I didn’t have much time to look through it, but this is the website for Cuba’s state newspaper, you may be able to find more information there. The Spanish language version may well have more articles, but my Spanish isn’t quite good enough yet to browse too much.
It’s honestly disappointing. I enjoy what I do, but I would never associate with the majority of the people I work with outside of work. I have met some good people though. I know at least two other communists, including one I met through organizing before I even started the job, as well as several other leftists of different kinds. but for every one of them there’s 100 chuds. I’ve been to meetings where I’m talking to a communist, and someone with a three percenter decal on their truck drives by to park in the same lot
100%. I felt like I understood that before, but seeing it in person really made me get it. It ranges from people who are reactionaries except for being pro-union, to people who constantly talk shit about the union even though they’re dues-paying members. I guess it’s all really just different levels of self-justification from people who are just in it for the better pay and benefits. I really need to go back and read Settlers all the way through lol
I’m an apprentice electrician, and I definitely feel you. Just yesterday I had to talk to my journeyman for something like an hour about DEI just because I slightly pushed back on what he was saying. Before I started, I expected that being in the union would at least weed out some of the worst reactionaries, but unfortunately it is not the case at all
I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to people in general, but you may be surprised by how far left some people in DSA are. I’m in sort of a similar area where I’m too far from my nearest major city (Atlanta) to make it to events regularly, but still want to be involved. While I was in DSA, there were plenty of people active in the Slack server, ranging from socdems to incredibly well-read MLs. Even if you can’t make it to a protest or something, they usually still have social events too that come with more advance notice.
I also wouldn’t shy away from being friends with “normal” people. The whole project of the left requires getting those people on our side, and a lot of them are most likely not going to come to the correct conclusions on their own without someone to help them along
is still alive though lol
At this point it feels like leftists are the only group not involved in political assassinations
In 2024, as the Zapatista caracoles were closed to outside collaborations in order to reorganize
I’ve been checking the Schools for Chiapas website for the last year trying to buy some of their corn, I suppose that’s probably why they haven’t had any
Yeah it helps when it’s a bunch of people who have been protesting this whole time, rather than only showing up after the election lol
I’m glad to see PSL, the Green Party, and Cornel West are all collaborating. I don’t think I’ve seen major third-party campaigns explicitly support each other like this in the past. Obviously it won’t change the outcome of the election at all, but for people like me, where I had to vote for Stein since Claudia and Karina (as well as Cornel West) got removed from the ballot in Georgia, it’s helpful to see there’s at least a similarly-aligned option
Tbh I feel like that’s a pretty likely outcome at the moment lol
I don’t remember the source, but I always think back to that Stalin quote where he said he felt like a cult of personality was being built around him, with the aim that it would be used against him eventually. It seems like his suspicions were true, since that is exactly what happened after his death.
Reading about things like him being referenced in the national anthem, or the naming of Stalingrad, as a couple examples, there’s always a note that he objected to it before it was approved over his objection. Of course that’s usually portrayed as him putting on a show after ordering the things himself, but it seems to line up with the idea that it wasn’t being pushed by him, since he’s noted as disapproving of those kinds of things every time I’ve read about them.
It’s been probably a couple of years now, I stopped in the middle of an episode after Robert or the guest or someone (I don’t really remember at this point lol) went on an apropos of nothing rant against China, and I haven’t listened since. It had been getting on my nerves for a while, but that was the last straw for me. Something about an “anarchist” who makes their living entirely off of corporate sponsorships, enough that they stopped being a journalist and moved into a “compound” (his word, iirc), never sat right with me anyway.
As far as I know, which to be fair isn’t much, it’s more of a landback kind of thing. Same deal as tribes in the US purchasing land in recent times, just involving the government directly rather than buying it from individual owners.
I guess with enlistment numbers down for the military in general, they’re doing everything they can to encourage new recruits. Even if they sit back and don’t talk to anyone the whole time, they’re still “normalizing” the military and planting a seed in the children’s minds for when they’re older.
If you’re still sending invites, my friend code is 52692266. Thanks in advance!
I’ll have to look into that. I switched to Pocket Casts years ago specifically for the cross-platform sync feature, and haven’t really given it any thought since lol
Worth noting that the subreddit is unaffiliated with the org, and most of the users aren’t members. There’s definitely good info there, but it’s just a subreddit that shares a name with the org more or less.