website used to have a lot of good stuff on it and i'm wondering what they mean by the website being "transferred" as i cant find it anywhere. im using web.archive to look at it rn but i cant access any form of direct action training or anything else on their really

i think most of us already know that you cannot blindly apply soviet or chinese socialism to our respective states without considering the underlying reasons for reform and opening up and the rapid industrialisation of the soviet union. you can't just create a sez in fucking malmo and expect to become a socialist paradise in a month, this is obvious. once a socialist state or multiple pop up in europe or north america, in the near future, the first thing that would happen is, most likely, a complete blockade. the remaining capitalist states in europe or nato if thats still around would either invade you or sink any ships sailing into your ports. any semblance of socialism in the west, especially in the core, would be seen as an existential threat (correctly so, actually). and you dont have any manufacturing capacity at home and definenetly not enough to resist the combined military effort of the west. like, what the fuck do you do once you, as a deindustrialized state with an aging

::: spoiler my opinion when you look at the political scene in eastern europe, the primary way communist parties try to gain support is to appeal to disaffected 40-60'ish people with some form or another of "ostalgie" or "soviet nostalgia". there's nothing principally wrong with it, but i feel it is way too oriented towards the past instead of the future. "look what we had" is good for some but ultimately it isn't enough to build movements. you see communist parties who still refuse to recognise the collapse of the ussr.

my gripe with this isn't that i disagree with them ideologically or morally, as the liberals do, the problem is the union is definitively gone. there is no hope of restoring it, there hasn't been for nearly 40 years. we need to start from the beginning again, the old structures have been fully dismantled and the union will not return, not in the next few decades.

this is ignoring the fact that this is really only appealing to.. well.. 50 to 70 year olds. we shoul

many of these states and their governments are openly hostile to communist elements, but a communist party actively opposing their government would risk destabilising it and then playing themselves directly into the hands of the imperialist states. an indefinite "united front" would be desirable, especially in countries like iran, but it seems all leftist organisations in these states have either decided to fully support the government in everything, becoming controlled opposition (KPRF in Russia) or western puppets like (MEK) or whatever the fuck the "leftist opposition" in russia, belarus is.

The power of the Jews even today, especially in America, should not be underestimated. And therefore I have very deliberately and very consciously – and that was always my opinion – put all my strengh, the best I could, to bring about a reconciliation between the Jewish people and the German people.

— Dec. 29 1965, Konrad Adenauer.

Not gonna "dox" myself by giving out where i'm from, you can probably surmise it from my post history if you really want to know. My country doesn't have that large of a pro-Palestine movement, not to say there isn't one, there is. Just not on the same scale as neighbouring states. Our largest military trading partner in terms of imports is Israel. the total value of the arms and munitions we purchase from them is around 30-50 million a year and ever increasing as we further militarize to fight against the evil Russians. I know legalism will never work and it will be impossible to halt the import of weaponry through those means but it is good grounds for protest as the ones we see against Elbit abroad. It would be a good way to galvanize opposition to the genocide and Israel in general here as we are dominated by the same kinds of liberals and conservatives which love to couch their rhetoric with legalistic justifications. You hear constant whinging (rarely justified) about breaches of

multi-party bourgeois democracy has proven to be too much of a hassle in both instances. there is heavy foreign interference, primarily through fostering the opposition and by direct coup attempts. if you attempt to work within the capitalist system as a socialist you'll associate every misfortune caused by the economic structure of society with socialism. eventually as us sanctions continue to strangle your economy and destroy your nation you'll be voted out and it'll all have been for nothing. i genuinely do not see how allowing the current state of things continue is in anyway beneficial to their programme. seizing power would prevent any overturning of the present reforms and allow for the cementing of revolutionary control. the west will never consider you legitimate as long as you are in opposition to their interests, they'll consider you a dictator no matter what you do.

heard of redact, kanary, easyoptouts, but they all have important services locked behind a paywall

i don't want to detach myself from the current situation dreaming about the possible horrors of the future while sitting in the midst of a genocide, but i feel this is one of those things you kinda have to think about especially considering the scale of its consequences. this isn't a 'nothing matters we're gonna die in a nuclear war anyway!' kindveof here, this actually is something that we know will happen and are already seeing """""gradually""""" take form. my worries here are primarily the response to the migration. we are already seeing far-right governments take hold all over europe and the west in general and as material conditions worsen the need to further act on their racist class-obscuring rhetoric will increase as they push people into a genocidal frenzy, blaming their woes on the hundreds of millions if not billions of refugees. gaza will be as herero and nama genocide was to the holocaust. the chicken must come home to roost and we will see the methods pioneered by our im

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books on the collapse, the aftermath

https://xcancel.com/GermanyDiplo/status/1933478572099793066

is there a definitive definition of "revolution" you follow and how do you differentiate it from the standard coup? when does a coup become a revolution?

i know of livorno, celtic, rayo vallecano, union st gilloise, standard liege, red star paris, bologna (maybe?) and the better version of st pauli babelsberg 03

liverpool, man utd and basically everyother major football club have some socialist history due to it being a working class sport, but it seems that is just history now. the big clubs are all moneygrubbing bastards

I don't want to bash orgs like PVDA-PTB in Belgium, their logos look good visually but... they just don't have the same flare y'know? I wouldn't be willing to die for the PVDA flag, it just doesn't click in the same way Hezbollah's does. Maybe it's just that Arabic is an objectively superior alphabet, or something. You could never have good Latin text on a flag, only thing that came close was the RSFSR's flag and that's fucking Cyrillic. I hope someone can prove me wrong

I don't want to bash orgs like PVDA-PTB in Belgium, their logos look good visually but... they just don't have the same flare y'know? I wouldn't be willing to die for the PVDA flag, it just doesn't click in the same way Hezbollah's does. Maybe it's just that Arabic is an objectively superior alphabet, or something. You could never have good Latin text on a flag, only thing that came close was the RSFSR's flag and that's fucking Cyrillic. I hope someone can prove me wrong

check the side panel and search for broadcasters if you want to watch it

If you're confused about how the qualification system works just look at this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(AFC)#Fourth_round

If they win they advance to the 4th round and play in a group stage with 2 other teams, 1st place is automatic qualification and 2nd sends you to the 5th and final qualifying round