SuperTeeJ

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

1st post earlier this morning

The bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its President is a flagrant act of war and an illegal act of aggression under international law (as were the extra judicial killings of people on boats). This should be condemned no matter what people think of the Venezuelan government. This is going have far-reaching implications.

The Canadian government should not be allowed to hide behind weasel words of wanting more facts etc. They should forcefully condemn this. Especially since Trump has clearly threatened Canadian sovereignty before.

We desperately need an antiwar movement in this country. To do that we need to build a movement that aims to speak to the wider working class not just left.

2nd post later today after the Canadian government official response:

Anita Anand's statement is outrageous

"Our long-standing commitment to upholding the rule of law and democracy, Canada calls on all parties to respect international law."

The U.S. just flagrantly violated international law in bombing Venezuela and kidnapping its President and Canada didn't condemn it. So obviously we are not committed to international law. Does the Canadian government support the bombing sovereign countries and kidnapping of sovereign leaders at the whim any government?

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From my friend DJ:

Canadians are not even remotely clued into the prospects of an American Anschluss facilitated by a whole array of Quislings, from the board rooms of the Business Council of Canada and old line party elites down to the Freedom Convoy organizers and Yankee-loving separatists. You don't need to wrap yourself in the Canadian flag to recognize the return of the National Question with Trump's threats of "economic" annexation.

Five years after the colossal pandemic defeat of the left, so easily facilitated by union brass and NDP leaders, we once again go to war with the army we have: a bunch of corporate Liberals elites propped up by a zombie NDP with its "left-wing" being the rantings of a fool, Charlie Angus, and a largely useless, corrupt, and rightwing union leadership. Defeat is all but guaranteed.

The Anglo-Canadian left in particular remains so deeply wedded to the NDP through active support or through an opportunsitic retreat from mass politics into NGOs masquerading as "social movements", that we go into this new period as the only imperial vassal state with no independent left-wing experiment appealing to the masses through class struggle unionism, anti-war organizing or electoral action...save a few which are small and fragile and don't need their names splashed here.

The prospects of a democratic self-governing Canada, freed from the shackles of the British North America Act and allied to those around the world fighting America's barbaric world order, lie with everyone labouring away, without recognition or fanfare, in educating, organizing and agitating among the working-class majority.

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot.