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Donald Trump hurled many insults at Joe Biden during the first presidential debate in 2024. But one of them was not like the others.

In an exchange about US support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Trump called Biden a “very bad Palestinian,” using the word Palestinian as a slur to claim that Biden was not supportive enough of Israel.

“Let them finish the job,” Trump said, urging Biden to give Israel even more free rein in their onslaught on Palestine.


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When the masses are digesting a new and exceptionally rich experience of direct revolutionary struggle, the theoretical struggle for a revolutionary outlook, i.e., for revolutionary Marxism, becomes the watchword of the day.

#Lenin, Two Letters (1908)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/nov/13.htm

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"I honor #Lenin as a man who completely sacrificed himself and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice, one thing is certain: men of his type are the guardians and restorers of humanity."

#Albert_Einstein

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"#Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and financial strangulation of the overwhleming majority of the population of the world by a hanful of "advanced" countries."

#Vladimir_Lenin

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“Peace isn’t the answer. Liberation is the answer.” – On the birthday of Black revolutionary Kwame Ture, watch this iconic clapback, schooling a white person that “peace” merely serves as a demand of the oppressor, while “liberation” is the true solution.

This conversation was captured in the 1967 documentary “Tell Me Lies,” which explores the global response to the Vietnam War. At the time of its release, the docu was heavily attacked by imperialist advocates.

Ture’s words continue to resonate, especially in light of the ongoing annihilation war against Palestine, the unwavering resistance, and the reigniting discussion of liberation.

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In the #United_States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

#Marx, #Capital, Volume I, Chapter 10 (1867)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch10.htm#161a

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But this conception, correctly as it expresses the general character of the picture of appearances as a whole, does not suffice to explain the details of which this picture is made up, and so long as we do not understand these, we have not a clear idea of the whole picture. In order to understand these details we must detach them from their natural or historical connection and examine each one separately, its nature, special causes, effects, etc.

#Engels, Anti-Dühring (1877)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/introduction.htm#022

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On this day, 30 June 1960, workers in Genoa, Italy, rose up against a conference of the neo-fascist party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), which was due to take place in the city the following day.Only 15 years prior, the population of Genoa had launched an uprising, which succeeded in liberating it from fascist rule. Many residents, including former partisans who fought against the fascists and Nazis during World War II, were outraged both by fascists being back in government, as part of a coalition with the right-wing Christian Democrats, and by their attempting to hold a congress in their anti-fascist city.Therefore, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, including large numbers of dockworkers and partisan veterans. Police with armoured cars, on horseback, wielding batons, and backed up by the military-run Carabinieri, attacked the crowd. But the move backfired. The crowd fought back, and local residents in their apartments hurled household objects down on the heads of the police.After hours of fierce fighting, the fascists were forced to admit defeat, cancel their conference and head home.Similar anti-fascist protests then broke out around the country. And despite police killing significant numbers of demonstrators, including former partisans, protests continued and by July, the prime minister was forced to resign and the right-wing coalition government was brought down.

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On this day, 30 June 2013, over 200 workers at the Zhongji Pile factory in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China, surrounded the company's office, trapping five executives inside, demanding unpaid wages and protesting against proposed layoffs. The bosses were well treated, fed and allowed contact with the outside world, they were just not permitted to leave. They did try to escape on several occasions, and one of the bosses even tried to assault a government representative to try to get himself arrested.After four days of the occupation, the employers caved in, agreed backpay and agreed to keep workers employed.

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The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

#Marx, Critique of #Hegel’s #Philosophy of Right (1843)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/ch03.htm#027

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The #philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

#Marx, Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 11 (1845)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm#018

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All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned ...

#Marx & #Engels, #Communist_Manifesto (1848)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#025

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Mass protests erupted in France in response to the far-right National Rally party, which is on the doorstep of taking power in the country. For the first time since World War II, a far-right force of this kind would come to power.

The National Rally (RN) secured 34% of the vote in the first round of snap elections, followed by a coalition led by the New Popular Front with 28%, which was formed to block an RN victory. The front consists of socialists, communists, greens and the Unbowed party.

Meanwhile, the party of President Emmanuel Macron, dubbed the “president of the rich,” received 20% of the vote. Now all eyes are on the second and decisive round of elections on July 7, in which the RN will try to secure an absolute majority to avoid a coalition.

Protests against the National Rally broke out in several parts of the country, with anti-fascist slogans being shouted. Several times there were clashes with the police who fired tear gas into the crowd to disperse the protests.

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