Jay In The Boondocks

Independent Thought.
Not Left or Right.
Despise Dems & GOP equally.

[Jay In The Boondocks @ComptonMadeMe]

Black Panthers go into Rural White America to organize with them

#ClassWarfae

[Jay In The Boondocks @ComptonMadeMe]

Araqchi revealed that during discussions with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, he specifically insisted that Lebanon be included in language related to ending the war.

[Jay In The Boondocks @ComptonMadeMe]

This shows that Mamdani is serving the social interests, not of the city’s working class, but the major corporations, real-estate interests, and the financial elite whose wealth depends on preserving existing property relations and political stability.

[Forrest Miller 🎥🏆 @AlwaysFlacko]

@jacobin Before you criticize AOC vs. after you criticize AOC lol

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

VIDEO | Protester in Poland confronts foreign minister over genocide in Gaza

A confrontation erupted in Kraków earlier this week during a promotional event for Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski’s new book. A pro-Palestine activist disrupted the venue to directly challenge Warsaw's alignment with western foreign policy and its continued diplomatic cover for Israel.

The demonstrator shouted:
​"Free Palestine, free Palestine! Minister Sikorski does nothing to say that genocide is genocide, so that Poland does not participate in genocide! They do nothing, they will let the Palestinians be crushed... Free Palestine, free Palestine! Poland will not sit idly by with genocide. TNT produced in Poland! TNT produced in Poland!"

[Tehran Times @TehranTimes79]

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei pardoned and commuted the sentences of two thousand convicts on the occasion of Eid al- Ghadir.

[Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH]

LIVE June 5th TODAY 1pm eastern 10am pacific w/ Andrei Martyanov!

We talk latest USS Gerald Ford video revealing the crisis facing the US Navy & Iran's latest warning shots fired at US destroyers in the Sea of Oman plus much more in geopolitics!

https://t.co/jna5anzz9S

[Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog]

@jacobin The Meteoric Rise and Narcissistic Fall of Jacobin, a gate keeping rag.

[Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka]

For Amnesty & Human Rights Watch “saving the games” is possible if certain HR protections are put in place, but from BAP/PCHR perspective, these measures are not enough because they leave intact the central issue – The normalization of imperial impunity. Boycott is the call.

[Black Alliance for Peace @Blacks4Peace]

Watch Ajamu Baraka break down how the US has abandoned liberal democracy & international law for naked brute force — from Iran to Cuba to Venezuela to our own streets. The ruling class has chosen global fascism.

https://t.co/wOJtpwCkQy

https://t.co/enk6pxtVaX

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨Israeli Soldier Casualties Have Been Mounting Since The Morning

Hezbollah managed to ambush Givati Brigades forces, engaging them at close range & injuring the Commander of its reconnaissance unit with direct gunfire.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Right after the WSJ reports that Trump will only resume the war if Iran hits US troops, this Israeli front group declares that the US needs to keep US troops at the bases where Iran can hit them.

By “U.S. Needs Its Mideast Bases”, FDD means “Israel Needs U.S. Mideast Bait”:

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The Zionist filth are burning families alive, and Western journalists, diplomats, and elites are looking away. They are all irredeemably evil.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The genocidal Zionist regime continues the ethnic cleansing of Southern Lebanon with full Western support

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Jacobin magazine, the principal mouthpiece of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, today released a hit piece on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls, @Shut_downAmazon.

It could be legit if Jacobin had had an honest critique of Smalls to clarify what class struggle unionist leaders should be doing. But the article is not that at all.

It’s a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders who give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, despite shocking betrayals by them against working people.

The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-party system for the state of the American labor movement…”

Smalls is spot on about this and the need to break from the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new party of the working class.

The DSA leadership, on the other hand, sees giving cover to the Democratic Party as job number one. The Democratic Party is the party under whom the genocide in Gaza began and which engineered the breaking of the railroad workers’ strike — both under President Joe Biden. ALL Democrats in the House, including DSA star AOC voted to break the strike. The Democratic Party is one of the two most powerful capitalist parties in the world, and in no way represents working people or the oppressed.

Business unionist labor leaders are those who have made peace with the capitalist system and are driven by protecting their careers, which means placating the bosses, not organizing the rank and file against the bosses to win substantive working-class victories. Refusing to fight the bosses also means aligning with the parties of the bosses, like the Democratic Party.

The overwhelming majority of the labor leadership today is business unionist, with some crucial exceptions like Smalls. We need a reckoning in the labor movement.

Brother Smalls has put his life on the line for the antiwar movement in solidarity with the Palestinia people against the Israeli state’s genocide bankrolled by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Smalls went on a Gaza aid flotilla carrying food, baby formula, diapers and medicine in the context of catastrophic levels of mass starvation in Gaza. The flotilla was attacked by the Israeli military, who physically assaulted Smalls, and kicked and choked him.

In contrast, AOC has voted for the Iron Dome which is part of the Israeli state’s genocidal apparatus.

For having the temerity to expose AOC and other self-described “progressive” politicians, Smalls is called “narcissistic” by Jacobin, a term the magazine’s editors were apparently forced to retract after they got huge amounts of flak on all social media.

Personal attacks and character assassination like in this case are often used by the political establishment’s spokespeople as proxy for their real objections — in this case, the threat they feel from Smalls openly calling out the Democratic Party’s actual role.

The only way of rebuilding a militant labor movement is to pose a concrete threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, which in turn requires a challenge to the business unionist labor leadership. That is the basis on which I won the nation’s highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax during the decade I was the sole socialist on the Seattle City Council.

I am now running as an independent revolutionary socialist against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. I am calling for an end to all military aid to Israel and an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war. https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[suzanne adely /سوزان @Suz_Adely]

The only thing "Pseudo left"here is Jacobin. A terribly written, personal attack that concludes Chris doesn't care about workers because he criticizes, AOC & Bernie. The movement is lucky to have him.
يلعن لتاريخ الليبراليين والتروتسكيين.

[Jules 🇵🇸🦊 @CatholicClod]

Least Racist Jacobin Op-Ed

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

C'mon. If you follow the links to the different threads Smalls made against AOC it's clear that he has very valid complaints regarding Gaza. The way some social democrats use "left sectarianism" or "ultra-left" is really quite tiresome.

[Unplug The Empire @UnplugTheEmpire]

This is footage of (Black Panther) Bobby Hutton's funeral at the Ephesians Church of God in Berkeley, California, where over 2,000 people attended.

Two days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lil’ Bobby Hutton (aged 17) was murdered by the Oakland Police Department. He came out unarmed, hands up, and was shot more than a dozen times.

These images are heartbreakingly tragic, but stand as a testament to the impact his life had. He was a courageous leader dedicated to the protection and upliftment of the Black community in Oakland and beyond.

Robert James Hutton aka Lil’ Bobby (April 21, 1950 – April 6, 1968)

Bobby was born in Arkansas. His family moved to Oakland when he was a toddler, fleeing racist terror and hoping to find safety.

At 16, he became the first member and national treasurer of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. He joined Panther patrols, organized high school Black Student Unions, and rallied crowds at Free Huey events.

In 1967, Bobby helped lead the armed protest at the California State Capitol against the Mulford Act, a law designed to dismantle the Panthers’ community patrols by banning the public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit. He helped make global headlines, and photos of him from that day became iconic.

[Unplug The Empire @UnplugTheEmpire]

Iran hits Kuwait's largest airport amid ceasefire. Iran struck Kuwait’s main airport, killing one person and injuring dozens.

Israel's ongoing invasion in Lebanon is also challenging the ceasefire. The conflict sparked rare public tensions between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Unplug The Empire @UnplugTheEmpire]

House passes resolution to curb Trump's Iran war powers