My timeline now looks what I would imagine the dark web to be like.
If this was on my hard drive, I would expect to be prosecuted for some weird child-murder porn, executions, stabbings, hospital sniper deaths, bulldozerings, beatings, torturings, burnings, crushings... 1\
No to the loyalist pogroms! No to the race riots! All are the tools of our ruling class - the diversionary tactics of our real enemies. The capitalist ruling class.
The class struggle is everything!
The ruling class have always sought to divide us. When our living standards fall they work tirelessly to ensure that workers blame one another. Nationality, religion, ethnicity and culture are all used as tools of division to fracture working-class unity and weaken our collective strength.
We must reject those divisions!
The worker who has come to Britain to provide for their family is not our enemy. The worker born in Liverpool, London, Warsaw, Lagos or Damascus shares the same fundamental interest: a future free from exploitation.
Our enemy is the bourgeoisie and the capitalist system. It is they who profit from low wages, insecure work, privatisation and the destruction of our communities. It is they who benefit when workers are encouraged to see each other as competitors rather than comrades.
The answer to the problems facing our class is not racism and division. The answer is solidarity which comes with a strong class consciousness.
Only through the unity of the proletarian masses can we challenge the power of finance capital and build a future free of exploitation.
"The interests of the working class and of its struggle against capitalism require complete solidarity and the closest unity of the workers of all nations."
᠆ Vladimir Lenin
As Walton prepares to be invaded by reactionaries, we attempt to warn and offer an understanding of their true purpose and it is not to "protect" people in this community but to create division between the local workers.
@CPGBML
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I often think of this passage from Lenin’s text on Tolstoy and the labor movement: "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
We rarely see the other parts of that paragraph. "Despair is typical of the classes which are perishing,” Lenin writes. "The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."
Lenin was writing about the labor movement, and the objective historical process that saw it rise and replace the peasantry as the dominant force in Russia. The peasantry was gripped by despair because its class no longer had a future. The proletariat, by contrast, was growing in strength and number.
Today, Lenin’s insight also holds true of the streets of Iran, where people mobilize by the millions under bombardment. It is true of the communes in Venezuela, whose militants continue the task of building socialism and are prepared to take up arms to defend it. It is true of the people of Cuba, who remain defiant under a crushing blockade that has turned their cities dark.
Those who despair now — as a new world is being born — are really just mourning the death of liberalism. They are mourning the death of a world that never existed: a world of supposed lawfulness and “rules-based” governance. Anyone who has ever earnestly tried to bring a new world into being quickly learned that these were fictions created to secure impunity for the colonizer and oppressor.
That is why we find that people on the vanguard of the systemic transition underway — as with the labor movement in Lenin’s time — “have plenty to protest against but nothing to despair about.”
@ShangguanJiewen@25YearsAgoLive Innit.
My small piece of resistance is that I've called in sick today, even though I'm not.
Small change for them, but big goodness for me.
A pleasantday to you and yours, comrade ✌️😎
Israel is bombing the ancient city of Tyre again, right now.
You can't have a ceasefire with Israel any more than you can have an agreement with a mad dog.
⚡️ Quds Force Commander Esmail Qaani:
- The timely and powerful action by heroic Yemen demonstrates the intelligence of the Resistance Front, and if necessary, others will also join.
- From the Strait of Hormuz to Bab al-Mandab, and from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, there will be a new security belt for the resistance.
- Evil acts by the Zionist occupation regime and America in this region will lead to a reaction from the united Resistance Front.
- Fighters without borders are aware of your entry points; continue your aggression, and they will seize your ropes.
Nail - Head.
They tout these people as ‘economists’ when they work for banks, hedge funds or vulture capitalists and their real agenda is protecting client investments in risk on securities that return the highest yields.
Fuck em. Parasites every one!
He's supposed to be a 'macroeconomist'. He's not, he's a nervous, scaremongering investor. With 2.8% inflation and about 250 billion in $ reserves, we don't need an IMF loan.
Even in 1976 with 16% inflation and low $ reserves the loan was unnecessary - it was to replenish $ reserves to pay off a stupid G10 loan meant to maintain a fixed exchange rate rather than let the £ float freely. They couldn't leave the Bretton Woods mentality behind, even though it was over.
The £ drifted down from $1.8 to around $1.05 in a few years anyway and fluctuated up to 2007. Then the whole shebang crashed. The global finance system runs on the 'confidence' of spivs and gamblers. That's the problem.
The ongoing 🇮🇷-🇮🇱 fire exchange is kept limited by both sides for now
Iran never committed its missile forces to a scale that would enable its 'Airpower Suppression' concept to full effect
Instead it went for a minimalist but highly efficient and effective attrition operation mode.
The 'Airpower Suppression' concept would target a weak link in Israel's airpower, such as the support aircraft section at Nevatim airbase (tankers, jammers, airborne-radar)
An area target, several kilometers large, but not well hardened. With plenty of soft, mission-critical assets like maintenance hangars
Then over the timespan of e.g. 10 days, every ~5 hours one Khorramshahr-4 with submunition payload, or alternatively 3 older Ghadr ballistic missiles would be launched against it.
This would for both disrupt effective operations as well as devastate the base and render it inoperable within those 10 days.
➡️ Hence just 100 Khorramshahr-4 or 300 Ghadr missile would be sufficient to neutralize that critical link for Israel's airpower
Now, since the U.S. would jump in to replace those support assets, it would not make a very big difference operationally at this time
The graphic below shows the damage those 100 Khorramshahr would cause
-8000 x 25kg Submunitions with 15m shrapnel damage distance assumed
- High dispersion of up to 5,5km between two outlier submunitions due to early exo-atmospheric release
(Statistical Normal distribution)
➡️ The density of the > mach 3 impacting submunitions would be high enough to devastate that airbase area for a long period
~1000 Khorramshahr hence would be enough to cause such havoc at all Israeli Airbases
But Iran won't commit its missile forces to such a scale at this low escalation level
In the fight against Genocide, it is illegal in the UK, and carries 14 years in prison, to state or even to imply that you support Hamas or Hezbollah. So please do not do this.
However they have not yet found a way to make it a crime to support the state of Iran.
I support Iran