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Survival is hard in a world structured on systems of oppression that take everything from us. For those of us for whom survival is easier, it is our responsibility to build for those whom survival is all they can do.

But you cannot build without a plan, and you cannot plan without correct understanding. Just as you should only trust the design of a house to engineers and architects, else your house may collapse and kill you, you must only trust principled and educated communists to design and build a revolution, else it may do the same. We must be versed in dialectical materialism -- to correctly analyze the world -- and materialist dialectics -- to change the world with intention -- in order to bring about the change we need. We must learn these components of communist theory and much more alongside them. However, never forget:

It’s not enough to carry a vulgar sense of elitism and specialness about the knowledge you’ve acquired. This is itself a form of incompleteness of the truth. The truth is partisan. Reality has a Marxist-Leninist quality. To just haphazardly spew suspicion without elucidating the nature of ideology is to lend energy to reaction.

- Sizhens System, BY GOD YOU MUST BECOME A COMMUNIST

We must simultaneously recall,

Theory and practice must always go together. Theory without practice is useless. Practice without theory leads to folly.

- Hồ Chí Minh (paraphrased)

Building towards revolutions is incredibly difficult in the west. Our bourgeois class and our states use the wealth gained from capitalism and imperialism to fund both bourgeois propaganda to keep workers confused as to why the world works as it does, as well as the violence against their people to keep them in line. They will also divert revolutionary potential and the agitation of workers towards liberalism -- see the ineffective No Kings protests just recently. All that time and energy and potential spent to accomplish... What?

We cannot simply stand by and do nothing. We must educate ourselves and each other, we must train and develop cadres, we must be prepared for future moments where revolutionary potential reaches a critical mass -- and these moments will come more frequently than ever. The contradictions of capitalism are all plain for everyone to see, they are incapable of being ignored.

A better world is possible, but without our education and preparation all that is achievable is a slow death spent thrashing in the dark against an enemy we cannot percieve, or missing our chance again and again and again. Arm yourself with knowledge and join your comrades to apply the truth you glean to change the world.

With Our Power

1) they broke through the fence using a bulldozer, a symbol of the occupation's destruction of Palestinian homes

2) Qassam fighters were coming down from the sky with nothing but assault rifles using makeshift gliders. They rained down from the sky to complete their mission.

3) They took out the zionist terrorist troops from entire military bases and accomplished military goals that hadn't been reached in decades, that hadn't been previously thought possible. Hundreds of zionist soldiers taken down, while in their military bases.

4) They had managed to reach Jerusalem according to some accounts from locals on that day (or it was a coordinated gesture by a local defense group). Still notable to me because for 2 decades Ghazzawi people have been under total siege, unable to go somewhere like Jerusalem to see our beloved Al-Aqsa, or the Holy Sepulchre Church.

This was all cause for celebration, an enormous military victory.

And then the Hannibal directive was issued and the occupation bombed its own 'citizens' and wiped out an entire suburb with its own tanks and helicopters and started churning out propaganda about rapes that it has continuously refused any investigation of (1, 2), and that there is no forensic evidence for.

Hell yeah I’m still on this!👏

Main characters from: @ameliapodcast , I love them all so much!

—L. Hughes.

Lenin walks around the world.

Frontiers cannot bar him.

Neither barracks nor barricades impede.

Nor does barbed wire scar him.

Lenin walks around the world.

Black, brown, and white receive him.

Language is no barrier.

The strangest tongues believe him.

Lenin walks around the world.

The sun sets like a scar.

Between the darkness and the dawn.

— L. Hughes.

Reproduced verbatim. See this page for both.

Comrade Lenin of Russia,

High in a marble tomb,

Move over, Comrade Lenin,

And give me room.

I am Ivan, the peasant,

Boots all muddy with soil.

I fought with you, Comrade Lenin.

Now I have finished my toil.

Comrade Lenin of Russia,

Alive in a marble tomb,

Move over, Comrade Lenin,

And make me room.

I am Chico, the Negro,

Cutting cane in the sun.

I lived for you, Comrade Lenin.

Now my work is done.

Comrade Lenin of Russia,

Honored in a marble tomb,

Move over, Comrade Lenin,

And leave me room.

I am Chang from the foundries

On strike in the streets of Shanghai.

For the sake of the Revolution

I fight, I starve, I die.

Comrade Lenin of Russia

Speaks from the marble tomb:

On guard with the workers forever —

Today, I submitted my resignation as director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Although it might at first appear that this choice was driven by the ever-intensifying political attacks against gender studies in Florida, these attacks are precisely why I would have wanted to remain as director. As a genderqueer scholar, I have been deeply committed to defending the center and advocating for the value of our research and teaching. However, I am also an anti-Zionist Jewish scholar, and since October 7, I have experienced unrelenting pressure from the university to disavow my religious practice, my religious community and my ethical commitments.

On January 16, FAU administrators made it explicitly clear to me that to be a leader at the university, I must support Israel. I have chosen to resign from the directorship in order to speak out about what I have experienced, and to add my experience to the hundreds of stories of academics and cultural workers who are being targeted in order to silence criticism of the state of Israel amid its genocidal campaign in Gaza.