Grup Yorum's songs have been banned from the Turkish internet for the sake of "protecting national security"!

YouTube yesterday blocked access from Turkey to all Grup Yorum videos since 2006, which have had a total of 205 million views, citing "protection of national security and public order."

Spotify has blocked access to all Grup Yorum songs on its service.

In response to these attacks, the musicians state:
"Imperialism can try as much as it wants, but it will never be able to drown out our songs!"

In Turkey, Grup Yorum songs are listened to since childhood. With their help, new generations learn the history of their people's struggle. Grup Yorum songs educate new anti-fascists and communists. The voice of Grup Yorum cannot be silenced because it is the voice of the people.

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"Colonisers must be held accountable!"
Soviet poster by V. Volikov, 1961

"We shall transform collective farms into an impenetrable fortress for the enemy"

Artist: A.M.Samohvalov, July 23, 1941.

A chauvinist is one who conceals defence of the predatory interests of “his own” ruling classes with the concept “defence of the fatherland”.

V. I. Lenin
The Stockholm Conference

@Communism

The Korean war forced by the United States inflicted painful scars and tremendous human and material losses upon the Korean people. Continuing even today is the suffering of national division, whereby kinsfolk of the same blood are forced to live apart.

The Korean people have long lived under the heel of imperialism, through military occupation, devastating war, and crippling trade embargoes. Every generation on the peninsula has suffered the consequences of foreign dominance in one form or another.

Today, Korea remains divided by an artificial border imposed through colonial subjugation. But the Korean people are one—bound by shared history, culture, and a common struggle for self-determination.

We affirm that the achievements of the DPRK offer a blueprint for a dignified, independent, and socialist future. A future that should belong to all of Korea, free from imperialist subjugation.

“A revolutionary must live today not for today’s sake, but for tomorrow’s. Let us live today not for today’s sake but for tomorrow’s–this is faith and the view of life revolutionaries should acquire.”

- Kim Jong Il

https://thecommunists.org/2020/10/21/news/history/korean-victory-fatherland-liberation-war-70-years/

The bourgeoisie naturally welcomes its new allies with joy. It sees in them a major increase in its power, a determined pack prepared for every form of violence in its service. The bourgeoisie, accustomed to rule, is unfortunately much more experienced and wise in judging the situation and defending its class interests than the proletariat, which is accustomed to the yoke. From the beginning the bourgeoisie has clearly grasped the situation and, thus, the advantage that it can draw from fascism. What does the bourgeoisie want? It is striving for the reconstruction of the capitalist economy, that is, the maintenance of its class domination. Under present circumstances, the precondition for achieving its goal is to considerably increase and intensify the exploitation and oppression of the working class.

The bourgeoisie is well aware that alone it does not possess the instruments of power to impose this fate on the exploited. Tormented by the scorpions of an upsurge in poverty, even the proletarian with the thickest skin finally begins to rebel against capitalism. The bourgeoisie can only conclude that over time, under such circumstances, even the mild and conciliatory sermons of the reform socialists will lose their dulling effect on the proletariat. It reckons that the proletariat can now be subjugated and exploited only through force. But the means of force available to the bourgeois state are beginning, in part, to break down. The state is losing the financial strength and moral authority needed to maintain blind loyalty and subjugation among its slaves. The bourgeoisie can no longer rely on its state’s regular methods of force to secure its class rule. For that it needs an extralegal and non-state instrument of force. That has been offered by the motley assemblage that makes up the fascist mob. That is why the bourgeoisie offers its hand for fascism’s kiss, granting it complete freedom of action, contrary to all its written and unwritten laws. It goes further. It nourishes fascism, maintains it, and promotes its development with all the means at its disposal in terms of political power and hoards of money.

It is evident that fascism has different characteristics in every country, based on specific circumstances. Nonetheless, in every country it has two essential features: a sham revolutionary program, which links up in extremely clever fashion with the moods, interests, and demands of broad social masses; and the use of brutal and violent terror.

- Clara Zetkin,
The Struggle Against Fascism

🇺🇦🏆New "record" for deserters: in May 2025, almost 20,000 people deserted from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

To be exact, 19,956 people. More likely, more deserted, but that is how many official cases were registered.

But even this figure is impressive. And yes, this is another new record. Thus, every week a whole brigade in full force defects from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In a month – a corps.

And so it goes month after month. Since January 1, almost 100,000 army has already fled (to be exact, 90,590 people).

January 2025 – 18,145 people.
February 2025 – 17809 people.
March 2025 – 16,349 people.
April 2025 – 18,331 people.
May 2025 – 19956 people.

At the same time, for the whole of 2025, only 2,732 deserters were found (3% of those who fled), and 1,375 people were returned to service (1.5% of all).

By and large, there are simply no people or time to look for such an army. After all, over the entire war, more than 200,000 people (213,722 people) have already fled from Zelensky's army. And almost all of them are wanted.

At the same time, the combat monthly irretrievable losses (excluding deserters) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already approaching 30,000 people, and total mobilization for several months does not even provide these same 30 thousand hours. And thus, the total number of Zelensky's army in May fell by approximately 20,000 people.

@Slavyangrad

Fascism has another source. It is the blockage, the halting pace of world revolution resulting from betrayal by the reformist leaders of the workers’ movement. Among a large part of the middle layers— the civil servants, bourgeois intellectuals, and the small and middle bourgeois—who were proletarianized or were threatened with that fate, the psychology of war was replaced by a degree of sympathy for reformist socialism. They hoped that, thanks to “democracy,” reformist socialism could bring about global change. These expectations were painfully shattered. The reform socialists carried out a gentle coalition policy, whose costs were borne not only by proletarians and salaried workers but by civil servants, intellectuals, and lower and mid-level petty bourgeois of every type.

These layers lacked in general any theoretical, historical, or political education. Their sympathy for reform socialism was not deeply rooted. So as things turned out, they lost their belief not only in the reformist leaders but also in socialism itself. “The socialists promised an easing of our burdens and suffering, plus many beautiful things, and a reshaping of society on the foundations of justice and democracy,” they said. “But the top dogs and the rich carry on and rule with even more severity than before.” These bourgeois who were disappointed in socialism were joined by proletarian forces. All the disillusioned—whether bourgeois or proletarian in origin—nevertheless abandon a precious intellectual force that would enable them to look forward from the gloomy present to a bright and hopeful future. That force is trust in the proletariat as the class that will remake society. The betrayal by the reformist leaders does not weigh so heavily in the attitude of these disillusioned forces as another fact: namely, that the proletarian masses tolerate this betrayal, that they continue to accept the capitalist yoke without rebellion or resistance, indeed that they come to terms with a suffering even more bitter than before.

In addition, in order to be fair, I must add that the Communist parties as well, setting aside Russia, are not without responsibility for the fact that even within the proletariat there are disillusioned people who throw themselves into the arms of fascism. Quite frequently these parties’ actions have been insufficiently vigorous, their initiatives lacking in scope, and their penetration of the masses inadequate.


- Clara Zetkin,
The Struggle Against Fascism.

"Rest After Battle"
By Yuri Neprintsev (1951)