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In the U.S., an anti-colonial revolution will happen before a socialist revolution does

This year’s rise of Black Lives Matter-as well as of the indigenous movement Land Back-is a foreshadowing to how a revolution in the U.S., and on the continent more broadly, will unfold. When a revolution occurs, the driving forces behind what happens afterward are which contradictions have just motivated the masses to overthrow their government. In the case of the U.S. and the other settler-colonial states, there’s a contradiction that doesn’t exist within England, or Germany, or the other lands where an indigenous population is not living under colonial occupation. Within the borders of the territory currently called the U.S., all of the land rightfully belongs to the 574 Native tribes. And therefore after the U.S. government is overthrown, all of the land will need to be transferred back to these indigenous First Nations.

https://rainershea612.medium.com/in-the-u-s-an-anti-colonial-revolution-will-happen-before-a-socialist-revolution-does-11519c35fa6a

A warm welcome to comrade Libertasnia!

I am back!

Whole Bengal wrote:

I am back!

I have to improve my niceness, welfare and health along with other society trends in NS!

How do i become a armed citizen of North Korea?

Red Ghost wrote:

Solidarity with my American comrades

It seems we've fallen a little behind on covering recent events on the regional message board. I want to publically recognize that many comrades here in NK are American and are dealing with sumounting pressures at home with the pandemic and political climate. While I'm ignorant on the events that took place in Washington last week, as I have only been keeping myself updated with bourgeois news articles I want to state that what was done appears, at least on the border of the Americans neariest neighbour to have been a very serious defiling of bourgeois democracy in the United States.

On the bourgeois news today I heard that several corporations have begun to withdraw financial support from republican senators and the 'Trumpists' - and this is big news indeed. Money is the oxogen of American politics. In other news, social media platforms seem to have taken a stand as well blocking the 'Trumpists' accounts even in the most right wing fringes of internet message boards and social media platform.

As a student of history, the events of last weekend had a certain "Beer Hall Putsch' flavour to them, recent news articles suggest armed protests at the capitals of some 50 states by the 'Trumpists' could occur on January 17. Things may get worse.

The Coronavirus pandemic is claiming near four thousand American lives every day, nearly twice as many as the national average in even the nearest statistic nation (Brazil around two thousand lives per day). Things may get worse, before they get better.

We are in dangerous times for the American communist. Armed fascist gangs show their faces in broad daylight and even the state, usually sympathetic to right wing causes (because the nature of the right is generally supporting the bourgeois status quo) is horrified. We are in times of open fascist terror.

To many working people around the world and indeed in America, the events of last weekend may roll off their backs like water on a duck, falsly finding comfort knowing the bourgeois state will last forever, Biden will heal the division and American politics will continue down the roads of dozens of more Bush's, Clintons, Obama's and Reagans. Those of us who see the world through a Marxist lens know different. BOurgeois capitalist politics are only a phase which will decay and deform to be the birthplace of fascism, in all capitalist nation states. This is the nature of capitalism/imperialism, it carries the seed of fascism within. The real question to be asked is when will this seed be germinated and begin to grow?

Solidarity with my American comrades enduring troubled times. In five years time will you still be struggling against the bourgeois state or should we instead meet the fate of Gramsci? Stay close with your revolutionary organizations and please stay safe.

Revolutionary regards

V Ming

This sounds like a threat, i must stay with my communist friends and allies in NS! We must fight this together!

Tariffs As Electoral Weapons: The Political Geography of the US–China Trade War
In response to President Trump instigating conflict over trade with China, the Chinese government countered by issuing tariffs on thousands of products worth over USD 110 billion in US exports. We explore whether China's tariffs reflected a strategy to apply counterpressure by hurting political support for the president's party. We also assess the strategy's impact on the 2018 midterm elections and examine the mechanism underlying the resulting electoral shift. We find strong evidence that Chinese tariffs systematically targeted US goods that had production concentrated in Republican-supporting counties, particularly when located in closely contested Congressional districts. This apparent strategy was successful: targeted areas were more likely to turn against Republican candidates.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/abs/tariffs-as-electoral-weapons-the-political-geography-of-the-uschina-trade-war/2E5E7846A558CFA69CE9648EC18FE581

Press Review

Pyongyang, January 30 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Saturday:

An editorial calls for successfully implementing the new five-year plan under the uplifted banner of self-reliance.

The campaign for implementing the decisions of the 8th Party Congress is brisk across the country.

The emergency anti-epidemic campaign is being intensified throughout the country.

Several units were honored with the title of forest of socialist patriotism for their distinguished efforts in forest conservation.

The number of COVID-19 cases is still increasing worldwide.

Rodong Sinmun

An article says it is a core task for socialist construction to step up the sci-tech development.

Minju Joson

Meticulous efforts are made in different economic sectors to implement the new five-year plan. -0-

The Continuing Korean War in the Murderous History of Bombing

https://monthlyreview.org/2021/01/01/the-continuing-korean-war-in-the-murderous-history-of-bombing/

Sign ups for season 3 of the college football league are OPEN!

NK friends, I'd love for you to join and have fun with me in my personal college football league that I run! Can't wait to see how you folks fare and to see who's the greatest (...at online RNG football) amongst you that'll rise up and be your champion!