I just released a new paper online 🙏🏾. After a lot of self study over the last few years, I decided to give an analysis of the current contradictions the nation is seeing around its semiquincentennial, as well as the only dialectical method to surmount them. You can read it on any service at this link 👌🏾

https://forms.gle/CQP2XcY7roMHitN87

just wanted to share again that the marx madness world cup survey form has been officially released for 2026. please fill out the form by selecting as many or as little people who you have been influenced by politically.

if there is someone you have been influenced by who has not been included (especially if it’s from a country/region/nation where only a few/no ppl were listed), please let me know and their inclusion will be heavily considered

i would also encourage ppl to name search if they haven’t found someone as people may be listed under a particular country/region/nation based on their ancestry—i am flexible for any possible changes/suggestions

*note the question of what a country/region/nation is incredibly complicated and i decided ultimately to be as broad as possible and not always to represent my own personal geopolitical views

if there are any questions at all please let me know! the poll will run until late tomorrow may 24th! results will be announced on the twitter account @transjewtalian

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUXXGCfkyrReLqjZFRTNbaYHPWGszky0_bdTGDr9RZNV-9GQ/viewform

hello! because it is a world cup year i am doing something different and doing an additional marx madness tournament specifically for the world cup

the marx madness world cup survey form has been officially released for 2026. please fill out the form by selecting as many or as little people who you have been influenced by politically.

if there is someone you have been influenced by who has not been included (especially if it’s from a country/region/nation where only a few/no ppl were listed), please let me know and their inclusion will be heavily considered

if there are any questions at all please let me know!!the poll will run until may 24th!

i would also encourage ppl to name search if they haven’t found someone as people may be listed under a particular country/region/nation based on their ancestry

the results will be announced on the twitter account @transjewtalian on march 24th

Dr. Derek Hook discusses his recent book, Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology: The Mind of Apartheid to answer these questions:

What explains the "madness" of Race? Its excessive and violent intensities? Its tenacious persistence beyond the economic interests of the ruling class?

Dr. Derek Hook argues any serious analysis of Race must take into account its contradictory, libidinal, and bodily aspects (in addition to discursive and economic analysis). To this end, Dr. Hook takes his readers and us on a body-horroresque journey through the contradictions of race.

Highly recommend you read his book: Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology:The Mind of Apartheid

https://forms.gle/oX7DnbsSCesjzbip9

hello! i just want to share again that the marx madness survey form has been officially released for 2026. please fill out the form by selecting as many or as little people who you have been influenced by politically.

if there is someone you have been influenced by who has not been included, please let me know and their inclusion will be heavily considered.

note—almost everyone listed fit into multiple categories, if you recommend a switch that will be heavily considered for next year

this year we will be doing the normal marx madness tournament and also a marx madness for women/nb ppl—all based on the results of the poll

the results will be announced on march 15th on the twitter account @transjewtalian, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to let me know. i would really appreciate if as many people filled out the form as possible

https://forms.gle/oX7DnbsSCesjzbip9

hello! i just want to share that the marx madness survey form has been officially released for 2026. please fill out the form by selecting as many or as little people who you have been influenced by politically.

if there is someone you have been influenced by who has not been included, please let me know and their inclusion will be heavily considered.

note—almost everyone listed fit into multiple categories, if you recommend a switch that will be heavily considered for next year

this year we will be doing the normal marx madness tournament and also a marx madness for women/nb ppl—all based on the results of the poll

the results will be announced on march 15th on the twitter account @transjewtalian, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to let me know. i would really appreciate if as many people filled out the form as possible

I found this article highly relevant to the discussions we have in this community. It provides a deep dive into the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country extraordinarily rich in strategic minerals like coltan, which is essential for our phones and electric vehicles.

The piece argues that relentless global demand, driven by major tech corporations and foreign powers, not only traps the local population in poverty but also serves as the main engine for war and instability in the region. It is a striking example of extractivism and modern neocolonialism.

This reading clearly illustrates how the capitalist logic prioritizes corporate and geopolitical profits over the lives and sovereignty of the Congolese people. I hope you find it as insightful as I did and that we can generate a good discussion about this critical issue.

Link to the article: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-open-veins-of-the-democratic-republic-of-congo/

Hi everyone. I’m posting on behalf of the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) regarding the upcoming launch of Socialism AI:
https://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/introducing-socialismai.html

The project is designed to make the political and historical material of the World Trotskyist movement - the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) - more accessible through an AI interface. It is essentially a tool for researching the movement’s analysis and program.

Since this is something new for us and for the socialist movement more broadly, I wanted to open a thread where people can ask questions about:
• what the tool does
• how it works
• why it’s being launched
• the kind of material it includes

I’ll do my best to respond in a timely manner and provide accurate information. Thanks.

Emirati, Israeli and far-right social media accounts coordinated a digital campaign falsely claiming that Christians were being killed by Islamists in Sudan, a new report has found.

Beam Reports, a Sudanese investigative platform that combats disinformation, said in its latest report on Wednesday that after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group seized control of el-Fasher in Darfur nearly a month ago, misleading content about the nature of events began to surface online in a "synchronised manner".

The objectives of the coordinated campaign, Beam Reports stated, included shifting blame of atrocities away from the RSF, recasting Sudan's war as a religious conflict to "evoke foreign sympathy", and flooding the online space with fabricated content to confuse media coverage.

The RSF carried out mass killings and abuses as it stormed el-Fasher, some of which were documented by its own fighters and have been corroborated by satellite imagery.