Hasan has some great takes and has done a great job covering this issue but i wouldnt give to much weight to some geopolitical speculation he made during a stream. This one is easy to prove how unlikely it is. Any world war involving China and the US will see them in opposing sides. Israel will de facto be on the US side. SO China will be on the opposing side of Israel. SImple
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They prob have some 10k of them and they fired what? 100?
most of these articles going around are a bit old (3-5 years) so ,while there hasnt been some big turnaround, the increase in youth support and younger lower level leadership has made the party move away from such messaging which to begin with was mostly the result of boomer voting base and boomer leadership and not any real material analysis. You can still classify the party positions as class reductionist and wishy washy on whether they would support same sex adoption if it came to vote again but there has been some reapproachment of the issue. For example the party secretary was a guest in the prominent greek LGBT radio show recently and the rhetoric has shifted. Still not great but for a party that has only survived to the strength and orthodoxy that it has through ossifying their position and beliefs and refusing to be swayed by left and right social and political currents change will be slow and comes with the changing of generations. Also greece has the east european deeply religious orthodox church brainworms that have stunned social progressivism in past social experiments to. They probably arent worse on lgbt issue than most second or third world communist parties at this point but since they are big players in domestic policies their positions became more openly contested and layed on the table.
https://www.902.gr/eidisi/politiki/326464/kathe-anthropos-me-opoia-taytotita-fyloy-na-ehei-oles-tis-proypotheseis this is a recent interview on lgbt issues by the party ,pretty understandable by google translation, that shows that while not good the positions have bettered and evolved compared to years past and of course inculde the standard positives that an Communist party should provide (free and accessible trans healthcare even at young ages including hormone therapy and sex change for example).
Some continued and sustained strengthening of KKE (Communist Party of Greece) in the last 1-2 years happening. After getting good results in the last parliamentary elections earlier this year (~7.5%) they now poll at ~10% in the first time since who knows when . And that level of support has been pretty much confirmed in the local elections (for regional and mayoral authorities) where communist candidates recieved ~10.5% of the votes country wide if you aggregate and elected mayors in some pretty big cities/populous Athens municapilities..
Yeah they are still at best mid-bad on LGBT issues (tho improving at a very slow pace). Yeah their foreign policy positions are still only ~70% there with some ultra left analysis on China and a couple of other issues. Yeah they have other issues. But they are still a hardboiled Marxist Lenninist party with little to no compromise on their positions and historical analysis or messaging. Very well and stricktly demcent organized ,with deep roots and activities on the union sphere and increasing membership and young support. Pretty much immune to spooks , gladio like infiltration or demsoc turns.
Looking at the state of communist parties and movements in most of the west , at eurocommunism and in general the post war trajectory of most , youdont have that kind of party with that kind of support and organizational strength almost anywhere else. So despite its flaws i cant really complain too much and its a bright spot for sure.
Another positive is that with KKE at this level of strength any EU promoted anti-communist or even anti-protest legislative stuff (that we see start popping up more and more around Europe) is basicaly dead on arival and impossible to implement and will only strengthen it while if KKE was weakened and at like 4% they would have attacked already
No lmao. Have they even make an press release condemning Israel or supporting Palestine? On the contrary the US will operate out of their bases in adf territory to attack Syria, Iran and Lebanon if they escelate to any more direct involvement. They have done so in the past again and again. They have even collaborated militarily and intelligence wise with Israel in its anti-syrian and anti-iran actions
As far as western socdems go Melanchon is prob a bit to the left of Corbyn who is considerably to the left of Bernie . Especialy on the Israel issue i bet the former 2 are certainly hiding their power level . Strong pro-palestinian and anti-colonial positions arent unusual for oldschool european demsocs/socdems and early eurocommunists
Nah this probably is a Russian strike. Apparently a memorial service was held in a cafe over some AFU officer so someone tipped Russia off that there is a gathering of Ukranian soldiers and officers (like in that pizzaria/hotel strike a while ago) so they dusted them. Ukraine knows by now that concentrations and meetups of military in civilian areas will get targeted but they dont care. Same also with that drone exhibition last month. Russia will fire the missle and sadly there will prob be civilian casualities as well
Yep the flow through the city is the old natural bed of the river, the mostly straight northen part is the new bed, constuctured in small capacity in the 50s but it expanded and filled with water gates and flow control mechanisms for anti-flooding actions in case of river surge.
He does have one
Greece Weather report with hidden commie W
So right now the Thessaly erea (Center of Greece) is being hit with probably the heaviest rainfall in recent years in Europe. Already at 100-500mm in the last ~12 hours in large ereas and cities and it wiil probably rain ~1000mm in overall till Thursday, maybe even more in places. Naturaly things have started to get fucked up and floods have hit the second largest city in the erea (Volos, 80k population). No one can do anything against such rainfall, its not the politicians fault right?
Well the largest city in the erea is Larisa (200k population) , and it is situated basicaly in a hole and bellow sea level and with a major river going through it. Seems like an apocalypse ready to happen. But it wont. Larisa had regural floods at every other downpour and river surge but it also had a communist mayor from 1980 to 1994. Former ELAS captain, imprisoned tortured and exiled for decades and all. Aristidis Lambroulis. He got his hand on any European and state found he could find, brought over Soviet engineers and technicians and basicaly dug up most of the city for years instaling the largest stormwater drainage system in Greece and also split and redirected the river bed inside the city to decrease volume and make flooding less likely. And Larisa hasnt flooded since and is unbothered even by the heaviest rains. Now this one will be a real test and historicaly big but still. It will pull through thanks to the legacy and struggle of a communist administration
I mean very very slow on average deflation is happening rn and for the last year or smth. But mainly in tier 2 and bellow cities. Prices are falling overall compared to 2 years ago, in a lot of cities by 15-20%
welp if the rojava compradors will have their "land" and manpower used by the US and their bases to facilitate and safeguard a genocide nearby without pushing back on the slightest they are part of the "real" axis of evil and every iranian drone or paramilitary attack on sdf territory is deserved