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Post your footage, marches, insane Zionist propaganda, history, etc here. 

To kick things off, I present Zionism In the Age of Dicators, by Lenni Brenner. 

Brenner was unfortunately a Trotskyist, however he was also friends with and organised with Stokely Carmichael of the Black Panther fame.

 The book focusses on the relationship between the Zionist Movement and the imperialist powers, as well as the new fascist powers, in the pre WW2 and WW2 period. 

Specifically it discusses the Zionists relationship with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Both of these were in fact strong relationships, key facts include the Haavara Agreement, by which 60% of the capital that built Israel in the 1930s came from Nazi Germany. 

Others include the little known piece of history, that Mussolinis Navy trained the first every Israeli Navy. 

The book also discusses how Israel was basically built by these fascist adjacent, sometimes simply fascist, Zionists, as well as the shirking of duty to European Jewry during the WW2, sometimes involving what can be looked at as collaboration with the fascist powers. 

You can also read 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis, as a companion, which is all the source material used in the other book, in raw form. 
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North Korea condemns Trump’s Gaza takeover plan as ‘slaughter, robbery’
North Korean state media has accused the US of “slaughter and robbery” over President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to occupy the Gaza Strip and expel its population of more than two million Palestinians.

“The world is now boiling like a porridge pot over the US’ bombshell declaration,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary published on Wednesday, in which Trump was not explicitly named.

The White House’s Gaza proposal was evidence of the US’s “hegemonic, invasive” ambition for world dominance, it said.

KCNA also called the US a “ferocious robber” over the Trump administration’s calls to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland, as well as its decision to rename the “Gulf of Mexico” the “Gulf of America”.

“The US should awaken from its anachronistic daydream and stop at once the act of encroaching upon the dignity and sovereignty of other countries and nations,” KCNA said.

“It’s not an issue limited to the Gaza Strip only,” it added.

North Korea has been an outspoken critic of the situation in Gaza, condemning Israel for its “ruthless” massacre of Palestinians and calling the US an “accomplice” to its crimes.
>>1064
>Always good to heard the IOF taking casualties.
I'll probably start uploading the new videos of such here when the war restarts.
What's size limit? I just got an general error trying to upload a vid of abt 60mb.
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>>1067
Upload limit is currently 20MB per post (all attached files plus text).

I can set it higher if you think it's necessary. A server upgrade to a higher storage size is inevitable anyway now that leftybooru allows small videos.
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I gotta say, Palestine Action has been a lovely source of light in these trying times.

Palestine Action just grounded a US military plane supplying arms to Israel
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/05/19/palestine-action-ireland/
VAS Aviation (a YT channel that annotates air traffic radio) had a video for this. The video isn't particularly interesting, just routine holding and managing of air traffic during the temporary airport closure, but was interesting to see the mix of comments. I know YouTube comments are abysses, but the top comments are mostly neutral, which was unexpectedly nice, especially considering the likely bias of viewers towards smooth airport operation.

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A thread for all those stray posts that don't deserve one.
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>>1228
Never heard of it, and can't find it online.
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>>1230
That's because it's been intentionally scrubbed from search engines.  I know because I was easily able to find it a couple weeks ago, and now it's nowhere to be found.  The government and the oligarchs controlling it don't want Firebrand to be found.

Here's the URL: https://firebrand.red/
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>>1231
Well also because I'm not from the US so other results were showing up first. I can find it when I set the location settings to search US.
>That's because it's been intentionally scrubbed from search engines
This sounds pretty confident for what is effectively a conspiracy theory. The US government and bourgeoisie, like in other countries, do manipulate search results but that doesn't imply they're aware of or manipulating results for minor orgs. It could be happening, but it's not helpful to claim without solid evidence.

Anyway:
>>1228
Why do you ask? I don't see what makes them any different to the orgs over in my country.
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I've looked in a little more out of curiosity. They say they started as a collection of former branches and members from the US org International Socialist Organization. I confused the International Socialist Tendency (Cliffite international grouping) with the US International Socialist Organization, who were unanimously expelled from the IST, while other ISOs remained within.

Fucking hell Trotskyist org names are a mess. There's also an ISO in New Zealand (still part of IST), which was founded by members of the ISO in Australia which through a series of factions ended up being renamed after one of their splinter groups, Solidarity. There was also an earlier splinter of the Australian ISO called Socialist Alternative, not to be confused with the 16 or so other organizations also called Socialist Alternative around the world, because unlike most of them the Australian one isn't a member of the International Socialist Alternative. The IST originally grew out of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain, which is not to be confused with the unrelated Socialist Workers Party in the United States.

AAAAAAAA

But ultimately, you can't judge these groups by their websites or by their (nominal) ideology alone. I've been involved with two groups with the same nominal ideology, both of which acted completely differently on the ground. Talk to unions and unionists to see what they think of each socialist group. Try and see which front orgs and offshoot 
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>>1209
>The Red Scare and US propaganda really twisted people's view of the world.
It did, and like I've said before it's a two-edged sword, where communist politics is actually able to fly under the radar now that the propagandized spectre of it is unrecognizable. As long as one doesn't voluntarily associate with socialist and communist symbolism or certain buzzwords, they talk all the socialism they want.

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Have any anons on here actually tried learning Japanese?

I'm studying it right now. personally I just use anki with the 2000 core deck, which has many variants on ankiweb but they are mostly bad. The one I use is https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/114060567 which is decent, but I've heard there's a better one available here:
https://djtguide.neocities.org/anki . I've also heard that the "tango n4/n5" series is good because it presents a series of sentences with the addition of one new word per sentence / card, however I have not yet found an anki deck for it.

There are some other learning resources I'm interested in too. https://www.japanese-like-a-breeze.com/guide-for-beginners/ offers an addon to the anki application that makes it specifically easier to learn japanese. 

There is an application that you can use to learn japanese from visual novels called textractor and a guide on how to use it here: https://learnjapanese.moe/vn/ . There's also a bunch of games on itch.io dedicated to help with language learning: 
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This thread is for all anime that is blatantly leftist. That means no allegories/metaphors/"vibes," no nationalist "anti-imperialism," no counter-revolutions, no progressivism, no liberalism and no guilt by association ("X is reactionary because reactionaries like it"). Go ahead and post your recommendations with an explanation why they're
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I haven't really explored anime, and I'm guessing "Squirrel and Hedgehog" (다람이와 고슴도치) isn't what you're looking for.
Does that even exist?

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This thread is for discussion and research on Three-Sided Football (3SF), to avoid derailing /swoletariat/.

3SF is an experimental game invented by a Situationist philosopher attempting to explain their idea of triolectics (their refinement of Marxian dialectics) in a book. Three decades later, some Situationists in Glasgow decided to try the game in real life, which has since evolved into casual competitions, international world cups, youth outreach, performance art exhibitions and protests.
Partly due to its political Situationist roots, the game has been interpreted by its players in many ways. Attached is a formal social study article about the sport, where players have variously considered it an educational tool, a non-binary 'queering' of football, an anti-capitalist, autonomous, desportised rejection of mainstream football, and just a fun self-leveling game to play.

The playful counter-cultural aspect of its founders, such as the London Psychogeographical Association, the The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture and the Association of Autonomous Astronauts, has resulted in a cryptic rabbit-hol e where there are as many serious FIFA and BBC interviews of the game as there are YouTube videos of people playing blindfolded or all tied together by a web of string, or in multiple cases being harassed by security guards. Just as one c an consider football hooliganism a subculture of two-sided football, one could consider the avant-garde Marxist satire scene as a subcul
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>>554
Sport like this makes me think, how many competitions are actually centred around useful skills? There's nothing wrong with entertaining exercise but if it can be productive at the same time, then why not encourage it.
>>554
Hell of a lot better then whatever competition advertisement the Guinness Records®™ are promoting.
That's the fuckin thing, most of the jobs I've seen aren't worth doing well.  Sportifying them would make you look like that leather-lapping Walmart Tattoo Weirdo.
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>>554
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0frMhmySME8
This is far more interesting to watch than Olympic track and field specialization.
I wonder what cop olympigs could look like.
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Not specifically football, but this idea of a three-way game has been studied in Game Theory (Economics), extrapolated from a "Truel" (3 person duel) as in a gunfight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truel
>>646
>I wonder what cop olympigs could look like.
Well, there's that UAE World SWAT Challenge. Some videos of China BTFOing USA by like half their time were going around last month.

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post stupid shit said by stupid people.
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>>1203
* Might as well apply that same logic to, say, their military. "Proof they're invading countries and committing war crimes? They are troops! That's what armies do! since when was this a new concept"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/4/2320393/-Immortal-Regiment-returns-to-DC-after-six-years
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>>1215
lol Soviet Putin/Trump. What a brainworm.
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>my Leninist variant is Genuine Marxism!
Is there a One True Scotsman fallacy? Because this would be it.
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Post some socialist comedy works. Films, comedian sets, parody, culture jamming, whatever. It's not too hard to find regular writers sneaking in socialist inspiration but far less openly socialist creations.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is an Italian play set during the Years of Lead. This performance is by an English socialist theatre group Belt and Braces. It's a great comedy and very bluntly political too, which is an excellent combination to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p10xejjf0pw
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>>113
>A few of the jokes by Monty Python makes me suspect that possibly one or more of the writers were socialists. Some examples are:
>>the end of the Bicycle Repairman skit, an obvious jab at anticommunists
>>the constitutional peasants in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who formed an 'anarcho-syndicalist collective' ('oh there you go bring classes into everything again!')
>>the Judean People's Front/People's Front of Judea splitting (although this is politcally agnostic, it shows an awareness of the splitting of nicher radical political groups)
>There's also a generalised mocking of mass media, conservatives and the upper class.
All of these things would have had an image in contemporary British culture of that era, whilst they probably had leftists tendencies the references really were not as obscure and niche as they appear today through our, relatively, young eyes.
>>909
I messed around with upscaling about eight years ago so the technology has probably improved since. The main requirement for image AI is GPU VRAM, so if your computer has a decent amount (or you're willing to rent one online) you should be able to experiment with that. From a quick check, it looks like the most recommended free tool is currently https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x
The quality of the source matters, so try to find the best quality copy of the film first (that doesn't necessarily mean the nicest looking - someone might have increased the saturation to make colors look better and lowered the quality in the process)
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>>913
Cheers for the software anon, yea, i'm just waiting to afford and organise to rent online, no idea how long it will take, need to do the research properly.
>>909
It's unfortunate that a lot of modern renditions are toned down and deradicalised, since the original won't be the easiest upscaling project given its VCR-tier quality.
>>86
Yugopnik recommended it as a favourite fiction work:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2443236496 @ 1:25:00

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The commies are infiltrating our cartoons! Those dastardly college arts majors are brainwashing the kids!
ITT we post Western mainstream media which show socialism in an unexpectedly positive light or have unusually sharp critique of capitalists.

>The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius — Krunch Time (2002)
In the opening scene, there are two clips where there is a clearly visible Soviet hammer and sickle on the label of an opened box in the background, with some unreadable text. No-one really knows why, although I can't help but notice the similarity to Jimmy's shirt design.

>The Ren & Stimpy Show — Space Dogged (1995)
The episode features Ren and Stimpy as pioneering Soviet cosmonauts. Alongside a few jabs at the USSR being a developing nation, it also ridicules US red scare paranoia and their delusion of winning the space race.

>Antz (1998)
This family film revolves around a worker ant, in crisis over their insignificance, constantly re-enforced by their ant society. They swap places with their soldier ant friend Weaver, right as the general begins to stage a coup d'état, sending soldiers units loyal to the queen on a suicide battle.
The class relations are made clear at the beginning. The protagonist complains that, despite Weaver calling the ants the ruling species [empire], he is unfulfilled and envious of the soldiers' glory. Soon, a small group of soldier ants become violent in a bar when two worker ants break conformity. Weaver steps in to defend them, leading to a large class brawl. Later, after switching places, the protagonist blunders their way into becoming a war hero and accidentally kidnapping the princess to avoid being discovered as a worker ant. When rumours of them overpowering the military guard reach the workers, Weaver points out their friend was a worker ant, and Weaver himself was a soldier. This shatters the workers' delusions of class fate, leading to the attached clip where there are explicit socialist themes in the class rebellion. The manager is also shown as an unwitting pawn of the coup plot, who later during a strike still hopelessly tries to convince striking workers to return with scare tactics about filling their quotas, and is basically told to fuck off. The coup is also specifically classist and eugenicist, with the leader of the middle soldier class plotting to assassinate the royal ruling class and genocide the 'weak' worker ants in a tunnel flood.

>My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003)
The second episode, Pest Control, is about a revolutionary lab rat, Vladimir, who leads their fellow comrades into rebellion against their abusive captor. The name, their beard, their cartoon Russian accent and the big ol' hammer and sickle on the title card make the allegory clear. While obviously taking the role of a comical villain, and despite a line or two about world domination, their portrayal is generally sympathetic with even a main hero saying they can't help feeling sorry for the rats.
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Not particularly socialist or anti-capitalist, but a much sharper jab than I expected in a 90s cartoon.
Then again, as they said for a gender-neutral name joke, "hey, it's the 90s".
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>>1020
The Nuts to War episodes are a sharp satire of the Vietnam War. I think it deserves a mention here for going beyond a mere 'our children dying for a bullshit cause is bad' position and delving into suppression and war-profiteering.

If you don't get the final joke, it's a reference to https://youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs
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Not sure if this really qualifies, it's more of a little nod.
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>>794
>Even the show starts to make fun of Kyle's 'gay little speeches' and the whole "I've learned something today" bit.
>It stretches the limits of soapboxing towards straight-up lecture.
For those who don't know, the "I learned something today" monologues at the end of 201 weren't censored as some ironic joke, it's actual irony in action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_(South_Park)#Online_leak_of_uncensored_version
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>>1157
Gave some of this episode another watch, there's a joke where they say the war is going well, "and anyone who says otherwise is on this list: Hoffman, Rubin, Seale, Berrigan, P., Berrigan D., Ellsberg, Kunztler, Fonda, Hayden, Hellman, Hammet, Trumbo, Lardner, Ritt, [...], Zappa and Zimmerman."
They're all real names from the McCarthy Hollywood blacklist. Good shoutout.

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We need you in top shape before the revolution, comrade! Tell us how you're cooking, playing, running, riding, rowing, swimming, lifting, and all the rest!
"We are engaged in very important business."

Resources
https://thefitness.wiki — Official wiki for r/Fitness and r/weightroom on Reddit
https://liamrosen.com/fitness.html — "The /fit/ sticky"
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fukken injuries, dammit
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>>1153
Update: fukken injuries, dammit!
>>1153
If it's not the biggest momentum killer, I don't know what is. Worst part is getting two injuries at the same time like a wrist and an ankle - there goes most exercises.
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>>1195
Yep. I did in fact have a wrist injury but luckily I've recovered enough to do some pushups.
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>>1196
Good to hear comr8. Stay strong.

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