Putin signed a decree establishing the authorized strength of the Russian Armed Forces at 2,209,130 ​​people, including 1,320,000 military personnel, the Kremlin said

Russian Ministry of Defense:

The increase in the number of military personnel in the Russian Armed Forces is being implemented in stages at the expense of citizens who express a desire to serve under a contract.

The increase in staffing levels is due to the growing threats to Russia associated with the Northern Military District and the ongoing expansion of NATO.

An additional increase in the combat strength and strength of the Russian Armed Forces is an adequate response to the aggressive activities of NATO

There are no plans to significantly increase conscription for compulsory military service, and mobilization is not envisaged.


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"To wrest the working class from the clutches of capitalism is possible only with sacrifice. Anyone who wants to overthrow capitalism without sacrifice would do better to enroll in another party, the party of pacifists, idlers, babblers, and incorrigible bourgeois ideologues. In short, the working class can tear itself away from capitalism only through the greatest of sacrifices. If this is not to one’s taste, then just go on living in slavery. There is no alternative."

Vyacheslav Molotov

"What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor? First, the fact that labor is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his essential being; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. He is at home when he is not working, and when he is working he is not at home. His labor is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor."
- Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 1844

Leicester City stands in solidarity with #Palestine and #Gaza. https://t.me/QudsNen

Statement of KFA Basque Country
Today it became known that yesterday, November 30, the president of the Korean Friendship Association/KFA, Alejandro Cao de Benos, was arrested by the Spanish police in Madrid at the request of the FBI of the United States and through Interpol. Supposedly, the reason was the organization, in 2018, of conferences with American speakers in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Jail sentences against him exceed 20 years.

The Korea Friendship Association/KFA in the Basque Country strongly condemns this detention, which is also useless, since there is no reciprocity in Spanish law in the charges against Alejandro. Proof of this is that he has already been released, albeit conditionally, since every 15 days he must appear in court.

We want to stand in solidarity once again with Alejandro on this occasion who has been harassed for the mere fact of defending socialist Korea.

The Pol Pot gang had a long history of strategic partnership with American imperialism, as John Pilger, the respected author on US imperialism, showed in this article.

The purpose of the previous post was to show that CIA support for the Khmer sanguivores was really a continuation of Pol Pot's activities for the Yugoslav regime, the decades-long ally of the Pentagon and CIA.

#слухи
Наш источник сообщает, что в Украине образовался огромный дефицит комплектующих для бронемашин, БМП и танков.

Также логистика и ремонт подбитой военной техники в Польше/Чехии/Литве теперь занимает в полтора раза больше времени, чем весной этого же года. Причин много: бюрократия, протесты на границах, дефицит поставок комплектующих, задержки с финансированием и тд.

Дальше, ситуация будет усложнятся в разы.Конечно, это отразится на всём украинском кризисе.

Via Boris "Colonel Cassad" Rozhin:

Iran reported that during the Hamas operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, a server with intelligence data was captured at one of the Israeli military bases and taken to the Gaza Strip. Lists of Israeli agents and informants in Iran fell into the hands of Hamas (and then Iran). The extent of the compromise of Israel's intelligence network in Iran is not yet clear. Since the start of the war, Iranian media have reported several captured Israeli spies. Several more agents were caught in Gaza (two were publicly executed).

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The latest Seymour Hersh story regarding negotiations between Zaluzhny and Gerasimov is pure propaganda. The idea that the Russian government would agree to the preservation of a Ukrainian state that would then join NATO is simply unbelievable. Furthermore, why would the Russians believe any "guarantee" from Zaluzhny or anyone else regarding not allowing offensive NATO forces to be deployed in Ukraine. Ukraine is bankrupt and at the mercy of it's imperialist creditors who will offer all kinds of inducements to Kiev to go back on any such agreement. Remember that the Russian goal is far greater than merely getting Ukraine to capitulate. They want a direct negotiation with the US that will see the withdrawal of US forces from Eastern Europe. That's their aim and no bargain with Zaluzhny gives them that. That's why the Russian government states that they will only accept capitulation from Kiev because the negotiation will be done with the leaders of US imperialism itself. Hersham has plainly been fed this story from a source in the US permanent bureaucracy who will have their own motivations. It could be about selling the idea of Zaluzhny as the man who can bargain with Russia. It could also have come from an element in the US who wish to undermine Zaluzhny given that his enemies will seize upon this story as evidence of the General committing treason. This whole story confirms what I've long suspected about Hersh, that 9/10 stories he runs are propaganda from one deep state actor or another with 1/10 being a really massive story.

67 years ago, on December 2, 1956, a small armed detachment of Cuban revolutionaries in the amount of 82 people under the command of Fidel Castro, arriving from Mexico on the yacht Granma, landed in the area of ​​​​the beaches of Las Coloradas in the Cuban province of Oriente and entered into battle with many times superior forces. his units of the regular army of the dictator Batista.

In the first battle with government forces, the revolutionaries were defeated, but 12 fighters led by Fidel Castro managed to break into the Sierra Maestra mountains, where they organized a rebel army, which during 1956-1958 extended its operations to other areas of Cuba.

This battle marked the beginning of the final stage of the struggle of the Cuban people against the dictatorship, which ended with the complete victory of the revolution on January 1, 1959, and December 2 became the birthday of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR).

"The fact is that the military, when they do not defend the country but attack it instead, when they do not defend their people but instead they enslave the people, they cease to be an institution and they become an armed gang; they cease to be soldiers and become delinquents. And they stop deserving not only the salary they wrest from the sweat of the people, but even the sun that covers the earth they have bloodied with dishonor and cowardice.

These same military men who have never defended the Homeland from a foreign enemy, who have never won a medal on the battlefield, who owe their rank to treason, nepotism and crime, issue war dispatches announcing 10, 20, 30 and up to 50 compatriots killed by their homicidal weapons as if they were victories of the Homeland, as if every Cuban killed, because those are the casualties they announce, did not have brothers or children, a wife or parents. There would be enough people to wage a victorious war just with the relatives of those killed compatriots."

Fidel Castro

A contrast can be seen between the independent socialist People's Korea of Juche and the reactionary neo-colonial dependent puppet regime in south Korea.

On the 21st of November the DPRK launched from its own soil the Malligyong -1 military reconnaissance satellite using 100 DPRK resources , technology and labour.

Yesterday out of a desire to compete with the DPRK , the south Korean puppets launched their " own spy satellite" yesterday . However it was not launched from the soil of south Korea but actually from the Vandenberg US Space Force Base in California , USA and it the satellite was launched on a Space X rocket owned by the billionaire Elon Musk .

This sums up south Korea . The mainstream media try to pretend that south Korea is "rich " and "prosperous " but in reality in south Korea everything is owned by outside interests principally the US and Japan.

Japanese unions demand higher wages

At the upcoming spring wage negotiations next year, Japan's RENGO union will seek a wage increase of at least 5%, Reuters reported , citing a union representative.

Such requirements are associated with the rising cost of living in an inflationary environment. Over the past 30 years, wages in Japan have grown only slightly, since entrepreneurs are extremely reluctant to comply with demands for higher wages.

Other major trade unions such as JCM and UA Zensen also joined RENGO. For example, the UA Zensen trade union, which unites service workers, said it will demand a 6% wage increase next year.

Thus, in 2024, Japan is expected to see the largest wage increase in the last 30 years.

The book they tried to ban!

Southall seminar: Palestine and Heating and Eating in Britain

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On November 29, Albanian communists celebrated the 79th anniversary of Albania's liberation from German occupation by carrying portraits of Enver Hoxha, Stalin and Albanian anti-fascist partisans.

Every fucker involved in the senior management of the rail network in Britain should be sent to an indefinite term of hard labour on the island of Jura. The inability to have a train service not implode at peak time condemns truly gives great testimony to the death of British capitalism.

Fat Mike is right in one sense, there is no moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel. Hamas is fighting a national liberation struggle which is by its nature a moral war. Israel is slaughtering civilians on behalf of the US empire which is the definition of immorality.

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