Also free Ezo (so-called Hokkaido)
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EFF is basically setting up for a collapse of the ANC government and either taking power electorally as the failing ANC capitulates to their popular front or by guiding the next crisis into a revolution.
The KPRF has no crisis to leverage for themselves as both URP and the KPRF are looking good for their support of the SMO. If the URP starts fucking up the SMO you can expect the KPRF to gain more traction especially in the new republics and the borderlands. I'm not kidding when I say that Russia could electorally come back into Socialism since it has such a weak bourgeoisie that's totally reliant on state intervention and the international trade system. Having already been a workers' state the nation has the muscle memory for it. They just need a vanguard to awaken it.
Actually Existing Cultural Genocide
Hello comrades, it looks like the Chunka Luta Network (Red Road) lemmyverse account has been created. Chunka Luta is working from the Pine Ridge Reservation to build dual power in an ML direction. If you can spare some cash, there's a fundraiser for a construction drive that's 4k away from the goal, spread the word. They are building a meeting hall for the traditional government (as opposed to the Neo-Colonial IRA council) and a home. The fundraiser has already gathered 16k and with that they're buying 140 acres of Rez land that's currently growing hemp. For some history, hemp was a major component of the Lakotas' booming economy until it was targeted by the hemp and cannabis outlaw by the Federal government. Further funds beyond the 4k left in the construction goal are going to a member's wheelchair fund.
This project started last winter with a fundraiser for firewood and coat drive. Note that a significant portion of the population on Pine Ridge lives without electricity; warm clothing and wood are extremely important in the Dakotas.
In the future Chunka Luta wants to build a reverse osmosis water filtration system and buyback nearby farmland from American settlers to clean up a creek that runs through the Reservation. They also want to build a buffalo pasture for conservation.
Lots of promise coming from Chunka Luta, if you can spread the word it can go a long way. We are traveling the Red Road, we hope you can join us!
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/56629 https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1744683
The Donbas is actually the least agriculture intensive region of Ukraine, iirc about 10% of production. Ukraine is using DU because they know they are going to lose and wish to simply punish the Donbas for an eternity.
The infected soils won't just stay in Donbas, but the Westerly wind will generally take these soils further EAST into Russia and the steppe.
You'll have to be more specific, all revolutionary theory is "books on how to destroy capitalism".
These land protectors are objectively doing more for anti-Imperialism than RAWM
Hey y'all, x-posting from hexbear a fundraiser for dual power building and organizational funding for a working group of activists from multiple backgrounds and organizations with an overall Marxist-Leninist direction. (first 10k is going to purchase reservation land for ceremony, food and fabric production, and later housing, next 10k covers a comrade's wheelchair and medical expenses).
There is a lot more to be done, these are the two goals that will take priority. Feel free to ask me questions or you can reach out to the lead organizer linked in the gofundme description.
Btw Sungmanitu is one of the hosts of Marx Madness podcast if y'all are familiar with it
They think European consumption being equalized with Africans means that they'll have to eat bugs, because this is their view of Africa...
And not shit like, chocolate being more expensive (relative to wages) and less available because African farmers aren't being superexploited by Neo-Colonialism.
Communists in the settler and Imperialist countries can't seem to grasp their contradictions. They need to step back and research the material conditions to find their actual mass base and primary contradictions.
For Brazil the settler population owns most of the property and the largest vehicle for "wealth creation" is expropriating and exploiting indigenous land and labor for international markets. This process is fueling the Brazilian middle class which has so far shown itself to be very reactionary. This is not coincidentally why Bolsonaro's camp has been destroying the Amazon and murdering activist land protectors (mostly indigenous). Communists in Brazil who don't see this will cause fractures in their parties and movements.
Relevant MintPress article: https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1692172891415269386?t=GbCYLCWXW3d-MxZWXg2rMQ&s=19
Authoritarianism isn't real. Every state aggressively defends its class base. If you don't face repression from your capitalist country, that says a lot about how the state sees you.
These socialist states aggressively defend the project of socialism in their countries because it represents the working classes.
Frankly if we're talking about the western continents, it's because nobody has seriously studied the history and conditions of the land underneath their feet. PatSocs are superficially "close" to the Communists here because they do zero investigation of the internal structures of the continent, and view outward facing Imperialism from the Americans as an obstacle to "American Socialism". So like many of the other parties in the US, they focus on protesting foreign intervention.
Hot take, the other parties are pretty much the same. Where they differ is that PatSocs dream of a great assimilation into American so-called culture, so subjugation of Black and Indigenous peoples is a focal point, and it's why they are willing to work with the right opportunistically. The other parties expect to take full control of the leftovers of America, but with "respecting treaties" and giving "self-determination" and the ability to "secede", secede from what tho? If the PatSocs are settler-chauvinists then this is settler-blindness. PatSocs succeed in grifting because the other parties have yet to put out real theories on how to destroy the empire from within, so they just appeal to the American (or Canadian, Mexican) chauvinist extremes.
In ML terms the settlers are not the subject of revolution. National Liberation for the prisons of nations beneath the Empire is primary. Policing, enclosure, ecological exploitation. Spontaneity from the colonized masses and even Anarchists is focused at the symptoms of settler-colonialism, and until Communists study their conditions and give direction to these people we can only alienate and frustrate them when telling them to vote or show up to a protest at city hall. It's extremely frustrating for Natives when they ask for solidarity from settlers against megacorps looting their lands only for the unions to back the corps for jobs and then for Communists to only talk about unionization and maybe a "land acknowledgement".
Communists need to connect with the workers being gentrified out of their homes, connect with the Natives of their locales, unite these struggles, that's the unity. What we think about China is a discussion to be had in a party that comes together to liberate the colonized nations. Settler-chauvinism, and setter-blindness (I also like "Left-PatSoc") are the deal-breakers for unity.