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Mar 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Samir Amin on the 2014 Euro-Nazi putsch in Ukraine and the sanitisation of outright fascists as "nationalist democrats"

It's very frustrating seeing any mention of the overt fascism on show in Ukraine (regular soldiers with nazi insignia not just Azov), institutional support for people like Bandera, and the violent repression of socialist opposition being dismissed as "Putin propaganda"

The way that Ukraine has been portrayed as a plucky democracy fighting the good fight is a profound distortion of the well established fact that its a hotbed of fascism on the frontlines of the Western security architecture.

This doesn't mean we don't support Ukrainian refugees or anything like that. Such a conclusion is deeply disigenous. It cannot be ignored that fascist militias, supported by the Ukrainian state, are being held up as heroes of liberty.

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Mar 7

Biden in 1997 saying that the only thing that could provoke a "vigorous and hostile" Russian response would be if NATO expanded as far as the Baltic states

Also an interesting side point, when told by the Russians that they may have to look to China as an alternative if NATO keeps expanding, Biden joked with them by saying "good luck". How things have changed.

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c-span.org/video/?86974-1…

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Nov 26, 2020

The child's school day is structured exactly like an adults work day. 8 hour day, 15 minute break at 10.30 and, 45 minutes for lunch. In the class they must remain focused, still, and "productive" for nothing in particular outside of arbitrary exams and "age range" goals

Based on these arbritrary assessments, Children are categorised and segregated along multiple intersections (ableism, classism, sexism, and racism). This marks them as capable or not, productive or not

Like adult work, children are unlikely to apply the abstract knowledge learnt in school to daily life and are basically inhibited from applying the creativeness of non-school life to the school environment

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Jun 18, 2020

Fidel Castro on the Cuban prison system:

"If a man is in prison for whatever cause, even for conspiring against the state, the Revolution has to try, in all opportunity, some possibility of integrating himself into society so that he can work and live a decent life."

the aim of the rehabilitation program "is to neutralize them (Campesinos) politically and convince these men that the Revolution is really working to ameliorate social conditions for all Cubans; to demonstrate that in opposing the revolution they erred out of ignorance"

Castro on the books on offer for prisoners:

"Of course, we give them books on Marxism, but also books by authors who are not Marxists and who write on different questions of political or human interest... A simple book of propaganda has no effect on anybody."

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May 20, 2020

"It is likely that the Progressive international is an attempt to corral those who identify as left-wing back into supporting the very institutions and ideologies that are pushing the planet ever closer to the point of no return." 👌👌

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"Much like the original New Deal in the 1930s was a means to salvage capitalism in the US and forestall the growth of a popular revolutionary communist movement at a time of crisis and mass unemployment, it appears that this is a comparable effort on a global scale"

Progressive international's central figure, David Adler (previously of the Blair institute) is working on a document titled "a new Bretton Woods" and in outlining his vision of a European green new deal describes what is, by all accounts, an imperialist process of extraction

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