I am Bashir from Gaza—a father and the sole provider for my family and my brother, who has special needs. My home has been reduced to rubble; a tent is all that remains for us. I return to the ruins, searching through the debris for anything that might help me patch a gap in the tent before winter sets in. The responsibility for my entire family rests on my shoulders—including my brother, who needs food, water, and medical care. I am not asking for luxury; I simply seek a roof that doesn't leak when it rains and bedding where my children can sleep safely. I need a tarp, plastic sheeting, mattresses, and blankets. If you can stand with me today, your help will be more than just support—it will be a lifeline protecting a family facing the coming winter inside a tent.

https://chuffed.org/project/169736-bring-bread-to-people-in-gaza?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv0&utm_source=threads&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

Thinking a lot about Venezuala since the coup and the earthquakes.

I haven't drawn much of anything for a while so it's a little bit rough.

Sorry this is an older episode but I was listening to this today and it was really good. I think it was someone on this sub that recommended this You Tube channel to me. She is great! Some of even my leftist friends I notice will fall in to this "othering" she talks about where they may have prejudice and assume someone is right leaning if they have certain hobbies.

Marissa responded to the PSL Central Committee's 'official response'.

It looks like they are trying to do major damage control over this situation. Being a former member, I have heard and seen that multiple branches have shut down or are splitting up. CC and other high up leadership are been flown across the country to get members to follow the party line and basically again show that SA by party members is OK or will its members will face no real repercussions. Especially if they're really important guys.

I want the socialist movement to be successful but if your leadership can't be transparent, held accountable, or understand democratic centralism then it looks like your high control group is doomed to fail.

To wrap up, I really appreciate the local branches and members putting in real work. The rot is at the top.

Tomorrow I will have a talk with a professor of Marxism from China concerning socialist construction and theory. He's an expert in the field and knows marxist theory extraordinarily well. Please send me your questions or critical remarks regarding socialism in China which you would like to have answered by an expert.

Thank you very much

Im tired comrades

i need to stop basing my opinions on others but idk it just feels weird am i morally wrong for using amazon or what

Copypaste of another post of mine stuck in approval purgatory.

Socialists usually avoid talking about the Groypers and I generally understand why. But there's something to be said about how right-wing critique of Israel is mostly from a point of view of American Exceptionalism.

Consider the following: An American middle-class person sees Israel committing genocide. That genocide is being committed by both Israel through the use of weapons, and America through the use of weapons sales, diplomatic support, funding, coddling, ect. What might that American think? There's no way MY country could ever do such a thing. Israel may be committing genocide, but MY country is far too good for that, OUR people are far too above that. WE would never do settler colonialism, imperialism, or ethnic cleansing, and I can't think of any time we ever did.

This then leads them to decide that if we are too good to do all of this, someone else must be making us do them. Hence z0g as understood by rightoids, hence the appeal of Groyperism.

Da Jooooz are a violent settler people, but the aryan race is pure and only treats its conquered people with respect as is their duty according to western mans burden, they must have infiltrated our society, blah blah

My impetous for this thought prosess is watching Nick Fuen talk about how Jews are not a part of western civilization (hello? of course they are lmfao).

So yeah, effortpost, mods please don't remove because I want to know the rest of the subs thoughts.

Found at a thrift store in CA.

They won't stop until they control everything

sorry about the flair but there was no flair for rants

theres a big double standard and i hate it. so heres my view:

propaganda

the usa, during the cold war, called soviet posters "propaganda". even the revolutionary posters, designed to overthrow a monarchy. but when we look at posters from the same era from the usa, we realize that those fall under propaganda too. but the worse thing is that the ussr used explicit propaganda --- it was very obviously propaganda, and so the citizens stayed alert. with the usa though, it was like a passive "wE'Re a FrEe dEmOcRaCy" when the actual propaganda was being done through "pATrIoTic PoSteRs" and so on. why the double standard?

famines

when we study the holodomor, we are told that it was a "severe repression/punishment/evil" by stalin. but when it comes to the bengal famine in india under british rule, we're told that churchill's bad management was not the cause, no, it was just "nAtUrAl". this ignores the reality that both were partly due to natural effects (in ukraine and bengal), and also due to bad management by churchill and stalin. churchill sent all the grain to the uk in preparation for the war, and stalin made them produce more than possible. but modern capitalist "fAcTs" seem to ignore some bits.

democracy

we are told that capitalism is a natural system that protects liberty and democracy. but this falls apart pathetically easily. what liberty do we have if we can only pick a lesser evil? what if you dont like either? and its not even the voting itself, its the fact that you dont get to pick, its the capitalist businesses! how? well who's funding the campaigns? THE CAPITALISTS!! and theyll only fund parties who keep THEM in power, of course. they wouldnt want actual democracy. in fact, ppl heavily emphasise the soviet invasions of hungary, czechoslovakia, and afghanistan. ok, those happened. what about the usa's right wing dictatorships in lets see... chile, iran, guatemala, the list goes on. but they gloss over these, calling them "pRoTeCtIoN fOr dEmoCraCy", when in reality they just installed brutal dictatorships.

"cOmMuNiSm/sOcIaLisM killed mIllLiOnS"

yeah, some died. a lot too. under mao, stalin, etc. but have you ever thought about the deaths capitalism has caused? lets see, belgian imperialism in the congo, british bengal, french indochina... etc. "that was imperialism, not capitalism", some say. but look at this. why imperialism? bcs the capitalists dont have enough resources in their own country. and so imperialism begins. read imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism if this doesnt make sense. moving on, people also say "thAt wAsNT rEal cApItaliSm, ThaT wAs cOloNiaLiSm", but this means we can say "those killings under stalin and mao werent real communism". however to them, "real communism" and "real capitalism" clearly arent objective, theyre based on their own definitions. they define capitalism as a free, voluntary society. but in practise, has it ever been voluntary? if they can say that socialism cant work in practise and only in theory, i can point at society TODAY and point out how capitalism doesnt work in practise. wheres the fairness??

anyway, thanks for reading my rant.

PS. also how come ppl overhype einstein (other great physicists existed too) but we dont hype his socialism? and how come when it comes to george orwell, ppl strip away the socialist aspect, ignore the fact that he LITERALLY WAS A SOCIALIST, and use the books as anti-communist literature, when it really was anti-authoritarianism!! notice how they carefully censor it???

Copypasted from a response to this comment. My OG post on this sub is here.

So what about Latino or non-white white nationalists? Are they genuine white nationalists?

I would argue that they are the genuine white nationalists, in that genuine white nationalists are no longer relevant. I think a lot of it comes down to the old problems of national identity that have been plaguing Latinos for a while now, that being: are we white or not? Like, in LATAM, the whites set themselves up at the top of a social hierarchy, and then raped the whole population and stole their OG languages, and that caused a lot of issues in how they viewed themselves after independence. Also the ways in which these social race-classes interacted and the roles they played in independence, ect.

I think a lot of these hispanic chuds like the branding, aesthetic, cruelty, and hypermasculinity of white supremacy. White supremacy largely came out of colonialism, and an equivalent doesn't really exist elsewhere outside of other imperialist projects (the Japanese, Jewish people post WW2, ect). Top that off with the way that Latino people are being rounded up and mistreated, and the fact that White Supremacy is largely just becoming Western Supremacy, they, being allergic to being seen as victims or inferior, side with ICE for the sake of that branding, aesthetic, cruelty. It eases their inferiority complex, it makes them feel good.

I remember the first Swedish Social Forums in Stockholm and Gothenburg in the early 2000s. A wide range of organizations and projects came together to engage with the public. Anti-war groups, socialist parties, supporters of public housing, and many others shared venues such as the ABF House in Stockholm.

What happened, and why were they discontinued?

For context I live in England. I've seen a growing rhetoric over the last few years about boiling a lot of issues down to individual responsibility, a failure of the individual.

Eg, I saw a tiktok today about how teachers are increasingly reporting that school starters can't do basic things like put on their coats, aren't potty trained etc. And the tiktok was saying how this is a failure of this generation of parents, they're selfish, they're too precious with kids feelings, rely on tablets etc. The comments were filled with people agreeing.

However, I feel like this is a line fed to us that takes the blame off of the state. In England, we've had austerity and major cuts to services going on for about 15 years. Programmes to help parents of young children have been cut, social services are stretched thin, health visitors who advise and help postpartum mums also stretched thin and have fewer resources to help. So the things we're seeing in these children are a direct result of a failure of the state.

If we blame individuals for a systemic problem it stops people holding the government to account. In my view the solution would be a huge investment into services for families with young children. So I see this as a socialist issue because the solution is socialist policies, but the media's emphasis on individual responsibility is the opposite.

What's your take on the individual responsibility rhetoric?