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Solidarity to the Palestinian Resistance in the Occupied West Bank

#Palestine #video #glory to the resistance #glory to the martyrs #west bank

Call out anyone who has the gall to cheer on, demand, or even joke about the balkanization of places like China or Iran (I think to those memes of People’s China split into a bunch of smaller countries).

Balkanization is a violent and destructive process used by imperialists to weaken forces that stand against them; it creates widespread misery for the populations of the balkanized places and free space for imperialists to act with impunity and seize state assets for their own enrichment.

dre759

Though these are already sufficiently grim examples, we should not deceive ourselves that they would be the worst that may befall China should it face a complete capitalist restoration. If a comprador bourgeoisie were to gain supremacy even for a short time, it is all but guaranteed that China’s large territory and multi-ethnic population would undergo a process of balkanization. Just as the Soviet Union dissolved into over a dozen individual countries along largely ethnic lines, China’s landlocked minority-majority autonomous regions such as Tibet and Xinjiang, as well as other highly diverse regions such as Yunnan and Guangxi, would most likely be transformed into separate neocolonies. The super-empire is already poised to effect this transition, should the PRC fall; the National Endowment for Democracy spends millions of dollars per year to foment unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang through NGOs composed of exiles and expatriates, whose reactionary leaders are expected to form new comprador governments that will open these regions fully to the iron fist of neoliberalism and the tyranny of exploitation by international finance.

The world will not soon forget what happened after socialism was destroyed in Yugoslavia, which out of all the socialist countries had a multi-ethnic character most closely resembling China’s minority autonomous regions. Throughout the 1990s, as the IMF ruthlessly strangled the Yugoslavian economy and the super-empire exploited worsening conditions to goad the people further and further toward ethnic nationalism, the country dissolved in a series of wars and genocidal massacres. Given that this Western-authored catastrophe still lingers within living memory, is it any wonder that the Harvard Kennedy School researchers found that minorities in the inland regions of China were more likely to express support for the central government, which under the guidance of the Communist Party currently forms the strongest bulwark against such a fate?

-Kyle Ferrana, Why The World Needs China: Development, Environmentalism, Conflict Resolution & Common Prosperity Pgs. 197-198 (No page numbers in attached link since it is hosted on ProleWiki)

omgellendean

One of the most heartbreaking stories…Imprisoned doctor Hussam Abu Safiya sent a message asking to reach journalist Anas Al-Sharif so that the voices and suffering of prisoners could be conveyed to the world—unaware that Anas had already been martyred.

His son, Elias, revealed that his father, who is living in harsh isolation in prison, still saw Anas as a voice capable of bringing the suffering of Palestinian prisoners to the world’s attention. Hoping his message would reach the public, he asked for contact with him.

The message reflects the severe isolation endured by prisoners, their determination to hold on to hope despite everything, and their constant search for any window through which the reality behind prison walls can be heard.

brarchives

rio de janeiro by rafael moura

stuckinapril

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

#this is extremely helpful #been doing this a lot recently #a little is better than nothing #absolutely

occidentalist

I trust u will all put your reading glasses on and interpret this post in good faith☝🏽bc I have a migraine.

But when seemingly every other jewish person u know will, often entirely unprompted, recount how their parents or relatives would just casually liken muslims and arabs and palestinians to animals, and vermin, and what have you, &c. while they were growing up, in that confessional charlotte zhang absolving-oneself-of-racial-guilt way¹, I find I cannot help but think there is something a little 🤏🏽 unserious about the tendency of non-arabs in antizionist spaces to insist at every turn that everyone in da world is unconsciously harbouring antisemitic biases as a result of societal conditioning(which TO AN EXTENT I actually largely agree is true!) while not affording even a passing glance to the way the inverse is true RE: anti-arab racism and islamophobia, to even the possibility that a century of the majority of jewish institutions being staunchly and characteristically zionist might have resulted in many jewish people absorbing orientalist racism and islamophobia through that very same process, often to a greater and far less challenged extent. Like you’re just not a very serious person. I cannot take you seriously.

Especially when like. Sorry if this harshes anyone’s #vibe, but anti-arab racism and islamophobia are more institutionally and materially reinforced in the contemporary west than antisemitism is. It is frankly a denial of reality to pretend that it isn’t. Like if it were widely known that every single U.S. president in living memory had been actively complicit in the mass killing of hundreds of thousands of jews, that fact would not be met with the same overwhelming apathy with which people routinely greet the slaughter of Arabs and other Muslim West asians. The backlash would be immediate and impossible to ignore, and you know it. Like they were fully throwing teenagers in prison for sitting on their campus lawn because it hurt Israeli exchange students’ feefees.

1.) my awesome topical relevant reference #myreference -> ♡

fuckyeahmarxismleninism

“Does the world expect us to be well-behaved victims while we are getting killed? For us to be slaughtered without making a noise? We decided to defend our people with whatever weapons we had.”

— Yahya Sinwar

#yahya sinwar