To be fair, in the recording I linked above, they said at some point the Zoom limit of 100 people was reached and they said they still had people trying to join. Also there were a few younger comrades in the Q@A.

Unfortunately that's par for the course in Marxist academia. Academic careers take forever and Marxist academia wasn't really able to reproduce itself since the 90s. The very young aren't at that level yet, so the pool is just terribly small. Also most younger Marxists have a tendency to somewhat scoff at more academic and scientific education from my experience.

Also, as with all older comrades I've met, they're horrible at playing the new medias due to their age and own experiences. They desperately need younger comrades to get their shit up to the 21st century in terms of marketing, etc.

Italian labor's work has somewhat seeped through the news over the past 2 years if you looked close enough. Though widely overlooked. Watching this develop and finally culminate in this incredible display was humbling and inspiring as hell. Power to you and the world should bow before your example. Nothing but love!

It also should signal to everyone: Our work mattered! These unions exist as continuation and through the sacrifices of millions of leftists over the decades. The 90s and early 00s may have felt like total defeat and like nothing ever mattered. That has been proven wrong. It did matter, it did leave a mark, it lives on in those dockworkers and it will transform the world again.

Solidarity to all the colleagues and comrades. Keep pushing, you will make the world follow.

If de-stalinization following Khrushev's secret speech marked the beginning of the end of the USSR and therefore the global communist movement, the collective rejection of Krushevism will mark a new beginning, a new period of revolutionary struggle. That leap is coming.

Ngl I've been noticing a definitive surge in Pro-Stalin sentiment online and even in academia and communist orgs over the past year. And that is by far one of the most promising signs in the ideological development of current ML: Communists unapologetically, but critically reclaiming the most propagandised parts of their own history. ML can only surge again when we've wrestled with and come to terms with Stalin.