SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
newsMy weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.
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To start as usual with the West Asia, I get the sense that we're once again teetering on the edge of war between the US/Zionists and Iran, with Iran putting itself on high alert and conducting a major military exercise using dozens of ballistic missiles. I greatly struggle to see for what possible reason the US would try and attack Iran again when it's been repeatedly proven that it simply isn't going to work and that the consequences you receive are much worse than the damage you deal. The only conceivable motivation is a near-manic short-term desperation to try and bend the curve upwards on upcoming electoral results. Trump apparently covertly asked Iran if he could symbolically bomb Pickaxe Mountain without retribution and was denied - for those unaware, it's a site in central Iran where the US speculates Iran is rapidly creating a nuclear enrichment facility for nefarious purposes.
The situation in Yemen continues its positive trend for Ansarallah, with their forces now entering Taiz proper after having taken all the territory around it, while also cementing their hold on the coastal plains near the Red Sea by taking some of the mountainous heights there. Egypt has made signals that it may get involved militarily, joining the club of countries that are trying and failing to stop Ansarallah. It's a situation that, if you'll excuse an imprecise historical comparison, is reminiscent of the situation in the then-newborn USSR, where an international coalition tried and failed to save the losing, reactionary side of the civil war there. With oil and transportation infrastructure getting hit all the time and various international meetings and summits getting cancelled and MBS seeming (rightfully) quite paranoid, the Saudi position is looking increasingly untenable. It has similarities with the Zionist entity in late 2023 - their choice is to stop their genocide, engage in diplomacy, and survive a bit longer; or continue their genocide and, in the process, anger everybody, and risk being destroyed in the process.
I admit that it took about two months longer than I predicted, but the spark that was the US attacking Iran is now a conflagration spreading around the world. Several of the protests didn't begin due to problems with fossil fuel supplies, to be clear, but it's certainly contributing to the public anger in pretty much every case. It's hard for me to even be aware of all the protests and riots going on, let alone mention them, let alone analyse them, so to just go through a smattering of the ones that have received a lot of press coverage, we have: France, which began as students protesting an idiotic attempt at education reform and now involves at least over 500,000 and perhaps closer to a million people; in Albania, where protestors are demanding the resignation of their Prime Minister and are now burning down state buildings; in Italy, Portugal, and Belgium, which are simultaneously protesting education and/or austerity; massive protests in India which began months ago due to economic hardship in general and the Chief Justice calling the unemployed "cockroaches" in particular; in Indonesia, with protestors angry at the lack of a meaningful response to the extreme wildfires; in Pakistan, protesting the slide into de facto dictatorship under Army Chief Asim Munir; and lots of smaller scale protests and strikes around the world usually consisting of people who directly depend on diesel (truckers, farmers, etc) who simply cannot afford to keep working while fuel is so expensive.
Without the influence of socialist organizations, it's likely that many protests will be at least temporarily repressed; however, while the situation in the Middle East goes unresolved and the Zionists continue to refuse to accept Iran's conditions, Lenin's dictum of "every society is three meals away from chaos" may start to apply regardless. We're still at least a good few months away from that in most countries, but the trend line is definitely visible.
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::: spoiler The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on the Zionists' destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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::: spoiler Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
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Did Kim Jong Un die or is this insane wish casting?
this is like Putin already dying from like 50 different goofy causes like falling down the stairs that one time
Iran warning: Seven major global internet, data cables beneath Hormuz Strait could be next targets
In US news
SCOTUS takes on 158-year-old backyard liquor ban
https://www.courthousenews.com/scotus-takes-on-158-year-old-backyard-liquor-ban/
Is moonshine gonna be legalised by the trump court?
Revenuers in shambles, good ol boys hooting and hollering
let a thousand stills explode
If it’s not cryptosporidium in the raw milk, it will be the methanol in the moonshine
What we know about the 'attack' on independent MP Helen Haines
Australian independent MP Helen Haines was hit by a Toyota Landcruiser outside her electorate office. It's believed that it was an intentional attack but hasn't been confirmed yet.
Mr Albanese has said a joint counter terrorism unit had been activated but it was too early to say what was behind the incident.
Yeah man I'm sure they'll figure it out.
Rescue of Iranian pilot of Yak-130 that was shot down by Israeli F-35 over Tehran's mountains during the Operation Epstein Fury:
Also regarding US strike on a 35mm AA gun, it is not officially confirmed yet, the Iranian media here are citing al-Jazeera so far.
What an awful noise used for censoring.
standard 1kHz tone bit-rate crushed
This short excerpt comes from a larger document titled HANDS OFF ASIA: A People’s Call for Sovereignty and Solidarity by Tricontinental Asia and the IPA. It features articles written by people involved in the struggle across Asia.
A Class Analysis of the Thai Political Struggle
…But to understand Thai politics, we have to honestly look at its class structure, layer by layer.
At the top sits the monarchy–military complex: a deep, established alliance between the Thai monarchy and the military, historically the centre of power in Thailand. It presents itself as the guardian of the nation’s traditional social order, a bulwark against populist political movements, and it invokes that role to justify intervention – including coups – in the name of ‘protecting the monarchy and the country’s stability’. The military and the monarchy are mutually codependent. Together they form an establishment that overshadows civilian government at every turn. The recent Thai–Cambodia border war was, in my reading, manufactured by the ruling classes of these two countries.
Below sits the civilian elected government. Our previous elected government was in fact a rural-based populist party that was able to deliver socialist results without using the word socialism: land for farmers, universal health care, rural infrastructure. Our current civilian government is a supporter of a right-wing royalist fascist ideology, and openly aligned with the monarchy-military complex. This is the civilian face of the current alliance.
Below that sits the ruling elite – capitalists centred in Bangkok, the traditional aristocracy, military-linked leaders, and large corporations. Their wealth is built on their connection to the state and their control of capital, and they have historically benefited from Thailand’s hyper-dependency export model. We call them the ‘Yellow’.
And below all of them is the rural majority – the larger population living in the rural regions, who serve as the cheap-labour pool for the latifundia and for the industrial export sector. They form the key voting base of the populist parties. This is the group I identify with. We are the ‘Red’.
In related news,
Thailand Tightens Its Belt With 2027 Budget
Thailand’s budget for the 2027 fiscal year is out, and perhaps the most interesting feature is what it does not do: it barely increases spending at all. Approved expenditures came in at 3,788 billion baht, which is roughly $113 billion. This is a mere 0.2 percent increase compared to 2026, and marks the second year in which spending has been held just slightly above 2025 levels.
As a result of tighter spending, borrowing is expected to fall and the deficit is projected at 3.8 percent of GDP. This is tacit acknowledgement that the government is running out of policy space for prolonged deficits and more borrowing. A period of belt tightening, or at least an end to belt loosening, was not unexpected, and this budget seems to confirm that the time has arrived.
Thailand ran a primary budget surplus from 2009 to 2019. Obviously did not help alleviate household or even public debt, which actually increased in the period.
Pre-emptively running austerity when capacity utilization is at 60% and dropping while external shocks further suppress domestic wage-good consumption. No wonder anaemic GDP growth is the norm despite record foreign investments.
Burkina Faso moves to decolonize education through curriculum reform
Burkina Faso’s new school programs seek to challenge colonial portrayals of African history, elevate liberation struggles and indigenous knowledge, and strengthen national and cultural sovereignty.
Liberation struggles are at the centre of the new curricula, Armel said. “African states and countries of the Global South have always fought for their emancipation. The history of these struggles must be known by present and future generations,” he said. “It is in this spirit that the Haitian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, and Thomas Sankara’s revolution are being taught.”
“The objective is to sow the seeds of revolution among young students,” he said. He noted that the Ministry has developed teaching modules and curricula and distributed them to teachers.
In my little knowledge of French
Ouais, abas l'imperialisme culturelle
vive Burkina Faso, vive l'Afrique, wesh
Gas update (using AAA US national average)
Regular Current - 4.29
Regular Highest Recorded (6/15/22) - 5.02
Diesel Current - 6.31
Diesel Highest Recorded (9/22/26) - 6.52
https://gasprices.aaa.com/
On its way back up I see. Wonder what sort of market manipulation Trump will do this time
Lotsa people don't know this but magic bullets are real. I have lots of magic bullets so...
The French PM announced "localised" curfews in big cities, some places in Paris and Lyon, and in Marseille groupings are forbidden. Le Monde (French) live newsfeed with no paywall, Regular Le Monde article with no paywall
Additionally, Mélenchon said that the PM suggested using Article 16 of the Constitution, which allows for the suspending of all constitutional freedoms and parliamentary activity, and granting emergency powers to the president and government. This has only been used once since the current Constitution was promulgated, during the Algerian war of independence when fascist generals tried to assassinate de Gaulle because he finally recognised he couldn't stop independence. I don't think a PM has ever openly mentioned Article 16 in recent memory, but I may be wrong on that (also, the PM can't proclaim emergency powers, only the president can, but since Macron fucked off to the Middle East the PM is basically speaking for him now, even more than he usually is). Regardless, this is still serious stuff that the guy speaking for Macron is putting emergency powers on the table.
Edit: I put a Nitter link now Edit edit: changed "mentioned" to "suggested" for clarity
I think student movements are much more likely to get wild and out of control than other forms. Workers organising under unions listen to their leadership, as do members of political parties or just general protest movements with older members of the protests.
Student movements however are much more likely to not listen to leaders and act how they feel in the moment. Students also have significantly less to risk and lose than a dude with a job and his family to consider.
How to turn half a million protesters into 5 million protesters: a speed run
Imagine how easily the French government could just give the people what they want rather than fucking murdering them in the streets
it's always this way. Think about how small the ask of the original George Floyd protesters was. Convict one (1) cop of a crime. That's it. They let half the country burn before they finally submitted to that demand that should have been a no-brainer for any competent bourgeois administrator. It doesn't matter how minor the demand is, the bourgeois state can never cede demands willingly. It would make them appear weak, and thus, less legitimate, and reinforce that direct action and riots actually delivers on results and is the correct path to take for future grievances. It would confirm to the masses that class struggle can get results, which they want to obscure by all means possible.
The ruling class sees concessions like this through the lens of "give a mouse a cookie" mindset. They believe every single little crumb they cede only encourages future demands, and it never ends. So they put their foot down immediately instead of sliding down the slippery slope to revolution.
The function, of, that police action, Those interventions in Central America and the Middle East, The function is system sustaining. It is to maintain that overall system. And you don't look at the particular cost. I can demonstrate to you that every single bank robbery, That in every single case practically, the cost of the police was more then the actual money that the robbers took from the bank. Does that mean, oh you see? There's really no economic interest involved in it. They're not protecting the banks! The police are just doing this because they're on a power trip, or they're macho, or uh they're control freaks. That's why they do it. No! Of course it's an economic, of course they're defending the banks. Of course, because if they didn't stop that bank robbery, regardless of the cost, This could jeopardize the entire banking system. You see, there are people who believe that the function of the police is to fight crime. And that's not true, the function of the police is social control, and protection of property.
Semi-related Parenti quote.
Imagine Macron proclaiming a state of emergency live from Riyadh...
I have a few theories on why Macron would have Lecornu (PM) suggest that, but take them with a grain of salt since I'm spitballing (and I'm not in the country this year). It could be that he's fearmongering to justify less drastic, but still drastic, measures, like a state of siege or generalised curfews. It could also be that Macron knows that there's no way he's passing his incredibly austere budget this year without bypassing parliament, and since emergency powers last a few months he could pass the budget himself this way (a bit like the previous president of the Republic of Samsung). Also he could use emergency powers to delay or even cancel the election! Especially since there's a good chance Mélenchon would win. Or, less drastically, there have been right wing parties that called for the dissolution of LFI (Mélenchon's ~~party~~ movement), and given all the effort that the government is spending to lay the blame of all violence happening in the country on LFI, that's a possibility. There may be other reasons but these are the two that come to mind.
curfews
good luck with that
Yeah, there's no way it'll be followed; they just want an excuse to be even more indiscriminately violent against protestors and any passerby so that people are too scared to protest. That's the strategy since the Yellow Vests started back in 2018, just now even more explicit.
Half a Million Palestinians Lose WFP Aid as Gaza Funding Runs Short
The World Food Programme is cutting assistance to 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza as funding shortages threaten already fragile food security.
Key Takeaways
Funding shortages have forced the World Food Programme to reduce its Gaza assistance coverage by approximately 500,000 people.
Around 1.1 million Palestinians will continue receiving food or cash assistance, nearly half the enclave’s population.
The cuts come amid widespread humanitarian needs, with 94% of Gaza’s population requiring shelter and basic household assistance.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/half-a-million-palestinians-lose-wfp-aid-as-gaza-funding-runs-short/
This after
Israel stops commercial goods from entering Gaza
Israel said that commercial goods will no longer enter the Gaza Strip, cutting off a key source of food and shelter supply for the war-torn territory as hungry Palestinians face the approach of winter.
COGAT, the Israeli military body that oversees humanitarian affairs in Gaza, announced the suspension of commercial goods in a Wednesday statement. It was not clear whether they made the decision. COGAT said it was relaying a statement from Gaza merchants, a claim Palestinians refuted.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-palestinians-israel-cogat-jerusalem-b3067349.html
~ And ~
2,027 Gaza Patients Die Awaiting Treatment as Israel Restricts Medical Evacuations
More than 2,000 Gaza patients have died awaiting treatment or evacuation as Israeli crossing restrictions obstruct access to lifesaving care.
Key Takeaways
Medical Relief director Muhammad Abu Afash reported that 2,027 patients died while awaiting treatment or medical evacuation.
More than 21,000 patients need treatment outside Gaza; Abu Afash said no patient had departed through Rafah for over five days.
No more than 227 of Gaza’s previously operating 574-plus healthcare centers remain functional, with limited resources.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/2027-gaza-patients-die-awaiting-treatment-as-israel-restricts-medical-evacuations/
Iran’s navy says US forces hit Konark naval base; 2 troops wounded
The US military attacked the Konarak naval base with “two light projectiles” early this morning, says Iran’s navy.
Two Iranian soldiers were wounded in the strikes on the facility, located in a military complex in Sistan and Baluchestan province on the southeastern coast of Iran.
“The target of the American forces in the attack on the Iranian navy this morning was a 35mm cannon,” it added.
First time the US has hit Iranian land in awhile
There are rumblings of another ceasefire/MOU deal? Trump needs to ease the oil markets for the midterms and have sent his errand boy, the Pakistani general Munir, to Tehran again. Lavrov is also in Tehran to talk with Aragchi.
Iran really needs to establish some deterrence here. They test-fired around 50 missiles last week, they need to launch at least that many at US bases in Jordan in response.
correct, the US will otherwise keep escalating attacks.
What USN unit has a 35 and is close enough to use it on a land base? Are these strays from a drone interception?
If I'm reading it correctly, the US was targeting a 35mm gun, not using one.
Thanks.
Could be probing attacks, testing their own capabilities and Iran's response.
Hegseth said "we gettin fired anyway, fuck it" and bombed Iran for no reason two weeks before elections. Who cares about a 35mm gun, that's pretty close to what you can legally own in the US lol
I don't think we are voting our way of this babee.
Actual propublica article
Real "every accusation is a confession" hours
Drives me up the wall how anyone trusts electronic/machine voting. The only time it can ever work is in an open ballot.
I don't even trust electronic gambling machines (not that I gamble but still) since there's basically no possible way for a random person to know what's actually going on "behind the scenes" and you just have to trust that the machine designed to take as much of your money as possible is on the level and actually following the advertised odds.
Electronic voting sounds like it's almost designed to be easily manipulated with as little evidence as possible
Yeah it's the same thing lol. See also postal vote counting machines in the UK. They are black boxes run by private companies and the code isn't audited by anyone afaict. Many suspect they swung the Scottish indie ref and perhaps even Brexit.
tbf, if say there was a screen inside concealed booth, which shows numbers going +1 after your vote, then space for manipulation is limited. just take pictures of it by singular concerned voters, if the total at 19:43, mismatches total at closure too much or in negative direction, it's quite obvious what happened. the secrecy of the vote is fairly preserved, unless your concern is some boutique secret agents double siding before and after one voter, and at that point - machine is the least of your liberal problems.
Yes but then you're just pushing the problem to the aggregation of numbers. And what benefit is the machine bringing anyway?
The 2000 election went to George Bush because of hanging chad issues on paper ballots delaying the vote count. If all the votes were allowed to be counted before the supreme court halted it, Al Gore would have won
hanging chad
no calls to violence
not having people fumbling with stacks of paper.
I don't think there's any way around getting representatives from all interested parties to keep an eye on each other as they count the votes manually.
✨ efficiency ✨
What a coincidence that the AI companies that Trump is in bed with are leaning hard into hacking at this very moment!
Claude hand me the election make no errors.
10 biddigan votes for Trump vs 0 votes everyone else
they are gonna have a 105% turnout in counties with 8,000 people. This is gonna be so fucking funny.
ooh is it an apple turnover
:heimlich-boysenberry:
More like 105% turnover in counties that don't exist.
Brags about getting 1 brazillian votes, immediately triggering an ICE raid on the White House.
more like manipulated numbers will be in bigendian format, and normal in small endian, and there would be big kerfuffle with increasingly desperate nerds trying to tell that this doesn't happen
huh this is weird some guy named Claude Amodei voted a hundred billion times
That's just because you aren't voting hard enough
Kill Israel
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I'm gonna return to my coverage of the world's rebellions as promised, but I gotta do real organizing and family and work shit so it's delayed
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Also, I'm George R.R. Martin, and here's a different piece of political analysis that's top of mind:
In Ohio, Senate candidate Greg Levy is starting to show up meaningfully in the polls:
Greg, as a guy, is simply the best. He's a full-time mover working 40 hours a week for two men and a truck. He's a dedicated comrade who's been in the streets loud and proud for years and runs a secular revolutionary gospel choir. We love Greg.
Ohio is a politically significant state for three main reasons: relatively large population that's demographically similar on most accounts to the US as a whole; considered a major political bellweather that can meaningfully indicate the national mood; and a major economic region (roughly equivalent GDP to Turkiye) with manufacturing, AI datacenter scramble, world-leading medical institutions, and all-in-all a big boy for the bourgeoisie who run the show here about as freely as anywhere on planet earth.
PSL is running Senate campaigns for the first time. Contrary to the dead-end political advice of liberals who say you need to elect a bunch of pointless school board members to go anywhere, our argument is that you aim for high profile, high-impact races to raise the profile and organization of the party as a revolutionary vehicle. To that end, we picked Ohio and Massachusetts for our first forays into this scale of electoral work (MA is also going great, polling as high as 19% [!] although results in the 5-10% range seem more likely). We've been campaiging pretty hard all summer to extremely positive reception, targeting Black working class communities in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Akron and generally everybody loves us. I've been told so often at people's doors 'you folks probably aren't ready for what I think, cause this country needs a revolution' and I get to enthusiastically affirm that view and invite them into political action. There are whole neighborhoods stacked up with Greg signs delivered on the explicit promise of a socialist third party that fully rejects the Democrats and Republicans. We built on our extensive community networks and organization trust, especially in Cleveland and Columbus, to get Greg to around 2-3% in most polling.
Then, starting in late September, we kicked up our canvassing efforts substantially, and that lead to the poll above, which has fascinating implications.
Obviously, the response we get from online libs on Reddit and Instagram is pretty uniform: we cannot afford to take votes away from Sherrod Brown, Hero of the Imperialist Trade Unions and AIPAC, during such a critical election, so Greg should just lay in a hole and die if the voters don't rightfully kill him first. Our argument is two fold: one, we don't care, fuck the dems; two, we aren't drawing from the same voter pool at this stage but instead we're activating people who weren't going to vote for either candidate in the first place. And that poll bears out our entire argument. Sherrod Brown is up by a whopping 6%, an absolute drubbing in an Ohio that seemed irreversibly Republican (if you listen to idealist libs, at least) while Greg is ALSO polling at 5%. Our on-thr-ground work has done a ton to boost the campaign's visibility and we did it all while raising less than $100k throughout the whole campaign, running entirely on party cadre and non-party volunteers. For us, our big spend was a whopping 5 billboards statewide, but we've still been booming.
And then something very interesting happened after this polling period. A Republican-run PAC started sending out AI-generated pro-Greg mailers en masse, dropping almost half a million dollars. Now they've apparently increased their spend and are running AI pro-Greg TV ads during major sporting events that target Brown for being pro-Israel and pro-private prison. Greg's campaign disavowed and condemned this trick, and Greg rejects being utilized as an AI blackface pawn for inter-bourgeois political competition. This has kicked off a new round of lib screeching that we're just a 'GOP op', and our response to that is simply an opportunity for us to reinforce our total opposition to both billionaire parties: they may think we're a joke or a sideshow for now, but it looks to me like we're only 7 weeks away from a Marxist-Leninist party to get more than 5% in two major statewide elections for the first time since the Great Depression at least. The actual GOP trickery will not be enough to win over Brown because Jon Husted is just a lizard that performs sex doll performance for Trump and has had no campaign besides a detranser from Texas and Brown is genuinely pretty popular here. What it will do is push our numbers even higher and solidify the best third party performance in Ohio since the Worker's World Party got 6.7% in 1992, and frankly I'm thinking we can beat that.
Ohio's going to have a dramatic, high-profile Senate election this year that will receive significant national coverage when Brown predictably upsets Husted, and all that TV coverage is going to have to feature the Black communist veteran dad who grew up in public housing as the reason why neither candidate crossed 50%. Obviously we're not going to be positively covered, but it's going to blow up a lot of the Dem myths about elections that have already taken a beating from DSA primary wins, and it should raise to the many millions of politically hopeless people that if a genuine political alternative can take off in Ohio, it can take off anywhere in this country. All that 'bad press' is only going to raise the profile of a party who says cut the check for reparations now, cut the military budget by 90%, supports a single Palestinian state from the river to the sea, and (if you look at Greg's campaign material) is consistent and disciplined about the need for a Literal Fucking Revolution in this country to much applause.
While I know the following means nothing either electorally or for building class consciousness… it really warms my commie heart to see a PSL candidate outperform the Libertarian Party candidate in a race.
It definitely doesn't mean nothing. It reflects some combination of the party's organizing potential, the appeal of anti-systemic politics generally and socialism specifically, and a collapse in the false consciousness of libertarianism.
Thank you for your efforts on the ground and the quality posts of updates!
I really feel like the "centrist" "moderate" position for many Americans is that we need revolution. My mom, in many ways a very average "American", two decades ago said that her hope for the future was that the credit and banking system collapsed and erased all debt. That's why Trump became so popular, he talked about substantial outside-the-system change, he wasn't an elite (although really he was able to succeed because he was backed by the wealthy). Anything the democratic party does is seen as part of the "elite" by most. Local subreddits are notoriously reactionary but even on a few of those I've seen PSL shared to positive response. The libs on Bluesky have been widely praising the level of action in France and Albania.
I think you're 100% correct. My anecdotal experience is that most people accept a revolution is necessary but they don't believe it's possible. We need to show them it is.
I think this is precisely why post-apocalypse TV shows and prepping are so popular right now.
Basically the quote "It has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"
Content warning of footage advised:
Should have been
Ouais, Ep666
Any reporting on this?
It appears the kid is still alive at end of the vid, although he certainly might have died afterwards. No further info?
Actually, I don't know if he's dead or not, the original post just says it...
I also saw similar images of them beating up a street medic… And then the fucking pigs act all surprised when people respond violently, oh how dare you attack our "guardians of peace"
::: spoiler CW Cops beating up a street medic until they're unconscious :::
the people will not accept this, and France will burn all the brighter in honor of this martyr
how likely is the news of it to survive the censor?
unless they shut off internet (which will happen by friday, if the state continues behaving this way), not very likely to be censored
until or unless?
unless, sry.
this is the sort of thing that gets around like wildfire in group chats
It is getting around like wildfire.
Things are pretty unclear in general right now but the person in the video apparently didn't die. One person did die on Saturday after jumping from the Arc de Triomphe (apparently a genuine suicide with no links to the ongoing protests); another had to have a tourniquet installed on their leg on the same day and was evac-ed in a bad state, current status uncertain; another died, on Saturday still, from a cardiac arrest.
Another died on Sunday evening, and apparently in the midst of clashes with pigs, but there is very little detail about it thus far.
If someone was killed by cops I fully expect them to try and cover it up as long as possible, the general reaction would make the past few days look like a cake walk.
how likely is the news of it to survive the censor?
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Great start
(The Cradle) Qatar warns global energy crisis has yet to peak amid escalating aggression on Iran
Qatari Deputy Prime Minister Saud bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani warns that the global energy shockwaves stemming from the US-Israeli war on Iran have not yet reached their peak, cautioning that further severe disruptions to international markets, shipping routes, and global economic growth are imminent.
Speaking at the Global Security Forum in Doha, he identified the ongoing regional hostilities as a direct threat to West Asian sovereignty and energy supply chains, asserting that the full economic repercussions will unravel "in the coming days and months."
According to Al Jazeera, the Qatari defense chief’s statements highlight growing alarm among Gulf producers over prolonged volatility in critical transit corridors.
The warning follows months of severe operational strains across regional gas and oil infrastructure, including force majeure declarations on liquid natural gas exports and naval incidents along the Strait of Hormuz. (https://t.me/thecradlemedia/69656)
The YAF announces that they carried out an attack on the Al-Alam camp in Shabwa, resulting in dozens of casualties. I’ve seen some pictures/videos and their assessment seems accurate. They also claim that Saudi officers were present at this camp. -bonzebarry
Death to America and its external zionist tumor
(Me, being angry that you neglected "death to the EU')
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