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[The Communists @CPGBML]

Dr Rahmeh is now muddying the #Yemen waters and trying to turn it into a sectarian war which it is not - it is a historic anti-colonialist/imperialist war fought by Yemenis not by "Shia" or "Sunni" as Rahmeh likes to paint everything as in her reductionist analysis. The following quotes were taken from an interview with a Yemeni mother in 2015:

"I can categorically state, there is no sectarian conflict in Yemen.  They have been trying to ignite a sectarian war in Yemen but Yemen is one country where we have had Shafi Sunnis and Zaydi Shias praying in the same mosques for hundreds of years.  We are a society that is known to intermarry between these two sects. In reality they instigated this territorial war when they wanted to split Yemen into a 6 federal state system.  We are tired of having their agenda imposed upon us and being forced to implement it.

I have lived in Yemen for the last 21 years and I never knew that my next door neighbour was a Shafi Sunni or a Zaydi Shia.  It was not part of our culture, we never asked.  We peacefully coexisted. This balkanisation agenda was the start of the entire problem.  Their division was all wrong.  They left some areas totally isolated.

The Ansarullah movement and the Southern Separatist movement were both in favour of a confederal state system where Yemen would be divided into north and south existing within a federal state.  Most of us were ok with that.

President Hadi [although I hate to call him our President] was pushing the Saudi agenda of the 6 state system.  Another thing that a lot of people don’t realise, is that when they divided the 6 state system they purposefully isolated one state called Azal.  Azal incorporated many of the Zaydi strongholds, Sadaa, Amran, Sanaa and Dhamar.  Azal was left without any resources or any access to the sea.  It was blatant imprisonment and suppression of what we would term the “traditional powers” in that area.  It was a deliberate attempt to weaken their influence in Yemen.

So Hadi’s plan would have divided Yemen into smaller sectarian states while the Ansarullah plan was more like going back to the boundaries before unity where the south would have greater autonomy over its own internal affairs."

Let me give you an example.  The al-Jauf area has both Sunni and Shia populations and so does Marib and elsewhere.  The Zaydi Shias and Shafi Sunnis are both very moderate sects.  Yemeni people have no affiliation to the Wahabi sect of Saudi Arabia. Wahabism is alien to Yemen.

We do see certain areas in the South, like Hadramaut, which has been in the media lately, parts of which are totally under control of Al Qaeda.  The funny thing is, the bombs are falling on the very people that are fighting these extremists.  Not a single bomb has been dropped on the extremist strongholds.  Even though they know that AQ is in total control of al-Mukalla in Hadramaut and the seaport in that area.  That has to be a huge question mark over their true agenda in the region.

The bombing has only achieved one thing and that is to further strengthen these extremist groups in Yemen.  I know that in Ansarullah controlled-areas we have the local popular committees that are in charge of security and they have been working round the clock to ensure that the extremist elements are kept at bay.  On the battleground their progress has been immensely impeded thanks to the airstrikes that serve as cover for the advancing extremists."

Read the whole interview here and please don't pay attention to those who want to make the war a sectarian one.

https://t.co/VohwjmJkwR

[The Communists @CPGBML]

Sick Chirpse recently reported that Ryan Ferguson, the racist little reactionary dwarf, was refused fuel at a petrol station in Liverpool.

The staff member reportedly told him: "I know who you are and I know what you stand for."

An act of defiance as simple as this demonstrates something far more powerful than two groups shouting at each other across the street. It demonstrates the power of class consciousness in practice.

Reactionaries like Ferguson thrive on attention and division. Their purpose is to turn workers against one another, directing the anger of the working class towards immigrants and minorities rather than the capitalist class responsible for the destruction of their material conditions.

They rely on publicity, intimidation and the illusion that they represent ordinary working people. But they are powerless without the very working class they seek to divide.

We should refuse to normalise their politics, legitimise their propaganda or allow those reactionaries any oxygen within our communities.

The strength of the working class lies not simply in its numbers, but in its organisation, solidarity and understanding of its own class interests.

A conscious and organised working class has no need for these reactionaries, but the capitalist system has every reason to employ these hateful figures to sow division in our communities.

When workers recognise their collective power and learn to use it, no amount of reactionary propaganda can substitute for the material strength of an organised class.

Join the antifascist international: https://t.co/usDTr8xDC1

[The Communists @CPGBML]

French protesters express solidarity with the peoples of the Sahel, denouncing Macron’s imperialist policies and chanting, “Down with French neocolonialism!” https://t.co/c9veQBzZqb

[Villans Brasil 🇧🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AstonVillabrfc]

Nunca me escondi daquilo em que acredito. Sigo de cabeça erguida, reafirmando meu voto pela democracia, pela soberania nacional e por um Brasil que pertença ao seu povo.

A classe trabalhadora sempre vencerá. 13 ⭐️🇧🇷❤️

[The Communists @CPGBML]

So it turns out “alternative” Keynesian "economist" Michael hudson is CIA affiliated. From Phil Bevin’s upcoming article… https://t.co/LxQXAIqYMY

If you want to understand the world as it actually functions, in the mean time, read this: https://t.co/DsHiKmkayy

Right from its inception, Lenin’s thesis has provoked the most rabid hostility and opposition, on the part of the ideologues of the imperialist bourgeoisie as well as opportunists in the working class movement, for it has served to enlighten and organise the proletariat and the oppressed peoples in their struggle against the system of exploitation by one human being of another, and by one nation of another; for it has served to make them aware that imperialism is moribund capitalism, which, by sharpening all the contradictions of capitalism, brings the proletariat face to face with revolution.

[Emma @WhatTheForkAVFC]

I don’t understand the part of our fanbase that hates Matty Cash.

He’s watching videos the morning of an early kick-off, he loves this club and he loves his team. Always a little bundle of joy as well.

[The Communists @CPGBML]

Is the US Empire collapsing? (Full Debate) | Joti Brar
https://t.co/FngNmI8VDT

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

Economics is fundamentally political. We cannot escape this fact.

The so-called “free market” is constructed by laws, maintained by institutions, and enforced by states.

The choice between austerity and stimulus reflects deeper beliefs about responsibility, fairness, and social obligation.

The mandates of central banks are products of political decisions. The emphasis placed on price stability in Western central banks rather than, say, regulating private finance reflects value judgments as well as political lobbying.

One of the biggest differences between mainstream economics and heterodox economics is that the former often disguises political choices as technical ones.

Economics has never been, and never will be, a value-free science, no matter how much today's mainstream economics tries to present it that way.

At its core, economics is shaped by ideologies, human morality, competing interests, social norms, and political priorities. Pretending otherwise does not make economics more rigorous. It just makes it more dangerous.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

@elonmusk The lack of self awareness is mystifying. How do you do it?

[Katie @LuxMeaMundiAM]

Of course my MP, the one who replied to me about benefits cuts & repeating the party line about “perverse incentives” of being on disability benefits, has been suspended due to dodgy business practice with Covid support payments and not declaring any of it 🥴 They always project!

[Gareth Jones Society @GarethJonesSoc]

"What my family didn’t realise at the time was that our new ‘friends’ weren’t really ex-pats seeking a better life. They were almost all connected with the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUNb), a fascist, anti-semitic, ethno-nationalist movement led by Stepan Bandera. The OUN emerged in interwar Galicia, a region in today’s western Ukraine, but at the time part of Poland.

It modelled itself on, and aligned itself with, the Nazis and adopted the greeting ‘Slava Ukraini’, originally accompanied by a Hitler salute. After the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the OUNb collaborated in the Holocaust, helping Hitler erase almost the entirety of Ukraine’s Jewry. At the end of the war, when the Nazis fled, the OUNb fled with them."
https://t.co/7X3cF1A0le

[Military Summary @MilitarySummary]

Kushner Had Access to a Secret $750 Million UAE Fund: Report

A book by investigative journalist Matthew Cole alleges that Dutch spies monitored Jared Kushner’s phone and uncovered access to a UAE account funded with roughly $750 million.

[Gareth Jones Society @GarethJonesSoc]

"Until just before Russia’s invasion, the UK’s BBC and other broadcasters were lamenting the rapid rise of actual nazism in Ukraine.

Immediately after the invasion, that narrative disappeared – along with many articles and videos about it.

The UN condemned Ukraine’s mass slaughter, after the CIA-orchestrated Maidan ‘revolution’ in Ukraine, of Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine years before Russia’s invasion.

This slaughter is considered by many as an attempted genocide – but this narrative too is now suppressed and dismissed by a war-hungry EU as a ‘myth’."
https://t.co/pWeSIyW1qs

[Richard @ricwe123]

It’s genuinely refreshing to hear someone speak the unvarnished truth instead of peddling a carefully manufactured load of bullshit designed to deceive, manipulate, and brainwash the masses.....

[Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE]

“My biggest concern at the moment is not our economy, is not the European Union, is not America, is not Chinа. My biggest concern is the impact of Russia on our society," said Merz, the grandson of a Nazi.
Great chancellor! How lucky you Germans are 😂

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

Putin explained the whole war in two sentences, then gave Europe some free advice:

"America started the war believing it could destroy Russia. Europeans joined in, hoping they could finally get access to Russian resources, as they sometimes managed to do in the past.

But they should study history. It would immediately show them that this idea is foolish."