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[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Bolivia: Leader denounces U.S. military interference, warns of plot to hand over lithium – Struggle – La Lucha

Christian Velasco Rojas, a leader of La Resistencia Bolivia and a prominent voice in the country's anti-imperialist left, on May 31 denounce

Christian Velasco Rojas, a leader of La Resistencia Bolivia and a prominent voice in the country’s anti-imperialist left, on May 31 denounced U.S. interference in Bolivia’s internal affairs and rejected the policy of surrendering Bolivia’s natural resources — especially lithium — in exchange for military security for the ruling elites. “We want to denounce that our country is being held hostage by the U.S. and that there is serious interference in the affairs of Bolivians,” Velasco stated.

[gael-garcia]

Les Femmes Palestiniennes (1974, Jocelyne Saab)

youtube (eng subs). vimeo (spanish subs) / runtime: 10mins

Palestinian women share with men this role in the armed struggle. […] We run our suicidal operations, they attack us from airplanes. It’s easy to fight, using aviation when one is up against simple armed Fedayeen. They attack us with American and French airplanes. It’s not just Israel who’s at war with us, but also the United States and France and all the other countries. We’re not afraid of Israel. We fight at broad daylight, face to face. The coward ones fight with their aviation. The brave ones fight on foot to free their land. […] And if there’s a political (two-state) solution? There won’t be any political solution. The only thing there will be is Palestine. As long as there’s at least one of our children left alive, there won’t be any political solution. There will only be Palestine, in its entirety.

[hagiomoto]

[dumbpuppyfag]

listen up folks he may be a paleolithic racist who failed upwards until he was in a position to give tens of billions of dollars to enable a genocide but you're mean and that's worse. remember the human.

[dumbpuppyfag]

wait no not those ones

[dumbpuppyfag]

remember when he led opposition against active school desegregation? remember when he was best friends with the most notorious segregationist in washington? remember when he gave the eulogy at that guy's funeral? remember in 1991 when bush sr conditioned loans to israel on a halt to illegal west bank settlements and he co-sponsored an amendment to forcibly override it? remember when he drafted the 1994 crime bill that fueled the ongoing mass incarceration of primarily black men? remember when he bragged about it? remember when he led democrat support for the invasion of iraq? remember when he led an all-white congressional panel in dragging a black woman's name through the mud on live tv for the crime of being sexually harassed?

the nauseating reinvention of this lifelong monster as a civil rights hero is solely due to his proximity to the first black president, which he only had because they needed someone on the ticket to reassure racist liberals that the white house would stay white. he spent 50 years making the world a worse place. he bears personal responsibility for the imprisonment and death of millions of people in the us and in the global south. his presidency was delivered by a bourgeois class that was terrified of any challenge to neoliberal orthodoxy. his entirely self-interested decision to pursue re-election delivered the everyday horrors you're seeing now. this doesn't even touch on the genocide you've been watching play out for over a year. he is a vain, miserable, racist, warmongering, murderous sack of shit and you do not owe him any sympathy whatsoever. save it for his victims.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

This is the old city of Tyre, which israel is currently destroying without any opposition from the Lebanese government

[blurds]

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks

[labvet]

I was sent this by no less than 2 family members within a single hour

[caribbeanangel]

Traditional and Modern Hairstyles in Mali (1975)

[marxismopportunism]

[katchwreck]

Fighters of the Liaudies Gynėjai (People's Defenders), Lithuanian communists in the 1940s-50s who supported the Soviet Union and fought against the fascist CIA-backed “Forest Brothers” terrorists.

The Liaudies Gynėjai were drawn mainly from the poor peasantry who had been oppressed before the revolution (whereas "Forest Brothers" were all upper-class, coming from the landlords and bourgeoisie). They were strong supporters of Marxism-Leninism, and served as an all-volunteer militia defending collective farms and Communist Party members in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. Collective farms were often targeted for terrorist attacks, and communists were often victims of assassination. The Liaudies Gynėjai also served as an auxiliary force for the Red Army, working as guides and translators.

Tens of thousands of Lithuanians served in the Liaudies Gynėjai, but since the counterrevolution that destroyed the Soviet Union, their names have largely been erased from history by the semifascist regime that now rules Lithuania. Few outside of Lithuania have heard of them, whereas the name of "Forest Brothers" is glorified, as the Lithuanian capitalist regime celebrates the kulaks and capitalists which murdered thousands of Lithuanian communists, workers and peasants, either to punish them for supporting communism and land redistribution or just to rob them (the “Forest Brothers” sustained themselves largely on banditry). The legacy of the Liaudies Gynėjai is an inconvenience to a reactionary nationalist regime that relies on the myth that all Lithuanians were anti-communist and opposed the Soviet Union, and so they have been demonized and wiped from historical memory.

[postpostirony]

The "Forest Brothers" also collaborated with the nazis, and of course, NATO put out an ad celebrating them.

[komsomolka]

the saddest thing is that originally 'forest brothers' was a name of lithuanian partisans fighting german occupation during wwi but it got appropriated by lithuanian nazi collaborators during wwii (quote from devils in amber by phillip bonosky)

[sioltach]

little yellow goldfinch doesn't even know he's just like flowers

[willgrahamscock]

Thought crimes of course aren’t real but uh. We know those aren’t just thoughts anymore once you’ve posted them publicly, yeah?

Then they’re just crimes.

sure, fictional crimes since nothing happened and no one was hurt. should we put the fictional handcuffs on? "sorry, you wrote about murder which is illegal, go spend 20 years in mind jail"

[lustcannibalism]

y'all make so much more fuss about shit in fanfiction than crimes in real life

[willgrahamscock]

[alpaca-clouds]

For me one of the things that bugs me most is that also the doxxing and hatred tends to be directed often purely at sexual themes, while normal violence gets accepted and even celebrated. People will be like: "Serial murder is a-okay. But don't you dare to write about a 19yo and 16yo having consensual sex in a setting where age of consent laws did not even exist!"

[omgellendean]

A sudden clatter!... blood was curdled... Now nearer... hooves... and in the yard Evgeny! ``Ah!'' Tatyana, fleeting light as a shadow, shuns a meeting, through the back porch runs out and flies down to the garden, and her eyes daren't look behind her; fairly dashing -- beds, bridges, lawn, she never stops, the allée to the lake, the copse; breaking the lilac bushes, smashing parterres, she runs to rivulet's brink, to gasp, and on a bench to sink.

Pushkin was not joking when he compared Tanya to a forest doe; this girl can run.

[omgellendean]

Jokes aside, Tatyana is associated with walking quite noticeably in the novel. Right after the passage above, she's described pacing nervously while waiting for Onegin. Later, after her farewell to Olga, Tatyana goes for a walk and reaches Onegin's estate on foot without noticing (Onegin and Lensky used a carriage to cover this distance), returns home the same way and repeats this feat the very next day.

After learning that mother takes her to Moscow in winter, Tatyana, already missing the places of her childhood, starts taking walks daily:

She wanders on without direction.

Often she halts against her will,

arrested by the sheer perfection

she finds in river and in hill.

She loves nature and long walks (something she shares with Pushkin himself), and it distinctly sets her apart from Onegin, to whom aimless walks and local sights quickly become boring.

[qqchurch]

[suspiriously]

Gladio is the most insane thing you will ever learn about

[sanguinesylph]

hold on I have to look something up

[suspiriously]

TLDR: after WWII, the US took nazi war criminals and set them up in sleeper cells all over Europe, “activating” them whenever the “threat of communism” was deemed too much, like in the Years of Lead

[sanguinesylph]

oh my god?

[suspiriously]

Stay-behind - Wikipedia

Stay-behind - Wikipedia

they’re called stay-behind networks, here’s a list of a bunch. Technically, Gladio was the one that operated in Italy

[mothmotto]

do you ever look at an animal. or a bug. or concept. and

[vergak]

I'm a hard pillow hard mattress man. I need reliability. I don't want something to change into a completely different shape when I touch it, that's lying and I don't like liars.

[vergak]

[fruitpigeons]

My personal faves from Decem-bird🐦‍⬛ prints