Communist Action Party Westminster

Carroll County, MD ML org ☭. Anti-racist, anti-imperialist and anti-fascist.
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[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Imperialists keep having to invent socialist massacres to deflect from the reality that capitalism is one continuous, world-spanning genocide.

We often hear about the 140 people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over a period spanning 28 years. But we never hear about the 9,900 people who die every single day because they lack access to healthcare — a direct outcome of imperialism's denial of sovereignty to the global periphery.

We often hear about some number of people who supposedly died at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — a highly-contested narrative. But we do not hear about the 1,545 people who die every single day because of Western sanctions — 38 million people in total over a fifty year period.

Given the sheer barbarism of the imperialist world system, we should marvel at how mild the actions of socialist and revolutionary projects are by the standards of the systemic and unrelenting violence they are forced to confront. And there is certainly no need for progressive forces to be apologetic or ashamed about these measures.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

The Tiananmen Rioter Atrocities the West Never Shows

Rioters hijacked armoured vehicles, stole machine guns, torched dozens of military trucks & APCs. They dragged unarmed PLA soldiers out — beat them, lynched them, stripped them naked, then burned them alive.

Charred corpses hung from buses like trophies. Dozens of soldiers killed in these savage ambushes on Beijing streets.

This wasn’t “peaceful students.”

This was brutal mob violence that sparked the chaos.

Full truth matters.

The hidden side every June 4.

[chimera @chimeraxmachina]

You're a worker. You don't have to agree with every decision of the communist movement or of the socialist states throughout history, but to disavow them in their entirety means you disavow your own right to imperfectly fight for liberation. This is your history, too.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

A transnational Jewish-Italian mob network centered on Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante ran Cuba as a privatized extraction arm of US empire: gambling, laundering, narcotics, prostitution, political bribery.

What the US could not openly run on its own border, the syndicate ran for it in Havana.

Batista was on a $ 1.28-million-a-month retainer, delivered every Monday at noon. His development bank bankrolled half of every new mob casino.

And this was not just gambling. Havana was a key node in the postwar heroin pipeline: Turkish opium, Marseille labs, Havana transshipment, New York distribution.

By the late 1960s, that French Connection network supplied most of America’s heroin.

Then Castro won.

In January 1959 the casinos were smashed, the bosses fled or were detained, and Batista escaped with a fortune estimated around $300 million.

The national lottery, once a graft channel, was converted into a housing fund.

But the mob did not disappear. It was redeployed.

Lansky’s lieutenant Doc Stacher later said Lansky offered to finance Castro’s assassination as early as 1959. By September 1960, the CIA was running the operation directly.

The Agency hired Johnny Rosselli, Sam Giancana, and Santo Trafficante. The opening offer was $150,000. The weapon: poison pills from the CIA’s Technical Services Division.

The 1975 Church Committee found concrete evidence of at least eight CIA plots against Castro between 1960 and 1965.

The same Havana-Miami underworld that lost Cuba in 1959 became useful again as the deniable violence arm of US policy.

Of the three mob figures the CIA hired, Giancana was murdered before he could testify to Congress. Rosselli was murdered after he did. Trafficante survived.

The continuity is structural, not anecdotal: Tampa, Havana, Miami. Casinos became exile paramilitaries. Exile paramilitaries became lobby infrastructure.

Jorge Mas Canosa, a Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA-radio figure, founded the Cuban American National Foundation in 1981 at the suggestion of Reagan's advisors. It was modeled on AIPAC and built to harden Cuba policy permanently.

The lobby's most famous operative was Luis Posada Carriles: CIA-trained, Bay of Pigs veteran, Iran-Contra contractor under Oliver North, perpetrator of the 1976 mid-air bombing of Cubana Flight 455 (73 dead) and the 1997 Havana hotel bombings. By 1998, he had publicly named Mas Canosa as his financier. He died free in Miami in 2018.

They did not just lobby. They wrote the laws.

1992: Cuban Democracy Act.
1996: Helms-Burton.
2019: Trump activates Title III, letting US claimants sue foreign firms using confiscated Cuban property.

Today the legal afterlife of Batista’s Cuba runs through federal court: hotel chains, expropriation claims, embargo law, and Miami political power.

Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, is a product of that machine.

When he says “freedom in Cuba,” hear the history underneath it:

the old casino mobster class wants its island back

[SilencedSirs◼️ @SilentlySirs]

A girl says an American officer crossed her boundaries under the excuse of a search.

This is how “serving the people” collapses:
when the badge becomes stronger than human dignity.

[RTSG News @RTSG_News]

🇨🇳 "Facts have repeatedly shown that Marx and Engels’ analysis of the basic contradictions inherent to capitalism is not outdated," said Xi Jinping.

"Their historical materialist assessment that capitalism will perish and socialism will triumph is not outdated either."

"Although the road is winding, this general trend of socio-historical development is irreversible. The demise of capitalism and the final triumph of socialism is by necessity a long historical process."

Follow: @RTSG_News

[check my 📌 tweet #whiskeygirl @femalemsktr]

All this cruise stuff just reminded me to look up the ship The Dali that crashed into the bridge in Baltimore. It's been 2 years and 11 crew members are still being held with their passports confiscated.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The United States has the largest prison population on earth.

Not per capita.

Total.

More people in cages than China.

More than Russia.

More than every "authoritarian" state it condemns in its annual human rights reports.

1.8 million people.

Disproportionately Black.

Disproportionately poor.

Disproportionately from the zip codes with the worst schools, the fewest jobs, the most abandoned infrastructure.

This is presented as a "criminal justice system."

It functions as a labor system.

Prison labor, paid between 13 cents and $1.15 an hour in most states, produces goods for McDonald's, Walmart, Victoria's Secret, Whole Foods, and the United States military.

The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, contains an exception clause:

"Except as punishment for crime."

That exception has never been closed.

It has been expanded.

The plantation did not disappear.

It received a different name and a legal foundation.

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Marjan Yeshayayi, a member of the Tehran Jewish community, asked rescue workers not to use machinery [to clear the rubble] in order to preserve the scriptures.
“When I made the request, I did not believe they would accept it, but instead they said, ‘OK, we will remove it manually,’ and they really did. Each brick was removed by hand, and the scrolls came out safely and were handed over to the Jewish community.
https://t.co/FXoP1NZaxi

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

If capitalism truly rewarded skill or intelligence, the richest people would be neurosurgeons, engineers, and scientists.

If it rewarded talent, it would be artists, writers, and creators.

If it rewarded hard work, it would be cleaners, laborers, and service workers.

But it’s none of them.

[روني الدنماركي @aldnmarki]

Leave it to the PFLP to release the hardest May Day posters every single year.

“Workers of the World! Unite to Smash Imperialism!”

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

Neocolonialism is when the U.S. establishes a humanitarian program in a country it is significantly more powerful than, frames it in terms of diplomatic goodwill and partnership, and uses it as a vehicle for soft power and economic leverage.

Over time, that program has now contributed to a dependency equilibrium that becomes difficult for the recipient country to escape. Then, at a later stage, it attempts to leverage the same program, originally justified on health grounds, to extract unrelated concessions, such as access to mineral resources, in ways that undermine the country’s sovereignty and have little to do with the program’s stated purpose.

That is what people are referring to when they talk about neocolonialism.

I hope the Zambians hold their ground and say no. The U.S. can take its aid and shove it. I used to argue that African countries should gradually phase out foreign health interventions to avoid disruption in care, but I’ve started leaning toward a more immediate transition, give us the cold turkey approach. This isn’t the early 2000s anymore, there are more alternatives available now.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Where are all those Western feminists hiding?

[justin serb-ert 🇷🇸🍉 @markocantdunk]

I would rather starve to death than work for the company that made the rocket that killed this child, and I don’t understand anybody who doesn’t feel the same way

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Este hombre llamado Timothy Brown, estaba comprando una botella de vino después del trabajo en Nueva York, cuando 2 policías racistas yankis le apalizaron salvajemente, le rajaron la pierna y necesitó 36 puntos de sutura.

Los policías buscaban a un sospechoso negro y Timothy fue el primer negro que encontraron, así funciona la persecución racial en EEUU mientras dan lecciones de "democracia" a los demás países.

[Juan Carlos Rocha @Rocha4T]

PARA ACLARAR

La CIA no son agentes con traje como los hombres de negro.

La CIA es tu pastor cristiano que te mete ideas empresariales y ganancias jugosas que nada tienen que ver con la espiritualidad.

La CIA es la música que te normaliza ideas bélicas como peso pluma con un inexplicable auge.

La CIA es la prensa hemegónica que te hizo odiar a Rusia.

La CIA es Hollywood donde los gringos salvaban al mundo siempre.

La CIA son las drogas permitidas y no permitidas que te generaron dependencia desmedida.

La CIA es la ciberseguridad y las IAS que controlan datos y te espían sin que te des cuenta.

La CIA son los generadores de violencia y crimen organizado que arrasa y desplaza gente en tu barrio.

La CIA son las empresas de armamentistas que controlan los conflictos y matanzas para desestabilizar.

La CIA está en los golpes de estado que tiran gobiernos de izquierda que apelan a las soberanías de sus pueblos.

La CIA está en caricaturas, series, novelas, cortometrajes y canciones.

La CIA es el monstruo omnipresente que se mete en tu psique sin que te des cuenta.

La CIA es quien tiene el dominio de la estúpida cabeza de los fascistas.

La CIA es la podredumbre gringa.

[Neet @neet_sol]

Wage cattle

[antifa honeypot @mformorphine]

must be so blissful being a lib, no ideological framework for why things happen, no coherent understanding of history or economics, just individual issues that you interpret solely based on vibes

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

"World political developments are of necessity concentrated on a single focus—the struggle of the world bourgeoisie against the Soviet Russian Republic, around which are inevitably grouped, on the one hand, the Soviet movements of the advanced workers in all countries, and, on the other, all the national liberation movements in the colonies and among the oppressed nationalities..."

Vladimir Lenin was born on this day in 1870. He was among the first to recognize the unity of anti-colonial national liberation movements and the emergent socialist bloc. That insight marked a tectonic shift in the global intellectual center of gravity. With it, Marxism moved from west to east, and north to south.

[Raju J Das @RajuJDas]

Assessments of how socialist the USSR was or China is today often rest on the assumption that socialism can be fully built in a single country. Both the Soviet and Chinese projects were shaped by global constraints, especially in the absence of socialist revolutions in the West.