The Blacksmith's Hammer

There is a continual need for funds to buy food, water, and medicine, but Israel's destruction of infrastructure in Gaza means that jobs are nearly nonexistence.

You can help this family stay alive through genocide by donating via:

GoFundMe

Or via:

venmo (@gothhabiba) paypal (paypal.me/Najia) Cashapp ($NajiaK)

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

So to encourage some studying to not fall into ultra leftism please read The Long Transition Towards Socialism And The End Of Capitalism (digital copies are free for download!).

It goes through the history of revolutions and does an excellent job of being balanced in regards to topics like: the Soviet NEP, the Sino-Soviet split, the various Maoist factions in the 70s, Reform and Opening up, etc.

As the author says in his introduction:

Much discussion related to the development of socialism has focused on the struggle between different political lines within communist parties operating first in the Soviet Union and later in China instead of the actual material conditions which these lines represent. My judgment of these struggles does not rest on some sacred socialist values but on being rational. When things go wrong, it is not necessarily because of mistakes or treason of subjective forces, nor because of communists betraying the “true” values of socialism. The history I want to review is not a history of morals. For a materialist approach, the questions of betrayal or rectitude have only minor relevance.

The struggle for socialism is a collective project, created by the effort and support of millions over the past two hundred years. A specific economic and political constellation in the world system can make it impossible to move in the direction of socialism at any given point in history. A detour might be necessary. This does not mean that there are always excuses when things go wrong. Mistakes and treason do happen. However, we should be careful to not retreat to idealism and hand down a quick verdict, but rather conduct a dialectical historical materialist analysis of the facts so we might learn from history.

“Hi all! We have temporarily met the goal for medical needs, but still urgently need funds. More than 1.2 million people in Lebanon have been displaced after Israel’s recent attacks. G’s village in Southern Lebanon is facing a risk of the occupation’s invasion. Their family needs your donations to sustain their basic needs to survive. Donations may also go towards supporting other medical emergencies that pop up.”

Castro was obviously teaching Malcolm X telepathy.

And we should all be grateful to him every day

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.