They’re not stupid, they must know this is a terrible optic…

With who? I doubt the chinese foreign ministry cares about its optics with the pro-palestinian movement. All they care about is having an embassy everywhere

Pretty funny that the czech communist party, which fell below the electoral treshold in the last election and didn’t get any sears, is likely to get back into parliament later this year through its front group (they already got nearly 300k votes in a EU election, which would be enough to get into national parliament), which would mean that the czech republic would have any leftist party in parliament because right now they have none, not even socdem, unless you count that pirate shit.

This kinda feels like a preemptive move against that, the state already dissolved the party’s youth wing once, then it was allowed to come back but unaffiliated with the party, so they’re not strangers to stuff like this probably

That subreddit is actually crazy, like a bunch of lemmings thinking they’re fucking napoleon

What is their strategy exactly? I remember reading a jacobin interview with a KPO guy saying they looked at the alentejo region in portugal, where the communist party holds some local governments, as an example of what they themselves do, so I assume it’s basically competent local management along with plenty of ties with voluntary associations, except the KPO leads Graz which is the second largest city in Austria.

They’re also lightly represented in 2 regional parliaments (which I think shows regionalization, something that it’s been discussed in portugal for decades would benefit leftists since it’s easier to get a leg in), so I assume they’re strategy is basically leveraging satisfaction with their performance in local government, as well as the lack of a far-left in austria, into national parliament?

Either way they need to hit the 4% treshold to make it in, so they’d need 2% more than last year when they were also polling at 4% and got 2%.

Austria poll

Wish we had an austrian here to talk about what goes on over there

if before the Iranian revolution the roles were flipped and much of the Arab world was anti-imperialist while Iran had a puppet regime, how does that fit in

Then there would still be a rivalry between the arab-aligned and persian-aligned polities probably, but it probably wouldn’t be ultra-sunni vs shia anymore and the arab bloc would probably not be centered around Saudi Arabia.

Are these sectarian differences or just fleeting political alliances? What are the materialist forces? Are those kinds of questions considered?

I don’t remember completly but the point of the book is to deflate the explanation that sectarian differences in islam are the cause of everything by going through the historical make-up of the region country by country up to modern day and the development of 3 different civilizational histories and cultures that the 3 big players draw from.

Pretty much homegrown, but these complaints are not any different than what you’d see from young right-wingers elsewhere in europe

I take back everything I said about their shitty music

2 recommendations.

The guy from the dig did a 19 episode series interviewing historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti on middle east radicalism in the 20th century (leading into the 21st), which ranges from socialism to arab nationalism, it’s called Thawra which means revolution or revolt.

There’s also a book I recently read called The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East by a bourgeois historian but nevertheless I found it informative. The main thesis of the author is that what shaped the middle east was rivalry between arab, turk and persian polities which form ultra-sunni, sunni, and shia blocs respectively. The first half is mostly about historical islamic polities and the sunni-shia split, then the second half is a general overview of each middle eastern country basically

I walked, it was 10 minutes give or take

Results from abroad for Portugal’s election last week have come in, it’s official, the far-right has overtaken the default center-left party by 2MPs, becoming the largest party in the opposition to an already right-wing government, the socialist party didn’t elect any MPs from the 2 Abroad circuits for the first time ever.

In fact the far-right got the most votes in both the Europe and Out-of-Europe circuits, nearly 100k votes, including in big portuguese communities like the one in Luxembourg and France (where there are reports of portuguese immigrants being discriminated against). So yeah, an anti-immigration party is the favorite among…portuguese immigrants abroad, fuck these people, it’s pure “fuck you got mine”

I remember when I was 13 an uncle of mine who lives in france called my house and I was the only one home so we talked for a bit and he ended up making me look up the website of a literally Salazarist party to learn more about them pretending he was the one who didn’t know what it was, I didn’t even know what a political party was at the time. I told my mom years later and she just said “yeah your uncle is crazy”.

Emigration is oddly romanticized in this country, a bunch had to do it during the austerity years (2011-2015), but since then it has calmed down, however the “I want to leave this country it sucks because of woke/taxes/socialism/big state” discourse is hugely popular among the youth, and if you’re young and in a fake job like IT you’ll be probably asked by everyone why you’re not working in Dusseldorf or some shit.

I also thought he wouldn’t last nearly half a year but I guess that’s really not that long for a 4 year administration

Vanilla hentai

Did she tell you if she still needs me to teach her how to use the supermarket app?

Haha

but this party was literally just cheering on India’s attempt to start a war with Pakistan

No it wasn’t

there’s an actual communist insurgency in India going on right now and they desperately need international attention.

My heart goes out to them but anyone who goes and tries to pay attenttion to them (ie read Nightmarch by Alpa Sha or follow news about them) will just realize how utterly fucked their situation is and that maoists are really just larping and offsetting their responsibility to reach political power where they live onto poor people when they hype them up too much. So not worth pretending that they’ve achieved more than the Keralans or that insurgency is actually their preferred strategy rather than what they’ve been forced to do.

Yet THEY expect ME to actually buy books rather than get them online

The best case scenario is if the mostly online support given to these guys, due to anonymity, eventually jumps out into real life and affects real world politics somehow. Like how that outright super racist shit that you used to only see online becoming more prominent and real life, but like, for us.

Fine, but I don’t need to literally watch the segment for them to get the bag, much less buy the products

Honestly most products that are advertized through youtube/podcasts have a sleazy vibe to them imo

They couldn’t have picked a worse example than Emilia Clarke, besides the first 3 images where she looks like a child she looks suprisingly the same.