Trans dyke, Anti-Zionist Jew, revolutionary optimist.
@pslnational
organizer in Boise.
“Under socialism everyone’s potential can be realized”-Gloria La Riva.
Last night, organizers with
@pslnational
, along with other community activists shut down Rep. Russ Fulcher's Meridian Town Hall with demands for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine.
#ShutItDown4Palestine
@socializm_
‘Gifted’kids are broken into anxious, self hating adults. I swear it’s to the point it almost seems intentional. Growing up queer in Idaho i read all day and night as a coping mechanism which landed me in lots of gifted classes, but also completely ignored my struggles with ADHD
I don't give a flying fuck if his piss is made of gold. The 45 THOUSAND longshoremen on strike are forced to work 20, 30, 40 hours of overtime a weak while their bosses make 400 BILLION in profit. Support the strike, don't cross a picket line, and fuck the New York Post.
This is aerial image of how
#Maduro
has moved to block the entrance of humanitarian aid for the people of
#Venezuela
. Denying people food & medicine is a crime against humanity.
Anyone claiming to be progressive or a socialist in the US should stand in full support of the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan people, and the United Socilalist Party of Venezuela as they are fighting against right-wing coup attempts and imperialist aggression from the US
I’m so tired of how “activist” spaces now-a-days are more focused on being social clubs and performing wokeness at eachother rather than materially improving conditions of the community or engaging and educating community members
So, “alienation” comes up a lot in Marxist discussion, and I know personally it can strike as a very difficult concept, but honestly if you want a clear example, look at the depression rates and suicide rates among working class youth and you’ll see it clear as day.
🇻🇪President
@NicolasMaduro
told media that he rejects calls for redo elections by his counterparts in Brazil & Colombia.
“Venezuela has the sovereignty of an independent country...the conflicts in Venezuela of any kind are solved among Venezuelans.”
left anti-communism, and anti-communism in general is blatantly projection by imperialist powers. Like, people only started talking about baseless accusations of “Muslim concentration camps” in China after the us started putting kids in concentration camps and banning Muslims.
If your response to “what should the us do about the DPRK, Venezuela, ETC” isn’t “leave them the fuck alone, drop our sanctions, and bring our soldiers home from bases nearby” than you’re a fucking imperialist. I don’t care if you’re democrat, social democrat, or whatever else
My favorite memory is when y’all fired thousands of employees without severance pay and destroyed hundreds of peoples lives to make a quick buck. Your mascot may be a giraffe but y’all are a bunch of filthy capitalist pigs.
@RepRoKhanna
He died being the jackbooted thug of an apartheid government and it's illegal occupation of indigenous Palestinian land. He was part of a colonial armed force that has spent the last 78 years bombing, massacring and torturing Palestinian civilians to try and steal their land.
"hahaha fascists don't know how to use ms paint" but seriously this shows a very key issue, fascists are trying (however succesfully) to get organized as to better win fights against antifascists. unorganized anarchist street brawls aren't gonna cut it no more. Times are changing
Rain, sleet or shine,
#Boise
stands with Palestine! Despite pouring rain, 500+ marched through Boise demanding an end to the genocidal siege on Gaza, an end to u.s aid to Israel, and a free Palestine from the river to the sea!
#March4Palestine
#Palestine
#GazaGenocide
Selling out Palestinians will not protect your rights as a trans person. In multiple states Democrats are helping Republicans in passing anti-trans laws. They didn't even allow a trans person to speak at the DNC but yall want to lie to yourself & believe they'll protect us.
Because the Hong Kong “protests” are lead by NED puppets and serve the purposes of capitalist empire, while these marches threaten that very same empire and its death grip on the people of the global south.
This is the “you can’t be poor and have a smart phone” of fucking clothes. Like there’s a whole ass industry built around making “affluent” looking clothing dirt cheap. Also second hand shops and thrift stores exist and carry all of this type of stuff. Punk ass needs to grow up
Watch closely your so called progressive or “socialist” friends. How they act towards this attempted coup in Venezuela against the democratically elected chavistas is EXACTLY how they would’ve reacted to Pinochet taking over Chile, or the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz.
This is one of the ways that we're seeing imperialists trying to coopt the energy of the fight for Palestine, lumping genuine struggles (Palestine, congo, Sudan, Haiti, etc) with imperialist smear campaigns targeting enemy nations (China, Syria, etc)
Fuckin hate when Leninism is presented as “the theory of old dead white men”, intentionally erasing the work of more modern theorists and leninists who were poc. nice job erasing people like Assata Shakur,huey Newton,Claudia Jones,Fidel Castro,Mao Tse Tung,Ho Chi Minh, and more
Being a communist isn’t a brand, or a personality trait. It’s a commitment of huge amounts of your life to the working class movement. It’s not going to be some “revolution now!!!” Type deal, it’s an exhausting fight with advances, retreats, and difficult, thankless ground work.
#Boise
#Idaho
says Free Palestine, from the river to the sea!🇵🇸
Hundreds took to the streets to demand an end to the seige on Gaza, an end to all U.S. aid to Israeli apartheid, and freedom for all Palestinian political prisoners! More info @ IdahoPSL on insta.
The makeup industry is an entire ass multi-billion dollar industry built on making people hate the way they look and then selling them a fix. I don’t give a fuck if individual people find it liberating, as a societal aspect makeup and the makeup industry are irredeemable.
While the U.S. government is stripping the rights of millions of LGBTQ people across the nation away, Cuba is expanding and enshrining rights for queer people! But guess which of these countries gets called a dictatorship by the capitalist press??? Long live revolutionary Cuba!
It’s Pride Month in the US. While rights are under attack here, in 2022 the people of Cuba approved by referendum a new Family Code, which recognized equal legal status to same-sex couples & all family forms.
BT's
@ldejesusreyes
spoke with people at a LGBT pride event in Havana
I think the comments of this video show the fact that Liberals don't see Republicans as an enemy, they see them as a threat to be used against oppressed communities that step out of line.
Gaza could cost Biden the 2024 election.
AJ+ spoke to Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan who voted for him in 2020, but say they will never vote for him again.
It’s really fucking infuriating that foundations of Leninism, one of the most accessible texts in reference to basic concepts of Leninist theory and organizing, is such a hard book to recommend to folks, because it’s author has been so vilified by the western bourgeois
The U.S. gov lies to you about the genocide it's funding in Palestine, lies about it's crimes against the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and now expects you to believe them to be telling the truth and caring about "democracy" when it just happens a candidate they dislike wins.
#BREAKING
: Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Maduro announced election victory:
"We have serious concerns that the results announced does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people... the international community is watching this very closely and will respond
Having 20-ish people chanting “Yankee go home” in front the of city hall of BOISE IDAHO was a damn wild feeling and I’m hella proud of all my comrades who put in the work to put the event together.
She threw trans women in mens prisons and tried to deny them access to Hormone Replacement Therapy can you poppers-addled twinks shut the fuck up and grow a spine for a literal second?
Another part of that alienation tho is alienation from EACHOTHER. Capitalism is an isolating economic and political system by design. Every person is a potential competitor for scholarships, programs, jobs, apartments, everything.
Shit that the White House did under Obama: helped launch a civil war in Libya that turned the most prosperous nation in Africa into a nation that now has literal open air slave markets
Ok, so since the United States government is revving it’s engines for war on China, Iran, and russia, and we have people graduating highschool who were born at the beginning of the us wars in the Middle East, I think it’s important to understand WHY these wars keep happening.
Alienation takes a lot of forms, one of them being the alienation of the worker from his work. Young folks today know that a lot of the work they’re growing up to do isn’t to help anyone, but to make some rich asshole richer. I remember that despair clear as day from my HS days.
Maoists supporting the right wing coup attempt in nicaragua and venezuela is exactly what lenin and mao were talking about when they said ultra-leftism is counterrevolutionary and a tool of imperialism.
The worker becomes not a person but a component of production, commodified to the point they’re just like a hammer or a batch of parts. That dehumanization leaves a cold and empty feeling in your gut that takes a long time and a lot of reading to really give a name to.
The capitalists greatest weapon against the socialist movement is not their police, or guns, or fascist blackshirts,it’s propoganda.The ability to imbue in the working and oppressed masses such a violent and destructive cynicism, fear and apathy that we don’t try to fight at all.
If anyone knows this scum fuck: there have been witnesses reporting this dude was seen putting up flyers for a neonazi organization “patriot front” around downtown Boise last winter.
An image of the young man who was arrested at last night’s protest at the statehouse, minutes later he fired a shot.
@BoisePD
said it’s being investigated as an unintentional or accidental discharge.
Photos: Anthony Walsh/Juice Boise
@votesocialist24
The focus only on individuals masking comes from a cynical place giving up on demanding real gov. action, foricng all responsibility onto individuals. similar to the focus on paper straws over plastic when talking about climate change. We need systemic change, not individualism.
This is utterly fucking terrifying, and also one of the reasons simply normalizing or popularizing the word socialism isn’t a good play unless you can ensure you can control were that popularity goes.
Read Marx, read Lenin, Read huey p Newton and Fidel Castro and Mao. Read every one of those communists your teachers told you to ignore, and you’ll start to see what I mean. Your life was made for more than just being exploited, your life was made to be lived with your community.
Growing up in a system where everyone is competition and you have to constantly fight for a scrap, and Our communities are gutted to make us exploitable and weak, unable to organize to fight back it’s no wonder we have no fucking idea how to connect with eachother and socialize!
Tbh a socialist system with a planned economy based on the meeting of peoples needs as apposed to constant growth and profit is the only way we can hope to save our planet from climate disaster.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation saw a nearly 1000% increase in national votes between 2012 and 2016, jumping from 7700 votes in 2012, to nearly 75000 in 2016,. The movement is growing, and it's growing fast. Join the struggle! Join the PSL!
She sent 3.8 billion dollars in additional military aid to Israel yesterday. Using the word ceasefire when you have the power to end the aid facilitating the genocide is not just not enough, it's a fucking insult and a slap in the face.
And I wanna tell every single person our there,especially highschool kids, who feels that cold, hopeless emptiness, THAT ISNT YOUR FAULT, YOU ARENT ALONE FEELING THAT WAY! That feeling isn’t your fault, it’s the economic system that treats you like a tool.
We’re not just seeing spikes in depression suicide and social anxiety because of chemicals in our food or whatever nonsense they try to blame it on this month, we’re seeing it because these are inescapable parts of the political and economic system that rules our lives.
as far as the bourgeoisie are concerned and willing to tell kids, that’s the only thing they have to look forward to. They have no hope for revolution, that’s just idle dreams, this is all life will ever be, you working for some rich fuck who makes more daily that you ever will
Backed a military coup in Honduras against the democratically elected president leading to wide spread political repression, poverty, and corruption, which is one of the biggest driving factors behind the refugee caravan which has been in the news lately
So these kids are raised in a society where they’re taught in schools to be a good cog in the wheel and nothing more, with no hope except to be lucky or rich enough to get into a job that makes enough money to buy enough shit to numb that emptiness in your heart
Zionist talking points always rely on racist stereotypes of Arab and Muslim men. They smear them as rapists and murderers just like the Jim Crow South did black men. This really exposes that Zionism is just Jim Crow/apartheid poorly painted over with Jewish imagery. It's Vile.
I've said it a million times but if youre not in an org, youre not a communist. Being a communist does not just mean agreeing with the writings of such and such figure, it means actively being involved in the struggle. Find one you agree with and join, get involved, do SOMETHING.
We can keep arguing about whether or not labor will be abolished after the revolution, but I tell you whats guaranteed to be abolished and that’s CHRISTIAN FUCKING ROCK
The Saur Revolution stood as a grand light, another step forward in the socialist revolutionary movement. It brought liberation for so many people held in bondage by misogyny and feudal property relations. the US, UK, and their imperial allies destroyed it.
🔥🎤RIGHT NOW: "We are here because we are committed to the total liberation of the Palestinian people!"
Thousands are currently rallying in Washington Square Park for Gaza!
@pslnational
We’re seeing depression rates rise because our kids grow up knowing they’ll only ever be working to make a rich man richer, rather then serving their communities and our schools teach these kids that there’s no alternative! They slander those who fought for something better!
While the United States is holding a QUARTER of the worlds prison population while holding about .05% of the worlds population, it goes on to call democratically elected leaders “dictators” in China, Venezuela, Etc.
Funny how she comes out with an album dripping in Americana when so many young people are being shown just how horrific this country truly is. Waving that butchers apron around while there is an ongoing genocide being facilitated by the U.S. against Palestinians is vile.
This has been stated a thousand times before but it bears repeating: the only way you can call Marxism-Leninism a “white” or “colonizer” ideology is if you are intentionally erasing the millions of socialist anticolonialist revolutionaries that we’re and are staunchly ML.
Anarchists wonder why Leninists focus so much on disproving historical propaganda and lies like the holodomor, but then unironically fall for the exact same style of foundationless propaganda with this nonsense about "China is putting Muslims in concentration camps".
I can not put into words how absolutely overjoyed I am seeing today's day of action taking place across the country. Seeing the rebirth of the U.S. anti-war movement in real time is amazing and truely inspiring.
Political science,economics, and sociology are useless subjects on their own, as they are each an amputated limb of a larger study, political economy. nowadays these majors only serve as indoctrination to the capitalist system.
So Democrats are to the Right of the POPE on Palestine, to the right of Trump on immigration, refuse to pass an arms embargo on Israel, refuse to fight for M4A, refused to codify roe v Wade when they had the presidency, Congress and the Senate, but act entitled to our vote? WTF
Pope Francis: "I continue to receive very serious and painful news from Gaza. Unarmed civilians are subjected to bombings and shootings. A mother and her daughter were killed by Israeli snipers while going to the restroom. It is terrorism."
To anyone who relates to that hopelessness, that isolation, that emptiness, please know that the shit were taught as kids was wrong. We’re born for more than working and paying bills. Capitalism is what’s to blame for that feeling, not yourself. And capitalism can be defeated.
Y’all need to shut the fuck up about “boomer remover” and grow a soul. My grandparents (both of whom are at risk) gave me a home when one of my own parents kicked me the fuck out for being trans, and as someone who works in healthcare I’m TERRIFIED of accidentally infecting them.
@girlziplocked
Wow so i guess devoted marxist-leninists who were women of color just don't fucking register for you. Like Claudia Jones and Assata Shakur might as well not exist. And going beyond that the tens of thousands of women in communist parties across the global south just don't exist?
Seeing efforts to discourage people from staying in the streets, saying it does nothing. Do not listen to them. Right now we need to be redoubling our efforts. Putting pressure on the system is a marathon, not a sprint. Stay in the streets, keep organizing.
It seems very convenient to neglect to mention that PSLs announcement of a Save the Date was put out 2 days ago, while the event that it's being claimed was being coopted was announced less than a day ago, and once another event was called, PSL shared and supported them.
Whenever someone tries to bring up Pol Pot as a "gotcha" against communists, i always love how people seem to forget who removed Pol Pot from power..... (hint: it was other communists)
No way in hell I'm voting for kid-killer Kamala. I'm voting socialist in 2024! It's not just about the vote, but building a movement that will fight for our rights and liberation year round REGARDLESS of which faction of the ruling class is at the lead!
🚨BREAKING — Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 Presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris.
But let’s be clear — no matter who the Democrats run, they’ll represent the same ruling class political agenda that has left the working class in the dust. And Harris is a full
hell, americans (and even American leftists) love claiming (falsely) that the Venezuelan government jailed opposition leaders to win the election, while that’s LITERALLY how the neo-fascist head of state in Brazil was elected, by arresting Lula under false corruption charges