Harry Cleaver

Ilhan Omar. Shri Thanedar. Pramila Jayapal. All born in foreign countries, none were citizens by birth. All sitting in the United States Congress. All making clear every single day their loyalty is not to America. We just introduced a long overdue joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to require Members of Congress, federal judges, and Senate-confirmed officers to be natural born citizens. This is the very same standard the President and Vice President are already required to meet. The people writing America's laws, confirming America's judges, and representing America on the world stage should have one loyalty: America. Not any other country. For too long we have allowed foreign born members to hold seats in this government while making clear they are America last, not America first. We see it every day. This constitutional amendment will put an end to it.

Mejor discurso que he escuchado en mucho tiempo sobre lucha de clases no viene de la academía sino de una indígena de Bolivia en huelga contra el derechista Rodrigo Paz. "La gente humilde sin los ricos viviríamos, pero los ricos sin la gente humilde no viven, se mueren de hambre"

Day 9 of the general strike in Bolivia. People are composing protest songs while doing night shift at the barricades 🎶

During a city parade, a calm guard horse walked proudly with his rider. Along the road, a small child in a wheelchair watched quietly. The horse suddenly stopped, lowered his head, and moved closer. The child gently hugged the horse, and the horse stayed perfectly still, peaceful and kind. It was a soft, beautiful moment that made everyone smile. Horses truly have gentle hearts.

1. The fundamental contradiction is not left vs right, democracy vs autocracy, or freedom vs tyranny. It is capitalist class vs working class. Every other paradigm is liberal distraction. 2. Capitalism is not "free exchange." It is a mode where a minority owns the means, the majority sells labor for wages, and the state enforces this. Politically, it is dictatorship of the capitalist class. 3. Liberalism is the ideology of that class. Conservatism, neoliberalism, libertarianism, and "progressive" capitalism are its brands. All deny class struggle. All serve the same master. 4. Class struggle is zero‑sum. What workers gain (wages, healthcare, pensions) comes directly from what capitalists lose. That's why they fight every gain and never surrender power voluntarily. 5. Revolution requires authority. Engels: "A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is." Anyone who condemns revolutionary authority while claiming to want socialism is confused or a traitor. 6. "Socialism always fails" is a lie told by the empire that tried to strangle it at birth. The USSR was invaded by 14 armies, industrialized from feudalism in one generation, lost 27M defeating fascism, then endured 50 years of Cold War sabotage. That it lasted is a miracle. 7. Stalin is not a "murderer." He's the man who broke Hitler. Under Stalin, the USSR went from starving, illiterate backwater to the superpower that destroyed Nazism. The empire spent billions demonizing him because he succeeded. You've been lied to. 8. Mao is not a "murderer." He's the man who unified China. Under Mao, China ended a century of foreign domination, land reform gave peasants dignity, and the foundation was laid for the greatest poverty reduction in history. The "death tolls" you recite are fabricated propaganda. 9. Every socialist society has been attacked, blockaded, and sabotaged by the most powerful empire in history. Cuba survived a 60‑year blockade. The DPRK survived total encirclement. China survived relentless containment. That they still stand is resilience, not failure. 10. The dictatorship of the proletariat is not a betrayal of communism. It's the only path. Communism is impossible while global capital dominates. The transition – the working class holding state power – is necessary, difficult, and measured in generations, not years. 11. The "pure socialists" who condemn every successful revolution serve the status quo. As Parenti wrote: "Pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed." Their idealism is a luxury the oppressed cannot afford. 12. China is doing the heaviest lifting. Despite relentless Western propaganda, China lifted 800M from poverty, built modern infrastructure from nothing, and resisted imperial domination. Its DotP is not a flaw – it's the condition of its survival and victory. 13. The axis of resistance deserves not tolerance but celebration. Cuba and the DPRK sacrificed prosperity to defy the empire for generations. Russia is shedding blood to break NATO's stranglehold. China is living proof that socialism works. The future is bright because the empire is in terminal decline. 14. The goal is not a kinder oligarchy. It's abolition. We don't want the empire to behave better. We want working‑class power, social ownership of production, a world without exploitation, war, or hunger. That work will take centuries. Why delay any longer?

BAKANLIK DÜŞTÜ, KUŞATMA TAMAMLANDI: BOLİVYA’DA KATİL PAZ REJİMİ DAĞILIYOR! ​Bolivya’da ABD uydusu aşırı sağcı Rodrigo Paz rejimine karşı yarım milyonu aşkın işçi, madenci ve yerli halkın başlattığı "Hayat Yürüyüşü" başkent La Paz’ı tamamen kuşattı. Ablukanın 13. gününde gıda fiyatlarının üç katına çıktığı ve hastanelerde oksijenin tükendiği kentte sömürü çarkları tamamen dururken; öfkeli kitleler sokak çatışmalarının ardından Adalet Bakanlığı’nı ele geçirdi. ​Rejimin halkın üzerine ateş açarak gerçekleştirdiği kanlı saldırılara ve yüzlerce gözaltı terörüne rağmen geri adım atmayan kitlelerin kararlılığı, hükümet içinde istifa çatlaklarına yol açtı. El Alto'dan gelen yeni kollarla barikatları tahkim eden yerli örgütler ve madenciler, katil iktidarın olası bir askeri saldırısına karşı dinamit ve silahlarla direneceklerini ilan etti; kukla rejim çöküşün eşiğinde!

Here's what the internet will soon become because of AI: An infinite library, with infinite truths and infinite falsehoods, and a complete inability to tell those two things apart. This is straight from the 1941 Jorge Luis Borges story “The Library of Babel”. In it, he imagines an infinite library made up of books of random letters. Because it is infinite, it contains not only every book ever written, but every book that could possibly be written. It contains every possible truth as well as an infinite number of falsehoods. The secrets of the universe, of life, of everything, are hidden somewhere in that library. The only issue is: that magical book is impossible to find. And if you found it, how would you ever know you found the book of truth, and not one of the infinite books of lies that surround it?

Esta fotografía fue tomada hace más de un siglo. Y aunque parece una escena simple —un hombre frente a una tienda junto a un lobo— en realidad contiene algo mucho más profundo: una forma completamente distinta de entender la naturaleza. Durante décadas, muchos colonos europeos construyeron la imagen del lobo como una bestia salvaje, cruel y peligrosa. En cuentos, periódicos y relatos populares aparecía como un monstruo al que había que perseguir, encerrar o exterminar. Pero para numerosos pueblos nativos de Norteamérica, el lobo jamás fue visto de esa manera. Era un maestro. Un símbolo de inteligencia, resistencia y equilibrio. La imagen muestra a un anciano indígena de la región subártica canadiense junto a un lobo criado cerca de su comunidad, probablemente a comienzos del siglo XX. Fotografías así eran extremadamente raras porque la mayoría de cámaras de aquella época llegaban acompañando expediciones, comerciantes o funcionarios que casi nunca entendían realmente la relación espiritual y práctica que muchos pueblos indígenas mantenían con los animales salvajes. Para ellos, el lobo no era “una mascota”. Y tampoco un enemigo. Era otra nación viva compartiendo la tierra. Algunos ancianos cree, inuit o dene contaban que observar a los lobos ayudaba a aprender a sobrevivir en inviernos brutales. Sabían orientarse durante tormentas, trabajar en grupo y proteger a los débiles de la manada. Los cazadores indígenas estudiaban sus movimientos no solo para rastrear animales, sino para entender cómo convivir con el territorio sin destruirlo. Existía incluso una idea repetida en varias tradiciones: el ser humano podía aprender humildad observando a los lobos. Porque ellos mataban solo para alimentarse. Nunca por orgullo. Nunca por deporte. Un explorador francés escribió sorprendido en su diario a finales del siglo XIX que había visto niños indígenas jugando cerca de lobos jóvenes sin mostrar el terror que los europeos consideraban natural. No era ingenuidad. Era convivencia. Eso no significa que todos los lobos fueran dóciles ni que no existiera peligro. La vida salvaje seguía siendo salvaje. Pero la diferencia estaba en la mirada. Mientras muchos colonos llegaron con la idea de dominar la naturaleza, numerosos pueblos indígenas crecieron creyendo que el ser humano era solo una parte más de ella. Y quizá por eso esta imagen sigue impactando hoy. Porque el anciano y el lobo no parecen enemigos. Ni dueño y animal. Parecen dos seres acostumbrados a compartir el mismo silencio. Con el paso de las décadas, millones de lobos fueron exterminados en Norteamérica. En algunos territorios prácticamente desaparecieron. Las campañas de caza, el miedo colectivo y la expansión humana transformaron por completo el equilibrio natural de enormes regiones. Y con ellos también se fue perdiendo parte de aquella relación ancestral que algunos pueblos habían mantenido durante generaciones. Sin embargo, muchas comunidades indígenas todavía conservan historias, canciones y enseñanzas donde el lobo sigue apareciendo no como un monstruo… sino como un hermano antiguo de la tierra. Tal vez el problema nunca fue el lobo. Tal vez la verdadera diferencia estaba en la forma de mirar.

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