He's running as an independent in the district which he had represented for decades, and he's organising a very impressive grassroots campaign but in the one poll which I know about, he's in second place. People have told me that UK polling is extremely bad, I hope they're right.
"losses based on data from rural towns"
What does this mean and how would someone be able to verify these numbers?
Barring some unforeseen demographic situation in the electoral college
What do you mean by that?
Computer science isn't science
Why not?
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Fun fact! In the Netherlands, Elsevier publishes a weekly magazine about politics, which is basically the written version of Fox News for that country. Very nice that those people control like 50% of all academic publishing.
Do you remember where you read that?
Psy was revealed to be singing metal songs advocating for the killing and torture of American soldiers as revenge for the murders of Koreans and Iraqis
Hahaha, no fucking way. Can you link that?
You're forgetting PTB-PVDA: the only marxist-leninst party in Europe with amazing poll numbers. Currently around second place (in a landscape with twelve parties) in the polls for the election in June.
The Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves, including militarily. That is not in dispute.
Civilian casualties are always regrettable. Resistance ideally targets the state's apparatus of repression.
Just as there were white South Africans who took a role in resisting apartheid, there are Israeli Jews doing so now.µ
It is indeed important not to alienate liberals. We are at a point where we are gaining wider support among the masses. The size of the protest and the extent to which it is supported by broad sections of the population do matter.
Pro-Hamas slogans have no positive role in the current wave of protests. Why do we protest? To achieve concrete victories that complicate Israeli imperialism (and in the process grow revolutionary organisations), in casu cease cooperation with Israeli universities (which often have ties to the military) and to disinvest in that country. These things are achievable, which we know because similar demands have already won in quieter contexts. However, shouting pro-hamas slogans now unnecessarily alienates us from people who agree with our demands.
People's political consciousness follows from their lived experience. If they see or experience repression at a protest with demands they agree with, their political awareness will progress by leaps and bounds. The chances of that happening because of a slogan is much smaller.
Hamas was supported for years by the Israeli state because it was to their advantage to divide the Palestinian resistance and it was a strategic goal to limit the influence of revolutionary Marxists. This has been partially successful.
Despite the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance, we should also be aware of who is organising the resistance and what kind of society they want to create. In the Iranian revolution, the communist party collaborated with the religious movement. Immediately after the revolution, the communists were massacred by the clerics. The society Hamas wants to create is not the one Marxists aspire to. So why alienate yourself from potential allies in your immediate environment by unequivocally supporting Hamas?
A quote from Lenin to end of with:
“[If we] were to make “recognition of the dictatorship” a condition of trade union membership, we would be doing a very foolish thing, damaging our influence among the masses, and helping the Mensheviks. The task devolving on Communists is to convince the backward elements, to work among them, and not to fence themselves off from them with artificial and childishly “Left” slogans.
The same atittude towards pro-Palestinian protesters who are currently insufficiently revolutionary can be witnessed in this thread.
Links to the articles:
This is the second State House in which they've achieved electoral succes. In Styria they also have elected members, and since 2021 they've won the mayoral office in it's largest city: Graz.
what do the parties stand for:
Some context about this election: It looks like the ultra-right was a big winner, but it's important to note that in the previous election another extreme-right party also participated in the elections, and got 4.5% of the vote. They're out of the picture now, and ÖVP now has those votes.
I've read that as well. Heartbreaking. Although I also don't really understand how someone could've missed that Corbyn was kicked out of Labour.