🔴 South African communists blast Trump’s imperialist agenda: “We will not bow to imperialist threats”
✍🏻 South African Communist Party (SACP)
For the record, Trump is not the President of South Africa—he is the president of the United States. We will not allow him to interfere in our internal affairs, undermine our democratic national sovereignty, or impose his reactionary will upon our people. Our national self-determination was not handed to us on a silver platter by the imperialist-backed apartheid regime—it is the hard-won result of centuries of gallant resistance against colonial oppression and decades of liberation struggle. We have proven, beyond any doubt, our ability to stand firm against the racist regimes and agendas that once sought to subjugate our people.
Trump’s comments are based on a racist, distorted briefing from the beneficiaries of apartheid, falsely alleging that the South African government has “confiscated land” during this democratic dispensation and probably committed worse atrocities. In contradiction, it was under the racist regimes of colonial and apartheid oppression that the historical injustice of land confiscation occurred. This racist past and its legacy must be addressed. It is, among others, the historical task of the new Expropriation Act to do so. We will not allow Trump to enforce the legacy of colonial and apartheid land confiscation in our country.
Trump has parroted the maliciously fabricated junk, revealing his racist sympathies. Furthermore, Trump ignorantly assumes that South Africa is dependent on United States aid and has threatened to withdraw such support based on the racist blue lies. As President Cyril Ramaphosa clarified in an X post on 3 February 2025, “With the exception of PEPFAR Aid, which constitutes 17% of South Africa’s HIV/AIDS programme, there is no other funding that is received by South Africa from the United States”. Trump’s rants through the so-called “Truthing” and “reTruthing” on “TruthSocial”—his social media platform which should be aptly renamed “FalseSocial”—amount to nothing but “Falsifying” and “reFalsifying”.
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✍🏻 South African Communist Party (SACP)
For the record, Trump is not the President of South Africa—he is the president of the United States. We will not allow him to interfere in our internal affairs, undermine our democratic national sovereignty, or impose his reactionary will upon our people. Our national self-determination was not handed to us on a silver platter by the imperialist-backed apartheid regime—it is the hard-won result of centuries of gallant resistance against colonial oppression and decades of liberation struggle. We have proven, beyond any doubt, our ability to stand firm against the racist regimes and agendas that once sought to subjugate our people.
Trump’s comments are based on a racist, distorted briefing from the beneficiaries of apartheid, falsely alleging that the South African government has “confiscated land” during this democratic dispensation and probably committed worse atrocities. In contradiction, it was under the racist regimes of colonial and apartheid oppression that the historical injustice of land confiscation occurred. This racist past and its legacy must be addressed. It is, among others, the historical task of the new Expropriation Act to do so. We will not allow Trump to enforce the legacy of colonial and apartheid land confiscation in our country.
Trump has parroted the maliciously fabricated junk, revealing his racist sympathies. Furthermore, Trump ignorantly assumes that South Africa is dependent on United States aid and has threatened to withdraw such support based on the racist blue lies. As President Cyril Ramaphosa clarified in an X post on 3 February 2025, “With the exception of PEPFAR Aid, which constitutes 17% of South Africa’s HIV/AIDS programme, there is no other funding that is received by South Africa from the United States”. Trump’s rants through the so-called “Truthing” and “reTruthing” on “TruthSocial”—his social media platform which should be aptly renamed “FalseSocial”—amount to nothing but “Falsifying” and “reFalsifying”.
Read more here:
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South African communists blast Trump’s imperialist agenda: “We will not bow to imperialist threats”
The South African Communist Party (SACP) unequivocally condemns the right-wing conservative President of the United States, Donald Trump, in the strongest possible terms. We reject his imperialist agenda and the entire United States imperialism and its extension…
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lenin-cw-vol-14.pdf
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Title: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
Author: Vladimir Lenin
Year of Publication: 1909
Source
This book is a strong defense of philosophical materialism against subjective idealism and Neo-Kantianism, which had influenced Russian Social Democracy at the time. Written during the reactionary period following the 1905 Russian Revolution, it critiques ideas that deny objective reality and historical progress—issues still relevant today in postmodernist thought and certain academic circles. Lenin’s work serves as a crucial ideological weapon in the struggle against reactionary philosophy, emphasizing the importance of class struggle and scientific materialism. It remains essential reading for Marxists and those interested in revolutionary theory.
[Reading Guide] Materialism and Empirio-criticism
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Author: Vladimir Lenin
Year of Publication: 1909
Source
This book is a strong defense of philosophical materialism against subjective idealism and Neo-Kantianism, which had influenced Russian Social Democracy at the time. Written during the reactionary period following the 1905 Russian Revolution, it critiques ideas that deny objective reality and historical progress—issues still relevant today in postmodernist thought and certain academic circles. Lenin’s work serves as a crucial ideological weapon in the struggle against reactionary philosophy, emphasizing the importance of class struggle and scientific materialism. It remains essential reading for Marxists and those interested in revolutionary theory.
[Reading Guide] Materialism and Empirio-criticism
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Greek resistance fighters
On this day, 12 February 1945, the Treaty of Varkiza was signed in Greece, leading to the disarmament of communist-led partisans in exchange for political rights—an agreement soon broken by the Right through mass repression. This betrayal escalated into the Greek Civil War, where Western-backed forces crushed the resistance and cemented their rule.
On this day, 12 February 1945, the Treaty of Varkiza was signed in Greece, leading to the disarmament of communist-led partisans in exchange for political rights—an agreement soon broken by the Right through mass repression. This betrayal escalated into the Greek Civil War, where Western-backed forces crushed the resistance and cemented their rule.
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Why Socialism?
by Albert Einstein
by Albert Einstein
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor—not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules. In this respect, it is important to realize that the means of production—that is to say, the entire productive capacity that is needed for producing consumer goods as well as additional capital goods—may legally be, and for the most part are, the private property of individuals.
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On this day, 13 February 1991 during the Gulf war the US air force dropped two laser-guided bombs onto the Al-Amariyah civilian bomb shelter, killing 408 local residents who had been seeking shelter from the bombing. One eyewitness, Na’eem Jeenah, recalled that the "explosions were so powerful and hot that we saw foot and hand prints seared onto the walls and ceilings."
"The explosions had also destroyed two huge water tanks in the basement. Those who slept in the basement – doctors and others who provided services for the residents – were boiled in the two metres of water that invaded their refuges. Bits of their skin and hair still cling to the walls below the water line as a testimony to the horror that took place here."
Only 14 people survived the devastation.
After the bombing, many Baghdad residents decided to stop visiting bomb shelters, and instead remain in their homes during bombing raids. The US falsely claimed that the shelter was a military command centre. One military official claimed: “this was a legitimate military target, it was hit precisely, it was destroyed and put out of business – and there was very little collateral damage”.
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"The explosions had also destroyed two huge water tanks in the basement. Those who slept in the basement – doctors and others who provided services for the residents – were boiled in the two metres of water that invaded their refuges. Bits of their skin and hair still cling to the walls below the water line as a testimony to the horror that took place here."
Only 14 people survived the devastation.
After the bombing, many Baghdad residents decided to stop visiting bomb shelters, and instead remain in their homes during bombing raids. The US falsely claimed that the shelter was a military command centre. One military official claimed: “this was a legitimate military target, it was hit precisely, it was destroyed and put out of business – and there was very little collateral damage”.
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An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves. We cannot, unless we have become bourgeois pacifists or opportunists, forget that we are living in a class society from which there is no way out, nor can there be, save through the class struggle. In every class society, whether based on slavery, serfdom, or, as at present, wage-labor, the oppressor class is always armed. Not only the modern standing army, but even the modern militia—and even in the most democratic bourgeois republics, Switzerland, for instance—represent the bourgeoisie armed against the proletariat. That is such an elementary truth that it is hardly necessary to dwell upon it. Suffice it to point to the use of troops against strikers in all capitalist countries.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution: II
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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Engels
Marx was asked in the summer of 1851 by Dana, managing editor of the New York Tribune, to write a series of articles on the German Revolution. Founded in 1842 by Horace Greeley, the Tribune was the most influential paper in the United States at the time. These articles were written by Engels at the request of Marx, who was then busy with his economic studies and felt, besides, that he had not yet attained fluency in English. Engels wrote the articles in Manchester, where he was employed, and sent them on to Marx in London to be edited and dispatched to New York. Thus, although Engels must be rightly considered their author, Marx took a big part in the preparation, for in their almost daily correspondence the chief points were discussed thoroughly between them. The articles appeared under Marx's name, and it was not until much later, when the correspondence between the two life-long collaborators became available, that the true circumstances were revealed.
Engels
Marx was asked in the summer of 1851 by Dana, managing editor of the New York Tribune, to write a series of articles on the German Revolution. Founded in 1842 by Horace Greeley, the Tribune was the most influential paper in the United States at the time. These articles were written by Engels at the request of Marx, who was then busy with his economic studies and felt, besides, that he had not yet attained fluency in English. Engels wrote the articles in Manchester, where he was employed, and sent them on to Marx in London to be edited and dispatched to New York. Thus, although Engels must be rightly considered their author, Marx took a big part in the preparation, for in their almost daily correspondence the chief points were discussed thoroughly between them. The articles appeared under Marx's name, and it was not until much later, when the correspondence between the two life-long collaborators became available, that the true circumstances were revealed.
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Now, insurrection is an art quite as much as war or any other, and subject to certain rules of proceeding, which, when neglected, will produce the ruin of the party neglecting them. Those rules, logical deductions from the nature of the parties and the circumstances one has to deal with in such a case, are so plain and simple that the short experience of 1848 had made the Germans pretty well acquainted with them. Firstly, never play with insurrection unless you are fully prepared to face the consequences of your play. Insurrection is a calculus with very indefinite magnitudes, the value of which may change every day; the forces opposed to you have all the advantage of organization, discipline, and habitual authority: unless you bring strong odds against them you are defeated and ruined. Secondly, the insurrectionary career once entered upon, act with the greatest determination, and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising; it is lost before it measures itself with its enemies. Surprise your antagonists while their forces are scattering, prepare new successes, however small, but daily; keep up the moral ascendancy which the first successful rising has given to you; rally those vacillating elements to your side which always follow the strongest impulse, and which always look out for the safer side; force your enemies to a retreat before they can collect their strength against you; in the words of Danton, the greatest master of revolutionary policy yet known, de l'audace, de l'audace, encore de l'audace!
Revolution and Counter-revolution in Germany
Engels
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Valentine’s Day is not about love,
it’s about profit! They sell you illusions of romance while millions starve. Love cannot flourish in a world built on exploitation,
only communist revolution can set it free!
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it’s about profit! They sell you illusions of romance while millions starve. Love cannot flourish in a world built on exploitation,
only communist revolution can set it free!
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On this day, 14 February 1779, British coloniser captain James Cook was killed by a Native Hawaiian by being stabbed in the neck as he tried to kidnap a local leader.
Cook became famous in particular for assisting the British invasion of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia. Within two hours of his crew's arrival in Aotearoa in 1769, they had shot and killed a Māori man called Te Maro. Over the next few days at least eight more Ngati Oneone hapu and Rongowhakaata iwi people were killed. In 1770, after Cook's arrival in Australia, his men shot two Aboriginal Gweagal people.
In Hawaii, on February 14, news of Cook and his marines killing a local chief caused an angry crowd of several hundred Indigenous people to gather. Cook was also attempting to kidnap the Hawaiian aliʻi nui (hereditary ruler), Kalaniʻōpuʻu. Some of the crowd gathered stones and spears, at which point Cook fired at the crowd, killing one. Rather than run in fear, as the colonisers anticipated, the local people began throwing stones at the marines, and a man called Kanaʻina hit Cook on the head with a club. Cook was then stabbed and killed, and which point a full-scale battle broke out, forcing the marines to retreat. By the end of the fight, several locals had been killed as well as four British soldiers.
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Cook became famous in particular for assisting the British invasion of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia. Within two hours of his crew's arrival in Aotearoa in 1769, they had shot and killed a Māori man called Te Maro. Over the next few days at least eight more Ngati Oneone hapu and Rongowhakaata iwi people were killed. In 1770, after Cook's arrival in Australia, his men shot two Aboriginal Gweagal people.
In Hawaii, on February 14, news of Cook and his marines killing a local chief caused an angry crowd of several hundred Indigenous people to gather. Cook was also attempting to kidnap the Hawaiian aliʻi nui (hereditary ruler), Kalaniʻōpuʻu. Some of the crowd gathered stones and spears, at which point Cook fired at the crowd, killing one. Rather than run in fear, as the colonisers anticipated, the local people began throwing stones at the marines, and a man called Kanaʻina hit Cook on the head with a club. Cook was then stabbed and killed, and which point a full-scale battle broke out, forcing the marines to retreat. By the end of the fight, several locals had been killed as well as four British soldiers.
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An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves. We cannot, unless we have become bourgeois pacifists or opportunists, forget that we are living in a class society from which there is…
Furthermore, during the transition from capitalism to communism suppression is still necessary, but it is now the suppression of the exploiting minority by the exploited majority. A special apparatus, a special machine for suppression, the “state”, is still necessary, but this is now a transitional state. It is no longer a state in the proper sense of the word; for the suppression of the minority of exploiters by the majority of the wage slaves of yesterday is comparatively so easy, simple and natural a task that it will entail far less bloodshed than the suppression of the risings of slaves, serfs or wage-laborers, and it will cost mankind far less. And it is compatible with the extension of democracy to such an overwhelming majority of the population that the need for a special machine of suppression will begin to disappear. Naturally, the exploiters are unable to suppress the people without a highly complex machine for performing this task, but the people can suppress the exploiters even with a very simple “machine”, almost without a “machine”, without a special apparatus, by the simple organization of the armed people (such as the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, we would remark, running ahead).
Vladimir Lenin's
The State and Revolution
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The State and Revolution
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Advocacy of class collaboration; abandonment of the idea of socialist revolution and revolutionary methods of struggle; adaptation to bourgeois nationalism; losing sight of the fact that the borderlines of nationality and country are historically transient; making a fetish of bourgeois legality; renunciation of the class viewpoint and the class struggle, for fear of repelling the “broad masses of the population”(meaning the petty bourgeoisie)—such, doubtlessly, are the ideological foundations of opportunism.
V. I. Lenin
The Position and Tasks of the Socialist International
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We may take it as the rule that as long as the Bolsheviks maintain connection with the broad masses of the people they will be invincible. And, on the contrary, as soon as the Bolsheviks become severed from the masses and lose their connection with them, as soon as they become covered with bureaucratic rust, they will lose all their strength and become a mere squib.
Joseph Stalin
History of the CPSU
Speech in Reply to Debate 5 March 1937
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