Overcoming the coloniality of solidarity constitutes a formidable challenge, necessitating rigorous self-reflexivity, a deliberate interrogation of material positionality, and a conscious recalibration of ideological dispositions. The binary oppositions between ‘regimes’ and ‘peoples’ in the Global South – once a central analytical framework within comparative political science in the imperialist core – have been uncritically adopted and normalized among certain leftist formations in the Global North. This discursive tendency manifests in prevailing attitudes toward states such as Iran, Nicaragua, Cuba, Zimbabwe, China, Syria, and Venezuela, where reductive categorizations persist.
This is the point at which Ajl’s cautionary argument, in relation to Iran, assumes critical significance: ‘By separating “the regime” from “the people”, the US–Israeli propaganda justifies state collapse in the name of the people. You cannot defend a people by adopting the rhetoric used to justify their destruction’ (Ajl Citation2025). This separation, now common in Western Left discourse, fetishizes an abstract ‘people’ while rejecting the actual institutions that make their survival possible. In the Global South, and in Iran in particular, patriotism can be a working-class ideology because the state is the shield against imperialist dismemberment. It is the state that funds hospitals, operates power grids, sustains education systems, and maintains the armed forces capable of defending those functions. To demand solidarity with ‘the people’ while refusing to defend the state is, in effect, to adopt the imperial premise. It mimics imperialist discourses that those institutions are illegitimate and expendable.
2025-12-03
The Coloniality of Solidarity - why the Western Political Left always gets co-opted.
2025-12-02
Wow, a long-term study on HFCS shows how bad it really can be.
2025-12-01
I just want to say - staging a war between two nuclear weapon-enabled countries should be one attribute of a psychopath.
So what does this make the CIA, the US Elites, and the US Empire?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/12/01/how-cia-secretly-triggered-sino-indian-war/
How CIA Secretly Triggered Sino-Indian War
2025-11-30
Where America is now.
Oh how the mighty will fall.
And it's the majority in America who'll eventually bear the brunt of it.
2025-11-29
Quote of the day - 11-29-2025.
Caitlin Johnstone.
Explore your own consciousness. Inquire deeply into the nature of self and the mind until clarity dawns on you. Heal your inner wounds. Remove from within yourself all the mental hooks of fear and hatred so that the propagandists can find no psychological purchase with which to manipulate you. Follow the faint whisperings of your muse, and learn to help your inspiration birth new creative expression into the world.
These are the kinds of things we’ll have to do to preserve ourselves as we move into this strange new world, on top of the usual business of staying informed and learning to see through the propaganda illusions. Luckily these things are all good for us anyway; the path toward protecting our humanity also just happens to be the path toward becoming a healthier human being and making the world a better place.
Honestly, you can replace 'Zionism' with 'Crapitalism' and it amounts to pretty much the same thing.
A reminder to never underestimate the power of propaganda ->
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-zionism-was-sold-to-the-world/
Bader: There are a lot of myths about Israel, from the idea that the land was vacant to the idea that Israelis made the desert bloom. How were these ideas popularized?
Malinowitz: Both ‘a land without people for a people without a land,’ and ‘they made the desert bloom’ are marketing jingles, to appropriate a term from Israeli expat and anti-Zionist Moshe Machover. But despite these being preposterous lies, the phrases stuck. It’s like the idea that Columbus ‘discovered’ America, which you believe until you encounter evidence and become aware that it is absurd.
I also think that phrases like “making deserts bloom” are appealing because they give Israelis almost supernatural abilities. It makes them sound like they’re capable of doing miraculous things, and it elevates them in the popular imagination. As long as Zionist adherents remain snug in the logical bubble of organizations like the Jewish National Fund, the World Jewish Congress, Hillel, and Birthright, they receive a hefty payoff: a sense of fellowship and belonging.
I sense a trend with these - wondering if it'll go in the direction I think it needs to?
Italy holds third general strike in three months, against war budget and for Palestine
Workers in Italy have launched their third general strike in under three months, demanding an end to Meloni’s war agenda and budget.
Hundreds of thousands protest anti-labor legislation in India
Farmers joined the factory and public sector workers across the country on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the historic Delhi protests which had forced the extreme right wing government to withdraw anti-farmers laws
2025-11-28
Midwifery and C-sections - a connection?
One of the things I've noticed in the last few years is how much both the narratives and the movement around women's reproductive rights have shifted very much away from what they used to once be.
Case in point - years ago, the context behind legalizing abortions rested on the concept of (essentially) her body - her choice. That last word being key.
But in the years since the COVID-19-related pandemic, there's been a subtle but clear shift away from the concept of 'choice' and just focus on abortion 'access'. Which lines up coincidentally with one side of the crapitalist non-choices - the Blue-No-Matter-Whoers. The elimination of 'choice' lined up quite nicely with the need for one of that entity's chief donors (Pfizer) pushing an untested and unsafe COVID vaccine and making billions off it. It also illustrated that to most of that entity's largely white/suburban female voting bloc - abortion was in essence the only real definition of reproductive rights.
Let me point out the obvious - it isn't. There are many aspects around reproductive rights that aren't covered at all. For example, the levels of pre-natal care, choice of birthing, post-birth treatment, and ...
... the option of midwifery. That seems to no longer exist here in the United States, why?
All of this leads to this point ... why the sudden and accelerated increase in c-sections in the United States over the last couple of decades ... (Here's a hint - there's a profit motive) ...
https://liberationnews.org/high-us-c-section-rate-symptom-of-capitalist-healthcare/
Midwifery was a standard global practice until the 20th century.Midwives would travel to the homes of women and babies to offer holistic care surrounding their pregnancies and births (A Brief History of Midwifery). Anti-midwife advocates, including many doctors who looked down upon the practice, campaigned for laws and educational restrictions that effectively dismantled the profession in America within the past century.
This was a massive blow to women’s ability to receive a form of personalized maternity care that many understaffed hospitals cannot provide due to the sheer volume of patients coming in for other ailments. Still, doctors have opposed the practice of midwifery on the grounds that a more Western, “scientific” approach is preferable. In practice this means relying on hospitals for birth and prioritizing quick pain relief over holistic care. It is also a profit-driven practice that is intended to save money for hospitals by shortening mothers’ stays and relying on medication instead of care staff.
Belgium and Arizona .... wait ... there is a connection?
Yes indeed.
Belgian workers reject Arizona’s austerity in three-day strike wave
Workers across Belgium are wrapping up a three-day strike wave opposing the government’s austerity plans, including salary freezes.
Wednesday, November 26, marks the final day of a nationwide wave of strikes and protests against the anti-social policies of Belgium’s so-called Arizona government. Workers in transport and public services, joined by thousands across other sectors, remain outraged by Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s agenda, which includes attacks on pensions, wages, and public services, all while increasing spending on militarization.
Picket lines sprang up across the country, with workers rejecting the government’s plans. Reporting from the strike at the port of Antwerp, Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) General Secretary Peter Mertens wrote: “Workers are furious that the government is coming for their pensions, trying to steal their wage indexation and, on top of that, wants to raise taxes on gas and fuel. ‘No way,’ they’re saying here.”
This week’s strike wave, launched Monday and preceded by a day of action against gender-based violence, builds on previous mobilization. In October, around 140,000 people marched in Brussels to oppose Arizona’s plans. Despite record turnout, De Wever’s administration failed to take the workers’ grievances seriously. “This contempt and lack of respect are unacceptable,” the trade union confederation FGTB-ABVV wrote in its call for the strike. “Today, a historic wave is sweeping across the arid desert landscape of Arizona – a movement calling for a society based on solidarity, equity, and justice.”
2025-11-25
The connections between media, weapons, violence, and destruction - are billionaires and corporations.
I seriously can't make this shit up.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-richest-billionaires-are-all-media-barons/290572/
It's like a gallery of evil villains - Joker, Lex Luthor, Green Goblin, Skeletor, etc.
Why am I not surprised that Mexico's 'Gen Z Rebellion' is a fraud?
Perhaps because it IS a fraud ...
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/23/second-anti-sheinbaum-protest-loses-momentum/
Second anti-Sheinbaum protest loses momentum
After the highly-watched violent protest reportedly drew around 17,000 people, the second one barely managed to gather 200. Analysts see the marches as an attempt to destabilize the executive branch.
Mexico’s ‘Gen Z Rebellion’ Exposed as Right-Wing Plot
Intent on toppling Mexico’s popular president, local oligarchs and an international right-wing network backed a youth-led anti-corruption uprising, Wyatt Reed and Kit Klarenberg report.
2025-11-24
It's time to face facts - the US Empire is the true cause of all the misery of the world.
And they'll stop at nothing to fuel itself (pun intended) -
Who the fuck knew indeed - the US Labor Movement and Zionism.
Win-win for the US Establishment.
Keep the working class in the US away from solidarity with other countries, while their union 'leadership' kowtows to the Empire and racism.
Heck, even the Communist bloc was in on it for awhile too!
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-ongoing-battle-over-israel-within-the-u-s-labor-movement/
2025-11-23
"...building lasting political power".
Can't say it any better than that.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/after-the-ceasefire-what-next-for-global-solidarity-with-palestine/
Just as crucial is the need to go beyond conventional protests and episodic mobilisation that rise in crisis and fade under repression. It must develop the infrastructure, alliances, and strategies that ensure longevity, especially when media attention fades.
Digital organising, counter-disinformation work, and secure communication networks must become central tools. Alliances built over the past two years with anti-colonial, labour, feminist, climate, and racial justice movements must be deepened, so that the Palestinian struggle is understood not as an isolated crisis but as part of a global fight against systems of domination.