56 years ago today, one of the world’s longest-running communist guerrilla armies was founded, the Philippines’ New People’s Army (NPA). Starting with just 60 fighters, today, the NPA counts thousands in its ranks & has built a mass base of several million nationwide. 🧵
Prof. Norman Finkelstein: “I won't condemn H*mas. I refuse to do that because I don't believe they had any choice except to die as it were a slave. They tried everything. They really did. They realized that in order to survive they have to make some compromises and they did...”
Calling the Gaza genocide a “war” is like seeing a man beating a toddler to death and calling it a “fight”.
If you call ethnic cleansing and genocide 'war' then you are supporting genocide propaganda.
this is why i don’t understand ppl on the left and their doomerism. how do you witness what is being done to gaza for over a year and their spirit despite that and turn around and get hopeless within two weeks
This is likely to be one of my more controversial takes, but ultimately the smell produced by a homeless person taking shelter from the cold on public transport is *harmless*. It might be unpleasant, but it can be tolerated (or avoided) in the name of compassion.
"Marxists in the West have interpreted this profound analysis on a "national" basis in a system which, if it ever did, no longer has much national meaning. They have cried "poverty" at home, while ignoring the international character of the 'widening social gulf'.
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This is a huge scandal.
USAID & State Department refugee bureau both said Israel blocked aid to Gaza. But Blinken told Congress the opposite, so they wouldn't have to heed US law that'd force cutting off weapons to Israel.
As in, the Biden-Harris admin is complicit in war crimes.
There's people actively waging armed struggle for a better world. Until that's done all over, people will continue believing this decaying world is it.