A medical student testimony about the situation in Al Shifa’a hospital.
#Gaza.

When a journalist tried to get Malcolm X to condemn the "Mau Mau" resistance movement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin: "The horrible events currently unfolding in the #Gaza Strip, when hundreds of thousands of innocent people are getting indiscriminately annihilated, have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from bombardment, cannot be justified by anything."

As for the argument that Bolshevik work and socialism are inconceivable without the existence of the poor, it is so stupid that it is embarrassing even to talk about it. Leninists rely upon the poor when there exist both capitalist elements and the poor who are exploited by the capitalists. But when the capitalist elements have been crushed and the poor have been emancipated from exploitation, the task of Leninists is not to perpetuate and preserve poverty and the poor—the conditions for whose existence have already been eliminated— but to abolish poverty and to raise the poor to a life of prosperity. It would be absurd to think that socialism can be built on the basis of poverty and privation, on the basis of reducing personal requirements and lowering the standard of living to the level of the poor, who themselves, moreover, refuse to remain poor any longer and are pushing their way upward to a prosperous life. Who wants this sort of socialism, so-called? It would not be socialism, but a caricature of socialism. Socialism can be built only on the basis of a vigorous growth of the productive forces of society; on the basis of an abundance of produce and goods; on the basis of the prosperity of the working people, on the basis of a vigorous growth of culture. For socialism, Marxist socialism, means not the reduction of individual requirements, but their development to the utmost, to full bloom; not the restriction of these requirements or a refusal to satisfy them, but the full and all-round satisfaction of all the requirements of culturally developed working people.

- J. V. Stalin

When we see the enemy, simply because he has a weapon in his hands, we must not be frightened to death like a rat who sees a cat. We must not be afraid of approaching him or infiltrating into his midst in order to carry out sabotage. We are men; our enemies are also men; we are all men, so what should we fear? The fact that he has weapons? We can find a way to seize his weapons. All we are afraid of is getting killed by the enemy. But when we undergo the oppression of the enemy to such a point as this, how can any one still fear death? And if we do not fear death, then what is there to fear about the enemy? So when we see the enemy, whether he is many or few, we must act as though he is bread that can satisfy our hunger, and immediately swallow him.

- Mao Zedong

Another demonstration organised this weekend to support the Palestinian struggle. If you are in Liverpool be there! If not find a demonstration close to you.
Silence is complicity.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations.

It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property, all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.

According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything do not work. The whole of this objection is but another expression of the tautology: that there can no longer be any wage-labour when there is no longer any capital.

- Karl Marx

Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem violently assaulted by Israeli forces for standing with Palestine.

It would not be worthwhile living if the star of socialism, the star of the future were not shining down on mankind. For the “ego” cannot live if in itself it does not contain the rest of the world and the people. Such is the nature of this “ego.”

Felix Dzerzhinsky

Israeli settlers are using a telegram channel called "Nazi Hunters" that is literally dedicated to sending Nazi style lynch mobs to target school children, singers, and anyone who has committed the crime of being Palestinian.

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The aim which the Americans are pursuing, arose out of the economic troubles, out of the economic crisis. The Americans want to rid themselves of the crisis on the basis of private capitalist activity, without changing the economic basis. They are trying to reduce to a minimum the ruin, the losses caused by the existing economic system. Here, however, as you know, in place of the old, destroyed economic basis, an entirely different, a new economic basis has been created. Even if the Americans you mention partly achieve their aim, i.e., reduce these losses to a minimum, they will not destroy the roots of the anarchy which is inherent in the existing capitalist system. They are preserving the economic system which must inevitably lead, and cannot but lead, to anarchy in production. Thus, at best, it will be a matter, not of the reorganisation of society, not of abolishing the old social system which gives rise to anarchy and crises, but of restricting certain of its excesses. Subjectively, perhaps, these Americans think they are reorganising society; objectively, however, they are preserving the present basis of society.

That is why, objectively, there will be no reorganisation of society.

Nor will there be planned economy. What is planned economy? What are some of its attributes? Planned economy tries to abolish unemployment. Let us suppose it is possible, while preserving the capitalist system, to reduce unemployment to a certain minimum.

But surely, no capitalist would ever agree to the complete abolition of unemployment, to the abolition of the reserve army of unemployed, the purpose of which is to bring pressure on the labour market, to ensure a supply of cheap labour. Here you have one of the rents in the "planned economy" of bourgeois society. Furthermore, planned economy presupposes increased output in those branches of industry which produce goods that the masses of the people need particularly. But you know that the expansion of production under capitalism takes place for entirely different motives, that capital flows into those branches of economy in which the rate of profit is highest. You will never compel a capitalist to incur loss to himself and agree to a lower rate of profit for the sake of satisfying the needs of the people. Without getting rid of the capitalists, without abolishing the principle of private property in the means of production, it is impossible to create planned economy.

- J. V. Stalin

❗️BREAKING:

🇧🇭 Bahrain expels Israeli ambassador, recalls its own, and severs economic ties with Israel.

'Euro-Med Monitor’s team has documented multiple cases of deep cracks in the skin of hands and bodies of Palestinian citizens & rescue workers who came into contact with corpses & rubble, due to dangerous chemicals used in Israeli rockets and missiles.'

Any condemnation from collective West or @OPCW? Such claims in #Syria #Douma 2018 led to bombing #Damascus by #US #UK #France. Will they now bomb chemical weapon facilities in #Zionist settler state? (rhetorical Q)

These kids survived apartheid Israel’s massacre in Jabaliya today. They are refugees born to refugees turned homeless again and again.

Do they need to attend a rave for Western media to find them relatable enough to hear their cries and splash their faces on the front page?

@MaxBlumenthal

Israel is America's little military base in the "middle east". The USA happily took over colonial control of the occupation from Britain because of its significance to any interests they have in the region. The Arabic states (+ African & Persian) could easily have the ability to cause real issues to the western hegemony, so they must be continuously disrupted. Israel is in prime position to do that including a base for any resource extraction.
This is why Israel, apparently the only democracy in the east, still has connoscription. They need to maintain a military state, plus the brainwashing of the more liberal Israeli youth is a damn site easier when they are forced into armed combat with a perceived enemy.

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إيلين الخياط 5 سنوات حلمت بأن تصبح مهندسة، وشقيقتها سيلين الخياط 8 سنوات حلمت أن تصبح طبيبة. قتلهنّ الاحتلال مع والديهما وأخويهما محمد ومحمود ولم يتحقق الحلم.

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