General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 18
SlayGuevara @ SlayGuevara @lemmygrad.ml Posts 4Comments 262Joined 6 mo. ago
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Climate changes is causing pollen to be around earlier, heavier and longer. Usually it is two weeks of suffering for me and then it is okay but I have been going for over a month now. It is drier and hotter than usual with virtually no rain for weeks so it just keeps hanging in the air. Cars are covered in a thick layer of pollen everywhere. Windows too.
It's miserable. I can't open my window even when it's 30 degrees and full sun outside because my house will be full of it in no time. It's been going on for so long now that my throat is getting infected from being irritated all the time. People see the ice melting and think it's far away but stuff like this is also going to happen, making life increasingly miserable.
The socdems walked in the May Day parade over here and held speeches. Against the 'inhumane new government that targets the working people'.
But they are in the government lmao. Never heard such a bullshit speech ever.
My bad, I repinned it
To anyone marching/protecting/striking today: have fun and stay safe. Also, if you, like me, have to go outside in 30 degree weather: stay hydrated as well.
Today is a day of festivities although in my country it will also have an extra layer of activism with our new government ready to break things down. We shall march in my city today with various left wing parties and orgs. Vijay Prashad, who is doing some stuff in our country in behalf of our party, will also speech and march in my city, which I think is a neat act of solidarity.
I had a very interesting and even emotional party meeting today and I must say combined with the recent increases in strikes and protests it really re-ignited some fire inside of me and I feel ready to continue fighting
This system will go down
The thing is that there are some really serious things that are being proposed that they cannot ignore I think, otherwise people will be royally fucked in the coming years and-or decades. And simply remaining idle with some accepted strikes in between is not going to solve it, so at some point they would have to do something more serious.
Well I guess so, it was a strike. But the Trotskyist members were there on their own account instead of striking it seemed so their vision of it might be a bit skewed.
Personally I am all for (a version of) an indefinite strike but I doubt ABVV and ACV want to do that given their ties to Vooruit and CD&V so as to not jeopardize their positions on the negotiations. I also don't feel like there is a party ready to back the unions, able to provide the neccessary context to the working class people apart from PVDA-PTB but even then I´m not too confident in how they will handle that with no allies apart from the unions. Vooruit will never back PVDA and neither will Groen I´m sure.
Thank you for linking this, I found this to be a great read.
Not to turn into big brain man here but lately I have been feeling like the focus of our party should be more on achieving things on our own merit to show people what organizing can do and funnily enough that's exactly what the article mentions. Only now I have a way to word it better at our next meeting.
Sometimes I find myself reading theory and thinking to myself 'man am I too stupid to understand this or what?'. I'm not but I think reading theory just doesn't help to bring across the point that is made in the books. I feel like I need some other form of learning theory.
Ultimately there is no winning such discussions as the goal posts are constantly being moved. From 'media said so' to 'well, they are bad so it could have happened you know!'. Some people live in a permanent state of delusion it seems.
Today I had a conversation with an anarchist and she accused one of our leading party figures for being a 'China apologist'. It doesn't even make sense as the dude in question, Jos D'Haese, is at the very best maybe lukewarm towards China in a sense that he doesn't really mentions it ever. The same anarchist gets all her inormation on China through mainstream media, the media that she doesn't trust on any other topic, ever.
I'm not sure how to handle it in a good way either. Usually I just ignore whatever bullshit comes from their mouths because I can't debate it using facts as all facts regarding China are fake anyway according to them. I'd much rather focus on our internal problems and figure out a way to go forward while China does their thing regardless of the opinions of some Belgian communists and anarchists.
Today's strike was fun (for a lack of a better word). There were 7000 people present at the march in my city which was honestly more than we excepted, so that's good. Several thousands of people in other cities around the country as well. I assume many more people striking but not going to a protest.
I spoke to many different people, also from different communist parties. Mostly Trots though but still interesting to see what they are up to. Being anti-China was one of those things which I thought was funny coming from a party in the margin (duh).
I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin's What To Do quote).
The sun was absolutely blasting though so I feel a bit woozy from walking in the sun all day.
On the way home I got stopped by this girl working for a charity who asked me to donate. She was very passionate about the case which I thought was cool. Upon getting home however I saw that I subscribed to a monthly thing and I don't want that given how many things I already am active for or are paying for, so I called the org to stop it so that I can make a one time payment. The lady on the phone said 'okay, I will send a mail to the girl you spoke to to cancel it' and I found that quite sad lol. I at least asked the lady to tell her in the mail that I still donated though so that she would not feel too bad.
How nice. The sun is shining, I'm drinking my morning coffee, preparing for the strike today, and now this. What a day!
Sometimes when I'm in the mood to chastise myself I log on to LinkedIn and read whatever radioactive garbage gets posted there. Like, you cannot convince me these people are real.
Well, holiday is over. Back to striking tomorrow, and 1st of May on Thursday!
The trend of countries deporting migrants protesting has me worried, as a migrant myself who is politically active. It's not happening here but still. It might.
Did you like what was discussed? I have no idea of the ideological framework of FNV and I always wondered how radical things are over there.
Brussels, Belgium
I would have loved to but it was so busy. At some point there was an actual line to get in the next room. And so much security. Unbelievably grotesque display of wealth, funded by taxpayers of course.
I visited the Royal Palace today since they have opened their greenhouse for the public for a few days. My love for plants transcends my hate for the monarchy so I had to have a look.
It is absolutely obscene the area their palace occupies. Like, you could walk a 5km round through their gardens and still not see half of it. Paired with a ginormous palace. And not a single piece of grass is cut in the wrong way.
The most ironic moment I had there was when I overheard some guy talking about refugees being privileged, while walking around the palace gardens of a literal nepo baby.
We should 100% make this a public ground in the middle of a 2 million people city.
I'm not chauvinistic about The Netherlands at all and I like living in Belgium but I just can't stop making fun of it lmao white people infighting
That problem will solve itself because he is going to give himself an aneurysm or heart attack very soon. Dude does NOT look healthy at all.