News 12/11

Egypt bans yellow vest sales as French protesters reject Macron’s concessions
The bloody Egyptian dictatorship of General Abdel Fattah al Sisi is banning the sale of yellow vests, as protests spread internationally in sympathy with the movement against French President Emmanuel Macron. This came as “yellow vest” protesters in France rejected Macron’s offer of concessions in an attempt to placate the growing movement.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/11/yell-d11.html

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police over military draft
Scuffles broke out between police and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Bnei Brak as Haredi men tried to disrupt traffic in the city."We will die and not be drafted,” activist shouted as they staged a massive sit in the middle of Jabotinsky Road. The police would hear none of it, as they proceeded to drag the protesters off the street, footage from the encounter shows.
rt.com/news/446127-ultra-orthodox-jews-clash-police/

At least one dead, 10 wounded in French Christmas market shooting
At least one person was killed and 10 people were wounded in a shooting near a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday, the local prefecture said.Police locked down the area and launched a hunt for the shooter, who fled the scene, the police sources said. They said the gunman had been identified.. ..
reuters.com/article/us-france-shots/gunshots-in-center-of-strasbourg-leave-one-dead-fire-department-idUSKBN1OA2A8

Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers land in Venezuela after 10,000km transatlantic flight
Venezuela has welcomed the arrival of Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers as an opportunity to demonstrate its resolve to defend the nation against possible foreign military intervention, with the help of “friends” if need be.Two Tu-160 strategic bombers made a gracious landing at Simón Bolívar International Airport on Monday where they were greeted by the honor guard of the Venezuelan air force.
rt.com/news/446125-tu-160-bombers-venezuela-land/

UN states agree historic global deal to manage migration crisis
The first ever international deal on the migration crisis was signed on Monday by a majority of UN states, despite vociferous objections led by the United States.The historic, non-binding global pact seeking to better manage migration was approved by delegates from 164 nations following 18 months of debate and negotiation. German chancellor Angela Merkel hailed it as an “important day”.
theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/10/un-states-agree-historic-global-deal-to-manage-refugee-crisis

Lawsuits Say Australia Subjects Asylum-Seekers To Torture And Crimes Against Humanity
Two class action lawsuits filed in Australia's High Court claim people seeking asylum in Australia who arrive by boat without proper documentation are subject to torture and crimes against humanity. The suits say the Australian government is also guilty of intentional infliction of harm in the use of an offshore processing system, according to The Guardian.
npr.org/2018/12/10/675356306/lawsuits-say-australia-subjects-asylum-seekers-to-torture-and-crimes-against-hum

Argentine Court: Ex-Ford Execs Guilty of Kidnapping, Torture During Dictatorship
The Federal Court of San Marin ruled that ex-directors of the Ford multinational Pedro Müller and Hector Sibila were found guilty in connections with the kidnapping and torture of workers at the plant that the carmaker had in General Pacheco city during the last military dictatorship.
telesurenglish.net/news/Argentine-Court-Ex-Ford-Execs-Guilty-of-Kidnapping-Torture-20181211-0013.html

Russia becomes world's second-largest arms producer
Russia was the world’s second-largest arms producer in 2017, behind only the United States, international researchers said Monday.In its annual list of top 100 arms producers, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said sales from Russian companies totaled $37.7 billion in 2017.
outline.com/YDqGSX

Demonstrations in Bolivia hit court decision allowing Evo Morales to run for fourth term
Protests have continued in Bolivia this week after demonstrators blockaded highways and marched on the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (known by its Spanish acronym, TSE) on December 6 over the TSE’s decision to place President Evo Morales on the ballot for the 2019 election. The action effectively overrides the popular vote in a national referendum held on February 21, 2016, that rejected Morales’s bid for a fourth consecutive term.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/11/boli-d11.html

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counterpunch.org/2018/12/10/foreign-interventions-in-revolutionary-russia/
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You should have included the story about the Zig Forumsyp that killed the women with his car getting life for premeditated first degree murder

independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/james-fields-jr-sentencing-charlottesville-attack-heather-heyer-car-white-supremacist-rally-a8678601.html

Thank you.

The flight of the swans, how delightful.

THE GUILLOTINE SCAFFOLD JUST GOT 10 FEET HIGHER

Ocasio-Cortez: Paul Ryan got called a 'genius' when he was elected at 28, I get accused of being 'a fraud'
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday compared herself to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), saying that the outgoing congressman was considered a "genius" when he was elected at 28 while she's been viewed as a "fraud."
outline.com/cnGjwL

‘F*** this job’: Jaded Walmart employee quits in Oscar-worthy intercom tirade (VIDEO)
A fed-up Canadian made a theatrical exit from his job at Walmart, airing his beef with the company and its management using the store’s intercom. Thankfully a cellphone video has preserved his glorious resignation for posterity.
rt.com/news/446138-walmart-quit-intercom-video-canada/

Trump administration hid report revealing Wells Fargo charged high fees to students
The Trump administration for months concealed a report that showed Wells Fargo charged college students fees that were on average several times higher than some of its competitors.The “unpublished” report was obtained by POLITICO through a Freedom of Information Act request. It was produced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau office previously led by Seth Frotman, who quit as the bureau’s top student loan official in protest of Trump administration policies. Frotman said in his resignation letter that CFPB leaders had “suppressed the publication” of the report.
politico.com/story/2018/12/10/student-loan-fees-wells-fargo-1021129

Tesla is seeking $167 million in damages from the former employee Elon Musk accused of sabotage
Tesla is seeking more than $167 million in a lawsuit against former employee Martin Tripp, recent legal filings revealed.In the lawsuit, which was filed by the electric car maker in June, Tesla alleges that Tripp, a former process engineer, had illegally exported data and made false claims to reporters, among other things.
outline.com/pKxnxC

IMF warns storm clouds are gathering for next financial crisis
The storm clouds of the next global financial crisis are gathering despite the world financial system being unprepared for another downturn, the deputy head of the International Monetary Fund has warned.David Lipton, the first deputy managing director of the IMF, said that “crisis prevention is incomplete” more than a decade on from the last meltdown in the global banking system.
theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/11/imf-financial-crisis-david-lipton

OP/ED

What It Means to Be a Marxist
We can only change the world if we understand the actual forces around us. Marxism gives us the tools to do just that.
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/12/marxism-socialism-class-struggle-materialism

France: The Yellow Vests, Act IV—Turn the Movement into a Revolution!
The yellow vest movement entered its “fourth act” this weekend, with another round of radical protests by well over the officially cited 130,000 people (possibly as many as 500,000). This time, the state response was even more brutal, with 89,000 gendarmes mobilized across France in an attempt to prevent the yellow vests from demonstrating—peacefully or otherwise—resulting in over 2,000 arrests.The youth, both university and high school students, have also now decisively entered the scene, and faced ruthless repression from the police as a result. Meanwhile, despite determined participation by rank-and-file unionists, the leaders of the main trade union federations are playing a shameful role in trying to “calm down” the protests and “negotiate” with the government. Moreover, an international media campaign of hysteria and misinformation has attempted to undermine the movement by identifying the yellow vests with far-right nationalism, and (surprise, surprise) the nefarious machinations of Russia.
socialistrevolution.org/france-the-yellow-vests-act-iv-turn-the-movement-into-a-revolution

Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia
All over Europe, the First World War had brought about a potentially revolutionary situation as early as 1917. In countries where the authorities continued to represent the traditional elite, exactly as had been the case in 1914, they aimed to prevent the realization of this potential by means of repression, concessions, or both. But in the case of Russia, the revolution not only broke out but succeeded, and the Bolsheviks began work on the construction of the world’s very first socialist society.It was an experiment for which the elites of the other countries felt no sympathy whatsoever; to the contrary, they fervently hoped that this project would soon end in a dismal fiasco. (It was also a revolutionary experiment that would disappoint numerous sympathizers because the socialist Utopia failed to spring whole, Athena-like, from the brow of the Russian revolutionary Zeus.)
counterpunch.org/2018/12/10/foreign-interventions-in-revolutionary-russia/

Montreal: IWW Pickets Continue Postal Strike Blockades
Actions in solidarity with the postal strike continue, with Montreal IWW members taking action to keep streets outside of distribution hubs blocks.Montreal, December 10th – Protesters are currently blocking all the main entrances to the main Canada Post International Mail Processing Center near Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport (at 555 McArthur in Ville St-Laurent). At present, dozens of trucks are backed up at the main entrances, where three groups of protesters are using banners to block entrances. No trucks are able to leave the facility. ..
itsgoingdown.org/montreal-iww-pickets-continue-post-strike/

Shouldn't it get lower so it won't make a complete cut and thereby gets less humane?

tybna3.0!


This is golden!

Why does Russia do shit like this still? They aren't the Soviet Union.

Putin's personal distaste at the death of Qaddafi.

They still want to expand their influence, user

In a similar vein, Maduro's Venezuela isn't Chávez's.

believe it or not, the USSR and Russia are actually on the same place on a map, with similar resources and similar population. This means, that their geopolitical interests haven't changed.

The USSR had more countries in it ;^] and they were socialist. Venezuela may not be but it would make sense for a socialst country to defend them. Does Russia profit from doing this? Do they want Venezuela's crappy crude?

Hm

Gives them leverage over the U.S. by interfering in their sphere. Basically "we're now doing something you don't want us to do. What are you going to do about it?". The hope probably being some concessions elsewhere. This is just speculation of course, but it's one reason why you'd want to do this as Russia

Ignore sage

*steps up to intercom*

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Russia has arms deals with Venezuela. When Chavez was alive he pursued relations with places like Iran, Russia, etc.

CARACAS, Venezuela – A Kalashnikov (or more commonly known as the AK-47) plant in Venezuela will be operating at full capacity by 2018, Venezuela’s Vice-President for Economics and Finance, Castro Soteldo, told the media on Friday.
fort-russ.com/2017/11/russian-weapons-factory-in-venezuela-to/

Turks officially announced new military operation against one big US military base in Syria in Eastern Syria to start within the next few day
stated goal is complete destruction of one big US military base in Syria
archive.is/1SXeb

Fucking hell this December is when everything starts fucking burning.

Stealing this.

well to be fair, this one has been cooking for a while and only got held off since the US tried to appease Erdoggo but failed horribly with the "we're gonna build border posts and train 40,000 kurds to watch the turkish border"

Woooo I've been waiting for this. The SCW has been boring for like a year.

Sad to see Rojav.a go. Fingers crossed the US keeps supporting them. Worst case they get destroyed but keep blowing shit up there forever.

twitter.com/Bosni94/status/1072949900554457088

lmao that landwhale that died didn't even get hit by the car, she died of a heart attack from getting spooked. imagine getting life for scaring a 400lb woman to death.

Shit, someone get Fox News to say something bad about Erdogan so Trump changes his mind.

The county coroner seemed to believe different

Hey one of the generals did call Erdogan an Islamist, and he is right

Pathetic.

AKP's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood say more than us or Fox News ever could. If there's anything conservatives in the US are spooked by, it's the MB.

They only mentioned it when they had power in Egypt that the US didn't like and when Saudi was in a tiff with Qatar. They're not gonna bring it up here.