Tag: equality

When protests aren’t progressive

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

When protests aren’t progressive

The best way for progressives to prevent such sentiments from snowballing into a movement that actually could win power is to take an approach rooted in humility. Talk to the protesters, listen to their grievances, promise to discuss options for addressing them with elected and appointed officials.

Such humility will come naturally to a politician hoping to represent the broadest possible coalition of working-class voters. It will appear impossible to someone convinced that every citizen of a certain socioeconomic stratum ought rightly to be an automatic ally and contributor to the present-day iteration of the progressive political project.

H/T: The Most Revolutionary Act

US Earmarks Millions of Dollars on Negative News About #Cuba

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

People’s World, a U.S. leftist newspaper, reported that the White House earmarks millions of dollars to collect bad news on Cuba and spread it inside the island. According to the publication, Washington gives money to a group of organizations to have it transferred to Cuban real or imaginary opposition groups, both within the island and in other countries.

US Earmarks Millions of Dollars on Negative News About #Cuba

Who represents Afghanistan: Genuine activists vs ‘native informants’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | September 22, 2021

Scenes of thousands of Afghans flooding the Kabul international airport to flee the country as Taliban fighters were quickly consolidating their control over the capital, raised many questions, leading amongst them: who are these people and why are they running away?

Who represents Afghanistan: Genuine activists vs ‘native informants’

Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism ignores Palestinian rights, narrative

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Kathryn Shihadah | Israel-Palestine News | August 14, 2021

The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism (JDA) was released in March as a progressive variant of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) “working definition” of anti-Semitism – a definition that, despite its wide acceptance, is deeply problematic.

Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism ignores Palestinian rights, narrative

DIVIDE, RULE AND PROFIT: THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPACT RACKET

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

DIVIDE, RULE AND PROFIT: THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPACT RACKET

“It is the sustainability goals that will open the door to smart city infrastructure with facial recognition, cashless economies, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence used to implement broad threat assessments; the threat of natural disasters as well as threats posed by individual dissidents and groups”.

I don’t think those things are necessarily bad, except that they’ll use them against ‘dissidents,’ such as antiwar or human rights activists (COINTELPRO comes to mind)! Plus, they’ve already been monitoring protests!

Related:

The fact of the matter is that identity politics and reactionary ideologies such as intersectionality are not merely compatible with the needs of US imperialism and its institutions like the CIA; they are an essential tool utilized by the bourgeoisie to maintain its class domination over the working class by keeping workers divided along racial and gender lines.

“Humans of CIA” recruitment campaign sells youth “identity politics imperialism”

For International Women’s Day March 8: Words of Clara Zetkin

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement by Elsa Rassbach

For the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, here’s a clip from my 1972 film, “His/story” (which I made as a student in Germany) about the legendary German socialist and feminist, Clara Zetkin, and her visit to the Soviet Union in 1920.

For International Women’s Day March 8: Words of Clara Zetkin

Related:

Lenin on the Women’s Question

Writings of Clara Zetkin

Why I Am a Communist!

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Why I Am a Communist!

To me personally, a true Communist is a fighter against imperialism, racism, ‘Western exceptionism’, colonialism and neo-colonialism. He or she is a determined Internationalist, a person who believes in equality and social justice for all people on this Earth.

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Revolution, a Communist Revolution, is a journey; it is a process. It is a huge, heroic attempt to build a much better world, using human brains, muscles, hearts, poetry and courage! It is a perpetual process, where people give more than they take, and when there is no sacrifice, only a fulfillment of duty towards humankind.