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What if Germany had invested in nuclear power? A comparison between the German energy policy the last 20 years and an alternative policy of investing in nuclear power in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I agree that there is a political problem. But there is also a problem with the document. I suspect that the building time in China does not take into account the time of the previous studies to select the location and after, or the participatory process of the local party or other political entities. The reasonable approach should have been to use the full timeframe of nuclear power plants (find a building emplacement, studies, 'popular' participation + building) in other countries with similar laws (European Union, UK, etc.). Maybe he wanted to push a pronuclear narrative?

What if Germany had invested in nuclear power? A comparison between the German energy policy the last 20 years and an alternative policy of investing in nuclear power in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's using China's construction times (7-8 years) as the time of reference for the first new nuclear power plant (studies + construction).

That's unrealistic, i think that it would required, at least, from 10-20 years and extreme policial violence.

Joycelyn Elders (1933 - ) Dr. Joycelyn Elders, born on this day in 1933, is an American pediatrician who became the first black Surgeon General of the U.S. in 1993. She was fired by President... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's a false dichotomy, there are other political options outside the two factions (republicans and democrats) of the US Bourgeoisie party.

U.S. Nukes Hiroshima (1945) On this day in 1945, the U.S. military dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, instantly killing at least 80,000 people - mostly civilians - and tens of thousands more... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hiroito was never judged by those crims. I suspect that fight against fascism was not, and never has been, a priority of the U.S.

U.S. Nukes Hiroshima (1945) On this day in 1945, the U.S. military dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, instantly killing at least 80,000 people - mostly civilians - and tens of thousands more... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

The US intention was clearly to commit mass murder of civilians (most of them members of the working class): They threw the bomb in the city center, not in the few nonstrategic military barracks nor in the military industries, and less than 10% of the deaths were militaries.

See, by example, https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/hiroshima-and-myths-military-targets-and-unconditional-surrender

Too many tourists? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a problem at least in Barcelona and in their near cities. Youth people and most of the working class can't pay the price to get a home there. A lot of housing has moved as a tourist service (airbnb... ) missing their social use.

Bolsheviks Adopt Democratic Centralism (1917) On this day in 1917, the "Sixth Party Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party" began in Petrograd, wherein the Bolshevik movement... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And thanks to democratic centralism, USSR created its own bourgeoisie.

I'm not aware of that theory, could you elaborate it, or link to some Marxist that developed it?

The most famous Marxist critic with the USSR was Leon Trotsky, who accused the USSR to be a «state capitalism», but he defended democratic centralism —see, by example: Leon Trotsky (1937). On Democratic Centralism and the Regime (1937)—.

Also, Democratic Centralism has been a strong organization model against infiltration and in case of persecution, and a fast decision model in that circumstances and in pre-revolutionary or revolutionary stages.

Bolsheviks Adopt Democratic Centralism (1917) On this day in 1917, the "Sixth Party Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party" began in Petrograd, wherein the Bolshevik movement... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

The worm is the bourgeoisie and their capitalist system.

A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

From wikipedia:

Charlene Alexander Mitchell (June 8, 1930 – December 14, 2022) was an American international socialist, feminist, labor and civil rights activist. In 1968, she became the first Black woman candidate for President of the United States.[1][2]

Charlene Alexander Mitchell

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Ghassan Kanafani Assassinated (1972) Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian author and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), assassinated on this day in 1972 by Israeli... (stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17339715

Ghassan Kanafani Assassinated (1972)

Sat Jul 08, 1972

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Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian author and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), assassinated on this day in 1972 by Israeli forces in retaliation for the Lod Airport Massacre, claimed by the PLFP.

In May, when the outbreak of hostilities in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War spilled over into the city of Acre, Kanafani and his family were forced into exile while he was still a child. After fleeing ~eleven miles north to Lebanon, they settled in Damascus, Syria as Palestinian refugees.

In 1969, after establishing himself as an author and journalist, he joined The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and, resigned from his post as editor for the magazine Al-Anwar to edit the PFLP's weekly magazine, al-Hadaf ("The Goal"). He drafted a PFLP program in which the movement officially took up Marxism-Leninism, a notable departure from pan-Arab nationalist ideology.

On July 8th, 1972, at the age of 36, Kanafani was assassinated via car bomb by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad for his role in the PLFP, which claimed responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre.

The massacre, committed by three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by the PLFP, killed 26 people, injuring 80 others.

Ghassan Kanafani was an influential author, whose literary works have been translated into at least 17 languages and published in 20 countries. He began writing short stories when working as a teacher in refugee camps. Often written through the eyes of children, his stories were designed to help his students contextualize their surroundings.

"Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause."

- Ghassan Kanafani

How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Notice the time lag between the events of 1936 and the realization that the Soviets were “wag[ing] a war against the Anarchists.”

That's not correct. If the Comintern Parties[^note1] and their comissaries were waging a war into the anti-fascist forces, were against other communists: mostly against the POUM and troskist.

The POUM (Partit Obrer d'unificació Marxista / Workers Party of Marxist Unification), the group where George Orwell joined, was a non-troskist Marxist-Leninist Party, which wanted to do the revolution at the same time as overcoming fascism, i.e. the same strategy that the anarchists of the FAI (Federació Anarquista Ibèrica / Iberian Anarchist Federation) and CNT (Confederació Nacional del Treball / National Confederation of Labor).

The POUM was banned (accused of collaboration with fascism) and its leader Andreu Nin disappeared.  Until the 90s, with the declassification of KGB documentation, it was not known what had happened to him: he was detained, tortured and murdered by the NKVD without having 'confessed' to any crime.

I do not deny that there was persecution against anarchists, but I do deny the degree of animosity towards them that anarchist historiography often presents. The greatest ideological "danger" of the Comintern, those against whom they showed the greatest animosity within the anti-fascist bloc, were not the anarchists, nor the majority socialist party, nor the petty-bourgeois parties... they were other communists who do not share their positions.

[^note1]: PCE (Partit Comunista d'Espanya / Communist Party of Spain) and PSUC (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya / Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia).

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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded on this day in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois (stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16976545

Founding of the IWW (1905) The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded on this day in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, is an anti-capitalist and internationalist labor union whose slogan says "An...

Founding of the IWW (1905)

Tue Jun 27, 1905

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Image: The IWW logo

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded on this day in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, is an anti-capitalist and internationalist labor union whose slogan says "An injury to one is an injury to all!"

The IWW promotes the concept of "One Big Union", and contends that all workers should be united as a social class to supplant capitalism and wage labor with industrial democracy.

The IWW was officially founded in Chicago, Illinois on June 27th, 1905. A convention was held of 200 socialists and radical trade unionists from all over the United States who opposed the policies and politics of the more moderate American Federation of Labor (AFL). In particular, the IWW opposed the American Federation of Labor's acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions.

The IWW's founders included many historically important labor activists and socialist thinkers, including "Big Bill" Haywood, James Connolly, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Frank Bohn, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others.

Our chief weapon is surprise... in c/funny
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George Floyd Murdered (2020) (stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15788619

George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...

George Floyd Murdered (2020)

Mon May 25, 2020

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Image: George Floyd with his six-year old, Gianna [blackpast.org]

On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around the world; by July, more than 14,000 were arrested in the U.S. alone.

Floyd, a 46-year old black man, had been arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill. The cop, 44-year old white man Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd's neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds while he was handcuffed and lying face-down in a street. Floyd was dead before Chauvin's knee left his neck.

The following day, after videos made by witnesses and security cameras became public, all four officers involed were fired. Floyd's state murder became the catalyst for worldwide Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, which took place on every continent except Antartica.

The scope of civil unrest within the U.S. was nearly unprecedented. Author Malik Simba writes: "the protests have involved more than 26 million Americans in 2,000 cities and towns in every state in the U.S., making [them] the most widespread protests around one issue in the history of the nation. By the end of June alone, one month into the protests, 14,000 people had been arrested."

Initially, the local District Attorney's Office only harged Chauvin with third-degree manslaughter, but this charge was later increased to second degree murder, following mass protests. On April 20th, 2021, Chauvin was convicted and sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. The other three officers were also later convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights.

Floyd's murder was witnessed by several people, including children. On the incident, seventeen year old Danella Frazier stated "When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad, I look at my brother, I look at my cousin and my uncle." Her nine year old cousin, also an eyewitness, testified in court: "I was sad and kind of mad and it felt like [Chauvin's knee] was stopping him from breathing and it was hurting him."

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Victory of the camped students of the Barcelona University (lemmy.ml)
 

The University of Barcelona will break rellations with Israel.

Source: https://t.me/comunitatpalestinacatalunya (catalan language).

(Auto)ranslated announcement:

_🚨 ATTENTION! *Tomorrow everyone in front of the University of Barcelona to celebrate the historic victory of the students.

After 17 days of camping in Palestine at the University of Barcelona:

The university has not only approved the severance of relations with Israel, but has committed itself and activated the necessary mechanisms to make it possible. After more than two weeks of daily assemblies, actions, meetings and communiqués, the students demonstrate that the action works and push forward for a free Palestine.

After a historic victory today they have announced that tomorrow May 24 in the afternoon they will end the camp. The end of the camp implies a step forward in the struggle, to continue mobilizing our collective struggle in different spaces. We hope that yesterday will be one more victory of the gains to come and bring us closer to a common goal for life and dignity.

Come make noise with us and welcome the students: 🗓️ Friday 24 May at 6.30pm 📍Plaça Universitat (in front of the UB door)

📢 Together we can shake the world for Palestine; to stop genocide, occupation and apartheid in Palestine. We know it works and we won't stop until we get it: free Palestine, from the river to the sea.🇵🇸_

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