Michael Parenti: "Reality has a Marxist bias."

Palestine will be free. Cope and seethe colonist scum.

The Price of Oslo: a 2 part documentary series with 1 and 2 here.

Twitter thread with documentaries from a Palestinian perspective, here.

Based on Frantz Fanon’s “wretched of the earth,” a documentary on colonialism and its presence in the modern day, here.

The PFLP or the Party for the Liberation of Palestine has a Marxist Leninist lens giving a history & assessment of the PFLP’s strategy towards Palestinian liberation. PDF download here.

Jenin, Jenin, a documentary from Palestine is free to watch on YouTube here.

Al Jazeera is doing the best reporting on Gaza/Palestine right now. Here’s a brief piece on Israeli apartheid, here.

On the Palestine-Ireland relationship, here. Hour long podcast interview.

Five Broken Cameras, here. A father records the occupation forces, daily life and each camera representing strands of the story.

The Financial Times wrote a sober analysis of Hamas & the organization’s strategy. It’s a good piece since it’s free of the usual ‘violent Arabs,’ stereotypes we’ve come to be so familiar with in mainstream outlets. Here.

Episodes 1, 2 & 3 , 4 of the Palestinian Nakba, from Al Jazeera.

Here is Solidarity Cinema, a resource for documentaries on numerous subjects, including Palestine.

Thread of Documentaries on Palestine, twitter link.

Regarding Pinkwashing and Israel: here at Jewish Voices for Peace.

Great documentary on the media relations regarding the US-Isreal, here.

Some images below of books you can read regarding Palestine, whether it’s nonfiction or fiction. Use LibGen to download.

People who do this are muddying the waters. It’s not “October 7th, Hamas attacked out of nowhere!!” It’s deliberate propaganda on the part of the media and political class to ignore the fact Palestinians were being brutalized weeks leading up to October, attacked while trying to worship and pray on their most sacred days. For 70+ years, Palestinians have been denied a voice and any trace of humanity.

Michael Brooks gave a good summation here: Israel is a modernized power oppressing an indigenous population, armed and funded by the West with sophisticated military technology and surveillance equipment.

From the river to the sea. 🇵🇸✊

What I do is I interact with the text: I'll use highlighters and pens to note specific points, the core part of a theory & then highlighting its connections with other parts of the text. It stays in my mind better & it's part of why I enjoy using a physical book, making notes in the margins or I've a notebook at hand. I wouldn't recommend tackling Marx's Capital off the bat. Try reading Walter Rodney, Lenin, Stalin, on Marx, for example - WR is very readable and easy to understand.

I also find it's a lot easier to consume theory in bits and pieces. Don't try to consume all at once. I usually limit myself to twenty or so pages a day or at least one section to make sure I'm grasping what's being written. If you're having trouble with understanding particular terminology, pause to note it & research at a later time, investigate with the help of comrades who are at a different level than you & can assist with clarifying.

You can also do audiobooks on Youtube which is popular. I find the best way to understand theory is to join a reading group. You'll better understand when you collaborate with other people & you're not just reading: you're learning from other people at varying levels of understanding in theoretical development.

Michael Parenti is a good entry point with his lectures and talks. There's the SWCC Lecture channel on the subject of Chinese Marxism-Leninism & it's theoretical development if you're interested or Hakim, Luna-Oi. Now, I wouldn't have them replace theory consumption - you really do need to knuckle down and engage with Lenin, for example.

Monograph by a collection of Soviet scientists on the spread of proletarian internationalism in the Central Asian Soviets, investigating the socialist construction of these various SSR states & their history entwined with the October Revolution of 1917.

Hi, everyone! Wanted to announce that I’ve a few texts scanned and uploaded onto Internet Archive.

It’s a mix. Soviet pamphlets from Progress Publishers, including some books. I’m going to continue uploading from whatever texts I find at my local bookstore. 

If something isn’t popping up: give it some time. Up to an hour and a half to appear at least from my end.

Please enjoy and spread these.

https://archive.org/details/lenin-imperialism-and-imperialists-compressed/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/leninist-standardsof-party-life_202307

https://archive.org/details/lenin-on-public-education-compressed

https://archive.org/details/adhd-punished-vo-communism-https-t.co-2-unu-8-ozvn-x-2

Like any good Marxist-Leninist, I read a lot.

I mean: a lot.

Of my hobbies, I love perusing used bookstores to sniff out Progress Publishers texts. The pamphlets in particular were a goldmine. I managed to create PDFs of them including "The Problem of the Ideal," & "Lenin - Great and Human." Lunacharsky and Barabash have Internet Archives and Marxist dot org sources, so I'll hyperlink those if anyone wants to read the latter two.

I've also got Christoper Caudwell's "Illusions and Reality," along with "Studies and Studies in a Dying Culture," but the latter is an old book, the glue crackling. The first I've got two copies: two hardcovers from different decades. I was over the moon upon finding those. I'm very interested in aesthetics, literature and a Marxist literary critique.

Here's a taste of Caudwell from Redsails dot org.

I’ve been reading Derek R Ford’s recent “Teaching the Actuality of Revolution,” and been having a great time, penning in the margins & highlighting passages. It’s a very good book on education, pedagogy, aesthetics & navigating this capitalist system to find a way out from it.

Direct link here.