Hey, so about half a year ago i made this post (https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10118160?scrollToComments=true), and I was intending on buying the three books mentioned when i was more stable financially. However, at some point they were delisted, and now only America Against America stands, and the translator is super anonymous

I was hoping maybe someone here bought one or all of them. If anyone did then please dm me or post them on the internet archive. I would really appreciate it 🙏

Imperialism and Resistance: Peoples Are Changing the Course of History Jun 14, 2026 | Masar Badil

As imperialist powers seek to preserve a global order based on war, sanctions, occupation, and the exploitation of peoples, the forces of resistance have demonstrated that imperial domination is neither inevitable nor invincible. From Palestine to Bolivia, from Iran to Cuba, through Venezuela, Yemen and Lebanon, a reality is becoming increasingly clear: peoples struggling for sovereignty are capable of shifting the balance of power and opening the door to a new historical era.

The international situation today is clearer than it has been for decades. Beyond cultural, religious, or ideological differences, a fundamental contradiction shapes our world. On one side stands the imperialist camp, led by the United States, NATO, and their Western allies, determined to preserve a system of political, economic, and military domination that enables them to control resources, markets, and the destiny of nations. On the other side stands the camp of resistance, composed of national liberation movements, revolutionary forces, and peoples who refuse subjugation and continue to struggle for independence and self-determination.

This fundamental contradiction helps explain developments that Western media often portray as isolated crises or unrelated conflicts. Palestine, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Yemen, and Lebanon are not separate arenas. They are different expressions of the same historical confrontation between the project of imperial domination and the struggle for sovereignty, justice, and liberation. What links these experiences is not only the pressure and aggression they face, but also the fact that they confront the same global system that seeks to deny peoples control over their own future.

The ongoing aggression against Iran offers one of the clearest examples of this reality. The problem for imperialism is not a specific policy adopted by the Iranian state. The problem is the very existence of an independent country capable of making sovereign decisions outside external dictates. For decades, Iran has refused to submit to the regional order designed by Washington and its allies. As a result, it has faced sanctions, blockades, sabotage operations, assassinations, and continuous military threats.

The same logic is applied against Cuba, which has endured more than six decades of a criminal blockade aimed at punishing a people for choosing an independent path. The same logic is visible in the constant aggression against Venezuela, targeted because of its determination to exercise sovereignty over its natural resources. In Latin America, Bolivia provides another clear example of the lengths to which imperialism will go to prevent peoples from exercising control over their wealth and political future, as demonstrated by repeated attempts at destabilization and interference.

Yet no struggle illustrates this historical confrontation more clearly than Palestine. The genocidal war waged by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people is not merely an assault on Gaza. It is an attempt to crush one of the most significant symbols of resistance and liberation in our time. However, rather than isolating Palestine, this war has generated an unprecedented wave of international solidarity and deepened global awareness of the nature of the Zionist project and its role in serving imperial interests.

The Palestinian resistance has shown that determination, organization, and deep roots among the people can alter political and military realities even in the face of overwhelming military superiority. Palestine has therefore become a global symbol of resistance and a meeting point for the struggles of peoples confronting colonialism, racism, and domination. The Palestinian cause is no longer simply the cause of a people fighting for the liberation of its land; it has become a moral and political touchstone that reveals where forces stand in the broader confrontation between domination and liberation.

In Europe and elsewhere, resistance is often discussed as an abstract concept. In reality, resistance has names, organizations, and history. In our region, forces such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, Ansarallah in Yemen, and other components of the Axis of Resistance stand at the forefront of the struggle against Zionism and imperialism. These are the forces that endure siege, assassinations, bombardment, war, and criminalization campaigns. These are the forces that have prevented imperialist and Zionist plans from fully achieving their objectives in the region.

One of the most significant developments of recent years has been the growing coordination among these forces of resistance. In the face of divisions that have historically weakened peoples and liberation movements, they have developed increasingly sophisticated forms of political, strategic, and media cooperation based on a shared understanding of the nature of the struggle. They have recognized that Palestine cannot be separated from Lebanon, that Yemen cannot be separated from Iran, and that the defense of Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia is part of the same struggle against imperial hegemony.

This shared understanding has contributed to the strengthening of a more cohesive and resilient front of resistance. It reflects an awareness that attacks against any one of these peoples or movements form part of a broader offensive, and that effective solidarity requires a comprehensive understanding of the global confrontation unfolding before us.

Since its founding in Madrid, Masar Badil – The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement has advocated the construction of a broad international front of resistance against imperialism and Zionism. This position is rooted in the conviction that popular struggles cannot achieve victory if they remain isolated or fragmented. Today, international developments confirm the validity of this perspective more than ever.

Symbolic solidarity, while important, is no longer enough. The scale of the imperialist offensive demands deeper forms of political, organizational, and popular coordination. It requires alliances among national liberation movements, revolutionary organizations, militant trade unions, youth movements, women’s organizations, and all forces committed to sovereignty and liberation.

“Peoples who resist are not only defending their lands and their rights; they are also changing the course of history.”

This does not mean erasing ideological or political differences. Rather, it means recognizing that there is a common enemy confronting all peoples who seek freedom and self-determination, and that the struggle against this enemy requires the broadest possible unity in action.

Imperialist powers continue to possess immense military, economic, and media resources. Yet they can no longer impose their will as easily as they once did. Resistance movements have succeeded in altering political and military calculations, challenging established power structures, and undermining assumptions that once seemed unquestionable.

The struggle is far from over. Peoples across the world continue to face occupation, siege, war, sanctions, and foreign intervention. Yet an undeniable truth is emerging: those who resist are not merely defending their territories and rights. They are helping to shape the future and transform the course of history itself.

For this reason, strengthening the unity of anti-imperialist forces and building a broad international network of resistance and solidarity remains one of the most important strategic tasks of our time—not only for the defense of particular peoples or causes, but for the creation of a more just, free, and dignified future for all humanity.

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As contradictions continue to be exposed, a new level of transparency has been shown in the U.S. government. Enjoy a brief look over post-WW2 history and some contextualized analysis of what is happening at this moment. This weekend even.

examples of infighting on the right:

1. support israel vs hate israel
2. multicultural liberal state where we oppress minorities for money anyway vs strictly white welfare state
3. islam is based vs islam must be eradicated
4. christianity is based vs christianity is jew, only paganism
5. judaism is based vs judaism is a disgusting religion and everybody who practices it has to die
6. all white people good vs slavs and irish dirty
7. russia is based white state vs russia is evil wants to destroy us
8. get in interracial relationship with poor minorities strictly to abuse them vs strictly white on white relationships
9. i love japan vs japan is evil because they killed whites and they deserved to be bombed
10. china is evil marxist state vs. china is disciplined and educated unlike blacks, whites must copy them
11. democrat vs republican election usually once every 4 years
12. elections in europe

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Remember the Iran Riots of 2026, where 3000 people were killed, of which 500 were gov't, 2500 were rioters or civilians?

The documentary is called "The Test of Blood and Fire" (血与火的考验)

I'm helping a friend resub a documentary

血与火的考验1（1989年纪录片）中英双字#64事件#1989年天安门事件#中共国#民主 Episode 1

血与火的考验2（1989纪录片）中英双字幕#64事件#1989年天安门事件#1989年春夏之交的政治风波#中共国 Episode 2

血与火的考验3（1989年纪录片）中英字幕#64事件#1989年春夏之交的政治风波#中共国#民主运动 Episode 3

血与火的考验4（1989年纪录片）中英双字幕#64事件#1989年北京政治风波#天安门事件#中共国 Episode 4

If you understand this story, you’ve understood much there is to understand about geopolitics around Taiwan.

The current DPP government is quite literally cheering its own carve-up - as long as it annoys Beijing.

Here is what happened.

So recently, May 28th, Japanese PM Takaichi and Philippines President Marcos Jr. issued a joint statement (https://www.mofa.go.jp/files/101035755.pdf) announcing they would open negotiations to delimit their overlapping EEZ and continental-shelf boundaries.

As a reminder, an EEZ - Exclusive Economic Zone - is the area extending 200 nautical miles from a country's coastline within which that country has exclusive rights to exploit all natural resources.

Small problem: their EEZs directly overlap with China's, both from Beijing’s standpoint and Taipei’s, as they are less than 200 nautical miles from Taiwan’s coastline.

In effect, what Japan and the Philippines are announcing here is that they're agreeing bilaterally - without Beijing or Taipei at the table - to split between themselves waters that belong, in part, to someone else.

Unsurprisingly, that didn't sit well with Beijing. They issued a statement the day after - 29th of May - where they "strongly deplore and firmly oppose the so-called maritime delimitation talks between Japan and the Philippines" (https://english.news.cn/20260529/bf580c55d8ac43bfb38a298af63248e3/c.html).

Any rational person would have expected Taipei to issue a similar statement because, whatever you think of Beijing's claims, it's the EEZ around Taiwan we're speaking about here: surely they'd object to other countries carving up the resource rights off their coastline.

It's actually one thing Beijing and Taipei have aligned interests on: neither wants its maritime entitlements carved up by third parties.

As a reminder Taipei rejected the infamous 2016 Hague arbitration ruling on the South China Sea - siding with Beijing against Manila - for the same reasons: because the tribunal downgraded Taiping (Itu Aba), the largest feature in the Spratlys that Taipei occupies, from an “island” to a “rock,” which would have stripped it of its 200-nautical-mile EEZ.

In other words, defending their own EEZ is normally sacrosanct for Taipei.

Except... not this time. Taipei issued an angry statement, yes, but where the anger was entirely directed at Beijing. The statement (https://en.mofa.gov.tw/News_Content.aspx?n=1330&sms=274&s=122413) explicitly “commend[ed] Japan and the Philippines for working to resolve maritime differences”, reserving its sharp language to China because it "has no right to comment on the territory and appertaining waters of the Republic of China (Taiwan)."

Think for a moment about what it says about Taipei’s current DPP independentist government: the party that claims to champion Taiwan's sovereignty literally celebrated, as its first instinct, two countries announcing they'd carve up Taiwan's maritime territory between themselves. All because Beijing opposed it.

This caused quite a stir in Taiwanese politics, with the KMT calling the statement “humiliating,” warning that cheering the talks without seeking a seat in negotiations over the overlapping EEZs could seriously hurt Taiwanese fishermen's livelihoods in the future (https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202606020013).

So much so that Taipei’s MOFA had to issue a new statement on June 2 specifying that the Japan-Philippines talks "should not impair our country's rights", with MOFA spokesperson Hsiao Kuang-wei finally acknowledging the delimitation waters “highly overlap” with Taipei's EEZ.

But then, confusingly, 2 days after - June 4 - Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung undercut his own ministry’s correction entirely (https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aipl/202606040247.aspx). The Japan-Philippines talks, he explained, are “aimed at China” and therefore, fundamentally good - Taipei's EEZ being carved up in the process being, apparently, a minor detail.

China protesting the talks, he said, is “getting cause and effect backwards” and he branded “the handful distorting the issue and shifting the focus” - i.e. anyone pointing out that Taiwan's EEZ is being carved up - as “falling into a trap and letting China benefit.”

So the same ministry, within 48 hours, both (a) asked Tokyo and Manila to guard against a danger to Taiwan's EEZ, and (b) declared that danger nonexistent and smeared anyone naming it as a Beijing stooge. Go figure 🤷

But this is actually just one part of a much bigger story - one about colonial nostalgia, about the three competing visions at play for Taiwan, and about why the West champions the one party in Taiwan that does NOT actually defend sovereignty and democracy.

I wrote it all up here: https://open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbertrand/p/the-sovereignty-fraud-taipei-is-now

xitter link: https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2063201615885320599#m

It's the kind of thing that's probably obvious being in a space like this, so why am I bringing it up?

Because many of us grow up immersed in liberal individualism and it goes something like this, "Be who you want to be! Whoever that is!"

Liberalism loves to act inclusive, while not really being inclusive (like when it backs systemic racism), but nevertheless, the thought of it gets embedded into people. As a result, people who have no proximity to power can become too open-minded about the behavior and beliefs of others.

Not only does this make it harder for the "left" to be distinct from liberalism, it makes it harder for the "left" to hold each other accountable. This is not a judgment of lemmygrad, mind you, but a point about being on "the left" in general and the transition of going from liberal to something like marxist-leninist. Just as every group, organization, and society has hierarchy of a kind for managing decisions, whether explicitly written and enforced, or unstated and informal, every group has conceptions of acceptable and unacceptable behavior and beliefs.

Liberalism, as noted before with things like racism where it often fails to be inclusive, does not bypass this basic aspect of material reality. What it does do is pretend it is not there. No liberal pundit is going to get on national television and say in response to a mass shooting, "The shooter was just living his best life and being who he wanted to be." Because whether they get said outright or not, there are hard limits on what liberalism finds acceptable, no matter how accommodating it tries to act.

So, "being who you want to be" is as real as the "free market" is free. These are lies that make liberalism seem more freedom free than it actually is and that promotes a softer view toward barbaric behavior from people who have no proximity to power. The liberals who are close to power have no problems calling upon it as needed to brutalize a people, but the liberals who aren't, the ones who might otherwise be drawn to a revolutionary mind, are made to think you should stand aside and let people be.

Thereby keeping them safely away from wanting to engage with power, away from wanting to set boundaries, and away from wanting to force a just society rather than simply yearn and hope for one. Overcoming this means embracing that there should be explicitly, collectively agreed upon acceptable behaviors and beliefs, and that this should be enforced. And that these should consciously derive from what furthers goals of liberation, decolonization, and so on. And consciously steer away from exploitation and abuse.

And again, on the surface level, this might seem obvious. But it's still something many of us will have to contend with at times, in revisiting the instinct of liberal accommodation and unlearning the lie that we can simply let others be, no matter who they are, and society will turn out fine.

This doesn't mean be a controlling ass in your personal relationships. What it does mean is organize around uncompromising principles and question the assumption that something is automatically okay "just cause it's how somebody is". Maybe it really is okay and even needs better accommodation / help with it (like what gets called neurodivergence). Or maybe it's a fucking Nazi and needs far more pushback. But every problem won't be as obvious as a Nazi, so investigate and have principles you can look to.

I've seen this word said a lot, specifically for Americans. I understand the basic throughline, that Americans benefit from imperialism and thus are complicit in its crimes.

But...what would be the difference in action if they weren't?

There is land back, but that doesn't include what happened in Africa and the middle east. If the average American is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, what do you do about it? Is it just supposed to guilttrip them? Is it reparations? Is it a mass trial of a couple hundred million people...?

https://en.nhandan.vn/video-ha-noi-to-implement-nearly-90-social-housing-projects-with-over-78000-apartments-post162917.html

On a serious note his ultracomm ideology, nihilism, and the fact that I don't think I've ever heard him speak positively about another leftist made me doubletake what I was reading.

COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. on Tuesday delivered the Seaspan Yangtze, the first vessel completed under Seaspan's 10K-series methanol dual-fuel retrofit program, after finishing all modification work ahead of schedule.

The project marks the delivery of the first methanol dual-fuel EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) turnkey retrofit for Seaspan, the world's largest independent containership owner. The milestone reflects China's growing capabilities in green ship retrofitting and its increasing role in serving leading international shipowners.

A key highlight of the retrofit is its environmental performance. After being converted to operate on methanol, a cleaner marine fuel, the vessel's Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) was reduced by approximately 55% compared with the minimum required standard. The ship's energy-efficiency performance and carbon-emission reduction potential are considered among the most advanced in the industry, providing a replicable model for the shipping sector's green transition.

The company has now established comprehensive expertise in green-fuel vessel retrofits through a series of methanol dual-fuel conversion projects and special survey repairs for multiple large LNG dual-fuel container ships. These projects have enabled the development of a standardized and scalable retrofit model covering mainstream alternative-fuel technologies used in international shipping.

Compared with the five- to six-year construction period typically required for a new large dual-fuel container vessel, the retrofit approach offers significant efficiency advantages. The entire process, from contract signing to delivery, takes about 18 months. During the 15-month equipment procurement phase, vessels can remain in normal operation, while the actual shipyard conversion work requires less than three months.

The shorter retrofit period reduces vessel downtime and operating costs, helping shipowners maximize returns while offering an efficient and practical solution to support the global shipping industry's transition toward lower carbon emissions.

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A great summary of the history of Cuba's struggle for independence and its development of socialism. It explains concretely why USians are so dejected despite their material comfort and why Cubans are so devoted despite their privation.

Also, even though this video doesn't cover urban design, this is a channel dedicated to it. I believe it's the only commie urban planning channel on youtube so I recommend watching his other videos, especially if you don't like how this topic is typically discussed.

Hello, your ~~matrix server overlord~~ friendly server admin here.

I'm making some... enhancements to my setup¸ and in the process of doing that, there will be some downtime for all services I run, including the GenZedong matrix server. I've prepared everything beforehand and I'm prioritizing the matrix instance, so it should be one of the first things back up, hopefully today, but it could take longer, so don't worry if you can't access it. It will be back soon :3

Once this is done, the uptime and general reliability of my services should be much improved, and I'll have significantly more capacity to host more services. I will also be instituting monthly maintenance windows, but that's not fully planned yet so more on that later.

I'll edit this post with updates as I go through the process.

Update 1: Most servers have been moved over to my new server rack with brand new OS installs and backups restored. There were some hiccups with outdated SPI bootloaders and slow copying times, which is why it took so long. The next step is to get all the software back up and running. Most of this process is automated. I just need to get the infrastructure in place for the automation to take over. Should be done soon, possibly tomorrow as it's getting late where I am.

Update 2: A system update corrupted the bootloader on three of my Raspberry Pi 4s. They have now been reflashed and are working again. I am now working on reconfiguring the software.

Update 3: GZD Matrix should be back up now, working on other services

Update 4: Trixie is now back up, so accounts can be registered again on the GZD matrix.