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I wrote about Rosa Luxemburg for the anniversary of her birthday today.
She is of the most interesting and controversial people to ever live, and she would want to be remembered for what she thought and did, and why they killed her!
Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder edges of her class-struggle politics are often ignored. jacobin.com/2026/03/rosa-lux…
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New budding movement is emerging in Georgia to save the Expo. The Soviet built expo of course was privatized in the 90s as most public buildings were but still maintained its public function. Now they’re selling to build private residence buildings, ‘multifunctional complex’ and they’re saying they’ll retain the Soviet architectural heritage and site’s exhibition function, green spaces but at the end of the day it’s a private residence complex and those promises to keep it public are viewed with suspicion.
‘The Exhibition Complex of Achievements of the National Economy of the Georgian SSR (known today as "Expo Georgia") opened in 1961. Its purpose was to showcase achievements in industry, agriculture, construction, transport, communications, healthcare, culture, science, and technology. The chief architect of the complex is Levan Mamaladze.
You can also watch the short documentary on this link: instagram.com/reel/Der_3JJOZ…
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les gens pensent que je fais du small talk quand je parle de météo alors que c'est juste quelque chose qui me préoccupe énormément au quotidien
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Maybe it's that the pundit class doesn't want to be seen as excusing urban violence, but there hasn't been nearly enough alarm – or comment – at the concerted attempt to depict the protests in France as 'race riots'. jacobin.com/2026/10/france-s…
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It is a strange world.
Because 5.7 million people live in three small Baltic countries (whose total size is less than a Chinese Tier II city). and whose half of the population lives in Europe, and another third are Russians who cannot get citizenship, and because they have traumas and bad memories of the Soviet rule, the entire world of 8 billion people should go into a nuclear apocalypse and die.
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In the United States “Irish” is an ethno-confessional autonym that has nothing to do with Ireland, just like its cousin “Scotch-Irish.” It means “historically Catholic but not in a Mediterranean/Slavic way.” Most Irish Americans are German the way most Scotch-Irish are English.
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to anyone breathless over burning belleépoqueslop: 1883 isn’t ancient history and if you want to get upset about the condition of building take a look at some of the schools
"143 Years of History, Reduced to Ashes in the Name of Protest.”
The historic bell tower of Limoges' town hall collapses amid fires and riots in #France .
A DEMOCRACY MUST PROTECT THE RIGHT TO PROTEST , BUT WHO PROTECT SOCIETY WHEN ORDER COLLAPSES?
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Just before Peter Thomas died, I'd read this about him in a forthcoming book about 'Gramsci in Russia' edited by Craig Brandist for the HM series. This is how I'll remember him, and this is what real scholarship is: drinking with Gramsci's relatives
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absolute queen. the question is now what the fuck the party is going to do about the scum within it that leak messages to Die fucking Welt
Exklusiv @welt: Die neugewählte Berliner Linke-Abgeordnete Martha Kleedörfer wettert in einer internen Chatgruppe der Berliner Linkspartei gegen die Antisemitismus-Erklärung von Linken, SPD und Grünen. Sie sei »erschüttert, dass wir uns so unterworfen haben«. Der Text der drei Landesspitzen schaffe »die Grundlage für fünf weitere Jahre Repression«. Dass die Forderung nach einer Ein-Staaten-Lösung legitim sei, sei »basic knowledge« und »auf jeden Fall keine Grundlage für eine Nichtaufnahme in die Fraktion«.
Zur ganzen Recherche: welt.de/politik/deutschland/…
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The number of people defending this is astounding. "Latvia has no obligation to host foreigners who disagree with them" being the main line. Extend this line of thinking out. You'd have no problem with the Trump administration cancelling green cards because of political views?
I personally know Leonid Ragozin and shared a newsroom with him in the 2000s. I may not agree with everything he says, but it’s crazy and shameful to portray him as a Kremlin propagandist. To me, this is a direct assault on freedom of speech.
politico.eu/article/latvia-m…
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Happy "5 years since Berlin decided to hold a marathon and an election on the same day, scarcely able to conceive of the logistical difficulties that would result in the entire election having to be rerun" day to all who celebrate.
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Incidentally, the claim that AI “thinks” is not really a technical claim about LLMs, but a philosophical claim about thought; behind each such claim is a really dreadful, impoverished philosophy of mind.
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This is why you have to say “hello Mr Magpie and your lovely lady wife” when you see a single magpie.
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was making an argument for decommodification of housing and someone was like oh so you want state control. we have state control, the state intervenes constantly to protect a particular conception of property rights
🇪🇸 Se ejecuta el desahucio de Maricarmen, una mujer de 87 años con un 50% de discapacidad, que residía desde 1956 en un piso en el barrio de Retiro, en Madrid, España.
La Policía Nacional ejecutó esta mañana el desahucio forzoso después de que la empresa propietaria, Urbagestión Desarrollo e Inversión S. L., rechazara de forma tajante todas las propuestas de negociación y prórrogas planteadas.
Tras adquirir el inmueble, la empresa exigió extinguir su contrato de renta antigua de la señora y elevó el alquiler un 275%: de 500 a 1.650 euros mensuales, una cantidad inasumible para su pensión.
Centenares de activistas, vecinos y personalidades del ámbito político y artístico pasaron la noche acampados en la calle del Alcalde Sainz de Baranda para frenar de forma pacífica el desalojo.
La Policía Nacional desplegó un amplio dispositivo que incluyó cargas y momentos de gran tensión para despejar los rellanos y el portal antes de que entrara la comitiva judicial.
