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We can't afford no liberals in times like these | just another Marxist grad student | He/him

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new email signoff
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this is probably still one of my favourite jokes
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tweets from 1789/1793/1799/1815/1830/1848/1871/1936/1940/1944/1958/1968
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"The colonial world is a world cut in two." Fanon
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Israel and Gaza, today REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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remember when someone got mad about the description 'post-Soviet' and mockingly asked if we should call countries 'post-British empire' too, as if doing so wouldn't immensely clarify the world
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this photo from Yellowknife is my new favourite thing
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Incredible to see historical revisionism start this quickly
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President Biden — having weathered the first major foreign crisis of his presidency — touted a ceasefire deal that appears to end the bloody 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas
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if you think soldiers in WW1 died for something worthwhile you don't understand anything about the 20th century
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it's probably worth stating that Israel killed the only ever elected Palestinian leader last night
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the post encampment climate on campuses is crazier than I imagined
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Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا
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More Jewish vigilante groups roaming the @UofT campus today. This one calling themselves J Force.
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should not escape notice what this UAW activist cites as the beginning of his politicization
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Fresh off of the United Auto Workers’ blowout unionization victory at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant, we spoke to a VW worker there about why the drive won and where the UAW goes from here.
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I saw a banner from the Chilean protests saying "we are the children of the workers you couldn't kill," another demonstration of the extremely powerful historical consciousness cultivated by the Left and popular movements in Latin America
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An incredibly powerful subset of Old Italian Men
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Fidel may be the only political figure who comes across *better* the more you see behind the scenes
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Just logically, why would being democratically elected mean you can't be accused of war crimes or genocide?
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World War I propaganda is so weird because there was so much of this romantic historical LARPing among Modernist Nightmare War
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just wanna wake up in my low-rent municipal apartment and get on the fare-free bus to my job teaching history to students who are attending higher education for free
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This looks legitimately interesting but also...that cover photo
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I try not to do this too much but mass protest against complicity at Columbia while storm clouds gather for a DNC in Chicago is too much for us '68 heads
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seems almost unbelievable that in 1945 'let's be friends with the USSR forever, let the European empires die, finish off Franco while we're at it' was a mainstream position in US politics
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pardon?
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The International will be the human race, so jot that down
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Kathryn Marshall
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What does this have to do with labour relations in Ontario?????
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this is one of my favourite things any revolutionary state has done
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@lavenderashtray the unsuccessful struggle to visually represent how fucked things are is one of the best pandemic subplots
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funny seeing a MEMRI translation of Nasrallah explicitly refuting antisemitic explanations of the US-Israeli alliance in favour of a materialist one
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@FitzInfo Yep. Blaming the USA for the actions of Israel and Zionists has been Nasrallah's modus operandi for a while now. I believe this clip is from Al Manar TV Lebanon on September 3, 2012.
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here's a question: who is governing the United States at the moment
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very recently saw this all-timer
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Lydia Kiesling
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My favorite thing about human beings are the vulnerable flash autobiographies people leave in the comments under videos of songs on youtube
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Many of you have been here
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Israelis spying on ICC prosecutor: she's really just another _____
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Cover photo for a book on the politics of diasporic Irishness in the 21st century
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Mural of President Joe Biden in his ancestral home of Ballina Co. Mayo, Ireland defaced as a result of his support of genocide in Gaza. 🇮🇪 will always stand with 🇵🇸
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there's over 200,000 Lebanese Canadians, you might think Canadian politicians might think of them and say literally anything about acts of aggression and terror against their country of origin
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"in Canada, if someone is nice to you, you are encouraged to report them as a spy"
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CSIS Canada
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Has a stranger ever tried to inflate your ego? It could be elicitation. Elicitation is a set of techniques used by foreign agents to extract information from you. To learn the warning signs of elicitation, read the #CSIS Travel Security Guide:
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good fucking god
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'Tankie' was coined to describe defenders of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which the virtual totality of young radicals in the West were disgusted by
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John Aziz
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Tankies during the Vietnam era were literally chanting for the Vietcong to win 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
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'what does the climate strike achieve w/out communist leadership/more militancy/etc' is exactly the wrong question imo, it should be 'why do high school students have more mobilizing capacity than the organized left and why isn't it attracting them'
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when the FBI is interrogating them all and you just get Krieger saying "ODESSA. You know, the Ratlines," also kills me
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Islamophobia is the dominant reactionary ideology of our era
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Never in history have the boys been more back in town
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✪ Socialist Visuals ✪
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Fidel Castro and his men stopping alongside a road to take a photo just before liberating Havana (1959)
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the contrast between the sterile theatre that was supposed to be happening here and the passionate articulation of the truth that actually ensued is remarkable
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One-by-one, pro-Palestinian protesters continuously disrupt a House Judiciary Committee hearing about free speech on college campuses.
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I guarantee you none of these places are unaffected by having been part of it
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this is another example of something @RosasCatMimi brought up in relation to the spouses of Supreme Court justices being conspiracy theorists: even the people who are at the center of power now think 'real' power is somewhere else
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Very funny to post this when he is a celebrity who runs several major corporations and repeats Fox News talking points verbatim
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this is one of the most jarring things you discover in The Archives: in the 1960s and '70s everyone talked about the Cold War in the past tense
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Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor 🇵🇸
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fascinating tidbit in the old Letters page of the Times in which a Novosti functionary refers to another Times article as "a hangover of the cold war"... in 1976
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Medieval peasant dating profiles
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this will only hurt the working class population of Will Smith
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CTV News
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Academy moves up meeting to decide on Will Smith sanctions
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hate when this happens
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pivoting to being a pop history account and talking about how only non-Carolingian Europe has recognized the State of Palestine
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as joolsd pointed out once, this doesn't work because production wasn't social under feudalism
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the ethnostate fandom
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why does every Zionist eventually support Hindutva
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so there's just, pogroms happening in England then?
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Taj Ali
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The far-right have targeted the mosques in Hartlepool today and we are hearing about attempts in Liverpool and Middlesbrough. They are deliberately targeting places with very small Muslim communities. We need to stay vigilant and ensure they have the adequate protections.
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everyone knows the real injustice under Jim Crow was that whites couldn't use the Black fountains
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This is the real apartheid. The fact that Jews can’t enter into “Palestinian territory”. I reject this. I reject that some places are dangerous for me to enter because I AM A JEW. Enough with this hate. #EndJewHatred
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@LegoRacers2 American Chinese food is a thing of beauty
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@RaxKingIsDead I'm not *just* saying this for the argument, although I also am--I don't understand what the problem is supposed to be
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the funniest thing about the 'government-funded media' discourse is the idea that a government dollar produces media bias but a private one doesn't
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oh my god lmao
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OP discovers how fascists come to power
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this is like in Weimar Germany when judges instructed juries to take into the 'patriotic motives' of right wing assassins
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The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial says lawyers cannot call the 2 people he killed "victims." Rittenhouse killed 2 people and wounded another with an AR-15 style weapon. The judge says "victim" is too "loaded" but will let lawyers call them "rioters, looters or arsonists."
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another vindication for woke feminist culture warriors
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2003 was a dark time
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*huge* fan of this photo chosen to illustrate the CBC story on the by-elections today
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this is what they're calling a white supremacist vigilante group
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Safety patrol teams show up at University of Toronto to protect Jewish students as the school year begins
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the whole study of the construction of whiteness was just historians noticing stuff like this and going "oh my God. OH my God!"
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Obviously the Ukrainian nationalists know the actual history and are cool with it but I guess the Western marks are supposed to believe there was some kind of Ukrainian army that fought the Soviets (or 'Russia') but that had nothing to do with the German invasion?
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Canadian news: growing tent cities: why feds say it's not their problem US news: Arkansas has criminalized "gay haircuts" UK news: emergency session of parliament called to discuss "defending single-sex table tennis"
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it's so depressing that the Temporary Foreign Worker program is finally controversial *but* only in a racist, 'Canadian jobs for Canadian workers' way
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I'm kinda glad I lived to see the complete and utter collapse of the pretense of US moral authority
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just remembered this
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'Maduro's regime dominates the armed forces' is really an incredible rhetorical conceit
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Maybe the most horrifying graphic I've ever seen
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Andrew Needham
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Map of US bombing in SE Asia during the Vietnam War. Black dots are 1000 lb bombs.
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Is it normally good when a state describes an internal minority population as a "second front"
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, tonight: "We are dealing with a campaign on two fronts. The first front – Gaza. I said that we would exact a very heavy price from Hamas and the other terrorist organizations.
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Jameson's passing has already produced a classic Internet Asshole interaction
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global symbol of freedom and justice etc
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🇫🇷🇵🇸French youth are currently celebrating the left-wing coalition win using Flags of Palestine
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This is pure Obama (pejorative)
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"The principles of the October Revolution guarantee the Palestinian people the right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state." sharing this beautiful poster for the anniversary of the October Revolution
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"Unserious" is a good Marxist insult but it's not as good as "ahistorical"
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Ned Ryun
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I guarantee you, 100%, if Martin Luther King Jr were alive today he would be horrified by CRT and BLM and if/when he spoke out against it, MSNBC and CNN would call him an Uncle Tom.
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@SamuelSaulsbury @vyassaran Teach the controversy
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can't be repeated enough that when WW1 ended, the overwhelming consensus (outside of incipient fascist circles) was that it had been cruel and pointless and the mass popular pacifism this created wasn't dissipated until 1940
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the problem with books is they always cite more books and then where are you
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discovered an extremely funny discrepancy between English and French Wikipedia
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don't mean to come across as sympathetic but it's interesting to me that among Saddam's last words on the gallows were "Palestine is Arab"
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I feel like most anglophone reformists would only ever talk about how better conditions make people more productive and here's Melenchon just saying "free time is when we're truly human" and "the goal is not to produce more, because that means the death of the planet"
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David Broder
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Beautiful speech by @JLMelenchon on free time, explaining what the fight in France is really about
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I GOT INTO FUCKING GRAD SCHOOL
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@koolaid @deathnography Koolaid man said migrant rights
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"In addition, Party organizers made a concerted effort to teach white male Communists in Harlem to dance, so that they would not be ashamed to ask black women to dance at Party social affairs."
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This is so beautiful
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AJ+
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Watch these protesters try to block a U.S. military cargo ship from heading to Israel. @Dena reports.
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Nepal is the ideal democracy, divided between Communist parties who run and Communist parties who boycott
@redsparkbot
redsparkbot
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Security Forces On High Alert As Numerous Communist Parties Plan To Boycott Elections In Nepal
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You come for the king, you'd best not miss
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not sure what to take from the fact that Hezbollah, Hamas and PIJ all more or less have the org structure of Communist parties
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Hi, person who isn't a moron here! The Muslim conquest of the Levant wasn't settler colonialism
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A comprehensively falsified history of the US left used to make a profoundly chauvinist argument that the left needs to be nicer to whites, I mean workers, I mean white workers
@jacobin
Jacobin
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Left-wing politics for generations was focused on the “labor question” in opposing capitalism. Beginning in the mid-20th century the Left became more concerned with inequality. The labor question faded in significance, as did opposition to capitalism. Why?
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having now watched both parts of Che (2008) I kinda can't believe there's a Hollywood movie this sympathetic to communist revolutionaries
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this is what primary accumulation looks like, and always has
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@handmouthdancer @vampitolbs I would be offended but Italian *is* a good language for invoking the evil eye
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Pulling this in 1968...pathetic
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
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'Not black power, not white power, but worker's power!' — American illustration from a 1968 pamphlet distributed by the Socialist Labor Party (SLP) showing black and white workers uniting to overthrow capitalism through the power of the 'socialist industrial union'.
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apparently some of the older Arab delegates at the Bandung conference spoke to each other in Turkish when they didn't want their younger colleagues to understand them
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"the country that defeated fascism in Europe" doesn't exist anymore
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Adam Johnson
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The US killed 20% of Korea’s population from 1050-1953 and installed an unelected, fascist regime until the 1980s. Awesome analysis by the NYTimes
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It's striking how Communist material from the '20s often says "yes, life is hard in Russia, but the workers are in power and that's the decisive thing," very different from the later idealization
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this is a fascist society
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David Grossman
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All she said was, "There are hungry children in Gaza, there are children without a home."
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Yukon Cornelius 🇵🇸
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when you read the actual Communist material from the creation of Israel it's all about the friendship of two peoples, independence, how the Arabs should fight their rulers and the British, abstractly it's all fine...just totally tangential to the reality of what was happening
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