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The Euro-American chauvinism, ignorance, audacity, racism, orientalism, and cope that comes out of the mouths of ordinary citizens who consider themselves smart and experienced is just too much for me sometimes.
May I borrow your words. I am autistic and words fail me more often than not when dealing with emotional subjects like this. well said
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I was at the anti-NATO demonstration in the Hague today. We were with 5000 people and we made a stand, although I wished we were with more. It was pretty international, with the Belgian PvdA and the Turkish TKP participating as well. There was a lot of police for such a small demonstration and they were clearly trying to intimidate us. During the march there were three arrest buses following us which were later joined by police on horseback. On every side street there were always a dozen police officers and a couple of police vans.
Edit: I forget there was also a police van with cameras on top filming everyone the whole time
There were also some pro-ayatollah Iranians present, like not just critical support but full support for the government. The women were all wearing chadors. I heard rumors they were embassy staff, or paid by the embassy, which I don’t necessarily believe. There were times where anti-regime Iranians in the march were clashing with the pro-regime Iranians.
I saw we were there with 350 people.
Saw some people get mad at a banner depicting I think a Hamas soldier but I’m not sure. Optics wise you can have an opinion on that, I guess.
Anyway I hope the protests continue the next few days.
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Glad to see this community taking the principled anti-imperialist stand here (as we did on Russia’s intervention in the Ukraine). The mainstream internet is full of the worst Zionist shitlibbery.
Death to zionism. Death to america. Death to white supremacy.
I am glad we can be your refuge from the rest of the internet
I don’t think so, I think most of the pro-zionist buzz you’re seeing is consent manufacturing. Noone sane wants war, and most people are sane.
Welcome CommunistMemes refugees I hope you have a nice stay over here
What happened to CM? I have not been around
Love and support to the people of Iran, Palestine, Yemen and all the people resisting the Zionist entity and Amerikkkan imperialism in mind, heart or body.
I cry for your people and your martyrs. The crimes the western imperialists have inflicted on these lands and these peoples for centuries is too much to bear. Inshallah justice and peace will come soon.
I never thought I will see someone so based being interviewed in an Iranian news media
Several good marxists, actually. Pretty rad for state TV
Every morning I play Disco Inferno and watch images of Israel burning
Apart from the main thing: next week we will have another general strike against our government. It’s the 7th month in a row that we are striking now and we won’t stop anytime soon
Every morning I play Disco Inferno and watch images of Israel burning
Great idea, actually.
We have same thing in Turkiye. Turkiye is pro-Isn’treal and politicians doing their mouth service but carrying Azerbajian oil to Isn’treal
A very prominent figure in the Belgian neolib party (the ruling one) got on tv to talk about Gaza. He called Israel an apartheid State and he says that Palestinians have no other option than to die, live under oppression or flee. He even went as far as to say that if he were born in Gaza he himself would have become a terrorist to fight Israel. He says Israel is one of the worst disgraces of the century.
Now, I was blown away by this. This is even more harsh words than our party leaders use on tv. Like, fuck me man I 100% agree.
And this all goes directly against his own party’s stance too.
Am I going to need to start liking the Belgian Neolibs? or is this a stopped clock is correct when someone sets it
Oh no it’s still shit. It’s neolib mixed with Flemish nationalism. But he thinks this way because years ago he visited Israel and got to see how Palestinians were living and how they were treated and that radicalized him when it comes to Gaza.
Which shows that he at least has some integrity. He is pushing his party to take action and as some sort of last resort has now decided to go on live shows to talk about it.
news megathread be like:
“China why wont you nuke your entire soft-power to stop the overstretch of the American regime when it’s gonna do what it does regardless?”
China is already helping Iran under the table. There are supply lines from China to Iran. There’s also a big player helping Iran with electronic warfare and satellite intelligence. It could be China or Russia.
Demanding the PLA to go marching to Iran’s aid of course would be silly but it’s clear Iran is suffering a severe deficit in their air defense and are very much in a vulnerable position if no one steps to help them in that area at least. It’s not going to stretch the US empire all that much if they decide to simply start wrecking havoc on Iran with B2 bombers. I don’t think anyone who doesn’t already hate China is going to be upset if they start sending Iran Pakistan level military aid.
They’re most likely giving them everything they can plus intelligence support. Exposing that to the public or diplomatically threatens a significant chunk of soft-power they can continue to use.
Could you explain what “soft power” you’re referring to here exactly?
The massive industry base that the west has in China that has been used to build productive forces, as well as the diplomatic power that they use to align and support resistance factions. Example of this would be this: https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjbzhd/202407/t20240723_11458790.html#%3A~%3Atext=The+most+important+consensus+from%2Cis+the+agreement+on+establishing
Neither of these are exactly “soft” power, I think you’re misinterpreting the term somewhat.
Soft power isn’t so much to do with “diplomatic” power, but mainly the ability to more subtly influence others through positive attraction, such as through culture, religion, arts, film, music, fashion etc (such as Hollywood films acting as propaganda for US capitalist ideas, even when not made to explicitly do so). And in all honesty this is arguably one of China’s weakest ways of projecting itself overseas, compared to the west. I’m just struggling to see how that really ties into the discussion here.
soft pow·er
noun
a persuasive approach to international relations, typically involving the use of economic or cultural influence.
Everything I described falls under that, with their history of being the most level-headed economic player and growing more and more advanced by the day helps them out in their diplomacy. If you want an example that fits more of your definition, then I would point to the massive amount of brain-drain from the United States to China. I also mentioned productive forces. There is no misunderstanding here.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-13/mother-of-all-bombs-afghanistan
This is older and was before China was leading the top 20 academic journals. They aren’t so weak when they are successfully draining and using their “soft-power” to attract the brightest minds to their nation. They would lose a lot of this if they were to directly intervene or deploy in Iran against the United States.
This one is more recent.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an example of China using soft power.
From Venezuelan comrades to our Iranian comrades
You Too Oppo, you too
A Dutch pro Israel org send out a tweet asking where the protests against Iran are, calling them a terrorist state that is targeting civilians. Satire is now officially dead. You can’t top this.
First Theoretical Symposium between the Communist Party of China and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela
This happened last week. 🥹
Inshallah Isntreal will be made so
