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Anarcho-Communist

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🔞 I'm 51 years of age and a parent of two teenagers.

🚫 Anti-Blackness

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The Father of #Mabahambe

Most wicked man who ever lived.... but we don't hear a lot about him...

That is King Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909), the sole private owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.

The Congo Free State

- Not a Belgian colony initially — it was his personal property, granted at the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, where he was a principal architect.

- He extracted rubber and ivory through a forced-labor system enforced by the Force Publique (a colonial army).

The Atrocities

- Hand-chopping: Villages failing rubber quotas had their hands severed — including children's — as punishment and terror tactic. The severed hands were even collected as proof of "ammunition spent" (bullets were not to be "wasted" on hunting).

- Slavery and forced labor: The red rubber system enslaved entire populations; families were held hostage to force men into the forests.

- Population collapse: Estimates of deaths range from 5 to 10 million Congolese — through murder, starvation, disease, and birth collapse caused by the social destruction.

- Mutilation, rape, and burning of villages were systematic.

The Exposure

- The horrors were exposed by missionaries, British consul Roger Casement, and especially Edmund D. Morel, whose Congo Reform Association campaign, along with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and others, eventually forced Leopold to surrender the territory to Belgium in 1908.

The Borders

- At Berlin, European powers carved Africa with no African presence. Leopold maneuvered to secure the vast Congo basin — the "heart of darkness" — as his personal fiefdom.

He died in 1909 without ever visiting the Congo, having never faced criminal accountability. His legacy remains one of the most concentrated examples of colonial genocide in modern history.

You have named the wound. Now let me speak the remedy — not as petition, but as reckoning.

THE KONGO RECKONING: A CHARTER OF JUSTICE

I. BELGIUM MUST OWN THE BLOOD

Not as regret. Not as museum plaque. As confession.

The Belgian state — and the Royal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — must issue a binding, unqualified admission that the wealth of Brussels, its railways, its palaces, its parks, its industrial foundation, was extracted through the systematic mutilation, enslavement, and extermination of the Congolese people between 1885 and 1960.

This is not "colonial history." This is state-sponsored genocide disguised as private enterprise.

II. REPARATIONS: NOT CHARITY, BUT RESTITUTION

1. Financial Reparations

- A sovereign wealth fund established by Belgium, capitalized at a minimum of €100 billion, administered by the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congolese civil society — not Belgian banks.

- Annual disbursements for infrastructure, education, healthcare, and technology transfer — not loans, not "development aid" with strings.

- Debt cancellation of all Congolese obligations to Belgian and European institutions. The debt itself is a continuation of extraction.

2. Land and Resource Restitution

- Return of mineral concessions and land titles still held by Belgian corporations and descendants of colonial concessionaires.

- Repatriation of profits extracted from Union Minière, Société Générale, and other colonial enterprises — traced, calculated, and returned.

3. Human Dignity Reparations

- A permanent pension fund for descendants of the Force Publique atrocities, rubber terror survivors, and families of the mutilated.

- Mental health and trauma infrastructure — because the severed hand is not the only wound; the severed memory is deeper.

III. THE ICC: JUSTICE BEYOND STATUTE LIMITATIONS

The ICC must establish a special tribunal for colonial crimes — because the Nuremberg precedent proved that no crime is too old to be judged when the evidence is the landscape itself.

- Posthumous indictment of Leopold II — not for vengeance, but for jurisprudential record. The dead must be named guilty so the living are not named innocent by default.

- Investigation of Belgian state continuity: The Belgian state inherited the Congo Free State in 1908. It assumed the assets. It must assume the liabilities.

- Individual prosecutions where living descendants of colonial administrators, concessionaires, and officers can be linked to documented crimes.

IV. RETURN OF STOLEN ARTIFACTS AND SACRED OBJECTS

The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren holds over 180,000 Congolese objects — masks, statues, royal regalia, musical instruments, sacred drums, ancestral remains.

- Immediate restitution — not "long-term loans," not "shared custody." These are hostages, not exhibits.

- Repatriation of human remains — skulls, bones, and anatomical specimens stolen for "racial science." These are not artifacts. They are ancestors.

- Digital repatriation: All archives, photographs, sound recordings, and ethnographic notes must be returned to Congolese institutions with full intellectual property rights.

V. COMPENSATION FOR THE BUTCHERED

Every hand severed, every village burned, every child starved, every woman raped — these are quantifiable in lives, not merely in sorrow.

- A national memorial register: Every Congolese family must have the right to register their ancestor's name in a permanent, state-recognized monument — not in Belgium, but in the Congo, built with Belgian stone and Belgian gold.

- A truth and reconciliation commission — but with power, not theater. The power to subpoena, to seize documents, to compel testimony.

- Educational reparations: Belgium must fund — in perpetuity — the teaching of Congolese history, language, and culture in Congolese schools, free from Belgian curriculum control.

VI. THE GLORY MUST BE UNBUILT

Belgium's glory is a mausoleum. The palaces, the parks, the museums — these must carry permanent, visible acknowledgment that they stand on severed hands.

- Rename the Avenue du Roi / Koningslaan — no street should bear the name of a butcher.

- Dismantle the Leopold II statues — not to erase history, but to stop celebrating it.

- Reparations tax: A dedicated tax on Belgian corporations with colonial-era origins, flowing directly to the Congolese sovereign fund.

VII. THE CONGOLESE MUST SPEAK THE TERMS

Justice is not a gift from Belgium. It is a debt owed.

The Congolese people — not Belgian parliamentarians, not European NGOs — must author the terms of their own restoration. Belgium's role is to listen, comply, and pay.

From the Watcher of Alkebulan:

The hand that was severed still reaches. The blood that watered Belgian soil still cries. The child who learned to fear the white man still remembers. Justice is not a negotiation. It is the return of what was stolen — land, dignity, ancestors, and the future that was cut away with the hand.

Belgium built its glory on the blood of Kongo. That glory must now be dismantled, brick by brick, franc by franc, bone by bone, until the scale balances.

Will Afrika ever see justice?

ChangaMbire — Mwene Mbire

Farmers of Thought. FoT.

"The President profits from office. Crypto and NFT schemes empty people's pockets. Corporations stealing billions from workers through wage theft. Private equity devouring neighborhoods. Wall Street extracting wealth from entire communities. That theft is understood as innovation, investment, entrepreneurship, and free markets. A Black woman rapping about boosting and scamming, however, is the moral emergency.

Young Miami is not without contradictions. She's a millionaire. She participates in capitalist accumulation. Her relationship with Diddy demands a Black feminist analysis of coercion, gendered domination, and the unequal distribution of power. Every bit of that deserves interrogation. But, so does the political work this scamming conversation performs.

Every generation recruits "Black culture" to explain Black suffering. Blues. Jazz. Rap. Trap. Respectability has never interrupted antiblackness. Conscious rap has never dismantled racial capitalism. Black respectability does not secure Black life. Black people have spent centuries mastering the rules only to discover the rules don't protect them.

Young Miami grew up in survival economies. She has spoken openly about boosting, credit card fraud, and the worlds that shaped her long before she blew up. Her song names a social world that she lived through, but did not create.

""Yall want revolution but don't even know how to build community"

We are fighting a multitrillion dollar intergenerational loneliness industry that uses every piece of modern infrastructure, from how our cities are designed (car-centric, lack of free public "third places") to how our economy works (gig work, long hours, exhausting commutes), is explicitly engineered to keep us isolated.

It's not our fault, but it is our responsibility.

But you can't scold people into solidarity. It’s wild how some folks will accurately analyze how capitalism alienates us from our labor, but then completely abandon that systemic view to blame us for being alienated from each other.

On this day in 1977: The George Jackson Brigade planted a bomb at a power station in Olympia, Washington, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary. They were a revolutionary group founded in the mid-1970s, based in Seattle, named after George Jackson, a prisoner and Black Panther who was shot and killed during an alleged escape attempt at San Quentin Prison in 1971. The Brigade was composed of both communist and anarchist veterans of the women's liberation, LGBTQ and Black Nationalist movements. The organization split up in the late 1970s, after the death and/or imprisonment of many of its members. They intended for their actions to occur at times and places where no one would get hurt. Their first attack failed at this, injuring many people.

Cofounder Ed Mead was imprisoned in Wall Walla from 1976 until 1993. While in prison, he created Men Against Sexism, which organized LGBTQ men and men of color within the prison to dismantle rape culture there. Cofounder Bruce Seidel was killed during the Tukwila bank robbery. Mark Cook, the only African-American Brigade member, helped liberate Brigade member John Sherman from prison, but was later arrested a few days after later. He served 24 years in prison, where he started a chapter of the Black Panthers. He later launched the PIVOT program, which helped former prisoners find work. Rita "Bo" Brown, a working-class lesbian, also known as the "Gentleman Bank Robber" because she wore suits and spoke politely to bank staff during robberies. After her release from prison in 1987, she continued her work in prison advocacy with Critical Resistance. She died in 2021 from complications related to dementia. Therese Coupez was released from prison in 1999. She later produced a documentary about the Brigade called “Creating a Movement With Teeth.”

"One of the most amazing rhetorical tricks of modern fascism is to present itself as a resistance movement to "globalism", with "globalism" being painted as a shadowy networks of bankers, Jews, politicians, Jews, entertainment industry figures, and Jews. The idea is that by ascribing everything happening in the world to this shadowy network, you can both deflect any fundamental critique of the actually very open and obvious class structure and governing order, *and* present your white nationalist (or Christian nationalist for some forward-thinking and enterprising aspiring einsatzgruppen) cult as the savior. But more than that, by presenting the presence of poor, often very exploited immigrants in the country as the result of a globalist (read: Jewish) plot, you can present beatings, pogroms, and ethnic cleansing of those immigrants as some sort of brave resistance by the underdog (the white man). That's how they short-circuit the minds of people who are normally taught to cheer for the underdog, but lack the understanding of the world and basic human empathy to recognize who the underdog is.

"Liberals really need to understand WHY Leftist hate em....

After the cops shoot a child, after the landlord posts the eviction, after the bomb drops, after their favorite politician supports or refuses to vote against funding an ongoing genocide, they say “this isn’t who we are.” But it is EXACTLY who they are. They are the people who put a friendly face on fascism.

They don’t want to end exploitation. They want to diversify it. They don’t want to stop the pillaging of the global south. They want more queer women of color on the board of the mining company. They don’t want to abolish prisons. They want increased funding and training seminars plus body cameras with a Black woman as the warden. They don’t want to end war. They want it to be lead by a cabinet that “looks like America.”

That’s rainbow capitalism. It’s Lockheed Martin sponsoring Pride. It’s a raytheon booth at the parade. It’s a bank that redlined your grandmother putting a flag sticker on its ATM while it finances a pipeline through Indigenous lands. It’s the CIA tweeting # BlackLivesMatter while it topples governments. It’s the same sweatshop, but now the floor manager is a trans woman and the HR department sends a companywide email about belonging. It’s “representation” in the boardroom of the corporation that’s poisoning the river. It’s the NGO that lobbies for sanctions putting pronouns in their email signature before they meet with the State Department to plan the next coup.

Rainbow capitalism doesn’t want to free you. It wants you to identify with your exploiters. It wants you to feel included in the empire as it burns the world. March in June and sign the arms deal in July. A more inclusive exploitation is still exploitation. A bomb doesn’t become liberation because a queer person dropped it.

Every time we strike, they tell us to wait. Every time we take back a building, they tell us it’s “too extreme” and to apply for a permit. Every time we say “no more,” they say “not like that.” Their whole job is to be the buffer between power and the people it crushes. They translate our rage into policy papers and our dead into election talking points. They funnel momentum away from real movements turning them into hollow shells of what they were.

And when the fascists come, all that liberal “progress” folds like paper. It’s easy to roll back because it was never ours. Trump gutted protections, banned people, caged kids, and tore up regulations because liberals refused to build dual power to protect the people. They refused to build the clinics, the defense funds, the food networks, the tenant unions that don’t disappear with an election. They banked everything on institutions that were always ready to hand the keys to the next strongman. They don’t want us to have power outside their ballot box, so when their ballot box fails, we’re left defenseless.

Look at their party right now. They’re freaking out because social-democrats, not even socialists, just people who actually hold to the ideals liberals pretend to hold, are beating out entrenched neoliberal Democrats in primaries....Healthcare, housing, an end to war...... basic stuff they’ve had in the platform since FDR. But when someone tries to do it, the donors panic, the consultants smear, the leadership rallies to crush them. That’s your proof. Liberals don’t want the change they campaign on. They want the brand of change, without the substance. They want the vote, not the victory.

The liberal believes the prison can be reformed if we hire more social workers to walk the halls. They believe the boss will listen if we just ask nicely enough, long enough, through the proper channels. But in reality history is a graveyard of their compromises. They gave us the New Deal to save capital from us. They gave us civil rights legislation after they sicced dogs on children. They give us “representation” in the empire and call it liberation.

We’re not here to negotiate the terms of our own confinement. We’re not here to make the boot fit better. We're here to build intersectional working class power.

Take notes from the Black Panthers who ran, and Black anarchists who currently run free meal programs and armed community patrols. From the Zapatistas who built autonomous schools, clinics, and farms while the army surrounded them. From the anarcho-syndicalists who knew the union wasn’t just for wages, it's for seizing the shop floor and running it ourselves. From the Makhnovists who turned expropriated land into free communes while fighting on two fronts. From AIM, who occupied Alcatraz and Wounded Knee because treaties don’t mean anything without the power to enforce them.

That means mutual aid networks that feed people when the benefits get cut. Renter unions that keep each other housed when the sheriff shows up to evict. Industrial unions that shut down production, not just beg for contracts. Community defense orgs that watch the cops and watch each other’s backs. People’s clinics, cop-watch patrols, tool libraries, community gardens, anti-eviction squads, strike funds, mutual aid work crews, and most importantly Land Back.

The state will not save us. The ballot box will not save us. The democrats will not save us. Liberals will not save us.

"The RCMP can apply the lessons it learned at an Israeli military seminar last year to “Canadian law enforcement contexts,” according to a briefing document written by Canada’s defence attaché in Israel.

The international seminar focused on the “lessons learned” from Israel’s war on Gaza, which is almost universally recognized as a genocidal campaign among leading human rights organizations and by a United Nations independent commission.

suggestion, there are no plans to overhaul either institution’s curricula based on the seminar.

Earlier this year, The Maple reported that other attendees at the Israeli seminar included Canadian troops deployed as part of Operation Proteus, through which Canada trains the Palestinian Authority Security Forces in close co-ordination with the Israeli authorities. Representatives from 17 other countries also attended.

At the time, DND described Canada’s participation in the seminar as being primarily geared towards Canada’s role in the “peace process,” and made no mention of applying the “lessons learned” to Canadian policing or military education.

Spokesperson Daniel Blouin said in an email to The Maple at that time: “Attendance at this conference is not an endorsement of the operations of foreign militaries.”

But the briefing document states that the conference offered Canada “valuable military, diplomatic, and strategic advantages, strengthening both operational knowledge and international cooperation.”

The document also states that “Canada’s presence demonstrated solidarity with democratic nations facing security challenges,” and suggests that Israel provided lessons in how to “strengthen legitimacy in military operations globally.”

Maple last year, several Canadian police leaders sat on the board of the Abraham Global Peace Initiative (AGPI), a pro-Israel lobby group.

AGPI facilitates trips for police, including visits to Israel where participants tour sites and meet with officials.

Around July 2023, then-Winnipeg police chief Danny Smyth, then-Halifax police chief Dan Kinsella and Aviva Rotenberg with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police attended one of these trips, according to Smyth’s articles about the experience.

While Canada maintains a defence attaché office in Israel, the Israeli embassy recently said it will withdraw its own attaché from Canada at the end of this month, in what is claimed to be a sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries."