Bolivia general strike: Workers in Santa Cruz region have been resisting police & paramilitary attack for the past three hours and counting.
The barricades on highway around San Julián were lifted by armed groups, but workers have re-establisbed new ones. Cat & mouse strategy.
It's actually crazy how often I hear the exact same bullshit people say about gay and trans people generally get lobbed at "femboys" by queer people with zero self awareness because we've somehow decided that it's very leftist to attack male gender nonconformity
the role of an actual vanguard is to abolish itself by making its position or behavior common to all people. not to accumulate leverage, but to popularize the advantaged position. like a wolf that ventures out ahead of the pack in search of food.
#OtD 4 Jun 1919 Order No. 1824 was released. Signed off by Leon Trotsky, it banned workers from attending an emergency congress of revolutionary workers’, peasants’, and soldiers’ delegates called for by the anarchist-led Military Revolutionary Council https://t.co/K7mwobzWaa
if the bbc had to do this for every time they misquoted/misrepresented jeremy corbyn it would be a nonstop stream of apologies. wonder why they hardly ever did, if ever.
So many young bright bushy eyed activists got convinced in 2020 that repeatedly getting arrested for no reason was a good strategy. Do not listen to anyone that is telling you to stand around and get arrested for no reason. This kills youth movements
Liberals co-opt leftist ideas and language and misapply them so that conservatives then get to point out the gaping holes in the liberalized versions of them to discredit the original concepts.
I absolutely love reading stories of confused peasants who have no notion of national identity being told they belong to a greater heritage and they just respond “idk man I just live here”