"Muslims are not neutral subjects in the global order, and Islam is already positioned as suspect within it. The conversation about hijab does not happen in a vacuum. Take authoritarianism in Iran, for example.

Instead of seeing authoritarianism as inherently gendered and violent, as an inevitable feature of patriarchy, as a system that justifies itself by co-opting any moral framework, you view it as either “uniquely Islam”, an “Abrahamic religions issue”, or “proof that all religions are oppressive.” Why don’t you name a secular, non-authoritarian, non-misogynistic nation-state, then?"

https://wrzky.com/orientalism

#authoritarianism #Iran #Islam #Muslim #Orientalism #edwardsaid #hijab #press #anarchism #activism #politics #critique #muslimah #muslimwomen #Indonesian #palestine #imperialism #communism #marxism

Let us Fight Resolutely for the Building of a Genuinely Democratic Independent and Sovereign State

https://tankie.tube/w/2D8HLpETmEUPx7YFZ1cGrT

Very interesting video on China's strikingly unsocialist society. But I'm told by True Believers™ that China will switch to full communism in just 24 years...

#Socialism #Communism #China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQTosk4xLT8

Today in Labor History April 17, 1944: The militant Lodge 68 of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), in San Francisco, began a ban against overtime work. During the ban, which lasted four months, all machinists refused to work more than eight hours per day, and on Sundays. They began this job action in protest of a wage freeze that had been in place throughout World War Two, as high wartime inflation eroded the value of their wages.

Roosevelt’s economic stabilization czar, Fred Vinson, said they had to “stamp out” this example of labor militancy and defiance of the government before it spread across the entire country. The bosses, as well as most of organized labor, including the Communist-oriented ILWU, agreed, and they collaborated to undermine and crush Lodge 68. During World War Two, Lodge 68 had more strikes than all the other unions in the Bay Area combined. Together with Oakland's Local 1304 of the CIO's Steel Workers Organizing Committee, they openly defied the National War Labor Board (NWLB), the FBI, the White House, as well as the CIO, ILWU and Communist Party.

Prior to WWII, the IAM and ILWU had been closely allied. In 1934, IAM members led the call for the San Francisco General Strike after the San Francisco police murdered two striking union members on the waterfront. During WWII, however, the ILWU took a much more collaborationist attitude toward the U.S. government. Harry Bridges felt that defeating Hitler took precedence over working conditions and working-class solidarity at home, and that wartime strikes undermined this goal. One of the loudest voices within the Regional War Labor Board calling for government against the machinists was ILWU vice-president Louis Goldblatt.

In September, 1944, the U.S. Navy took over control of most of the machinery industry in San Francisco and its industrial suburbs, suspending union contracts, grievance procedure, and collective bargaining rights. They fired machinists Martin Joos and Arthur Burke for continuing to do their jobs as union representatives in violation of their suspension of union rights and blacklisted them from other jobs. Just prior to their firing, the FBI interrogated them for violating wartime antistrike legislation. They also revoked ration cards for numerous other IAM members and referred others to the Selective Service for immediate induction into the military. At the same time, FBI agents fanned out through the Bay Area’s working-class communities, interrogating thousands of machinists in their homes. These heavy-handed tactics ultimately ended the overtime ban.

To learn more, see this article from libcom: https://libcom.org/article/class-conscious-machinists-stormy-petrels-west-coast-labor

#workingclass #LaborHistory #FBI #communism #union #strike #ilwu #hitler #fascism #nazis #machinists #solidarity #militancy

Protestation

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/58630638

Morning Star publishes defence of Your Party by Claudia Webb.

From YP Code of Conduct. Weekly Worker.

“Your Party receives very little support, with” less than 1% of the vote.” Voting Intentions.

The Morning Star, independent of the Communist Party of Britain and owned by the co-op, publishes this:

“Your Party: what kind of socialist party does the British working class actually need in 2026?” Claudia Webb.

“The Your Party CEC’s position is notably generous in tone and correct in substance. It is explicit that this is not a condemnation of other socialist parties.

It is explicit that it is an invitation — to individual members to join, to whole organisations to merge into Your Party. It acknowledges the vital campaigning work of socialist organisations across the left.

It draws a line not around ideology but around a specific organisational practice: the holding of binding membership obligations to an external national political party simultaneously with membership of Your Party.”

“The reasoning is democratic, not ideological: “Transparent, democratic decision-making is only possible when every member is able to trust that whatever differences of opinion arise, all members put Your Party’s interests first.”

This is not a demand for political homogeneity. Your Party is explicitly pluralist. Members may hold, advocate and organise around an unlimited range of political positions within the party.

The only requirement is that their democratic participation in this party is genuinely their own — not determined, even partially, by an external accountability structure.”

The socialist organisations outside Your Party continue to do important work. Many of them are already working in practical alliance with Your Party on the May elections. The CEC explicitly welcomes that ongoing collaboration and welcomes any organisation willing to merge into Your Party and bring its experience, its networks, and its commitment into this shared democratic project.

The membership eligibility decision is not a closing door. It is an opening one — opening onto a politics of genuine mass democracy, genuine class power and a party that the working class can trust, because it truly belongs to them.

Claudia Webbe was the member of Parliament for Leicester East (2019 –2024). YOh de

Oh dear….

The crucifixion of Russia — The dark truth about the Bolshevik revolution

Link to video

Protestation

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/58603454