Relevant article from People's Dispatch:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/03/tactical-retreats-why-venezuelas-revolution-still-stands/
The revolution is more than a government or a man. To keep going, one needs to absorb the hits in hopes of striking back later.
You'll have to excuse me, because the headline should be "Israel has never stopped invading Lebanon".
The tankies were right again 😱
All those books that don’t get reprints that can still be read
Since a couple years I buy ebooks from leftist publishers to support comrades. But people around me dont want to use ebooks. So recently I wanted to buy books on paper to gift them from normal bookstores (not leftist, but generalist). Well, some titles were out of print and we will never get a copy. Whereas on arr! one finds them under 5 mins on Annas Archive.
So this is true, lots of good books are saved by arr!. If I were an author Id upload them myself as I understand the message is more important than the two coppers I would earn from sales. Disclaimer: I have a job unrelated to writing or the arts.
In China, the State prosecutes corrupt businessmen. But in the West, corrupt businessmen prosecute the State!
Written like a Russian reversal joke but sadly true, though.
Still trying to find tears which mysteriously don't come out when I hear of millionaire crooks being sentenced to death in the PRC. Must be where I left the other tears for the United Health CEO.
Thanks for the read, comrade.
I guess all of Italy followed more or less the same playbook. Operation Gladio with cryptofascists to defeat the left and install soft rightists → in time, the hard right of the mafia, Berlusconi, Salvini and Meloni. Same in other European countries really.
When you think of it, Trump is nothing but the American Berlusconi. When the scandal of the "bunga bunga parties" was uncovered, Berlusconi did not only not give a shit but he also accused the left of corruption. Italians did it first, same with fascism.
Mafia, pedos and fascists all lie together in the same beds.
I think of this a lot as a teacher. So let me add successful careers are built on the willingness to defend the people, too. But for that to happen, we all need a good dose of reddy redsome class consciousness.
Allies
This, I second that. Excluding theMilei types of the "anarchist" right, of course (in truth they are turbocapitalists).
I keep thinking of Durruti in the Spanish Civil War. Someone who fights fachos deserves respect in my view.
The debate around what future is the best communism, if Lenin-style or ancom, is largely academic. Top-bottom and bottom-top politics are two sides of the same dialectic (socialism vs communism). It needs to be solved dialectically, but only after the Trumps of the century have been buried in the dumpster of history.
Therefore, thinking from historical materialism, I prefer to think of anarchism as part of a socialist or leftist tradition and not as an ideal society. The first is useful (Durruti), the second is political fiction. Fun but fantastical.
Liberals are the ultimate Aristotelian moderates. Virtue in the middle: do genocide, but not too much.
Be a nazi, but a moderate nazi, for Pete's sake. Hitler, Stalin? No! Those were radicals! They didn't respect the game of appearances. They didn't understand the brunch.