Bulletins and News Discussion from November 11th to November 17th, 2024 - Chapo? Like, the President-elect of Mozambique? - COTW: Mozambique

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On October 9th, Daniel Chapo won the Mozambique general election with about 70% of the vote. Chapo is the head of FRELIMO, the Marxist-Leninist party of Mozambique's liberation, which fought an internal anti-communist resistance called RENAMO which was backed by Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa; Frelimo won in 1975. However, as the USSR fell, Frelimo began to allow elections inside Mozambique, and has ruled the country with significant majorities in each election ever since.

The main opposition party inside Mozambique is Podemos, which is led by Venancio Mondlane, a former member of Renamo and trained inside the USA. He alleges that his polling figures predicted a majority win for him, not Frelimo, and has accused Chapo of electoral fraud. There have been the usual slogans about how they yearn for freedom. The EU, of course, "witnessed irregularities." As @WilsonWilson@hexbear.net has pointed out, Mozambique has massive undeveloped gas fields and is outsourcing the development process to France, Norway, the UK, and the USA, while mysterious Islamist groups have popped up to cause chaos in the exact regions which have the gas, slowing the process of actually developing those gas fields. Overall, it appears to be a cookie-cutter colour revolution attempt by the imperial core designed to install a comprador for cheaper resources. Its proximity to BRICS+ member South Africa may also be significant, noting the colour revolution in Bangladesh earlier this year exerting influence near India and China.

Protestors have been battling against the police and government since late October, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries as well as massive disruption, as the government has intermittently blocked access to the internet and social media. As of today, calm appears to be returning, with border crossings beginning to reopen.

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german parliament enacts "anti-antisemitism" law effectively banning pro-palestinian speech

i know this is a somewhat older article but the ramifications for german anti-zionism are terrifying and should be brought to international attention.
- the adolfs have finally realized their big mistake was doing genocide against white people
  Death to America
  
  No, like, I think this is 100% true, that was the single biggest error of German imperialism and fascism from the perspective of imperialist interests. If the Germans had just done the Holocaust with the exact same number of deaths but in Africa then I'm convinced that Hitler would have been an obscure historical figure.
  Very few people know who Leopold II was and he killed millions upon millions of people in the Congo. The UK was responsible for dozens of millions of deaths just in India alone and all that it gets is a "well, the history and legacy of such a long-lived empire is complicated..." There were concentration camps across Africa years before the Germans brought it to Europe. There would probably be Hitler statues across Germany without anybody knowing he was a "controversial figure", just the same as having statues of colonialist and white supremacists across Europe and America where their historical value is "hotly debated" and all that horseshit.
  
  the worst part is that the germans did commit a holocaust in africa. furthermore, many early members of the sa and SS were engaged in german colonialism. the brown shirts originally stemmed from the colonial police in german occupied namibia.
  
  GOOD post, i've never thought about it before but contrasting hitler's reputation with leopold II's specifically drives home just how steeped in white supremacy western society is and how far-reaching the impacts of that are. god damn the west
  Death to America
  
  contrasting hitler's reputation with leopold II's specifically drives home just how steeped in white supremacy western society is and how far-reaching the impacts of that are. god damn the west
  Not only that, but I think this is why Israel's actions are so mind-bogglingly shocking to anybody who actually believed in a sort of psychological or ideological development of the West on human rights issues and white supremacism over the past hundred years. If your conception of history is that the imperial core "decided" to become less brutal in terms of human rights because their own magnanimity and the legacy of Hitler's inhumane actions casting a spotlight on their own actions, then what's going on in Israel just seems completely random and inexplicably evil. Like, where the fuck did all this come from? It has to "logically" be the product of evil people at the top of Israeli society, some weird regression from a period where we cared about human rights.
  I genuinely believe, without a hint of irony and glibness, that there has been ZERO development or "healing" of white supremacism in the last hundred years. ALL the gains in that department have been from people violently opposing that system, such as anti-colonial movements and the Soviets helping those. Inside of Europe, the same attitudes have ruled in the halls of power this entire time, they didn't change or become less white supremacist, only the way in which that supremacism was discussed changed. There's that famous quote on the Southern Strategy where explicitly racist rhetoric was phased out in favour of supporting measures that would inconvenience minorities slightly less directly; you don't discriminate based on race, you just make all black people poor and then discriminate based on wealth, which is much more acceptable in America. Nowadays, that violent opposition has declined with the rise of more detached methods of rule (less armies of redcoats invading Zulu territory, more bleak IMF austerity and debt) and the USSR is gone. So the EXACT SAME white supremacism that fueled Churchill and Leopold and Hitler are fueling Israel and the imperial core today.
  The scary realization about Israel is that what it's doing isn't new. It's actually very old. The AI and massive bombs and digital surveillance are, in the grand scheme of things, actually not very meaningful developments. If you time travelled back to the 1900s and talked to the rulers of Europe and described to them what Israel was doing, they'd just be like: "Ah, I see our strategies for domination continue well into the future! Verily, what glad tidings you bring me! Now, I must get back to my fox hunt!" Like, here's some examples that people may not know about:
  CW for stories of atrocities, murder, genocide, and brutal SA. Seriously, some of this stuff is awful.
  
  The potential coming world where there's dozens of Gazas created in response to political instability and immigration isn't us advancing into a grim, depressing future - we're actually just going backwards, rEtUrNiNg To TrAdItIoN, to before and during the colonial uprisings of the mid 20th century. Nothing has changed inside Europe since Leopold. Send Scholz back in time to 1940 and he'd be goose-stepping within the hour.
  
  This is one of the most illuminating posts I've seen on here. In the bleakest and most terrifying way.
  
  The silver lining to all of this is that the kinds of violent oppression that the imperial core is planning can actually be defeated, we have many case studies of that happening throughout the 20th century and Hamas and Hezbollah and Ansarallah and others are the torchbearers of those liberation movements. Defeating imposed austerity and godawful loans and such seems to be considerably harder to mount resistance against (though Russia and China are vaguely working on it), probably because it's much less destructive outright, but in the long term of decades and centuries, the combined human misery of poverty outweighs the relative quickness of a bitter war, as that famous quote on the French Revolution illustrates. I'm not in any way encouraged by historical trends per se, but I don't really see any other way that an empire can end other than violently, so if we're entering that violent phase now, then let's at least get it over with so our descendants can live in peace rather than this shitty fucking empire lasting another two hundred years.
  
  One thing that modernity is better at is allowing this kind of depravity to be executed at arms length and with plausible deniability to (some) perpetrators and beneficiaries
  
  Yeah Germany just applied colonialism to Eastern Europe which is Not Allowed. Germany previously committed genocide in its African colony of Namibia against the Herero and Nama peoples in the early 20th century and nobody gives a shit.
  
  Germany just applied colonialism to Eastern Europe which is Not Allowed.
  Unless you're a Soviet citizen*
  
  Aime Cesaire has entered the chat
  
  Great write-up, comrade.
  
  I believe Hitler could have gotten away with doing all the genocides he actually did of he had just kept his imperial ambitions facing east. The nazis' biggest mistake was antagonising the other imperialist powers and forcing them to ally with the USSR.

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