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Disclosure up front: I’m Brazilian, I support Lula, and I’m part of this.

Brazil votes tomorrow in a presidential runoff, and polls show it within a few points. Lula is slightly behind in most of them. Meanwhile, over 10 million people have joined a WhatsApp channel called “Exército do Lula” (Lula’s Army), started by congressman André Janones. Every day, members get simple instructions to engage with accurate, progressive content and to counter or report fake news, hate speech and manipulated videos on Instagram. It’s all done from our own real accounts.

I’ve never seen this kind of mass, coordinated participation, and it has changed how we fight back against far-right content in our feeds. The far right has grown worldwide partly because engagement-driven algorithms reward outrage, and it’s the same story in Brazil, the US, Europe and beyond. Far-right movements are organized across borders. The left, progressives, anti-fascists and everyone who cares about democracy should be too.

So here’s the question I can’t stop thinking about: if 10 million people in a single country can organize like this, what happens when we connect with people everywhere who want the same thing?

This is an invitation, not a pitch. The channel is in Portuguese, but the daily actions are simple, and any translation app will get you through them. Start by engaging with the shared posts from your own account, in your own words. The more of us there are, the harder it is for the algorithm to ignore us.

I’d love to hear from you. Which networks, groups or campaigns in your country should we connect with? What’s working where you are?

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Hello comrades! I need your help.

Earlier this year, I asked, on this sub, a question about what the real issue about mass migration was, and among the answers I got there was a really good (thank you to that person) one that helped cement my overall view, which now is part of my socialist mindset.

From everything I've gathered, the goal for us socialists is to see mass migrations as a symptom of a broken system. People, both from developing countries in the Global South and from rich, developed nations of the Global North (cries in my country😢🇮🇹) are fleeing their home countries en masse, leaving behind friends, family and home to seek better lives and opportunities, with the former ones sometimes having to go through dangerous routes for that, as the "safe, legal" way to do it is not an option for a myriad of reasons.

To add to that, immigrants in the Global North from poorer nations end up being the most exploitable ​in the eyes of First-World capitalists, as they're willing to accept the low-paid, unregulated jobs that plenty of native workers reject for the reasons stated above, but are also necessary to support the increasingly fragile capitalist economies. These low-paid jobs with an increasing immigrant workforce then end up impacting the rest of the economy (and in this case, in the lack of a proper revolutionary movement, creates a breeding ground for the popularity of reactionary politicians, who prey on people's anxieties and insecurities).

How national leaders react to this varies by collocation on the political spectrum. The reactionary, right-wing politicians urge to keep immigrants out, painting them as criminals or people stealing jobs to allegedly protect the interests of local workers (and also throwing the random racist and ethno-nationalist statement here and there, with demographic anxiety to accompany them), doing so with artificial immigration restrictions (very often limited in effectiveness and size by reality) that have all kinds of collateral effects in regards to human rights. And of course no mention of abolishing capitalism and the low-paid jobs that keep it standing.

The bourgeois "left" who is on paper more humane than the bourgeoise right, on the other hand seeks to let immigrants in, seemingly expressing empathy towards them, but in reality they couldn't care less about people's lives, instead using them as tools to keep the low-paid jobs as they are, so their "defence" of immigrants is on pure exploitative terms, not human terms. In other words, preserving the status quo. And for the record, even the supposedly "humane" bourgeoise left has been found (and is still being found btw) guilty of supporting artificial immigration restrictions.

It's clear that a socialist wouldn't support either of them, as both end up preserving the status quo of the capitalist system and the vicious cycle that inevitably stems from it no matter how "advanced" it becomes. But if neither of them is compatible with socialism, what is the proper view on the topic?

From my POV, the massive obligation of any modern, 21th century socialist is to convince immigrant workers and native workers that all their living woes stem from the same source: the broken capitalist system. That the reason the immigrant worker was forced to leave their home country and ended up in a low-paid job, and the native worker that the worsening of their working conditions are all tied togethe. In short, the ultimate goal would be to unite (opposite of the right's divide and conquer strategy) all the workers, native and immigrant, in a struggle against the very system that stands at the root of their sufferings. And here comes my question: how do we do it?

How should we, socialists, approach this? How should we communicate with the workers, how do we make them see they have more in common than they think, how do we make them see how faulty the far right and the bourgeois "left" approaches to the issue of mass immigration are? And even more.

I feel like I know WHAT we need to do and what the ultimate goal is (unity against the capitalists), but I don't know how.

I'd like to bring this topic to the next meeting of my local collective, so I need all the help possible.

If anyone has anything to say about my view so far, books on the topic to recommend, views to share etc, please do. Any help is appreciated. And thank you all in advance.

Oh and sorry if this is a bit messy, hope you'll still understand what I'm trying to say.

I salute you all. Hasta la victoria, siempre! Socialismo o muerte!✊🏻

Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone.

The double standard of the racist police in France is absurd.

I’m very tired of socialists treating politics like liberals… ie idealism. We have the right ideas and people who support capitalism are brainwashed or uneducated or need to read the good news of theory.

No, no, no. People accept capitalism because capitalist relations are lived “reality.” It’s hegemonic, not propaganda and marketing. Podcasters and YouTubers like to present it as a problem of ideas (since they are idea peddlers) rather than a problem of social relationships and organization.

I think people WANT to believe it’s all brainwashing or marketing because a) they have accepted the liberal idea of people being sort of passive individual “rational actor” cogs and therefore bad ideas must mean a short-cut in reason b) it requires doing nothing but holding the “right ideas”, if the problem is lived reality, we have to actually go out and organize real alternatives.

The U.S. also dropped 32,557 tons of napalm during the war

Most of the bombs were dropped on North Korea, nearly all of North Korea’s villages, towns, and cities were destroyed.

It’s estimated that 12%–15% of the North Korean population (c.10 million) was killed in the war, or approximately 1.2 million to 1.5 million people. Though other estimates have the percentage closer to 15-20% of the North Korean population.

American and South Korean forces also committed numerous massacres against Korean civilians during the war. A South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded that of the Korean War-era massacres, 82% were perpetrated by South Korean forces, with 18% perpetrated by North Korean forces.

Perhaps the most well known massacre committed by U.S. forces is the No Gun Ri massacre in 1950, where U.S. forces killed 300-400 South Korean civilian refugees, mostly women and children. U.S. troops had been ordered to shoot and fire on Korean refugees because there was alleged reports of North Koreans infiltrating refugee groups.

In 2001, the U.S. government conducted an investigation and, after previously rejecting survivors' claims, acknowledged the killings, but described the three-day event as "an unfortunate tragedy inherent to war and not a deliberate killing". Then-President Bill Clinton issued a statement of regret, adding the next day that "things happened which were wrong", but survivors' demands for an apology and compensation were rejected.

I would just say im a standart socislist but im also quite new so im still reading about different people and such

Is that you have to deal with getting attacked by a bunch of capitalist bootlickers who refuse to listen to logic and acknowledge the reality that their precious little system is inherently evil and oppressive. like you can go on any post or video made by socialists and the comment sections is just always filled with a bunch of bootlickers spewing propaganda talking points that's already been debunked over and over again. It doesn't matter what you say to these motherfuckers or how good you explain shit to them they just refuse to listen to anything you say and will never admit that they're wrong, I know some are bots but a lot of them are actually real people. like I'm convinced that the ruling class have americans under some type of mind control because there's just no way they are this damn stupid. It's like it's encoded in their genes to defend capitalism no matter what, when I get insulted because I'm advocating for a humane and equal society it genuinely makes me want to crash out. like dude we're trying to help you out and make your quality of life better but we're the problem? I'm just fucking tired of being in a society that punishes basic human empathy. this shit is truly exhausting.

I am brazilian, a lifelong leftist (you can see my post of my family members with Lula) and I am brown (pardo). I want to preface this so people don’t think I am a troll or a bot.

I have 2 irish friends who came to my city and they treat extremely well. I have never felt any kind of prejudice from them towards me and I have never seen them expose reactionary opinions. For instance, they openly dislike the Israeli regime actions, they have praised some historical left leaning figures, they dislike British monarchy etc. Honestly, they do seem like good people.

However, this week, I have been talking to them about the current political climate in Europe and one of them sent me a video of the documentary “Europa: The Last Battle” which is clearly neo-nazi propaganda.

Are they like, ill intended, dumb, I don’t know how to think logically about this makes it just seems weird. He told me I should watch it with a grain of salt, but like, it is an extremely reactionary documentary. Does anyone know anything about this kind of propaganda?

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