“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”...
The people fighting to defend Palestinians from their imminent ethnic cleansing are a “cancer”, but the same is not said for the occupying nation committing the cleansing.
Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024....
Okay, well, if you feel like reading a book sometime, I highly recommend Patriots, Traitors, and Empires: The story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, by political analyst Stephen Gowans (he’s not a commie, no reason to be scared)(edit: he’s a marxist), it goes into the history of the Korean peninsula, starting from the Japanese colonization in the early 1900s, through WW2, the division of the country into North/South, the Korean war, through to present day, answering why North Korea (DPRK) is where it’s at today.
Here’s an article that goes over the basics of it all, if you’re not up for reading the whole book (but it’s a very good book)
“During the years of Stalin’s reign, the Soviet nation made dramatic gains in literacy, industrial wages, health care, and women’s rights. These accomplishments usually go unmentioned when the Stalinist era is discussed. To say that “socialism doesn’t work” is to overlook the fact that it did. In Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba, revolutionary communism created a life for the mass of people that was far better than the wretched existence they had endured under feudal lords, military bosses, foreign colonizers, and Western capitalists. The end result was a dramatic improvement in living conditions for hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or since witnessed in history.” Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Gotta show my Respect. (lemmy.ml)
What is something that 2020s kids will never get to experience?
Washington state’s largest labor union endorses ‘uncommitted’ over Biden (www.nbcnews.com)
Israeli troops gun down thousands of Palestinians awaiting aid in north Gaza (thecradle.co)
Tel Aviv has stepped up indiscriminate attacks against displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza due to the army’s failure to ‘dismantle’ Hamas
Hell Yeah (lemmy.ml)
US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War (www.news18.com)
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”...
What are your book recommendations for educating people on race and the history and culture of underrepresented people?
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/1882413...
Israeli soldiers are looting Gaza homes en masse (www.972mag.com)
Soldiers describe how stealing Palestinian property has become totally routine in the Gaza war, with minimal pushback from commanders.
[photo] Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg (lemmy.world)
Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024....
China Vows to Centralize Tech Development Under Communist Party (www.bloomberg.com)
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The Names of Thousands of Neo-Nazi Music Fans Just Got Leaked (www.vice.com)
Thousands of purveyors of neo-Nazi tunes just had their day ruined by a crew of enterprising Scandinavian anti-fascists.
"BLUE LIVES MATTER" (lemmy.ml)
the ultimate police state - ‘security’ is one of their top exports
Kick tankies out of 196 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.
What if he came back? (files.catbox.moe)
https://files.catbox.moe/dcusus.mp4
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quick reminder (lemmy.world) French
How i feel on Lemmy (programming.dev)