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8·1 month agoWhen Russia took over Crimea, Ukraine cut water supply to the peninsula, depriving civilian population of water for drinking and agriculture (which is a human rights violation) and causing a humanitarian crisis.
So Russia built the longest bridge in Europe to provide water and other essential supplies.
On the first day of the invasion Russian forces reopened the water flow into Crimea, but on the third day of the Ukrainian counteroffensive the Kakhovka Dam was destroyed, causing massive flood in Kherson region and again water shortage and agriculture crisis in Crimea, so the bridge remains vital infrastructure.
Since the beginning of the war Ukraine is trying to blow it up, when they do, Western outlets report it with absolute fucking glee:
Pressure on Putin grows as his ‘jewel in the crown’ bridge to Crimea is blown up
Long threatened, the hated $4bn Russian symbol of Moscow’s occupation of Crimea – one that Russia had boasted was impossible to attack – had been blown up.
The symbolism of the moment – a day after Russian president Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday and just over a week after he announced the illegal annexation of four more Ukrainian territories amid huge pomp in Moscow – was lost on nobody.
But it is not simply the fact this is Putin’s bridge that underlines the symbolism. The blast has real-term consequences too for Putin’s war, coming hard on the heels of a series of humiliating defeats on the eastern and southern fronts that has seen large-scale Russian retreats.
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Yeah it does look this way, thank you very much comrade.
Thank you!
Which UK political party would you recommend joining? I’ve been circling around CPB hoping they drop their TERF stance but that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/communist-party-and-young-communist-league-welcome-supreme-court-ruling-definition
Please do elaborate!
@ComradePupIvy would likely be interested too but I’m tech illiterate and can’t figure out how to @ them.
BTW is this a good article on them? https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/inside-the-last-days-of-the-cpgb-ml
CPGB-ML are so, so much worse than TERFs. CPB (and WPUK they keep supporting) are TERFs.
CPGB-ML are against any and all “LGBT ideology” and they will expell members for it. They are against all “identity politics” with very narrow exceptions for women’s rights and anti-racism.
I can’t find it now but there was a tweet on their official account comparing gay rights to guide dogs for the blind in an attempt to drive home just how frivolous gay rights are, arguing those are not class issues but special group interests - and alienating everyone who cares about either queer liberation or disability justice in one fell swoop.
They are not just tailist, they are full on right-deviationists (patsocs, nazbols, Strasserists, Duginists, etc), and I will die on this hill. They also collaborate with US patsocs and promote them.
Nazbols / patsocs pretend to be Marxist-Leninists and there are always some people around ML spaces who sympathise with them. There’s nobody here who thinks NYT present the correct Marxist-Leninist line.
If this was posted as “Inteview with Joti Brar the patsoc TERF” I wouldn’t report it, alas it’s posted as:
Joti Brar of CPGB-ML is the daughter of the late Harpal Brar.
“Neutrality Studies” is some Swiss nonsense, but at least they’ll listen to communists and anti-imperialists.
I could say all those things about the BBC, the Guardian, etc, and yet there’s no rule against posting them. I already explained why I think right deviationists in particular are banned, I might be wrong, I didn’t wright those rules this is just how I understand them. This is also what makes sense to me, I think banning New York Times is counterproductive but banning Haz is not.
I wonder if you didn’t know this or if you are intentionally minimizing this.
Are you for real? Lol fuck right off
There are many people speaking against russophobia and warmongering, we don’t need to post the ones who also speak against “the gays”.
When writing the effort post above I skimmed over that RATWM article again, and this stood out to me: “considering the people most impacted by US imperialism and imperialist war have been organizing against it long before these Mises people came along, why haven’t I seen most of these white Latte Leftists engaged in organizing with us? I mean, Black, queer, trans, disabled, Global South, African people will certainly all die should there be a nuclear war”
There are better voices to lift out of obscurity than Joti’s.
CPGB-ML are right deviationists so I’ll keep reporting them for breaking the rule “no right deviationists”. Joti is a prominent “socially conservative” figure on the British “left”, posting an interview with her is no different to posting an interview with Hinkle.
From MoreTankieChapo to GenZedong to Lemmygrad there is a cycle of nazbols / patsocs / whatever you wanna call them swarming the space looking to normalise their ideas, getting pushed back, and quieting down for a bit until the next cycle, and I think this is why there’s a rule specifically disallowing this content.
I’m not sure why you want to report Al Jazeera, there is no rule against posting from mainstream media.
No. You could as well promote any US patsoc when they stick to the “right topic”. Or any fascist for that matter, they always appropriate some correct leftists stances. Communist spaces shouldn’t platform them even when they parrot the correct line.
23·3 months agoNo. You could as well promote any US patsoc when they stick to the “right topic”. Or any fascist for that matter, they always appropriate some correct leftists stances. Communist spaces shouldn’t platform them even when they parrot the correct line.
FYI I reported this post:
Rule 5: No right-deviationists. CPGB-ML is “socially conservative” and Joti herself is a Caleb Maupin collaborator (she went on his show to spew transphobic hatred).
(Edit) CPGB-ML expels members for “propagation of LGBT ideology”:
Congress therefore resolves that the propagation of identity politics, including LGBT ideology, being reactionary and anti-working class and a harmful distraction and diversion from the class struggle of the proletariat for its social emancipation, is incompatible with membership of the party, rendering those involved in its promotion liable to expulsion.
Examples of their reactionary rherotic:
LGBT ideology wants more than equal rights
But, to return to the question of the demands of the self-appointed LGBT activists. Unlike ordinary people who happen to be gay or transgender, they are not happy with simply being allowed to live their lives in peace and without discrimination; it is not just a question of men and women wanting to be accepted even though they’re different.
For the so-called activists, it is a question of going far further than that, to the point of absurdity. Transgender activists want us, for instance, to encourage little boys and little girls who prefer the lifestyle that society offers to people of the opposite sex to the one that accords to their own sex to actually physically mutilate themselves in order to achieve the appearance of a person of the other sex.
https://thecommunists.org/2019/04/20/news/why-gay-rights-is-not-a-class-issue/
The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
Are ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ synonyms? Well they are synonyms, but a certain group of academics in the seventies in the United States decided that they weren’t synonyms. They were going to use ‘gender’ in their own way; they were going to use ‘gender’ to mean the social construct of behaviour surrounding what was expected of the biological differentiation among human beings (men and women).
But biological differentiation between male and female is a real thing. It doesn’t just exist in humanity, it exists in many species throughout the natural world. Sexual reproduction is a natural biological process that has persisted in nature due to the diversity it engenders; it is a phenomenon encountered in the natural world.
Why deny the material reality of gender?
Why did it become a fashion to say there’s no such thing a male and female?
Who is pushing this ideology that there is no such thing as gender? That there is no such thing as sex? That it’s not real?
There is even a movement termed ‘ableism’ or ‘trans-ableism’. There exist people who say: “I look as if I’ve got two arms and two legs, but actually in reality, I feel like I was born disabled.”
https://thecommunists.org/2019/03/23/news/the-reactionary-nightmare-of-gender-fluidity/
‘Transgender rights’ are bourgeois ideology. The whole issue confounds reality. It is pure idealism because the reality is that we cannot choose our identity at will. It is an illusion, a mistake and a crime to teach people to think that they can choose like this, under capitalism.
https://thecommunists.org/2018/12/07/news/the-only-thing-that-unites-us-is-class/
They also voiced their opinion on JK Rowling:
The author’s brave stance in defence of reality must be defended, and her hysterical detractors exposed as the reactionary bullies they are.
And here’s them openly promoting US patsocs:
Working-class antiwar rage sends US woke mafia into a head fit
Unlike other self-identifying (and self-neutering) antiwar movements (essentially middle-class ‘left’ rackets in hock to the Democratic party in the USA or the Labour party in Britain), the Rage movement might actually pose a real threat to the establishment.
https://thecommunists.org/2023/03/11/news/usa-working-class-antiwar-rage-woke-mafia-head-fit/
If you missed the whole RATWM thing, here’s an explainer: https://www.blackagendareport.com/why-rage-against-war-machine-rally-antiwarsowhite
And lastly here’s the YT video I referenced in the report: youtu.be/5v7bWFFLzUY?t=1666
Last time I looked into CPGB-ML was like 5 years ago, but I can see since then Caleb released plenty of interviews with both Joti and Harpal Brar (CPGB-ML chairman) so the collaboration is very official and not a singular lapse of judgement on Joti’s part as some people tried arguing back then.
FYI I reported this post:
Rule 5: No right-deviationists. CPGB-ML is “socially conservative” and Joti herself is a Caleb Maupin collaborator (she went on his show to spew transphobic hatred).
(Edit) CPGB-ML expels members for “propagation of LGBT ideology”:
Congress therefore resolves that the propagation of identity politics, including LGBT ideology, being reactionary and anti-working class and a harmful distraction and diversion from the class struggle of the proletariat for its social emancipation, is incompatible with membership of the party, rendering those involved in its promotion liable to expulsion.
Examples of their reactionary rherotic:
LGBT ideology wants more than equal rights
But, to return to the question of the demands of the self-appointed LGBT activists. Unlike ordinary people who happen to be gay or transgender, they are not happy with simply being allowed to live their lives in peace and without discrimination; it is not just a question of men and women wanting to be accepted even though they’re different.
For the so-called activists, it is a question of going far further than that, to the point of absurdity. Transgender activists want us, for instance, to encourage little boys and little girls who prefer the lifestyle that society offers to people of the opposite sex to the one that accords to their own sex to actually physically mutilate themselves in order to achieve the appearance of a person of the other sex.
https://thecommunists.org/2019/04/20/news/why-gay-rights-is-not-a-class-issue/
The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
Are ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ synonyms? Well they are synonyms, but a certain group of academics in the seventies in the United States decided that they weren’t synonyms. They were going to use ‘gender’ in their own way; they were going to use ‘gender’ to mean the social construct of behaviour surrounding what was expected of the biological differentiation among human beings (men and women).
But biological differentiation between male and female is a real thing. It doesn’t just exist in humanity, it exists in many species throughout the natural world. Sexual reproduction is a natural biological process that has persisted in nature due to the diversity it engenders; it is a phenomenon encountered in the natural world.
Why deny the material reality of gender?
Why did it become a fashion to say there’s no such thing a male and female?
Who is pushing this ideology that there is no such thing as gender? That there is no such thing as sex? That it’s not real?
There is even a movement termed ‘ableism’ or ‘trans-ableism’. There exist people who say: “I look as if I’ve got two arms and two legs, but actually in reality, I feel like I was born disabled.”
https://thecommunists.org/2019/03/23/news/the-reactionary-nightmare-of-gender-fluidity/
‘Transgender rights’ are bourgeois ideology. The whole issue confounds reality. It is pure idealism because the reality is that we cannot choose our identity at will. It is an illusion, a mistake and a crime to teach people to think that they can choose like this, under capitalism.
https://thecommunists.org/2018/12/07/news/the-only-thing-that-unites-us-is-class/
They also voiced their opinion on JK Rowling:
The author’s brave stance in defence of reality must be defended, and her hysterical detractors exposed as the reactionary bullies they are.
And here’s them openly promoting US patsocs:
Working-class antiwar rage sends US woke mafia into a head fit
Unlike other self-identifying (and self-neutering) antiwar movements (essentially middle-class ‘left’ rackets in hock to the Democratic party in the USA or the Labour party in Britain), the Rage movement might actually pose a real threat to the establishment.
https://thecommunists.org/2023/03/11/news/usa-working-class-antiwar-rage-woke-mafia-head-fit/
If you missed the whole RATWM thing, here’s an explainer: https://www.blackagendareport.com/why-rage-against-war-machine-rally-antiwarsowhite
And lastly here’s the YT video I referenced in the report: youtu.be/5v7bWFFLzUY?t=1666
Last time I looked into CPGB-ML was like 5 years ago, but I can see since then Caleb released plenty of interviews with both Joti and Harpal Brar (CPGB-ML chairman) so the collaboration is very official and not a singular lapse of judgement on Joti’s part as some people tried arguing back then.
7·3 months agoNot that different from getting advice from tarot, astrology, self-help books, motivational speakers, lifestyle gurus, influencers…
I’m pretty sure AI trained on a dead persons chat/posting/email history will soon replace various psychics and mediums too.
Ah the Korean War, also sometimes called “the Forgotten War” by pundits and journos who’s fucking job it is to not allow shit like this to be “forgotten”.
They won’t let you forget Tiananmen square for a minute, but the war with the highest percentage of civilan casualties in history, with over 10 million deaths which is higher proportion that Soviet losses in WW2, the bombing campaign so genocidal that by the US army general admission there was simply nothing left to bomb when they were done… Oopsie, we forgot!
This has nothing to do with Russia, the US has been doing forever: https://legionmagazine.com/euphemisms-acronyms-and-outright-lies-the-language-of-war/
It’s hilarious to me because it’s exactly the kind of “political” joke you would hear in the Soviet Union, where ideological proclamations of party leaders are put in absurd or sexual contexts.
Probably the most famous one:
Dzerzhinsky and Trotsky are arguing: which is better, a wife or a mistress?
Dzerzhinsky says: “A mistress.”
Trotsky says: “A wife.”
They can’t agree, so they ask Lenin.
Lenin replies:
“Both! Tell your wife you’re with your mistress, tell your mistress you’re with your wife… and meanwhile, go up to the attic and study, study, and study again.”
(“Study, study, and study again” was the most famous Lenin quote in the USSR, the placard with those words would hang in every single classroom of every school).