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Irish peoples liberation force wrote:I'm confused now :S

I was saying that you're right and I was wrong. But I was trying to say it in a way that didn't actually involve me saying that...

Irish peoples liberation force

Irish peoples liberation force

Custadia wrote:I was saying that you're right and I was wrong. But I was trying to say it in a way that didn't actually involve me saying that...

ah, ok.

Irish peoples liberation force

Custadia wrote:I was saying that you're right and I was wrong. But I was trying to say it in a way that didn't actually involve me saying that...

Nothing wrong with being wrong, just means you've learned something :)

Communal earth

Greek government “waterboarded” into submitting to German demands

On Monday, after being submitted to a ferocious pressure campaign that some compared to "waterboarding," Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreed to a draconian and humiliating set of demands from the "Eurogroup" of 18 countries, besides Greece, which participates in the Euro currency.

As demanded by the Eurogroup, he submitted an initial bill to approve the measures for quick approval by the Greek parliament, though he himself says he "does not believe" in them but only accepted them under duress, and though it is not guaranteed that the parliaments of the other countries, especially Germany, will approve them.

Amid great uproar and consternation, with several cabinet members and 32 deputies from Tsipras' own Syriza Party voting "no," the bill passed 229-64 with six abstentions.

Just a week before, on July 5, Greeks had voted in a referendum to reject a milder set of demands by a margin of 61 to 39 percent.

But Greek banks are on the point of running out of money and all aspects of the economy are in dire straits. Without money, Greece will not be able to import even food, in which it is far from self-sufficient, nor medicines, nor fuel. This was used by the wealthy countries of Northern Europe, led by German Finance Minister Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, as the anvil on which to hammer Tsipras into submission.

Tsipras came to power when his left-wing SYRIZA party won a large plurality in elections in January. He had promised to fight against the fierce austerity program imposed on Greece by the "Troika" of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission (the executive body of the European Union) starting in 2010, as the condition for bailouts, in 2010 and 2012, for the country's unsustainable debts.

However, Tsirpas and his government had to deal, also, with the fact that public opinion polls showed that a large majority of the people in this trading nation did not want to leave the Euro currency and go back to the old Greek currency, the drachma. So he set himself the task of fighting against the austerity program while doing his best to keep Greece within the Euro.

This should perhaps not have been an impossible task, but it made Greece vulnerable to a vicious campaign of coercion, especially from the German ruling class, working through the Troika and the Eurogroup. Perhaps Tsipras hoped that the referendum on July 5 would strengthen his hand, but the views of Greek voters count for nothing in the minds of Europe's corporate rulers.

There is massive grassroots opposition to the austerity program imposed by the Troika on poor European countries. This is building to a possible electoral threat to right wing governments in Portugal, Spain and perhaps other countries. However Greek banks are very close to running out of money, with their operations closed and deposit holders only permitted to take out 60 euros a day, with a possibility of a complete bank shutdown looming. The European Central Bank, under strong influence from the German government has denied a new cash infusion to tike Greece over, adding to the pressure on Tsirpas' government. On Monday July 20, also, Greece is expected to come up with a payment of $3.5 billion to the European Central bank, having defaulted on a payment to the IMF on June 30.

The Greek government has questioned the legality of much of this debt, and repeatedly asserted that it is unpayable and moreover that austerity measures make this situation worse. Since 2010 Greece has seen at least a 24 percent contraction of its economy, with a quarter of its workers unemployed, including half of younger workers. Wages and pensions have been slashed, thousands have been laid off, and many enterprises shuttered as the economy has shrunk. Tsipras has argued that it is madness to try to "solve" this problem by adding more austerity and shrinking the economy even more.

Now he will have to re-fire laid off government workers he had re-hired earlier in the year, sharply increase value added tax (similar to sales taxes in the U.S., and also highly regressive), cut pensions, increase the retirement age, and put numerous Greek state assets, including entire coastal islands plus ports and other basic infrastructure up for sale to private interests (and all of this under the control of the Troika, a direct insult to Greek national sovereignty).

Much of the language of the memorandum agreed to on Monday is vague and subject to further tugs of war. There is ominous language about "modernizing" Greece's labor laws. This almost certainly means weakening them, to the detriment of Greek workers and their unions.

A recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund, agrees with the Greek position that the debt is unpayable, and that more austerity will only make the situation worse. If the problem is that the Greek state does not have the income flow to pay its bills, shrinking the economy further will reduce that income flow even more.

The IMF report suggests that Greece's creditors may have to accept losses or extend the program of Greece's payments, and contains the threat that the IMF will withhold funding for the bailout otherwise.

Former Finance Minister Varoufakis, in an interview with the New Statesman, said that when he would bring such commonsense economic arguments to his fellow finance ministers from the Euro group, they would pay absolutely no attention. So the harshness of the new austerity regime imposed on Greece is motivated as much by politics as by economics.

Schäuble had been hinting broadly that a Grexit, an exit of Greece from the Euro currency group, at least temporarily, might be a better option. He and others in the governments of the wealthy Euro countries have accused the Greeks of being unreliable and were particularly incensed by the July 5 referendum, which they saw as a ploy by Tsipras to get out of commitments agreed to by previous Greek governments, and not as an elementary democratic right of the Greek nation to express itself on its own future.

German companies are highly involved in the Greek economy and stand to gain by a new round of privatizations. For example the Hochtief Construction, a group with deep roots in the Nazi period of German history (it used slave labor) now has been fingered as one of the worst tax scofflaws in Greece, owing between $654 million and $1 billion to the Greek Treasurary. A Hochtief spinoff has the privatization concession to run the Athens airport. More such contracts will now be on offer.

Greece got zero support from the governments of Portugal and Spain, two other countries under the hammer of Troika-imposed austerity. Its "populist" policies were also condemned by representatives of former socialist countries in the Euro group. The right wing governments in all of these lands have been complicit in shredding the safety nets and busting the unions of their own people, and don't want Greece to prosper and give their toiling majorities ideas.

We in the U.S. should take heed; this is the same juggernaut that is headed our way.

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I think Syriza has a lot to do with this. It doesn't have the decisiveness to lead Greece in economic planning, rather it bends to the whims of the European ruling class before it ever considers alternative economic planning. Another example of liberals taking control of austerity, and robbing the revolutionary potentional of nations.

Chaego, Comradeland, and Revolutionary commune

Post self-deleted by Revolutionary commune.

Revolutionary commune

Justice for Sandra Bland, murdered by racist cops!

By Kyle JosephJul 23, 2015

Day by day, rivers of blood snake through the soil of a “post-racial” United States. Scraps of paper, upon which the words “formal equality” are written, are plastered over the wounds, but the gushing continues unimpeded.

While each victim has their own story, many boast a terrifying commonality: they belong to the Black nation, and have endured the brutality of systematic state repression.

Behind the mirage of a “colorblind” society lies a prison house of national subjugation.

Sandra Bland knew this reality quite well. As a Black woman, and as an activist in Chicago, she had frequent contact with racist injustice, and had gained recognition as an outspoken member of the Black Lives Matter movement. “In the news that we’ve seen as of late,” she once said, “you could stand there, surrender to the cops, and still be killed.”

These words would prove tragically prophetic.

On July 10, Sandra drove through Waller County, Texas, a hotbed for police cruelty and the KKK. At one point, an officer pulled her over for allegedly failing to signal.

Through a series of events obscured by suspicious “glitches” on the dash cam and security videos, Sandra wound up in a jail cell, and died several days later. Police claim it was suicide.

According to police, Sandra assaulted the officer in question, although an eyewitness states the exact opposite. Despite the obvious edits in the dashcam video, the video shows the officer out of control, threatening to “light you up” with his taser and causing her to scream in pain.

Because of these irregularities, the FBI has launched an investigation into the circumstances of her arrest and death, and the county DA plans to pursue the case as well.

Clearly this case requires further investigation. However one shouldn’t thank the criminal justice system for making this happen. The most likely catalyst is the success of the movement against racism and police brutality, which have made the status quo difficult to maintain. Without this mass struggle, Sandra’s death could have very easily been glossed over.

Further, justice for Sandra Bland won’t come through the indictment of a single officer. She dedicated her life to fighting a system, and only the full-scale dismantling of these oppressive structures will suffice. So long as Black people face targeted assault from law enforcement, the war for liberation will rage on.

“It’s time to start doing something,” she once said. “I need you. I need y’all’s help. I can’t do this by myself.” Every progressive person should listen to these words, and stand in solidarity with her legacy.

Rest in power, Sandra Bland.

http://www.liberationnews.org/sandra-bland-casualty-structural-genocide/

Chaego and Ruapekapeka antarctic territory

Ruapekapeka antarctic territory

Revolutionary commune wrote:Justice for Sandra Bland, murdered by racist cops!

By Kyle JosephJul 23, 2015

Day by day, rivers of blood snake through the soil of a “post-racial” United States. Scraps of paper, upon which the words “formal equality” are written, are plastered over the wounds, but the gushing continues unimpeded.

While each victim has their own story, many boast a terrifying commonality: they belong to the Black nation, and have endured the brutality of systematic state repression.

Behind the mirage of a “colorblind” society lies a prison house of national subjugation.

Sandra Bland knew this reality quite well. As a Black woman, and as an activist in Chicago, she had frequent contact with racist injustice, and had gained recognition as an outspoken member of the Black Lives Matter movement. “In the news that we’ve seen as of late,” she once said, “you could stand there, surrender to the cops, and still be killed.”

These words would prove tragically prophetic.

On July 10, Sandra drove through Waller County, Texas, a hotbed for police cruelty and the KKK. At one point, an officer pulled her over for allegedly failing to signal.

Through a series of events obscured by suspicious “glitches” on the dash cam and security videos, Sandra wound up in a jail cell, and died several days later. Police claim it was suicide.

According to police, Sandra assaulted the officer in question, although an eyewitness states the exact opposite. Despite the obvious edits in the dashcam video, the video shows the officer out of control, threatening to “light you up” with his taser and causing her to scream in pain.

Because of these irregularities, the FBI has launched an investigation into the circumstances of her arrest and death, and the county DA plans to pursue the case as well.

Clearly this case requires further investigation. However one shouldn’t thank the criminal justice system for making this happen. The most likely catalyst is the success of the movement against racism and police brutality, which have made the status quo difficult to maintain. Without this mass struggle, Sandra’s death could have very easily been glossed over.

Further, justice for Sandra Bland won’t come through the indictment of a single officer. She dedicated her life to fighting a system, and only the full-scale dismantling of these oppressive structures will suffice. So long as Black people face targeted assault from law enforcement, the war for liberation will rage on.

“It’s time to start doing something,” she once said. “I need you. I need y’all’s help. I can’t do this by myself.” Every progressive person should listen to these words, and stand in solidarity with her legacy.

Rest in power, Sandra Bland.

http://www.liberationnews.org/sandra-bland-casualty-structural-genocide/

https://www.rt.com/usa/310892-mississippi-henry-death-jail/

It keeps on happening, over and over and over.

"In plain proletarian language, it takes two to tango, when these m*****f*****s go we go." -Fred Hampton

Revolutionary commune

AAA (now soon to be "Fort Chernyi") is confused.......
The Right Wing Uprising <----This is the one you made up on your own
is not
Right Wing Uprising <---- Because we took the real one

Who needs to work for real victories when you can just fabricate some?

THE DEFENDER ALLIANCE and Timochiland

Looks like a surrender from AAA.

Custadia wrote:Looks like a surrender from AAA.

At least a surrender of the Libertatem operatives in the region anyway. Choosing to "cut their losses" and not sink with the ship.

Everyone from AAA is moving to a region that has declared itself leftist and neutral in terms of raiding. Surely this is a surrender?

Wow, it looks like our and comrades in TRF's retaliatory strikes on the AAA affiliated regions of Communist Republic, Fort Proudhon, and ongoing in the UCR have made a big impact.

A "pan-libertarian" region that includes right-"libertarians" was indeed doomed from the start, as right-"libertarians" staunchly support a mode of production that is inherently contradictory to actual libertarianism. However, Conservative Idealism for once correctly points something out, that AAA's alliance with Libertatem and attacks on leftist regions is what brought them into the line of fire and truly ended their region.

Personally, I'd find an anarchist group affiliating with right-"libertarians" incredibly distasteful and disrespectful to the history of anarchism, but that alone wouldn't be enough to justify action against them. Vulgar opportunistic anti-statism like that, similar to some anarchists' support of the military intervention in Libya or far-right anti-government protests in Ukraine and Venezuela, is simply worthy of intense condemnation. It's only when they begin to materially support the far-right when things need to go past condemnations.

Post self-deleted by Communal earth.

Communal earth

Cincinnati community marches to demand justice for Samuel Dubose

CINCINNATI - On Sunday July 26, a crowd of over 300 community members marched from the University of Cincinnati campus to the site of the fatal shooting death of 43-year old Samuel Dubose to demand the release of police body camera footage of the incident. Undeterred by a thunderstorm, demonstrators actions included spontaneously halting the march to drop to their knees with their hands in the air and "die ins," whereby the crowd laid limp in the street.

Dubose died after being shot in the head by campus officer Ray Tensing during a July 19 traffic stop for failure to display a front license plate. Dubose was unarmed. The ordinary penalty for the traffic violation is a $130.00 fine.

In an interview with the People's World, Dubose's younger sister Kimberly "Keshan" Thomas described Dubose as a "community man," "revolutionary," and "documentary enthusiast" who taught his children about the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Thomas said that Dubose was her best friend, mentor, and biggest fan, who had been encouraging Thomas to use her culinary training to realize her long-time goal of opening a vegan restaurant in the city. Thomas cooked Dubose his last meal before the two watched the documentary Slavery by Consent.

The event was largely organized by the family of Dubose and included remarks from his mother, father, sister, niece, and two of his minor children. Demonstrators chanted shout outs to cities such as Cleveland, Ferguson, and Baltimore, a sign of solidarity with the larger Black Lives Matter Movement which has taken hold in cities

At the site of Dubose's death, demonstrators laid white carnations at a memorial set up by neighborhood residents at the foot of a utility pole. After the family's remarks at the memorial site, the crowd proceeded to the headquarters of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Public Safety, where they chanted "Show us the tape!" a reference to the body camera being withheld by both campus police and county prosecutor Joe Deters.

Discrepancies between Tensing's 911 call reporting the shooting and his final incident report have aggregated community suspicion and amplified calls for release of the body camera footage.

Several media agencies have sued for release of the footage, arguing that it is a public record to which they are entitled under Ohio law. Deters has promised to release the footage upon the conclusion of his investigation. Deters hopes to conclude his investigation by Friday.

http://www.peoplesworld.org/cincinnati-community-marches-to-demand-justice-for-samuel-dubose/

KCNA website down? No, it�s still there

http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/02/09/kcna-website-down-no-its-still-there/

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It should be noted our WFE once again carries KCNA news, now with an updated look as per the changes put into play by the DPRK government.

Communal earth and Revolutionary commune

War Victory Day Celebrated in DPRK

Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- All the service personnel and people of the DPRK significantly celebrated the 62nd anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

A lot of people visited the plaza of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, where President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il lie in state, to pay tribute to them before the portraits depicting their beaming images.

Service personnel, people from all walks of life and school youth and children visited the statues of the great leaders on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang and other parts of the country to lay floral baskets and bouquets and pay tribute to them.

Service personnel, working people and school youth and children visited the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum and the Jonsung Revolutionary Museum and went to the statues and cemeteries of martyrs, towers and graves of fallen soldiers of the Korean People's Army in different parts of the country to pay tribute to the victors of the great age.

Art performances were given to celebrate the v-day.

Colorful acrobatic pieces were put on the stage at the Pyongyang Circus Theater.

Art performances were given in Jagang, North Phyongan, North Hwanghae, Kangwon and South Hamgyong provinces. The performers highly praised the noble exploits of Kim Il Sung and the high spirit of the service personnel and people who turned out in the all-people resistance for defending the country.

People from all walks of life and school youth and children met with war veterans.

Working people and school youth and children visited families of war veterans and honored disabled soldiers with bouquets, health foods, tonics and others to congratulate them on the holiday.

Youth and students held dancing parties across the country. -0-

Revolutionary commune

Looking at the Fort Chernyi WFE, I figured I'd comment on the "Anti-Marxism" they profess. First off, it's perfectly fine for a region to be exclusively anarchist; there are regions mainly just for Marxists as well. Primarily though, I think this is just a reflexive thing for their region so as to not have to ponder on why anarchists have joined in with us Marxists in condemning their old region, retaliatory strikes against their affiliated regions, and rebuffing any alliance or embassies with them.

Maybe some of this is just a misunderstanding of what Marxism is about. Of course, it must be mentioned first that there are whole groups of Marxists that are explicitly anti-state in all forms, such as autonomists. For orthodox Marxists and Leninists though, we don't support workers' states just for the hell of it. We define the state as a violent system of class rule. We believe class and the state are institutions that arose concurrently and are in a dialectical relationship. Simply overthrowing the formal state hasn't ever magically abolished classes, and therefor in Marxist terms hasn't truly succeeded in an authentic statelessness.

From this perspective, the revolution in Spain and the anarchist maneuvering in the chaos of Ukraine around the times of civil war in both cases would both constitute dictatorships of the proletariat or workers' states (there's strong arguments for Makhnovia constituting a state in any sense, but that's another discussion). Through their violent suppression of counter revolutionaries and non-worker classes they became a state in everything but name; that this was done "organically" or "voluntarily" (again, a contentious claim for Makhnovia) rather than from a top down order doesn't change anything. Many anarchists use this line of logic in arguments against "anarcho"-capitalists who claim private police wouldn't constitute a state, but these same anarchists don't apply it against the two most notable events in their own history.

More importantly, this rigid anti-Marxist sectarianism shows an ignorance of anarchism as well. From modern post-anarchists drawing from Frankfurt School Marxists and neo-Marxists, post-left anarchists working off the Situationists (a Marxist group), Maoist Third-Worldist groups using anarchist-like cell organization, to as far back as Proudhon's influence on Marx I mentioned before and Marx's critique of capital that's been nearly totally subsumed in anarchism, there is no way to totally remove Marxism from anarchism or vice versa at this point. There's clearly differences between the two, but the idea that a modern and coherent "anti-Marxist" anarchism can even be created is ridiculous and ahistorical.

To conclude this, I can only emphasize the need for more left unity. It's especially easy when your main connection to leftist politics is online to get disconnected from what really matters in the struggle against capitalism. Arguments about Kronstadt or whatever have their place, but letting this get in the way of building a strong anti-capitalist movement is something that can only be made from a position of privilege. People continue to suffer and die every single day directly resultant from capitalism; every day we spend our time in divisive bickering rather than working to change this is a day wasted (and that's definitely something we're all guilty of, myself included). Left unity is not just rhetoric; it is a real thing that you can see from Marxists in your local IWW branch to the Marxist-Leninist comrades who recently were attacked by ISIS while getting ready to help the revolution in nascent Kurdistan.

THE DEFENDER ALLIANCE, Godless munky, Communal earth, Irish peoples liberation force, and 1 otherTimochiland

Irish peoples liberation force

Aknaluz wrote:Wow, it looks like our and comrades in TRF's retaliatory strikes on the AAA affiliated regions of Communist Republic, Fort Proudhon, and ongoing in the UCR have made a big impact.

A "pan-libertarian" region that includes right-"libertarians" was indeed doomed from the start, as right-"libertarians" staunchly support a mode of production that is inherently contradictory to actual libertarianism. However, Conservative Idealism for once correctly points something out, that AAA's alliance with Libertatem and attacks on leftist regions is what brought them into the line of fire and truly ended their region.

Personally, I'd find an anarchist group affiliating with right-"libertarians" incredibly distasteful and disrespectful to the history of anarchism, but that alone wouldn't be enough to justify action against them. Vulgar opportunistic anti-statism like that, similar to some anarchists' support of the military intervention in Libya or far-right anti-government protests in Ukraine and Venezuela, is simply worthy of intense condemnation. It's only when they begin to materially support the far-right when things need to go past condemnations.

A lot of these anarchists seem to be anti-statist for the sake of being anti-statist, and forget that they're supposed to be in favour of establishing communism.

Revolutionary commune

"Americans may be encouraged to vote, but not to participate more meaningfully in the political arena. Essentially the election is a method of marginalising the population. A huge propaganda campaign is mounted to get people to focus on these personalised quadrennial extravaganzas and to think, "That’s politics." But it isn’t. It’s only a small part of politics."

-Noam Chomsky

full essay: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20041029.htm

Oh, no, I misunderstood some stuff. AAA is becoming neutral so as a region it is still surrendering but Fort Chernryi is a militant splinter region. Dopes this mean there are still people to be crushed?

*Does

Custadia wrote:Oh, no, I misunderstood some stuff. AAA is becoming neutral so as a region it is still surrendering but Fort Chernryi is a militant splinter region. Dopes this mean there are still people to be crushed?

I think that depends on what they do in the future as Chernryi. If do the right thing, and only go after fascist & capitalist regions they'll have a clean slate (imo) and we can stay out of each others way. If they go after ANY leftist regions, we will crush them again.

Irish peoples liberation force and Pangaean proletarians

Post self-deleted by Custadia.

North Korea: 'No Interest at All' in Nuclear Deal

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/north-korea-says-no-interest-at-all-in-nuclear-deal/2882199.html

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North Korea completes rocket launch site revamp, says US thinktank

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/29/north-korea-completes-rocket-launch-site-says-us-thinktank

Tonight during the major update, forces from KPA (Communal Earth, Zulanka, & I), TRF, & The Democratic Socialist Union captured the region Anti Authoritarian Alliance.

This was the KPA's & TRF's first experience in cooperating with DSU, and it went splendidly.

We shouldn't require any reinforcements from the KPA, since DSU should be taking up that responsibility. For now, the rest of the KPA should continue focusing on securing UCR. I will keep you informed if that situation changes.

With this, we have closed the circle on AAA and have completely destroyed them in retribution for the unrepentant part they played in the capture of CAPS, and all the other actions they took against the left in cooperation with Lib/REATO.
Let this serve as a lesson to anyone who attacks us, or anyone in the United Left. Justice will be served.

THE DEFENDER ALLIANCE, Comradeland, Custadia, Irish peoples liberation force, and 2 othersTimochiland, and Revolutionary commune

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