Can’t be overstated how important this is. Combined with the new solar parks going online this year and over the next couple years, this should really alleviate one of Cuba’s most essential struggles. Electrification and sufficient power generation plus an ability to maintain this stuff with spare parts (unlike the old Soviet and GDR stuff they still run) are the lifeline for the Cuban revolution.

To be fair, in the recording I linked above, they said at some point the Zoom limit of 100 people was reached and they said they still had people trying to join. Also there were a few younger comrades in the Q@A.

Unfortunately that’s par for the course in Marxist academia. Academic careers take forever and Marxist academia wasn’t really able to reproduce itself since the 90s. The very young aren’t at that level yet, so the pool is just terribly small. Also most younger Marxists have a tendency to somewhat scoff at more academic and scientific education from my experience.

Also, as with all older comrades I’ve met, they’re horrible at playing the new medias due to their age and own experiences. They desperately need younger comrades to get their shit up to the 21st century in terms of marketing, etc.

The load on your shoulders is both much different and potentially much much higher. You should probably take a look at technique and grip width. Also make sure your shoulders are specifically strong for this type of pushing. Your body might just not like (flat) benching. Some people’s don’t. Not much to do then, but just accept and move on. If you don’t have some specific attachment to or need for the movement, you don’t really need it.

Maybe try real pause benching with lower loads exclusively for a while. Doing them exclusively on lighter days or on your warm-up sets gets plenty of reps in at some point down the line. Great to get the bracing and technique right and to get your shoulders strong enough in every phase of the lift.

And honestly, just be careful. If you feel pain in a movement, don’t do it. You only get one set of shoulders, don’t fuck them up for something ultimately unimportant. Having a functioning shoulder every day is much more important than a PR if you’re not competing.

Italian labor’s work has somewhat seeped through the news over the past 2 years if you looked close enough. Though widely overlooked. Watching this develop and finally culminate in this incredible display was humbling and inspiring as hell. Power to you and the world should bow before your example. Nothing but love!

It also should signal to everyone: Our work mattered! These unions exist as continuation and through the sacrifices of millions of leftists over the decades. The 90s and early 00s may have felt like total defeat and like nothing ever mattered. That has been proven wrong. It did matter, it did leave a mark, it lives on in those dockworkers and it will transform the world again.

Solidarity to all the colleagues and comrades. Keep pushing, you will make the world follow.

If de-stalinization following Khrushev’s secret speech marked the beginning of the end of the USSR and therefore the global communist movement, the collective rejection of Krushevism will mark a new beginning, a new period of revolutionary struggle. That leap is coming.

Sounds interesting, thanks! I’ll look into it. Is it possible to integrate it with React?

I’ve been trying to accomplish something similar with NextJS + TinaCMS. The CMS effectively just commits .md files there too, NextJS handles the routing. It works quite well with Vercel, I just (maybe unjustly) feel somewhat uncomfortable with that degree of cloud-integration and cross-dependencies in a political project.

Ngl I’ve been noticing a definitive surge in Pro-Stalin sentiment online and even in academia and communist orgs over the past year. And that is by far one of the most promising signs in the ideological development of current ML: Communists unapologetically, but critically reclaiming the most propagandised parts of their own history. ML can only surge again when we’ve wrestled with and come to terms with Stalin.

Should be somewhat dynamic. At least some basic blogging functionality would be needed. Adding posts, categories, etc. Nothing fancy, no user management etc

Sweet, thanks. Any recs for hosting? I’ve mostly used vercel and github so far for NextJS projects and a variety for WordPress. The cloudbased CMS are comfortable as hell to set up, but I can’t imagine they’d be slim and secure enough for a political project?

Italian workers among the most upright and based people in Europe currently