Joseph Attard
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Writer for @revcomintern. Host of @specompodcast. Dino/film/swords guy.
London
Joined August 2013
'The Communists Are Coming – A Visual Manifesto'. This feature-length documentary from the Revolutionary Communist International charts our founding year, explains our programme & lays out our (modest) objective: to turn the world upside down! WATCH NOW: https://t.co/Q7i1oL5W5q
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Zohran Mamdani, denounced as a Communist, wins a million votes, on a record turnout, to take the NY City Mayor's office, by promising affordable housing, free transport and free childcare and facing up the Democrat establishment candidate backed by Trump. Highly symptomatic.
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"I have never seen a moment in history when the ideas of Marxism were more appealing to people... The youth in particular are wide open to the ideas of Marxism & communism." - Alan Woods, RCI Political Secretary 'The Communists Are Coming – A Visual Manifesto' (2025) OUT NOW!🧵
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Dick Cheney's death is nothing to celebrate: I'm not happy about it. Why? He died peacefully in his bed. Like Kissinger. Like Thatcher. Like Pinochet. Like Franco. And there's no afterlife, so these killers will never know the justice that will one day come for their class.
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LIVE NOW: Spectre of Communism returns with a full timeline of the Russian Revolution 1917, from January to October! ✊✊✊
The Russian Revolution of 1917: A Complete Timeline! (S5 Ep 1: OUT NOW!) How did the revolution start? What kind of figure was the Tsar? How did the Bolsheviks win power? Fred Weston takes us step by step through 10 months that shook the world: Jan to Oct 1917. Links in 🧵
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We're back tomorrow! First episode of Spectre of Communism season 5: a full timeline of the Russian Revolution 1917 from January to October...
SPECTRE OF COMMUNISM SEASON 5 BEGINS ON 4 NOV! First: a FULL TIMELINE of the Russian Revolution Jan to Oct 1917 – 10 months that shook the world! Fred Weston explains the role of the Bolshevik Party in determining the difference between victory & defeat. New eps every Tues!✊
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Delighted & proud of how well the RCI’s new documentary, ‘The Communists Are Coming – A Visual Manifesto’ has gone down! This was one of the most complex media projects we’ve ever worked on: we really hope it’s at least captured the essence of what we stand for. Seen it yet? 👀
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Nobody will be more responsible for Farage and Reform's victory than Starmer.
The only functional meaning of this from a party that has no programme, no candidates and no track record of even running a parish council is: "Reform In" - and no surprise they're aligned on Putin friendliness ... from ppl who stood on Labour's manifesto in 2024? 🤷🏻♂️🤮
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Why do they all look like this? Also, ‘MBGA’ doesn’t scan. How do you even pronounce it? They should’ve gone for ‘Make England Great Again’ (MEGA). Especially because, let’s be real, that’s what these little goblins actually mean.
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The timeskips were sometimes jarring. Choosing to have Syril exposed as an ISB agent off-screen made me think I'd missed an episode.
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I’m not being a pearl clutcher. I literally binged the Halo 3 campaign with a friend last weekend. I grew up with this series, but let’s not retcon it into something it’s not. MasterChief was never a comrade. Hate to break it to you, folks.🧵
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Plus, you don’t have to look too closely at American soldiers taking on fanatically religious aliens, who literally worship and want to activate a WMD, to read a bit of Bush-era politics. Yes the first game started development before 2001, but the series feels very mid-2000s. 🧵
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The protagonist is literally an abomination created by a dictatorial imperialist government, who abducted, tortured & murdered kids to make living weapons to crush starving insurrectionists. He just gets repurposed when a bunch of evil aliens show up. And he’s the good guy. 🧵
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Look, I get the objection to Trump & ICE splurging AI-generated Halo monstrosities to push anti-migrant bile… the devs are rightly pissed off about it. But can we not pretend the Halo franchise was some progressive parable? It was a military power fantasy (and that’s fine…) 🧵
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According to JD Vance, this is what a ceasefire looks like.
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Netanyahu orders immediate ‘powerful strikes’ on Gaza, after over 100 Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement since it was signed. So, this what Donald Trump calls the 'art of the deal'?
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