The latest mural in Palestine Square of Iran's capital Tehran contains a message in Hebrew:

"Have you stored enough food and supplies? Revenge is near.”

There's a fairly simple way to deal with this Maga-Communism debate and that is to not treat anyone as beyond criticism and that there are no online messiahs. There is no magic formula for breaking through 100 years of anti-communism, if Haz or Hinkle play some role in breaking some of that down then that's positive. What will actually overcome the problems facing the US proletariat though is not videos or online debates or twitter batttles but the traditional hard work of organising in the real world. Building a communist Party in the United States that escapes the wretched legacy of the post 1953 left is the task. None of us who do online work have the right to be regarded as the leaders of anything, we haven't earned that right and if what we did was that threatening we'd be banned very quickly. The job in the online world is to inspire people to read the history and theory, to help people develop a Marxist-Leninist perspective. That can only be a starting point though as it will take joining together with comrades in your community, workplace, town or city to start actually making advances. There's no shortcuts to this and no easy answers. The best result that anyone who does ML media work should want is that those who watch their videos go and join an organisation, get active in their labour union and start building that way. I will reiterate my point, when it comes to Maga-communism or anything else if you find it useful that's fine but see it or what I do as a gateway to real world activity and always regard any online media with a critical eye, never allow yourself to simply become a media consumer who mistakes that for political action.

If you're in Britain then we are fortunate in that we have an ML party that we can join, the CPGB-ML and I urge everyone reading this in this country to do so. If you're in the USA you can get in touch with the Chicago Workers School or check out PCUSA. We must build organisations connected to the proletariat in a real sense. That is our priority and must remain so.

Women's Union Officials and Members Volunteer to Work at Raw Material Bases
Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- More than 300 women's union officials and members in Songgan County, Jagang Province of the DPRK, volunteered to work at raw material bases for regional-industry factories.

A meeting took place on April 7 to congratulate the volunteers.

A congratulatory address and speeches were made and a congratulatory performance given at the meeting attended by officials, women's union members and working people of the county.

Officials and working people warmly saw off the volunteers leaving for new posts. -0-

www.kcna.kp (Juche113.4.8.)

63 years ago, on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut, communist Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin made the first flight into space in human history.

The first human space flight was carried out 44 years after the Great October Socialist Revolution, 16 years after the victorious end of the Great Patriotic War and 4 years after the launch of an artificial Earth satellite in the USSR.

“Someone calculated ,” said Yuri Gagarin, “ that the power of the rocket engines that launched the red star Vostok into orbit was equal to the combined thrust of the entire horse population of pre-revolutionary Russia. This coincidence, although witty, is sad. A country of backwardness and despotism, such as Tsarist Russia, could not have broken out into space... To rise to the stars, it was not enough to break the shackles of earthly gravity - it was first necessary to throw off the shackles in which the work, mind, and soul of man languished until October! It was not for nothing that the Communards were called “people storming the sky”... The assault on space did not begin on April 12, 1961, when man saw the open Universe, or even on October 4, 1957, when the first satellite took off from the Earth. It all started with the Aurora’s shot, with the assault on the Winter Palace .”

The world's first socialist country - the USSR - became the country that first paved the way for humanity to the stars.

"Comrades! Soviet land has now become the shore of the universe!", soviet poster, 1961

‘Come out, you animals’: how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened – Mondoweiss
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"State emblem and flag of Turkmen SSR".
Soviet postcard, 1967.

The youngest boy on this picture is little Boris, the Germans will hang him on a scarf but his relatives will be able to save him at the very last moment. After the war, he will work at a radio lamp factory.

The two elders (on the right and on the left) will be driven away by the Nazis to Germany, but they will be able to escape along the road and join the Red Army units. Valentin will become a carpenter, and the girl Zoya will finish nursing courses and work in a children's hospital.

As for the boy sitting on the chair, one morning on April 12, 1961 he will say “Let's go!” and write himself into history as the first person in world history to fly into outer space. Forever.

1938. Valentin, Boris, Zoya and Yuri Gagarin.
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Dozens of Filipinos protested the heightened militarization of the South China Sea as tensions threaten to escalate. The protesters rallied outside the Chinese consulate in Manila, calling on them to respect the sovereignty of the Philippines by pulling out from its waters in the South China Sea, referred to as the West Philippine Sea by Manila.

The protesters also condemned the Philippine government’s alignment with the US, which has been massively expanding its military presence in the region, only further provoking tensions with China. The Filipino protesters have stressed that they “don’t want a war with China,” underlining the desire for a peaceful resolution to the territorial dispute.

The Philippines and China had a series of maritime confrontations in the disputed waters, including an incident last month when China reportedly used water cannons to prevent a Philippine resupply mission to soldiers stationed on a grounded warship at the disputed Second Thomas Shoal.

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Stephen Cho: DPRK’s ‘subjugation’ stance and revolution in south Korea | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2024/04/10/news/stephen-cho-dprks-subjugation-stance-and-revolution-in-south-korea/

“Forward to a new powerful rise in social transport!”
Soviet poster for railway workers.
Artist B. Berezovsky 1951

🇱🇻🤥HYPOCRISY FROM LATVIA🌾🚚

For the period from January to March of this year, Latvia increased the import of Russian grain by almost 40%, the BNS agency reported with reference to the State Revenue Service of the Republic.

According to data, during the first quarter, Latvia imported 158.3 thousand tons of grain from the Russian Federation. Yet we’re supposed to believe that the country does not business with Russia?

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130 years ago, on March 7, 1894, Sergei Georgievich Lazo was born - revolutionary, hero of the Civil War, organizer of the struggle against the White Guards and Japanese-American interventionists in Transbaikalia and the Far East in the 1918-1920s.

Born in the village of Piatra in the former Bessarabian province. In 1916, he was mobilized into the army and sent to a reserve regiment in Krasnoyarsk. After the February Revolution, Lazo was a member of the Krasnoyarsk Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, and later a member of the provincial executive committee of workers', peasants' and soldiers' deputies. He took an active part in the establishment of Soviet power in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Transbaikalia and the Far East.

Since February 1918, S. Lazo commanded the Transbaikal Front. Under his leadership, the White Guard gangs of Ataman Semyonov were defeated. In August 1918, S. Lazo joined the Communist Party. In the fall of 1918, after the fall of Soviet power in eastern Russia, he went underground and began organizing a partisan movement directed against Kolchak. Since the fall of 1918 - a member of the underground Far Eastern Regional Committee of the RCP (b) in Vladivostok, conducted underground work in Vladivostok captured by the Japanese; was the chairman of the military-revolutionary headquarters created by the regional party committee. Since 1920, Lazo has been a member of the Revolutionary Military Council and a member of the Dalburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b).

In April 1920, S. Lazo was captured by Japanese counterintelligence and, after much torture, was brutally killed - burned alive in a locomotive furnace at the Muravyovo-Amurskaya station (now Lazo station).

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When conspiracies turned out to be true

The New York Times has reported that the CIA has maintained 12 secret underground bases in Ukraine since 2014. This information, which was once dismissed as a "conspiracy theory," has now been confirmed as factual.

According to the publication, since 2014, the CIA has used these bases on the border with Russia to gather intelligence information, conduct drone reconnaissance, and coordinate strikes on territories of the Russian Federation, LPR, and DPR. A journalist from The New York Times even visited one of these bases to witness firsthand how the CIA effectively assists Ukraine.

Ivan Bakanov and Kirill Budanov, mentioned in the report, are products of the joint efforts of Ukraine and the CIA. According to them, without these secret bases, Ukraine would have likely struggled to withstand Russia's invasion in 2022.

The most striking aspect of this story is how easily and unreservedly these confirmations came, after many official Russian figures had been making these claims for 10 years, only to be ridiculed. This revelation implies that the CIA played a significant role in the ousting of Yanukovych and has been effectively managing many processes in Ukraine since 2014.

This leads to the question: how many more "absurd" statements from the Russian leadership will turn out to be true?

Taking to the streets of Tehran, Iranians are showing support for country's retaliatory strikes on occupied territories

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⚫🔴 Syrian Social Nationalist Party:
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With the highest expressions of congratulations and blessings, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party extends its gratitude to the Iranian leadership, the Revolutionary Guard, and the Iranian people for the significant military operation conducted by Iran against the occupation entity. This operation proves that Iran is a partner to the nation in the project of liberating Palestine.

The operation has simply demonstrated that the combined military effort, believing in the right to liberate the land, is now capable of acting as it should, and that the matter of the demise of the entity is an undeniable reality.