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Joseph Stalin'in kitaplarıyla bir kız, Taşkent, 1930'lar, Özbekistan. (Fotoğraf: Max Penson

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I've read this a while ago. It's still brilliant. Everyone who claims to have an interest in the liberation of Palestine must read it.

“Workers and peasants are the mainstay of the revolution, its basic class material and its leadership…

"War realises value by the destruction of the military commodity itself along with... labour power and resituates power relations that are both services of value and at the same time inputs into value relations."

"a[n imperialist] class... enjoying dollar-seignorage and imperial rents incurs no losses in permanent wars. Borrowing almost indefinitely in its own currency affords it power over its lenders and pushes the lenders to support its military adventurism." Ali Kadri

Tomorrow! I'll be speaking at this with @trgenovese about our article 'Herrenvolk Marxism as Class Collaboration: Recovering the “Struggle for Recognition' Article available online - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“Jorge—whose home was in Santiago—told me about how his family had participated in the 26th of July uprisings there. When street protests became too dangerous, he joined the guerrilla in the mountains…”

Arlene Eisen, ‘In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women,’ pg. 127 We’re excited to announce this text is now available as a FREE ePub, and as a FREE PDF on our website: iskrabooks.org/books/p/worldw…

Inspired: capitalism is a mass extinction event Link: iskrabooks.org/books/p/for-la…

Friends of Socialist China launched five years ago today, with an infographic on China’s longstanding support for the Palestinian struggle for national liberation. Since that time, we’ve posted around 2,300 articles on socialistchina.org, organised Socialist China conferences in London and New York, put together an array of events (online and in-person), led two delegations to China, and worked with various organisations and individuals to continue building solidarity with – and understanding of – the People’s Republic.

“David trusted Amy. It was Amy—and no one else—whom he asked to proofread Infinite Jest. This was a monumental task that entailed his mailing her hundreds of pages of the manuscript at a time. She scrutinized every word, every sentence…” thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the…

@Tigger0000 put this shit on a t-shirt

“For Yankee and English imperialism, the economic value of these naturally rich lands would be much less if they did not possess a backward and miserable indigenous population, which is extremely exploitable with the help of the national bourgeoisie.”

“I will say a prayer for all brave men who do their duty according to their lights." -The last words of James Connolly, Commandant-General of the Dublin Division of the Easter Rising, executed 110 years ago, today.

'The monetary value of labour is an artefact of power dynamics in political economy. Wages in the global South are kept low in large part due to interventions by Northern states & firms to cheapen labour, both at national level & through monopoly & monopsony power'

"For the US-led imperialist class, war is a win-win situation. It is itself a market and an industry, more appropriately, a sphere of production." —Ali Kadri & Matteo Capasso, 'The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach'

‘Socialist Cuba is both the survivor of the socialist camp of the 1990s, and a globally recognized beacon of agroecology at the turn of the century…The WWF, the world's largest environmental protection organization, stated that Cuba is the only country in the world to have achieved sustainable development…’

For the People’s Academy, @Helyeh_Doutaghi and @maxajl gave a comprehensive account of the US-Zionist war on Iran and its consequences for the region and the international system as a whole. You can revisit the lecture here: youtube.com/live/M18USt25U…

"Militarism is not simply the industrial-military complex; that’s one manifestation of militarism. The whole [imperialist] structure of the social formation is militaristic, because it cannot survive without wars, and Isr a el is the epitome of that situation."

"We cannot partition anti-imperialism; we cannot be for regime change, support American regime change in one place, and at the same time say we are pro-Palestinian." Ali Kadri, 'The Struggle for Palestine is the Struggle of the International Proletariat'.