Ataques israelíes destruyen la tumba de San Pedro en el Líbano — Informe del corresponsal de guerra.

El Líbano, un país rico en cultura, tradición e historia, enfrenta amenazas en medio de la guerra de Israel, dice el periodista Steve Sweeney, quien sobrevivió por poco a un bombardeo israelí el mes pasado.

“Esta es la zona de Jesús. Qana es donde Jesús realizó su primer milagro, convirtiendo el agua en vino. Ahí está la tumba de Shamoun Al Safa, este es Peter Simon, San Pedro… Por supuesto, esto ha sido destruido por Israel, lo bombardearon".

Sweeney le dijo a Carlson, refiriéndose a la destrucción por parte de las FDI del santuario de 2,000 años a finales de 2024.

Here is the arrest of Comrade Ranjeet.

As he attempts to explain to the officers this is political policing. They are attempting to control what people say without cause. Ranjeet has been arrested for this before with no charges and now it is happening again. So you deduce yourself that this is nothing more than state harassment.

Political policing in Britain: the arrest of Dr Ranjeet Brar
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GSg60Pfl09o&feature=shared

"The Daughter Of Soviet Kirghizia"
by Semen Chuikov, 1948.

There is a clear contrast between what capitalism can offer workers in their twilight years and what the soviet proletarian was guaranteed.
In 1929, while the Soviet Union was building a system that guaranteed workers security in old age, the capitalist world offered more uncertainty. In Britain, pensions were means-tested and deliberately restrictive, forcing workers to prove their poverty for scraps. In the United States, there was no meaningful pension system at all. Old age under capitalism was not security, it was further poverty.

The Soviet system, however, was not just about a payment at the end of a working life. It was part of a wider social guarantee. Healthcare, housing, and basic necessities were not left to the market, and pensions were tied directly to a worker’s previous earnings. A life that was dedicated to furthering the revolution meant dignity was preserved. A worker who had spent their life contributing to society was not cast aside the moment they could no longer labour.

As Joseph Stalin put it in Problems of Leninism:

The aim of socialism is not only to eliminate the exploitation of man by man, but also to ensure the material and cultural well-being of all members of society.

This divides the U.S.S.R. from the imperialists. Where a planned economy was created for the full life of the worker, capitalism has always treated workers who can no longer offer their labour as an afterthought.

And today, despite all the talk of progress, little has changed. Retirement ages rise, pensions are chipped away, and workers are pushed into private schemes tied to market chaos.
The 1929 Soviet decree did not just introduce pensions—it exposed the limits of a system that cannot guarantee dignity, because its priority has always been capital and not the workers who created it.

Stalin Society.

140 years ago, on April 16, 1886, Ernst Thälmann was born - an outstanding figure of the German and international workers' movement, a revolutionary, an anti-fascist, and the leader of the Communist Party of Germany.

He was born in Hamburg. From the age of 14, he worked as a packer, a porter, a port worker, and a loader in the harbor, then as a ship's boy and an assistant stoker. In 1903, he joined the Social Democratic Party and aligned himself with its left wing. From 1912, he led the Hamburg Transport Workers' Union. During the First World War, he served in the artillery. He conducted propaganda work among German soldiers, exposing the imperialist nature of the war and the treacherous role of the opportunistic leadership of the Social Democratic Party.

At the end of 1918, after returning from the front, Thälmann immediately joined the revolutionary struggle of Hamburg workers. His dedication to the proletariat, revolutionary energy, and great organizational skills displayed by Thälmann during the November Revolution of 1918 contributed to a huge increase in his popularity among workers. In 1919, he was elected as the leader of the Hamburg organization of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). In 1920, after the split of the USPD, the Hamburg organization led by Thälmann merged into the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1921, Thälmann was elected to the Central Committee of the KPD. In 1923, under his leadership, the Hamburg Uprising took place.

From 1924, Thälmann was a member of the Politburo of the KPD Central Committee, and from 1925 - the chairman of the KPD Central Committee. In 1924, in the fight against the forces of fascist reaction, a "Union of Red Front Soldiers" ("Rot Front") was established by the advanced workers of Germany, led by Thälmann. In 1924-1928, he was elected as a candidate for the Executive Committee of the Comintern (ECCI), and in 1928-1943 - a member of the ECCI. From 1924 to 1933, he was a member of the Reichstag.

After the establishment of the Hitler dictatorship, Thälmann continued to lead the underground struggle of the Communist Party, but in March 1933, he was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned. A powerful movement for Thälmann's liberation emerged in Germany and around the world. The Nazis did not dare to hold a trial against him, fearing that Thälmann would use the court to expose fascism and propagate the ideas of communism. Neither torture nor 11 years of solitary confinement broke the fighting spirit of the leader of German workers. In August 1944, Thälmann was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was shot on August 18, 1944, on the direct orders of Hitler and Himmler.

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The North West Branch just had a fantastic meeting to organise and plan our work for the work ahead in Walton.

Ideas were shared, tactics were considered and lots of tea was drunk.

Billy Moore is an ex-fighter turned YouTube "influencer". His show was once interviews with famous scousers and villains.
The last few years he has followed a lot of the Liverpool social media accounts and turned very reactionary and anti-immigration advocate.

This article speaks of Billy and his change. The one thing it doesn't grasp is how too much of a coincidence the change in all these Liverpool social media personalities are.

I don't doubt for one minute that they have been bought by the state.

https://www.livpost.co.uk/whats-going-on-with-billy-moore/

No cooperation with the war machine!
End arms to Israel!
https://thecommunists.org/no-cooperation/

The great satan that is the U.S. empire is hated all around the world.
Once it finally fades away workers all around the world will rejoice.

Pablo Picasso's painting condemning the imperialist Korean War

My new favourite picture.

There is nothing progressive or 'pro-worker' about this position.

And there's certainly nothing clever about combining anti-worker rhetoric with what appear to be more progressive positions re imperialist war. This is, in fact, the definition of demagoguery: combining progressive demands with reactionary ones in order to lead the masses up the garden path.

In this particular case, it's a pretty sordid attempt to get a few votes by pandering to anti-immigration prejudices. Winning votes by reinforcing pervasive bourgeois propaganda instead of doing the hard work of exposing those lies is the textbook definition of opportunism. That is: selling out the real, long-term interests of the working class in order to gain some short-term real or perceived gain.

Quite a few of those who have signed up to promote this programme know well that the one of the most urgent tasks facing socialists in Britain today is that of opening the eyes of the masses to the ways in which they are kept divided (and are therefore also kept poor and under control).

Immigration narratives are the oldest (and therefore most embedded) form of culture-wars, divide-and-rule propaganda. Their only purpose is to keep the working class fighting itself; to keep us punching down instead of punching up.

Shame on all those parties and individuals who call themselves socialist and spout this filth. They are charlatans and traitors to their class.

https://x.com/JesseWinney/status/2043613491169227100