Me right now, bewildered by pretty much everything.
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Mordor
Bashkir horse archers (part of the Russian army) in Paris, 1814. Is this the Alt Right´s wet dream? In its recent conflict with Ukraine, Russia has used North Korean troops in the Kursk region...
Dunkla skyar
När jag var ung brukade de politiska ungdomsförbunden syssla med den här typen av pseudo-frågor. Tydligen är det så fortfarande. Färgbytet gäller förresten nyansen på den blå färgen, inte själva färgen. Vad ska de hitta på härnäst? Unionsmärket åter?
No?! I mean...wow!
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I actually commented this non-event before (ironically, of course) so I might as well continue. Apparently, the International Trotskyist Opposition (ITO) has finally joined the International Socialist League (ISL). Whether the League for a Fifth International (L5I) will follow suit is still unclear at this point.
Nor is it clear what this *really* means. Is the ITO carrying out entryism in the ranks of the post-Morenista ISL, like they previously did in the Mandelite USFI, or has the ISL consumed them? Or, which is most likely, is the ISL a federative network looking for new additions to its broad tent left-of-USFI Trotskyism? I suppose we´ll fínd out circa 2028 or so when the next split happens!
The International Trotskyist Opposition joins the International Socialist League
1917: The second time as burlesque
Today (more or less - depending on your time zone) is the anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia. There is a small Trotskyist group on New Zealand the journal of which is actually called "1917". The group itself is known as the International Bolshevik Tendency. The above screen shot shows one of their main priorities. I don´t know about you, but it doesn´t seem these guys are preparing for a new proletarian conflagration!
Here are some quotes from their article (emphasis mine):
>>>Across the imperialist countries, trans people are facing escalating attacks, not only from reactionaries, but also liberals, social democrats and feminists [!] alike. Fighting back against these assaults, which target trans youth most viciously, is not a distraction from class struggle but a key front in it [!!].
>>>By restricting access to healthcare and curtailing bodily autonomy, the ruling class seeks to reinforce the oppressive structures of the bourgeois family, rolling back decades of hard-won progress. Defending trans healthcare, including access to essential medical interventions, is a necessary act of resistance [!!].
>>>Since the start of the year, New Zealand supporters of the IBT have played a leading role [!] in a campaign to combat one of the many expressions of this global wave of reaction, as part of the queer rights organisation Queer Endurance in Defiance (QED) [?!].
>>>On 23 March, responding to threats from the New Zealand state to place greater restrictions on puberty blockers for trans youth, a united front of QED, the IBT and other groups successfully led a hīkoi (march) [?] of 2,000 protesters to Parliament, united around a call for “puberty blockers and hormones on demand” [!!!].
>>>Already the right-wing parties have huffed and spluttered at this slogan, but free, quality healthcare without gatekeeping is not even a bare minimum. The oppressed deserve even more.
I suppose there is some truth to the last sentence...
Friday, November 7, 2025
One ring to bind them
So I managed to find a Trotskyist critique of - wait for it - "Lord of the Rings". Evidently translated from Italian, no less!
Strutspolitik
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Gängvåldet började under den socialdemokratiska regeringen. Som hade haft åtta år på sig att vända de underliggande trenderna. Så varför gjorde den inte det, då? Juuuust det.
Sexsomni
Det här förklarar ju ett och annat, måste jag säga. If you know, you know.
Mer allmänt så verkar domstolarna i "världens mest feministiska land" i stort sett hela tiden försöka hitta ursäkter för att få våldtäktsmän friade. Here we go again...
Make MAGA weird again
Black female warrior-saint blesses Christian Nationalist crusader: "Go ye forth and slay the Fulani jihadi herdsmen in the Middle Belt of Nigeria, making Amerikwa great again. God wills it!"
Seriously, do MAGA supporters think that Nigerian Christians are White?! A propos Trump´s latest obsession...
Nigeria threatening to arrest victims of jihad
Holy war
Trump´s Pravda (Breitbart News) can´t seem to get their agenda straight. The headline and the quote are from two different articles (both dated Nov 6). The first tries to connect the UN and climate activism to jihadism. The second reveals that the jihadi president of Syria will meet with Donald Trump after the climate summit...
LOL.
Syria´s jihadi president lands in Brazil for UN climate alarmism summit
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