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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro calls out the EU claiming to be concerned with Venezuela while they ignore the genocide in Gaza. The comments were made in a meeting with the military police high command who have led the efforts against right-wing protesters attempting to overturn the results of the presidential elections. Last week saw intense violence from opposition supporters calling for a coup. Hospitals, food storage centers, and public buildings were torched and vandalized. In response, Maduro confirmed that more than 2,000 involved in the riots have been arrested since last Monday and that the “fascist outbreak” has been controlled. 🟡 Join @theredstream 🟡 Boost our channel 🟡 YouTube 🟡 Instagram 🟡 Patreon

Hundreds of millions of civilians around the world suffer – and hundreds of thousands have died – even in times of ostensible peace under the broad economic sanctions imposed unilaterally and illegally by the United States. https://thecommunists.org/2024/09/19/news/legal-experts-push-biden-drop-punitive-deadly-sanctions/

Join us for our next Southall seminar (west London) where we will be discussing the Labour government’s moves to stoke racism and then use that as a justification for ‘overhauling’ the legal system. Under the cover of ‘anti-racism’, Starmer and co are aiming to steadily erase the right to free speech, the right to freedom of assembly and the right to a fair trial. These measures are not in fact aimed at the far right but at the anti-imperialist core of the anti-genocide Palestine solidarity movement. Saturday 21 September, 2.00pm Saklatvala Hall, Southall, UB2 5AA https://thecommunists.org/events/labour-government-racism-repression-austerity-war-2024-09-21

Truly excellent conversation as ever between Garland Nixon and Leith Marouf this week. Particularly interesting details on the Mach 10 hypersonic missile sent by the Yemeni resistance into Tel Aviv. Increasingly it becomes clear that the resistance and the imperialists speak different languages. The resistance forces live where they fight. They are defending their peoples. And so they practice strategic patience. They don't want Armageddon. They want to preserve as much life as possible. But they also know that to be left in peace they need to defeat the enemy. And they have built forces that are capable of so doing. They know that they need to stand together. And increasingly that is what they have been doing. These developments have become qualitative and a decisive shift can be seen in the balance of forces globally, which coincides with the deepening of the global capitalist economic overproduction crisis. In this context, the resistance forces send regular messages to imperialism and its proxies that would be clearly comprehensible to any sane and rational actor: Look at what we can do. Your technological dominance has been broken. If we wanted we could wipe you out. We don't want to do that. We want you to let us live. Please get the message and leave before you get destroyed. The imperialists cannot win against these forces. Not in Russia. Not in the middle east. Not in China. But they will keep trying because not to try means death. Not the death of their people, who will finally get the chance to get free. It is the death of their rule and their economic system that the billionaire elites truly fear. But their system can only survive by means of the mass destruction of wealth, infrastructure, materials, means of production and people. To avoid the inevitable ending of their domination, the imperialists are willing to drown the world in blood. As in fact they have been doing since the inception of the capitalist economic system 400 years ago. They must be defeated if humanity is to begin to breathe. https://www.youtube.com/live/MccEIvpO3Do?si=ssVfVz04M2F9cufA

To the Marxist it is indisputable that a revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, it is not every revolutionary situation that leads to revolution. What, generally speaking, are the symptoms of a revolutionary situation? We shall certainly not be mistaken if we indicate the following three major symptoms: (1) when it is impossible for the ruling classes to maintain their rule without any change; when there is a crisis, in one form or another, among the “upper classes”, a crisis in the policy of the ruling class, leading to a fissure through which the discontent and indignation of the oppressed classes burst forth. For a revolution to take place, it is usually insufficient for “the lower classes not to want” to live in the old way; it is also necessary that “the upper classes should be unable” to live in the old way; (2) when the suffering and want of the oppressed classes have grown more acute than usual; (3) when, as a consequence of the above causes, there is a considerable increase in the activity of the masses, who uncomplainingly allow themselves to be robbed in “peace time”, but, in turbulent times, are drawn both by all the circumstances of the crisis and by the “upper classes” themselves into independent historical action.

Lenin - The Collapse Of The Second International

The pager attack shows only that Israel can not go to war against Hezbollah. If they were at all confident in their ability to actually conduct a war then they'd have waited to sabotage their opponents' communications until the last possible moment when it would have gained them the most in terms of creating confusion and chaos. Blowing this now only shows that they have no real intention of carrying out a ground attack. As for Hezbollah they'll have to learn from this and I'm sure they will. Any supply line that isn't absolutely controlled by you or by rock solid allies is likely to be compromised by the intelligence agencies of US imperialism at some point. The US has an enormous intel apparatus dedicated to disrupting supply lines and the only sure way to avoid this is producing as much as you can domestically, the DPRK way.

A brief history lesson regarding the defeat of Poland by the Nazis in 1939 and the real nature of the Red Army's move to take back territory up to the Curzon line (territory forcibly siezed by Poland from Ukraine and Belarus in 1920-21). https://vxtwitter.com/CPGBML/status/1836149845486076217

I'm not sure whether this is light relief or ominous gloom. But really you have to laugh at the ability of apparently educated, intelligent young people to allow propaganda to warp their minds to the extent that they are calling for the abolition of ... FARMING!! What kind of critical genius can come out with such a statement. What kind of an educational system can create such mindless conditioning? If there's one lesson workers need to teach their children as they grow through adolescence it is this: QUESTION EVERYTHING!

Farming needs to stop. That's the single biggest driver of climate change.

Since the 60s upheavals students were deemed a threat. They've since got every imperialist NGO and public shaper of opinion into universities to churn out sycophants for the imperialist class: Bill Gates, Club of Rome, Rockefeller's and Soros Working class that don't go to university have more of an instinctual and correct attitude to bourgeois propaganda and bourgeois social mores