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lilithism1848 · 2 months

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eggcolomba · 6 months

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Around the world, workers and youth have been mobilising in solidarity with the Palestinian masses, who are facing a brutal onslaught from the Israeli military. Comrades of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) have joined these demonstrations, advancing communist slogans in support of the struggle of the oppressed people of Palestine.

#communism #marxism #revolution #free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine #palestine action #palestine protest #protest #manifestation #palestine solidarity #palestine support #communist #International Marxist Tendency #imt #socialist appeal #socialist revolution

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nando161mando · 3 months

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Comrade Candle – For Marxists, Liberals, and Other Dogs

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cupcakechemistsblog · 9 months

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"On June 8, the New Brunswick government rolled back protections for trans students in public schools.

The announcement of the review of Policy 713 drew hundreds into the streets in defence of the policy. Days after the announcement of the review, more than 350 protesters rallied in front of the New Brunswick legislature in Fredericton in support of the policy.

The New Brunswick Union has already stepped up to condemn the revisions to the policy, and back its members who do choose not to implement the revisions. […] If all teachers and school staff refuse to apply the change, then the revision of Policy 713 will remain a dead letter. This would be a tremendous example of workers’ solidarity in the fight against oppression for all others to follow."

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chadgamer · 2 years

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realized i should probably post about this on here: don't join the international marxist tendency (socialist fightback in canada, socialist appeal in the UK, socialist revolution in the US). they're currently engaging in a mass campaign of harassment and slander against my partner for speaking out about the abuse that them, myself, and others all experienced within the org. you can read about what happened to us in their statement (cw for sexual assault & harassment, domestic violence, transphobia)

since speaking out we've been reached out to by at least a dozen more people who experienced abuse within the org. there are known sexual abusers in the org who are in leadership positions and who are being protected by the rest of leadership. it is not safe for women and trans people.

#IMT #international marxist tendency #fightback #socialist fightback #socialist appeal #socialist revolution #marxism #socialism

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arthropooda · 1 year

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From 17-19 March, hundreds of comrades from Socialist Appeal (British section of the International Marxist Tendency) met for this year’s national conference. The mood was one of optimism, enthusiasm, and dedication, with a laser focus on the task ahead: to build the forces of Marxism in Britain and beyond.

Last weekend, around 400 revolutionary activists from across the country gathered in London for the Socialist Appeal 2023 national congress.

The atmosphere at the event was electric from beginning to end. With the crisis deepening by the day globally, and the class struggle in Britain heating up, there was no shortage of material for the discussions.

Comrades also attended in person from Austria, Canada, France, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, and the USA, demonstrating the tremendous breadth of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT), which is growing across the world.

#Socialist appeal #Britain #March #British #Marxist #International Marxist tendency #Marxism #London #Austria #Canada #France #Ireland #Poland #Sweden #Usa #Imt #Growing

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totallyhussein-blog · 1 year

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Talking about a revolution? Exploring Socialist perspectives on Iraq

In the article Communism and the Iraqi Revolution, Benjamin Curry of the UK based Socialist Appeal (British section of the International Marxist Tendency) goes to the roots of the revolutionary history of the Iraqi people.

According to Benjamin Curry, the 2003 US/UK invasion of Iraq and the liquidation of the Ba’athist state, “opened a Pandora’s Box in Iraq” but “for a time in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s Iraq became the key theatre of struggle in one of the most significant dramas in modern history.”

Estimates suggest more than a million people were killed in the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq and as Benjamin Curry argues: “The conditions in Iraq today cry out for the socialist reorganisation of society. The contradictions will permit no other solution.”

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mxscreambitch · 2 years

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I really really want to rant about how terrible capitalism is but I'm drunk so I'll just make this post.

Do you hate Capitalism? There is an alternative! Come and join the international marxist tendency!

#imt #international marxist tendency #socialism #marxism #trotzky #trotzkinism #fuck capitalism

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randomposter33 · 10 months

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https://www.msn.com/en-US/travel/news/oceangate-ceo-stockton-rush-told-a-friend-in--that-he-would-shut-down-the-company-before-he-would-operate-an-unsafe-sub/ar-AA1dhj3H?ocid=sapphireappshare

From the article:

Stanley, an expert in submersibles who had expressed serious concerns to him about the integrity of the Titan after hearing cracking noises on a dive in the Bahamas that year.

"I think that hull has a defect near that flange, that will only get worse. The only question in my mind is will it fail catastrophically or not," Stanley said in an email to Rush.

The submarine, containing two billionaires, the pilot whose wife was the great grand-daughter of one of the Titanic's richest passengers, and two very rich Pakistani oligarchs, crashed most likely because they wanted to hurry to the bottom. Until proven otherwise, we should assume their purpose in the journey was to cover up the real cause of the sinking of the Titanic and Lusitania: creating a pretext for war and eliminating political opposition. In that sense, the sinking of the Titan Sub is really a great comedy, eliminating oligarchs whose fortunes must grow while the rest of us must go to war to be slaughtered. World War I led to the revolution in Russia; a third world war will lead to a revolution in the United States. Visit and leave a comment at randomposter33.org to build an international Marxist leadership for the coming revolution.

#trotsky #trotskyism #marxism #lenin #socialism #democratic_power_faction #marxism leninism #communism #international marxist tendency #fourth international #internationalism

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makapatag · 4 months

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thoughts about a national "filipino" culture

this post is written after a bout of rereading fanon. this post is by no means a hikayat or persuasive piece but rather pure unfiltered thoughts, perhaps ya'll will find it interesting.

filipino culture is largely revolutionary. this is true of almost every colonized culture: as according to Fanon, National Culture is the Struggle for Liberation, and I largely agree with this. in a way, we are still struggling for liberation from outside forces. in many ways, the Philippines is still a colony (or, perhaps, a neocolony) of america. thus colonialism is still on going. thus, fanon's terminology of colonized/colonist dichotomy is still very effective when applied to modern filipino identity.

i've been pretty vocal about my perspective on filipino identity: it being mostly constructed during the american colonization of the philippines. even to this day, i believe that it is mostly a regurgitation of american culture, even seemingly activist perspectives. much of filipino culture is repurposed from american educational systems. much of filipino culture talks about filipinos, and ignores a vast majority of the other people in the isles. ask the general activist how a bisaya or mindanaowon revolutionary and they will balk.

fanon argues that national culture is just the culture of the struggle that arises from nationhood. after decolonization, both colonized and colonist die. what then, afterwards? he states that national culture is the best way to achieve international solidarity. smaller scale focuses of culture can create better and more authentic cultures instead of vague and generic eidolons. i largely agree for the most part, though we can definitely peer a lot deeper. fanon is also quick to argue that national consciousness (the consciousness to fight for liberation) is different from nationalism (that thing that very quickly leads to fascism).

in the case of the philippines, multiple different culture still exist in milieu with the rest of philippine culture. fanon's works talk alot about the importance of word and language in the colonized's world. so it is here: the filipino as a term is claimed from the colonizers (filipino used to mean spanish that lived in the isles). can it be redeemed and twisted into an empowering word for us, na nakatira dito? potentially (as with all things its mostly a percentage chance). unfortunately, larger is the chance that we completely assimilate into the term: we become spanish people that live in the isles, despite having an already multinational culture (the tagalogs, the bisayas, the bikolanos, etc. all only sharing culture through colonization, in the same way africa shares culture through colonization but have bespoke cultures in and of themselves). thus why there's a tendency for filipinos to be separate from the indigenous people of the philippines, despite tagalogs, bisaya, etc. being indigenous people of the philippines

"but waks, bitch boy, you can't compare the ph to the africa and whatnot they're too big!" witness the philippines' true size in comparison to mainland seasia

multiple empires can fit within the philippines in size, so that's a fraught argument.

anyway, as i reread fanon i'm realizing too many leftist spaces (at least, mainstream ones in the PH, and especially the manilenyo ones) are currently ascribing to the first kind of culture that fanon spoke about (regurgitation of white culture): looking for pieces of culture to turn into "filipino identity", reinforcing fragments of filipino identity, conveniently forgetting other cultures in the ph (and some even being outright hostile against the idea) when it doesn't benefit their movement (which is annoying, because as real marxists we should be including them under a single revolutionary solidarity). increasingly it's beginning to feel like (manila centric) Mass Organizations are becoming just larger college orgs

however, i'm not saying that won't change--i feel like these orgs will evolve past anyway. and harnessing the power of guilt-ridden petty boojwazee instilled with the fervor of national consciousness is pretty potent in mobilizing large movements, even if they end up burning out by the end of it

so at the end of it i accept filipino as a geographical and revolutionary description, but not as a cultural nationalistic descriptor (as that would end up with us redoing the colonizer's culture). it is a stepping stone. and perhaps we might need to rejigger our definition of the filipino: maybe change its name to pilipinhon (coming from the philippines) from bisaya. or barring that, look at it differently, refuse the colonized intellectual urge to make it a culture like our colonizer's, and accept the culture as it is, of struggle and of liberation.

and then accept that there are multiple cultures underneath it--that there are tagalog cultures and bisaya cultures and lumad cultures and bikolano cultures etc. etc. hell, if the spanish didn't hand us over to the americans, who's to say that the philippines wouldn't have split into multiple different nations (a bisaya nation, a tagalog republic, etc.) it almost happened multiple times in the past. the only thing stopping us was colonialism :)

#waks thoughts #filipino #philippines #politics #this is by no means an invitation for discussion

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lilithism1848 · 5 months

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eggcolomba · 2 months

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Austrian state attacks comrades over Palestine solidarity

For months, all solidarity with Palestine has been attacked and a wave of slander has been unleashed on everyone who shows solidarity with the oppressed.

In the midst of the brutal bombardment of the city of Rafah, the last refuge for over a million people, the Austrian state apparatus is not embarrassed to sue our two comrades Sonja and Alex. They are accused of encouraging a "terrorist crime simply because they shared our statement from October 16th. The penalty is up to 2 years in prison!

These accusations have no truth whatsoever and are a complete attack on democracy and freedom of expression! We demand that all accusations against Sonja and Alex be withdrawn! Stop criminalizing solidarity with the Palestinian people!

Read the article on our website: https://www.manost.com /austrian-state-apparatus attacks the int-over-palestine solidanty.htm

If you want to help the comrades here somethings that you can do:

Show solidarity !

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Spread the ideas that the rulers want to silence. We are attacked for openly standing on the side of the oppressed and the working class. It is precisely these ideas that are needed to change the world!

#revolution #communism #communist #free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine #international marxist tendency #free comrades #palestine support #palestine solidarity #austrian #austrian state attack Palestine support #attack against Palestine solidarity

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nando161mando · 6 months

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tankie MLs when they realize that Marxist-leninism just lead to whatever backwards bullshit is Russia Right now

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cupcakechemistsblog · 10 months

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"In addition to fomenting prejudices and pitting working-class people against each other along lines of identity and “culture,” both ruling-class parties regard the transphobic fever as a key factor in their short-term electoral calculations.

Through one reactionary crusade after another, the GOP has courted this base, finding new ways to get prejudiced voters to the ballot box, while trampling on the basic rights of one oppressed group after another.

For Democrats, the useful specter of the “greater evil” is a welcome foil for their campaigns. Their calculations simply run in reverse, betting that their pro-LGBTQ lip service will help their chances in 2024, while doing absolutely nothing in practice to defend trans rights or living conditions.

Symbolic gestures from “progressive” politicians promising “respect” and “visibility” won’t provide stable housing, healthcare, or reliable jobs with decent wages and workplace protections.

One of the more optimistic figures […]68% of trans workers said their coworkers were supportive […] Mutual respect between workers of all backgrounds and identities can grow organically out of the daily experience of working side by side.

Though oppression is experienced in different ways by individuals, the key to ending it is collective struggle, as a class."

#hard to choose quotes for this #lots of good info in here #queer #trans #trans rights #trans rage #trans pride #Fightback #anti capitalism #capitalist hell #marxist #imt #international marxist tendency #communism #abolish capitalism #lgbtq #lgbt pride #transgender #pride month

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iberiancadre · 6 months

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A Brief Critique of the PSL's Program

As Marxists, our most important tool for keeping a true revolutionary analysis is critique and self critique. I am not doing this to dunk on the PSL, but thinking of my usamerican comrades who might be starting out with Marxist analysis. This is not an exhaustive analysis of the program. (they could really do with organizing their chapters into paragraphs instead of one single line of text)

Note: This only deals with part 1 of 2 of their program, The Struggle for Socialism, which consists of their analysis of capitalism in the USA

Because of their economies of scale, marketing muscle and deep financial pockets, huge monopolies have increasingly squeezed out independent small- and medium-sized businesses and farming operations. This has largely eliminated the “free market.”

It seems that petty-bourgeois ideology and mythology is ever present in Marxist circles, unfortunately. They are describing a real process, yes, the proletarainization of the petty-bourgeoisie is a consequence of the tendency towards monopolization which characterizes this stage of capitalism (which the PSL points out, of course), and it is the threat that can make the petty-bourgeoisie so reactionary and even fascistic. While technically correct, it seems strange to point out the negative effect monopoly capitalism on the petty-bourgeoisie in a proletarian program as if it was a concern of our class. This worship of "small independent businesses" is pervasive everywhere in the imperial core, not just the USA

The bank bailouts showed that while the government rules over the people, the banks rule over the government

Not exactly, it is clearer and more impactful to put it that way, but it is more accurate to say the government (and state, I'll talk about this program's confusion between the two later) acts in the interest of the capitalist class, not necessarily because of an explicit "ruling over". The government legislates in favor of the bourgeoisie because that's just who's interests they represent. There doesn't need to be a nefarious puppet master behind congress

The idea that any contemporary economic system can survive without major government intervention has been shown to be a total fallacy. The remaining question is not whether government intervention is necessary, but which class will benefit — the vast majority of society, the working class, or a tiny minority, the superrich?

So many things to talk about, the PSL is putting the cart before the horse here. They are describing how it is necessary for the vanguard party to take control of the state (not the government!) to oppress the capitalist class internally and to make sure that the imposition of socialism and the transition to communism are safeguarded, as well as to ensure the efficient distribution of resources. This is not government intervention in the economy, this is a state-ran economy. They are failing to operate outside the capitalist frame of debate when talking about their plans post-revolution.

This is a personal nitpick but I really dislike the use of terms like "superrich" when you mean capitalist or bourgeois. Say what you mean, stop trying to appeal to petty-bourgeois mythos

The struggle to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of global warming is therefore a class struggle. It is a struggle for power — not a struggle over morality or individual consumer choices.

It's like a breath of fresh air for a usamerican organization to recognize the impotence of individual consumption. No notes

Simply reforming the capitalist system is not enough. For the capitalists, reforms are a threat to the status quo. Reforms for the working class mean something different. They ease the burdens of living under capitalism through the extension of civil rights or other beneficial social or economic policies. While reforms must be fought for, and can be won, they are under constant attack by the ruling class. Capitalism itself cannot be reformed.

It's good that they point out the inherent temporary character of reforms within capitalism. My issue with this quote is stating that [all] reforms are threats to the status quo. This is a half truth. Reforms within capitalism, especially those made through a social-democratic ideology, are not necessarily threats to the status quo, but rather reinforce it by calming the economic-spontaneous consciousness of workers. This type of class consciousness is acquired merely through the worker's experience with capitalist exploitation. It does not necessarily lead to revolutionary convictions, is therefore less robust, and can be calmed or satiated by reforms. I didn't expect a usamerican communist party to achieve this level of nuance given the absolute lack of social-democratic reforms they get.

Political-revolutionary consciousness, however, is achieved through active, deliberate and continuous education of the worker in the unavoidability of class struggle. This type of consciousness is much more robust and cannot be quelled by reforms.

Overall, this is a fine program in need of a deeper analysis which can only come through experience. They should label themselves as Marxist-leninists, not because of any personal fantasies, but because it is clear that their beliefs are fundamentally leninist, although I understand the trouble this could cause them within the legality of the USA.

My biggest gripe, however, is the complete absence of even a mention to democratic-centralism. It appears that's what their internal structure is (I've seen their Central Comitee mentioned sometimes), but it is a glaring flaw for a revolutionary and proletarian program to obviate the only tried and tested successful revolutionary Party structure.

#real marxist hours

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soup-mother · 18 days

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trots can literally never just tell you they're trots they always have to call themselves like tendencies or alternatives etc, which incidentally tells you they're trots.

actually it's like the TME thing again.

hey are you an ML or a Trot?

"were an international marxist tendancy"

so a trot

#my post #leftist infighting pauses to infight at the trots

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