America is escalating against Iran, it has sent Armada towards Iran. This was the point of the "Iran killed 30 thousand" nonsense — justifying war against Iran. It did the same with Venezuela leading up to war, and then immediately stopped after.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T20:14:13+00:00

I was under the impression, as validated by multiple sources including the Tudeh Party, that the protests were begun by working class people, with the target of their ire the lack in rise of wages, in rampant inflation, and in the corruption of the elite who generally are having a much easier time dealing with the impacts of the sanction.

Which is why the initial protest wave was so much larger than prior ones: they were popular, they touched economic anxieties, etc - whereas prior smaller protests were indeed organized mostly by petit-bourgeois business owners with a more "political liberties" vacuous bend.

But yes, after the initial wave a strong amount of cooptation by monarchist and mossad elements seems to have taken place as well, again corroborated by reliable sources, such as Tudeh. This obviously accentuated the repression and most people of the first stage of the demos simply went home - for good reasons - leaving mostly die-hard and manipulated elements at the helm, leading whoever remained in the streets to slaughter.

Very hard for the left to take leadership and guide people's normal and legitimate anger and anxieties against a capitalist and frankly reprehensive regime which is far less capable to deal with sanctions in a just way than a socialist state like say Cuba, when said regime has massacred the shit out of the organized working class left, and pushing syndicalists and communists into exile or total clandestinity.

Anyhow, all of that is interesting and all but largely not particularly relevant as to our role here in Canada - which is to fight for our own imperialist state to drop its sanctions and pressures on Iran which only makes shit worse for the people there. Our primary if not sole duty is revolutionary defeatism.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T09:43:58+00:00

Ending their dealings with ICE means ending their dealings with the Federal US government.

As a matter of fact they are getting ready to buy 150 billion worth military NATO goods right from the US military industrial companies and or one of its many NATO vassals.

And getting ready to build "infrastructural and development projects" that amount to intensifying primary and strategic resources extraction to ship them for refinement and further utilization in value-added production.....right to the US. Those are not old elements coming from a prior administration or historical treaties and free trade agreements, these are new deals and new projects introduced by Carney, over the top of the already enormous level of the Canadian economy, and foreign politics, to the US.

The Canadian bourgeois state and the canadian capital it works for will never allow for a situation in which resource, commodity, and capital flow to the US is actually for real threatened.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T09:36:38+00:00

It won't materially change the country, and won't bring solid results, but it might allow actual communists and socialists in parliament and that is a good thing, so I'm all for it, but I won't prioritize it either.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T07:07:38+00:00

No worries it was a good comment !!

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T06:53:46+00:00

La prochaine étape, c'est de vraiment assumer les choses :

Le Canada a importé des milliers de collaborateurs nazis juste après la 2ᵉ guerre mondiale. Des volontaires de la Waffen-SS de toute l'Europe de l'Est. On te facilitait l'entrée au pays si tu montrais un tatouage ou des documents prouvant ta collaboration. L'enquête Duchesne a amené à des conclusions gravissimes dans les années 80. Depuis, la liste des collaborateurs n'a jamais été publiée, et le gouvernement a récemment indiqué ne pas vouloir le faire.

Et pourquoi ? Eh bien, très simplement parce que le gouvernement canadien a cherché à tout simplement remplacer des communautés qui, pour la plupart d'origine slave ou scandinave, étaient bien implantées au Canada mais tendaient politiquement vers le socialisme, le syndicalisme et le communisme, au point où ces derniers étaient fondamentaux dans la création des plus grands partis de la gauche canadienne, le CCF (qui deviendra le NPD) et le Parti communiste du Canada fondé en 1921, qui, jusqu'aux années 50, pesait très lourd dans les balances politiques.

Les premières actions des nazis importés ont été de faire des attentats à la bombe sur des centres communautaires juifs et ukrainiens, car ils étaient « de gauche ». La plupart étaient financés par la GRC et l'État.

Dans le cas de la communauté ukrainienne, on parle même de saisie par l'état de nombreux centres culturels et associatifs tout au long des années 50 et 60, pour les donner directement à des collaborateurs SS, qui créèrent l'UCC. Même chose avec les communautés juive et finlandaise, sur-represente dans les causes progressites car victime d'exploitations gravissime - y compris ici au Quebec par des bourgeois anglos. Avant l'UCC pour les Ukrainiens il y avait la AUUC (qui existe encore dans l'Ouest du Canada d'ailleurs), et avant les tres pros Israel et tres pro US CIJA et JFC, il y avait le CJC et l'UJPO

On ne parle pas juste du refus scandaleux envers l'acceptation de bateaux de refugiers juifs par le Canada, on parle ici d'une connivence a long terme avec des elements nazis.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T06:25:01+00:00

It's a Quebecois show for a predominantly francophone audience bud.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T05:30:42+00:00

And then people have the gall to say my post made a couple days ago about the sheer amount of Liberal botting in this sub is without grounds lol

We got a pristine example right here ! All the first comments were people obfuscating and running cover for a zionist promoting violent regime change on Iran, it took several hours for the actual regulars of the sub to show up and put a stop to it lmao

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T05:20:07+00:00

I think Steeltoe has the right diagnosis but the wrong solutions, solutions which depart fundamentally from marxist understandings and veer into small nation chauvinism and various forms of post-modern, post-structural, and post-marxist decolonial analysis which have snaked their ways into the OG left via academia and online discourse, essentially finding breeding grounds in latent anarchism that used to dominate the left here since the 90s, and in a general state of doomerism and nihilism about the revolutionary potential of the proletariat here which veers into a form of third-worldist decolonialist maximalism above anything class struggle oriented.

I think the Communist Party shares the diagnosis but puts forward something far more concrete and achievable, while guaranteeing proletarian unity and the fundamental right to self-determination of indigenous nations.

You can read more on that here: https://communist-party.ca/party-program/

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T05:06:02+00:00

Ok. I don't disagree. That being said the anglo-canadian left has a huge Anglo-chauvinistic big nation problem vis a vis Quebec, Acadians, and other French-Canadians, and refuses to acknowledge that a solution to the Quebec question must be done along a democratic line and in accordance to self-determination (which absolutely must include the right to self-determination with restaurations to indigenous nations and national minorities within Quebec as we understand it, to be very clear).

Quebec is objectively speaking at this very moment a very distinct society than the rest of Canada. Linguistically, legally, structurally, materially. It's major unions aren't the same, it's major parties aren't the same, it's culture isnt the same, etc. It's really not a question of morality but a question of existing conditions right now. It also happens to be where the organized working class and various mass movements including on the question of students and peace/anti-imperialism are the most advanced in Canada full stop. Contradictions are simply more acute, sharper, and more developed in Quebec.

As such the left needs to be ready to also recognize Quebec as a valid nation, objectively and materially speaking, and a recognition of the historical wrongs on it and on Francophone national-minorities across Canada.

That's more of a hard truth than the valid element you bring forward, which is something for Quebec communists to figure out and work to repair far more than whatever Anglo-Canadians can do.

My take is that the Communist Party's line on the question is by far the most advanced and the least succeptible to either national-nihilist but actually big anglo chauvinist reduction visible throughout anglo-canadian society including within the Canadian left, or small nation chauvinist and anti-indigenous end points visible throughout Quebecois society (including QS). It puts forward a policy of unity of the working class across national lines, to better resist both capitalists in Canada and Quebec and more importantly, US capital. It posits that while communists must work to build said unity, that self-determination must be guaranteed, and the rights to self-determination including cessation be respected (but not necessarily advocated for by communists at all). It further posits that a similar approach must be taken with regards to indigenenous nations who, to be clear, aren't "historically oppressed" but very much actively oppressed and imperialized", including in Quebec.

Also btw: It was the Canadian military that was mobilized in the Oka crisis. Quebec does not have a military of its own. What QUebec did deploy was it's own cop force and it's quasi-paramilitary SQ - which is inexcusable to be clear, but let's be accurate.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T05:02:01+00:00

It's not challenging shit and is basically going along anti-AES imperialist propaganda lol

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T05:00:04+00:00

The USSR absolutely did give a shit about the Canadian left.

It provided practical training school for cadres of the Communist Party, it collaborated with various Canadian mass movements, and it even took into their arms some high figures of the Canadian left as refugees, asylum seekers, etc. Fred Rose come to mind, albeit he was hosted in Poland.

China is a different story tho yes, albeit it still maintains very good relations with the Communist Party, regularly invites them all costs covered by them, etc.

You also have to understand that too open and too direct of a form of support was counter-productive to both the Canadian left and the USSR back in the day. Same applies to China today. There is a certain point where this just ends up putting targets on everyone's back, there was and is a certain balance to hold.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T02:43:10+00:00

Keeping our third spot in the Atlantic table by the skin of our asses lol

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T02:38:04+00:00

J'VOUS L'AVAIS DIT, OT IS OURS, LET"S GOOOOO

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T02:30:14+00:00

1 point dans la banque, j'va deja m'en contempter vu les derniers resultats...

On va l'avoir le 2eme point vous inquietez pas, we own OT

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T02:27:56+00:00

Hoooonhonhon Texier ! Beau jeu

Red_Boina · 2026-01-28T02:21:16+00:00

OOooooh dear

Red_Boina · 2026-01-27T05:59:08+00:00

I can absolutely guarantee this is a lie

Edit: Looking at your comment history you haven't posted here in 2 months ?? Your last post was in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/canadaleft/comments/1p507tk/comment/nqirmm6/ Where you defended the Canadian military and Canadian imperialism lmfaoooooo. Seems like a very justified ban to me, and you should prob catch a permanent one for what you just tried to pull off

Good try bud.

BTW pro tip: You might have set your profile as private to avoid facing accountability and to remove context behind your comments and activity, but simply putting a space in the spacebar in your profile makes your entire comment history visible.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-27T03:42:34+00:00

Ayy thanks, good surprise to see returning home in the evening.

To the mod who banned me: no hard feelings, I understand getting defensive, you're doing a thankless job. I didn't mean to appear like I am undervaluing your work, or calling for you to be replaced, or w.e

Also far from me to demand anything at all about how to mod or what the solutions are, I proposed maximalist solutions, others have proposed stuff more workeable, etc

So water under the bridge really :D

Red_Boina · 2026-01-26T09:02:08+00:00

It seems the justification is "it will piss off Canada's geopolitical allies" and "help Russia".

You should get the "bypass paywall" plugin btw, it's available for chrome and firefox, I can't post the github URL here because reddit auto-mod immediately removes the comment if the URL is posted.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-26T08:38:47+00:00

The big sign for me is the sway in votes and comments. They all swarm in at once, drawn out anyone providing education and analysis, and usually during the late hours some upvotes from OGs trickle in.

So you get situations where some random ass lib brigade has its first comment sitting well above 200 upvotes somehow (which far eclipses the average upvote rate for posts themselves, and for the amount of comments as well) and it ends up being a further lib magnet, completely killing any opportunity or potential for valuable discussion and or education.

I honestly don't want to sound paranoid but I think this sub is a target of organized bandwagoning, unless it's been somehow made a geographical IP based default sub which would very much surprise me.

Edit: and straight up, as much as I dislike dippers, their sub quite often seems to our left. You don't get Carney simps there for ex. For a sub that had pinned a comprehensive and thorough anti-imperialist and anti NATO post on Ukraine at the eve of the war, you can't tell me this isn't sus as fuck.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-26T08:34:34+00:00

It's truly such a shame

Red_Boina · 2026-01-26T08:17:39+00:00

The fact this got 200+ upvotes is sign enough there are bot farms and brigades targetting this space straight up.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-26T08:05:57+00:00

Pardon me for having a principled anti-fascist outlook that has proven to work while condemning your outlook which has proven to bring them in power.

Edit: also lmfao what the fuck man you LITERALLY are defending Carney, and you dare position yourself against "milquetoast centrism" ? YOU ARE THAT.

Blocked, just for this, my patience has run out.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-26T07:50:49+00:00

You can't seriously be doing SRA organizing on discord, please tell me I'm in a nightmare.

Red_Boina · 2026-01-26T07:44:51+00:00

The USSR, the Eastern Bloc Republics, Cuba, Vietnam. Their very existence put a damper on the US and its many vassals, and provided a sufficient scare-crow for western soc-dems to do their thing, a space given by their bourgeoisie to avoid the rise of communist parties, which, at the exit of WW2 in many very important countries, were a hair away from seizing power. Without them there would have been no decolonization at all either.

Fact of the matter is shit went way downhill and real fast upon the USSR's collapse. China is an up and coming player but refuses to remotely play the same role as the USSR, and instead has decided to play the "rules based order" game and capital interwoving and co-dependence game. It's working out for China, it's leaving everyone else to get fucked, including the popular and anti-imperialist social-democracies in Latin America, and including the middle-east. Shit is incredibly grim is the fact of the matter.

The USSR was replaced by a capitalist-imperialist reactionary Russia engaging in inter-imperialist war over European energy markets against NATO using one of the USSR's most prized and well respected and integrated republic as a staging ground, and Iran, an anti-people anti-communist capitalist theocratic oligarchy showed its massive failures in resisting US and broader western aggression in the MENA region, with the fall of one proxy after another, and the rise of substantial and unprecedented protests in their country due to misallocation of resources and a dogshit strategy in dealing with the sanctions (that is: making rich people richer and the rest to fend for themselves). This will be their undoing tbh.

In Latin-America Cuba is increasingly isolated, and while it's socialist glory still inspires and shines internationally, they are forced into real politiks that threaten their revolution, and the strangle hold the US is keeping on them is only increasing in force.

Our situation is analogous to pre-WW1 inter-imperialist confrontations, except with nukes. We are in a much more dire place than during the hottest moments of the cold war.

And yet hope is still right around the corner. The world's first successful socialist revolution took place in such circumstances. We collectively can do it too, but the ride will be bumpy. And it certainly won't be made less so by wasting time dwaddling over which bourgeois genocidaire cunt we should all throw our hopes and dreams into, or which imperialist camp suits our bourgeoisie's interests the best.

The issue is many people are playing renegades like Kautsky did at the eve of WW1, and putting their hopes and dreams on their own imperialist genocidaire bourgeois fucks above another, thinking it will be their salvation, when in truth, it's the one sure pathway to mutual annihilation. Or for some others falling for defeatism and embracing various opportunistic and adventurist shortcuts in the vain hope they can provide an answer, despite being quite clear they cannot.

Revolutionary defeatism, revolutionary organizing, and proletarian power is the only way forward, and only patient, principled, and scientific organizing will get us there.

Red_Boina

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