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All the good stuff; Bach, Coltrane and communism. Director of @vortexjazz. He/him

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Joined April 2009
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El 25 de octubre de 1922, acababa la agresión imperialista contra la Rusia bolchevique, con la entrada del Ejército Rojo en Vladivostok, aplastando a los últimos remanentes del Ejército Blanco y las fuerzas imperialistas de 17 países capitalistas. Seguro que lo leíste en sus libros de historia occidentales, pero solo un año después de la Revolución Bolchevique, EEUU, Reino Unido, Francia, Checoslovaquia, Grecia, Rumania, Alemania, Austria-Hungría, Italia, Canadá, Turquía, Polonia, Serbia, Finlandia, Australia, China y Japón invadieron Rusia... pretendían acabar con la revolución obrera y devolver el poder a la burguesía zarista, en lo que se llamó como "Intervención Aliada" para restaurar el orden capitalista. 17 ejércitos con llegaron a tener a 1 millón de soldados invadiendo Rusia, en apoyo a la oligarquía capitalista y su ejército zarista, el cual también fue armado por todo Occidente... a esta flagrante agresión imperial de Occidente en Rusia lo llamaron "guerra civil" y murieron al menos 7 millones de rusos, hicieron todo lo posible para aplastar la revolución bolchevique que era un peligro para el capital mundial. El Ejército Blanco armado y financiado por Occidente, además empleó la brutalidad más infame, en los Urales, más de 100.000 campesinos fueron exterminados en campos de concentración por el Ejercito Blanco por el "delito" de apoyar a los bolcheviques, exterminó a 150.000 judíos en el sur de Rusia (pogromos que más tarde imitarían los nazis) e hicieron limpiezas étnicas de más de 300.000 indígenas... metían a los sospechosos de ser bolcheviques en las calderas de sus trenes blindados para que se quemaran vivos. La Rusia que quedó después de la cruenta agresión imperialista mal llamada "guerra civil", fue una de las naciones más pobres del mundo, sumida en el hambre y en las enfermedades... murieron al menos 3 millones de personas de hambruna y otras 2 millones de enfermedades como el tifus, la gripe o el cólera... en solo 40 años, esa misma Rusia devastada y con una guerra mundial por medio, seria una potencia mundial equipada con bomba atómica gracias al socialismo. No somos conscientes del sacrificio del pueblo ruso para defender su revolución, primero tuvieron que luchar contra 17 países capitalistas, más muchos otros que apoyaron indirectamente la invasión económicamente y con armamento.... pero no contentos con eso, unas décadas más tarde, Occidente le financió a Hitler para acabar con la URSS y le montaron una guerra mundial que costó la vida a 27 millones de soviéticos.... y ni así, tampoco pudieron tumbar la revolución, es el ejercicio de resistencia mayor de un pueblo que ha conocido el mundo.
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The middle class was a 50-year fluke designed to stop communism during the Cold War. The threat is gone, so the elites are taking it apart. You're not falling behind. You're being pushed back into peasantry.
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Pq tous les profs d'histoire sont de gauche c'est quoi la vraie explication
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Today we commemorate the martyrdom of Víctor Jara, who was brutally murdered by Pinochet's fascist thugs on September 16th, 1973. A communist musician who fought for and sung for the oppressed and everyone's right to live in peace - tortured and then executed for his contributions to the socialist movement in Chile. The stadium where he was killed now bears his name. Jara's revolutionary songs are still sung all over the world over half a century later. Music has always and will always be political.
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In 2018, Germany accidentally played the Soviet anthem instead of the Russian one before a rugby match. Watch what happened next. At first, the Russian players were puzzled. Then, without hesitation, every single one of them started singing. Word for word. From the heart. You were told the USSR was some alien regime that Russians hated. But when that anthem played, these modern Russian athletes didn’t protest or walk off. They sang, and they sang loudly. Because the Soviet Union isn’t some separate entity that Russians want to forget. It’s part of Russian history. The Russian Empire became the USSR, which was later dissolved in 1991. The political system changed, the borders changed, but the historical continuity remained.
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This is why I am uncompromisingly Losurdian when it comes to history. The way I see it, if you call yourself a Marxist, you *have* to take responsibility for Marxist history. You *have* to "take responsibility" for Stalin. Xi put it superbly well in his 2013 speech:
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Novara And Integrity, Don’t Belong In The Same Sentence Novara Media didn’t lose its journalistic integrity over Jason Arday; it exposed, once again, that it never any to begin with. It parroted right-wing narratives, mocked a Black academic, then preached “measured” coverage. That isn’t neutrality, it’s them unashamedly showing us their true colours. Video: @ ijfadaka TT
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Britain’s minister of defense
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this is an absolutely evil thing to do to someone who makes significantly less than you do
Charley Hull bought a fake lottery ticket in Blackpool last night and tricked her caddie into thinking he'd won $100,000! "He's taken his hat off. He's taken his glasses off. He's literally running around the players lounge sayin', 'I've won $100,000. I'm taking today off.' His face looks so happy. He was sweating. He was trembling. He couldn't believe his luck, and we had to tell him it was fake and he nearly quit the job."
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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin visiting Mexico, 1963.
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💥My next book is out July 1! 💥 "Requiem for French Theory" is a short & accessible book of dialogues I co-authored w Aymeric Monville (facilitated by Jennifer Ponce de León). John Bellamy Foster wrote the intro & it was published by @monthly_review. Launch & purchase info in 🧵
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This is one of the saddest, most damning passages I've ever read in any book: 'Over and over again, US media would make clear that dead Israelis were the result of ontologically evil indifference to human life and religious extremism, whereas dead Palestinians were the result of, at worst, a traumatized people “overreacting” and, more often than not, reluctant military necessity. It didn’t matter that the civilian death toll quickly ballooned from 1:1 to 1:10 to 1:100. It didn’t matter that social media evidence of deliberate war crimes would pile up by the hundreds. It didn’t matter that top Israeli officials would make genocidal threats from the onset, in English. This fundamental moral distinction, the premise that Palestinians were mindless terrorists while Israel killed only because it had no choice, would never be meaningfully challenged by any pundit or journalist in mainstream US media.'
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A great deal of effort and attention went into this article on the Karim Khan case and on Venezuela, and it contains key information you will find literally nowhere else. I was up all night writing and editing, and published at 7am. craigmurray.org.uk/archives/…
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I'm always astonished how people watch the liberal center in Europe adopt one dystopian policy after another and their non-ironical reaction is "god forbid the wrong team takes over and applies these policies." They genuinely don't understand how absurd that position is. Those same people would watch a law being passed to kill half the population and be like "it's fine but let's just make sure the wrong people don't get to decide which half."
In a few years, Europe will be governed by right wing governments, and they will read your encrypted messages, prevent you from posting and reading ideas they disagree with and even jail you for wrongthink, and the current governments create the laws making that possible
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Recordar cómo la URSS se plantó ante la FIFA en 1973 y se negó a jugar el partido de vuelta en el Estadio Nacional de Chile, en las eliminatorias del Mundial, después de que el genocida Pinochet convirtiera el estadio en un centro de tortura y exterminio. La FIFA, aún con las gradas manchadas de sangre, se negó a anular el partido en Chile, todo lo contrario, le dio el partido perdido a la URSS por 2-0 y otorgó la victoria al regimen criminal de Pinochet. La imagen fue dantesca, los jugadores de Chile marcando un gol ante un rival fantasma, por mera formalidad, con un cartel que decia "la juventud y el deporte unen hoy a Chile"... una juventud que fue masacrada por las calles por el carnicero de Pinochet. La misma mafia de la FIFA que hoy se niega a expulsar a "Israel" de sus competiciones y que anuló una tarjeta roja a un jugador porque Trump lo ordenó, también apoyó el golpe de estado en Chile, toda la vida siempre al servicio del poder político del capital.
"Gracias a la FIFA por hacer lo correcto". Este fue el mensaje de Trump tras manipular el Mundial de fútbol y conseguir que la mafia de la FIFA anulase una tarjeta roja al máximo goleador de la selección de EEUU, Folarin Balogun, tras una entrada salvaje. Esta es la credibilidad de la FIFA y el fútbol, todo está podrido por el poder y el dinero del capitalismo.
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The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.
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Update: We have decided to make this project fully open sourced, to resist censorship. That means anyone will be able to download the entire project, and spin up a version of our site. What you will need: 1) A copy of the media files, 806 GB, which can be found in the downloads section here: archivegenocide.com/download… 2) Copy of website source files: Github link will be provided soon. (120 MB approx) 3) Our cryptographic signature key to verify the files are authentic and came from us, and not tampered with. You can find it here: archivegenocide.com/verify.h… Instructions on how to plug & play are in the downloads page. Please download the media files while we prepare the source code to share publicly. Please share & quote tweet to help break twitter algorithm jail. Also please SEED this new torrent, even above the other torrents - as it is the condensed version of all those archives. (If you only have space for one file, this is the one to download/seed/store offline copies). We have multiple mirrors ready to go, so there is likely no need for you guys to start launching your own site mirrors yet, this is just a precautionary measure we are taking. In the event that they somehow manage to take us down on all our mirrors, we will ask people to start spinning up their own site mirrors. Tech giants are taking this seriously, so should we. Follow our backups incase they take this twitter down: @ZionismExposedx & @IsraelExposedAr God bless. nitter.cf/xIsraelExposedx/status…
It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them. It includes: 64,537 videos 17,905 photos Ability to download individual videos Searchable index Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists) Geolocation data Livemap with minute to minute updates Victim list It can be accessed here: ArchiveGenocide.com Please share & quote tweet to help this post break out of the twitter algorithm prison. We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way. God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it. Join our telegram: t.me/+p_Ufon9FBOY0Y2Q0 Follow our backup accounts: @ZionismExposedx & @IsraelExposedAr
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It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them. It includes: 64,537 videos 17,905 photos Ability to download individual videos Searchable index Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists) Geolocation data Livemap with minute to minute updates Victim list It can be accessed here: ArchiveGenocide.com Please share & quote tweet to help this post break out of the twitter algorithm prison. We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way. God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it. Join our telegram: t.me/+p_Ufon9FBOY0Y2Q0 Follow our backup accounts: @ZionismExposedx & @IsraelExposedAr
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Caroline Lucas states that "there are many different versions of Zionism" which is a classic Zionist propaganda line. Let's be clear: Zionism describes the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish supremacist settler state where the indigenous Palestinians have to be a permanent minority with less rights. The displaced and subjugated indigenous population are then subjected to constant incarceration, torture, massacres (now genocide) - all so any Jewish person around the world can have a second country and "return" to a land they have no connection to (outside of millenarian religious logic). It's not complicated. It's a disgrace that the Green Party have not pushed back against Zionist pressure group "Jewish Greens" slandering and smearing the anti-Zionist motion, which was authored by Palestinian Green members. Also a disgrace that Green Party allowed Zionists to sabotage the vote at Spring Conference, which would have passed easily. My advice to Lucas and others: stop trying to hold back the tide. The anti-Zionism motion will pass when it is finally allowed to be voted on. This is the bare minimum for any party that claims to be anti-racist. The party is over. Zionism is racism.
My earlier tweet about this interview quoted Caroline Lucas as saying the Greens must find a less “toxic” way of criticising the Israeli government. I’ve deleted it to be more specific and accurate. She was talking about the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion, which she said “caused a lot of concern among people across the party, in the sense that there are many different versions of Zionism”, added that she hoped “if it does come back… we have a much less divisive motion” and went on to say that “it’s up to the party to decide what it’s going to discuss, but I just hope it’s done in a way that’s less toxic than it was before”: politicshome.com/news/articl…
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