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Israel has implemented strict rules limiting the ability of foreigners to enter and stay in the occupied West Bank despite international criticism of the measures, which include the compulsory declaration of romantic relationships.
Nearly all foreign nationals coming to volunteer, work or study in the West Bank will be granted only single-entry visas, some valid for just three months, and will have to leave between visas and wait – in some cases for more than a year – before reapplying for entry. In most cases, residency is limited to a 12- to 27-month period, making family life and long-term employment almost impossible.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/israel-imposes-strict-rules-on-travel-to-west-bank
1381 Peasants Revolt
Taborites are one group
I know Engels replied to the Thomas Munzter situation but more could have been said
The Diggers and Ranters of the English Revolution
Australia says it will continue to provide military training, conduct joint exercises and export weapons to Indonesia despite increased violence and allegations of human rights abuses in West Papua.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/19/australia-to-continue-indonesia-military-cooperation
We shouldn’t be too Eurocentric and appreciate that humanity could have taken many different courses, as it often did so.
I have always been interested in pre-capitalist developments such as the peasant revolts that used religion as its language. What if they had prevailed?
But also non-capitalist societies, the primitive communism of the clan system, for instance.
https://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2012/05/celtic-communism-gaelic-commonwealth.html
Should we forget what happened in South America?
Cde. Bill Martin did an informative talk on the Incas
I wrote a short article on the Incas.
But to stay on topic, Cde. Mercer engaged in a video discussion on Lenin and imperialism offering a useful exposition of the SPGB viewpoint.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2020/09/imperialism-and-left-discussion.html
Suella Braverman gone
Grant Shapps, the former transport secretary, the new Home Secetary
Another article on Lenin’s imperialism theory
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2019/01/imperialism-where-lenin-went-wrong-2017.html
300 medical experts from around the world, issued an open letter on Monday to British Home Secretary Suella Braveman and US Attorney General Merrick Garland, insisting that they immediately halt the state persecution of Julian Assange and free him unconditionally.
Triple-locked pension promise to be broken
Truss abandons pledge to raise state pensions in line with inflation.
But still committed to raising defence spending to 3% of national income by 2030.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63303880Stalin on what is socialism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1906/12/x01.htm
“….Future society will be socialist society. This means primarily, that there will be no classes in that society; there will be neither capitalists nor proletarians and, consequently, there will be no exploitation. In that society there will be only workers engaged in collective labour.
Future society will be socialist society. This means also that, with the abolition of exploitation commodity production and buying and selling will also be abolished and, therefore, there will be no room for buyers and sellers of labour power, for employers and employed— there will be only free workers.
Future society will be socialist society. This means, lastly, that in that society the abolition of wage-labour will be accompanied by the complete abolition of the private ownership of the instruments and means of production; there will be neither poor proletarians nor rich capitalists—there will be only workers who collectively own all the land and minerals, all the forests, all the factories and mills, all the railways, etc…”
