Duke / King of Wu are the same person in the story.
King of Wu had an opportunity to kill king of Yue but instead chose to be merciful and it ended badly for him, now king of Yue has an opportunity to kill king of Wu so he should take it or else it he might repeat king of Wu fate.
Just happens to be the same person who insisted on calling Ukraine "Nazikraine", claimed Ukraine never existed and isn't a nation, and that Nazism is the core of Ukrainian national identity. What a coincidence.
CPGB-ML are so, so much worse than TERFs. CPB (and WPUK they keep supporting) are TERFs.
CPGB-ML are against any and all "LGBT ideology" and they will expell members for it. They are against all "identity politics" with very narrow exceptions for women's rights and anti-racism.
I can't find it now but there was a tweet on their official account comparing gay rights to guide dogs for the blind in an attempt to drive home just how frivolous gay rights are, arguing those are not class issues but special group interests - and alienating everyone who cares about either queer liberation or disability justice in one fell swoop.
They are not just tailist, they are full on right-deviationists (patsocs, nazbols, Strasserists, Duginists, etc), and I will die on this hill. They also collaborate with US patsocs and promote them.
Nazbols / patsocs pretend to be Marxist-Leninists and there are always some people around ML spaces who sympathise with them. There's nobody here who thinks NYT present the correct Marxist-Leninist line.
If this was posted as "Inteview with Joti Brar the patsoc TERF" I wouldn't report it, alas it's posted as:
Joti Brar of CPGB-ML is the daughter of the late Harpal Brar.
“Neutrality Studies” is some Swiss nonsense, but at least they’ll listen to communists and anti-imperialists.
I could say all those things about the BBC, the Guardian, etc, and yet there's no rule against posting them. I already explained why I think right deviationists in particular are banned, I might be wrong, I didn't wright those rules this is just how I understand them. This is also what makes sense to me, I think banning New York Times is counterproductive but banning Haz is not.
There are many people speaking against russophobia and warmongering, we don't need to post the ones who also speak against "the gays".
When writing the effort post above I skimmed over that RATWM article again, and this stood out to me: "considering the people most impacted by US imperialism and imperialist war have been organizing against it long before these Mises people came along, why haven’t I seen most of these white Latte Leftists engaged in organizing with us? I mean, Black, queer, trans, disabled, Global South, African people will certainly all die should there be a nuclear war"
There are better voices to lift out of obscurity than Joti's.
CPGB-ML are right deviationists so I'll keep reporting them for breaking the rule "no right deviationists". Joti is a prominent "socially conservative" figure on the British "left", posting an interview with her is no different to posting an interview with Hinkle.
From MoreTankieChapo to GenZedong to Lemmygrad there is a cycle of nazbols / patsocs / whatever you wanna call them swarming the space looking to normalise their ideas, getting pushed back, and quieting down for a bit until the next cycle, and I think this is why there's a rule specifically disallowing this content.
I'm not sure why you want to report Al Jazeera, there is no rule against posting from mainstream media.
No. You could as well promote any US patsoc when they stick to the “right topic”. Or any fascist for that matter, they always appropriate some correct leftists stances. Communist spaces shouldn’t platform them even when they parrot the correct line.
Rule 5: No right-deviationists. CPGB-ML is "socially conservative" and Joti herself is a Caleb Maupin collaborator (she went on his show to spew transphobic hatred).
(Edit) CPGB-ML expels members for "propagation of LGBT ideology":
Congress therefore resolves that the propagation of identity politics, including LGBT ideology, being reactionary and anti-working class and a harmful distraction and diversion from the class struggle of the proletariat for its social emancipation, is incompatible with membership of the party, rendering those involved in its promotion liable to expulsion.
But, to return to the question of the demands of the self-appointed LGBT activists. Unlike ordinary people who happen to be gay or transgender, they are not happy with simply being allowed to live their lives in peace and without discrimination; it is not just a question of men and women wanting to be accepted even though they’re different.
For the so-called activists, it is a question of going far further than that, to the point of absurdity. Transgender activists want us, for instance, to encourage little boys and little girls who prefer the lifestyle that society offers to people of the opposite sex to the one that accords to their own sex to actually physically mutilate themselves in order to achieve the appearance of a person of the other sex.
Are ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ synonyms? Well they are synonyms, but a certain group of academics in the seventies in the United States decided that they weren’t synonyms. They were going to use ‘gender’ in their own way; they were going to use ‘gender’ to mean the social construct of behaviour surrounding what was expected of the biological differentiation among human beings (men and women).
But biological differentiation between male and female is a real thing. It doesn’t just exist in humanity, it exists in many species throughout the natural world. Sexual reproduction is a natural biological process that has persisted in nature due to the diversity it engenders; it is a phenomenon encountered in the natural world.
Why deny the material reality of gender?
Why did it become a fashion to say there’s no such thing a male and female?
Who is pushing this ideology that there is no such thing as gender? That there is no such thing as sex? That it’s not real?
There is even a movement termed ‘ableism’ or ‘trans-ableism’. There exist people who say: “I look as if I’ve got two arms and two legs, but actually in reality, I feel like I was born disabled.”
‘Transgender rights’ are bourgeois ideology. The whole issue confounds reality. It is pure idealism because the reality is that we cannot choose our identity at will. It is an illusion, a mistake and a crime to teach people to think that they can choose like this, under capitalism.
Working-class antiwar rage sends US woke mafia into a head fit
Unlike other self-identifying (and self-neutering) antiwar movements (essentially middle-class ‘left’ rackets in hock to the Democratic party in the USA or the Labour party in Britain), the Rage movement might actually pose a real threat to the establishment.
Last time I looked into CPGB-ML was like 5 years ago, but I can see since then Caleb released plenty of interviews with both Joti and Harpal Brar (CPGB-ML chairman) so the collaboration is very official and not a singular lapse of judgement on Joti's part as some people tried arguing back then.
The Donbass is a territory unique from others in the region.
Doesn't make it a nation.
I also believe that when two cultures come together, Russian and Ukrainian for example, that this creates a unique culture where traditions from both become mixed together.
Sure, this is basically what Cossacks were, with some influence from nations of Caucasus; there were even some calls for independence.
However this is not what happened in Donbass, ask anyone in Donbass what is their nationality and they will either say Russian or Ukrainian.
No worries at all, this reads completely civil. :)
Great points about control over resources, I think you're right here, this is clearly not the priority for Russia.
CPRF is bigger than Social-Democrats were in Lenins times. I know they won't try and bring the war home to turn it into a revolution, but I think they absolutely could if a Lenin shows up (cause Zyuganov is evidently not it).
For the Russian people and the Russian soldier this is an anti-fascist struggle.
OK this is a bit much. Russia has been a hotbed for Nazism since the 90s putting even the likes of Poland to shame. Travel guides to Russia have to warn people of colour to stay in hotels on Adolf Hitlers birthday cause Russian neonazis murder people year after year to celebrate the date.
Ukraine somehow managed to out-Nazi Russia after Maidan but still, the idea that Putin invaded Ukraine to fight Nazism is laughable cause he never had any issues with Nazis in Russia.
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Awesome story!