All 3 of Netanyahu’s main opponents in the next election condemned him for surrendering to the US & agreeing to a “ceasefire” in Lebanon. They say he sold out & became a “vassal state” of the US. So if you’re thinking getting rid of Netanyahu makes Israel better - think again
I feel like if you weren’t a bit of a comic nerd you don’t know how racist this was. His whole thing is he can’t die, it would be like Superman just getting shot or Batman getting outsmarted.
Today marks the centenary of the birth of Norma Jeane Mortenson, the woman the world knew as Marilyn Monroe.
While the bourgeois press continues to gape at the ghost of a manufactured icon, the Communist Party of Britain reclaims the intellectual and the comrade.
Her politics were born of the assembly line. From the foster homes of Los Angeles to the Radioplane munitions factory, Monroe’s class consciousness was forged in the heat of proletarian survival. She was a woman of fierce intelligence, possessing an IQ that dwarfed the men who sought to manage her, yet she was reduced to a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded by the parasitic studio system.
The FBI files, which tracked her until her final breath, confirm what the establishment feared - a sex symbol who had read Marx and admired the Chinese Revolution. She was a militant anti-racist who used her platform to shatter the colour bar for Ella Fitzgerald, and she stood firm against the cowardice of the McCarthyite witch hunts when she married the blacklisted playwright Arthur Miller.
We must recognise that Monroe’s struggle was the intersection of class exploitation and patriarchal violence. She was a worker whose labour was her own body, super-exploited by a system that demanded she be beautiful and silent. Her life was a constant act of rebellion against the male gaze of capital. On her 100th birthday, we do not celebrate a "bombshell". We honour a clear-minded socialist who understood that the liberation of her class was inseparable from the liberation of her sex.
Happy Centenary, Comrade Marilyn. The struggle continues.
#MarilynMonroe
Yesterday, Israelis killed Odai Shaʽban (24) and his fiancée Suwar Abbas (21), only a week after their engagement.
The attackers blocked their car on a road near Akka, opened fire, and shot Odai dead in the driver's seat.
Suwar tried to flee toward a nearby field but was also shot at and killed. Her body was later found about 200 meters away from the vehicle.
Both Odai and Suwar were Palestinian citizens of Israel.
At the very least, one should ask:
“What international balance might have been disrupted by Rofeida, who was shot in the head by a sniper while carrying water home with her brother?
This afternoon the young man seen running from the vehicle received a call from the Israeli army telling him he could die alone or die with his family in the car.
He ran from the vehicle into a field and was struck and killed by an Israeli drone.
This is not the first time that the Israeli army has used this tactic. It is pure barbarism. Abject terrorism.
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
"Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine" vs "the war in the Middle East," we are achieving levels of liberal contradiction heretofore unknown to man
The Sudanese woman in the pink hijab said:
“I say this to the Muslim leaders: Stay in your castles, wear our hijabs, and hand over your weapons. We deserve them more than you. You are cowards, sitting on the thrones built from the bones of the children of Gaza”