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Daophi wrote:new region who dis

New internet who dis

Daophi

Man with the red hat

Black Panthers Vs Local Pimps

"Because our community center was near the 'Ho Stroll", many of the prostitutes took refuge in our office when the police came down on them. Sometimes, at the request of mothers, we went out in search of their daughters on the streets of Seattle or at pimps' houses, on occasion pimps kidnapped young women and sent them to Utah to break them in. One day a couple of the comrade sisters came in from selling papers and told us they had been harassed by some pimps, so we sent a squad to the apartment where the pimps lived. The comrades kicked down the door and administered some revolutionary justice.

About a week later, we held a fundraising dance to benefit the medical clinic. Toward the end of the event, Elmer, Anthony, Jake Fidler and Valentine were doing a security check of the perimeter when Valentine spotted a young girl sitting in a gold Cadillac, crying, while a pimp with a big floppy hat sat at the wheel. Valentine leaned in and asked the girl what was wrong. He got into the car as she scooted over. "He won't let me leave", she said quietly. "You want to leave, you can leave", responded Valentine. "He won't do anything - watch." Valentine said, taking out his knife and beginning to slice up the leather interior of the car. The pimp showed no reaction because Elmer, on the other side, had a 9mm pointed at his head. Valentine took the girl home to her mother.

The next day, five Cadillacs of various colors pulled up to the community center. James Redman, Valentine, and I met them as they pulled up. We exchanged words as they voiced their anger at our interventions. I advised them to look up at the office windows, where they saw some heavy artillery looking down at them. They took off. Shortly afterwards, the troublesome pimps moved to Tacoma.

In addition to strengthening our ties with the community, we also worked to solidify our relationships with other organizations. The Communist Party in Seattle had helped us to fortify the office, and our two organizations came together to develop a secret underground passage to Canada for revolutionaries or draft dodgers needing to get out of the country. It consisted of safe houses on both sides of the border, drivers to take the refugees to the designated location, and a contact to take them across the border. Using this passage, we managed to smuggle several draft dodgers into Canada. It was a great safety valve that we never had to use for BPP members."

Aaron Dixon, "My People are Rising"

Blolrus, Lyrical International Brigade, Libertasnia, Lichteburg, and 4 othersStack x, Faevocona, Tranarkitty, and Green Bower

Man with the red hat

Imperialism relentlessly driving climate change:
33 global banks invested a combined $1.9 trillion in fossil fuel companies between 2015 and 2018. HSBC was the 13th largest investor, while Barclays continues to fund tar sand exploitation in Canada.

The oil and gas industry is forecast to spend a massive $4.9 trillion on exploration and extraction of new fossil fuel fields over the next decade; it will drive a coach and horses through the already inadequate Paris agreement.

The OECD estimates that there will be a 150% increase in metal requirements and 135% increase in mineral extraction by 2060, with minerals and metal mining already responsible for 20% of emissions even before the manufacturing stage

http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/environment/5563-imperialism-relentlessly-driving-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR0dKLI3viH9QAiIwfYl9eqicEAIWwdABbs2j-Mtb6UJ0yKJpVpDngbtu9M

Libertasnia, Lichteburg, Faevocona, and Green Bower

who are these scrubs sending me TG's now?

I'm kidding.

But in all seriousness when is 21:00 CET in New York time :innocent:

Blolrus wrote:who are these scrubs sending me TG's now?

I'm kidding.

But in all seriousness when is 21:00 CET in New York time :innocent:

It would be 15:00, or if you prefer, 3:00PM.

If anyone wants to demonstrate us their singer skills, come find us on the discord server that Zrhajan sent you the link of via telegram.

Or otherwise, if you just want to listen to music and play it so we can listen it together, we'll be glad to have you in there

Oh I'm a fan of the 24 hour clock. I'm not a fan of looking up where "CET" is tho :p.

Just to clarify, the radio event is at 21:00 CET today. What I plan is to hold these weekly should interest exist, in which case, it would be on Thursdays instead.

Lichteburg and Green Bower

For the record, the radio event has started. Join us here: https://discord.gg/De4RYv

Social democrat revisionist

Is it possible to be both an Anarchist and a Tankie because discourse sure as sh*t makes me both

Man with the red hat

Why Police Aren't Welcome at Pride:
Police cannot peacock as allies for one day a year and not expect to be held accountable for their actions the rest of the time.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/why-police-arent-welcome-at-pride

Blolrus, Luckynia, World Anarchic Union, Libertasnia, and 4 othersLichteburg, Old volga, Taltrast, and Green Bower

Man with the red hat

Anti-HIV PrEP remains $2000/month in the US, two years on from generic FDA approval. In Cuba it’s now free:
In March 2019 Cuba began a pilot scheme to supply the only effective HIV prevention drug PrEP (pre-exposure prophylactic) free of charge to those in need. Following on from their successful 2015 drive to completely eradicate HIV and syphilis transmission in utero, Cuba’s National Centre for Sex Education began a program in conjunction with the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) to distribute the drug for free.

https://amityunderground.com/anti-hiv-prep-remains-2000-month-in-the-us-two-years-on-from-generic-fda-approval-in-cuba-free-truvada-healthcare-emtricitabine-tenofovir-daniel-o-day-preexposure-prophylaxis/

Countriopia, Terranova-serre, Libertasnia, Ralverany, and 4 othersLichteburg, Greater Vietnam, Green Bower, and Grande vietnam

Man with the red hat

The Long Game and Its Contradictions:
China has overcome colonial oppression, emerged from “100 years of humiliation”, and is now developing its socialist power on the world stage. Through mutually beneficial relationships and a policy of peaceful co-existence, China under the leadership of the Communist Party is actively assisting in the independent economic development of the over-exploited nations of the Global South, eliminating the primary contradiction of our age — inter-continental inequality. Alleviating poverty, promoting trade and learning, and building alliances based on respect and cooperation, the aim is to displace Western hegemony, break imperialist cycles of violence, end capitalist domination, and pave the road toward global communism.

https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub&fbclid=IwAR1jAfUSH39nEKCkTAD7GK8ayR9YVekX6Ht6hWU7x7iKPVUK_fLdA5OlPV4

Man with the red hat wrote:The Long Game and Its Contradictions:
China has overcome colonial oppression, emerged from “100 years of humiliation”, and is now developing its socialist power on the world stage. Through mutually beneficial relationships and a policy of peaceful co-existence, China under the leadership of the Communist Party is actively assisting in the independent economic development of the over-exploited nations of the Global South, eliminating the primary contradiction of our age — inter-continental inequality. Alleviating poverty, promoting trade and learning, and building alliances based on respect and cooperation, the aim is to displace Western hegemony, break imperialist cycles of violence, end capitalist domination, and pave the road toward global communism.

https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub&fbclid=IwAR1jAfUSH39nEKCkTAD7GK8ayR9YVekX6Ht6hWU7x7iKPVUK_fLdA5OlPV4

As per this viewpoint of the role and nature of modern China’s nature, which I disagree with, where does China buying out Piraeus, and COSCO, a state Chinese company, being detrimental to the workers there and enforcing horrible working conditions, doing exactly what any other company of any other state would in their place, fall in? Is it another of the contradictions, among the many others?
Because imo, it makes sense from a capitalist perspective and it makes sense from a geopolitical perspective of a modern Great Power working on expanding influence, following the example of the other Great Powers of the world. But from how I see it, not from a socialist perspective.

Luckynia, Lyrical International Brigade, Libertasnia, Freien, and 5 othersBalloch, Lichteburg, The decapole counsils, Taltrast, and Green Bower

Man with the red hat

World Anarchic Union wrote:As per this viewpoint of the role and nature of modern China’s nature, which I disagree with, where does China buying out Piraeus, and COSCO, a state Chinese company, being detrimental to the workers there and enforcing horrible working conditions, doing exactly what any other company of any other state would in their place, fall in? Is it another of the contradictions, among the many others?
Because imo, it makes sense from a capitalist perspective and it makes sense from a geopolitical perspective of a modern Great Power working on expanding influence, following the example of the other Great Powers of the world. But from how I see it, not from a socialist perspective.

We've engaged in exchanges in the past that were decent and respectful, so Ill try to answer the questions in a good faith flow-of-logic capacity from my perspective. I realize this may expand a bit more than your comment originally implied/intended, but I want to make a post defending China here where we have comrades of many tendencies. We have debated the topic rigorously in North Korea, and much of this comes from those discussions.

Does the modern "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" model have flaws that result in worker rights violations? Yes, and that is absolutely a contradiction that comes with attempting to harness the wheels of capitalism and bolt them onto a socialist system under party oversight. Do you expect the CCP to have a commissar with a loaded gun in every factory watching over every capitalist boss?

What is the primary global contradiction to building true communism within the world today? I say that is the US imperialist hegemony. I make the claim that any socialist state that arises and has to make practical decisions about its survival, will inevitably have to deal with US predation as its primary existential threat. And that under the all powerful thumb of the US capitalist economic stranglehold on the distribution of world capital, failure to "play nice" results in a drastic worsening of conditions for the entire country (ie: DPRK or Cuba) in terms of growth potential and influx of capital necessary for improving quality of life. That is based on a realistic world view of revolutions taking place in small scale local conditions (country size or smaller) and attempting to build socialism, rather than some ultraleftist dream like global world revolution or permanent revolution.

What is to be done to shatter the US hegemony and actually create the capacity for an entrenched communist state to develop? The revolutionary end is building up an economy that is capable of providing for all of its citizens. That is the main task that faces the large majority of humanity, and despite the great advances in China, it remains the main task for the most populous nation on earth. Because they are integrated into a global production chain and that's what it takes to sell. You may not agree with that strategy but there's no point in pretending it's irrational or some betrayal. It is a conscious strategy to avoid the problems that the Soviet Union and other socialist economies of the 20th century suffered in attempting to delink from the imperialist world economy. Whether it works out or not it has to be taken seriously because repeating the slow stagnation of the Soviet Union is not really an option. It may be a solution for North Korea and Cuba to chug along at a healthy but low growth with democratic workers and economic rights of the population, especially since the alternative is reabsorption into third world poverty, but for the USSR and now China which were tasked with saving humanity from actual destruction by global capitalist imperialism and leading the world to global socialism and eventually communism the stakes are much bigger. Seems odd to automatically criticize it, no socialism would be possible today without China's counterbalancing of America, something other socialist revolutions and states can't claim (though NK and Cuba do their best I do not want to disparage them).

The only realistic answer (for the moment obviously) is the government (in the form of the CCP) controlling the mechanisms of capitalism within special controlled zones and situations, and ensuring they are harnessed for the good of the total people. And to ensure that the capitalist class does not get its tendrils into the party policy apparatus. Ironically, the contradictions of international capitalism forced it to contribute to China's modernization program, and this process is still occurring today. As long as it is more profitable to run an industrial operation in China than it is in the West, essentially "free" capital (in the form of factories, infrastructure, and technology) will flow from the West to China. I really want to stress that last point, this isnt the USSR fighting desperately to secure tainted microchips to try and keep up with the Wests computers in the 80s anymore, this is fullscale technological/industrial redistribution of a type that a socialist country has never had access to.

The true question is, does the Chinese Communist Party remain committed to utilizing capitalism only so far as it takes to defeat the US hegemony, and dismantle the imperialist system? And does it remain committed to the current idea that ensures capitalist participation within society is only ever in a "repressed, for everyones good" capacity.

And I think the evidence to support the answer to those questions being "Yes" exists. Here are a few sources and some related quotes I think that express the headlines of what constitutes my confidence on this:

- The average Chinese worker puts in somewhere between 2,000 and 2,200 hours each year, Wang Qi, a researcher at Beijing Normal University, told the Wall Street Journal last year.
- That compares to a UK average of 1,677 hours last year, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- But Chinese work hours have been falling for at least three decades, said Li Chang’an, a labour economist at Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics.
- “Since the 1980s and 1990s, Chinese workers have been working shorter and shorter hours,” Li said, pointing to improved labour laws, improved productivity and the introduction of two-day weekends.
- “We visit many factories every year,” Li added. “In most, working conditions are improving [and] salaries increasing while working hours are decreasing."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/06/how-hard-does-china-work

- The wages of Chinese manufacturing workers have been rising by about 11% annually (even adjusted for inflation) for about twenty years now. The IMF projects that the PRC's GDP per capita will be equal to Italy's current GDPPC by 2035.
http://www.workers.org/2015/07/21/china-rising-wages-and-worker-militancy/

http://www.china.org.cn/world/2018-01/15/content_50225798.htm

- 800 million uplifted out of poverty
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-11/07/content_34220587.htm
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/After-Bringing-800-Million-out-of-Poverty-China-Aims-to-Eradicate-It-Completely-by-2020-20170903-0021.html

- Strengthening class consciousness in full swing
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-12/09/c_135891337.htm
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1067643.shtml
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/832671.shtml#.UrE5HvQW1HV
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1682774/communist-party-orders-course-marxism-chinas-universities
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-to-Teach-Core-Socialist-Values-in-Schools-20170915-0022.html
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/china-to-hold-world-conference-on-marxism-in-may-300-researchers-to-attend-4903202/

- Chinese political representation, selection, and election criteria based on things like poverty eradication and environmental protection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgpQxVCekgw

https://monthlyreview.org/2015/07/01/imperialism-and-the-transformation-of-values-into-prices/

This is modern production and it is what socialism today had to compete with. If the goal of socialism is material abundance for all of humanity (a fair and simple abstraction we can at least start from in my opinion), then it is that immense wealth that is captured by global production chains that need to be redistributed. Not an easy task.

If you want to discuss specific policies that China should change to make it more socialistic, I am all ears. But I refuse to accept the idea that a country with huge swathes of the industry and economy owned by the state, a country pursuing rigorious socialist education, a country where the institutions have deep socialist roots, a country where their leaders talk like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnAqrQbW85k&feature=youtu.be has abandoned socialism completely and is wholesale pursuing capitalism (which is admittedly more than you implied, but I know this chain of criticism).

Nevertheless, there is a struggle going on. Private capital grows and with it the economic strength and political influence of the capitalist class, and bourgeois intelligentsia. This – could- carry serious long-term dangers for China. The struggle is reflected in various informal currents within the Communist Party – including healthy ones hopefully around the leadership. These currents were outlined in an article by comrade Cheng Enfu in the Communist Review, journal of the Communist Party of Britain: https://www.communist-party.org.uk/communications/cr/1873-communist-review-no-69-autumn-2013.html

Hopefully thats been a reasonable answer to your question and why I believe in supporting modern China. I also appreciate how this is not a strictly (or even majority) Marxist-Leninist region, I come here to engage with comrades from various other tendencies. But I would hope people to be a tad more critical in their thinking than just looking at stories of suicide nets or sweatshop labor (outlawed since the early/mid 2000s) or whatever.

Libertasnia, Al-Aezam, Lichteburg, Green Bower, and 1 otherAntown

Here's a somewhat last-minute reminder because I've been busy with real-world duties, but today at 21:00 CET, or in ca. 45 minutes there will be a radio event. You can join the Discord server where this will take place via the following link: https://discord.gg/UbqFnM

What actually happened to the Internationale? I've been gone for more than a year.

Cartanacia wrote:What actually happened to the Internationale? I've been gone for more than a year.

In a masterfully designed agitprop program to demonstrate to the world that socialism/communism/anarchism/etc. is a source of unbridled joy, we have been doing a hop, skip, and a jump around... Jump around! Jump around! Jump up, jump up, and get down! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XhzpxjuwZy0

Terranova-serre, Lichteburg, The decapole counsils, Daophi, and 1 otherGreen Bower

Excellent news, everyone: We have successfully refounded our home region of The Internationale. As such, we can now move back to our original region. I would here like to thank Zulanka for allowing us to stay in Grenada for the duration of our time outside of TI.

Countriopia, World Anarchic Union, Terranova-serre, Lyrical International Brigade, and 4 othersLichteburg, The decapole counsils, Greater Vietnam, and Andreias

Zrhajan wrote:Excellent news, everyone: We have successfully refounded our home region of The Internationale. As such, we can now move back to our original region. I would here like to thank Zulanka for allowing us to stay in Grenada for the duration of our time outside of TI.

Hurrah our Long March is a victory.

Terranova-serre

The old dekapolyi sandstone valleys

IMPORTANT: PLEASE MOVE BACK TO The Internationale

(This is a The decapole counsils puppet)

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