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Why half of Romanians hark back to Communism: what I would have said next on GBNews

Why half of Romanians hark back to Communism: what I would have said next on GBNews

In Defence of Marxism


Thursday, 30 May 2024 

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Why half of Romanians hark back to Communism: what I would have said next on GBNews

Many readers of this website may have seen my appearance on GBNews debating with a Romanian pianist about communism. The debate was unfortunately cut short and I did not manage to develop my point about why so many people in Romania today actually have a positive view of the old regime that collapsed back in 1989.


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Britain: vote for Fiona Lali – kick out the war criminals!

Following her takedown of British MP Suella Braverman, and with a surge of grassroots support, Fiona Lali is standing as a revolutionary communist candidate for Stratford and Bow in the upcoming British general election. Vote for Fiona! Bring down the warmongers!


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Switzerland: founding congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party – communism is back!  

The founding Congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RKP/PCR) took place in Burgdorf, Switzerland on 10-12 May. After three days of intensive political discussions, the delegates unanimously voted to found the new party and adopt its manifesto. Neither champagne flutes nor bouquets of flowers marked this event. With shouts of “RKP/PCR”, the comrades proudly announced: we are building the foundation of the future mass communist party to overthrow capitalism!


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Iran: President Ebrahim Raisi is dead – reject imperialist hypocrisy! Death to the Islamic Republic! For a socialist Iran!

The death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash was celebrated by hypocritical imperialist governments and newspapers in the West, who gloated at the end of the ‘Butcher of Tehran’ – while preserving harsh sanctions that subject millions of ordinary Iranians to hardship, and continuing to support Israel’s butchery in Gaza. The communists make no common cause with these characters, who are themselves murderers representing the same vile capitalist system as the Mullahs ruling Iran. From our own perspective, we say: Raisi’s bloodstained legacy is one of counterrevolutionary reaction. May the revolutionary Iranian masses soon bury the Islamic Republic alongside him.


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¡Vota por Fiona Lali - abajo los criminales de guerra!

Tras derrotar a la diputada británica Suella Braverman en un debate de televisión, y con una oleada de apoyo popular, Fiona Lali se presenta como candidata comunista revolucionaria por Stratford y Bow, Londres, en las próximas elecciones generales británicas. ¡Vota por Fiona! ¡Acabemos con los belicistas!


مانیفست بین‌الملل کمونیست انقلابی

مانیفست زیر برای جنبش کمونیستی جهانی بسیار مهم است. از همه خوانندگان خود می خواهیم که آن را به طور کامل مطالعه کنند و بیشترین تیراژ ممکن را به آن بدهند. این به اتفاق آرا توسط دبیرخانه بین المللی IMT تصویب شد و سند پایه یک انترناسیونال کمونیستی انقلابی جدید را تشکیل می دهد که در ژوئن سال جاری راه اندازی خواهد شد.


آیا کمونیست ها طرفدار خشونت هستند؟

کمونیست‌ها اغلب توسط طبقه حاکم به‌عنوان افراد خشن معرفی می‌شوند که تا زمانی که جامعه در خون خود غرق نشود، از پا نمی‌نشینند. بنابراین برای ما جای تعجب نداشت، وقتی که بزرگترین رسانه دیجیتال دانمارک، BT - در مصاحبه ای با یکی از رفقای برجسته بخش دانمارکی ما در مورد تصمیم تاریخی آنها برای تاسیس یک حزب کمونیست انقلابی، تمام مصاحبه را صرف این کردند تا رفیق عضو حزب بپذیرد که آنها از خشونت دفاع می‌کنند.


“Rafah está queimando”: civis massacrados pelos bombardeios das FDI ao campo de refugiados

Milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo ficaram horrorizadas na segunda-feira (27/05), depois que um ataque aéreo das FDI destruiu um acampamento para civis deslocados em Rafah, matando pelo menos 45 pessoas. As redes sociais estão repletas de imagens de homens, mulheres e crianças carbonizados e desmembrados, assassinados enquanto dormiam. Lênin escreveu certa vez que o capitalismo é um horror sem fim: em Gaza, essas palavras estão sendo pronunciadas nas linguagens do fogo e do sangue para todo o mundo ver.


Komunisti kažu: kapitalizam je nespojiv sa slobodom govora!

Sloboda izražavanja bi trebala da bude jedan od stubova demokratije. Svi stavovi, ma koliko nepoželjni, moraju biti u mogućnosti da se takmiče na slobodnom tržištu ideja. Kažu nam da je kapitalizam jedini sistem koji može da omogući takvu toleranciju. Komunizam bi smrvio otpor pod željeznom čizmom konformizma i “partijske linije”. Ali dok pišemo ove riječi studenti i akademici su prebijani i hapšeni na desetinama kampusa širom kapitalističke Amerike zbog svojih “neprihvatljivih” stavova. U međuvremenu komunisti su jedini koji se dosljedno bore za slobodu govora - iz naše klasne perspektive.