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"Bis vor ein paar Jahren galt das neutrale #Österreich für einen westlichen Staat tendenziell als eher pro-palästinensisch. Aber unter Sebastian #Kurz kehrte 2018 eine Wende in der Nahost-Politik ein. Das zeigte sich etwa in Abstimmungen bei der #UNO, in denen Österreich gegen eine Waffenruhe votierte."

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#Gaza #Westbank #Palästina #Israel #Genozid #Rassismus #Rechtsextremismus


»Westliche Politiker können genauso Verbrechen begehen wie nicht-westliche«

Shoura Hashemi ist Geschäftsführerin von Amnesty International Österreich. Im Interview erzählt sie, wie ihr Einsatz für iranische Frauen bejubelt, derselbe Einsatz für palästinensische Menschen aber angegriffen wurde, und wie die Gaza-Debatte sich w…
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Israel Commits Massacre in Khan Younis tn.ai/3337532

Israel Commits Massacre in Khan Younis

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – In one of the bloodiest attacks on besieged Gaza in recent weeks, the Israeli occupation forces killed at least 70 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more in Khan Younis on Tuesday, targeting desperate civilians seeking food assistan…
Tasnim News Agency

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is there is any Lemmy server that care about privacy(does not require email), Does not impose limits on community posts like my current instance and does not have high amount of restrictions?

I want to be part of the solution of the problems I see on Lemmy, that is why I opened my alt account at my current server to open new communities while fixing their issues.

I had been informed by the server admin that I should not post more than 5 posts in any local community which is guaranteed to kill my communities on my current server.

I am explaining the backstory here for people to understand my logic for my question.

So, I really appreciate any help here. If anyone can give me good servers to open my communities in.

My current communities:
- News: to lower the load on Lemmy. World server and to improve the Fediverse health.
- Europe: due to less than optimal moderation actions as documented in "power trippin " community.
- Misinformation/ Disinformation: Because there is no community to post research and news about this topic.

Thank you all for your help. I really would appreciate any lead here.

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#BenedictCumberbatch, reading a #letter about a #guy witnessing another guy #blow-drying his #balls, in the men's locker room at a gym, is everything I needed right now. #LettersLive

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Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter to a man blow-drying his balls at the gym

In December of 2011, a writer named Ross Beeley addressed the following open letter to a fellow gym-goer. Benedict Cumberbatch joined us to read this extraor...
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“I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.”

~ Hermann Goering
(1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich. [Göring]

Quotation by Hermann Goering

"I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense." ~ Hermann Goering
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Et bonne fin de Ramadan.

Il est trop fort Haroun 😂

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“If our generation happens to be too weak to establish Socialism over the earth, we will hand the spotless banner down to our children. The struggle which is in the offing transcends by far the importance of individuals, factions and parties. It is the struggle for the future of all mankind. It will be severe, it will be lengthy. Whoever seeks physical comfort and spiritual calm let him step aside. In time of reaction it is more convenient to lean on the bureaucracy…

Quotation by Leon Trotsky

"If our generation happens to be too weak to establish Socialism over the earth, we will hand the spotless banner down to our children. The struggle which is in the offing transcends by far the importance of individuals, factions and parties.
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A Saudi journalist tweeted against the government – and was executed for ‘high treason’

A Saudi journalist tweeted against the government – and was executed for ‘high treason’

The death of Turki al-Jasser was the first high-profile killing of a journalist since the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Stephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)

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Climate change may have been shoved to the sidelines of public discourse of late. But climate change deniers remain as active as ever, using AI to help push their lies and conspiracies, and beavering their way into Canada.
#ClimateChange #climate #canada
nationalobserver.com/2025/06/1…

A US climate conspiracy has spread to Canada — and local politicians haven’t been warned

Councillors have been left scrambling to warn their colleagues before more municipalities abandon their net-zero commitments, after conspiracy theories resurrected from the US Tea Party swamped their communities.
Canada's National Observer

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Call with Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski at Paris Air Show 2025


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Video: 00:12:58

Watch the replay of the call between Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General, Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, ESA project astronaut. This call took place at the Paris Air Show 2025 (Le Bourget) on 18 June. Project astronaut Uznański-Wiśniewski joined from quarantine ahead of the upcoming Ignis mission mission.

Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT), and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the Ignis mission features an ambitious technological and scientific programme. It includes several experiments proposed by the Polish space industry and developed in cooperation with ESA, along with additional ESA-led experiments.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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ESA - European Commission Press Conference at Paris Air Show 2025


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Watch the replay of the ESA-European Commission press conference with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA, and Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, held at the Paris Air Show 2025 (Le Bourget) on 18 June 2025.

Download the transcript.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Iran Shakes Up Israel’s Intel: Senior Officers and Mossad Targets Taken Down sputnikglobe.com/20250617/iran…

Iran Shakes Up Israel’s Intel: Senior Officers and Mossad Targets Taken Down

Iran has killed "a significant number" of officers and commanders in strikes on Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and military intelligence centers, the Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday.
Sputnik International
in reply to Acta Populi

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oAnth

We can certainly wait a long time for reliable verification or falsification from the Western media.

As Aron Maté has already commented (see link below), #Israel passes on very few (rather none) details of Iranian attacks and targets, whether on infrastructure or military and civilian personnel.

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To push war on Iran, Trump sides with Israel over US intel aaronmat...

To push war on Iran, Trump sides with Israel over US intel aaronmate.net/p/to-push-war-on… (https://www.aaronmate.net/p/to-push-war-on-iran-trump-sides-with)
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oAnth

cf.: jpost.com/israel-news/defense-…

IDF censor updates restrictions on reporting missile, drone impact sites


"Any person who prints or publishes printed matter or a publication regarding the location of a strike or hit by enemy war materiel," must submit to the military censor for approval.

Israeli censor updates restrictions on reporting impact sites | The Jerusalem Post

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Padilla was scheduled w/ Noem, had passed security, asked the FBI & National Guard if he could go listen to unscheduled press briefing. The FBI & National Guard escort him INTO her briefing, opening the doors for him. He opens his question by identifying himself, is standing beside these agents, yet gets arrested, faces censure bc fascists. How do you barge in and lunge when the FBI escorted you in, held the doors?
#Noem #shoots #pets #cosplay #dog #killer #fascist #USA abcnews.go.com/Politics/padill…

Padilla pushes back against Noem's claim he barged into news conference

The senator said that he identified himself before officers pushed him out.
Ivan Pereira (ABC News)

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Heureusement que papa est là pour tout expliquer ! #Humour #LesGuignols ...


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Central banks have dumped $48 billion in Treasuries as foreign wealth officials divorce the dollar
https://fortune.com/2025/06/18/central-banks-have-dumped-48-billion-in-treasuries-as-foreign-wealth-officials-divorce-the-dollar/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Central banks have dumped $48 billion in Treasuries as foreign wealth officials divorce the dollar

Foreign buyers account for roughly 30% of the U.S. Treasury market.
Greg McKenna (Fortune)

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“Iran warns ‘no restraint’ if Washington joins Israeli war”

by The Cradle News Desk

“US President Donald Trump has demanded ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran and has made threats against the country’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei”

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#Press #Israel #Iran #War #US #Trump #Threats #Khamenei


Iran warns ‘no restraint’ if Washington joins Israeli war

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> Signal groups, in particular, are more powerful than you might be aware of, even if you already use them all the time. In this post I'll show you how to:

- Turn an in-person meeting into a Signal group using QR codes
- Manage large semi-public groups while still vetting new members
- Make announcement-only groups, perfect for volunteer networks rapidly responding to things like ICE raids

**Using Signal groups for activism** by @micahflee

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#Signal #DataPrivacy


Using Signal groups for activism

Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism.
Micah Lee (micahflee)

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Long before the internet, some phone networks were hackable by playing a single tone at 2600Hz.

Whistled into a phone, it could grant you unrestricted access. Do you have the vocal chops to be an old-school phone phreak?

I built a web app to test your ability to produce the legendary frequency. You won't get free long distance calls but you will get some honor in the knowledge that you could have been a cool hacker. 😎

I am sad to say that I can only whistle up to 1100Hz... But my wife (a long time woodwind player) is able to consistently get it.

Give it a try: phreak.kmcd.dev/

#phreaking #2600Hz #bluebox #RetroComputing #hacker #infosec #Tech


Phone Phreak Emulator

Test your phreaking skills by hacking this phone line.
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Wang Yi meets his counterparts from Angola, Namibia and other African countries socialistchina.org/2025/06/17/…

Wang Yi meets his counterparts from Angola, Namibia and other African countries - Friends of Socialist China

Over a period of three days, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from numerous African countries in the margins of the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of th…
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"Seit über 600 Tagen wird die ganze Zeit bombardiert, Hilfslieferungen werden verhindert, Menschen sterben, Menschen verhungern. Es ist für uns sehr schwer zu verstehen, warum das zugelassen wird." Interview mit einem Arzt des medico-Partners PMRS in Gaza

Gaza-Krieg - "Wir tragen ein t...

"Wir tragen ein tiefes Trauma in uns"

Gespräch mit einem Arzt in Gaza.
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Como dije hace mucho tiempo, estaba buscando una app para pc para inventariar mi librería personal en local, que es una pasada (+ de 1000libros, de locos). Como no encontré ninguna me satisfaciera ya que calibre lo utilizo para los ebooks al final decidí crear uno con java en cuanto terminé los exámenes de DAM. Lo estoy haciendo en java. En cuanto lo tenga lo subiré a GitHub por si le interesa a alguien. Aunque eso sí, es un proyecto personal y será mi primera app, así que haber cómo me sale.

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How to Be a Good Communist by Liu Shaoqi (Full Audiobook)

A compilation of a series of lectures by Liu Shaoqi (Mao Zedong’s number-two man and the President of Communist China) at the Yunan Institute of Marxism-Leninism in 1939, this book was more popular in Communist China than the works of Chairman Mao! For decades it was required reading for all party cadre on discipline and individual self-cultivation.

From @Dessalines

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On Practice and Contradiction by Mao Zedong (Full Audiobook)
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (Full Audiobook)
This seminal text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the 'piggy bank' system - treating students as passive, empty vessels - to preserve their authority and maintain a culture of silence. Through cooperation and dialogue, Freire suggests, the authoritarian teacher-pupil model can be replaced with critical thinking so that the student becomes co-creator of knowledge. Crucial to Freire's argument is the belief that every human being, no matter how impoverished or illiterate, can develop an awareness of self, and the right to be heard.
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State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin (Full Audiobook)
"State and Revolution" (1917) describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution. It describes the inherent nature of the State as a tool for class oppression, a creation born of one social class's desire to control all other social classes. Whether a dictatorship or a democracy, the State remains in the control of the ruling class. Even in a democratic capitalist republic, the ruling class will never willingly relinquish political power, maintaining it via various strategies. Hence, according to this view, communist revolution is the sole remedy for the abolition of the state.
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin (Full Audiobook)

“This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important – if not the most important – phenomena of modern capitalist economy.” – V. I. Lenin

During the First World War, Lenin found himself isolated, but he was not afraid to fight against the stream. He dedicated all his strength to educating and training the Bolsheviks on the basis of the genuine ideas of Marxism. His masterpiece, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, is an immortal monument to his work in the vital field of theory.

No book has ever explained the phenomena of modern capitalism better. Indeed, all of Lenin’s predictions concerning the concentration of capital, the dominance of the banks and finance capital, the growing antagonism between nation states and the inevitability of war arising out of the contradictions of imperialism have been shown to be true by the entire history of the last 100 years.

Using the empirical evidence and statistics at his disposal, Lenin explains that, in the stage of imperialist monopoly capitalism, the entire economy is under the domination of the banks and finance capital. Today, over 100 years after it was first published, this domination is 100 times greater.

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A Collection of Marxist Writings by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (Full Audiobook)

This audiobook contains three major works on Marxism: The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Chapters thanks to @aNarcoComm

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Elementary Principles of Philosophy Book by Georges Politzer (Full Audiobook)

Elementary Principles of Philosophy, written by Georges Politzer. Recorded reading of the text linked below:
foreignlanguages.press/wp-cont…

From @CommunistASMR

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti (Full Audiobook)

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark.

Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the "free-market" victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.

Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are.

"A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks." —The Catholic Journalist

"By portraying the struggle between fascism and Communism in this century as a single conflict, and not a series of discrete encounters, between the insatiable need for new capital on the one hand and the survival of a system under siege on the other, Parenti defines fascism as the weapon of capitalism, not simply an extreme form of it. Fascism is not an aberration, he points out, but a 'rational' and integral component of the system."—Stan Goff, author of Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century

Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. Author of over 275 published articles and twenty books, his writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

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"The Principles of Communism" by Friedrich Engels. Audiobook of Marxist Essay Published 1847.

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Description: This is a very early (1847) FAQ file for Communism, written by Karl Marx's main collaborator, Frederick Engels. Engels had previously written "Draft of the Communist Confession of Faith," which uses a similar, catechistic format of questions and answers, but this document is better-developed. However, Engels still did not find it satisfying and wrote to Marx, "“Think over the Confession of Faith a bit. I believe we had better drop the catechism form and call the thing: Communist Manifesto. As more or less history has got to be related in it, the form it has been in hitherto is quite unsuitable. I am bringing what I have done here with me; it is in simple narrative form, but miserably worded, in fearful haste. ...”

The original text is here: marxists.org/archive/marx/work…

Timestamps for those coming back to this video, or those who want a specific question answered:
0:00 Channel introduction
0:43 Front matter
1:25 1. What is Communism?
1:33 2. What is the proletariat?
2:03 3. Proletarians, then, have not always existed?
2:25 4. How did the proletariat originate?
5:39 5. Under what conditions does this sale of the labor of the proletarians to the bourgeoisie take place?
7:05 6. What working classes were there before the industrial revolution?
7:55 7. In what way do proletarians differ from slaves?
9:11 8. In what way do proletarians differ from serfs?
10:20 9. In what way do proletarians differ from handicraftsmen?
11:28 10. In what way do proletarians differ from manufacturing workers?
12:16 11. What were the immediate consequences of the industrial revolution and of the division of society into bourgeoisie and proletariat?
17:02 12. What were the further consequences of the industrial revolution?
18:25 13. What follows from these periodic commercial crises?
20:17 14. What will this new social order have to be like?
21:41 15. Was not the abolition of private property possible at an earlier time?
24:16 16. Will the peaceful abolition of private property be possible?
25:12 17. Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke?
25:39 18. What will be the course of this revolution?
29:50 19. Will it be possible for this revolution to take place in one country alone?
31:10 20. What will be the consequences of the ultimate disappearance of private property?
36:42 21. What will be the influence of communist society on the family?
37:36 22. What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities?
38:00 23. What will be its attitude to existing religions?
38:21 24. How do communists differ from socialists?
38:29 (How do communists differ from) Reactionary Socialists
39:51 (How do communists differ from) Bourgeois Socialists
40:36 (How do communists differ from) Democratic Socialists
41:40 25. What is the attitude of the communists to the other political parties of our time?
44:05 Footnotes

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"The 3 Sources and 3 Component Parts of Marxism" (1913) by V. I. Lenin. Full Audiobook + Discussion.

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3:20 Text

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What Is To Be Done? by Vladimir Lenin (Full Audiobook)

This is Lenin’s seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years before Russia’s October 1917 Revolution. His plan to overturn the Czar’s ruthless autocratic regime proposes the establishment of a cadre of “professional revolutionaries” with the necessary skills and experience to counter the regime’s secret police.

Lenin derides trade unionists as “wretched amateurs”, arguing that a struggle for simple economic betterment is not enough, nor are patchwork reforms – what is needed is the complete overthrow of the political system. Lenin’s “professional revolutionaries” are not so much ‘shock troops’ of violent rebellion as educated activists who will awaken the workers’ class consciousness, leading them to reject western-style political factions and to work within the Party to achieve the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the October Revolution and the ensuing upheavals of the twentieth century.

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Read Theory, Darn it! An Introductory Reading List for Marxism-Leninism

"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."

— Vladimir Lenin^[What is to be Done? | Audiobook]

It's time to read theory, comrades! As Lenin says, "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle." Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components, as noted by Lenin in his pamphlet The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism: | Audiobook

  1. Dialectical and Historical Materialism
  2. Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx's Law of Value
  3. Advocacy for Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism, as well as the theory of Class Struggle.

As such, I created the following list to take you from no knowledge whatsoever of Leftist theory, and leave you with a strong understanding of the critical fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism in an order that builds up as you read. Let's get started!

Section I: Getting Started

What the heck is Communism, anyways? For that matter, what is fascism?

  1. Friedrich Engels' Principles of Communism | Audiobook

The FAQ of Communism, written by the Luigi of the Marx & Engels duo. Quick to read, and easy to reference, this is the perfect start to your journey.

  1. Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook

Parenti's characteristic wit is on full display in this historical contextualization and analysis of fascism and Communism. Line after line, Parenti debunks anti-Communist myths. This is also an excellent time to watch the famous speech.

Section II: Historical and Dialectical Materialism

Ugh, philosophy? Really? YES!

  1. Georges Politzer's Elementary Principles of Philosophy | Audiobook

By understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism-Leninism. Don't be intimidated!

  1. Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific | Audiobook

Engels introduces Scientific Socialism, explaining how Capitalism itself prepares the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates and cartels.

Section III: Political Economy

That's right, it's time for the Law of Value and a deep-dive into Imperialism. If we are to defeat Capitalism, we must learn it's mechanisms, tendencies, contradictions, and laws.

  1. Karl Marx's Wage Labor and Capital | Audiobook & Wages, Price and Profit | Audiobook

Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value.

  1. Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism | Audiobook

The era of Imperialism, which as the primary contradiction cascades downward into all manner of related secondary contradictions.

Section IV: Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism

Can we defeat Capitalism at the ballot box? What about just defeating fascism? What about the role of the state?

  1. Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution | Audiobook

If Marxists believed reforming Capitalist society was possible, we would be the first in line for it. Sadly, it isn't.

  1. Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution | Audiobook

Further analyzes the necessity of Revolution and introduces the economic basis for the withering away of the State.

Section V: National Liberation, De-colonialism, and Solidarity

The revolution will not be fought by individuals, but by an intersectional, international working class movement. Solidarity allows different marginalized groups to work together in collective interest, unifying into a single broad movement. Marxists support the Right of Self-Determination for all peoples and support National Liberation movements against Imperialism.

  1. Vikky Storm & Eme Flores' The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto | (No Audiobook yet)

Breaks down misogyny, and queerphobia, as well as how to move beyond the base subject of "gender" from a Historical Materialist perspective.

  1. Leslie Feinberg's Lavender & Red | Audiobook

When different social groups fight for liberation together along intersectional lines, they are emboldened and empowered ever-further.

  1. Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth | Audiobook & Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Audiobook

De-colonialism is essential to Marxism. Without having a strong, de-colonial, internationalist stance, we have no path to victory nor justice. These books are best taken as a pair, read in quick succession.

Section VI: Putting it into Practice!

It's not enough to endlessly read, you must put theory to practice. That is how you can improve yourself and the movements you support. Touch grass!

  1. Mao Tse-Tung's On Practice & On Contradiction | Audiobook

Mao wrote simply and directly to peasant soldiers during the Revolutionary War in China. This pair of essays equip the reader to apply the analytical tools of Dialectical Materialism to their every day practice.

  1. Vladimir Lenin's "Left-Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder | Audiobook

Common among new leftists is dogmatism over pragmatism. Everyone wants perfection, but dogmatic "left" anti-Communists let perfection become the enemy of progress.

  1. Jones Manoel's Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution | (No Audiobook yet)

Common among western leftists is fetishization of Marxism, rather than using it as a tool for analysis and social change. This article helps rectify that.

  1. Liu Shaoqi's How to be a Good Communist | Audiobook

Organizing is a skill. If we are to be successful, we must work to better ourselves.

Congratulations, you completed your introductory reading course!

With your new understanding and knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, here is a mini What is to be Done? of your own to follow, and take with you as practical advice.

  1. Get organized. The Party for Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and Red Star Caucus all organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one!
  2. Read theory. Don't think that you are done now! Just because you have the basics, doesn't mean you know more than you do. If you have not investigated a subject, don't speak on it!
  3. Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground, let nobody go forgotten.
  4. Be industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your knowledge.
  5. Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others.
  6. Be persistent. If you feel like a single water droplet against a mountain, think of canyons and valleys. With consistency, every rock, boulder, mountain, can be drilled through with nothing but water droplets.

"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."

­— Mao Tse-Tung

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Red Star

Red Star is a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist caucus in the Democratic Socialists of America.
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2024-11-17 17:34:39

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What Is To Be Done? by Vladimir Lenin (Full Audiobook)


This is Lenin’s seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years before Russia’s October 1917 Revolution. His plan to overturn the Czar’s ruthless autocratic regime proposes the establishment of a cadre of “professional revolutionaries” with the necessary skills and experience to counter the regime’s secret police.

Lenin derides trade unionists as “wretched amateurs”, arguing that a struggle for simple economic betterment is not enough, nor are patchwork reforms – what is needed is the complete overthrow of the political system. Lenin’s “professional revolutionaries” are not so much ‘shock troops’ of violent rebellion as educated activists who will awaken the workers’ class consciousness, leading them to reject western-style political factions and to work within the Party to achieve the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the October Revolution and the ensuing upheavals of the twentieth century.


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Américo DA SILVA

Ça explique sûrement pourquoi le mossad s'est infiltré dans la communauté juive en Iran depuis des années, ont ouverts des entreprises justifiant de posséder des entrepôts et les aller et venues de camions charger d'armes et de drone, a reçu toutes les informations de l'AIEA sur les responsables du programme nucléaire civil et l'aide des États-Unis pour attaquer L'Iran sans préavis. Mettant de fait en danger toute la communauté juive d'Iran sans aucun état d'âme.

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U.S. Intel Says Iran Isn’t Nuclear Threat. Israel Wants U.S. to Bomb It Anyway.


#Israel #Iran #war #imperialism #propaganda

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U.S. Intel Says Iran Isn’t a Nuclear Threat. Israel Wants the U.S. to Bomb It Anyway.

The U.S. is helping Israel wage war on Iran over its nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence says Iran is not building a bomb.
Nick Turse (The Intercept)

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"This is not a picture…
This is a testament to unspeakable pain.
A woman from #Gaza walks on the sand, with a torn homeland under her feet.
Carrying bread that feels like life, and pain that the world cannot see.
No home, no safety, no warmth... just the burden of war and children waiting for their daily bread.
This is the lady of the earth... who will apologize to her?”

—Anas Al-Sharif

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Taliban Suspends Chess In Afghanistan Over Gambling Concerns - Chess.com chess.com/news/view/taliban-su…

Taliban Suspends Chess In Afghanistan Over Gambling Concerns

The Taliban government have temporarily suspended chess in Afghanistan. Currently reviewing the game over gambling concerns, the Taliban have also suspended the Afghanistan National Chess Federation.
Peter Doggers (Chess.com)

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Sincerity Wins The War


#AI #propaganda #disinformation #politics

AI is shyte. Media are shyte. everything is just shyte to make gullible people give their hard earned money to plutocrats. Fuck this.

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Sincerity Wins The War

Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a weekly Friday column where I go over the most meaningful news and give my views, which I guess is what you’d expect.
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)

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Safeguarding Europe’s role in Solar System Internet: First Stop, the Moon


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The Moon over ESA's Cebreros deep space antenna

ESA is taking a significant step towards realising the Solar System Internet (SSI) - an ambitious vision made possible through global collaboration. Earlier this year, ESA launched a concurrent design activity for the SSI Node-1 mission, the world’s first mission aimed at demonstrating a reliable, routine optical communication link from the Moon to Earth.

#operations #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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#IsraelIranWar Day 6

MOSCOW, June 18 (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned on Wednesday that direct U.S. military assistance to Israel could radically destabilise the situation in the Middle East, where an air war between Iran and Israel has raged for six days.

In separate comments, the head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, was quoted as saying that the situation between Iran and Israel was now critical.

reuters.com/world/middle-east/…

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indyradio

The is what they, OF COURSE, claimed Palestinians were doing all along. Like the tunnels that were found in TelAviv, This is an #Israeli idea, NOT #Hamas.
The tunnelss were not an original idea of Palestinians, but of #Israel
Israel had tunnels under TelAviv, revealed by the bombing,
as did a synagogue in New York City. The members of the synagogue in NY claimed they didn't know about the tunnels!
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Fou

In the towns of Rummana, Anin and Jalboun near Jenin, 17 homes were seized, while several other homes were taken in the southern area of ​​Hebron and the town of Idhna to the west. Israeli soldiers also converted a three-storey building into a headquarters in the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah.

The soldiers forcibly evicted more than 50 residents, most of them children, citing security reasons. When the families asked to retrieve essential belongings, the soldiers assaulted them.

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Fou

Former US Army analyst urges Americans to oppose war with Iran: ‘Israel is not our ally’

Former US army intelligence analyst and current W. Asia peace advocate Josephine Guilbeau has called on American citizens to act urgently to prevent Washington from launching a direct war on Iran.

“This is the moment where our country must unite to protect its citizens from being dragged into a war on behalf of a genocidal country. Israel is not our ally,” Guilbeau said.

(Instagram / @ josephine.guilbeau)

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Fou

All of a sudden, after the Iranian ambassador's in Moscow statement Putin woke up 🤣

- I have spoken to Netanyahu on the situation in Iran," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

- I am in contact with Trump regarding the events in the Middle East

- The Iranian society is consolidating around the country's political leadership

kafeneio.social/@foufoutos/114…

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2025-06-17 20:15:35

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"The Iranian people will never forget who was with us during these times - and who chose to remain inactive" - Iran's Ambassador to Moscow

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Fou

"Trump wants to make sure an attack on Iran is really needed, it wouldn't drag the US into a prolonged war in the Middle East, and - most of all - would actually achieve the objective of destroying Iran's nuclear program.

President Trump has specifically asked his military advisors whether or not the Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP) would destroy Fordow. Pentagon officials told Trump they're confident they would, but it's not clear that Trump was totally convinced."

Axios

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Fou

Washington Post citing a European official

The general mood among US allies in the Gulf is extremely tense, especially after President Donald Trump indicated that he is still considering intervening in the conflict between Israel and Iran, despite the potentially high costs of such a decision
......

That is, the Gulf countries gave trillions of dollars to Trump and now there is a chance they will get my balls, or Trump's to be more precise, and they deserve it for trusting or trying to buy him

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minion

Und mich hat es gewundert, daß es so lange gedauert hat, nach der DDR. Aber zumindest wurde die Zukunft schon 99 am Beispiel Jugoslawien gezeigt. Und jetzt, wo jede relevante Konkurrenz des Systems weg ist, kann es endlich mit den Kriegsspielen richtig losgehen. Scheiß auf ne Demokratie, die nie eine war, Scheiß auf irgend ne Freiheit und Menschenrechte werden sowieso nur angeführt, wenn sie nützlich sind. Auf in den Kampf und der Kapitalismus zeigt sein wahres Gesicht. Humanressourcen sind zum Benutzen da, nicht zum Streicheln.

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Sudan Faces Worsening Famine as Conflict Blocks Aid and Displaces Millions telesurenglish.net/sudan-faces…

Sudan Faces Worsening Famine as Conflict Blocks Aid and Displaces Millions - teleSUR English

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a stark warning that Sudan is now experiencing a full-scale famine, marking one of the worst
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