This is yet another thing liberals started (or intensly amplified) and now right-wingers have taken up: Fearmongering about fake things russia or china aren’t really doing and won’t really do

sister state of Israel

God that’s the worst thing I’ve ever read

Sheinbaum and Trump just talked and

U.S. allows Mexico to provide oil to Cuba despite Trump’s vow to cut off supply

Thank god, hopefully Cuba can weather through this

Reminds me of Radio War Nerd’s maxim that in an ugly ethnic war if you’re a minority you should leave regardless of the outcome

God, I’m going to be looking for every ounce of cope that cuba can make it through this, this fucking sucks. To me it’s the biggest test for Delcy’s anti-imperialism, if she actually stops oil shipments to Cuba then I’ll consider the Bolivarian Revolution basically over.

I don’t even find trump funny anymore

What is caving in? Maduro would kill for the chance to do what Delcy is doing, he’d already agreed to diplomatic relations and joint ventures, Trump just didn’t want to do it with him personally.

Relations and oil shipments to Cuba will be the real test of whether the government is conceding on anti-imperialism

I feel similar to early 2022 when russia invaded ukraine and it wasn’t going well and I was defending the anti-nato position and winning nothing for it. Then it turned out that in the long run russia ended up doing alright and a couple of years in the anti-nato position is easier to defend.

And in the grand scheme of things I can see how trump’s venezuela play and a move on greenland might weaken the US in the long term, the problem for me and what I really really really worry is Cuba falling, that’s just something I’m very emotionally attached to and I don’t want to see happen, but if Venezuela stops sending oil to the island and there are protests I can see things escalating towards trump making another move

Fuck these guys, I’ve posted here before about how they gave an interview to a right-wing media outlet here in portugal whose sole intent was to get them to criticize the portuguese communist party for not questioning the results of the 2024 election.

Like, fine oppose maduro at home if you want but don’t go handing ammunition to the right in other countries for them to use against their anti-imperialist leftists

Fair to say that Maduro won’t be returned, how his trial will procede will mostly influence american domestic politics but even if he can prove his innocence Trump won’t allow the humilliation of having to return him.

Chavismo doesn’t end unless the military defects or is defeated by american boots on the ground (which americans are not willing to do), so it can go on with the VP Delcy becoming president

Still unsure of how loyal the military and VP are to the revolution. To Maduro they may have sold him personally out, still unclear, but if the PSUV stays in power and doesn’t make too overt gestures towards becoming pro-america then fair to say that Chavismo still stands.

Really hard to predict what’s next, Trump’s “we’ll run venezuela” is the weirdest thing about all this because the PSUV is still in power, could mean 1 of these things:

1. He’s just wishcasting that the VP will do his bidding and is willing to continue the piracy and military strikes to force them to do it.

2. He actually got assurances that the VP will be much more conciliatory and is willing to either outright give or share with american companies oil revenues or oil itself (pretty sure there was already a regime biden set up that allowed for this)

3. Just trump saying shit to sound strong and already having maduro they won’t be interested in further encroaching venezuela, probably signalling a retreat or restoration of relations (too good to be true I know)

If israhell recognizes somaliland I recognize the territorial integrity of the mighty nation of Somalia

Empire doesn’t need you to love it, only to hate its enemies. Therefore one must not hate the enemies of the west

Random question but does anybody know how the communist party of burma is doing?

I read Thant Myint-Yu’s book and he said that the party, despite being supported by millions at one point, eventually imploded after losing chinese support and a bunch of military positions. Then a bunch of communist army generals started getting into the drug business, and when the party leaders (mostly older left-wing intelectuals) told them to quit it they revolted against the party and went independent, joining ethnic militias and such, so the party fled to china.

But after the coup in 2021 there were news about it reforming? Probably only symbolically I assume, idk if there’s any connection to the old one.

Yeah, the US kinda proves that you can have competitive elections that people inbue a lot of meaning and energy into, and therefore legitimise the system, that nervertheless doesn’t change core aspects of the political economy of the country.

Everyone knows a couple of ways that make it that way (the ammount of money in political campaigns for example), but the challenge is doing that from the left to empower a communist electoral system, and actually make it democratic without allowing it to revert back completly to capitalism.

I’m sure there are already tons of theoretical models of this, I think I’ve even read of a couple based around cooperatives and voting by cooperative or something like that, but until it’s instatiated somewhere or someone with actual power actually intends to do it idk how we’d even judge it

@LeninWeave@hexbear.net, to your reply to me in the last thread about whether the philipino communists wanted to do socdem electoralism.

Turns out I was misremembering, it’s actually the National Democracy maoist thing but applied to the phillippines, and skimming through their theory I can’t envision concretely what regime type they mean by that, just its principles of course.

Still I doubt they believe they have the basis for the kind of one party rule that communist parties used to aspire to, not in a country that already has elections with big turnouts that people wouldn’t want to see disappear

At the risk of sounding liek a lib, that’s probably a better model for what modern revolutions in can actually achieve (for now at least) than proletarian dictatorship. IIRC Philipino communists also have that type of goal.

Which is fine imo, communists just need to come up with a better regime type whose legitimacy doesn’t depend on solely making people’s lives better, cos that won’t always happen, or victory in war/revolution and doesn’t pave the way easily to capitalist restoration or overwhelming political corruption.

Which could just be having a 2 party regime with competitive elections (so people feel like they’re relevantly participating) rather than just 1

Communist unity in Nepal

Some of the main forces of the communist movement have united to create the Nepali Communist Party. The ten parties that have come together are:

1. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre).
2. Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist).
3. Nepal Communist Party.
4. Communist Party of Nepal (Socialist).
5. Nepal Socialist Party.
6. Janasamajbadi Party.
7. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Socialist).
8. Communist Party of Nepal (Communist).
9. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
10. Deshbhakta Samajbadi Morcha.

There was a major rally in Surkhet (Karnali), the Red Fort of Nepal last week. The party’s coordinator, Comrade Prachanda, addressed the people and the party welcomed into its ranks many young people who had been part of the protests just a month or so ago.

Saw someone make the joke that “Nepal now has 21 communist parties instead of 30”

HURRAY!!!

I’m glad people are dunking on E33 because I still want to play that game yet and my hype was WAY TOO HIGH, now I know it’s not literally everyone’s favorite game ever so my expectations are tempered

Is this real? It’s so fucking ugly

They’re good, I like Danny and think he’s pretty reasonable IR guy, though I wish he’d formalize someday what he believes, I think he’s in the marxist school of IR. I also think he’s right on the modern fascism debate, on the side of “No it’s not fascism”.

Derek I can’t put my finger on, he’s eloquent and can sum up world events in a “pro-democracy but not pro-american” way pretty well, what I mean is that if he’s giving a ukraine war updates his info will be alright but he might make an obligatory comment that putin’s bad.