Forwarded from Joti Brar
See below for yet more utterly ridiculous propaganda claims about Iran. Note the way the supposed ‘death toll’ of ‘pro-democracy protestors’ (Mossad agents) is being endlessly inflated and the lies uncritically repeated.
This is how the imperialists attempt to persuade us that absolutely unjustifiable aggressive war against a sovereign nation is somehow necessary and humane.
If you find this process sickening, just remember: this is exactly how Soviet historiograpy has worked for decades.
And the ultimate target of these lies was and remains YOU, the worker.
You must have no faith in your own ability to organise and get rid of your exploiters. Better stick with the devil you know, because if you win through to any kind of sovereignty and independence, your new government will set up machine-gun emplacements on street corners and shoot you down in droves.
How much longer are people going to keep falling for such nonsense? It’s time we learned to recognise these lies and understand their purpose.
In the words of Malcolm X:
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/2022352323474002166
This is how the imperialists attempt to persuade us that absolutely unjustifiable aggressive war against a sovereign nation is somehow necessary and humane.
If you find this process sickening, just remember: this is exactly how Soviet historiograpy has worked for decades.
And the ultimate target of these lies was and remains YOU, the worker.
You must have no faith in your own ability to organise and get rid of your exploiters. Better stick with the devil you know, because if you win through to any kind of sovereignty and independence, your new government will set up machine-gun emplacements on street corners and shoot you down in droves.
How much longer are people going to keep falling for such nonsense? It’s time we learned to recognise these lies and understand their purpose.
In the words of Malcolm X:
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/2022352323474002166
X (formerly Twitter)
Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) on X
They've now reached 200,000.
Can we make it 1,000,000?
Can we make it 1,000,000?
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The last glimpse of the winter sun as the horses are checked for the night..‘Winter on the Road’
By Peter Tuffrey.
This guy is one of my favourite artists at the moment. Please check him out and give him some support.
By Peter Tuffrey.
This guy is one of my favourite artists at the moment. Please check him out and give him some support.
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The Bloody Sunday in Aislingen - the beginning of fascist state terror.
The fascists had just come to power - on January 30, 1933, the "bald president" Hindenburg appointed the "Bohemian corporal" Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. (That's what they called each other behind their backs). At that time, the cabinet consisted of only three National Socialists: Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, Wilhelm Frick as Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Göring as Minister without Portfolio. Just two days later, on February 1, Hindenburg dissolved the Reichstag. The corresponding document was also signed by Hitler and Frick. In the following days, a stream of laws and decrees deprived the German people of almost all their basic constitutional rights. But the people of Germany were not yet broken, and the fascists needed a demonstrative terror.
And the first act of the tragedy took place on February 12, 1933. Eighteen days before the Reichstag fire and three weeks before the last elections, the Nazis staged a general rehearsal of terror, which is rarely remembered today.
On a Sunday in the center of the working-class city of Aislingen, an SS regiment under the command of Ludolf-German von Alvensleben (who would later become Himmler's chief adjutant and a punisher in the occupied territories of the USSR) held a parade: about 600 SS and SA men, armed with field equipment, including shovels, marched through Aislingen. This march was a demonstration of the fascists' strength and newfound self-confidence after the dissolution of the Reichstag and the seizure of power. Already during the parade, there were incidents involving residents of Aislingen who refused to salute the swastika flag. Communists who openly protested against the march were beaten up.
But this was not the end. Immediately after the parade, 600 stormtroopers and SS men moved towards the Ludwig Jahn gymnasium, located directly behind the KPD headquarters (Communist Party of Germany). There was a coming-of-age ceremony for the Union of Communist Youth Germany.
The SS and stormtroopers stormed into the gym. The adult participants in the ceremony surrounded the minors, trying to protect them. However, the invading crowd immediately opened fire on the participants of the ceremony and brutally beat them, even using the shovels.
As a result of the attack - 25 seriously injured, three killed young men: Otto Helm, Walter Schneider were killed on the spot, and the seriously injured Hans Seidel was taken to the miners' hospital and died the next day. He was disfigured beyond recognition. Many became disabled: for example, Bernhard Können, later the first secretary of the district committee of Halle of the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) and a member of the State Council of the GDR, lost an eye.
The local NSDAP district leader Ludolf-German von Alvensleben led the crackdown.
Aislingen showed: the state no longer protects its citizens. The German media ignored the crime, and the authorities did not initiate criminal proceedings. The Nazis understood their impunity.
But HISTORY PUT EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE.
In 1949-50, a trial took place in the city of Halle (GDR). 31 participants in the Aislingen Bloody Sunday were brought to justice.
While in the western occupation zones many murderers served their sentences for several years or were not brought to justice at all, East Germany demonstrated: there is no statute of limitations for fascist terror, and retribution is inevitable.
P.S. In photo 1 - the graves of the fallen, in photo 2 - KPD members with their children in front of the Ludwig Jahn gymnasium in Aislingen.
Source
The fascists had just come to power - on January 30, 1933, the "bald president" Hindenburg appointed the "Bohemian corporal" Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. (That's what they called each other behind their backs). At that time, the cabinet consisted of only three National Socialists: Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, Wilhelm Frick as Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Göring as Minister without Portfolio. Just two days later, on February 1, Hindenburg dissolved the Reichstag. The corresponding document was also signed by Hitler and Frick. In the following days, a stream of laws and decrees deprived the German people of almost all their basic constitutional rights. But the people of Germany were not yet broken, and the fascists needed a demonstrative terror.
And the first act of the tragedy took place on February 12, 1933. Eighteen days before the Reichstag fire and three weeks before the last elections, the Nazis staged a general rehearsal of terror, which is rarely remembered today.
On a Sunday in the center of the working-class city of Aislingen, an SS regiment under the command of Ludolf-German von Alvensleben (who would later become Himmler's chief adjutant and a punisher in the occupied territories of the USSR) held a parade: about 600 SS and SA men, armed with field equipment, including shovels, marched through Aislingen. This march was a demonstration of the fascists' strength and newfound self-confidence after the dissolution of the Reichstag and the seizure of power. Already during the parade, there were incidents involving residents of Aislingen who refused to salute the swastika flag. Communists who openly protested against the march were beaten up.
But this was not the end. Immediately after the parade, 600 stormtroopers and SS men moved towards the Ludwig Jahn gymnasium, located directly behind the KPD headquarters (Communist Party of Germany). There was a coming-of-age ceremony for the Union of Communist Youth Germany.
The SS and stormtroopers stormed into the gym. The adult participants in the ceremony surrounded the minors, trying to protect them. However, the invading crowd immediately opened fire on the participants of the ceremony and brutally beat them, even using the shovels.
As a result of the attack - 25 seriously injured, three killed young men: Otto Helm, Walter Schneider were killed on the spot, and the seriously injured Hans Seidel was taken to the miners' hospital and died the next day. He was disfigured beyond recognition. Many became disabled: for example, Bernhard Können, later the first secretary of the district committee of Halle of the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) and a member of the State Council of the GDR, lost an eye.
The local NSDAP district leader Ludolf-German von Alvensleben led the crackdown.
Aislingen showed: the state no longer protects its citizens. The German media ignored the crime, and the authorities did not initiate criminal proceedings. The Nazis understood their impunity.
But HISTORY PUT EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE.
In 1949-50, a trial took place in the city of Halle (GDR). 31 participants in the Aislingen Bloody Sunday were brought to justice.
While in the western occupation zones many murderers served their sentences for several years or were not brought to justice at all, East Germany demonstrated: there is no statute of limitations for fascist terror, and retribution is inevitable.
P.S. In photo 1 - the graves of the fallen, in photo 2 - KPD members with their children in front of the Ludwig Jahn gymnasium in Aislingen.
Source
🇨🇺✊ More than 100 communist and workers' parties have signed a joint statement demanding the immediate cessation of US imperialist aggression against Cuba
More than 100 communist and workers' parties and organizations have signed a joint statement demanding the immediate cessation of US imperialist aggression against Cuba. The full text of the statement is published on the Solidnet website:
Joint statement
"Stop the escalation of aggression against Cuba!"
We resolutely condemn the new escalation of aggression by US imperialism against the sovereignty and independence of Cuba, as well as against the rights of the Cuban people.
The US president's executive order, which calls Cuba an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to their security, only creates, on the basis of a set of false allegations, a cynical pretext for US imperialism to try to prevent fuel supplies to Cuba and intensify the economic, financial and trade blockade they imposed more than sixty years ago, with the aim of causing maximum damage to the living conditions of the Cuban people.
This escalation of US aggression against Cuba, accompanied by the threat of imposing arbitrary extraterritorial coercive measures, represents another unacceptable and flagrant violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law, an insult to the Declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, and a threat to peace and security worldwide.
The new level of aggression and blackmail by the US against Cuba is an integral part of a broader plan of US imperialism to establish its dominance over Latin America and the Caribbean in the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine, a plan that also includes the recent military aggression against Venezuela with the kidnapping of its President Nicolás Maduro, as well as threats to Colombia, Mexico and other countries in the region.
The aggressive onslaught of imperialism represents a threat not only to the sovereignty and rights of the Cuban people, but also to other peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as all peoples of the world. This offensive represents the greatest threat to world peace and requires firm and persistent resistance and struggle by workers and peoples for sovereignty, rights, peace and international solidarity.
Welcoming the example of courage, determination, peace, cooperation and solidarity that Cuba is giving to the world, we demand the immediate cessation of all threats and hostile steps by the US against Cuba, including the cessation of the cruel, criminal and illegal blockade, thereby fulfilling the demands of numerous resolutions of the UN General Assembly.
We express our solidarity with socialist Cuba and call for the broadest international solidarity in defense of its independence and sovereignty, as well as the rights of the Cuban people, including the right to determine their future in peace and without foreign interference and pressure.
Cuba is not alone!
Cuba will win!
The translation is unofficial, Communist World
More than 100 communist and workers' parties and organizations have signed a joint statement demanding the immediate cessation of US imperialist aggression against Cuba. The full text of the statement is published on the Solidnet website:
Joint statement
"Stop the escalation of aggression against Cuba!"
We resolutely condemn the new escalation of aggression by US imperialism against the sovereignty and independence of Cuba, as well as against the rights of the Cuban people.
The US president's executive order, which calls Cuba an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to their security, only creates, on the basis of a set of false allegations, a cynical pretext for US imperialism to try to prevent fuel supplies to Cuba and intensify the economic, financial and trade blockade they imposed more than sixty years ago, with the aim of causing maximum damage to the living conditions of the Cuban people.
This escalation of US aggression against Cuba, accompanied by the threat of imposing arbitrary extraterritorial coercive measures, represents another unacceptable and flagrant violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law, an insult to the Declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, and a threat to peace and security worldwide.
The new level of aggression and blackmail by the US against Cuba is an integral part of a broader plan of US imperialism to establish its dominance over Latin America and the Caribbean in the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine, a plan that also includes the recent military aggression against Venezuela with the kidnapping of its President Nicolás Maduro, as well as threats to Colombia, Mexico and other countries in the region.
The aggressive onslaught of imperialism represents a threat not only to the sovereignty and rights of the Cuban people, but also to other peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as all peoples of the world. This offensive represents the greatest threat to world peace and requires firm and persistent resistance and struggle by workers and peoples for sovereignty, rights, peace and international solidarity.
Welcoming the example of courage, determination, peace, cooperation and solidarity that Cuba is giving to the world, we demand the immediate cessation of all threats and hostile steps by the US against Cuba, including the cessation of the cruel, criminal and illegal blockade, thereby fulfilling the demands of numerous resolutions of the UN General Assembly.
We express our solidarity with socialist Cuba and call for the broadest international solidarity in defense of its independence and sovereignty, as well as the rights of the Cuban people, including the right to determine their future in peace and without foreign interference and pressure.
Cuba is not alone!
Cuba will win!
The translation is unofficial, Communist World
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Forwarded from Class Consciousness Project
From Mao to Madrid: Paul Breitner's Story.
Older football fans may remember the highly decorated footballer Paul Breitner. A brilliant pro that came through at Bayern Munich when Germany was still divided by east and west.
He was a full back that would have fitted into modern game with his style of playing, but he was more than just a left back. He was an outspoken political agitator who read Mao Zedong religiously. He even posed with Mao's Little Red Book. Publicly! At a time where doing so in West Germany was dangerous.
He spoke out against the evils of capitalism, about questioning the state. In a famous quotation he correctly declared footballers as workers who sell their labour like anyone else. In a Cold War climate where anti-communism was a state religion, that was very brave.
They called him 'Der Rote Paul', Red Paul! (like our very own Red Rick). His radicalism was real, not like how modern footballers who use their activism to inflate their position.
The early 1970s in West Germany being a 'red' meant surveillance, bans and hysteria about “extremism”. To openly identify with Maoism while representing the West German national team was a refusal to play the obedient sportsman. West Germany was essentially occupied by US forces at this point. The US where the MacArthur trials were hunting down communists in north America.
Having that socialist background made sure he didn’t separate football from society. He understood that football sits inside capitalism, not outside of it.
What saved him was fan support. He backed it up on the pitch. He scored in the 1974 World Cup final. Won European Cups. Dominated domestically. He wasn’t some fringe rebel shouting from the sidelines. He was directly bang in the center of the machine while criticising it.
That contradiction took shape and formed his future material conditions within the game.
When he moved to Real Madrid CF in 1974, the politics took a back step. They stopped being centre stage. Success in football, especially teams like Real Madrid, brings massive scrutiny. These big teams are footballing institutions that demand discipline. Radical language becomes inconvenient when you are part of a global sports brand.
Did he “sell out”? Maybe, but that feels too simple. Conditions change, family and work. We all have to survive within the boundaries of capitalism and without being a part of an organisation of advanced workers people can become disillusioned.
The revolutionary left in Western Europe was fractured and retreated. The 70s closed in and the post war concessions were starting to be removed. Individual careers don’t float above historical shifts.
What his journey shows is this: even at the very top of elite sport, class consciousness can surface. Even within a billion-pound industry, players are still workers selling labour power. The wage might be substantially higher and the contracts might be gold-plated. The relation to capital remains.
Breitner’s Maoism wasn’t a footnote. It was a reminder that football has never been politically neutral. The game produces rebels as well as celebrities.
The Class Consciousness Project.
Older football fans may remember the highly decorated footballer Paul Breitner. A brilliant pro that came through at Bayern Munich when Germany was still divided by east and west.
He was a full back that would have fitted into modern game with his style of playing, but he was more than just a left back. He was an outspoken political agitator who read Mao Zedong religiously. He even posed with Mao's Little Red Book. Publicly! At a time where doing so in West Germany was dangerous.
He spoke out against the evils of capitalism, about questioning the state. In a famous quotation he correctly declared footballers as workers who sell their labour like anyone else. In a Cold War climate where anti-communism was a state religion, that was very brave.
They called him 'Der Rote Paul', Red Paul! (like our very own Red Rick). His radicalism was real, not like how modern footballers who use their activism to inflate their position.
The early 1970s in West Germany being a 'red' meant surveillance, bans and hysteria about “extremism”. To openly identify with Maoism while representing the West German national team was a refusal to play the obedient sportsman. West Germany was essentially occupied by US forces at this point. The US where the MacArthur trials were hunting down communists in north America.
Having that socialist background made sure he didn’t separate football from society. He understood that football sits inside capitalism, not outside of it.
What saved him was fan support. He backed it up on the pitch. He scored in the 1974 World Cup final. Won European Cups. Dominated domestically. He wasn’t some fringe rebel shouting from the sidelines. He was directly bang in the center of the machine while criticising it.
That contradiction took shape and formed his future material conditions within the game.
When he moved to Real Madrid CF in 1974, the politics took a back step. They stopped being centre stage. Success in football, especially teams like Real Madrid, brings massive scrutiny. These big teams are footballing institutions that demand discipline. Radical language becomes inconvenient when you are part of a global sports brand.
Did he “sell out”? Maybe, but that feels too simple. Conditions change, family and work. We all have to survive within the boundaries of capitalism and without being a part of an organisation of advanced workers people can become disillusioned.
The revolutionary left in Western Europe was fractured and retreated. The 70s closed in and the post war concessions were starting to be removed. Individual careers don’t float above historical shifts.
What his journey shows is this: even at the very top of elite sport, class consciousness can surface. Even within a billion-pound industry, players are still workers selling labour power. The wage might be substantially higher and the contracts might be gold-plated. The relation to capital remains.
Breitner’s Maoism wasn’t a footnote. It was a reminder that football has never been politically neutral. The game produces rebels as well as celebrities.
The Class Consciousness Project.
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Not everyone that is arrested is a criminal, but everyone that is arrested is treated like a criminal. Being locked up without proof and then waiting for an investigation to prove your innocence is a disgusting breach of human rights.
That's the police though, that's how they act and that's how they are trained to act.
When all you have is hammer everything looks like a nail.
That's the police though, that's how they act and that's how they are trained to act.
When all you have is hammer everything looks like a nail.
Forwarded from Red Rick
"Who is it that has made brothers spill each other's blood? For centuries kings and nobles have sent Polish peasants to fight the Turks. They have always incited one nation against another. Think of all the bloodshed and misery they have caused! And who benefited by it all? But soon all that will stop. This is the end of those vermin. The Bolsheviks have flung out a slogan that strikes terror into the hearts of the bourgeoisie: 'Proletarians of all lands, unite!' There lies our salvation, there lies our hope for a better future, for the day when all workingmen will be brothers. Comrades, join the Communist Party!"
- Nikolai Ostrovsky
- Nikolai Ostrovsky
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Forwarded from Class Consciousness Project
A sticker by the fans of Italian Club Perugia.
Stalin the new star striker!
Stalin the new star striker!
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Someone asked on Facebook what the difference was between Socialism and Fascism. It was most certainly a loaded question from a reactionary who felt superior but I chose to answer.
The answer is easy: Class Power.
Socialism is a transitional state between capitalism and communism. It is the beginning of the rule of the working-class. Removing the parasitical ruling class and take control ourselves. We take control of the banks, energy, land and major industry. We take them out of the hands of private corporations and run them for the needs of the people, not profit.
Socialism is internationalist because workers everywhere share the same enemy — capital. The goal is to end exploitation of workers for profit.
Fascism is capitalism in crisis. When the system starts to struggle and they fear workers uprising, sections of the ruling class back authoritarian rule to crush workers and redirect anger. This often happens in countries with a strong socialist movement (i.e. 1940s Germany) It keeps private property intact, smashes trade unions, bans communists and blames migrants or minorities instead of the ruling class who cause these issues from their constant need for profit. It’s right wing nationalism used to protect capital.
Summing up.
Socialism attacks class exploitation.
Fascism enforces it.
The answer is easy: Class Power.
Socialism is a transitional state between capitalism and communism. It is the beginning of the rule of the working-class. Removing the parasitical ruling class and take control ourselves. We take control of the banks, energy, land and major industry. We take them out of the hands of private corporations and run them for the needs of the people, not profit.
Socialism is internationalist because workers everywhere share the same enemy — capital. The goal is to end exploitation of workers for profit.
Fascism is capitalism in crisis. When the system starts to struggle and they fear workers uprising, sections of the ruling class back authoritarian rule to crush workers and redirect anger. This often happens in countries with a strong socialist movement (i.e. 1940s Germany) It keeps private property intact, smashes trade unions, bans communists and blames migrants or minorities instead of the ruling class who cause these issues from their constant need for profit. It’s right wing nationalism used to protect capital.
Summing up.
Socialism attacks class exploitation.
Fascism enforces it.
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Forwarded from RNN Mirror
🚨 The zionist entity has turned Qalandia into a full-scale choke point, enforcing strict "pedestrian-only" access to block thousands of worshippers from Al-Aqsa on the first Friday of Ramadan. While occupation commanders paraded around the perimeter, hundreds of Palestinians were denied entry based on arbitrary age restrictions and claims of "full quotas," leaving families stranded at the gates. This follows a wave of aggressive raids into the camp over the last 24 hours, where forces snatched several young men and intensified the military presence to stifle any movement. This included the detaining of 4 paramedics in Qalandia and the IOF obstructing the coverage of press crews.