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Definitely prevalent among the petty bourgeoisie, to which I counter that they can restructure the business as a worker co-op so all employees are owners, and therefore exempt from minimum wage laws


Working class yes, but unlike proletariat who sell labor power for wages and are variable capital, slaves are do not sell their labor power for wages and they are constant capital


Lots of Western media isn’t blocked, CNN isn’t blocked

What was blocked recently was BBC in response to CGTN getting blocked first in the UK

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were blocked because they refused to take down terrorist recruitment pages and accounts. Remember 2011 ISIS Twitter? Like that. Those services were available before

Additionally, the idea of Internet sovereignty is important to a healthy Web industry in any country. Without the firewall, companies like WeChat and Douyin/TikTok could not have developed

Furthermore, getting around the firewall is trivially easy. OpenVPN on port 443 does the trick, I’ve set one up for a friend before. Anyone who wants to get a VPN account and browse the wider Internet is freely able to, and many do this

Finally, censorship has a purpose, and that’s public safety first and foremost. China doesn’t have large conspiracy cults like QAnon or antivaxxers, because rumor-mongering gets reported and dealt with seriously. It’s like shouting “fire” in a crowded theater, stopping it is censorship but also perfectly legal. They don’t have graveyards full of children or measles, mumps, or rubella making a comeback because of this


Like it said, is within the realm of possibility, you should be focused on making applications secure to work around it as it’s an insurmountable problem to address directly


Netscape Navigator gang rise up!


Wait, it’s just OpenVPN, can you just try using your certs and username/password on the normal OpenVPN client?


Also if you’re a party member of an organization with a publishing arm, you could get discounts on bulk orders



marxists.org is a great resource. My study group has had some growing pains, but it’s helpful to start reading some material during the sessions, like Lenin’s Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder


Yeah, looking forward to more bioplastic research


My friend’s aunts from Qingdao were totally open to using CBD for pain relief. Since CBD doesn’t make you high like THC, I can see hemp being legalized, especially since hemp also has historical usage in TCM. Marijuana, though, I think won’t happen for a long while since seeing and treating the effects of opium addiction is in living memory. Some other friends who went to Tibet a few times did mention that there are some hookah cafes where there’s something other than tobacco in them


They could easily control the entire market once they legalize flower extraction and food/medicine usage


Wow, China is already one of the world leaders in CBD production, and they’re only using the leaves?


Casting is imprecise for that and cast metal is very brittle

Forging might work, but that still requires a lot of energy



Hard agree, they also don’t have certain features enabled when you’re a host, which really screws things royally when you find this out in the middle of cohosting an event and you’re supposed to handle the heavy lifting of moderation



You shouldn’t be divulging political affiliation on a job form, and it won’t come up on a background check as what they check are credit and criminal records

The only thing you should be worried about with joining any Communist organization is if you’re a noncitizen or a naturalized citizen for less than 5 years, as that can get you deported


Could it be an unofficial port reporting it?




Everyone has biases. Those biases are in each sub’s rules. People are free to make their own subs and host their own servers if a sub or server isn’t to one’s liking


Candidates are debated over at the local level and eventually one candidate is decided on for the position. The community ratifies this in a plebiscite. Higher levels of government are elected in similar fashion from the lower levels




  • Angela Davis, was an ML, now some sort of Marxist Communist, but definitely not an anarchist

  • Cedric Robinson was a Marxist

  • WEB Du Bois was an ML

  • Libraries originally started being attached to feudal research institutions, and public libraries can safely be considered to have originated with liberals and liberally-inclined lords of the late-feudal era. The idea that poor people are simply lacking education which hinders them from raising their status is a wholly liberal notion



I’m glad that Tom Toles was actually being critical of billionaires complaining about public criticism, and whichever editor chose the headline needs to get smacked a few times


Some things can’t be broken, like a sufficiently strong GPG key. That’s something which can’t be backdoored in and of itself. What they could exploit is weak protection of your private key

Other things you could use are physical one-time pads, writing notes on flash paper and burning them when not needed, holding meetings in areas where nobody has a phone or electronics in a sufficiently remote location

All of these methods increase the expense of surveillance. Even if they could backdoor everything, there’s still the expense of assigning police agents to track groups and individuals

If your operation is implementing proper guerilla tactics of leaderless resistance, taking out the #1 or #2 of a cell wouldn’t affect anything as everyone is trained to take on the role of each person 3 levels above them


You can’t stop it, but you can make it more expensive by using end-to-end encrypted communication and running your own encrypted personal cloud


I think they’ve done well for themselves given they’re one of the most-sanctioned countries in the world, and I can understand their military-first system given that the US and ROK have semi-annual training exercises to invade their country

If you want to see relatively unbiased explorations of the country, I recommend checking out Douyin videos from Chinese tourists

Are they living the most ideal life possible? No, no place is that way, but the only way to improve things would be for the US to withdraw its troops from the Korean peninsula (like the treaty they made at the end of the war stated they would) and for sanctions to end


That’s going to be a little complicated depending on different groups definition of state-ownership. For example, do you mean wholly-owned, partially-owned, or state-subsidized with heavy regulation?


China Daily as well, Ian Goodrum works for them

For non-Chinese news, I like peoplesworld.org


Agreed, this is where the “critical” part of “critical support” comes into play. I understand that ASSK has a gun to her head from the military at all times, but she should never have tried justifying it. Avoiding comment or highlighting the constitutional lack of civilian control of the military would have been better


Make no mistake, imperialists want Myanmar operating the way it was because it is very rich in resources and the NLD facilitated access, and that motive is missing from the coverage. However this is a choice between bourgeois democracy and undemocratic military dictatorship in the poorest country in SE Asia which is far different from liberalism vs fascism in the US being hardly separable. These liberals are opposed to the junta, have always been, and have widespread popular support within the country


Personally, my old best friend from high school and old roommate is a Muslim from Myanmar. His family lived there for hundreds of years and his parents left as soon as possible. Before the junta, there wasn’t much ethnic or religious tension in Myanmar as it was a crossroads for so many cultures. The junta began persecution of Muslims in Myanmar, particularly that of the Rohingya. This policy was continued by the military even when the NLD took power as there is legally no civilian control of the military, and the political party set up by the military constitutionally has 25% of the legislative seats. The Rohingya refugee crisis is clear evidence of the crimes being committed by the military which will continue so long as it has unchecked power.

The crisis which precipitated the 2011 election of the NLD was the 2008 protests following the criminally negligent junta response to the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis, the worst natural disaster to ever occur in Myanmar which devastated food production. International aid was delayed by the junta and much of it was embezzled.


Experience. This is the same junta which brutally oppressed the people of Myanmar for just over 50 years and was barely removed from power 10 years ago. The last 10 years under NLD leadership has made great strides in improving people’s lives, their primary focus has been on improving agriculture (which was hardly mechanized) and building infrastructure


If those users object so much, they are free to host their own instance. When federation first opened up, it led to several users of other instances coming on to our subs and behaving in ways which we found objectionable, and finding that they were acting in bad faith, we banned them. I think we have found a nice equilibrium


Hannah Schneeberger has been identified as one of the Rochester Police officers that pepper sprayed a 9 year old black girl earlier this week. She was identified thanks to the Open Oversight database, the Reddit postings of an ex, her own social media activity, and of course the video of her pepper spraying the child in the back seat of a patrol car...

Well you likely won’t be disturbed in the DMZ until you step on a landmine


Check out the changes, let me know if you find it appropriate


Hope you like it, I’m an organizer for the CJS and we usually have an event at least once a month


There can be situations where both Communists and liberals oppose the same thing, though it’s almost always for different reasons. Communists were severely oppressed by the junta as it was wholly undemocratic and kept the working people in utter poverty, and liberals were opposed to it because it halted capital extraction. The junta in many ways was feudalistic, the military was the nobility. A bourgeois democracy is still better than no democracy at all




Marxist classes are a series of webinars offered by CPUSA

Marxist classes are a series of webinars offered by CPUSA

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Claudia Jones School Webinar: Community Control of the Police
This event will feature the following panelists: Frank Chapman was wrongfully convicted of murder and armed robbery in 1961 and sentenced to life and 50 years in the Missouri State Prison. His case was taken up by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) in 1973, and in 1976 he was released. He had been incarcerated for 14 years. In 1983, he was elected executive director of NAARPR. He worked with Charlene Mitchell, who preceded him as executive director of NAARPR, on building an international campaign to free Rev. Ben Chavis and the Wilmington Ten, Joann Little, and others falsely accused and politically persecuted. He was a part of the international campaign to free Nelson Mandela. He has been a part of leading the struggle in Chicago for the past seven years to stop police crimes — especially murder, torture, beatings and racial profiling. He is presently co-chair and educational director of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. In addition to being a community organizer, Frank is also a published writer since 1971, when he first published “Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner” in the Fall 1971 edition of Freedomways magazine. He became a contributing editor of Freedomways magazine in 1981-83. Max Rameau is a Haitian born Pan-African theorist, campaign strategist, organizer and author. While a student in the Washington, DC area, Max was introduced to Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist theory. After moving to Miami, Florida in 1991, he began organizing around a broad range of human rights issues impacting low-income Black communities, including Immigrant rights (particularly Haitian immigrants), economic justice, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, particularly for ex-felons and police abuse, among others. In October 2006, Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot in the Liberty City section of Miami and built the Umoja Village, a full urban shantytown, addressing the issues of land, self-determination and homelessness in the Black community. In October 2007, Take Back the Land initiated a bold campaign that sparked a national movement: "liberating" vacant government owned and foreclosed homes and moving homeless families into them. Max is an organizer with Pan-African Community Action and travels the country facilitating workshops, engaging in campaign strategy sessions and developing models for community control over land and the human right to housing. Max Rameau continues to develop movement theory and is currently working on a book on Community Control Over Police. L. Gato Martinez-Bentley is a native Washingtonian who’s an integral part of the revolutionary socialist movement. He’s a proud father of two daughters and two granddaughters. He’s taught locally, as well as internationally, working with children's theater, and professional community collaborations for well over 30 years. He's a rebel with a cause, who believes in and teaches the importance of all history regarding people of color. He’s a Nubian Warrior / Olmec Spirit. His accomplishments are being a teacher for more than 30 years. As well as being a conductor of a children's choir. He's an accomplished contract negotiator, organizer, and co-founder of the Rosemount Childcare Workers Union and the sole creator of Return To Salt Of The Productions. He’s a passionate believer for people's rights, who began his activist journey at the tender age of 14. He's an accomplished, credited teacher, playwright, producer, director, actor, and social activist. He epitomizes what it means to be a griot, who fully embraces the meaning of keeping an oral history, to educate and entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, and more. The event will be moderated by: Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo is the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated: No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. She worked at the EPA for 18 years and blew the whistle on a US multinational corporation that endangered South African vanadium mine workers. Marsha's successful lawsuit led to the introduction and passage of the first civil rights and whistle-blower law of the 21st century: the Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act). Marsha was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame, March 2017. Currently, she is working to stop the Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC) and the Bethesda Self-Storage Company/1784 Holdings from its continue desecration of Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland. Luci Murphy is a singer, political activist, community organizer, and language interpreter. Since the 1950s, she has been a featured vocalist at progressive events leading group singing. She has performed internationally such as in Cuba, China, Brazil, Palestine and elsewhere and can also sing in ten different languages. She is a native from Washington D.C. whose insights are informed by the movements and folkways of people across the globe. She currently sings with the D.C. Labor Chorus and the ONE DC Black Workers Center Chorus and in 2007 she received the Paul Robeson Award for Peace and Justice from the Friends of the People’s Weekly World. Queshia Bradley is a global public health and new business development leader with over 14 years experience. Her expertise is in designing, developing, managing, and implementing a diverse range of programs for international and national NGOs. She is also an accomplished grant and proposal writer, effective capacity building/ training specialist, proficient researcher and strategic analyst. Queshia holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business with a concentration in Marketing from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She enjoys travelling abroad, dancing, speaking Portuguese, learning about esoteric teachings from around the world, and debating foreign policy and geopolitics. Queshia serves on 3 Boards, and lends her expertise to 11 community organizations, whose missions range from adult workforce development, youth development, immigration rights, supporting returning citizens, anti-war efforts, expanding political education in underserved African-American communities, to promoting international solidarity, fostering collaboration across the Afrikan Diaspora, and advancing the role of women of color working in peace and security fields. Our co-hosts are the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (http://www.naarpr.org) , Pan African Community Action (https://pacapower.org/index.php?page=community-control-over-police-2) , and DC Metro CPUSA (https://cpusa.org) . ASL interpretation will be provided. In Solidarity, Claudia Jones School for Political Education Donate (https://claudiajonesschool.org/donate/)

Claudia Jones School Webinar: Community Control of the Police
This event will feature the following panelists: Frank Chapman was wrongfully convicted of murder and armed robbery in 1961 and sentenced to life and 50 years in the Missouri State Prison. His case was taken up by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) in 1973, and in 1976 he was released. He had been incarcerated for 14 years. In 1983, he was elected executive director of NAARPR. He worked with Charlene Mitchell, who preceded him as executive director of NAARPR, on building an international campaign to free Rev. Ben Chavis and the Wilmington Ten, Joann Little, and others falsely accused and politically persecuted. He was a part of the international campaign to free Nelson Mandela. He has been a part of leading the struggle in Chicago for the past seven years to stop police crimes — especially murder, torture, beatings and racial profiling. He is presently co-chair and educational director of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. In addition to being a community organizer, Frank is also a published writer since 1971, when he first published “Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner” in the Fall 1971 edition of Freedomways magazine. He became a contributing editor of Freedomways magazine in 1981-83. Max Rameau is a Haitian born Pan-African theorist, campaign strategist, organizer and author. While a student in the Washington, DC area, Max was introduced to Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist theory. After moving to Miami, Florida in 1991, he began organizing around a broad range of human rights issues impacting low-income Black communities, including Immigrant rights (particularly Haitian immigrants), economic justice, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, particularly for ex-felons and police abuse, among others. In October 2006, Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot in the Liberty City section of Miami and built the Umoja Village, a full urban shantytown, addressing the issues of land, self-determination and homelessness in the Black community. In October 2007, Take Back the Land initiated a bold campaign that sparked a national movement: "liberating" vacant government owned and foreclosed homes and moving homeless families into them. Max is an organizer with Pan-African Community Action and travels the country facilitating workshops, engaging in campaign strategy sessions and developing models for community control over land and the human right to housing. Max Rameau continues to develop movement theory and is currently working on a book on Community Control Over Police. L. Gato Martinez-Bentley is a native Washingtonian who’s an integral part of the revolutionary socialist movement. He’s a proud father of two daughters and two granddaughters. He’s taught locally, as well as internationally, working with children's theater, and professional community collaborations for well over 30 years. He's a rebel with a cause, who believes in and teaches the importance of all history regarding people of color. He’s a Nubian Warrior / Olmec Spirit. His accomplishments are being a teacher for more than 30 years. As well as being a conductor of a children's choir. He's an accomplished contract negotiator, organizer, and co-founder of the Rosemount Childcare Workers Union and the sole creator of Return To Salt Of The Productions. He’s a passionate believer for people's rights, who began his activist journey at the tender age of 14. He's an accomplished, credited teacher, playwright, producer, director, actor, and social activist. He epitomizes what it means to be a griot, who fully embraces the meaning of keeping an oral history, to educate and entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, and more. The event will be moderated by: Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo is the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated: No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. She worked at the EPA for 18 years and blew the whistle on a US multinational corporation that endangered South African vanadium mine workers. Marsha's successful lawsuit led to the introduction and passage of the first civil rights and whistle-blower law of the 21st century: the Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act). Marsha was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame, March 2017. Currently, she is working to stop the Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC) and the Bethesda Self-Storage Company/1784 Holdings from its continue desecration of Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland. Luci Murphy is a singer, political activist, community organizer, and language interpreter. Since the 1950s, she has been a featured vocalist at progressive events leading group singing. She has performed internationally such as in Cuba, China, Brazil, Palestine and elsewhere and can also sing in ten different languages. She is a native from Washington D.C. whose insights are informed by the movements and folkways of people across the globe. She currently sings with the D.C. Labor Chorus and the ONE DC Black Workers Center Chorus and in 2007 she received the Paul Robeson Award for Peace and Justice from the Friends of the People’s Weekly World. Queshia Bradley is a global public health and new business development leader with over 14 years experience. Her expertise is in designing, developing, managing, and implementing a diverse range of programs for international and national NGOs. She is also an accomplished grant and proposal writer, effective capacity building/ training specialist, proficient researcher and strategic analyst. Queshia holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business with a concentration in Marketing from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She enjoys travelling abroad, dancing, speaking Portuguese, learning about esoteric teachings from around the world, and debating foreign policy and geopolitics. Queshia serves on 3 Boards, and lends her expertise to 11 community organizations, whose missions range from adult workforce development, youth development, immigration rights, supporting returning citizens, anti-war efforts, expanding political education in underserved African-American communities, to promoting international solidarity, fostering collaboration across the Afrikan Diaspora, and advancing the role of women of color working in peace and security fields. Our co-hosts are the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (http://www.naarpr.org) , Pan African Community Action (https://pacapower.org/index.php?page=community-control-over-police-2) , and DC Metro CPUSA (https://cpusa.org) . ASL interpretation will be provided. In Solidarity, Claudia Jones School for Political Education Donate (https://claudiajonesschool.org/donate/)



Claudia Jones School webinar on Jack O'Dell




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Open to the public, please join us for the forum discussion https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G0xu8H0mQSmoF4gv-RtdYQ

Open to the public, please join us for the forum discussion https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G0xu8H0mQSmoF4gv-RtdYQ





Webinar hosted by the Claudia Jones School for Political Education and Black Women Radicals Lecture from Dr. Carole Boyce Davies, "A Right to be Radical", from her book on Black American Communist Claudia Jones, "Left of Karl Marx" Panel discussion and Q and A to follow

Webinar hosted by the Claudia Jones School for Political Education and Black Women Radicals Lecture from Dr. Carole Boyce Davies, "A Right to be Radical", from her book on Black American Communist Claudia Jones, "Left of Karl Marx" Panel discussion and Q&A to follow with Dr. Boyce Davies and Jaimee Swift, founder of Black Women Radicals




The killing of Black people at the hands of the police is taking place against the backdrop of a pandemic that is taking Black lives at an alarming rate. Our communities continue to be disinvested in and our people continue to be vulnerable to every harm in our society. This is why we call to defund police departments across the country and demand an investment of those resources into the needs of our communities. We know what is happening in Minneapolis is a product of what has happened to Black people for decades. We are paying attention and we are ready to rise. Join us for M4BL’s National Call to Action Call, hear from Organizers in Minneapolis and across the country. We will share our demands and ways for folks to take action!

The killing of Black people at the hands of the police is taking place against the backdrop of a pandemic that is taking Black lives at an alarming rate. Our communities continue to be disinvested in and our people continue to be vulnerable to every harm in our society. This is why we call to defund police departments across the country and demand an investment of those resources into the needs of our communities. We know what is happening in Minneapolis is a product of what has happened to Black people for decades. We are paying attention and we are ready to rise. Join us for M4BL’s National Call to Action Call, hear from Organizers in Minneapolis and across the country. We will share our demands and ways for folks to take action!