[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Literally US state media

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bandera was in Plast, then he later recruited from it in forming the OUN-B. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church funded Plast, and also the SS Galicia Division having string ties with the OUN-B. Plast in the Diaspora remains connected the the UGCC and former SS members set up the scouts over in the US, CA, and AUS. Here they taught revisionist history and celebrated Bandera and whitewashing their actions. After the union fell, Plast veterans went back to Ukraine and took over main industries and state positions. After the coup in 2014 the state made Plast almost mandatory as an assimilation tool.

Proud past

The Ukrainian scouting movement known as Plast was formed in 1911 in Lviv. Throughout more than 100 years of its activity, Plast has endured various challenges: from world wars, when Plast scouts showed their endurance under extreme circumstances, to a period of underground activity when Plast was outlawed by the Polish state in 1930.

When the Soviet Union took control of Ukraine it banned the organization, but the Ukrainian diaspora revived Plast after World War II in different parts of the world: Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Argentina and others.

Plast was to eventually renew its activity in Ukraine in 1989. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the restored movement in their homeland. Today Plast has 10,000 members in Ukraine and thousands in nearly 20 countries – which makes it the largest Ukrainian youth movement in the world.

Among the famous Plast members were not only such historical figures as Stepan Bandera or Roman Shukhevych, recognized as heroes of the anti-Soviet nationalist uprising in Ukraine, but also economist and benefactor Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, former major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Lubomyr Husar, and Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

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Active position

Although Plast calls itself “non-political,” it has also never shied away from supporting Ukraine’s fight for independence or helping in its struggle to counter the Kremlin’s attempts to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty. Many Plast members took leading roles in the protests that became the 2014 EuroMaidan Revolution, and when ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s special police forces shot and killed more than 100 protestors, Plast members were among the dead and wounded.

They also were among those joining the armed volunteer battalions in spring 2014 that fought against Russian-backed separatists. But for the diaspora, Plast often serves as a bridge between modern life and Ukrainian tradition and between their countries and Ukraine.

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No it's not. Wages in the Imperialist countries are buffed by super-exploitation of the global South.

The amount of resources Americans use means that they are condensing into a "middle class" above the 3rd world nations workers and below the Imperial Bourgeoisie.

Spending most if not all of your paycheck does not mean you aren't "middle class" (petty bourg or labor aristocrat). You were never meant to be able to accumulate wealth, the bourgs want you to consume it and for them to get it in their balance sheets at the end of the day because you bought goods and services from their property. If you are accumulating significant wealth that can't be wiped out due to crises (ex: getting very ill, medical costs), you are certainly not exploited. If you are consuming more labor than you put out, but break even on paper, you're still not exploited (Imperialist wages).

This is why Economism (and accompanying social democracy) is dead end politics that is incapable of handling national contradictions that Imperialism feeds on.

As well, the top 80% of income brackets have been getting increased wealth and income, since the end of WW2.

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes the article is incorrect and it seems a lot of reporting is playing it safe by using neutral pronouns, but I've heard passed on info that Nex preferred the masculine pronouns.

Edit:

Could come off as conflicting information, but it wouldn't be unexpected that a young person would be still coming to understand their presentation in their environments

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 9 months ago

International Anti-Colonial Institute

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Not sure but it's possibly a tactic as many of the tanks have a trophy system that can shoot down one rocket. If the second reaches the plates it blows a hole into the cabin and we've seen some pics of the mess that gets made inside.

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation is a required reading for Chunka Luta Network. You can find it in the Chunka Luta Library: https://mega.nz/folder/cuMwjRyK#eDPayQSdYFwaCh9qr8zzPw/file/cvUg1BxR

This reading is required because we need every communist in North America to know the current violent conditions for native communities and individuals, as well as the structure of White Supremacist occupation.

It describes the overall process of what this is showing a slice of, ongoing genocide.

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Vietnam has signed the same "Security Partnerships" with Russia, China, ROK, and India. This is nothing special but elevates the seriousness of Vietnam and US military communication. The US is only marketing this as an anti-China move to keep its dogs on a tighter leash.

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

These land protectors are objectively doing more for anti-Imperialism than RAWM

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

That's what austerity is basically, and the US gets paid by European sanctions on Russia.

Turns out focusing on developing key industries and partnerships with other nations is beneficial for the economy.

[-] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

not just harass...

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