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ISIS ally of Julani kills US troops in Syria...
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/14/isis-ally-of-julani/
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/14/isis-ally-of-julani/
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ISIS ally of Julani kills US troops in Syria
An ISIS ally of UK-invited Syrian leader Julani has killed US soldiers and a civilian — the deadly cost of false Western narratives in Syria
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Trump's chest beating of war in Venezuela is a continuation of the US's desire to pillage the country they have struggled to control since the election of Hugo Chavez and continued with current Presidents Nicholas Maduro.
This language should be very familiar as it has been used for over two centuries. It is the modern expression of the Monroe Doctrine.
Announced in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine declared the Americas off-limits to European powers. It was presented to the world as anti-colonial, but in truth it marked the moment the United States claimed the Western Hemisphere as its own sphere of influence. It was not a rejection of empire, only of competing empires. The fact that British naval power initially enforced it was not out of principled beliefs, but because British capital also wanted certain European powers excluded from Latin American markets.
By the early twentieth century, the pretence of restraint was dropped altogether. The Roosevelt Corollary made explicit what had always been implied: the United States claimed the right to intervene militarily anywhere in Latin America to “maintain order” and protect economic interests. From that point on, sovereignty in the Americas existed only insofar as it did not obstruct U.S. capital.
The US history of interference is all there to be seen.
Guatemala in 1954.
Chile in 1973.
Nicaragua throughout the 1980s.
And Cuba that has been under an unrelenting blockade for over 60 years.
Every US administration has attempted to grow their hegemony in the region. Any state that attempted to control its resources, restrict foreign capital, or chart an independent political course was destabilised, sanctioned, overthrown, or strangled economically.
Venezuela sits squarely in this tradition. Its crime is not authoritarianism or human rights abuses, those are media narratives created to construct consent for imperialism. Its crime is asserting national control over oil, resisting foreign ownership, and refusing political subordination to Washington. Sanctions, asset seizures, financial isolation and constant threats of intervention are not anomalies. They are the tools of modern imperial enforcement.
Lenin explained this process with absolute clarity. In Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, he describes imperialism as a system defined by monopoly capital, the export of finance capital, and the division of the world into spheres of influence. Formal colonies are no longer required. Control is exercised through debt, sanctions, political pressure, proxy forces and economic warfare.
The Monroe Doctrine was one of the earliest declarations of this system in action. The United States did not oppose imperialism — it wanted in on the action.
Venezuela matters because of oil, strategic positioning, and control of capital.
They care nothing of the Venezuelan people, only the exploitation of a sovereign country.
Class Consciousness Project
This language should be very familiar as it has been used for over two centuries. It is the modern expression of the Monroe Doctrine.
Announced in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine declared the Americas off-limits to European powers. It was presented to the world as anti-colonial, but in truth it marked the moment the United States claimed the Western Hemisphere as its own sphere of influence. It was not a rejection of empire, only of competing empires. The fact that British naval power initially enforced it was not out of principled beliefs, but because British capital also wanted certain European powers excluded from Latin American markets.
By the early twentieth century, the pretence of restraint was dropped altogether. The Roosevelt Corollary made explicit what had always been implied: the United States claimed the right to intervene militarily anywhere in Latin America to “maintain order” and protect economic interests. From that point on, sovereignty in the Americas existed only insofar as it did not obstruct U.S. capital.
The US history of interference is all there to be seen.
Guatemala in 1954.
Chile in 1973.
Nicaragua throughout the 1980s.
And Cuba that has been under an unrelenting blockade for over 60 years.
Every US administration has attempted to grow their hegemony in the region. Any state that attempted to control its resources, restrict foreign capital, or chart an independent political course was destabilised, sanctioned, overthrown, or strangled economically.
Venezuela sits squarely in this tradition. Its crime is not authoritarianism or human rights abuses, those are media narratives created to construct consent for imperialism. Its crime is asserting national control over oil, resisting foreign ownership, and refusing political subordination to Washington. Sanctions, asset seizures, financial isolation and constant threats of intervention are not anomalies. They are the tools of modern imperial enforcement.
Lenin explained this process with absolute clarity. In Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, he describes imperialism as a system defined by monopoly capital, the export of finance capital, and the division of the world into spheres of influence. Formal colonies are no longer required. Control is exercised through debt, sanctions, political pressure, proxy forces and economic warfare.
The Monroe Doctrine was one of the earliest declarations of this system in action. The United States did not oppose imperialism — it wanted in on the action.
Venezuela matters because of oil, strategic positioning, and control of capital.
They care nothing of the Venezuelan people, only the exploitation of a sovereign country.
Class Consciousness Project
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Unions in Bolivia are threatening mass strike action following the US puppet regime of Rodrigo Paz removing all subsidies leading to massive price rises across the board. This follows a tax cut for the richest 1% in Bolivia.
This is what failure looks like. The sad truth is that the MAS years have ended in division, disgrace and surrender in Bolivia by the political leadership.
The Morales years saw undeniable social progress but the fact that the bourgeoisie was left in place meant that them and their US patrons would always be capable of returning.
This is why there is truly no other way, ultimately, to secure the liberation of the masses that the way of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Castro. Only by completely crushing the bourgeoisie, taking the land and property off the, destroying their political organisations and instituting the dictatorship of the proletariat can any real security be realised for the masses.
The best intentioned of reformists, Allende, Morales etc, will talk about avoiding civil war, playing a long game etc. Well this is where the long game gets you, the return of the most vicious comprador, fascist elements to power following the movement of the Bolivian masses being destroyed by its own leaders. The "Pink Tide" has washed away due to its leaders devotion to bourgeois morality and refusal to crush the compradors even when they had them on the run. Now the masses will suffer for the failure of the leaders. Now there will be mass death as a war is waged upon the workers and peasants. This is what the social democrats fail to understand. A war does not necessarily have to be fought with the death squads bullets and cops baton. It is fought by inflicting starvation, cultivating ignorance and destroying the social fabric of the nation in order that the vampires ball can continue.
The masses of Latin America will learn though but the lessons will be costly. The class war waged by the bosses will answered and the socialist future will be reached but much struggle and much blood will be shed on the way. This is the grim reality.
This is what failure looks like. The sad truth is that the MAS years have ended in division, disgrace and surrender in Bolivia by the political leadership.
The Morales years saw undeniable social progress but the fact that the bourgeoisie was left in place meant that them and their US patrons would always be capable of returning.
This is why there is truly no other way, ultimately, to secure the liberation of the masses that the way of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Castro. Only by completely crushing the bourgeoisie, taking the land and property off the, destroying their political organisations and instituting the dictatorship of the proletariat can any real security be realised for the masses.
The best intentioned of reformists, Allende, Morales etc, will talk about avoiding civil war, playing a long game etc. Well this is where the long game gets you, the return of the most vicious comprador, fascist elements to power following the movement of the Bolivian masses being destroyed by its own leaders. The "Pink Tide" has washed away due to its leaders devotion to bourgeois morality and refusal to crush the compradors even when they had them on the run. Now the masses will suffer for the failure of the leaders. Now there will be mass death as a war is waged upon the workers and peasants. This is what the social democrats fail to understand. A war does not necessarily have to be fought with the death squads bullets and cops baton. It is fought by inflicting starvation, cultivating ignorance and destroying the social fabric of the nation in order that the vampires ball can continue.
The masses of Latin America will learn though but the lessons will be costly. The class war waged by the bosses will answered and the socialist future will be reached but much struggle and much blood will be shed on the way. This is the grim reality.
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Merry Christmas to all our class-conscious comrades.
This year has been a strong one for our work. We’ve doubled our reach, expanded our output, and taken a major step forward by producing our own paper.
We’ll continue to provide the clear, uncompromising class analysis that’s needed for the struggle ahead.
This year has been a strong one for our work. We’ve doubled our reach, expanded our output, and taken a major step forward by producing our own paper.
We’ll continue to provide the clear, uncompromising class analysis that’s needed for the struggle ahead.
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Across the beautiful game, supporters are pushing back against ticket prices, access restrictions, and being treated as a problem rather than the foundation of football itself.
What’s being framed as isolated fan complaints is actually something else entirely.
Football has become a class barrier.
Fans are being priced out while clubs, leagues, and FIFA talk only about “revenue growth”.
Supporters are calling for ticket price freezes, while World Cup 2026 pricing is already being labelled scandalous — cheapest seats miles beyond what working-class fans can afford.
When fans protest, they’re policed.
When clubs extract, they’re praised.
Football isn’t being “modernised”.
It’s being financialised — stripped from the class that built it and sold back at a premium.
Since the advent of the Premier League, the English game has been deliberately Americanised. Profit-first models, asset-stripping, franchising logic. That’s why American capital has flooded in, why their so-called “expertise” has been imported, and why our clubs have been bought, leveraged, and hollowed out. The Glaziers at Man United, Hicks and Gillette at Liverpool being the worst examples of capitalist pillaging.
This isn’t a fan issue.
It’s a class issue.
The Class Consciousness Project
What’s being framed as isolated fan complaints is actually something else entirely.
Football has become a class barrier.
Fans are being priced out while clubs, leagues, and FIFA talk only about “revenue growth”.
Supporters are calling for ticket price freezes, while World Cup 2026 pricing is already being labelled scandalous — cheapest seats miles beyond what working-class fans can afford.
When fans protest, they’re policed.
When clubs extract, they’re praised.
Football isn’t being “modernised”.
It’s being financialised — stripped from the class that built it and sold back at a premium.
Since the advent of the Premier League, the English game has been deliberately Americanised. Profit-first models, asset-stripping, franchising logic. That’s why American capital has flooded in, why their so-called “expertise” has been imported, and why our clubs have been bought, leveraged, and hollowed out. The Glaziers at Man United, Hicks and Gillette at Liverpool being the worst examples of capitalist pillaging.
This isn’t a fan issue.
It’s a class issue.
The Class Consciousness Project
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Forwarded from Beorn and The Shieldmaiden
—By Bill DeMain, From Performing Songwriter Issue 82, December 2004
As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara.
One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.
In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.
Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.
Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”
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Forwarded from Red Rick
"Governments are the agents of the capitalist class. Agents are well paid. Agents are themselves shareholders. And the sheep are sheared together under the guise of speeches about "patriotism"."
- Vladimir Lenin
The Growth of Capitalist Wealth
Pravda, June 9th 1913
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