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Joined November 2009
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The brutal assault in Lviv that has not led to an outpouring of sympathy from ostensibly left-wing figures and organizations.
pravda.com.ua/news/2026/10/2…
«Вирізали ми жидів, виріжемо і ляхів, і старого, і малого до єдного; поляків виріжем, Україну збудуєм.»
Якось не дуже по‑«соціалістичному», як на мене
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Statement of solidarity with Ehsan Ali & the Awami Action Committee Gilgit-Baltistan from Kshama Sawant, former Seattle City Council member and independent revolutionary socialist candidate for the US Congress (@cmkshama) ✊✊✊ #ReleaseEhsanAli #FreeEhsanAli #HandsOfftheAAC
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Meanwhile, "Ukrainian studies" people are trashing Yuri Slezkine for calling out Ukrainian ethnonationalism. I have never felt such a chasm between what is discussed on academic panels about Ukraine and the reality of Ukraine, and even what is openly discussed in Ukrainian media and on social networks.
Language "ghetto" for Russian-speaking children in Lviv
In Lviv, around 40,000 internally displaced children do not attend school.
One of the reasons is the language barrier, as these children face intolerance, mockery, and insults. Language becomes a serious obstacle for them, and in effect, a kind of “ghetto” of such children is being formed.
— Ivanna Kobernyk, Adviser to the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
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Ukrainian pacifist & WBW Board Member Yurii Sheliazhenko was arbitrarily detained, beaten & denied legal access while being taken to a military enlistment office. Conscientious objection is a protected human right. Persecuting it violates international law worldbeyondwar.org/yurii-she…
China Miéville non-fiction: Thoughtful Marxist writing on art and other subjects.
China Miéville fiction: Scientist in an illicit relationship with a Beatle woman helps a disabled bird person regain flight by harnessing the dialectic. Also, a psychic caterpillar that eats drugs.
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It's become a fact that Roger Waters had a pig emblazoned with the Star of David at his gig in Berlin.
It has been used by MPs to call for his shows to be pulled, featured in headlines in the Daily Mail, repeated by the BBC etc.
Except, he didn't. Here is the pig in Berlin:
At the 1856 Illinois Republican Party convention two men nominated as candidates to the electoral college.
One was future president Abraham Lincoln.
The other was German Socialist Friedrich Hecker, a leader of the 1848 revolution, later an officer in the Union Army.
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1/ PERU URGENT ALERT:
The illegitimate government of Dina Boluarte has proceeded to arrest 14 prominent trade union and social activists in the last few hours, including the gen sec of CGTP union in San Martin region and the president and 7 leaders of the Ayacucho Defence Front
Normally I get annoyed when Academia.edu asks me if I wrote something when I keep telling them I've never published in that field...but I can't say I'd mind if people thought I'd written a book called "Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England".
"Comrades, do get it into your heads,
this 'lesser evil' which
Year after year has been used to keep you completely out of the fight
Will very soon mean having to stomach the Nazis. "
- Bertolt Brecht
Jean-Luc Godard: a revolutionary in film and in life, 1930-2022 theorion.com/?p=92022
