Ivar Espås VangenFelles fråsegn frå kommunistpartia i USA, Israel og Iran
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According to my father, who grew up in LA in the 30s and 40s, this picture was taken near the corner of 3rd and Spring in downtown Los Angeles. Eagleson's Big and Tall was at that corner. In the background is the 3rd street tunnel so the woman is walking east on third street.
Also according to my father, in the 40s in left-wing circles "immigrants" in this context meant Japanese, both native-born and immigrants, because the word "Japanese" was never said out loud except by racists/nativists. His parents were CPUSA in LA at this time, so he heard them talking about it a lot.
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News BeepCommunist Parties of Iran, Israel, and U.S. unite against war of aggression – People’s World
The emblems of the Tudeh Party of Iran, Communist Party USA, and the Communist Party of Israel. NEW…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/429356/
American CommunistsICYMI: Democratic Socialists of America, Party of Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Revolutionary Communist International / of America, Communist Party USA, and other organizations have put out emergency statements on Instagram condemning the illegal imperialist US war on Iran. #Iran #DSA #PSL #FRSO #RCI #CPUSA #USpol
Fight Back! NewsThe American dream dies
There’s no system better at crushing dreams than monopoly capitalism.
When Claudia Jones' parents immigrated to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago in 1922, “they hoped to find their fortunes in America where ‘gold was to be found on the streets.’” (Autobiographical History, Claudia Jones).
Instead, they found poverty, Jim Crow oppression, and despair.
These evils disillusioned Claudia Jones and showed her the hypocrisy of the so-called American Dream. She would become a Marxist-Leninist organizer, theorist and revolutionary.
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Justin StanleyI personally thought this was pretty funny. Well done by Joe.
Is Zohran Mamdani a Communist? According to Communists, No | The Daily Show
MakanIs Zohran Mamdani a Communist? According to Communists, No | The Daily Show (OP: Shit just got real)
Is Zohran Mamdani a Communist? According to Communists, No | The Daily Show (OP: Shit just got real) - Lemmygrad
Nooooooooooooooooooo CPUSA Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I love CPUSA, but don’t go on a lib show like Daily Show, you know? People… will… be… angry… (now say this sentence in slow motion)
Jonathan EmmesediThe racially mixed , smartly dressed browsers of progressive books in this 1938 photograph seem to be living out the CPUSA slogan of that time, "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism"; note the "Harvard Communist" in the lower right hand quarter of the picture, the nearby collection box for aid for Spain, and the photograph of volunteers who were fighting for the Spanish Republican cause.
The following year's cynically concluded Hitler-Stalin pact and the anticommunism of the postwar decades dealt the US left blows from which it has never fully recovered.
I wonder about the various fates of the individuals pictured here.
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Socialism for All ☭ Intensify Class StruggleThe Origins of the Mattachine Movement and Harry Hay's Political Awakening - Leslie Feinberg (From Lavender & Red, 2005) #lgbtiq #lgbtpride #lgbt #lgbtq #marxist #socialist #communist #civilrights #henrywallace #cpusa
Chilean Communist Jeannette Jara wins left’s presidential primary, will battle pro-Pinochet candidates
Chilean Communist Jeannette Jara wins left’s presidential primary, will battle pro-Pinochet candidates - Lemmygrad
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8386779 [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8386779] > She’s to the left of Boric, according to some Chilean comrades. > > The “authoritarian” tag makes me wince though, however, I understand the relatively recent history of the country as well. > > Here: > > ---- > > >Voters in the presidential primary of the Unity for Chile (Unidad por Chile) coalition have selected the Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara as their candidate to face off against the right-wing candidates José Antonio Kast and Evelyn Matthei in November’s general election. > > > >Jara scored a stunning 60% total in a four-candidate race on Sunday. Her next closest challenger was Carolina Tohá of the Democratic Socialism party, who took 27.7% of the ballots. The parties in the Unity for Chile coalition pledged to support whichever candidate won the primary, however, so all the left and progressive forces in the country are now rallying behind Jara. > > > >“Today begins a new path that we will walk together, with the conviction to build a fairer and more democratic Chile,” Jara declared on social media after the Electoral Service announced her win. “In the face of the threat from the far right, we respond with unity, dialogue, and hope.” > > > >At a rally with supporters Sunday, she urged her compatriots to “hold on to each other and not let go, so we can face Chile’s far right with the broadest possible front.” > > > >She was immediately congratulated by President Gabriel Boric, who is barred from running for re-election due to constitutional limits on presidents serving consecutive terms. > > > >“Jeannette Jara immediately steps up to lead the forces of progressivism toward the future,” Boric said Sunday evening. “What lies ahead will not be easy, but Jeannette knows about tough battles. Now, let’s all work together for unity to rally the majority of our compatriots to continue building a fairer, safer, and happier country.” > > > >Jara, 51, is one of the most prominent political leaders in the country. Before stepping down to run for president, she served as Minister of Labor in the Boric government. In that position, she spearheaded successful efforts to reduce Chile’s workweek from 45 to 40 hours and raise the minimum wage. > > > >Opponents hail from fascist families > > > >Kast, her main opponent in the general election, is making his third try for the presidency. Last time around, he lost to Boric, capturing 44% in the second round after having led in first-round balloting. > > > >Kast is part of the right-wing royalty of the Chilean ruling class. His parents were German immigrants who arrived in Chile in the early 1950s. His father, Michael Kast Shindele, was a member of the Hitler’s Nazi Party and a lieutenant in the military of the Third Reich. > > > >He escaped from U.S. custody and then fled the de-Nazification campaign in Germany after World War II. He settled in Chile, where, together with other relatives, he set up a sausage factory that made the family one of the richest in the country. > > > >The fascist politics brought over from Europe were passed down through the generations. One of Kast’s brothers, Miguel, was a “Chicago Boy” economist and labor minister for the former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet. He helped impose neoliberal policies that crushed the Chilean working class, with an emphasis on privatization, deregulation, and attacks on unions. > > > >As a politician, Kast has consistently pushed a reactionary platform premised on giving free rein to big business and handing over control of social policy to ultra-conservative forces. He advocates major tax cuts on the wealthy, a rollback of labor and other progressive legislation, a halt to immigration, and bans on things like emergency birth control and same-sex marriage. > > > >[https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/c2e6130e-9a19-4c8d-91c2-3f65db768001.jpeg] > > > >Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet reviews his troops in Las Vizcachas, Chile, on Sept. 7, 1995. Both of Jeannette Jara’s main opponents, José Antonio Kast and Evelyn Matthei, have long family connections to the fascist Pinochet dictatorship and actively defend its legacy. | Santiago Llanquin / AP > > > >His frequent praise for the years of the Pinochet dictatorship have generated controversy but also endeared him to leading capitalists, the military, and the religious base of voters who all fondly remember the years of tyranny that saw tens of thousands of trade unionists, students, Communists, socialists, democracy activists, and indigenous people murdered. > > > >In 2021, running against Boric, Kast framed the election as “a choice between freedom and communism.” With an actual Communist as his main opponent this time, the red-baiting is expected to reach new extremes. > > > >Also in the race is right-wing candidate Evelyn Matthei of the Independent Democratic Union, who has earned the endorsement of some sections of the capitalist class and the foreign business press. The Economist magazine in 2024 proclaimed her “The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution.” > > > >She served in the government of former President Sebastián Piñera, is a consistent defender of the Pinochet dictatorship, and also comes from a fascist pedigree. Her father, Fernando Matthei Aubel, was the son of a German military officer and was trained by the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s. > > > >After the Pinochet coup in 1973, he returned to Chile and was promoted to the rank of general. During the dictatorship, he served as a government minister and was implicated in campaigns of political repression and trafficking of bacteriological weapons, which were tested on political prisoners. > > > >In the last years of the dictatorship, Evelyn Matthei was head of a government body tasked with privatizing Chile’s pension system. During the struggles to democratize the country’s political system and overturn military rule in the late 1980s, she was the leader of the campaign that sought to continue the dictatorship and was elected to parliament as a pro-Pinochet deputy. > > > >The latest opinion surveys have her in third place, at 10% support. > > > >Unity and hope > > > >The platform of the Unity for Chile coalition has put the issues clearly on the table for voters. It declares: “Chile must decide where to go in the coming years: Deepen the path of change or enter an authoritarian drift.” > > > >Jara and the coalition make the case that the far-right is seeking to “roll back our rights” and promotes an “exhausted free market model that makes life precarious.” The alternative, they argue, is a coalition of “those who have historically fought for profound social change: the communities, unions, feminists, youth, indigenous peoples, socio-environmental movements, and cultural figures.” > > > >It recalls the Popular Unity coalition that elected socialist Salvador Allende to the presidency in 1970, who was killed during the 1973 U.S.-backed Pinochet coup, but the left program seeks to go beyond the past to build an even stronger progressive front to address the economic challenges of today. > > > >The Jara candidacy is sparking excitement among grassroots forces. At a meeting of activists just before the primary election, leaders from a number of movements spoke about the nature of the Jara campaign. > > > >“We women support those who have stood by us,” said Karen Palma, a vice president of Chile’s main labor federation, the Workers’ United Center of Chile (Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Chile, CUT). “Jeannette promoted the 40-hour work week, pension reform, and the minimum wage.” > > > >[https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/7a7eae12-6fa9-4e5f-96f0-b7eabd0ff660.png] > > > >Jeannette Jara is the presidential candidate of the Unidad por Chile (Unity for Chile) broad front coalition for the Novemeber elections. | Photo via Communist Party of Chile > > > >Lautaro Carmona, president of the Communist Party of Chile, praised the united front stance taken by all the parties currently participating in the government. “A new step has been taken, a very important step, which reflects the will, determination, and conviction to contribute decisively to a single and united candidacy within the governing coalition,” Carmona said. > > > >“We have an experienced leader, with proven capabilities in state affairs, with social leadership and a deep commitment to training, development, and empathy regarding major national issues.” > > > >Carmona said Jara’s nomination “reaffirms that this leftist force is not limited to a single party, but rather formalizes its willingness to build a new government supported by a broad coalition, composed of eight parties committed to the transformation and rights of the vast majority, especially workers.” > > > >**Struggles ahead > **> > >Jara’s campaign will face a tough battle against Kast and Matthei. Economic conditions remain tough for many Chileans, and opinion polls show crime is on the minds of many voters—issues which her right-wing opponents will surely try to latch onto as their main appeal. > > > >She is also seen as the would-be successor to the current Boric administration, which has been playing defense on several fronts ever since losing a referendum vote to replace the Pinochet-era constitution in 2023. > > > >Constitutional reform was a major part of Boric’s campaign for the presidency, so losing that vote—coupled with economic headwinds—have allowed the business-controlled press in Chile to paint a picture of a flailing government. > > > >However, the Communist Party and its allies are jumping into the fight with a program that they believe the Chilean people will support. It centers on public security with a social focus, combatting organized crime by returning control of neighborhoods to communities. > > > >On the health front, it seeks to strengthen the public system via direct investments in primary care and reduced waiting times, and supporting health workers to ensure they can provide what their patients need. It says that more resources are needed in health care, not privatization. > > > >On the economy, the Communists say it’s necessary to “redistribute to grow.” A Jara presidency will push for more progressive taxation, increasing taxes on the super-rich while boosting public investment in infrastructure, education, and technology. > > > >“What is often presented as grand ideological debates,” the Communist Party said in its platform, “is translated here into simple and profound issues: having a fair salary, living in a safe neighborhood, feeling that the state respects and listens to you. It’s a program that doesn’t stop at abstract promises, but offers tangible responses to real life.” > > ---- > > ^ Frankly, I have a good feeling about this.