Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
On Sunday last week, Damascus fell to Salafi terrorists and other imperialist-aligned forces. Regardless of the flaws of the ousted government, this is a horrible situation for the Syrian proletariat as well as for the people of Palestine, Lebanon and others. We can only hope for the perseverance of the Syrian workers and the remaining anti-colonial resistance.
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Tomorrow I will join a general strike in Brussels against the government. Excited to see what will happen. Might be a good networking opportunity.
I have a socialist classmate who believes that money doesn’t give you power, but ideology does. When I talked about capital he said that capital doesn’t equal power either, and that capitalists power can’t be just because of capital. He also said another time that HTS didn’t win because of capitalist reasons but because of their islamic ideology. I disagree with him, and you?
He’s kinda a debate bro type of socialist btw, who doesn’t go to demonstrations or is part of a party.
Not sure what his point is really. Like money, or capital, or possession of something in general, gives you power. Especially in a system that is designed around money, or capital, or possessions.
Also not sure what he means with the HTS thing. Like, they won because they are a US proxy and managed to get aid through one of the most powerful military forces in the world. Not sure what them being Muslims has to do with that. Allah didn’t guide them to victory.
Does he ever elaborate on his claims? Or is he just trying to sound interesting?
Because you can be a capitalist at heart but if you don’t own any capital what power do you have?
I think he’s an idealist and thinks ideas matter the most
Some criminals allegedly targeted a shop in the city of The Hague with explosives and they managed to explode an entire block of appartments instead. Multiple people died.
An 8 year old boy survived but lost his parents and sister in the explosion. The boy is of Chinese origin and the Dutch Chinese community stepped in to help raise money for him.
People find a way to be racist about this. Maybe some people are beyond redemption.
hey please say what are your thoughts on this article on syria?
spoiler
i thought it was pretty good despite being written by a trot in the new left
Omg a capybara runs this side! 🤔
— 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇸🇾 Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC ‘Khatam al-Anbiyaa’ Headquarters: ‘Bashar al-Assad did not request Iranian help – in fact he actively prevented us from coming and helping’
General Mohammad Jafar Asadi, deputy commander of Khatam al-Anbiyaa HQ:
– Bashar al-Assad said to one of our (Iranian) officials in a meeting: ‘My soldiers have truly become either smugglers or thieves, they only defend those who offer them bribes and privileges. They could not defend me, and when I wanted to protect at least Damascus, I realized that they were not able to protect Damascus either.’
– Bashar al-Assad did not allow us (the IRGC) to go help the Syrian Arab Army, although he asked us for assistance in the past, but this time he not only did not ask, but he was worried about us arriving, and said that ‘if you come, Israel will probably attack us’.
– Turkey is a part of NATO, and we should not see or accept the presence of this country and its influence anywhere outside of America and Europe. Turkey is a part of them, and with this attitude, it serves America. America is active behind the scenes.
– It seems that the factions present in Syria will clash with each other based on their own different interests. Maybe separating Syria is Turkey’s desire, because they have been coveting a part of Syria for a long time.
@Middle_East_Spectator
Sad…
Tonight I received a fortune that says, ‘YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR IS A JOY TO ALL.’
My fortune cookie from a week ago was “Laugh at yourself, it feels good sometimes.”
So there’s a lot of videos on telegram of HTS executing people they don’t like…
It is horrible. Those videos are flooding plenty of Telegram channels.
From doctors, minorities to scientists being assassinated, it is as if I am seeing news of a new Pol Pot.
And I had a person respond to me here saying they hope HTS kills all the Kurds in Syria…
May I see em?
Don’t do it comrade. Seeing those videos will deteriorate your mental health and may provoke you gloom. That’s what is happening to me.
The more I read about Soviet politics under Khrushchev and beyond, the more I see how cringeworthy and cancerous it was.
any thoughts?
I mean it’s hard to disagree. There are very few working class (read: poor) people who not only manage to have enough free time to write but to have the network to get published too.
I recently read a book on poverty written by a man who has gone through poverty himself. He only managed to get such a book published because he managed to get a university degree and a government job. He could be just a talented writer while working in a factory but he would have a much harder time getting published without the network he build over time.
So you mean to tell me that a dude that has planned a hit for days in advance managed to get caught in a McDonalds because an employee ‘recognized’ him while still carrying all the stuff of the murder?
Yeah, kinda strange.
Dammit, it’s been hours!
I am sick again. I feel like getting a job in which I see hundreds of people each week has not been great for my immune system. Bird watching while getting wind blasted yesterday probably didn’t help either.
Anyway, I will join the general strike this friday against the new plans of our new regime. It’s my first ever general strike so curious to see what it is like. I have joined smaller strikes at picket lines of specific companies to talk to the workers for our party but that’s on a much smaller scale.
Remember, Lion of Damascus will return one day, he is alive and well in Moscow unlike Gaddafi, the only question is when! 🇸🇾
Nah, Assad would rather work as an eye doctor in Russia.
Proletarian revolution in Syria when?
He will definitely continue working as doctor while staying in Moscow, but why wouldn’t he return once all this shit in Middle East ends?
He never really wanted to be president, he had always studied to be a doctor first.
At this point, I sure hope Russia and/or China start supplying nukes to Iran and any country that faces the threat of annihilation at the hands of empire (like Iraq, Libya, and now Syria) should be looking to acquire nukes as soon as possible.
Thanks to /u/[email protected] for this week’s picture.
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