If you're Canadian, I'd advise going to China with this Visa free travel (or if you're American, applying for a visa) to see for yourself instead of listening to second hand information from professional propagandists who don't want you to see things with your own eyes.
I read it - liar about Uyghur genocide claims China unlawfully detained someone related to an accusaton of supporting terrorism in the Uyghur Autonomous Region, and because of this action, Canada should oppose Visa free travel with China. Then they make ridiculous claims about Visa free travel making travel more dangerous for so-called critics of the 'CCP', which doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Surely Visa free travel makes it easier to enter the country without having to declare loads about your journey.
If this goon was so opposed to random black bagging of Arabs then they would be the most ardent ideological opponent of the USA what with their whole torture facility in Guantanamo Bay, their numerous black sites in Iraq and Afghanistan, the genocides they've helped Israel commit against the Palestinians etc.
Well with this Visa free travel scheme Canadians can go and challenge the lie made by these Uyghur genocide claimaints relatively easily, so of course they would oppose it.
Very interesting but in this article at least, the only actions this is backing up is the right to Chinese citizens and corporations to sue state actors making these unlawful actions on the international stage and that they will be assisted in doing so. Nothing harsher is explicitly covered in this press release, just about the right for China to intervene in these situations. I'd be interested in seeing what the limits of these interventions are, in practice. I imagine they aren't so severe as military actions to rectify the unlawful act frustrating China.
This stuff is covered in both volumes 2 and 3 of Capital, about both circulation of capital and financialisation of capital. Worth getting around to them at some point in your reading lists.
The person they've followed and interviewed correctly identifies that neither the greens nor reform will do anything to actually improve her life and the life of others in poverty, interestingly enough.
Chop it into your desired shape like small cubes then put them in the microwave on a plate for a minute or so, that will drive out a lot of the water then you can dab them dry with a clean towel or paper towel.
The US has done this exact shit off its own steam before, no need to fall back on the Israelis as defense. They utterly destroyed the North of Korea during their genocidal anti-communist war, for example.
Part of it is that if you haven't really thought through a problem and lash out immediately in petulance and haste, then your critique is not really worth anything.
It was mainly a problem because so many good names are already being sat on registered with the electoral commission. The names that were to be voted on were the only ones left that were actually available.
Not the first time and won't be the last. We have such a hot and cold relationship with China because the US whisper in the government's ears constantly when it comes to infrastructure projects in particular.
I reckon it's to do with US military bases and military technology in the areas - they rejected China helping us build 5G infrastructure too even though our own intelligence said it would be fine and not a risk.
Oh what a joy to be a vassal state.
Read about the attempts to export revolution to Poland at the start of the USSRs life and how the party quickly learned that it was an utterly fruitless campaign and the people of Poland were not at all ready to accept proletarian lead installed by a foreign entity.
Both groups end up coming to the same revisionist conclusions just by taking different routes. In action they come out being broadly the same.
Trotskyists have no concept of what the imperialist bourgeoisie is and will tar and feather any country as imperialist, including the imperialised.
In their actions and their rhetoric they implicitly support the western imperialists, gumming up and arguing against any alternative not as critical support but in active and constant vitriol and opposition.
As Lenin's Imperialism shows, foreign policy in capitalism is a continuation of economic policy. The power of the monopoly firms and finance capital forces the hands of the politicians to adopt a militaristic foreign policy, so that they can do regime change or take over natural resources or subjugate a local population for cheap labour, to combat the falling rates of profit.
Unless her domestic policy seeks to cripple the political power held by the monopolists and finance capital, regardless of her stated foreign policy choices, she will end up capitulating to the capitalists or be forced from her position for another politician who will.
But she already advocates for the god awful foreign policy decisions capital loves, so the chances of her actually challenging capital's power is basically null.
Advocating for the US to intervene against China for Taiwan separatists serves international capital only, advocating for gaza to be regime changed if it elects Hamas again serves international capital only. There would be no reason to support these policies if she were genuinely anti-capitalist, or advocating so-called domestic anti-capitalism.
I don't mean to rail on your position, just clarifying some thoughts I had out loud.
One Piece is one of the wokest pieces of media I've ever seen come out of Japan. These people are hilarious.
Not an anime but I was reading reviews for the new Spartacus House of Ashur series, and some people were skewering it for being too woke for having a black gladiatrix be the star, saying the creators had forgotten what made the original great. Spartacus, the series about a slave rebellion, with like 3 aggressively gay relationships with on-screen sex scenes, with a black woman slave who becomes one of their main fighters. Just wild trolling from people who were watching (if they watched it all) with one eye on the TV and the other lodged on Facebook right-wing rage bait on their phone.
Funny I thought our classical enemy were the nazi Germans, or was it franco's fascists in Spain, or maybe mussolini and his fascists, or was it napoleon, or maybe...
Nazi scum.
I've had two years of this now in my field, super fun to deal with especially when I have to do presentations and mock-reports for the interviews too.
I mean both Engels and Marx would disagree that crises in the current mode of production aren't the tinder that sets alight the fires of a revolution. You cannot hit a critical mass of people wanting to upend things if most people are, while exploited, broadly comfortable and willing to take their lumps thinking that things will probably continue to improve if they don't rock the boat. Crises create flash points where people can't see a moderate and easy way out, where the only safe bet is actually to overthrow the current rulers because they've used up whatever good will they had gained from their subjects. Consciousness building is simply the work that is done to ensure that, of that critical mass of revolutionary subjects, there is a sizable portion who can steer the masses, who understand why things are happening and can thoroughly explain it to the masses. Many of the rest of the masses may never actually become ardent communists, or have any great level of communist consciousness besides what the communists are currently telling them to get out of their shit situation they are currently in.