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www.theguardian.com Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules
Judges say Equality Act definition excludes transgender women, after gender-critical campaigners’ challenge
US begging for an audience so they can walk their bullshit back: "China is softening"
The Guardian is so full of shit lol
If you mean printing weapons, I really doubt that would help a lot in getting access to female hospital wards, homeless shelters, bathrooms, domestic abuse centres, and so on.
A symptom for sure. She's just a kids writer, nobody would pay her any attention if she was a communist. She's being boosted exactly because she's a TERF.
UK supreme court rules that legal protections for women don't apply to trans women even if they hold gender recognition certificates.
TERF island making it official, JK Rowling already celebrating.
There's exactly the same sentiment expressed in one of the exhibits in the Berlin Stasi museum (predictably).
Apparently her son was living there for 20 years and she moved to him cause she was getting too frail to live on her own.
I think the term originated within CPGB (a Marxist-Leninist party in the UK) so Trots had nothing to do with this one.
By the way, Vijay Prashad explained it very well a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsqE9kEsDVY
Stalin had nothing to do with Hungary though, that was Khrushchev.
The Donbass is a territory unique from others in the region.
Doesn't make it a nation.
I also believe that when two cultures come together, Russian and Ukrainian for example, that this creates a unique culture where traditions from both become mixed together.
Sure, this is basically what Cossacks were, with some influence from nations of Caucasus; there were even some calls for independence.
However this is not what happened in Donbass, ask anyone in Donbass what is their nationality and they will either say Russian or Ukrainian.
Thank you!
No worries at all, this reads completely civil. :)
Great points about control over resources, I think you're right here, this is clearly not the priority for Russia.
CPRF is bigger than Social-Democrats were in Lenins times. I know they won't try and bring the war home to turn it into a revolution, but I think they absolutely could if a Lenin shows up (cause Zyuganov is evidently not it).
For the Russian people and the Russian soldier this is an anti-fascist struggle.
OK this is a bit much. Russia has been a hotbed for Nazism since the 90s putting even the likes of Poland to shame. Travel guides to Russia have to warn people of colour to stay in hotels on Adolf Hitlers birthday cause Russian neonazis murder people year after year to celebrate the date.
Ukraine somehow managed to out-Nazi Russia after Maidan but still, the idea that Putin invaded Ukraine to fight Nazism is laughable cause he never had any issues with Nazis in Russia.
The problem is that at this point, it has become very hard to separate the Bandera cult and the russophobia from Ukrainian identity.
That's just Great-Russian chauvinism. Sorry but you're parroting the most reactionary Russian propaganda, like this piece which openly states de-nazification of Ukraine is necessarily also de-Ukrainization: https://ria.ru/20220403/ukraina-1781469605.html
I can't agree with that. Even Nazi Germany didn't need to be de-Germanized after the WW2, you only had to change the system and you got DDR.
Erstes Reich, Zweites Reich, Drittes Reich, Drittes reicht.
I'm not sure I follow, what is so specific to Galicia in the current Ukrainian national identity? How is it different from Ukrainian identity of the UkrSSR?
It seems to me Ukrainian Nazis did the same thing Nazis do everywhere - take a national identity and slap some hatred on top. In this case, Bandera cult and russophobia. Remove that and you're back to just... Regular Ukrainians. Am I missing something?
I find it revolutionary since it challenges the status quo of the uni-polar world.
Was Iraqi invasion of Kuwait revolutionary because it went against US interests?
Revolutionary defeatism isn’t the idea that communists should want Russia to lose every war. Its wanting your capitalist government to lose the war so you can turn it into a civil war.
Everyone in this thread agrees communists in the West should facilitate their governments defeat. The only disagreement is whether Russian communists should practice defeatism or not.
If you are Russian then yes you should want Russia to lose in Ukraine
Cool, we agree then.
There is no nation of Hong Kong, they are Han Chinese. There is no nation of Donbass, they are Russians and Ukrainians. The way you're trying to read that quote from Lenin, every single town, every village, every district is a nation. That's not at all what Lenin said.
Tibet does have it's own language, territory, and culture, and so it is indeed a nation.
It is quite apparent that you don’t understand Ukraine, its national-ethnic composition or its history.
language, culture and historical national conception of a minority in the far West of Ukraine.
OK this is laughable. I was raised in Ukraine and I don't need a Westerner to tell me I don't understand it, especially one who seems to think Ukrainians are "a minority in the far West of Ukraine".
There is a continuum of culture and language in Ukraine going from East to West.
I'm aware, thanks. The way I've been taught, Dnipro marks the border between Eastern Ukraine, which was always under Russian influence, and Western Ukraine, which had significant Polish influence and cultural ties. But the same goes for Russia. Ukrainian language was spoken all the way to the Don, the Cossack dialect has strong Ukrainian influence, and really entire Southern Russia is a mixture of Ukrainian, Georgian, Abkhasian, Ingush, Circassian, and other influences. Where exactly is the "ethnically and historically correct" border between Ukraine and Russia? I have no idea, maybe it's along Dnipro, maybe it's along Don, or anywhere in between.
Where is the legally correct border between Ukraine and Russia? That's much easier, that was peacefully agreed in 1991. Should Ukraine pursue a return to those borders? Fuck no, that ship has sailed and it's time for Ukraine to cut its losses and accept whatever peace it can have.
Your post with date-by-date history of the lead up to this conflict is spot on and I'm aware of those events. They still don't justify invading a brotherly nation. Again, having been raised in the USSR I can't support Russia's wars on its neighbours, even if the fault lies mostly with the West.
Look at China, it manages to maintain sovereignty without killing large numbers of people in Hong Kong or Taiwan, and without waging wars on internal separatists like in Xinjiang.
No, the DPR and LPR are not nations, they never claimed that, they consider themselves part of the Russian nation, as did much of Ukraine to some degree before the Ukrainan nationalist re-education project began post 1991
Again, having grown up in Ukraine in the 80s, I can assure you people living there considered themselves Ukrainian, even Russian speakers like me.
11 vinyl sets of Soviet block grooves and jazz
I've recently discovered those on YT and can't stop listening. Some of them I remember from my childhood, some are from films or even cartoons, many were completely new to me. I'm so happy to see positive reactions in comments, clearly a lot of Soviet music stood the test of time and still resonates with people around the world. It's so refreshing to hear many different languages, some I speak or can at least recognise, and some I can't place at all. I love how while clearly Western-influenced, the music sounds distinct and unique, using a lot of folk elements and harmonies native to various Soviet block peoples. Enjoy!
Bonus: here are 11 radio mixes by Funked Up East, thank you for the suggestion OrnluWolfjarl!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFJObiSSwr4&list=TLGGWmTjzJxF8jsyODAxMjAyNQ
Soviet & Socialistic Grooves from 60s-70s / New Year Special by BASIC – L’atelier de Musique Ep006
Awesome set and all the top comments really wholesome:
Despite some recent Ukrainian successes, the country appears to be losing
www.bbc.com How the Ukraine War could come to an end in 2025
Ahead of Trump's second term, talk is turning towards how the conflict might finish - and what it would take from each side
It's another banger from the most trusted outlet in the world! My favourite quotes:
As the invasion reaches the end of its third year, at an estimated cost of a million people, killed or wounded, Ukraine appears to be losing.
In distant Washington, meanwhile, the unpredictable Donald Trump, not famous for his love of Ukraine or its leader, is about to take over in the White House.
"There's a lot of talk about negotiations, but it's an illusion," says Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of President Zelensky's office.
"No negotiation process can take place because Russia has not been made to pay a high enough price for this war."
"What we're seeing now is a very smart strategy exercise by President Zelensky," his former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba told the US Council on Foreign Relations in December.
Zelensky, he said, was "signalling constructiveness and readiness to engage with President Trump."
"Because Trump hasn't fully explained how he's going to go about it
UK Labour deports record numbers on secret flights, including unprecedented 109 children
www.theguardian.com More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three secret flights
Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UK
www.theguardian.com Georgian opposition leader arrested after fourth night of protests
Police detained Zurab Japaridze as he was leaving rally outside parliament against suspension of EU accession talks
For context, Zurab Japaridze is the leader of a "right-liberarian" party whose main goals are NATO and EU membership, tax cuts, decentralisation, deregulation, doubling the military budget, privatization of state-owned property, and abolition of the National Bank of Georgia. Not going to cry about his arrest TBH.
Oh, in a true right-libertarian spirit, when creating his splinter of the party, he made sure to clarify the split had nothing to do with the chairman of the main branch (also right-libertarian) defending child pornography lol.
He refused to recognise the 2020 parliamentary election claiming it was rigged. And the 2021 local elections too... And now of course.
[Edit] His party also initiated the challenge to the law requiring that at least 25% of candidates that political parties submit for elections are women, which saw that law removed by the current ruling Georgian Dream party, to the outcry of women's organisations.
Here's the picture of the patriot giving an interview
www.bbc.co.uk Ukraine fires UK-made Storm Shadow missiles at Russia for first time
The BBC understands the long-range missiles have been fired into Russian territory by Ukraine.
www.theguardian.com UK expected to give Ukraine Storm Shadow missiles to strike inside Russia
Move follows US president Joe Biden’s agreement to supply similar American long range Atacms weapon
(edit) they did it already: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g704g051go
news.sky.com Tributes paid to 'brave' Briton, 22, killed while fighting in Ukraine
Callum Tindal-Draper, from Gunnislake, Cornwall, died while serving with the foreign volunteer platoon in Ukraine's struggle against Russia.
Love irony quotes in the title.
Burn in hell "brave" Briton, should've stayed in Cornwall.
Nostalgia hopeposting - Soviet time capsules
theins.ru Вскрытие показало. Чего нам желали предки в "капсулах времени" полвека назад
В год столетия революции в российских городах и бывших советских республиках массово вскрывают "капсулы времени", оставленные в 1967 году
Google translated article for English speaking comrades: https://theins-ru.translate.goog/obshestvo/78318?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
In 1967, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October revolution, young people across the USSR buried time capsules with letters to future Soviet people, to be unearhed in 2017.
Excerpts from my favourite one:
We, the communist youth of the 60s, can't imagine life without creative struggle and hard work to build communism - which for you is a living reality. You are the happy generation: clear skies above you, wars only exist in history books. You didn't have to chant "Shame on Israeli agressors!", you didn't have to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, you didn't have to read about attacks on the Cuban revolution in your newspapers. All those events, contemporary for us, must seem so distant to you. Your children won't play with rusty shells and casings they find.
Capsule from Pervomaysk, Donbass - here's Pervomaysk ar
"Left-leaning" liberal media preparing the public for the coup in Georgia
theguardian.com ‘It’s better not to try our luck again’: how Russia’s wars left deep scars in Georgia and Moldova
Voters have backed political forces that favour closer Moscow ties despite seeing their country’s future in Europe
Like fucking clockwork. Despite all the NGO meddling, mass media propaganda campaigns etc Georgian people voted against the West, so the "woke leftist" Western media immediately begin massaging the public opinion, manufacturing consent for the coup that's clearly in the works.
Ackshually, Georgians and Moldovans are intimidated into voting by Russia, what they really want is the opposite of what they vote for!
The man who "brought down" the Soviet Union was a terrible human being
BTW I love how the "leftist woke" Guardian tried to brush off his blatant antisemitic propaganda taken right out of the Nazi playbook (Judeo-Bolshevism conspiracy theory) as brave reexamining of Soviet history, really worth a read:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books
Somehow their antisemitism radar was so finely tuned when it came to Corbyn, what happened Guardian?
There are a few spicy quotes from Solzhenitsyn here for interest:
https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/validating-the-alexander-solzhenitsyn
Yuri Gagarin, the OG hopeposter
I'd like to dedicate this first space flight to the future communist society our Soviet people are already building, which, I'm certain, all the people on Earth will join.
Only a few minutes are left before the start now. I say goodbye to you, dear friends, as people always say when leaving for a long journey. I would so very much like to hug every one of you, whether I know you or not, whether you're near or far!
See you soon!
Yuri's speech before the first space flight (https://web.archive.org/web/20210401072208/https://www.roscosmos.ru/28336/)
Having flown around Earth in the spaceship, I've seen the beauty of our planet. People, let's preserve and develop this beauty, not destroy it!
A note Yuri took after the flight (on the picture).
I know you all love daydreaming about space travel and even envy us cosmonauts a little, boys especially. But did you know we envy you too? Our space flights are just the beginning. Planets, whole new worlds await you! It is you, young Le
pics that go hard
Leningrad, 1938
A worker and a supervisor, Moscow, 1954
Norilsk, 1965
Constitutional Crisis of 1993
Constitutional Crisis of 1993
"Put Chubais behind bars", 1998
Do you know any sources on Operation Cartel?
I saw it mentioned here but can't find any sources:
https://www.rbth.com/history/330877-5-cia-operations-against-soviets
Poland revokes right of asylum because migration is Putin's plot to destabilize the EU
www.bbc.co.uk Poland to temporarily suspend right to asylum, PM Tusk says
Donald Tusk said Russia and Belarus were encouraging migration into Poland in a bid to destabilise the EU.
TL;DR: In a plot to destabilize the EU, Putin and Lukashenko personally and directly caused masses of people to migrate from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, so Poland won't observe the legal right of asylum anymore. They also decriminalised shooting migrants "in self defence".
(Edit) This is from the new, supposedly less fascist Polish govt lol
Is there something like Lemmygrad in Russian?
Russian speaking lemmygrad users - could you recommend a communist anti-imperialist community on runet?
Is China outsourcing labour to poorer countries?
I support the CPC.
Heard this accusation recently:
China takes part in imperialist plunder by outsourcing all labour intensive tasks to poorer countries to exploit cheap labour, and only the final assembly is done in China anymore.
What is our party line on that?
Edit: thank you all for the answers! I'm far from being an economist and don't feel confident enough to immediately demand sources something might well be a common knowledge.
I was now given this source: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/74902/1/dp205.pdf
In particular:
more than half of China’s export value in 2005 corresponds to that of imported inputs that are merely assembled in China.
only thirty four percent of the value of China’s processing exports in 2005 was domestic content, while the other two thirds corresponded to the value of the imported inputs.
in the high-tech category, it consistently amounts to approximately 90 percent of total high-tech exports
thebarentsobserver.com Moscow hoists Soviet flags at Svalbard
“The tradition has been revived and will live!” Russia's state-owned company Arktikugol has over the last few weeks proudly hoisted Soviet flags in both Pyramiden and Barentsburg.
The article is full of liberal fear mongering unfortunately.
Here some more glorious pictures!
www.forbes.com The USSR Made A Space Radio Complex Out Of An Old Battleship. 65 Years Later, Ukraine Is Trying To Blow It Up.
The NIP-16 site in Crimea could help Russian forces communicate with their satellites.
On Sunday, the Ukrainian army fired at least four American-made Army Tactical Missile System precision rockets at NIP-16. Fires raged at the site through the night, and Planet satellite imagery from Monday seems to depict blast marks on the ground at the sprawling base.
Scientists surely would cringe at any damage to NIP-16 and its suite of hard-to-replace scientific instruments. Thousands of Soviet naval conscripts built the installation at a time when governments were pouring massive resources into space exploration.