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Tired Marxist writer. I make films and stuff through @ProlekultFilms (). #SocialismorExtinction
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This is not what the future looks like. This is what now looks like.
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That the coronavirus has reduced air pollution, water pollution and so on DOES NOT demonstrate that "wE'Re tHE ViRus", people are the problem or any other number of absurd eco-fascist conjecture.
Capitalism is shutting down. It demonstrates that capitalism is the problem.
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On 20 June, 1951, then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover launched the "Sex Deviates" programme. This ensured that LGBTQ+ people, when identified, would have their information passed across the government and that they would be made unemployed.
This
#PrideMonth
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#FBI
celebrates the diversity of our workforce and recognizes the contributions our
#LGBT
colleagues have made in their service to the Bureau.
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If I wanted to be a Guardian journalist I would write a book called "Future Shock: How the Mass Media Destroyed Time" about this weird phenomena of projecting cataclysm's that *are* happening into tomorrow
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Marx spent the last years of his life studying indigenous cultures. He set aside writing Capital to do so, which is why Engels had to finish the last two volumes. He wrote around 800 pages of notes. Even in Capital, he directly says the US was a project of genocide.
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If you accept these eco-fascist lines, you are paving the way for the largest programme of eugenics this planet has ever seen. It is already in motion ("only the vulnerable will die" = fascist apologia).
Not one death is acceptable.
Not one step forward for the reactionaries.
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The idea that this is "just people's fault" is demonstrated as absurd when one examines the observation being used to support it here.
Coronavirus has not eliminated humanity in these places. It shut down capitalist production and consumption.
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The ban on Russians entering Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Finland, and the sickening lectures delivered to the brave Russians taking to the streets against the war are a clear lesson: the bourgeoisie don't offer solidarity, to anyone. They view people as tools.
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This one actually pisses me off. What was "out of frame" in Starry Night was the cold stone of the asylum cell Van Gogh was looking out the window of.
2. This was inspired by
@leebrimelow
's first version of AI-expanded Starry Night: here's my version!
(scroll to the end to see Lee's original!)
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At points, Marx even suggests that indigenous societies hold much of the understanding that would be required for communism. Recovering this element of Marx should really be a precondition of a Marxist discussion around this.
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Note: Marx held himself to such a standard that he would spend years researching this question and making copious notes without publishing his opinions. That’s because he was actually studying reality, and knew that generalising and pontificating were useless and dangerous.
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A woman with learning disabilities has been ordered to accept contraception (injections) by the Court of Protection in Britain. She pleaded 'It’s my body and it’s my life. I should have the choice on what I want.’
Chemical castration is back.
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This is quite literally transphobia enabling peadophilia.
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"Tear down Lenin statues"?
The only people who've done that recently are Ukrainian Nazis, just to be clear on who thinks this and why.
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This isn't funny. It's a worrying reflection of how the asinine garbage paraded on here as analysis or debate has an impact outside of online platforms, and that this impact is to make us look utterly unserious, useless, and naval gazing.
"Communism is the real movement that abolishes restaurants"
Sticker seen in London, UK
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Raul Castro responded to this exact position beautifully when Obama came to visit Havana. He asked "what political prisoners?" and said that if the US provided a list, they would be released. The US never provided a list.
We demand the government of
#Cuba
release all its political prisoners, quit jailing dissidents, and respect the human rights of its people. We call on the international community to hold the Cuban regime accountable for these abuses.
#JailedforWhat
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I've been writing about Nord Stream 2 for four years now. The pipeline has shaped European politics through essentially every movement of the imperialist competition in this period. Over the last few months, the US had secured dominance over European LNG markets - its goal.
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Aaron Bushnell's protest of self-immolation is a serious development that belies knee jerk interpretation of its significance. There are huge implications for the US military, particularly within it. I don't think judgements on effectiveness are sensible or reasonable yet.
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This is one of the largest assaults on disabled people, particularly newly disabled people or those in work, in decades. It has the potential to be more violent even than benefit cuts and care costs have been.
GP’s will soon be stripped of the ability to sign people off work as part of a major government inititive to crack down on ‘sick note culture’
Rishi Sunak says people should stop 'over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life'
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Cuba, another nation labelled a "dictatorship" by the US empire, has the most advanced form of democracy known to man. Every neighbourhood in the country will have detailed discussion on these elections. Socialism is the future!
Neighborhoods in Cuba debate candidates ahead of elections
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What we're seeing in Palestine right now *is* the "two state solution" ffs
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@Numb9rNine
It's not "arriving" though. We've been in a mass extinction event since at least 2018 and the planet has been pretty constantly on fire since the 2020 blaze in Australia
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To be clear: this is *precisely* the kind of circumstance MAiD is going to be most often applied to. The coercion it places upon disabled people is inordinate, and there is no "ethical" way of doing this whatsoever whilst capitalism and the social oppression of disability exist.
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Israel was established by western imperialists, and particularly Britain, as a military foothold in the Middle East. It was and is consciously thought of this way. The support given by the US, Britain, the EU etc is given so Israel will help secure their interests.
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"Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society."
Lenin, State and Revolution
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This is a coup. It is not even cloaked.
#HandsOffVenezuela
BREAKING: Venezuela's Guaido takes oath swearing himself in as interim president
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British imperialism birthed US settler colonialism and even its "left" still have a superiority complex about it.
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So, yeah, Karl Marx is still more progressive, writing from the 1800s than the majority of people who say they’re following his example here in 2021
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The reason that Cuba has rising COVID-19 cases is part due to the fact that it can't import syringes, part as it had to open the tourist sector to secure revenue, particularly dollars, for international trade, and wholly because of the blockade which caused both these problems.
NEW: Cuba reports 8,853 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase so far, and a record 80 new deaths
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History is Marching is a feature length Marxist-Leninist documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major powers across the globe over the course of 2018.
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The British government has replaced £30 food vouchers with this, intended for a child for three days to a week. This is economic violence against the working classes’ children and theft (someone is keeping that £30) It is worse than insulting. It is a deliberate slap in the face.
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Aaron Bushnell's protest was not a letter to the left. It was not about our internal political fetishes, a clever commentary on the state of our organising, or a tactical suggestion. It was about Palestine, not you.
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In 1977-78, the FBI destroyed its file on the "Sex Deviates" programme, making it difficult to know in detail how it worked. We do, however, have an idea of the scope of this operation: the document was 330,000 pages long.
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A sickening confirmation of what should already be evident: this is a floating concentration camp.
Urgent warning issued as six migrants found cramped in one bedroom on Bibby Stockholm
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"Not my king" doesn't mean anything. "Down with the monarchy" does.
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Biden was literally VP when the concentration camps for migrant children were opened Ash
Joe Biden's ability to speak authoritatively and movingly on racial justice, imo, is something Keir Starmer should seek to emulate.
"The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer."
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I made a pamphlet ages ago that lays out, in the simplest terms possible, some of the most basic foundations of the Marxist labour theory of value. I'm gonna upload a few pages.
(1) Composition of capital
(2) Exchange value
(3) Labour is the source of all value
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@GusBamSutt99
It's pedantry with a point. We've been living in the fastest mass extinction event in history since 2018
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Will they be releasing the countless black people they've thrown into the slavery of the industrial prison complex for owning weed? If not, not interested.
BREAKING: The House just passed a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. A historic moment.
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We'll get to the fact that "land back" does not mean "change the ownership of land as property" but rather "abolish private property and develop toward a system based on communion with nature" another day.
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I don't think we stress enough that the African continent materially *must* be the heart of the communist economic revolution. It has 60% of the world's remaining arable land. What happens to that land will in no small part decide the future of humanity.
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They really did make so many of you hate yourselves because you bought the things that this society told you, day in and day out, to buy huh?
Communists love humanity and we demand you start loving yourselves enough to prevent it all from crumbling
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The notebooks he kept are here, but i stress they are notebooks and not fun to read.
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The US, France and Japan are all evacuating personnel and citizens from Wuhan, thus breaching China's quarantine, and that is literally how you cause a pandemic.
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Dockworkers standing in solidarity with a social movement is always a very important moment.
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no one cares if capitalism created Valentine's day, we just like our partners christ
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This you?
I hope people realize that the same Republicans who are refusing to acknowledge the results of our elections also champion disastrous foreign policy claiming they’re “bringing democracy” to other nations.
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The left in Britain needs to take up the fight against eugenics seriously rather than bickering about whether Keir Starmer might one day invite them to tea. It's frankly shameful that the main debate in Britain is "sHoUlD I LeAVe?" not "how do we fight fascism and eugenics?"
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Aquatic communist statues are still the best aesthetic ever imo. It's sad they're hear, but the look is perfect.
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There's a disturbing number of people who only seem to be able to stand with Palestine against Israeli genocide if they get to portray Palestinians as hapless victims, incapable of resistance.
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Fascism is the naked dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It is merely a form capitalism, as it does nothing but cement the power of the capitalist class.
Fascism was always anti-capitalist. This Nation piece shows that modern fascists are no exception
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So, like, this blew the fuck up?
Hi I make documentaries through
@ProlekultFilms
. This one is on why socialism is the only solution the climate crisis and how capitalism is exploiting it.
#SocialismorExtinction
Selling Extinction is a short introduction to the capitalist notion of a "Green New Deal", the NGOs that support it and the recent Extinction Rebellion protests in London.
#SocialismorExtinction
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And like, pls, just google “Karl Marx [insert question here]” before you go off on a topic “as a Marxist”
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To the comments saying that allowing her to have children constitutes child abuse or hard decisions have to be made: you're saying fascism is right because it's "practical"; it's obvious that people who have difficulty raising kids could just have, like, support to do it instead
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Art is a weapon. The capitalist class know this, as should be quite clear from the scale of the US state's intervention into Hollywood.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (new, not old) includes white phosphorus as a reward for a "killstreak". That is, if you kill enough, you get the joy of committing a war crime.
Call of Duty and its collaborators in the US state are advertising war crimes.
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Extinction Rebellion's political leadership are bourgeois to the bone. Not only have they collaborated with the police, now they literally advertise them!
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The political points communists should be analysing about the Dutch farmers' protests are the composition of agricultural capital in the Netherlands, the stratification of land ownership among different land-owning classes, and the position of the agricultural proletariat.
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The Nazis quite literally burned people to death as pre-organised party entertainment, directly intended to boost morale. This is snivelling Holocaust revisionism of the most sickening, pernicious and vile kind.
Source:
The Nazis covered up many of their crimes because they knew that the world would not look too kindly on them. Hamas on 7th October boasted of their crimes. It's not a hard point to accept. Unless you know nothing of any of this and are just bored and seeking attention.
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In imperialist Britain, criticising even the most grotesque forms of police abuse will be met with scorn, hatred and intimidation. The police are gangsters.
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The important thing isn't the use of LGBT+ politics as pinkwashing. The important thing is that Azov have openly attacked LGBT+ activists as part of a broad assault on LGBT+ people in Ukraine since the Euromaidan in 2014. This article is covering for organised hate crimes.
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Before continuing, it is important to illustrate that this was by no means the beginning of the FBI's homophobic operations but, rather, an escalation of it. The FBI began systematically collecting information about LGBTQ+ people in 1937.
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Fuck off you imperialist pigs. The Homefront video game series simulates a fictional Korean invasion of the US in which players have to routinely murder Koreans. Call of Duty simulated the Bay of Pigs. Where's your outrage about that you hypocritical dogs?
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@RedDiamondMP
@peachmouth
Black women didn't get the right to vote in the US until 1965 so that little asterisk is doing a lot of lifting
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In Cuba, if you wish to stand for election, you are not allowed to make promises. You simply state what you have done for your community or the population at large. The I is to vote on the virtue of someone's actions, not whatever nonsense they try to sell you.
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Cuba’s 2019 constitution was discussed in consultations with 8,945,521 participants - around three quarters of the population - which led to the revisions of between 50 and 60% of the proposals and was approved with 86.4% of an 84.4% turnout.
This is a lie and a big one.
"Marxist"-Leninism fails even the most basic test of a science: it refuses to correct itself when it fails. In fact, it is incapable, because it presupposes everything about its methods and goals, then justifies them backwards. That's called pseudo-science, folks.
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We also need a plant based system of production if we’re going to survive as a species and only non-western societies have any real understanding of this in their remembered and known history so y’know
"We are no longer a spectre, but creatures of flesh and blood."
We Demand Tomorrow is a feature-length Marxist documentary on extinction, the final breakdown of capitalism and the only thing that can save our species: communism.
#SocialismorExtinction
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My guess is that it means he's gonna bust unions, destroy what little trans healthcare exists completely, further the denial of healthcare for migrants and deepen the mass social murder of the disabled.
This is a genuinely terrifying move. What does “wokery” even mean in this context?
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At this time, the Palestinian resistance is the vanguard of humanity.
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I'm increasingly convinced Biden said "nothing will fundamentally change" to get the left to repeat it. It is a lie. Things will get worse. Capitalism is a system of violence and class domination that is falling apart and can only respond with abject and intensifying brutality.
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Absolutely no information about the Club Q shooter matters other than that he's a fascist terrorist. None of it. That is why he did what he did, that is the politics he represents, and these are the people who benefit by the discussion shifting.
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Communism is anti-fascism. The only way to destroy fascism is to destroy its basis in capitalist crisis - that is, to build socialism.
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The Cuban revolution claimed victory in 1959. Two years later, it had eradicated illiteracy.
Socialism works.
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Over one million people came out to demonstrate against the imperialist occupation of Iraq
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Karl Marx disagrees.
Capitalism and racism overlap sometimes, as they do today in the United States. But the overlap is circumstantial, not necessary.
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@panarin_misha
@SiggonKristov
@FKARomel
Just to add on: a CDR is literally the most democratic thing. It's literally just a neighborhood organ, consisting of a few blocks. The one I was fortunate enough to visit was pretty clear that they own their area and anyone trying to manipulate that reality is dumb or lying.
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The idea behind the programme was quite simple, as illustrated by Hoover's memo at its beginning. Source:
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This was justified by associating gay men with peadophilia, following a horrible instance of child abuse. The failure of the FBI to arrest the culprit in this case, the FBI published articles and documents describing how to identify "sex offenders" - that is, LGBTQ+ people.
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This is not a pro-lifer thread, it is an anti-eugenics thread. The woman in question highlights the same point as I would: it should be *her* fucking choice.
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This ia a disgusting claim, given that majority of people on the plane were Iranians.
The missiles Iran fired were nowhere near Tehran.
There is precisely zero strategic reasoning for Iran to do this and no evidence whatsoever to back it up.
#HandsOffIran
BREAKING: U.S. officials are confident Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner in the hours after the Iranian missile attack on U.S. targets, CBS News has learned. 176 people were killed, including at least 63 Canadians.
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Q: Who ended WW1?
A: The Bolsheviks.
Q: Who defeated fascism in WW2?
A: The Bolsheviks.
Q: What do we want back?
A: Bolshevism.
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The Algerian War of Independence saw the slaughter of upto 1.5m Algerian people at the hands of French colonialism. Go fuck yourself Macron.
Macron told Algerians to 'move on' from colonialism
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Lenin, who died in 1924, apparently both created and killed 100 million people.
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This became known as the Lavender Scare - a concentrated campaign of homophobia - which (as I said) was escalated by the introduction of the "Sex Deviants" programme. Further background:
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This is what Venezuelans are voting on today. It is important that we understand it in its reality.
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A crucial component of this campaign was the targeting of LGBTQ+ organisations opposed to such state oppression. A rather clever way of doing this was to associate them with communism and, thus, have them targeted as Cold War dissenters. An example:
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The only future possible 👇
"We are no longer a spectre, but creatures of flesh and blood."
We Demand Tomorrow is a feature-length Marxist documentary on extinction, the final breakdown of capitalism and the only thing that can save our species: communism.
#SocialismorExtinction
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Every single signatory of the Paris Climate Accords has missed every single conservation target set by the agreement but I sure am glad Biden signed that piece of paper. Global warming? Solved! 😎
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Between 2012 and 2013, British imperialism's underdevelopment of Somalia by loans and capital export led to a famine which saw 550,000 deaths in the nation, 258,000 of them children. This is to say nothing of the death gangs employed by British capital in the nation.
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Any representative at any level of the Cuban state can be recalled. A vote of over 50% against any elected official from their community, municipality or region will result in them being recalled. Fidel could have been recalled. Raul could be recalled. Power flows from the people
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