aanes_appreciator [he/him, comrade/them]

Welsh, Social Ecology and Jineology enjoyer, and computer programmer.

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  • Welsh Independence March today in Rhyl, Northern Wales.

    Some brilliant comrades of the Welsh Underground Network (and its parent org the Welsh Communist Party) are joining the procession.

    If you’re a brit comrade, they’re worth a close follow because I genuinely think they’re the nucleus of the next stage of revolutionary struggle on TERF island.

    Notably, the “YesCymru” org, which was spawned from the “YesScot” movement, isn’t the organiser of these recent marches. Following its effective collapse in the early 2020s thanks to fascists (TERFs, Nazis, you name it) co-opting the org early on.

    The organisation that takes up the mantle of independence for Celtic nations is now “All Under One Banner” (AUOB) which, despite what the name may suggest to some, has much less tolerance to these opportunist elements. Scotland and Cornwall are seeing a resurgence of liberationism to counter English-style national-chauvinism, too.











  • Absolutely agree. this is one of those examples where China’s interests in nation building and “multipolarism” are at odds with internationalism (at least in the short term).

    It doesn’t really help the case that open source software can be co-opted by bourgeois interests just like any other form. If we look at Linux, for example, we see cases whereby the US state has overt influence over its development. Linus Torvalds gleefully mocked the labour of countless contributors whom he barred from developing the kernel due to their Russian nationality.

    The openness of open software is truly It’s greater strength but no permissive or restrictive licence will ever be able to thoroughly reject influence from the bourgeois state. Neither does private software, for that matter, though I guess that just means there’s no push or pull either way.




  • I fucking hate that the framing of this latest ceasefire is as if it’s permanent, and nothing like the previous ceasefire. There is nothing different about this one at all, beyond one thing:

    Israel got all its captives back.

    It falls right into the Israeli narrative that Hamas was the blocker to peace, and prepares everyone for the inevitable “Hamas ruined the peace” narrative that’ll be tried soon.

    Sure, there might be an “international security force” but we also had the GHF? We had intl. mercenaries on the American’s payroll? Plus, we have zero clue what that force entails. It certainly wont be a UN mission and may not even include regular forces beyond the American contingent of 200 troops that will be on a direct line to Tel Aviv should fresh cleansing orders come in.

    I don’t buy it, this is being spun as the “final” peace just because the resistance gave Israel what it wanted, but they did that before with a deal that included eventual release of all captives and the corpses of others. We cannot lose monentum against the entity while it desperately spins a web of lies in preparation for what we know has been planned from the start