ackl!!!🔻

[ackl!!!🔻 @askelbwt]

@uncle_deluge Always fascinated by the oral histories of indigenous pacific northwest tribes wherein they recall a cataclysmic flood that lines up with the massive flood caused by Younger Dryas asteroid impact in british colombia

[ackl!!!🔻 @askelbwt]

@robertchangfan been saying this for like 2 years, bro is the only one not completely brain dead and able to read the room. scary guy

[Dilawar Karwan @RashmanTheHorse]

This is the end conclusion of all those "nuances" to traditional historical materialism. Once you abandon the basic premise, then you set the stage for the evacuation of any serious analytical claim about history.

[Emo Morales 🇵🇸 @Gompers_Stomper]

Absolutely beautiful that this Javanese dude took John Brown as his enlisted name. All men are brothers

[turd fergason @SureZher]

@punishedmarxoid Uh. No true lumpen is measuring out and tracking their drug usage in an app. These are just gay nerds

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

The Guardian has published an open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, signed by Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rashid Khalidi, Robin DG Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Judith Butler, Walden Bello, among others.

These are not people to be dismissed lightly. Several have given their lives to the anti-imperialist and Black liberation movements, and one of them is writing from inside a US prison. I take no pleasure in disagreeing with them. But the letter is wrong, and plays an objectively harmful role.

Its central image is the “two blades of a scissors”: the Islamic Republic on one side, US and Israeli imperialism on the other, with the Iranian people crushed between them. It inserts a symmetry between the world’s major imperialist power and an anti-imperialist state that has never invaded another country, and which has stood consistently with the oppressed from Palestine to South Africa to Venezuela.

The load-bearing phrase is this: “we reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism.” Exactly how “hollow” is Tehran’s anti-imperialism? 😵‍💫

For four decades, while almost every Arab government made its accommodation with Washington and Tel Aviv, Iran armed, funded and sustained the Palestinian resistance. It refused normalisation when the Abraham Accords put enormous inducements on the table. It has absorbed forty years of sanctions, assassinations of scientists, sabotaged infrastructure, and now an open war of aggression, rather than abandon that position.

The states that normalised are not being bombed. Hollow anti-imperialism is a communiqué and a hashtag. Iran’s anti-imperialism has been measured in the blood of 168 Minab schoolgirls, in the bombing of its hospitals and oil depots.

One can vehemently disagree with aspects of Iran’s domestic politics, but the question at hand is: where do we stand in the global struggle against imperialism? What side of the barricade are we on? Do we support a criminal war of aggression waged by the US and Israel, or we we support the resistance to that war? Do we support genocide in Gaza, or do we support the country that has been the Palestinian resistance’s most consistent ally for decades?

This letter dissolves the distinction entirely. It asks us to refuse the choice. But in a war of aggression there is no third position available, because only one party benefits from your neutrality – and it’s not the party being bombed.

The letter appears in a British newspaper, six months into a US-Israeli war, at the precise moment when Washington cannot win militarily and needs the political terrain softened. It recycles a familiar vocabulary – sham trials, systematic torture, the targeting of minorities – without sourcing, in the genre that has preceded and accompanied every single regime-change war. Whatever the signatories intended, that is the function it will serve: making the moral case for war.

Angela Davis was imprisoned by a state that told the world she was a terrorist. Mumia Abu-Jamal is imprisoned by that state today. These are people who know exactly what happens when an empire manufactures the moral case for crushing its enemies. They would not have signed, half a century ago, a letter denouncing both blades of the scissors – COINTELPRO on one side and the Black Panther Party on the other.

Progressive and anti-war forces have a duty to support Iran against war, sanctions, regime change plots and destabilisation.

[Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin]

Because they have no interest whatsoever in politics or economics, elite liberal intellectuals like Appelbaum view things like “authoritarianism” or “populism” purely through psychological lens. This absolves them of any structural or material thinking about political phenomena.

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

If your starting point is having your own ethno-state, every political project outside of that will be seen as colonialism.

[ackl!!!🔻 @askelbwt]

@jeffmanuel @MattZeitlin it was manly finnish

[Red Book @redbooks1966]

Soviet battleship 'Paris Commune' bombards nazi positions at Sevastopol, 1941

[2 Nut (Pick Up) 🇵🇸 @hueoops]

it’s not common knowledge cuz it’s not real. White millienials are obsessed with mysteries and mythologies like this so they don’t have to admit that they’re just exactly like their parents: ignorant, racist and misogynist.

[Grace Cathedral Park @gracecthdralprk]

I am thinking about him again. The American Subaltern. They hunger, they riot, perhaps they dream…

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

welcome to my autonomous oblast bro. make yourself at home

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I thought this was a fake quote but, nope, he actually said it.

This is the most embarrassing person to ever lead any country anywhere in the world in our lifetimes.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Feels like a good time to share this from @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE, in which I argue that any politician talking about a two-state solution needs to share their plan for going to war with Israel in order to clear out the IDF/gov’t-backed settlers and create a contiguous Palestinian state.

[Achmat Akkad @BlackIntifada]

Gaza is the largest transnational conspiracy to commit genocide the world has seen since the transatlantic slave trade and Berlin Conference! Hitler at his strongest had neither the power or influence to do what Israel has managed to do!

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

This is exactly why it is so critical to change the politics around Palestinian’s right to self-defense. If this happened in Florida, the homeowner who stole the invader’s gun and shot him would be hailed as a hero. In the West Bank, he’s a terrorist.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The whole of Israeli leadership, from right to “left,” is mourning the death of a settler terrorist who was killed carrying out a pogrom on Palestinian villagers

Completely irredeemable political project