households, women, LGBTQ+ folks, BIPOC, and other marginalized communities. As someone who experiences economic oppression, and in light of the current state of the world,I want to document real stories about struggling with wages, housing, healthcare, food insecurity, workplace exploitation, and the impossible choices we have to make just to get by.

I would love to hear personal stories and experiences and include them in my series (anonymously or not). I thought this would be better than finding random things on the internet. If you’d like to share, here’s an example of what you could discuss: How have recent policies made things harder? What does survival look like for you? What do you wish people understood about your experience?

You can comment here or DM me if you prefer anonymity. I’m posting this on a few pages in an
attempt to reach a lot of people.

No pressure, no judgment—just a space to share and be heard.

Much love &amp; solidarity &lt;3


Most mainstream media outlets are right-wing, or at least heavily biased due to reporting through the lens of Western capitalism. I'm so sick of seeing every headline and news report being laden with pro-Capitalist, pro-Imperialist, anti-Communist, anti-labor spin. I would LOVE suggestions for where to get my news (website, print, any format really) that are either from a leftist perspective, or that at least plainly present factual world news and current events from accurate sources. Thank you in advance!

Socialists of Reddit, where do you get your news?

Most mainstream media outlets are right-wing, or at least heavily biased due to reporting through the lens of Western capitalism. I&#39;m so sick of seeing every headline and news report being laden with pro-Capitalist, pro-Imperialist, anti-Communist, anti-labor spin. I would LOVE suggestions for where to get my news (website, print, any format really) that are either from a leftist perspective, or that at least plainly present factual world news and current events from accurate sources. Thank you in advance!


https://www.instagram.com/p/DFsr18XRtp2/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) https://pslweb.org

Join the Fediverse: https://jointhefediverse.net/join?lang=en-us

Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed: easily replace Twitter, Instagram and YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5npl2KCt2ok

PeerTube: An alternative to Big Tech’s video platforms 👉 https://joinpeertube.org/#find-peertube-videos

Cold War 2: US officials call to overthrow China’s gov’t, expand military budget to $1.4 trillion: https://youtu.be/Q3RMl33SqNE?feature=shared

This is a democracy for the rich, not the people! We need and deserve a say over our futures — something that capitalism, a system that prioritizes profits for the few over the needs of the people, will never afford us. We need power over our lives as working class people. We need socialism!


Stand Up to Racism protest disrupts Reform UK meeting in Sheffield


Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Trump’s Declaration of War on Palestine


Hi ya'll. So I'm kind of in a pit of despair that I've fallen into before that I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get out of this time.

***A little background on me (\*\*skip to the end if you don't care bc I got a lot to say 😭):***

I have had a horrible past few years. and I mean HORRIBLE. I don't really have any real friends. I have 3 friends I talk to on a consistent (not in person because I live 3+ hours away from all of them) but I don't really have much in common with them anymore (they're all liberal/centrist, PRO-capitalists, not actual capitalists bc they have no capital) and are too busy talking about themselves/finding a way to revert the convo back to themselves. The only person I truly have who is there for me is my mom but like all mothers she is not perfect and does/says things that really hurts me (which I have let her know). But i also have no money/job and am at the start of my career and am having a difficult time finding a job whether its in my field or not so moving away is not an option.

I decided last year to start organizing and started a local chapter of a revolutionary org (i won't say which). When I tell ya'll I was SO EXCITED to start this org and find like-minded people and create a space/home for others who feel the same way. And I was even more excited when our regional coordinator told me that other people in the area reached out about starting a chapter. I thought "this is it. it's all going to change". Boy was I wrong. Long story short I lasted  about 6 months with our self-appointed, micromanaging, honestly borderline liberal "leader" after humiliating me in a zoom meeting in front of all the other members over a mistake I had made, before finally calling it.

I think there is truly a fundamental problem with telling people to simply "get out there and start organizing!" I've come to realize that the types of people who tend to dominate orgs/social movements are much like the people who dominate churches if that makes sense. Lots of abusers. Lots of narcissistic behavior. And before people get in the comments saying "join another org" these people also participate in all the other local orgs too 😭 DSA, PSL, you name it.

Also, before anyone in the comments says, "Girl, go to therapy," just know I've TRIED, and for several more VERY LONG reasons, that's not an option. However, if you're in therapy and it has been successful I genuinely love that for you 🩷

Sorry for all the whining! Now onto the part that really matters:

***CONCLUSION***

I guess I just want to know how others who have maybe gone through similar things got through it. I would also love to hear any quotes/get reading suggestions on the topic if anyone has any!

Is it possible to be a "good" socialist/communist/leftist if you in a way pull back from society? and I don't mean total off the grid living or a hyperindividualistic way. More like in a "I'm not sure there ever will be a revolution, especially not in America, and while I yearn for the liberation of the oppressed, I don't know if the oppressed will ever be willing/able to conquer all they have internalized" kinda way.

Revolutionary Pessimism / Giving Up / Need Advice

Hi ya&#39;ll. So I&#39;m kind of in a pit of despair that I&#39;ve fallen into before that I&#39;m not sure I&#39;m going to be able to get out of this time.

A little background on me (\*skip to the end if you don&#39;t care bc I got a lot to say 😭):*

I have had a horrible past few years. and I mean HORRIBLE. I don&#39;t really have any real friends. I have 3 friends I talk to on a consistent (not in person because I live 3+ hours away from all of them) but I don&#39;t really have much in common with them anymore (they&#39;re all liberal/centrist, PRO-capitalists, not actual capitalists bc they have no capital) and are too busy talking about themselves/finding a way to revert the convo back to themselves. The only person I truly have who is there for me is my mom but like all mothers she is not perfect and does/says things that really hurts me (which I have let her know). But i also have no money/job and am at the start of my career and am having a difficult time finding a job whether its in my field or not so moving away is not an option.

I decided last year to start organizing and started a local chapter of a revolutionary org (i won&#39;t say which). When I tell ya&#39;ll I was SO EXCITED to start this org and find like-minded people and create a space/home for others who feel the same way. And I was even more excited when our regional coordinator told me that other people in the area reached out about starting a chapter. I thought &quot;this is it. it&#39;s all going to change&quot;. Boy was I wrong. Long story short I lasted  about 6 months with our self-appointed, micromanaging, honestly borderline liberal &quot;leader&quot; after humiliating me in a zoom meeting in front of all the other members over a mistake I had made, before finally calling it.

I think there is truly a fundamental problem with telling people to simply &quot;get out there and start organizing!&quot; I&#39;ve come to realize that the types of people who tend to dominate orgs/social movements are much like the people who dominate churches if that makes sense. Lots of abusers. Lots of narcissistic behavior. And before people get in the comments saying &quot;join another org&quot; these people also participate in all the other local orgs too 😭 DSA, PSL, you name it.

Also, before anyone in the comments says, &quot;Girl, go to therapy,&quot; just know I&#39;ve TRIED, and for several more VERY LONG reasons, that&#39;s not an option. However, if you&#39;re in therapy and it has been successful I genuinely love that for you 🩷

Sorry for all the whining! Now onto the part that really matters:

CONCLUSION

I guess I just want to know how others who have maybe gone through similar things got through it. I would also love to hear any quotes/get reading suggestions on the topic if anyone has any!

Is it possible to be a &quot;good&quot; socialist/communist/leftist if you in a way pull back from society? and I don&#39;t mean total off the grid living or a hyperindividualistic way. More like in a &quot;I&#39;m not sure there ever will be a revolution, especially not in America, and while I yearn for the liberation of the oppressed, I don&#39;t know if the oppressed will ever be willing/able to conquer all they have internalized&quot; kinda way.


How would a Marxist economy function beyond theory?

This video explores collective ownership, democratic planning, distribution based on need, the transition away from money, and the role of automation in reducing work hours.

No vague utopianism—just a practical breakdown of what socialism could look like in action.

What do you think would be the biggest challenges in transitioning to this system?

How Would A Marxist Economy Work?

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How Would A Marxist Economy Work?

How Would A Marxist Economy Work?


[Book Review] ‘Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism’ by Robert Chapman reviewed by JR Parkin


A short educational clip from a 1947 anti-fascist film that is still relevant today.


This is a thread for discussions, recommendations and general feedback on books. Those can be about socialism as a political movement, about shared struggles, or about anything else.

Have you recently finished a book about queerness that you would like to recommend others to watch? Are you looking to gift someone an introductory book on eco-socialism but don’t know which one to choose? Want to take a break and read an engaging novel but don’t quite know where to start?

Please share it with us!

Yours in solidarity, >!until the robots rebel!<.

\- Automod

Recommend Me A Book Thread for February, 2025

This is a thread for discussions, recommendations and general feedback on books. Those can be about socialism as a political movement, about shared struggles, or about anything else.

Have you recently finished a book about queerness that you would like to recommend others to watch? Are you looking to gift someone an introductory book on eco-socialism but don’t know which one to choose? Want to take a break and read an engaging novel but don’t quite know where to start?

Please share it with us!

Yours in solidarity, until the robots rebel.

- Automod


Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons


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"Trump has no solution to the grievances of the vast majority. In fact, he will make their problems worse, exacerbating class and social inequality through tax cuts to the rich, layoffs of government workers, and the decimation of social and environmental programs."


I just moved to Silver City NM. From NYC.
Want to continue to partipate in resisting this coup.
Trying to find like-minded people here, and either join or organize activist group.

Looking for comrades in NM


Not the classic books but the new approaches to the subject, thnx!

Could you recommend books about anarchy written after 2000?


Ferguson Uprising prisoner Joshua Williams is due to be released at the start of 2026, having served a sentence of around 10 years for his participation in the uprising, after being arrested when he was still a teenager and spent his entire twenties in prison. If you can offer support to help him through the post-release period, please reach out to him at:

Joshua Williams #1292002
C/O Digital Mail Center-Missouri DOC
PO Box 25678
Tampa, FL 33622-5678

Or via Securus.

Comrade Joshua Williams needs support! Spent his entire 20s in prison.


Julio “Comrade Z” Zuniga, an anarchist and organizer with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and whose work is published at Mongoose Distro. A profile in the Texas Observer wrote of Zuniga:

He prefers to be called Alex, but many of his contacts inside and outside of prison know him as “Comrade Z.”

He’s the man people who have been at the Memorial Unit (formerly called Darrington), a 1,610-bed state prison in southeast Texas, point to when asked about organizing on the inside. Like everyone else locked up in Texas who is physically and mentally able, Zuniga, a 44-year-old from San Antonio, was required to work without pay while housed at Memorial, near the unincorporated town of Rosharon, from 2018 to 2023. He tended livestock and labored in the agricultural fields, where he’d cut weeds and harvest carrots, cabbages, and onions. Before these fields were owned by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), they were plantation land worked by slaves.

While he grew up on the South Side of San Antonio, Zuniga spent some of his youth in the rural outskirts of Laredo. This was the extent of his previous exposure to agriculture, but he took to farmwork somewhat easily. “I love animals, and I love playing with dirt,” he told the Texas Observer in a March interview.

But, as he began reading about the history of the land he was working and its roots in slavery—and as he learned more about labor movements—he started advocating for himself. He would occasionally refuse to work, telling officers he wouldn’t return to the fields until he received requested safety gear like boots and masks. He’d get slapped with a disciplinary case—prison policy says that anyone who refuses to work can lose visitation privileges, be confined to their cell, or receive other punishments that can affect their chances of parole. Zuniga is currently about 11 years into a 15-year sentence.

In the end, though, Zuniga said that pushing back would usually get him the things he asked for.

In 2019, he became involved with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), a prisoner-led arm of the 119-year-old labor union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). “Sometimes they say it’s illegal [for prisoners to unionize], but it’s not,” Zuniga said. “It’s just frowned upon. But it works.”

You can write to Z at:

TDCJ
Julio A. Zuniga #01961551
PO Box 660400
Dallas, TX 75266-0400

Or contact him via Securus, a digital platform to interact with inmates.

A recent update from him shows the situation is not good. They've faced pyschological attacks and retaliation for their political organizing.

"How did it get like this? I’ve lost too many friends to suicide on The Memorial Unit because of people like Warden Deward DeMoss who is racking up corpses there now, this is a corpse factory in Ramsey Unit where I came from,it was a slave furniture factory, where I witnessed the treatment of worker slaves treated way differently. I was once again provoked into speaking my mind,and here you have it raw and uncut. I’m advocating for people now,but I need help because I respect confidentiality in prison, these people in administration use it as weapon to shame you to suicide yourself. It is an understatement,when I say this is an emergency.

Texas Observer Magazine and The Final Straw Radio I’d like to recognize as the strongest media supporters of this kind of love for humanity. Birthday wishes noted,TY!!!!!!!!"

Don't let Comrade Z struggle alone

Julio “Comrade Z” Zuniga, an anarchist and organizer with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and whose work is published at Mongoose Distro. A profile in the Texas Observer wrote of Zuniga:

He prefers to be called Alex, but many of his contacts inside and outside of prison know him as “Comrade Z.”

He’s the man people who have been at the Memorial Unit (formerly called Darrington), a 1,610-bed state prison in southeast Texas, point to when asked about organizing on the inside. Like everyone else locked up in Texas who is physically and mentally able, Zuniga, a 44-year-old from San Antonio, was required to work without pay while housed at Memorial, near the unincorporated town of Rosharon, from 2018 to 2023. He tended livestock and labored in the agricultural fields, where he’d cut weeds and harvest carrots, cabbages, and onions. Before these fields were owned by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), they were plantation land worked by slaves.

While he grew up on the South Side of San Antonio, Zuniga spent some of his youth in the rural outskirts of Laredo. This was the extent of his previous exposure to agriculture, but he took to farmwork somewhat easily. “I love animals, and I love playing with dirt,” he told the Texas Observer in a March interview.

But, as he began reading about the history of the land he was working and its roots in slavery—and as he learned more about labor movements—he started advocating for himself. He would occasionally refuse to work, telling officers he wouldn’t return to the fields until he received requested safety gear like boots and masks. He’d get slapped with a disciplinary case—prison policy says that anyone who refuses to work can lose visitation privileges, be confined to their cell, or receive other punishments that can affect their chances of parole. Zuniga is currently about 11 years into a 15-year sentence.

In the end, though, Zuniga said that pushing back would usually get him the things he asked for.

In 2019, he became involved with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), a prisoner-led arm of the 119-year-old labor union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). “Sometimes they say it’s illegal [for prisoners to unionize], but it’s not,” Zuniga said. “It’s just frowned upon. But it works.”

You can write to Z at:

TDCJ
Julio A. Zuniga #01961551
PO Box 660400
Dallas, TX 75266-0400

Or contact him via Securus, a digital platform to interact with inmates.

A recent update from him shows the situation is not good. They&#39;ve faced pyschological attacks and retaliation for their political organizing.

&quot;How did it get like this? I’ve lost too many friends to suicide on The Memorial Unit because of people like Warden Deward DeMoss who is racking up corpses there now, this is a corpse factory in Ramsey Unit where I came from,it was a slave furniture factory, where I witnessed the treatment of worker slaves treated way differently. I was once again provoked into speaking my mind,and here you have it raw and uncut. I’m advocating for people now,but I need help because I respect confidentiality in prison, these people in administration use it as weapon to shame you to suicide yourself. It is an understatement,when I say this is an emergency.

Texas Observer Magazine and The Final Straw Radio I’d like to recognize as the strongest media supporters of this kind of love for humanity. Birthday wishes noted,TY!!!!!!!!&quot;


I'm ideologically a commie because I got lucky enough to be assigned the Manifesto in a high school class and liked what I saw.  One of the (many) things that affirms my status as such is the arts.  Capitalism perverts the arts obscenely. Not only does capitalism force artists to become businessmen just to get recognition and a livelihood, it does something I think is far worse.

The greatest artists of our generation are randos on social media with less than 10 followers.  They will post a masterpiece that brings you to tears like once a month, the post will get 2 likes, and they will stop posting because they're sick of wasting their precious time trying to game an unfair algorithm rigged against them.

The greatest artists of our generation are burned out disasters who are too busy working soul-sucking jobs they hate and haven't made anything in months.  They feel their creative sparks being snuffed out inside of them because all their mental and physical energy is being drained for no one's benefit except the stockholders.

The greatest artists of our generation have never picked up a paintbrush, or a microphone, or a camera, or anything else, because they don't think they can.  They've been told they're not good enough, palatable enough, marketable enough to even TRY.  They've been told the arts are pointless endeavors for spoiled rich kids, and they should go off and get a useful job, no matter how much they despise giving all their time to something they have no passion for.  They're too busy raising kids, making ends meet with endless work or just trying to survive to even pick up the arts as a hobby.

Even if you're not potentially one of the greatest artists of our generation, even if you suck complete ass at art, this stuff happening to you is still a tragedy.  I believe that art is the birthright of all human beings, and that every person should be able to just try it and see if they like it, whether they're good at it or not. You should be allowed to make art even if it's shitty.  Bad art is better than no art, more importantly, you enjoyed making it! And maybe someone else enjoyed experiencing it! It makes me so unbelievably sad that some people, even other communists, think that the arts are only for the wealthy or elitist snobs, when that is so not true!  Some of the best artists in the world were peasants and proletarians, the biggest reason we associate the arts with the elites is because they're the ones most likely to have the money and time to pursue them!

Art is something so irrevocably human, something so ancient in our development that it's almost synonymous with humanity (that's why it's part of the humanities studies).  The mere idea that capitalism ripped so many people away from it or fucked up their relationship to it just to enrich the tiniest percentage of the planet makes me so goddamn angry.

 One of the biggest reasons I'm a socialist is because I want there to be a society where everyone is free to do art if they want to.  There's a pretty good Oscar Wilde essay about this topic: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Soul\_of\_Man\_Under\_Socialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_Under_Socialism)

Any other socialist artists feel the same?

Anyone Else Feel Like Being An Artist Makes Them More Socialist?

I&#39;m ideologically a commie because I got lucky enough to be assigned the Manifesto in a high school class and liked what I saw.  One of the (many) things that affirms my status as such is the arts.  Capitalism perverts the arts obscenely. Not only does capitalism force artists to become businessmen just to get recognition and a livelihood, it does something I think is far worse.

The greatest artists of our generation are randos on social media with less than 10 followers.  They will post a masterpiece that brings you to tears like once a month, the post will get 2 likes, and they will stop posting because they&#39;re sick of wasting their precious time trying to game an unfair algorithm rigged against them.

The greatest artists of our generation are burned out disasters who are too busy working soul-sucking jobs they hate and haven&#39;t made anything in months.  They feel their creative sparks being snuffed out inside of them because all their mental and physical energy is being drained for no one&#39;s benefit except the stockholders.

The greatest artists of our generation have never picked up a paintbrush, or a microphone, or a camera, or anything else, because they don&#39;t think they can.  They&#39;ve been told they&#39;re not good enough, palatable enough, marketable enough to even TRY.  They&#39;ve been told the arts are pointless endeavors for spoiled rich kids, and they should go off and get a useful job, no matter how much they despise giving all their time to something they have no passion for.  They&#39;re too busy raising kids, making ends meet with endless work or just trying to survive to even pick up the arts as a hobby.

Even if you&#39;re not potentially one of the greatest artists of our generation, even if you suck complete ass at art, this stuff happening to you is still a tragedy.  I believe that art is the birthright of all human beings, and that every person should be able to just try it and see if they like it, whether they&#39;re good at it or not. You should be allowed to make art even if it&#39;s shitty.  Bad art is better than no art, more importantly, you enjoyed making it! And maybe someone else enjoyed experiencing it! It makes me so unbelievably sad that some people, even other communists, think that the arts are only for the wealthy or elitist snobs, when that is so not true!  Some of the best artists in the world were peasants and proletarians, the biggest reason we associate the arts with the elites is because they&#39;re the ones most likely to have the money and time to pursue them!

Art is something so irrevocably human, something so ancient in our development that it&#39;s almost synonymous with humanity (that&#39;s why it&#39;s part of the humanities studies).  The mere idea that capitalism ripped so many people away from it or fucked up their relationship to it just to enrich the tiniest percentage of the planet makes me so goddamn angry.

One of the biggest reasons I&#39;m a socialist is because I want there to be a society where everyone is free to do art if they want to.  There&#39;s a pretty good Oscar Wilde essay about this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_Under_Socialism

Any other socialist artists feel the same?


Global Capitalism: What Trump 2.0 Means - Richard D. Wolff (Marxian Economist) | Democracy at Work

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Global Capitalism: What Trump 2.0 Means

Global Capitalism: What Trump 2.0 Means


All Eyes On Sudan (Tirrrb)

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All Eyes On Sudan

All Eyes On Sudan


Trump says U.S. wants to take over Gaza Strip


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I've had a question about the models of socialism going through my head for a while. Basically: "Should the same socialist model be applied to all countries?" To further elaborate: it's known that socialism has branched off into many different interpretations of Marx. Since the goal is global socialism, would it be better for each countries/regions revolution to aim for their own model of socialism or for all revolutions to have the same model.

To clarify, my differing models I do not mean unable to cooperate, just that their economics work in differing ways, depending on circumstances these could be large differences.

I personally find that each country/regions revolution should reflect the countries status in the world. Like for instance a socialist government in Norway should operate differently from one in Angola, due to the differences in where the country lies in the hierarchy of states in our current world. To be clear, this isn't to reinforce and keep these hierarchies, but just to recognise what each country needs. Like I said these wouldn't be differences that halt cooperation.

On the other hand, some of you will likely argue that identical economic structures must be implemented world-wide with your own valid justifications.

I'd like to know your thoughts. If anything is unclear please ask. Additionally in this hypothetical all adopted models of a socialist economy are actually socialist, not state-capitalist or social-democratic.

One model or many?

I&#39;ve had a question about the models of socialism going through my head for a while. Basically: &quot;Should the same socialist model be applied to all countries?&quot; To further elaborate: it&#39;s known that socialism has branched off into many different interpretations of Marx. Since the goal is global socialism, would it be better for each countries/regions revolution to aim for their own model of socialism or for all revolutions to have the same model.

To clarify, my differing models I do not mean unable to cooperate, just that their economics work in differing ways, depending on circumstances these could be large differences.

I personally find that each country/regions revolution should reflect the countries status in the world. Like for instance a socialist government in Norway should operate differently from one in Angola, due to the differences in where the country lies in the hierarchy of states in our current world. To be clear, this isn&#39;t to reinforce and keep these hierarchies, but just to recognise what each country needs. Like I said these wouldn&#39;t be differences that halt cooperation.

On the other hand, some of you will likely argue that identical economic structures must be implemented world-wide with your own valid justifications.

I&#39;d like to know your thoughts. If anything is unclear please ask. Additionally in this hypothetical all adopted models of a socialist economy are actually socialist, not state-capitalist or social-democratic.


The literal first and only page of the act states that compensation for expropriation **will be** determined by a number of factors, including **market price**,  making it near impossible for expropriation without compensation. Expropriation without compensation *may* happen solely based on a courts approval, but this rarely happens and for the most part expropriation will work on a willing buyer willing seller basis, as has always been the case.

As the EFF have pointed out, there is a principle known as the "Gildenhuys principle", which determined that, as a rule, any question of compensation should be according to a two-stage approach which prioritizes the market-value of the property: the price of compensation must start with the market-value of the property, & thereafter other factors may be taken into account for decreasing or increasing the price of compensation.

Nothing has changed much legally speaking. The act is not this grand act of decolonisation I'm seeing a lot of comrades claim it is. It's more liberal nonsense. As my more well-read friend says:

"One of the reasons why the EFF & other leftists dispute this expropriation act (besides disputing the act's protection of the right to private property, which renders expropriation without compensation nigh impossible), is that the act fails to mention the factors determined by this judgment to be relevant for calculating compensation [...] Without abolishing private property, expropriation without compensation is extremely unlikely under the new law, & most expropriations will merely result in payments from state funds — which may amount to reimbursing or indemnifying settlers who stole the land in the first place — but not redistribution, let alone commonization, of land."

Nevertheless, America needed a reason to stop aid from coming to this country. As the same friend put it:

"That's a post-hoc argument for why they already cut off funding to RSA. The Trump government is doing the same to all countries — cutting-off funding & coming up with an excuse after the fact for why they did it."

We can't fall for misinformation and false propaganda comrades.

Thanks to u/GVCabano333 for helping me write this. He's the smarter, well-read friend I was referring to. He said he should have his own analysis on the act out this weekend. If I got anything wrong, it's my fault solely, however.

I've linked the act [here](https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Acts/2024/Act_13_of_2024_Expropriation_Act_2024.pdf) (pdf) if you want to read it yourself.

I'm seeing a lot of misinformation surrounding South Africa's new land act

The literal first and only page of the act states that compensation for expropriation will be determined by a number of factors, including market price,  making it near impossible for expropriation without compensation. Expropriation without compensation may happen solely based on a courts approval, but this rarely happens and for the most part expropriation will work on a willing buyer willing seller basis, as has always been the case.

As the EFF have pointed out, there is a principle known as the &quot;Gildenhuys principle&quot;, which determined that, as a rule, any question of compensation should be according to a two-stage approach which prioritizes the market-value of the property: the price of compensation must start with the market-value of the property, &amp; thereafter other factors may be taken into account for decreasing or increasing the price of compensation.

Nothing has changed much legally speaking. The act is not this grand act of decolonisation I&#39;m seeing a lot of comrades claim it is. It&#39;s more liberal nonsense. As my more well-read friend says:

&quot;One of the reasons why the EFF &amp; other leftists dispute this expropriation act (besides disputing the act&#39;s protection of the right to private property, which renders expropriation without compensation nigh impossible), is that the act fails to mention the factors determined by this judgment to be relevant for calculating compensation [...] Without abolishing private property, expropriation without compensation is extremely unlikely under the new law, &amp; most expropriations will merely result in payments from state funds — which may amount to reimbursing or indemnifying settlers who stole the land in the first place — but not redistribution, let alone commonization, of land.&quot;

Nevertheless, America needed a reason to stop aid from coming to this country. As the same friend put it:

&quot;That&#39;s a post-hoc argument for why they already cut off funding to RSA. The Trump government is doing the same to all countries — cutting-off funding &amp; coming up with an excuse after the fact for why they did it.&quot;

We can&#39;t fall for misinformation and false propaganda comrades.

Thanks to u/GVCabano333 for helping me write this. He&#39;s the smarter, well-read friend I was referring to. He said he should have his own analysis on the act out this weekend. If I got anything wrong, it&#39;s my fault solely, however.

I&#39;ve linked the act here (pdf) if you want to read it yourself.


Now that republicans are back in the White House liberals will all become activists again. I'm seeing protests like the 50501 and other thrown together protests popping up on reddit and I know a lot of them are being organized by libs and I assume the majority of the protesters present will be libs. So here's my question, I agree with some of what libs are protesting against shit like conservatives favorite nazi Musk running amok with doge, mass deportations, tariff wars, etc, so is it worth it to show up and show support or should I just wait for socialist organized events and partake in those instead?

Should socialists protest alongside liberals?

Now that republicans are back in the White House liberals will all become activists again. I&#39;m seeing protests like the 50501 and other thrown together protests popping up on reddit and I know a lot of them are being organized by libs and I assume the majority of the protesters present will be libs. So here&#39;s my question, I agree with some of what libs are protesting against shit like conservatives favorite nazi Musk running amok with doge, mass deportations, tariff wars, etc, so is it worth it to show up and show support or should I just wait for socialist organized events and partake in those instead?


I can't buy the idea that the Trump administration is just shutting down a tool of USA imperialism. Is it just big talk?

I wonder what will replace USAID

I can&#39;t buy the idea that the Trump administration is just shutting down a tool of USA imperialism. Is it just big talk?


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If successful, the acquisition would transform the non-profit health system into a for-profit corporation. It would then be profit-obsessed, entailing greater worker exploitation, higher costs for patients, and the general risk for Akron that its main care provider goes bankrupt, like many private equity-owned hospitals before it.

For these reasons and more, we remain steadfast in our opposition to this sale. Summa is for the people—we need to make our main hospital system a beacon of social health, not a for-profit out to plunder workers and the community.

Summa Is Not For Sale!

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One year later: Summs’s acquisition by venture capital is still a bad idea for Akron.


I know this is reddit but put aside your own personal attachment to being above everything you see on the internet for like 45 seconds just in service of a discussion.

We need a leader, in America at least. I hate the myth that all leftists ever do is complain on the internet, because there are people organizing but it is extremely grass roots. We need to get behind someone, obviously a guy like Bernie Sanders would be an ideal candidate, but I know people on this sub would have issues with him. Part of the reason the left has a "Joe Rogan" problem is because we are slightly more principled. We do not rally around Hasan or Vaush (...) because we see the clear issues they have and we call them out on it. But we need someone who can direct what we have and I think we need to start thinking about putting our eggs into one basket.

Take what is happening with Elon Musk, whatever your opinion in on an actual Nazi takeover of the US you cannot deny that he is currently running a playbook not dissimilar to you know who. We need to weaponize ourselves as fast and effective as we can because the goalposts are changing. I can find examples if you need but people are already shifting from claiming they want to deport undocumented people only, to "anyone who flies a foreign flag." If we continue to allow Elon to run unchecked now, there will be nothing we can do to stop a full on genocide.

Who can we look to? We always like to laugh at the "good germans" but at least they resisted in the streets.

We need to consolidate power.

I know this is reddit but put aside your own personal attachment to being above everything you see on the internet for like 45 seconds just in service of a discussion.

We need a leader, in America at least. I hate the myth that all leftists ever do is complain on the internet, because there are people organizing but it is extremely grass roots. We need to get behind someone, obviously a guy like Bernie Sanders would be an ideal candidate, but I know people on this sub would have issues with him. Part of the reason the left has a &quot;Joe Rogan&quot; problem is because we are slightly more principled. We do not rally around Hasan or Vaush (...) because we see the clear issues they have and we call them out on it. But we need someone who can direct what we have and I think we need to start thinking about putting our eggs into one basket.

Take what is happening with Elon Musk, whatever your opinion in on an actual Nazi takeover of the US you cannot deny that he is currently running a playbook not dissimilar to you know who. We need to weaponize ourselves as fast and effective as we can because the goalposts are changing. I can find examples if you need but people are already shifting from claiming they want to deport undocumented people only, to &quot;anyone who flies a foreign flag.&quot; If we continue to allow Elon to run unchecked now, there will be nothing we can do to stop a full on genocide.

Who can we look to? We always like to laugh at the &quot;good germans&quot; but at least they resisted in the streets.


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Working Mass Podcast Ep. 4: Interview with Eric Blanc on his new book, We Are The Union

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Listen to this episode from Working Mass Podcast on Spotify. We interview Eric Blanc on his new book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. The book is full of stories, statistics, and worker-led wins!

Interview with Eric Blanc, author of We Are The Union


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A visual tale of the gentrification of my neighborhood


When we consider the 1963 March on Washington, and there are some things which have a direct bearing on the present moment. We need to know that back then there had been two wings of the civil rights movement, that which emanated from the 1955–57 Montgomery Bus Boycott, which produced Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a national leader and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In the period of 1960–1963, the youth-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had taken the early initiative away from King and SCLC, and were the ones who had called for and organized the 1963 March on Washington originally.

They envisioned a much more militant anti-government protest movement, which was coming for a long-term occupation, and to disrupt the city of Washington, D.C. to accuse the federal government of protecting the racist South, and upholding poverty and oppression. They even planned to get out on the runways of airports and prevent planes from landing at the airport, stop trains, and clogs highways, and other thoroughfares.

Malcolm X spoke approvingly of the original protest plans, as an advance past Dr. M.L. King’s pacifism. However, the Kennedy Administration was able to maneuver and subvert the autonomous leadership, installing the old civil rights leadership, which was more conservative and willing to take orders directly from the government. They had been bought off by corporate and government grant money and they killed any militancy of the event at all. In fact, took it from a protest to a “celebration” of the collusion between the Kennedy Administration and those sellout leaders, claiming “victory now”.

So, this tells us what is happening now with the Trayvon Martin protest movement, it has been usurped by Al Sharpton and more conservative elements. Those who want to shut down the system and protest in the streets, are usurped by those moderate and conservative elements emphasizing “peace”, “calm”, and “obeying the law”. They are saying that “we should wait on Obama” to make up his mind as to whether he will prosecute Zimmerman, Trayvon’s murderer. Listen, everyday, the feds prosecute cases that began in state courts; certainly they do it in drug cases against young Black men and teens. If he wants to do so, it should not be some extraordinary thing, but he is afraid of the right-wing fascists, and his corporate bosses have not given him the say-so yet. He must stay in his place and so what Wall Street tells him too.

This is why whatever protest there is in this period has to lead us to insurrection, long term resistance, known internationally as an “Intifada”. It must maintain today’s protest militancy as a stage of struggle, but escalate, first turn it into a month of resistance, and then into many months, even years of resistance, expanding our understanding every step of the way that we are actually fighting the government itself (and its corporate masters), which has sanctioned white supremacy, police terror, and vigilante violence as *some of their tools of counter-insurgency.

We are fighting fascism, and must not be neutralized or misled, just as Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the original Black Panther Party told us 59 years ago. They want to kill off Black surplus labor, homeless, and all those elements they consider as social vermin in their emerging corporate police state. The death of Trayvon Martin, and all those nameless Black/POC youth, must be united in the minds of the people, because they expose the empire’s attack on the poor and low income workers.

We must have the maturity to build a United Front Against Racism and Police Brutality in this period, led by the poor, Black/POC, unemployed and low income workers.

A text from the black anarchist federation years ago, during the Obama era. Relevant to the current situation