East Los Angeles SRA

🚩🏴Educating working class people for self and community defense. @SocialistRA

[East Los Angeles SRA @EastLA_SRA]

We have been going every two weeks handing out hundreds of care packages and building up a relationship with the community of our unhoused comrades in Skid Row. If you are able to support our mutual aid work, please do.
We Keep Us Safe!
https://t.co/i03Z4wRhfj

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US decided to attack Iraq with a new stealth jet it hadn’t used before that evaded all radars? The attack was a success. Was it strategic?”

Many in the class raised their hands to say “yes, it achieved its goal”. But the professor said: “It may not have been”.

Why?

“Because now your adversaries know your capabilities and it’s a matter of time before they find ways around them. If this attack could be done with conventional weapons, it’s better to keep your top weapons until you need them. Using them creates a disadvantage.”

My analysis is that the scale of Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region.

The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. It also knows how long it takes to prepare them, how Israeli society responds…etc

This is a huge strategic cost to Israel, while Arab regimes now are being blasted by their peoples, particularly the Jordanian monarchy, for not doing anything to protect Gazans but then going all out to protect Israel.

Crucially, Iran can now reverse engineer all the intel gathered from this attack to make a much more deadly one credible. While the US and Israel will have to re-design away from their current model which has been compromised. Its success in stopping this choreographed attack is thus still very costly.

Moreover, with the threat of a regional war that neither the US nor the Arab regimes want feeling nearer, it’s likely their pressure on Israel to back down will increase, making a ceasefire more feasible.

Anyone assuming this is just theatrics is missing the context of how militaries assess strategy versus tactics. Theatre is an important factor, but gathering intelligence of the “enemy’s” posture is more valuable, especially if one believes they’re in a long war of attrition.

Netanyahu and the Israel government prefer a quick hot and urgent war where they can pull in America. The Iranians prefer a longer war of attrition that bleeds Israel of its deterrence capabilities and makes it an ally for Arabs and the US that’s too costly to have.

Lastly, if you are a person who hates war, if you want peace, the best and only way to get there in the region is to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity.

There is no sustainable peace possible as long as Palestinians live under an oppressive system of apartheid.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

What happened yesterday in LA is beyond outrageous. One of the disgraced racist councilmen who refused to resign, Kevin de Leon, tried to sneak back into the council, another councilman told everyone protesting “fuck you,” then de Leon assaulted one of the protesters. 🧵

[#BlackLivesMatter-LA @BLMLA]

Disgraced LA City Councilman Kevin de León shows just how violent his anti-Blackness can get when he attacks our member for challenging his racism. Jason is recovering. De Leon must go…now.

[Nea "Dracula" Ching @TheGayChingy]

the commodification of queerness, being fed straight-washed media representation, and mixing rigid identity politics w/ fandom bullshit has actively fucked up so much of how the current gen of queers engage w/ the world, their history (they dont), and queer elders (disrespectful)

[East Los Angeles SRA @EastLA_SRA]

With the cold and rain approaching, it’s especially cruel to make it a crime to seek refuge under a freeway, especially when there are no shelter beds available. In LA County there are 15,000 shelter beds and 60,000 unhoused. Where will people go? #housekeysnothandcuffs

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

Whether you’re in LA or SF, the only thing neoliberal politicians care about is making it *look like* they’ve housed people.

Meanwhile, folks are being kicked out of pandemic relief hotel rooms to spend winter out on the streets.

#SeizeTheHotels

[East Los Angeles SRA @EastLA_SRA]

Joe Biden is still a capitalist

[Tricontinental Institute for Social Research @tri_continental]

Almost 50 years after Paulo Freire’s ideas began to influence intellectuals and movements in South Africa, they remain relevant and powerful.

Read our new dossier on Freire's influence on popular struggles in the country:
https://t.co/eWg1HFUjKE
#Freire #PauloFreire

[L.A. Tenants Union @LATenantsUnion]

These tenants associations are teaming up for a march and rally in koreatown this Sunday! Join us to build solidarity across locals and across tenants facing the same shitty intimidation tactics and illegal threats of eviction from K3 Holdings.
Meet at Irolo & San Marino at 3:30.

[East Los Angeles SRA @EastLA_SRA]

#RestInPower

[DailyRadical History @radicaldaily]

Nov 10 1995 - The Ogoni Nine are murdered by the Nigerian state for protesting actions of Royal Dutch Shell oil company in Nigeria.
✊Ken Saro-Wiwa
✊Saturday Dobee,
✊Nordu Eawo,
✊Daniel Gbooko,
✊Paul Levera,
✊Felix Nuate,
✊Baribor Bera,
✊Barinem Kiobel
✊John Kpuine

[Qiao Collective @qiaocollective]

Morales on the U.S. elections: "It does not matter who wins…The North American people vote, but do not rule. Transnational corporations rule."

https://t.co/HexlnuOuuy

[East Los Angeles SRA @EastLA_SRA]

Garcetti hates the unhoused

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

ALERT: Today at Echo Park Lake, @LACityParks employees told the unhoused residents they can no longer use the park hose for showers+cooking+drinking water.

@MitchOFarrell you going to allow this denial of a crucial public water resource to over 60 of your unhoused consituents?

[Indigenous Anarchist Federation @IAF__FAI]

American media is propaganda. Simple fact!

[YPJ International @YPJInt]

We send all our greetings to the comrades in #Catalunya for there great art work for the freedom of Öcalan
#FreeOcalan #Kurdistan #Rojava #TwitterKurds #YPG #YPJ #Riseup4Rojava

[L.A. Socialist Rifle Association @LosAngelesSRA]

Had a small range day. If you go far enough left you get your guns back.

[East Los Angeles SRA @EastLA_SRA]

Long Live Evo Morales. Long Live the Movement for Socialism

[Kawsachun News @KawsachunNews]

Evo Morales lands at the Horacio Guzman airport in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina on his first stop on his way to Bolivia. He’s accompanied by former Vice President of Bolivia, Alvaro García Linera.

[ANTICONQUISTA @ANTICONQUISTA]

LMAO liberals, smh.

[East Los Angeles SRA @EastLA_SRA]

Please support our comrades over in the @SRA_DFW area if able

[Dallas/Fort Worth SRA @SRA_DFW]

Our first distribution to the unhoused residents of Fort Worth was a huge success! A big thanks to everyone who donated! We plan on doing this on a consistent basis.

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

Who's @LACityCouncil gonna blame for their inaction now that the President is a Democrat?

[Industrial Workers of the World @iww]

The conditions that have given rise to the far-right have not gone away. We’re going to continue organizing to protect ourselves. We hope you’ll join us.