Brazilian communists are adopting new flags that they feel represents them better. We should all do the same.
It’s not just flags and aesthetics, it’s about decolonizing our revolutionary ideology so that it speaks to our unique history and conditions as Latin Americans.
On Dec. 25, 1831, over 60,000 enslaved Black people in Jamaica led an uprising against the United Kingdom, which began colonizing the Caribbean island in the 16th Century 🇯🇲✊🏿
On this day in 1983, a U.S.-backed coup was launched against Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop 🇬🇩
Today, 37 years later, his warnings about global capitalism and imperialism still ring true 👇🏾
Protests in Chile, Haiti and Ecuador prove that neoliberalism offers no future for our people.
Neoliberalism shifts the burden of capitalist economic crisis onto the poor. This, while fattening the pockets of wealthy multinational elites.
STOP comparing anti-government protests in Bolivia to those in Chile, Ecuador, Haiti, etc.
Protests in Bolivia represent the right-wing, pro-capitalist minority.
Protests elsewhere represent the left-wing, anti-capitalist majority.
Don't be fooled.
Fires destroy parts of Siberia, the Amazon, and left over 10k homeless in Bangladesh. A historic drought in India left millions w/o water. Historic floods in Mozambique displaced hundreds of thousands. The 3rd World suffers the most from climate change caused by capitalism
New provisions in
#Cuba
's Constitution:
- Cuba will never return to capitalism, a regime sustained by the exploitation of man by man.
- Marriage is a union between two people, regardless of their sex and/or gender.
- All people receive the same salary for the same work.
Do not EVER compare the imperialist Hong Kong proxies to the riots in Minneapolis. In HK they fight for Trump and Pompeo who want HK to return to its colonial past. In the US those same imperialists and their kkkops murder and imprison colonized black, brown, and poor people.
During a month intended to celebrate Black resistance, we find many Black revolutionaries erased by our education system and media. This month, and every month, we look to celebrate the Black liberation fighters that have existed over centuries and learn from their legacies.
Today we celebrate Nazi saboteur, Soviet Air Force pilot, and first human being in space, Yuri Gagarin. On this day in 1961 he became the first person to orbit Earth. "Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation."
Today on World Anti-Colonialism Day we want to remember some of the many movements and leaders that spent their lives struggling against the parasitic imperialists.
It's ridiculous how white ultra-leftists in the First World have the caucasity to say "neither Evo nor the coup government."
1. Who the fuck asked you? Your idealist views are irrelevant.
2. Indigenous Bolivians are out on the streets RIGHT NOW in defense of Evo's presidency.
Happy F**k France Friday
🚫🇫🇷 🤢
From it’s colonial history (and present) to its extreme islamaphobia, we as a society have progressed past the need for France😤😤
Here's why socialist Cuba is more democratic than the West: they have a one-party state but the population's active political participation is infinitely higher than the multiple-party states. Your local shopkeeper can run for local government and have a chance at being elected.
“Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.”
-Frantz Fanon
"I don't want you to think that I come here to make an anti-American speech. I wouldn't come here for that. I come here to tell you the truth. And if the truth is anti-American, blame the truth. Don't blame me."
"The only thing power respects is power."
el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz
Things liberals won't tell you on
#MandelaDay2019
1) He was involved with the South African Communist Party.
2) His wife Winnie was a socialist revolutionary.
3) He didn't always advocate for "non-violence."
4) Fidel Castro was one of his greatest allies.
¡Viva Mandela! ✊🏾
Max Blumenthal, a white leftist and social media grifter, has said that he and his people represent the legacy of Fred Hampton more than the Black left. They’re saying this because the revolutionary Black left refuse to join hands with racist and pro-imperialist whites. 🧵
🇭🇹 Revolution in
#Haiti
✊🏿
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are out in the streets protesting the corrupt and violent Jovenel Moïse regime.
Moïse's government, backed by the U.S., has stolen millions of dollars and committed massacres against its own people.
Let's jump into 2021 with the revolutionary energy of our ancestors ✊🏾
🇭🇹 Haiti | Jan. 1, 1804: Africans rise up against French colonialism
🇨🇺 Cuba | Jan. 1, 1959: Cubans rise up against U.S. imperialism.
🇲🇽 Mexico | Jan. 1, 1994: Zapatistas resist neoliberalism
Haiti — Jan. 1, 1804: Enslaved Africans rose up against French colonialism and slavery.
Cuba — Jan. 1, 1959: Oppressed Cubans rose up against right-wing dictatorship and U.S. imperialism.
Mexico — Jan. 1, 1994: Zapatista peasants rose up against neoliberalism and violence.
First World 'Socialists' on Evo:
Sure, he did some good stuff, but he's not a real socialist.
First World 'Socialists' on Bernie:
How dare you say Bernie isn't socialist enough. You're being divisive and helping the Right by saying that.
Classic racism and imperial chauvinism.
Today In History | Nov. 20, 1910 | México 🇲🇽
The Mexican Revolution began on this day in 1910.
The Revolution was a response to centuries of white-settler colonialism and capitalist imperialism that was perpetuated under the rule of Porfirio Díaz, a wealthy military leader.
Dear Liberals,
STOP comparing the
#GeorgeFloydProtests
to imperialist regime change operations in:
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇨🇳 Hong Kong (China)
🇮🇷 Iran
It's a fucking insult to compare a Black liberation struggle to these U.S.-backed terror campaigns.
Today’s F*ck Colonizer Friday coincides with the long-awaited death of Prince Philip, a parasite to this world. Although the death of a colonizer doesn’t signify the death of colonialism, it's something to celebrate! Death to colonialism hasta la victoria simpre camaradas.
Socialist revolution isn’t just about picking up guns and overthrowing the old system.
It’s also about building:
🏥 Hospitals
📚 Schools
🎭 The Arts
🏡 Public Housing
🚊 Public Transportation
✊🏾 Worker & Campesino Power
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ, Black & Brown Power
Today we celebrate the 91st anniversary of the birth of Vilma Espín — ardent socialist, revolutionary, feminist, and wife of Raúl Castro. She fought in the Cuban Revolution and was a lifelong advocate for women's rights in all spheres of social life. Hasta siempre Vilma ✊🏽
The Palestinian movement is a liberation movement. There is no two state solution, there is no compromising with Zionism. As the US continues to stand behind the fascist Zionists, there is no compromising with Americanism.
‘Nazism’, ‘neo-nazism’, and ‘fascism’ are all trigger words for the white left. And it’s always about the “rise” of these, as coming in the future.
For the diaspora it’s more accurate to think of imperialism, colonialism and white supremacy. It’s what affects our people now.
126 years ago, in a small and impoverished Chinese village, one of the most influential revolutionaries in human history was born.
Rest In Power, Chairman Mao Tse-tung ✊🏽🇨🇳
Today In History | July 26, 1953 |
#Cuba
🇨🇺
Fidel Castro and over 100 young students led an armed uprising at the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
Although unsuccessful, the uprising inspired the guerrilla movement that led the Cuban Revolution to success in 1959.
As communists living in the First World, it’s our duty to oppose ALL acts of imperialist aggression.
It doesn’t matter if the victimized nation is socialist or not. That’s besides the point.
War, sanctions and blockades hurt all working class people in the Global South.
No matter your opinion on the Royal Family and the hereditary system we have here in Britain.
We want to pay our respects to HM The Queen and her family at this difficult time. RIP.
#PrincePhilip
There’s a reason why popular Western leftist movements and its leaders (Sanders, Corbyn, Podemos, etc) have a weak or non-existent analysis of imperialism.
Western leftism, if it’s to catch on among its people, has to reassure them that they won’t undo the world economy.
Homophobia, transphobia and misogyny are anti-communist. If you're serious about being a revolutionary communist, you gotta dead that shit.
LGBTQ+ and women's liberation are inextricably linked to the liberation of the global working class.
✊🏿✊🏾🏳️🌈
Western white workers are gonna be shocked when world revolution comes and they realise they’re gonna actually have to do productive jobs to maintain their national economies.
Decolonising our names and culture as a whole is cool but imagine decolonising our economies. Material equality is the most powerful foundation for the cultural freedom of Latin American people.
#ThomasSankara
was an African Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who served as President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.
He was assassinated on this day in 1987 in a Western-backed coup.
Today, on the anniversary of Sankara's death, we honor his life and legacy. ✊🏿🇧🇫
Wrong. The Amazon is burning because of capitalism!
White liberals are the fucking worst 💯
Don't let these fools distract us from the root cause of this crisis.
Today we remember the Cubans who lost their lives to US terrorism in the La Coubre explosion. La Coubre was a French freighter which exploded in the Havana harbor killing over 100 and injuring over 200.
Comandante Che quickly left a meeting he was in to treat the injured ✊🏽🇨🇺
Twitter is a reflection of capitalist society, which promotes narcissistic individualism. And the left is far from immune.
Let's use this platform to collectivize our struggles and towards the destruction of the capitalist-imperialist system.
Today In History | Sept. 11, 1973 |
#Chile
🇨🇱
Marxist President Salvador Allende was ousted and died in a U.S.-orchestrated coup, with hundreds more tortured and killed. Right-wing dictator Augusto Pinochet took power.
¡Salvador Allende Presente!
¡Muerte al Imperialismo Yanqui!
Racism, from our Marxist perspective, cannot not just be about an abstract colonial legacy nor solely about racist ideas or institutional prejudice. It has to include the ongoing material interests that the white working class have with imperialism.
If you are an unpaid caregiver, you are a worker.
If you take care of children, the elderly or people with disabilities, you are a worker.
Being a worker isn't dependent on earning a wage. Being a worker is dependent on producing value for society.
Waiting for the rise of center left parties is a convenient way to ignore the existence of revolutionary anti-imperialist and Socialist nations like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
A peasant-teacher just won the Peruvian elections, and the right can’t handle it.
But whether or not the right accepts defeat, it won't stop the new 'pink tide' that's rolling over Latin America.
Read more here 👇👇👇
Real recognizes real. Comandante Chávez was a staunch ally of the Palestinian people in their struggle against the genocidal aggression of the fascist Zionist entity known as Israel.
Socialism isn't just about destruction. Yes, we want to forcibly destroy capitalism and imperialism. But it doesn't stop there.
Socialism is about construction. Building schools, hospitals, homes, cafeterias, etc. Socialists are the builders of a new society.
They justify this by saying that Hampton joined with poor whites in a coalition against the state. They leave out the fact that Hampton and others didn’t promote a coalition unconditionally - they always made clear that whites needed to struggle against racism and imperialism.
In 1917, just months before the October Revolution in Russia, Trotsky opposed armed struggle because he wanted to wait for revolution in Europe.
Stalin's response: "We must discard the antiquated idea that only Europe can show us the way."
Remember when reading headlines of Kamala Harris' xenophobic words that there were many academics, reporters, and politicians who said immigrants would fair better under Biden. They fooled many of our people. Never again believe that this nation will protect nonwhite immigrants
Our comrade
@mambi26
seems to have been suspended after being reported by white leftists for saying that the Irish played a role in the colonisation or the Americas. Basically for stating a historical fact.
In order to ensure the failure of any future left government financial imperialists from Washington work to undermine the economy of Peru now. This is often the overlooked method by which Western imperialism can enforce its will on exploited nations.
Gramsci was able to expand Marxist theory out of simple class or economic analysis without, generally, being called a revisionist.
When we non-white Marxists attempt to explain our realities by expanding class analysis to our own unique histories we are revisionists.
It's been a month since the fascist coup in
#Bolivia
.
Since then,
• 30+ people have died
• 700+ people have been injured
• Indigenous rights have been stripped
• Social programs have been cut
• Relations with Israel have been restored
Food for thought on
#HumanRightsDay
Today marks 9 years since the death of Comandante Hugo Chávez. Chávez was a strong leader in the fight against imperialism and one of the key leaders in the Bolivarian Revolution, which has been most beneficial to the most vulnerable populations in Venezuela. RIP Chávez✊🌹
Today In History | October 25, 1983 | Grenada 🇬🇩
36 years ago today, the U.S. invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada, began dismantling the leftist government of the New Jewel Movement and laid the groundwork for the assassination of revolutionary leader Maurice Bishop.
The term '3rd world' is only insulting if our premise is that being the '1st world' is of any kind of honour or merit in a capitalist-imperialist world system.
In this context, being the 1st means you are actually the first in looting, robbing, massacring, destroying the world.
Today In History | April 17, 1961 |
#Cuba
🇨🇺
Right-wing Cuban mercenaries armed and trained by the U.S. launched a failed invasion of Playa Girón. Today, it's known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Fuck Gusanos & Vendepatrias 🖕🏾
Death to U.S. Imperialism ☠️
Viva Cuba Socialista 🇨🇺
Labelling Third World Communist theory “revisionist” is a clever way that Western socialists/communists refuse to accept their unearned material privilege in this society.
Today In History | April 13, 2002.
After being kidnapped by right-wing sectors of the political elite and military, Hugo Chavez is returned to the presidential palace thanks to the Venezuelan public who brought the country to a standstill demanding his return.
Who gives a fuck what Bernie Sanders thinks about Cuba.
We don't need his old dusty ass to determine who and what are worthy of our defense.
The Cuban Revolution has been lit since 1959 🔥🇨🇺
Rest in Power, Brother
#DilanCruz
, an 18-year-old protester in
#Colombia
who was shot dead by the fascist government.
May his legacy fuel the mass insurrection against Duque and U.S. imperialism.