Anti-Communist myths debunked 

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This document exists as a guide to help Communists cut through the propaganda spread by the ruling
class in their ongoing attempt to shut down debate and provide legitimacy to capitalism by demonising
the only viable alternative.

This resource was created for the purpose of helping Leftists educate people about all of the
misinformation, lies and propaganda spread about Communists, and past experiments with Socialism
and Communism. Its other main use is in helping Leftists themselves understand some of the
controversies in the Communist movement, so that we are all better able to avoid the genuine mistakes
and errors that have occurred. After all, how are we supposed to learn from the past if it is buried under a
mountain of lies?

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Famines & food-related myths

“Holodomor” / Famine in Ukraine
Books and academic works
Articles
YouTube videos
Misc
China food myths
USSR food myths
DPRK food myths
Other

The USSR and Stalin

General
Jews in the USSR
Purges, Moscow Trials etc
Stalin
General
Cult of personality
Unelected & unpopular “dictator”
Gulags
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Mass deportations
 Dissidents
World War 2 & Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact

GDR - German Democratic Republic

General
Berlin Wall
Stasi

Other Socialist/Communist countries/governments

Vietnam
Laos
Afghanistan (DRA- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan)

Cuba
General
Cuba’s economic reforms
LGBTQ+
Did Cuba censor musicians, writers etc?
Che Guevara myths
The Cuban Blockade

DPRK - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

PRC - People’s Republic of China

Is China Socialist?
Poverty reduction campaign
General
Mao
Ghost cities?
Hong Kong
Social Credit System
Inequality
Anti-Corruption drive
Billionaires, private companies, regulation (etc)
Xi, Governance, Political education, etc
Communist Party
China infrastructure, economy, SOE’s, poverty etc
Chinese foreign relations
China-U.S. Trade war (etc)
China-DPRK-RoK relations
South China Sea (etc)
China in Africa
Belt & Road Initiative , “Imperialism” etc
Worker/labor rights, Society (etc)
Pollution & the environment
Tibet
Xinjiang / Islam / Uyghurs
Tiananmen Square
Great Leap Forward / Cultural revolution
Chinese research & development, science, etc.

Venezuela /
Communist Military Interventions

Democracy: Communism and Capitalism

Cuba
USSR
Eastern Bloc
China
DPRK
Venezuela
General

Socialism doesn’t work, and other common myths

The USA has no history of Socialism/Communism & “it will never work here”
Quality of life under Socialism
General
China
USSR
Cuba
“Human Rights”
“human nature” ?
“Communism killed millions of people”
Socialism isn’t innovative
Life under communism was/is boring/dull/grey/repressive (etc)
Non-violence??
Communism = White people?
Socialism = big government?
Cultural Marxism?
“Communism is dead” (etc)

Collapse of Communism in the 20th Century

General
The USSR
The Eastern Bloc
Yugoslavia
“Why don’t you ask people who lived under communism?” and “people aren’t happy under socialist
systems”
Opinion polls in former socialist/communist states

Communism, feminism, racism and LGBTQ+

General / “IdPol”
Feminism
Theory
History
Anti-racism, anti-colonialism etc
Theory etc
History
LGBTQ+

Communism and religion

Communist theory towards religion
How religion was/is treated in communist countries /
World history of Imperialism, anti-Communism (etc)
General
EU
Cuba
DPRK
USSR (historical)
Latin America & Carribean
Chile
Nicaragua
China
Eastern Bloc (historical)
Middle East & Afghanistan
Syria
General
The “Imperial Left” and Syria
White Helmets, NGO’s etc
Rebel groups (etc)
Support for Assad
Chemical Weapons allegations
Douma
Libya
Palestine (“Israel”)
Iran
Iraq
East / Southeast Asia
Africa

Imperialist and anti-communist propaganda explained

The Cold War
Anti-communist propaganda (general)

Propaganda (work in progress)

Amnesty International, HRW etc
NGOs/Aid (general)
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Regime change / Color revolutions
Election interference
War propaganda
Anti-DPRK propaganda
Anti-Russia propaganda / Russiagate
Syrian War Propaganda
Black book of communism
Increasing state repression in Western countries
CIA and other intelligence agencies, mass surveillance etc
Academia, publishing and media
Fascism explained

World War 2
General
The atomic bombing of Japan /
 Finland
Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact
Katyn Massacre

Misc
Khmer Rouge

Recommended YouTube talks

Other reading guides

Famines & food-related myths

“Holodomor” / Famine in Ukraine

Books and academic works

● Fraud, Famine and Fascism by Doug Tottle

http://rationalrevolution.net/special/library/tottlefraud.pdf
● The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 by Mark Tauger
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpQllPVzQ2UFd3aWM/view?usp=sharing
● Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1933 by Mark Tauger
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpNExnSEVhMjBLRlE/view?usp=sharing
● The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933 by Davies and Wheatcroft
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=32DAA2871728468189A57E0233492A3A
● Lies concerning the History of the Soviet Union by Mario Sousa
http://www.mariosousa.se/LiesconcerningthehistoryoftheSovietUnion.html
● The Soviet famine of 1932-1933 reconsidered
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668130801999912
● Archive of writings of Professor Mark Tauger on the famine scourges of the early years of the
Soviet Union
https://www.newcoldwar.org/archive-of-writings-of-professor-mark-tauger-on-the-famine-scourges-of-the-
early-years-of-the-soviet-union/
● Blood Lies by Grover Furr
http://www.readmarxeveryday.ml/bloodlies/index.html
● Pages 95-111 of Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens - Collectivization and the ‘Ukrainian
Holocaust’
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
● J Arch Getty reviews “Harvest of Sorrow”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v09/n02/j-arch-getty/starving-the-ukraine

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● Did Stalin or the Authorities stop starving peasants from leaving Ukraine? (see below pages of
Bloodlies)

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Articles
● Mark Tauger reviews The Years of Hunger by Davies and Wheatcroft
https://eh.net/book_reviews/the-years-of-hunger-soviet-agriculture-1931-1933/
● Stop spreading Nazi propaganda: on Holodomor
https://socialistmlmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/stop-spreading-nazi-propaganda/
● The Holodomor Hoax: Joseph Stalin’s crime that never took place
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http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/10/the-holodomor-hoax-joseph-stalins-crime-that-never-took-plac
e/
● Real Stalin series: famine of 1932
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/famine-of-1932/
● In search of a Soviet Holocaust: A 55 year old famine feeds the Right
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/vv.html
● The Ukrainian famine: only evidence can disclose the truth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/31/the-ukrainian-famine-only-evidence-can-disclose-the-truth/
● The “Holodomor” and the film “Bitter Harvest” are Fascist lies
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/
● Holodomor Hoax: the anatomy of a lie invented by West’s propaganda machine
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201510191028730561-holodomor-hoax-invented-hitler-west
● The famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine the eyes of historians, the language of documents
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Famine/Publicat/Fam-Pyrig-1932.php
● How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
● Evidence that Stalin was unaware of conditions in the Ukraine and tried to relieve the situation
when he was informed
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/10/03/fighting-the-holodomor-myth-archival-evidence-that-stalin-was-u
naware-of-conditions-in-the-ukraine-and-tried-to-relieve-the-situation-when-he-was-informed/

YouTube videos

● Why the Holodomor narrative is wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUEi7v2TMpQ
● Holodomor series - part 1 - fraudulent photos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzXFXdOz_8Q
● Food shortages and problems in the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUO7_SiJCpw
● Did Stalin continue to export grain as Ukraine starved?
https://youtu.be/SMBJ_nQ4sTA

Misc
● "Recent evidence has indicated that part of the cause of the famine was an exceptionally low harvest in 1932, much
lower than incorrect Soviet methods of calculation had suggested. The documents included here or published
elsewhere do not yet support the claim that the famine was deliberately produced by confiscating the harvest, or that it
was directed especially against the peasants of the Ukraine."

Koenker and Bachman, Eds. Revelations from the Russian Archives. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997, p. 401

● "In view of the importance of grain stocks to understanding the famine, we have searched Russian archives for
evidence of Soviet planned and actual grain stocks in the early 1930s. Our main sources were the Politburo protocols,
including the (“special files,” the highest secrecy level), and the papers of the agricultural collections committee
Komzag, of the committee on commodity funds, and of Sovnarkom. The Sovnarkom records include telegrams and
correspondence of Kuibyshev, who was head of Gosplan, head of Komzag and the committee on reserves, and one of
the deputy chairs of Komzag at that time.
We have not obtained access to the Politburo working papers in the Presidential Archive, to the files of the committee
on reserves or to the relevant files in military archives. But we have found enough information to be confident that this
very a high figure for grain stocks is wrong and that Stalin did not have under his control huge amounts of grain, which
could easily have been used to eliminate the famine."

Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933 by R. W. Davies, M. B. Tauger, S.G. Wheatcroft.Slavic Review,
Volume 54, Issue 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 642-657.

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● The Political Bureau believes that shortage of seed grain in Ukraine is many times worse than what was described in
comrade Kosior’s telegram; therefore, the Political Bureau recommends the Central Committee of the Communist party
of Ukraine to take all measures within its reach to prevent the threat of failing to sow [field crops] in Ukraine.
Signed: Secretary of the Central Committee – J. STALIN

From the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation. Fond 3, Record Series 40, File 80, Page 58.

● It is a matter of some significance that Cardinal Innitzer’s allegations of famine-genocide were widely promoted
throughout the 1930s, not only by Hitler’s chief propagandist Goebbels, but also by American Fascists as well.

It will be recalled that Hearst kicked off his famine campaign with a radio broadcast based mainly on material from
Cardinal Innitzer’s “aid committee.” In Organized Anti-Semitism in America, the 1941 book exposing Nazi groups and
activities in the pre-war United States, Donald Strong notes that American fascist leader Father Coughlin used Nazi
propaganda material extensively. This included Nazi charges of “atrocities by Jew Communists” and verbatim portions
of a Goebbels speech referring to Innitzer’s “appeal of July 1934, that millions of people were dying of hunger
throughout the Soviet Union.”

Tottle, Douglas. Fraud, Famine, and Fascism. Toronto: Progress Books,1987, p. 49-51

● QUESTION: Is it true that during 1932-33 several million people were allowed to starve to death in the Ukraine and
North Caucasus because they were politically hostile to the Soviets?

ANSWER: Not true. I visited several places in those regions during that period. There was a serious grain shortage in
the 1932 harvest due chiefly to inefficiencies of the organizational period of the new large-scale mechanized farming
among peasants unaccustomed to machines. To this was added sabotage by dispossessed kulaks, the leaving of the
farms by 11 million workers who went to new industries, the cumulative effect of the world crisis in depressing the value
of Soviet farm exports, and a drought in five basic grain regions in 1931.

The harvest of 1932 was better than that of 1931 but was not all gathered; on account of overoptimistic promises from
rural districts, Moscow discovered the actual situation only in December when a considerable amount of grain was
under snow.

Strong, Anna Louise. Searching Out the Soviets. New Republic: August 7, 1935, p. 356

● "The conquest of bread was achieved that summer, a victory snatched from a great disaster. The 1933 harvest
surpassed that of 1930, which till then had held the record. This time, the new record was made not by a burst of
half-organized enthusiasm, but by growing efficiency and permanent organization … This nationwide cooperation beat
the 1934 drought, securing a total crop for the USSR equal to the all-time high of 1933."

Strong, Anna Louise. The Stalin Era. New York: Mainstream, 1956, p. 44-45

● in 1920 when the NEP was implemented and the Soviet Union moved from War-Communism, to a temporary stage
where a free market existed, the much feared consequences of the market became evident. Despite the previous land
reform nearly 3 million peasants, were quickly once again without land, because the kulaks had driven them bankrupt
and then bought their land cheaply. This resulted in 10 or 11 percent of the population (kulaks) owning so much land
and also horses and machinery compared to the rest of the peasant population that they produced 56 percent of the
marketed food. The kulaks largely would decide if the towns would get food or not. Kulak speculation on the food
market caused a shortage already in 1927 when the marketed share of grain was only one third of the pre-war years
although production had exceeded pre-war figures. This ineffectiveness was what initiated the idea of collectivization,
with Lenin writing down the basic idea before his death and Stalin putting down the plans and implementing it. Among
the many actions of the collectivization program was the confiscation of farm land and the machinery and livestock that
was on it (private property, NOT personal property). However there were some problems;

“Collectivization was not an orderly process following bureaucratic rules. It consisted of actions by the poor peasants,
encouraged by the Party. The poor peasants were eager to expropriate the “kulaks,” but less eager to organize a
cooperative economy. By 1930 the Party and already sent out cadres to stem and correct excesses… After having
exercised restraint in 1930, the Party put on a drive again in 1932. As a result, in that year the kulak economy ceased
to produce, and the new collective economy did not yet produce fully.”
Blumenfeld, Hans. Life Begins at 65. Montreal, Canada: Harvest House, c1987, p. 152

● “During the 1932 harvest season Soviet agriculture experienced a crisis. Natural disasters, especially plant diseases
spread and intensified by wet weather in mid-1932, drastically reduced crop yields. OGPU reports, anecdotal as they /
are, indicate widespread peasant opposition to the kolkhoz system. These documents contain numerous reports of
 kolkhozniki, faced with starvation, mismanagement and abuse by kolkhoz officials and others, and desperate
conditions: dying horses, idle tractors, infested crops, and incitement by itinerant people. Peasants’ responses varied:
some applied to withdraw from their farms, some left for paid work outside, some worked sloppily, intentionally leaving
grain on the fields while harvesting to glean later for themselves.”

Tauger, Mark. “Soviet Peasants and Collectivization, 1930-39: Resistance and Adaptation.” In Rural Adaptation in
Russia by Stephen Wegren, Routledge, New York, NY, 2005, Chapter 3, p. 81.

● Some of the Kulaks, angered and resentful, rather than integrate into society as an average worker (who frankly lived
in conditions 10x better than under Tsarist times), decided to take action.

They burnt crops and slaughtered livestock, those with machinery broke it if they could. In addition to their vandalism
and arson they murdered government officials and peasants siding with them, there are even some (unconfirmed)
accounts of them poisoning water supplies.

“Almost all the collective farms established in 1931 and 1932 were shockingly mismanaged. What else could be
expected when every village in Russia had been the scene of bitter internal strife, when animals had been slaughtered
or allowed to die through incompetence, and grain had been buried, and barns and houses burned? It has been
estimated that livestock dropped by 50% during those tragic years and there were large areas, as I saw with my own
eyes in the North Caucasus in 1933, where miles of weeds and desolation replaced the former grainfields…”

Duranty, Walter. Stalin & Co. New York: W. Sloane Associates, 1949, p. 77[10]

● During the thirties, the far-right, linked with the Hitlerites, had already fully exploited the propaganda theme of
`deliberately provoked famine to exterminate the Ukrainian people’. But after the Second World War, this propaganda
was `adjusted’ with the main goal of covering up the barbaric crimes committed by German and Ukrainian Nazis, to
protect fascism and to mobilise Western forces against Communism.”

Martens, Ludo. Another View of Stalin. Antwerp, Belgium: EPO, Lange Pastoorstraat 25-27 2600, p. 113 (Pg 96 on the
internet pdf) [11]

● “This destruction of the productive forces had, of course, disastrous consequences: in 1932, there was a great famine,
caused in part by the sabotage and destruction done by the kulaks. But anti-Communists blame Stalin and the `forced
collectivization’ for the deaths caused by the criminal actions of the kulaks.”

Martens, Ludo. Another View of Stalin. Antwerp, Belgium: EPO, Lange Pastoorstraat 25-27 2600, p. 79 [p. 66 on the
pdf]

● *Famines are always because of Communism*

https://i.redd.it/j22mvokwzo1z.jpg

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China food myths
● Did Mao really kill millions during the Great Leap Forward?
https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
Did Mao really kill millions in the Great Leap Forward? (YTube video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e8CXWEAf-w&t=3s
● Mao reconsidered
https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/

See section on Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward

USSR food myths

● Food shortages and problems in the USSR by Endymion
https://youtu.be/NUO7_SiJCpw
● Soviet Agriculture, 1977 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SovietAgricultureMorozov

DPRK food myths

● Nutrition and Health in North Korea: What’s New, What’s Changed and Why It Matters
https://www.academia.edu/25554321/Nutrition_and_Health_in_North_Korea_Whats_New_Whats_Chan
ged_and_Why_It_Matters
● North Korea as the Wicked Witch of the East: Social Science as Fairy Tale
https://www.academia.edu/6130295/North_Korea_as_the_Wicked_Witch_of_the_East_Social_Science_
as_Fairy_Tale
● World Food Programme webpage for the DPRK
http://www1.wfp.org/countries/democratic-peoples-republic-korea
● Mission East page on DPRK
http://www.miseast.org/en/nkorea/food-insecurity-north-korea
● Korea’s food situation: stable and improving (From the Council on Foreign Relations!)
https://www.cfr.org/blog/north-koreas-food-situation-stable-and-improving
● The Food Situation In North Korea (and other dprk myths)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3fdp00DgfI
 ● Real DPRK economic data by Jason Unruhe
https://youtu.be/AM0faLccYuQ
● The Problematic Evidence Base of the UN Human Rights Council (excellent paper)
http://criticalasianstudies.org/issues/vol46/no1/crimes-against-humanity.html
https://www.academia.edu/6296645/Crimes_against_humanity_Unpacking_the_North_Korean_Human_Rights_De
bate

“The problem is that the claims about food rights violations in the 2013 UNHCR report are not congruent with the
statistical indicators given by UN agencies that have the most experience of working in North Korea. Despite
emanating from within the UN system in which access to data on the DPRK is straightforward, the UNHRC
reporting on food violations demonstrates a problematic securitization of evidence and analysis though a heavy
reliance on prior assumptions and a filtering of information through those securitized assumptions. The UNHRC
reporting, of which the February 2013 report is representative, is self-referential, factually inaccurate, and seems
unaware of the reports from the UN agencies that have worked in the DPRK for many years. This is somewhat
surprising, especially as the weight of the UN agency reporting contradicts the UNHCR claims on food violations.
The 2013 UNHRC report is self-referential in that it draws almost entirely from previous UNHCR reports and
resolutions on North Korea and often uses the same wording, that is, the 2013 report cuts and pastes from
previous UNHCR reports.26 The practice of extracting from older reports is standard in governmental or
international organization reports, but this practice can be misleading when, as in the 2013 UNHCR report, claims
are made with a sense of irrefutable certainty despite the absence of conventional substantiation. What is most
striking about the UNHCR reporting on the DPRK is the almost complete absence of reference to relevant data
from other UN agencies, donor governments, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), to the extent that the
UNHRC reporting seems unaware of the existence of reports on the DPRK from within the UN system itself. 27
The 2013 UNHRC report references only one report from the specialist UN agencies: a March 2011
FAO/WFP/UNICEF report
on food insecurity in the DPRK. Unfortunately, the citations are third-hand and the material quoted in the UNHCR
report is taken so much out of context that it distorts the findings of the original report and misleads the reader.
The 2011 FAO/WFP/UNICEF report does not argue for the exceptional severity of a food and health crisis in the
DPRK. It does not argue that there are famine-like conditions prevailing in the population. It does not argue that the
government is solely responsible for food insecurity in the country. It does not mention or argue that international
protection (i.e., human rights) mandates are being abjured by the DPRK government. This last point is important as
UN agencies have an obligation under their protection of human rights mandates to report potential crimes against
humanity. The UNHCR reporting does not mention that UN specialist agencies have never identified DPRK
government food and health policy in these terms.
The 2013 report to the Human Rights Council referred to “the severity of the food situation” in support of the
report’s claims that the government should be considered as violating the right to food. These claims contrast with
those of the humanitarian agencies that reported in 2011—in the same and only report from the humanitarian
agencies that the 2013 UNHCR report appears to cherry-pick quotes from—that the “nutrition situation…appears to
be relatively stable.”28 In 2012 WFP and UNICEF concurred with an assessment that improvements in acute
malnutrition show that the “situation is not critical and does not suggest emergency operations” and that the “Global
Chronic Malnutrition or Stunting… is considered as of ‘medium’ public health significance according to WHO
Standards.” “

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Other
● The paradox of Cuban agriculture
https://monthlyreview.org/2012/01/01/the-paradox-of-cuban-agriculture/

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The USSR and Stalin

General

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 From the book Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy

● Stalin’s economics: the secret to Soviet success in World War 2?

https://stalinsmoustache.org/2012/05/13/stalins-economics-the-secret-to-soviet-success-in-world-war-ii/
● Was the Russian Revolution a success?
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2011/08/17/was-the-russian-revolution-a-success/
● In Defense of the Hammer and Sickle
http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/in-defense-of-the-hammer-and-sickle.html#.WgERP4-0Pcv
● Domenico Losurdo: the new Colonial counter-revolution
https://konkret.la/the-new-colonial-counter-revolution/
● 101 years since the October Revolution (fantastic article by FRSO)
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/11/7/101-years-october-revolution
● Walter Rodney and the Russian Revolution
https://medium.com/@marko_v_kobak/walter-rodney-and-the-russian-revolution-aef74f238c81
● Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm
● Anti-racism in the USSR (really good article)
http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/anti-racism-ussr.html
● Was the USSR socialist?
https://youtu.be/CKggZ22izDs
● Seven myths about the USSR by Stephen Gowans
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/seven-myths-about-the-ussr/
● Empire Files: What the Russian Revolution proved possible
https://youtu.be/mAK9G8f87fw
/
● The revolution will not be televised - section on stalin
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-nor-will-it-be-brought-to-yo
u-by-russell-brand-oliver-stone-or-noam-chomsky/
● Achievements of socialism in the Soviet Union
https://youtu.be/s5axVunzQSA
● Reconstructing JV Stalin - exposing the myths, lies & fraud
https://thesanghakommune.org/2017/07/12/reconstructing-jv-stalin-exposing-the-myths-lies-fraud/amp/
● Was the USSR socialist? By Comrade Hakim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKggZ22izDs
● Authoritarianism in Socialist countries by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/6gtUaGV6mNI
● The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union
https://adiotos.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/the-fight-against-bureaucracy-in-the-soviet-union/
● Kotkin talking about Stalin and collectivization
https://www.facebook.com/TankistaLeninista/posts/1845758695663269
● Account of a woman from the USSR currently living in New Zealand (very good)
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/photos/a.1922050888117037.1073741828.192170606148485
3/1936840316638094/?type=3&theater
● How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
● Human Rights in the Soviet Union (excellent book rich in facts about the USSR, highly
recommended)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the
%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
● Legacy of the world's first Communist state
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Fall-of-the-USSR-20160905-0023.html#
● The great October Socialist revolution marked a new era for Humanity
http://en.cubadebate.cu/news/2017/11/09/great-october-socialist-revolution-marked-new-era-for-humanit
y/
● We Can Be Friends: Origins of the Cold War by Carl Marzani (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/WeCanBeFriends
● The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War against Soviet Russia
http://www.shunpiking.org/books/GC/
● History of the USSR: The Era of Socialism 1974 (scanned book)
https://ia801201.us.archive.org/28/items/HistoryUSSREraSocialism/History%20USSR%20Era%20Social
ism.pdf
● The Soviet Union Through The Eyes of an American. 1976 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SovietUnionEyesAmerican
● The nature of the Soviet Union - state capitalism?
https://youtu.be/kQoEqBx70ts
● Revisiting the October Revolution of 1917
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201710261058554269-october-revolution-1917/
● Human Rights in Soviet Society (1981 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInSovietSociety

Why did the USSR end?

● Do publicly owned, planned economies work?
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/
● Seven myths about the USSR by Stephen Gowans
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/seven-myths-about-the-ussr/
● Proles of the Round Table: Fall of the USSR
http://prolespod.libsyn.com/prt-episode-5-fall-of-the-ussr
● Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union
/
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=EB8A647627A86692FB1AA43916CE6A02
 ● Socialism Betrayed author interview
https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/socialism-betrayed-behind-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-u
nion/?fbclid=IwAR3H0P6G4GqVabuBCfixZm41IIh7feH71AzVK6atMvT7nBNCgaqm6748mic
● Socialism Betrayed author lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUC41PuR_10
● Why doesn’t the Soviet Union exist anymore? (brilliant series of articles, read them all)
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2018/06/why-doesnt-the-soviet-union-exist-any-more/
● Blackshirts & Reds by Michael Parenti
https://cartiparenti.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf
● Reflection on the overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVes44hcJg
● Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin: When the White House fixed a Russian election
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/14/yelt-j14.html

Jews in the USSR

● Chapter 3: The European Nationalities of the USSR of Human Rights in the Soviet Union
(excellent resource)
https://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1923951144593678 (easy reading link)
● Russia helped 1,750,000 Jews to escape Nazis
https://www.jta.org/1943/07/02/archive/russia-helped-1750000-jews-to-escape-nazis-says-james-n-rosen
berg
● Lenin’s speech on anti-Jewish Pogroms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ljxQsgUM4
● Text of Lenin speech
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/mar/x10.htm
● Stalin’s “Anti-Semitism” debunked
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2015/04/04/stalins-anti-semitism/
● The Formation of the Soviet Jewish Homeland – Birobidzhan
https://espressostalinist.com/2014/08/19/the-formation-of-the-soviet-jewish-homeland-birobidzhan/

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Purges, Moscow Trials etc
(reminder to add relevant section from Losurdo’s book)
● The Moscow Trials and the “Great Terror” of 1937-1938: what the evidence shows
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/trials_ezhovshchina_update0710.html
● Yezhov vs Stalin: the causes of the mass repressions of 1937-1938 in the USSR
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/11/12/yezhov-vs-stalin-the-causes-of-the-mass-repressions-of-1937-
1938-in-the-ussr-2/
● The notion that Stalin was a monster who killed everyone
https://youtu.be/yQkTcmfy2QM
● Moscow Trials part 1 (investigation)
https://youtu.be/TBY_aDd5knE
● Moscow Trials part 2 (court proceedings)
https://youtu.be/NHl5nU5WYn8
● Moscow Trials part 3 (the great purge)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrrDMyAz1SU
● The purges and repressions in the USSR
https://youtu.be/RbEmfzJeY48
● Yehzov vs. Stalin: the causes of the mass repressions of 1937-1938
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/furr_yezhov_jls17.pdf
● Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union
http://www.mariosousa.se/LiesconcerningthehistoryoftheSovietUnion.html
● “Excesses are not permitted”: Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s by Getty
http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/cshs522/GettyMassRepressions.pdf
● The Moscow Trials
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/moscow-trials/
● How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/ /
 ● The “Bloc” of the Oppositions against Stalin in the USSR in 1932
https://www.marxists.org/archive/broue/1980/01/bloc.html
● On the existence and character of the united bloc of rights, zinoviev-ites and trotsky-ites.
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/on-the-existence-and-character-of-the-united-bloc-of-rights-z
inoviev-ites-and-trotsky-ites/
● Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Chapter 1,7,8,9)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the
%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
Triumph of Evil, Chapter 1
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● Stalin’s Great Terror: an interview with Prof J Arch Getty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsLPtEN62Fg
● The Kirov Murder
https://espressostalinist.com/2013/10/23/marxist-leninist-research-bureau-the-kirov-murder/
● The Ryutin Case
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/03/14/marxist-leninist-research-bureau-the-ryutin-case-1930-37/
● The Syrtsov/Lominadze affair
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/03/15/marxist-leninist-research-bureau-the-syrtsovlominadze-affair/
● Interrogations of Nikolai Ezhov, former People's Commissar for Internal Affairs.
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/ezhovinterrogs.html

Stalin

Totalitarianism, Stalin/Hitler (etc)

● Domenico Losurdo: Towards a Critique of Totalitarianism
https://mirror.explodie.org/Losurdo___Critique_of_Totalitarianism_%282004%29.pdf
● Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies? (fantastic read)
http://crisiscritique.org/ccmarch/losurdo.pdf

General
● Stalin: History and Criticism of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo (incredible book)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dg1i8cmId3a-p_Ydz46p1jvPP6Hwc3bm
● A review of Losurdo’s book by scholar Roland Boer
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2014/08/29/losurdo-on-stalin-a-review/
● Kruschev Lied by Grover Furr
https://ia902707.us.archive.org/5/items/pdfy-nmIGAXUrq0OJ87zK/Khrushchev%20Lied.pdf
● Critical review of Kruschev Lied by Roger Keeran (author of Socialism Betrayed)
https://mltoday.com/khrushchev-lied-but-what-is-the-truth
● Grover Furr’s reply to Roger Keeran’s criticism
https://mltoday.com/rejoinder-to-roger-keeran/
● Stalin: a Marxist-leninist perspective
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain
● Some points on Stalin and Mao
https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/some-points-on-stalin-and-mao/ /
 ● Anti-Stalinism is left-wing racism: part 1
https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/07/anti-stalinism-is-left-wing-racism-part-1/
● Reconstructing J.V. Stalin: exposing the myths, lies and fraud
https://thesanghakommune.org/2017/07/12/reconstructing-jv-stalin-exposing-the-myths-lies-fraud/amp/
● The positive achievements of Stalin and his regime
https://barbradozier.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/the-positive-achievements-of-stalin-and-his-regime
● The Essential Stalin (book length)
http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/trotskyism/the%20essential%20Stalin.htm
● Another View of Stalin (book length)
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
● The Real Stalin series by Dennis McKinsey (book length)
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/
● The Truth About Stalin by Wilf Dixon
http://www.oneparty.co.uk/index.html?http%3A//www.oneparty.co.uk/html/wilftas.html
● Stalin’s place in history - Mao
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-7/mswv7_467.htm
● History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/index.htm
● Stalin and the USSR - Myth and Reality
https://youtu.be/v6GO_GxdtZQ
● Stalin and the myth of the “Old Bolsheviks”
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/stalin-the-myth-of-the-old-bolsheviks/
● Socialism in one country - what it really means
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/socialism-in-one-country-what-it-really-means/
● On The Question of Stalin (By Mao Tse-tung)
https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/polemic/qstalin.htm
● Che Guevara: “I came to Communism because of Stalin
”http://houstoncommunistparty.com/che-guevara-i-came-to-communism-because-of-stalin/
● Remorse of a dissident: Alexander Zinoviev on Stalin and the dissolution of the USSR
https://communismgr.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/the-remorse-of-dissident-alexander.html
● Bill Bland: Stalin - the myth and the reality
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/06/20/bill-bland-stalin-the-myth-and-reality/
● On Stalin by W.E.B. Du Bois
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/biographies/1953/03/16.htm
● Review: Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War 1939-1953
https://mltoday.com/article/51-review-stalins-wars-from-world-war-to-cold-war-19391953/29-books-arts-a
nd-literature
● Stalingrad by Antony Beevor: a piece of Nazi war propaganda
http://neodemocracy.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/stalingrad-by-antony-beevor-piece-of.html

Cult of personality
● Stalin’s cult of personality?
https://youtu.be/W-OnFpWSv_g
● On Stalin’s cult of personality by Comrade Hakim
https://youtu.be/UFKE1wtKYu0
● Stalin on the “Cult of Personality”
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/stalin-on-the-cult-of-personality/
● Anti-Stalinism and the legacy of “state socialism”
https://web.archive.org/web/20150801083826/http://marxism-third-worldism.tumblr.com/post/826103065
86/anti-stalinism-and-the-legacy-of-state-socialism
● Bill Bland - the cult of the individual
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/02/15/bill-bland-the-cult-of-the-individual-1934-52/ /
Unelected & unpopular “dictator”
Sidney and Beatrice Webb: is Stalin a dictator?
http://www.mltranslations.org/Russia/webb1.htm
● Stalin attempted to resign, was denied.
https://socialistmlmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/stalins-four-attempts-at-resignation/
● Stalin tries to resign - unpublished speech
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2016/04/05/stalin-tries-to-resign-unpublished-speech-by-stalin-at-the-plenum
-of-the-central-committee-of-the-cpsu-1952/
● The British Fabians Sidney and Beatrice Webb (Sidney Webb, British economist (1859-1947);
Beatrice Webb, British economist and sociologist (1858-1943), in their monumental work “Soviet
Communism: A New Civilisation,” emphatically reject the notion that Stalin exercised dictatorial
power:

“Sometimes it is asserted that the whole state is governed by the will of a single person, Josef
Stalin . . First let it be noted that, unlike Mussolini, Hitler and other modern dictators, Stalin is not
invested by law with any authority over his fellow-citizens. He has not even the extensive power .
. . . .which the American Constitution entrusts for four years to every successive president. . . .
.Stalin is not, and never has been, . . . . the President of the USSR. . . . .He is not even a
People’s Commissar, or member of the Cabinet.

He is . . . the General Secretary of the Party.

We do not think that the Party is governed by the will of a single person, or that Stalin is the sort
of person to claim or desire such a position. He has himself very explicitly denied any such
personal dictatorship in terms which certainly accord with our own impression of the facts.

The Communist Party in the USSR has adopted for its own organisation the pattern which we
have described. . . . . . In this pattern individual dictatorship has no place. Personal decisions are
distrusted, and elaborately guarded against. In order to avoid the mistakes due to bias, anger,
jealousy, vanity and other distempers . . . . it is desirable that the individual will should always be
controlled by the necessity of gaining the assent of colleagues of equal grade, who have candidly
discussed the matter and who have to make themselves jointly responsible for the decision. . . .
.Stalin . . . . has . . . . frequently pointed out that he does no more than carry out the decisions of
the Central Committee of the Communist Party. . . The plain truth is that, surveying the
administration of the USSR during the past decade under the alleged dictatorship of Stalin,
principal decisions have manifested neither the promptitude nor the timeliness, nor yet the
fearless obstinacy that have often been claimed as the merits of a dictatorship. On the contrary,
the action of the Party has frequently been taken after consideration-so prolonged, and as the
outcome of discussion sometimes so heated and embittered, as to bear upon their formulation
the marks of hesitancy and lack of assurance. . . .These policies have borne . . . . the stigmata of
committee control.”

(S. & B. Webb: ‘Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation’; London; p.. 431, 432, 433, 435).

● “I have never met a man more candid, fair and honest, and to these qualities it is, and to nothing
occult and sinister, that he owes his tremendous undisputed ascendency in Russia. I had thought
before I saw him that he might be where he was because men were afraid of him, but I realize that he
owes his position to the fact that no one is afraid of him and everybody trusts him.”
~H.G. Wells on Stalin

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Gulags
● “Like the myths of millions of executions, the fairy tales that Stalin had tens of millions of people
arrested and permanently thrown into prison or labor camps to die in the 1930-1953 interval
(Conquest, 1990) appear to be untrue. In particular, the Soviet archives indicate that the number
of people in Soviet prisons, gulags, and labor camps in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s averaged
about 2 million, of whom 20-40% were released each year, (Getty, Rittersporn, and Zemskov,
1993). This average, which includes desperate World War II years, is similar to the number
imprisoned in the USA in the 1990s (Catalinotto, 1998a) and is only slightly higher as a
percentage of the population. It should also be noted that the annual death rate for the Soviet
interned population was about 4%, which incorporates the effect of prisoner executions (Getty,
Rittersporn, and Zemskov, 1993). Excluding the desperate World War II years, the death rate in
the Soviet prisons, gulags, and labor camps was only 2.5% (Getty, Ritterspom, and Zemskov,
1993), which is even below that of the average "free" citizen in capitalist Russia under the czar in
peacetime in 1913 (Wheatcroft, 1993). This finding is not very surprising, given that about 1/3 of
the confined people were not even required to work (Bacon, 1994), and given that the maximum
work week was 84 hours in even the harshest Soviet labor camps during the most desperate
wartime years (Rummel, 1990). The latter maximum (and unusual) work week actually compares
favorably to the 100-hour work weeks that existed even for "free" 6-year old children during
peacetime in the capitalist industrial revolution (Marx and Engels, 1988b), although it may seem
high compared to the 7-hour day worked by the typical Soviet citizen under Stalin (Davies, 1997).
In addition, it should also be mentioned that most of the arrests under Stalin were motivated by
an attempt to stamp out civil crimes such as banditry, theft, misuse of public office for personal
gain, smuggling, and swindles, with less than 10% of the arrests during Stalin's rule being for
political reasons or secret police matters (Getty, Ritterspom, and Zemskov, 1993). The Soviet
archives reveal a great deal more political dissent permitted in Stalin's Soviet Union (including a
widespread amount of criticism of individual government policies and local leaders) than is
normally perceived in the West (Davies, 1997). Given that the regular police, the political or
secret police, prison guards, some national guard troops, and firefighters (who were in the same
ministry as the police) comprised scarcely 0.2% of the Soviet population under Stalin (Thurston,
1996), severe repression would have been impossible even if the Soviet Union had wanted to
exercise it. In comparison, the USA today has many times more police as a percentage of the
population (about 1%, not to mention prison guards, national guard troops, and firefighters
included in the numbers used to compute the far smaller 0.2% ratio for the Soviet Union).
Triumph of Evil, Chapter 1, pp. 77-78

● Another View of Stalin (section on the Gulag)

https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
● Solzhenitsyn's Archipelago of Lies (1974 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/ArchipelagoOfLies
● The Soviet Union had a progressive penal system
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/gulag/
● Re-education?
http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2012/03/re-education.html
● Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm
● The Gulag archipelago shouldn’t be taken seriously
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/the-gulag-archipelago-shouldnt-be-taken-seriously/
● Original documents on the death rate of prisoners in the Gulag system 1930-1956
http://www.alexanderyakovlev.org/fond/issues-doc/1009320
● Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-War Years : a first approach on the basis of
archival evidence (by J. Arch Getty, Gábor T. Rittersporn, Viktor N. Zemskov)
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g.pdf
● What were the chances to be sent to the Gulag?
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0901/gulag.htm

● (From Leftbook) Let us start with the question of the nature of the Soviet penal system. After 1930 the Soviet penal
system included prisons, labour camps, the labour colonies of the gulag, special open zones and obligation to pay
fines. Whoever was remanded into custody was generally sent to a normal prison while investigations took place to
establish whether he might be innocent, and could thus be set free, or whether he should go on trial. An accused
person on trial could either be found innocent (and set free) or guilty. If found guilty he could be sentenced to pay a
fine, to a term of imprisonment or, more unusually, to face execution. A fine could be a given percentage of his wages
for a given period of time. Those sentenced to prison terms could be put in different kinds of prison depending on the
type of offence involved.

To the gulag labour camps were sent those who had committed serious offences (homicide, robbery, rape,
economic crimes, etc.) as well as a large proportion of those convicted of counterrevolutionary activities. Other
criminals sentenced to terms longer than 3 years could also be sent to labour camps. After spending some time in a
labour camp, a prisoner might be moved to a labour colony or to a special open zone.

The labour camps were very large areas where the prisoners lived and worked under close supervision. For them to
work and not to be a burden on society was obviously necessary. No healthy person got by without working. It is
possible that these days people may think this was a terrible thing, but this is the way it was. The number of labour
camps in existence in 1940 was 53.

There were 425 gulag labour colonies. These were much smaller units than the labour camps, with a freer regime and
less supervision. To these were sent prisoners with shorter prison terms - people who had committed less serious
criminal or political offences. They worked in freedom in factories or on the land and formed part of civil society. In most
cases the whole of the wages he earned from his labour belonged to the prisoner, who in this respect was treated the
same as any other worker.

The special open zones were generally agricultural areas for those who had been exiled, such as the kulaks who had
been expropriated during collectivisation. Other people found guilty of minor criminal or political offences might also
serve their terms in these areas.

Mass deportations
● Georgian times interviews Grover Furr
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/deportations_GT1110_eng.pdf
● The Crimean Tatars - collaboration and deportation
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/10/16/the-crimean-tatars-collaboration-and-deportation/

Dissidents
● Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Chapter 1, 7,8,9)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the
%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
● Remorse of a dissident: Alexander Zinoviev on Stalin and the dissolution of the USSR
https://communismgr.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/the-remorse-of-dissident-alexander.html
Triumph of Evil, Chapter 1
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf

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World War 2 & Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact
The Molotov Ribbentrop Pact was a treaty of non-aggression but not necessarily mutual respect, as the rest
of the war, past and future, had shown.
And of course, the implication of this discussion here is that the USSR carved up and invaded Poland with the
Nazis. The USSR did *not* invade Poland. In 1939, the USSR occupied land that was already occupied by
Poland previously - bits of Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania, for the record.
The Poles and Soviets fought in a battle known as 'the Battle of Vilno. 'Vilno' is the Polish name for Vilnius,
the name of the Lithuanian capital, which had existed since the middle ages.
And the Poles aren't trying to get them back, because they know it would be a ridiculous thing to ask; there's
no chance they would succeed. Lithuania is not going to turn over their ancient capital city to Poland. And if
you look back, when the Russian Empire was broken up, there was a conflict between the USSR and Poland
over the USSR's western border. There was a war there that Poland actually won, and as a result, they
occupied a bunch of territory which wasn't theirs. And during this war, France and Britain stepped in to make
a settlement, one based actually on the ethnicity of the people in the region. This was the Curzon Line. It was
a border between the Polish people and Ukrainian, and Belarussian peoples.
This boundary was not accepted by Poland, and they occupied even more territory, on the east of the Curzon
Line - a chunk of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, as previously mentioned. As a result, Lithuania would
not enter into normal diplomatic relations during the interwar period. How did they get their capital back? The
Soviets handed it over to them, during their independence.
So the Soviets only moved up to the Curzon Line, the modern, eastern border of Poland as proposed by
France and Britain around 1922.
And what of the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia by the Germans through the help of the
French and British? Poland happened to carve themselves a piece too - something very seldom talked about,
but granted, no historian will necessarily deny it.
So you can look at it this way: The Soviet Union actually gave Lithuania its historic land back to it after Poland
claimed it for itself. The presence of the Soviets also was a general buffer against the Nazis, and intentionally
or not, made sure that the Nazis didn't expand its territory, which would no doubt complicate issues of
soviereign national borders and economic concerns otherwise.

● Interview of Geoffrey Roberts (Author of Stalin’s Wars). Interviewer is obnoxious fucking trash
and Roberts is a disgusting liberal, but it’s still a great interview (Roberts mentions signing the
Euston Manifesto, see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_Manifesto )
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/35305
● Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact - the untold story
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201508231026098760-molotov-ribbentrop-pact-untold-story/
● Stalin: History and Criticism of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo (incredible book)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dg1i8cmId3a-p_Ydz46p1jvPP6Hwc3bm
● Another View of Stalin (see relevant section)
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
● Stalin’s economics: the secret to Soviet success in World War 2?
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2012/05/13/stalins-economics-the-secret-to-soviet-success-in-world-war-ii/
● 27 million died in Russia because Wall Street built up Hitler’s Wehrmacht to knock out Soviet
Union
https://countercurrents.org/2017/08/09/27-million-died-in-russia-because-wall-street-built-up-hitlers-wehr
macht-to-knock-out-soviet-union

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Abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, etc

USSR and abortion:

To understand the causes of the legislative changes of 1936 it must first be clarified the rationale of the
legislation of 1920 and the soviet experience between those periods. The rationale of 1920 was seeing
abortion as a necessary evil that would be made unnecessary with the establishment of socialism, this
reflects in works by Lenin such as "The Working Class and NeoMalthusianism".

From the 1920 decree

"During the last decade the number of women who terminate their pregnancy prematurely increased
both with us and abroad.
The legislation of all countries struggles against this evil by punishing both the woman who is guilty of
abortion and the operating physician.
The workers’ and peasants’ Government realizing the dangers of such a situation has undertaken a
campaign against secret abortions among working women.
It foresees that this phenomenon will gradually disappear with the building of socialism."
https://www.marxists.org/.../cpl-abortion/section5.htm

The implementation of the 1920 decree faced several troubles with two important factors: insufficient
facilities and opposition by doctors. In 1924 the medical profession secured a regulation that permitted
abortions only when the pregnancy endangered the mother's life or health, but it was repealed because
the number of abortions outside hospitals inmediately increased. The same year the Commissariat for
the Protection of Health established commissions to judge the difficulty of women to having the child,
eventually these commissions would judge the ability to pay for the abortions and subsidized the cost of
those who couldn't afford it accordingly.

During this times there was widespread concern about the effects of abortion on the population "The
number of abortions increased in the twenties at an alarming rate. In Moscow, from 1921 to 1929, births
decreased from 30.6 per 1,000 inhabitants to 21.7, while abortions increased from 5.7 to 35.2."

https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...

It must be noted that during this period the Party line reflected the same rationale of the 1920 decree and
saw abortion as an evil that must be abolished and thus abortion was publicly disincentived and
contraception was not easily accesible, making abortion the primary mean of birth control. From the
onset of Soviet legislature there was always pro-natalist ideology, this was reflected even in the woman's
journal Rabotnitsa published by the Zhenotdel

"The women’s journals tended to impose a rather simplistic portrayal of the effects of abortion, possibly
so as to frighten their readerships against the practice, should they not be convinced by arguments
which emphasized the necessity for and ability of women to have as many children as possible. It was
declared in 1935, for example, that the majority of women undergoing abortions in Moscow
gynaecological clinics later suffered serious complications."

" However, the major thrust of the articles constituted more than merely encouragement to have more
children and a cult of motherhood arose. In Rabotnitsa letters supposedly from working women echoed
such sentiments."

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"In general, it appears that there were elements of support for the decree, particularly for the suggestions
contained in the ’alimony’ section. It was persistently alleged in letters to the press that it was men’s
reluctance to shoulder any responsibilities which repeatedly compelled women to have abortions against
their will, and it therefore seems likely that this decree which aimed at ’strengthening the family’ was
fairly popular among women."

" Other factors which could have had some influence in securing a certain amount of support for the
measure in the towns were the influx of peasants into urban areas in the 1930s and the Orthodox
Church which had traditionally ruled that: ’Women who furnish drugs for the purpose of
procuring an abortion and those who take foetus killing poisons, they are made subject to the penalty
prescribed for murderers."

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/002200948101600407

When the 1936 decree was passed it was justified on the basis of the successes of the USSR in
introducing women to the labour force and alleviating the burden of housework. Krupskaya wrote about
it: "Our country has become rich, mighty, and prosperous. Our people are better educated and more
enlightened. Women have become a force in the collective farm. They have become active in social
work. Many of the women are Stakhanovites. They are studying hard. The Party and the government
surround the children with public care. They make their childhood a happy one. It is with good cause that
millions of working women are so devoted to Stalin – they see his solicitude for the working women.
Under these new conditions the questions of the family and of abortions appear in a new light. The new
decree will play an extremely important part in remoulding people’s modes of life."

https://www.marxists.org/.../cpl-abortion/section6.htm

Conclusion: The 1936 decree was consequence of overstimation of the successes of the USSR,
influence of the Orthodox Church, influence of the preparation for the war, concerns of depopulation,
ideological prejudices carried from tsarist period and specially prevalent among the peasantry and the
rationale of 1920 pressuposing that there would be a period where abortion would be made illegal again.

"Those such as Trotsky and Eastman, who were convinced that the new policy constituted a discarding
of all pretensions by the Party to liberate women, ignored two important points. The Communists’ earlier
policy had not been as radical as Trotsky wished to believe; merely reducing the burden of household
chores would not eliminate inequalities within the home as long as housework (some of which would still
exist) was regarded as women’s work. In addition, they were refusing to acknowledge the more positive
aspects of the government’s treatment of the ’women’s question’, for, in a limited sense there was a clear
attempt to promote female interests. In 1936, the new constitution talked of the complete equality of
women in all areas of life and there was debate on the measures which should be taken to ameliorate
the material position of women and improve their educational and cultural level. In the pages of
Rabotnitsa could be read articles about women who had been successful - at work and in political life.
The new Soviet woman was perceived as being much more than a mother and a housewife. The Party
frequently condemned Nazi Germany’s aim of consigning married women to the home."

I quoted heavily from "The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Women’s Question: The Case
of the 1936 Decree ’In Defence of Mother and Child’" by Janet Evans which is a very interesting read
about the discussions and positions of women's collectives and party members about the situation of
soviet women prior the 1936 decree on abortion

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/002200948101600407

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GDR - German Democratic Republic

General
● The historical truth behind "Invisible Heroes"
http://revistadefrente.cl/la-verdad-historica-mas-alla-de-heroes-invisibles-la-rda-y-la-stasi-fueron-protago
nistas-en-refugio-a-perseguidos-politicos
● Victor Grossman's book
https://monthlyreview.org/2020/01/01/the-wisdom-of-a-socialist-defector/
● Chapters 1,2,3,4 of The Triumph of Evil:: The Reality of the USA’s Cold War Victory
https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● Another view of East Germany by Left Economics (based on Triumph of Evil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1hvwPyEJ9k
● How do people live in the GDR? (1974 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/HowDoPeopleLiveInTheGDR
● German reunification: 25 years on: how different are East and West really?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/german-reunification-25-years-on-how-different-are-east
-and-west-really
● The German Democratic Republic - scanned 1986 book
https://ia800805.us.archive.org/13/items/GDR1986/GDR%201986.pdf
● GDR - Historical outline (scanned book)
https://ia600801.us.archive.org/18/items/GDRHistoricalOutline/GDR%20Historical%20Outline.pdf
● Encounters in Democracy - a US journalist's view of the GDR, 1981 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/PittmanGDR
● Behind the Scenes in Two Worlds, 1978 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/BehindtheScenesTwoWorlds
● Former East Germans compare socialist youth with life under capitalism
http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ossies-former-east-germans-compare-socialist-youth-with-life-under-
capitalism/

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pueblosovietico.tumblr.com/post/42115409729/la-mujer-en-la-república-democrática-alemana

Berlin Wall
● Democracy, East Germany and the Berlin Wall
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/
● The Berlin Wall - another Cold War myth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/22/the-berlin-wall-another-cold-war-myth/
● Pamphlet by the GDR government explaining the Berlin Wall
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/wall.htm
● How the West built Berlin Wall 2.0
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/409351-berlin-wall-anniversary-communist/

Stasi
● Chapters 2,3 of The Triumph of Evil:: The Reality of the USA’s Cold War Victory
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● Are Germany’s intelligence agencies and the Stasi totally different?
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/are-germanys-intelligence-agencies-and-the-stasi-totally-diffe
rent/
● Crossing the River - An American defector's Cold War odyssey (mentions the Stasi in places)
http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/crossing-river

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Other Socialist/Communist countries/governments
● Transitional Economic Systems - The Polish-Czech example by Dorothy W. Douglas (scanned
1972 book)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7iUwYR74MlbcFBxbWxsdHNLMHM/view
● Alibi Djangildin and the Kazakhstan revolution
https://redfightback.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/alibi-djangildin-and-the-kazakhstan-revolution/
● Thomas Sankara and the revolutionary birth of Burkina Faso
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/thomas-sankara-revolutionary-birth-burkina-faso/
● Class struggle in Socialist Poland: With Comparisons to Yugoslavia (1984 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/ClassStruggleInSocialistPoland
● Albania Defiant, 1976 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/AlbaniaDefiant
● Pickaxe and Rifle: The Story of the Albanian People, 1974 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/PickaxeRifle
● Insights into Socialist Albania from Pickaxe and Rifle
http://revolutionaryspiritapl.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/insights-into-socialist-albania-from.html?m=1
● People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, 1988 (scanned pamphlet)
https://archive.org/details/PeoplesSocialistRepublicOfAlbania
● Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1979 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/HungarianSovietRepublic
● Modern Bulgaria: Problems and Task in Building an Advanced Socialist Society
https://archive.org/details/ModernBulgariaZhivkov
● The History of the Party of Labour of Albania 2nd ed. (scanned book)
http://ciml.250x.com/archive/pla/english/history_of_the_party_of_labour_of_albania_second_edition_eng
.pdf
● History of the Mongolian People's Republic (1973 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfTheMPR
● A brief history of the Mongolian People’s Republic
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dqPVSey5jaw8vpWljQFtvUXm0t8RgBShjpcivK_1Yh4/edit
● Bypassing Capitalism - (1968 scanned book about Mongolia)
https://archive.org/details/BypassingCapitalism
● Which side are you on? Jacobin and the revolution in the Philippines
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/9/8/which-side-are-you-jacobin-and-revolution-philippines

Vietnam
● Granma: Vietnam and Cuba, examples of what Socialism can achieve
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2018-03-29/vietnam-and-cuba-examples-of-what-socialism-can-achieve
● Complete works of Ho Chi Minh published in Vietnam
http://en.nhandan.com.vn/politics/domestic/item/101502-.html
● Is Vietnam going the way of China?
https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/is-vietnam-going-the-way-of-china/
● Vietnam world bank overview page
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/vietnam/overview
● Vietnam police arrest ex-Politburo member over misconduct
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-security/vietnam-police-arrest-ex-politburo-member-over-mis
conduct-idUSKBN1E21FU?il=0
● Vietnam court sentences to death PetroVietnam ex-chairman in mass trial
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-security/vietnam-court-sentences-to-death-petrovietnam-ex-c
hairman-in-mass-trial-idUSKCN1C40KW /
 ● Actually Existing Socialism in Vietnam
https://return2source.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/actually-existing-socialism-in-vietnam/
● 40 years on: How Communist victory gave way to Capitalist corruption (read critically with above
piece)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/22/vietnam-40-years-on-how-communist-victory-gave-way-t
o-capitalist-corruption
● US Seeks to Transform Vietnam into Weapon Against China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzFDkrrRg8
● Vietnamese banker sentenced to death for fraud - saga exposed deeply rooted corruption in
financial system
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2113431/vietnamese-banker-sentenced-death-fra
ud-saga-exposed-deeply
● New law stipulates 3 years imprisonment for illegal firing of workers
http://vietnamnet.vn/vn/kinh-doanh/thi-truong/tu-1-1-2018-phat-tu-den-3-nam-neu-sa-thai-lao-dong-trai-p
hap-luat-406708.html
● Speech by Raúl Castro Ruz to the people of Vietnam
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2018-04-06/to-the-people-the-communist-party-and-the-government-of-the-soc
ialist-republic-of-vietnam-our-eternal-gratitude
● How Vietnam defeated US Imperialism
http://liberationschool.org/how-vietnam-defeated-u-s-imperialism/

Laos
● Complete works of Ho Chi Minh translated into Lao
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/complete-works-of-ho-chi-minh-translated-into-lao/92995.vnp
● Vientiane Times (Laos news source)
http://www.vientianetimes.org.la/
● A Portrait of The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PSL article)
https://liberationschool.org/mung-lao-a-portrait-of-the-lao-peoples-democratic-republic/
● Explosive Farmland and Pork Markets: The Laos Question
http://archive.is/33p2r
● Laos PDR news
https://laospdrnews.wordpress.com/
● The Political Economy of Transition in Laos
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4902931.pdf
● Participatory Poverty Assessment - Laos PDR
http://lad.nafri.org.la/fulltext/372-0.pdf
● Laos constitution
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Laos_2003.pdf?lang=en
● Vietnam war continues in Laos
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-mike-honda/vietnam-war-continues-in_b_558370.html
● Forty years on, Laos reaps bitter harvest of the secret war
https://archive.is/v5pTf
● Laos aiming to leave least developed country status
http://www.irinnews.org/report/95470/laos-aiming-leave-least-developed-country-list
● Laos: a country study
https://www.loc.gov/item/95017235/

Afghanistan (DRA- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan)

● A history of Afghanistan (1985 scanned book)
https://ia801209.us.archive.org/10/items/AHistoryOfAfghanistan/A%20History%20of%20Afghanistan.pdf
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Cuba

General
● Draft constitution of Cuba
https://mronline.org/2018/09/28/introduction-to-the-analysis-of-the-draft-constitution-of-the-republic-durin
g-the-popular-consultation/
● How Cubans live as long as Americans at a tenth of the cost
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cuba-health/508859/
● Cuba hailed as world champion on protecting Children’s rights
https://www.facebook.com/telesurenglish/videos/1313058045504261/
● As the world burns, Cuba is number 1 for sustainable development - WWF
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/As-World-Burns-Cuba-Number-1-For-Sustainable-Development-
WWF-20161027-0018.html
● 20 reasons to support Cuba
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/07/20-reasons-to-support-cuba/
● Obama’s Cuba visit illustrates US arrogance
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/24/obamas-cuba-visit-illustrates-us-arrogance/
● Cuba’s low level of internet use:; not a policy of restricting the flow of information
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/cubas-low-level-of-internet-use-not-a-policy-of-restricting-the-
flow-of-information/
● Cuba expands internet service
http://www.granma.cu/cuba/2017-09-28/etecsa-expande-servicio-nauta-hogar-a-otras-provincias-de-cub
a-28-09-2017-00-09-26
● Cuba gets fibre-optic link to Venezuela
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-cable/cuba-gets-fiber-optic-cable-link-to-venezuela-idUSTRE719
3DP20110210
● Cuba will expand internet to all households in the country by end of year
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3147347/0/cuba-internet-todos-hogares-diciembre/
● A failed system’s failed promises
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/a-failed-systems-failed-promises/
● Cuba and the real battle for democracy
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/cuba-and-the-real-battle-for-democracy/
● Over 300,000 Cubans pay tribute to Fidel
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Over-250000-Cubans-Join-Procession-to-Pay-Tribute-to-Fidel-20
171204-0019.html
● Before the Hurricane - Cuba’s response to hurricanes
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/hurricane-harvey-cuba-disaster-plan
● Michael Parenti on the Cuban Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npkeecCErQc
● Lessons from Cuba’s incarceration model
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
● The truth about unions in Cuba
https://www.workers.org/2015/01/22/truth-unions-cuba/#.WFk3ufArJdh
● Cuba before the Revolution
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/cuban-revolution-fidel-castro-casinos-batista/
● Cuba begins clinical trials to delay progress of Alzheimers
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Begins-Clinical-Trials-to-Delay-Progress-of-Alzheimers-201
70515-0013.html
● Cuba develops new skin cancer medicine
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Develops-New-Skin-Cancer-Medicine-20160909-0007.html /
 ● Cuba's internationalist solidarity recognized once again - doctors awarded the Dr. Lee Jong-wook
Memorial Prize for Public Health from WHO
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Internationalist-Solidarity-Recognized-Once-Again-Doctors
-Awarded-by-WHO-20170524-0024.html
● Cuba's agricultural revolution: Vanguard for global food system
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Agricultural-Revolution-Vanguard-for-Global-Food-System-
20161129-0010.html
● Cuba’s sustainable agro-ecological model could save the world
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Cubas-Sustainable-Agro-Ecological-Model-Could-Save-the-Wor
ld-20161013-0023.html
● Cuba’s Socialist biotechnology sector a global leader
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Socialist-Biotechnology-Sector-a-Global-Leader-20160517
-0041.html
● CIA motto: proudly overthrowing the Cuban government since 1959
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/15/cia-motto-proudly-overthrowing-the-cuban-government-since-
1959/
● The Claim Game: Cuba and the United States
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/21/cuba-and-the-united-states-the-claims-game/
● Cuba: reflections on life and death
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/cuba-reflections-on-life-and-death/
● Cuba one year later: what has changed?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/18/cuba-one-year-later-what-has-changed/
● Cuba: 55 years of ideas and truth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/10/cuba-55-years-of-ideas-and-truth/
● Human rights hypocrisy: US criticizes Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/human-rights-hypocrisy-us-criticizes-cuba/
● Cuba - showing how to defeat racism
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cuba-showing-how-defeat-racism
● Cuba’s Green Revolution
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cubas-green-revolution-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94-achieving-sust
ainability
● The Latin American school of Medicine today: ELAM
https://monthlyreview.org/2011/03/01/the-latin-american-school-of-medicine-today/
● Cuba pushes its “Medical Diplomacy”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8059287.stm
● Community Drills Part of Cuba’s Top-Notch Disaster Response System
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/05/community-drills-part-of-cubas-top-notch-disaster-response-system/
● Cuba’s cancer vaccine CIMAvax is finally coming to US
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cubas-lung-cancer-vaccine/505778/
● The Cuban Revolution: defying Imperialism from its backyard
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/09/the-cuban-revolution-defying-imperialism-from-its-backyard/
● Castro speech at May Day rally in Revolution Square, Havana, May 1 2003
https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/2003/05/01.htm

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Cuba’s economic reforms
● Cuba: economy of command or earnings?
http://links.org.au/node/2086
● A Marxist analysis of Cuba’s new economic reforms
http://liberationschool.org/10-09-21-a-marxist-analysis-cubas-new-ec-html/
● Slow Train Coming - change in leadership and economic reform in Cuba
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/miguel-diaz-canel-bermudez-castro-cuba
● Cuba today: the question of markets, reform and the future of Cuba
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/cuba-today-the-question-of-markets-reform-and-the-future-of-cub
a
● The paradox of Cuban agriculture
https://monthlyreview.org/2012/01/01/the-paradox-of-cuban-agriculture/
● Cuba and the future: a great debate has just begun
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/25/cuba-and-the-future-a-great-debate-has-just-begun/
● Redefining Socialism in Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/18/redefining-socialism-in-cuba/
● Cuba’s new co-operatives
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/11/01/cubas-new-cooperatives/ /
 ● Hipster Colonialism and the Ruin of Cuba (great article!)
https://www.thenation.com/article/hipster-colonialism-and-the-ruin-of-cuba/

LGBTQ+
See section on LGBTQ+ near bottom of document

Did Cuba censor musicians, writers etc?

● The cultural policy of Cuba, without dogma or sectarianism
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/02/26/index.php?section=cultura&article=a10e1cul
● Music, Space and Place: Popular Music and Cultural Identity (book) :

Che Guevara myths

● Che Guevara: day of the hero
http://liberationschool.org/06-10-08-ernesto-che-guevara-day-heroi-html/
● Debunking the “Che Guevara was a racist” lie
https://anti-imperialism.org/2014/02/05/debunking-the-che-guevara-was-racist-lie/
● Che Guevara myths: The truth about the racist, homophobic, murderer
https://www.inquisitr.com/opinion/4289617/che-guevara-myths-the-truth-about-the-racist-homophobic-mu
rderer/amp/
● In defense of Chua Guevara: analyzing his life and answering his critics (excellent podcast)
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/in-defense-of-che-guevara-analyzing-his-life-and-answering-his-
critics
● Che Guevara in the Congo
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/che-guevara-cuba-castro-congo-patrice-lumumba-colonialism/

The Cuban Blockade

● Twitter storm launched against US blockade of Cuba
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Twitter-Storm-Launched-Against-US-Blockade-of-Cuba-20171031
-0015.html
● US, Israel, only states to vote against lifting blockade on Cuba (excellent infographic included)
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Israel-Only-States-to-Vote-Against-Lifting-Blockade-on-Cuba-
20171101-0005.html
● The necessity of ending the economic blockade against Cuba - speech
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/08/the-necessity-of-ending-the-economic-commercial-and-financi
/
al-blockade-against-cuba/
 ● Using fear to strike at Cuban tourism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/06/using-fear-to-strike-at-cuban-tourism/
● US political class looks away as Cuba details impact of U.S. blockade
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/27/u-s-political-class-looks-away-as-cuba-details-impact-of-u-s-bl
ockade/
● The unrelenting economic war on Cuba (Excellent article)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/28/the-unrelenting-economic-war-on-cuba/
● US-Cuba relations: what would constitute normal?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/15/us-cuba-relations-what-would-constitute-normal/

DPRK - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

● Signs of economic progress and a more open attitude are everywhere in North Korean capital
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1120242.shtml
● An effort to understand the DPRK in light of Marxism-Leninism
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/10/16/an-effort-to-understand-the-dprk-north-korea-in-light-of-the-mar
xist-tradition/
● Sanctions - what sanctions?
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/10/18/sanctions-what-sanctions/
● Comprehensive reading guide on the DPRK compiled by this author

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1we5OEdteZFfAh11v0s_RVh3LWAkVICGrFn
vksVynGxw/edit?usp=sharing
 

PRC - People’s Republic of China

Is China Socialist?

● Socialist control of the economy in China by Ian Goodrum

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1063113646287478785.html?refreshed=yes
● Workplace safety now better in China than Australia (excellent article about workplace safety and
class struggle)
http://www.trotskyistplatform.com/workplace-safety-now-better-in-china-than-in-australia/
● Deng and Gorbachev’s reform strategies compared
http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/number/Dengs-and-Gorbachevs-Reform-Strategies-Compared-15577
● What a comparison between Red China and Capitalist countries says about Socialism vs
Capitalism (Read critically, it’s full of Trotskyite rubbish but still a great read)
http://www.trotskyistplatform.com/what-a-comparison-between-red-china-capitalist-countries-says-about-
socialism-vs-capitalism/
● Domenico Losurdo: the new Colonial counter-revolution
https://konkret.la/the-new-colonial-counter-revolution/
● The Long Game and its contradictions
https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68
● On the nature of the Chinese economic system
https://monthlyreview.org/2018/10/01/on-the-nature-of-the-chinese-economic-system/
● China 2013 - by Samir Amin (one of the best articles on the topic)
https://monthlyreview.org/2013/03/01/china-2013/ /
 ● What about the Chinese Workers? (brilliant piece by Roland Boer)
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/08/27/what-about-the-chinese-workers/
● China Workshop: challenging the misconceptions - by Michael Roberts
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/china-workshop-challenging-the-misconceptions/
● Is China Still Socialist? (great piece)
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2018/10/is-china-still-socialist/
● Will the PRC go the way of the USSR?
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2018/05/why-doesnt-the-soviet-union-exist-any-more-part-8-will-the-peo
ples-republic-of-china-go-the-way-of-the-ussr/
● Thread by Ian Goodrum: “the participation of workers in management embodies the Party’s
principles of running enterprises by relying on the working class”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043159032935006208.html
● Has China turned to capitalism? Reflections on the transition from capitalism to socialism - by
Dominico Losurdo (Incredible article!)
https://www.scribd.com/document/358512131/Has-China-Turned-to-Capitalism-Reflections-on-the-Transi
tion-from-Capitalism-to-Socialism
● China: a weird beast - by Michael Roberts
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/china-a-weird-beast/
● Which way for China: part two - by Michael Roberts (from 2012, note)
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/which-way-for-china-part-two/
● Is China preparing to move to the second stage of Socialism?
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/08/02/is-china-preparing-to-move-to-the-second-stage-of-socialism/
● Socialist Market economy
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/06/20/socialist-market-economy/
● How to understand a Socialist Market Economy
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/04/28/a-marxist-trap-the-danger-of-economics-imperialism-or-how-to-
understand-a-socialist-market-economy/
● Narratives of betrayal: a Western Marxist trope
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/11/13/narratives-of-betrayal-a-western-marxist-trope/
● Xi takes full control of China’s future (excellent article, required reading, though I disagree with
the authors comments on the CPC and democracy)
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/10/25/xi-takes-full-control-of-chinas-future/
● Codes and conspiracies, or trying to understand the infantile disorder of Left Wing Communism
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/05/02/codes-and-conspiracies-or-the-trying-to-understand-the-infantile
-disorder-of-left-wing-communism/
● In defense of China as a Socialist state with Ajit Singh
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/in-defense-of-china-as-a-socialist-state-w-ajit-singh
● Three questions about China and the Communist Party of China (excellent article)
https://medium.com/@wolf.aldrich/three-questions-about-china-and-the-communist-party-of-china-7056e
40b40f3
● Marxist Orientalism
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/12/06/marxist-orientalism/
● USA says China’s embrace of free market is going into reverse (This article makes for satisfying
reading)
https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/2017/11/30/u-s-says-china-s-embrace-of-free-market
-is-going-into-reverse
● India and China - rivals or potential partners for liberation?
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/India-and-China-Rivals-or-Potential-Partners-in-Liberation-2017
0831-0015.html
● What do Socialists defend in China today?
http://liberationschool.org/what-do-socialists-defend-in-china-today/
● Market economy and the Socialist road
https://www.nodo50.org/cubasigloXXI/congreso06/conf3_zhonquiao.pdf
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● Socialist Market Economy
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/06/20/socialist-market-economy/
● The Myth of Chinese Capitalism
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/20/the-myth-of-chinese-capitalism-2/
● China & Market Socialism - a question of state and revolution
https://return2source.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/china-market-socialism-a-question-of-state-revolution/
● Marxism and the social character of China
http://www.workers.org/2013/06/13/marxism-and-the-social-character-of-china/#.WMUXFm_yhhF
● US official slams China’s economic policies
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/21/us-treasury-official-slams-chinas-economic-policies.html
● Xi Jinping to Chinas private sector: go home, the Belt and Road is not for you
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/07/25/xi-jinping-to-chinas-private-sector-go-home-the-b
elt-and-road-is-not-for-you/#269d309617fb
● China: capitalist or socialist?
https://mltoday.com/article/956-china-capitalist-or-socialist/22
● Why China is a socialist country
http://www.learningfromchina.net/blog/why-china-is-a-socialist-country-chinas-theory-is-in-line-with-marx-
but-not-stalin
● Chinese Revolution: evaluating the 60 years | Communist Party of India (2009)
http://www.cpim.org/content/chinese-revolution-evaluating-60-years?fref=gc
● China is most promising hope for Third World - Fidel Castro
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/China-Is-Most-Promising-Hope-for-Third-World-Fidel-20171128-
0017.html
● China: A Revolutionary Present
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/China-A-Revolutionary-Present-20171004-0015.html
● A theory of China’s miracle
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/01/01/a-theory-of-chinas-miracle/
● NYTimes article: Private businesses built modern China. Now the government is pushing back
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/business/china-economy-private-enterprise.html
● Discovering Chinese Socialism - a personal account
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/11/17/discovering-chinese-socialism-a-personal-account/
● Chinese growth’s contribution to poverty reduction challenges World Bank and IMF neoliberal
policies
http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2017/12/chinese-growths-contribution-poverty-reduction-challenges-
world-bank-imf-neoliberal-policies/
● "Market Economy and Socialist Road" by Duan Zhongqiao (Professor at the Renmin University)
Speech given at "III Conferencia Internacional La Obra de Carlos Marx y los desafíos del Siglo XXI"
https://www.webcitation.org/69nfeZa23?url=http://www.nodo50.org/cubasigloXXI/congreso06/conf3_zho
nquiao.pdf
● Marx and lenin understood the state as the dominance of one class over the other. The
contradictions between classes are antagonist and there cannot be a state that serves as an
alliance of both classes. So if China doesn’t have a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, does this mean
it has a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie?

Where does the idea that a party is ever composed of one element, with the same unchanging
interests rather than contradictory aspects come from? As marxists we should look at which
element is dominant in the CCP and how this dominance is expressed.

If it is a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie how do we account for the social gains being made, is
there extraordinary class struggle being undertaken by the working class and peasantry to force
these? Why hasn't there been any move to overthrow the socialised elements of the state to
allow private ownership such as was seen in the USSR?

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 ● "In a country as big and as poor as ours, if we don't try to increase production, how can we
survive? How is socialism superior, when our people have so many difficulties in their lives? The
Gang of Four clamoured for ``poor socialism'' and ``poor communism'', declaring that
communism was mainly a spiritual thing. That is sheer nonsense! We say that socialism is the
first stage of communism. When a backward country is trying to build socialism, it is natural that
during the long initial period its productive forces will not be up to the level of those in developed
capitalist countries and that it will not be able to eliminate poverty completely. Accordingly, in
building socialism we must do all we can to develop the productive forces and gradually eliminate
poverty, constantly raising the people's living standards. Otherwise, how will socialism be able to
triumph over capitalism? In the second stage, or the advanced stage of communism, when the
economy is highly developed and there is overwhelming material abundance, we shall be able to
apply the principle of from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. If we
don't do everything possible to increase production, how can we expand the economy? How can
we demonstrate the superiority of socialism and communism? We have been making revolution
for several decades and have been building socialism for more than three. Nevertheless, by 1978
the average monthly salary for our workers was still only 45 yuan, and most of our rural areas
were still mired in poverty. Can this be called the superiority of socialism? That is why I insisted
that the focus of our work should be rapidly shifted to economic development. A decision to this
effect was made at the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, and it
represented an important turning point. Our practice since then has shown that this line is correct,
as the whole country has taken on an entirely new look." - Deng Xiaoping

Poverty reduction campaign

● The American Dream is alive..in China
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html
● Even the World Bank is starting to take notice: China’s poverty reduction campaign and the role
of the CPC
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/02/27/even-the-world-bank-is-starting-to-take-notice-chinas-unpreced
ented-poverty-reduction-and-the-role-of-the-cpc/
● China’s poverty relief achievements 2012-2016
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1058884.shtml

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 ● Domenico Losurdo: the new Colonial counter-revolution
https://konkret.la/the-new-colonial-counter-revolution/
● China most confident and optimistic country in world: IPSOS survey
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/08/09/china-most-confident-and-optimistic-country-in-world-ipsos-surv
ey/
● Edelman Trust Barometer: China tops the world
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/02/27/edelman-trust-barometer-china-tops-the-world/
● China is the greatest economic growth in human history
https://www.learningfromchina.net/china-is-the-greatest-economic-growth-in-human-history.html
● Xi Jinping will transform Made in China to Created in China: quality revolution
http://www.eurasiafuture.com/2018/01/26/xi-jinping-will-transform-made-china-created-china-quality-revol
ution/
● Progress in China
Progress in China video
● Stepping into the future
https://voyagesontheleft.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/stepping-into-the-future/
● Highlights of proposals for China’s 13th Five-Year Plan
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015cpcplenarysession/2015-11/03/content_22361998.htm
● For the defense of China against Counterrevolution, Imperialist intervention and dismemberment
http://liberationschool.org/for-the-defense-of-china-against-counterrevolution-imperialist-intervention-and-
dismemberment/
● China has new standards on Marxist schools for ideological understanding
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1068750.shtml
● Western media is wrong. China will continue to rise (view in Incognito to beat the Paywall)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2017/10/24/china-congress-western-media/?utm
_term=.2fd1b3c93614
● Counterpoint: debunking myths about China
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/opinion/19iht-edli19.html
● China pushes forward Marxist training on campus, attracts 1 million students
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/988795.shtml
● Ending poverty in China: what explains great poverty reduction and simultaneous increase in
inequality in rural areas?
http://blogs.worldbank.org/eastasiapacific/ending-poverty-in-china-what-explains-great-poverty-reduction
-and-a-simultaneous-increase-in-inequality-in-rural-areas
● Embracing China’s new normal
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2015-04-20/embracing-chinas-new-normal
● The world’s top economy: the US vs China in five charts
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-world-s-top-economy-the-us-vs-china-in-five-charts/
● China’s Global 500 companies are bigger than ever, and mostly state owned
http://fortune.com/2015/07/22/china-global-500-government-owned/
● Years of Trial, Turmoil and Triumph: China from 1949 to 1988, 1989 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/YearsOfTrialTurmoilTriumph
● Quality of life: India vs. China
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/05/12/quality-life-india-vs-china/
● China and India - 13 charts that show how the countries compare
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/16/china-and-india-13-charts-that-show-how-the-c
ountries-compare
● The surprising rise of China as IP powerhouse
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/the-surprising-rise-of-china-as-ip-powerhouse/
● China sends its top actors and directors back to Socialism school
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/01/china-sends-its-top-actors-and-directo
rs-sent-back-to-socialism-school/?utm_term=.37db6f345c52
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● Who has the world’s No.1 economy? Not the U.S.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-18/who-has-the-world-s-no-1-economy-not-the-u-s
● China upgrades reforms and opening up in new era
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3551544f33677a6333566d54/share_p.html

● China reading list

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16iw83noTdWvDiECaITX83rGhP_lros8QdBTrNnCoe6c/edit?usp=s
haring

Mao
● Can China ever move on from Mao Zedong? (read critically)
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2018050/can-china-ever-move-mao-zedong
● Some points on Stalin and Mao
https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/some-points-on-stalin-and-mao/
● How did Mao and the Communists change China?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvRzvUHXWF8
● Did Mao do more good than harm? By DemocraticSocialist01
https://youtu.be/Rh-4gsDjAKg
● Monster or liberator? On the legacy of Mao Zedong
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/12/monster-liberator-legacy-mao-zedong/
● Quora: what are Mao Zedongs achievements?
https://www.quora.com/What-were-Mao-Zedongs-achievements
● Mao reconsidered
https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/
● Revolutionary leaders are not gods but human beings: on Mao’s deviation
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/11/13/revolutionary-leaders-are-not-gods-but-human-beings-on-maos-
deviation/
● Did Mao really kill millions during the Great Leap Forward?
https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
● The Battle for China’s Past - a book about the Mao era
https://espressostalinist.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/battle-for-chinas-past.pdf
● Chinese Socialism and the legacy of Maoism
https://lonelyhourreflections.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/chinese-socialism-and-the-legacy-of-maoism/
● Revisiting alleged 30 million famine deaths during China’s Great Leap
https://mronline.org/2011/06/26/revisiting-alleged-30-million-famine-deaths-during-chinas-great-leap/
● Mao reconsidered
https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/

Ghost cities?
● China’s most famous “Ghost City” is rising from the desert
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/06/30/ordos-chinas-most-infamous-ex-ghost-city-contin
ues-rising/#3f5852046877
● Chinese Ghost Town’s explained by Jeff J brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FzuCjt8xYw

Hong Kong
● Wikileaks: HK protests linked to US government
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Wikileaks-HK-Protests-Linked-to-US-Government--20141002-001
1.html
● The horror of Hong Kong’s coffin homes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/hong-kong-coffin-homes-horror-my-week
/
● Hong Kong: 20% of residents live in poverty
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/20/hong-kong-20-of-residents-live-in-poverty
● Poverty in Hong Kong hits record high
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/2120366/poverty-hong-kong-hits-7-year-high-o
ne-five-people
● What does it mean to be poor?
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/2114946/explain-what-does-it-mean-be-poor-h
ong-kong-and-how-many

Social Credit System

● China’s Social Credit System

https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=8741211150730650030001161160
● Podcast on Social Credit
https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/social-credit-overview-podcast/
● Thread by Ian Goodrum: “One source, infinite stories. A thread on Social Credit”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043643948185468928.html
● Most of what we hear about China is Red Scare, Yellow Peril propaganda
http://armedwithapen.com/anti-china-propaganda/
● China’s social credit system (focusing on transportation)
https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/975536363364696064
● Translated original social credit policy documents, detailing what punishments apply to what kind
of offenses
https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/opinions-concerning-accelerating-the-constr
uction-of-credit-supervision-warning-and-punishment-mechanisms-for-persons-subject-to-enforcement-f
or-trust-breaking/
https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/opinions-concerning-appropriately-limiting-sp
ecific-gravely-untrustworthy-persons-from-riding-trains-for-a-certain-period-and-promoting-the-constructi
on-of-the-social-credit-system/
https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/opinions-concerning-appropriately-limiting-sp
ecific-gravely-untrustworthy-persons-from-traveling-on-civil-aircraft-for-a-certain-period-and-promoting-th
e-construction-of-the-social-credit-system/

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● The People's Republic of China is refining a new method for auto-regulation of capitalist companies
through Social Credit scoring.
While still under debate and an issue of controversy; this system is denounced in the West as an
"orwellian machination" also because it is planned to be implemented foremost for capitalist
companies.
This form of regulation of labour practices could reveal itself as dangerous as useful for the interests
of the owners' class; rewarding good behavior by companies and their representatives all while
punishing misconduct and unruliness.
This system of control is intended to provide important incentives for companies to respect the law
and their employees, all while preventing corruption and mismanagement in SOEs

● The story going around about China banning people from planes and trains because of "social credit', is
another case of china-bashing fake news which is eagerly spread by western media with little investigation.

A couple of points that I'd like to make:

1. The people being restricted are primarily business people who have broken the law, are refusing to pay
fines, etc. Please check out the following articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/.../china-blacklist-jia-yueting...
https://www.marketplace.org/.../social-credit-score-china...

If you would like to read the list of people blacklisted, the chinese government posts it publicly (they intend
to socially shame these people into complying with the law): http://shixin.court.gov.cn

2. Restrictions are specifically on luxuries, not on anything essential for everyday life.

"Restrict persons subject to enforcement for trust-breaking and the legal representative, main responsible
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persons, actual controlling persons, as well as directly responsible persons influencing the performance of
 debt in persons subject to enforcement for trust-breaking from riding soft sleepers in trains, all seats in
G-classed train sets, and all first-class seats in other train sets, civil aircraft and other such consumption
that is not necessary for life or work."
https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/.../opinion.../

Articles above also list hotels 3 stars and above, first class seating on high-speed trains, etc. Just think for
a second which class is being affected by this restriction, who are the people using these services?

Hopefully this will assist in some understanding of what is going on in China.

● 1. There is no "single score" that applies to individuals. The western media confuses the ID
numbers used in the system with a score.
2. The system is mainly focused on businesses and corp. which cheat people or skirt
corruption, consumer protection or environmental laws.
3. Where the law applies to individual people, they are only applied to people who have
already been convicted of crimes like fraud, making bomb threats, defamation, tax evasion
and corruption.
4. Punishments include not being able to purchase plane tickets or 1st class train tickets for
up to one year and these punishments can only be applied after convictions and after
appeals are exhausted and the court proves that the guilty party can pay the fine but refuses.
The punishment is lifted once the guilty party makes an attempt to pay the fine.
5. Social Credit System is totally different from the "Sesame credit" system. The western
media conflates these two all the time.

Inequality
● The American Dream is alive..in China
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html

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 ● Information on the rural/urban divide (the largest driver of inequality in China, now being
addressed)
https://www.ft.com/content/fe86f76c-1215-11e8-8cb6-b9ccc4c4dbbb
● Bourgeois sources often tell us that the People's Republic of China is a capitalist polity and economy.
As main driver for the explanation, they tend to show us that inequality in the PRC is very high.
While both of these things (a partially capitalist economy and high inequality) might be partially true; it
is important to note that the explanation provided is not good enough to demonstrate what is
supposed to demonstrate.
A decomposition of the inequality drivers in the PRC shows clearly that, most importantly, the
egregious increase in inequality is fundamentally due to *geographic*, inter-regional economic
inequality, based upon divergent and chronologically ordered development strategies and hence
different development levels at a given time.
Indeed, the PRC is a highly inegalitarian country if analysed overall, in economic terms. But this
mainly across regions.
Intra-regional inequality is - if compared to western countries - relatively very low.
Furthermore, the main explanation for the total inter-regional inequality and inequality between Urban
and Rural areas; is mainly due to the following reasons:
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The People's Republic of China has followed, since the first implementation of Deng's reforms in the
1970s; a multiple developmental strategy axed around different economic regions.
First, there was the Coastal Development Strategy, a direct consequence of the Open Door Policy in
the 1970s, that accelerated and focused reform and economic growth in the regional, coastal
provinces.
Second, the Rise of Central China plan announced by Wen Jiabao in 2004 focuses in the
development of the central inland provinces such as Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and
Jiangxi.
Third, the North East Area Revitalization Plan also began in the 2000s, under the direction of Wen
Jiabao. It focuses on the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, as much as five eastern
prefectures of Inner Mongolia.
Fourth, the Great Western Development Strategy had been conceptualized already in the 1970s but is
starting to be implemented in the 2010s; and includes the development of all the remaining western
provinces (Gansu, Guizhou, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan) and prefectures and
autonomous regions (Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet and Xinjiang) and Chongqing.

● China’s GINI coefficient peaked in 2008, dropping since

http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/0206/c90000-9424307.html

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Anti-Corruption drive
● Anbang chairman Wu Xiahui jailed for 18 years
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/09/news/companies/anbang-chairman-wu-xiaohui-prison/index.html
● China’s new anti-corruption body
https://www.facebook.com/trendinginchina/videos/1175989245837890/
● It’s open season on corrupt officials in China
https://news.vice.com/article/its-open-season-on-corrupt-officials-in-china
● China State-Owned Enterprises’ chiefs face 50% salary cuts as Xi Jingping launches reform
http://www.ibtimes.com/china-state-owned-enterprises-chiefs-face-50-salary-cuts-xi-jinping-launches-ref
orm-1664810
● Senior officials role ‘crucial’ - Xi
http://www.ecns.cn/2018/01-06/287205.shtml
● China Telecom boss sentenced to six years
http://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/2096382/former-china-telecom-boss-chang-xiaobing-sente
nced-six-years
● China jails former Iron and Steel boss for 17 years
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2091533/china-jails-former-baoshan-iron-steel-o
fficial-17-years
● China is cracking down on foreign companies, British pharma exec latest target
https://qz.com/209329/china-is-cracking-down-on-foreign-companies-and-a-british-pharma-exec-is-its-lat
est-target/
● Land of less pay: China combats corruption through pay cap
https://www.worldfinance.com/strategy/china-the-land-of-less-pay

Billionaires, private companies, regulation (etc)

● Ian Goodrum: There is no such thing as a private sector independent of politics. Communist
Party committees and the Chinese enterprise
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1026976507007135744.html
● China's big conglomerates are no longer buying up the world
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/23/investing/wanda-hna-anbang-buyers-turned-sellers/index.html?iid=EL
● Anbang arrest demonstrates Beijing’s hostility to business
https://www.ft.com/content/11718ee8-1bab-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6
● China’s battle plan against tycoons prompts Xiao Jianhua firm to sell US$23 billion of assets
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2136378/chinas-battle-plan-against-tycoons-prompts-
xiao-jianhua-firm-sell
● China sends its billionaires a chilling message
https://www.ft.com/content/4335d364-e7d4-11e6-893c-082c54a7f539
● Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/why-do-chinese-billionaires-keep-ending-up-in-
prison/272633/
● China economy - Grey Rhino’s
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/23/business/china-economy-gray-rhinos.html
● Exile Billionaire Guo Wengui wants regime change in Beijing
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-billionaire-guo-wengui-wants-regime-change-in-beijin
g
● Commercial bank shareholders targeted as China steps up scrutiny
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2136644/commercial-bank-shareholders-targeted-chin
a-steps-scrutiny
● China vows tighter rules to clip wings of big finance firms
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http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2136541/china-vows-tighter-rules-clip-wings-big-finan
ce-firms

Xi, Governance, Political education, etc

● Fidel Castro: Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met
in my life
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/09/05/fidel-castro-xi-jinping-is-one-of-the-strongest-and-most-capable-
revolutionary-leaders-i-have-met-in-my-life/
● Xi asks labor unions to protect workers’ rights
http://en.acftu.org/28623/201405/12/140512173707181.shtml
● Thread by Ian Goodrum - on changes to China’s constitution (excellent thread)
https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/968678705760382976
● Most of what we hear about China is Red Scare, Yellow Peril propaganda
http://armedwithapen.com/anti-china-propaganda/
● Xi Jinping's Speech on the Bicentennial of Marx's Birth
https://www.facebook.com/PresidentXiDeleteThis/posts/201906490421749
● The benefits of lifting the presidential and vice-presidential term limits in China
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/04/07/the-benefits-of-lifting-the-presidential-and-vice-presidential-term
-limits-in-china/
● Why Xi’s lifting of presidential term limits is a good thing
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1096416.shtml
● Behind Xi Jinpings’ call for a return to Marxism
https://www.workers.org/2013/07/20/behind-xi-jinpings-call-for-a-return-to-marxism/
● Xi calls for profound understanding of Marxism
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/29/c_136649342.htm
● China will re-educate government officials in Marxist theory and ideology
https://news.vice.com/article/china-will-re-educate-government-officials-to-remind-them-that-communism
-is-awesome
● Chinese journalists required to receive education in Marxism
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/832671.shtml#.UrE5HvQW1HV
● China orders nations journalists to take Marxism classes
http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1299795/china-orders-nations-journalists-take-marxism-
classes
● China steps up ideology drive on college campuses
http://archive.is/6a1lf
● China says political education for students now back on track
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-parliament-education/china-says-political-education-for-students
-now-back-on-track-idUSKCN1GS0DI
● Marxism matters in China, even in schools
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/07/25/marxism-matters-in-china-even-in-schools/

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Communist Party

● China’s Communist Party extends reach into foreign companies

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-communist-party-extends-reach-into-foreign-companie
s
● How Communist Party controls China’s state owned industrial titans
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2098755/how-communist-party-controls-chinas-state-
owned-industrial-titans
● Martin Jacques on China: how will the CPC continue to innovate?
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3363444f34637a6333566d54/share_p.html
● Chinese enterprises write Communist Party’s role into charters
https://asia.nikkei.com/print/article/287096
● China’s super-rich lose political clout - standing falls under Xi Jinping
https://www.ft.com/content/6e012f42-1dae-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6
● New CPC rules to expel members who express support for bourgeois liberalization online
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1120889.shtml

China infrastructure, economy, SOE’s, poverty etc

● China’s robot uprising
https://www.axios.com/china-robot-superpower-7819d408-0355-4820-8c03-0b676f0ddd6b.html
● Land of less pay: China combats corruption through pay cap
https://www.worldfinance.com/strategy/china-the-land-of-less-pay
● Beijing’s tilt towards state-owned enterprises raises doubts about future of private sector
https://www.scmp.com/news/article/2165254/beijings-tilt-towards-state-owned-enterprises-raises-doubts-
about-future
● As trade war escalates, China intensifies role of state-owned enterprises /
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2163927/trade-war-escalates-china-intensifies-ro
le-state-owned
● China’s factory crackdown masks a sweeping takeover by the state
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/china-s-factory-crackdown-masks-a-sweeping-tak
eover-by-the-state
● China spent an estimated $279 billion on R&D last year
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/china-spent-an-estimated-279-billion-on-rd-last-year.html?__source=s
harebar|facebook&par=sharebar
● Progress in China (very good video)
Progress in China video
● Road-building rage to leave U.S. in the dust
https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/18/road-building-rage-to-leave-us-in-dust/
● China says it created a France-sized pile of new jobs since 2012
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-29/china-says-it-created-a-france-sized-pile-of-new-jo
bs-since-2012
● China’s future megaprojects (2016-2050’s) (ignore the painful anti-communist tropes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNE7VPtvfbI
● Can China eliminate poverty by 2020?
https://www.facebook.com/ChinaGlobalTVNetwork/videos/2148619665178842/
● Chinas subway boom slows down (ignore headline)
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/02/chinas-subway-boom-slows-down/552935/?utm_source=
fbb
● 40 Chinese third-tier cities plan to build subway systems
https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/over-40-chinese-third-tier-cities-plan-build-subway-systems

Chinese foreign relations

● The Long Game and its contradictions
https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68
● Russia and China are not imperialist
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/06/russia-and-china-are-not-imperialist/
● Why China is suddenly seeking Filipino English teachers
http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2145796/why-china-suddenly-seeking-filipino-english-te
achers
● Why China develops relations with countries like the Phillipines:

Jude Woodward, a regular visitor and lecturer in China, shows the desperate measures that the
US is taking to try to isolate China, block its economic progress and surround it militarily. But she
also shows this policy is failing. China is not accepting control by foreign multi-nationals; it is
continually developing trade and investment links with the rest of Asia; and, with the exception of
Abe’s Japan, it is succeeding in keeping the Asian capitalist states ambivalent between China’s
‘butter’ and America’s ‘arms’.’ As a result, China has been able to maintain its independence
from US imperialism and global capitalism like no other state.

● Iran’s door to the West is slamming shut, and that leaves China
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/iran-s-door-to-the-west-is-slamming-shut-and-that-
leaves-china
● Zimbabwe is intent on 'leapfrogging 18 years of isolation' with China's help
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/03/zimbabwes-president-emmerson-mnangagwa-makes-first-china-state-
visit.html
● Nepal to deepen ties with China to get more leverage in dealings with India
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/nepal-to-deepen-ties-with-china-to-get-m
ore-leverage-in-dealings-with-india-k-p-oli/articleshow/62988102.cms
● Duterte wishes for stronger bond between Filipinos, Chinese /
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/15/c_136978017.htm
● U.S. intelligence warns of Pakistan modernizing nuclear arsenal, growing closer to China
http://militarywatchmagazine.com/read.php?my_data=70367
● China: we oppose attempts to divide Syria
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-We-Oppose-Attempts-to-Divide-Syria-20170930-0005.html
● China Backs Ally Venezuela's Constituent Assembly Process
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Backs-Ally-Venezuelas-Constituent-Assembly-Process-201
70802-0050.html
● China and Cuba Reaffirm Solidarity as First Shipment of Aid Arrives After Irma
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-and-Cuba-Reaffirm-Solidarity-as-First-Shipment-of-Aid-Arri
ves-After-Irma-20170923-0003.html
● US Seeks to Transform Vietnam into Weapon Against China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzFDkrrRg8
● China Rallies Support for Four-point Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.804541
● Chinese President Calls for East Jerusalem as Capital of Palestinian State
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.698833
● Putin says Russia, China to remain strategic partners
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/60/224/178/1513304213922.html
● U.S war with Russia and China more likely as world power shifts from West to East, NATO says
http://www.newsweek.com/us-war-russia-china-more-likely-world-power-shift-west-east-nato-715160
● Venezuela and China boost bilateral ties; chide US sanctions
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-and-China-Boost-Bilateral-Ties-Chide-US-Sanctions-2
0171220-0019.html
● China to improve people-to-people exchanges with foreign countries
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/21/c_136843349.htm
● Phillipines, China, agree to strengthen defense ties
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/10/26/1752613/philippines-china-agree-strengthen-defense-ties
● Chinese Communist Party says it has disowned local rebels [in Philippines]
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/21671/chinese-communist-party-says-it-has-disowned-local-rebels
● De-dollarization continues: China, Iran to eliminate greenback from bilateral trade
http://www.mintpressnews.com/de-dollarization-continues-china-iran-to-eliminate-greenback-from-bilater
al-trade/235339/
● China holds meeting to broken peace in Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-26/china-holds-meeting-to-broker-peace-in-afghan-pa
kistan-conflict
● China has ‘overwhelming advantage’ in bringing Taiwan to heel, official says
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan/china-has-overwhelming-advantage-in-bringing-taiwan-t
o-heel-official-says-idUSKBN1EJ052
● Why China’s first overseas military base in Djibouti is ‘only the beginning’
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201707131055515150-china-military-overseas/
● China to build second naval base in Pakistan
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201801051060541891-china-second-foreign-base-pakistan/

China-U.S. Trade war (etc)

● USMCA: new economic alliance formed to isolate China
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/06/usmca-new-economic-alliance-formed-to-isolate-chin
a.html
● China’s new chip investment fund shows how U.S. penalties on Chinese firms can backfire
https://qz.com/1272231/chinas-new-chip-investment-fund-shows-how-us-penalties-on-chinese-firms-can
-backfire/
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● Trump’s tech ban gives China chipmakers a reason to care
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-03-28/trump-s-tech-ban-give-china-chipmakers-a-reaso
n-to-care

China-DPRK-RoK relations
● Pyongyang officials go to study China reforms
http://mengnews.joins.com/view.aspx?aId=3048193
● Restarting talks crucial for solving Korean nuclear issue: Chinese diplomat
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/18/c_136982796.htm
● Inter-Korea talks score gold at Olympics
https://www.mintpressnews.com/inter-korea-talks-score-gold-olympics-us-autopilot-diplomacy-wipes/237
776/
● Why China and Russia continue to pass UN sanctions resolutions against North Korea
https://www.facebook.com/ImperialMilitaryWatch.Analysis/posts/1897112317275463
● China-North Korea trade increases
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/world/asia/china-north-korea-trade-coal-nuclear.html
● China says it will defend North Korea in event of US invasion
http://theduran.com/china-says-will-defend-north-korea-in-event-of-us-invasion/
● Xi: China, ROK to enhance communication on promoting peace
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/52/116/171/1513263969724.html
● China expresses support for Moscow’s position on NK crisis settlement
https://sputniknews.com/world/201710231058474028-china-russia-north-korea/
● China should stop regime change in North Korea: state media
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Should-Stop-Regime-Change-in-North-Korea-State-Media-
20170811-0005.html
● China’s Communist Party says it is still talking to North Korean side
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/21/asia-pacific/chinas-communist-party-says-still-talking-north-korean-s
ide/#.Wf5QAFu0OUl
● Russia and China join forces in anti-missile defense drill
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-and-china-join-forces-anti-missile-defense-drill-beijing-750711
● China and Russia train for war with U.S. if Trump invades North Korea
http://www.newsweek.com/china-could-fight-us-war-north-korea-breaks-out-751779
● China should stop regime change in North Korea: state media
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Should-Stop-Regime-Change-in-North-Korea-State-Media-
20170811-0005.html
● South Korea president suggests joint drills with US could be suspended
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/20/south-korea-president-suggests-joint-drills-with-us-coul
d-be-suspended
● Washington should switch from threats to dialogue on North Korea - Chinese envoy to US
https://www.rt.com/news/403522-china-us-threats-pyongyang/

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South China Sea (etc)

In the South China Sea, Vietnam has 25 installations, the Philippines 10,
Malaysia 7, Taiwan 2 – a total of 44 versus China’s eight! (Image by scmp.com)

● Quid Pro Quo: Operation Pacific Eagle-Phillipines in exchange for support for Duterte’s corrupt
regime
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/1/27/quid-pro-quo-operation-pacific-eagle-philippines-exchange-supp
ort-duterte-s-corrupt-and-cr
● Does the South China Sea mean world war 3?
http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2015/11/10/does-the-south-china-sea-mean-world-war-3-jeff-j-brown-o
n-the-shadow-of-truth-44-days-radio-sinoland/
● South China Sea brouhaha: down and dirty on Radio Sinoland
https://soundcloud.com/44-days/south-china-sea-brouhaha-down-and-dirty-on-radio-sinoland-201562
● America has lost the South China Sea
https://soundcloud.com/44-days/america-has-already-lost-the-south-china-sea-to-its-namesake-china-risi
ng-radio-sinoland-press-tv
● China and Vietnam to settle SCS claims
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/china-and-vietnam-to-settle-south-china-sea-claims#gs.7IMk
mGg

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China in Africa

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● China and Africa - Abayomi Azikiwe

"As anti-imperialists and socialists, even if we don't totally agree with the political and economic
process going on in China, we have to work to refute these imperialist attacks and propaganda
against China as a means of our solidarity with Africa. Because Africa has a right, just like any
other formerly colonized and oppressed region of the world, to choose their own economic
partners, their own political relationships, and this should be defended by the anti-war and
anti-imperialist movement"
__________________

"With specific reference to Africa, a report issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) in 2010 it noted 'that trade between Africa and China had increased by
1,000 percent during the period 2000-2008. Today (2010) China accounts for 11 percent of the /
 continent's external trade, with the bulk of transactions taking place in the sectors of primary
products, including fuel and minerals.' (Africa and Imperialism, Abayomi Azikiwe, 2011)

In the same above-mentioned article by this writer, it states that 'In contrast to the legacy of trade
between Africa and the Western imperialist states, trade with China has been important in
fostering economic and social development. UNCTAD economist Janvier Nkurunziza refutes
allegations by Western-based media sources that China's increasing role in Africa is not
benefitting the continent.'

Nkurunziza says, 'The challenge is for Africa to find ways to harness and manage this
relationship for better development outcomes.' Nkurunziza does not perceive China's growing
relationship with Africa as a 'new form of colonialism,' arguing that this emerging economic
cooperation was based on the principles of 'mutual respect, reciprocal benefits, respect for
sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs' of the continent. (Engineering News, June
18, 2010)
...
With the development of China-Africa relations in the most recent period, the U.S. and its agents
are attempting to distort the character of these joint projects. Former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton visited Africa during 2012 and stated indirectly that China represented a colonial threat to
the continent.

Such a statement represents the absurdity of Washington's approach to foreign policy. The U.S.,
which is the leading threat to Africa and the peoples of world, has never supported any genuine
liberation movement or progressive government in Africa and therefore has no moral basis for
any criticism or condemnation of China's role on the continent.

The recent wave of militarism on the continent of Africa is in part based on efforts by U.S.
imperialism to stifle and reverse China's partnership with the continent. These military threats and
campaigns by the U.S. are also being replicated in Asia and the South Pacific as well.

The deployment of U.S. naval forces in the South China Sea, the escalation of hostilities against
the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the dispatching of military troops to
Australia are all aimed at attempts to 'contain China.' The provocative claims of the Secretary of
Defense Chuck Hagel charging China with 'cyber espionage' against the U.S. is following the
same hostile line of confrontation against Beijing.

Anti-imperialist and anti-war forces inside the U.S. must defend China against these unwarranted
claims and provocations. Genuine left organizations inside the U.S. and other imperialist states
must push for a principled stand by progressive forces towards China."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GCIcmuLNG4

● China-Africa: a new accord

https://medium.com/@leohezhao/china-africa-a-new-accord-e375a6ffe535
● Will Western media report good news about the Chinese in Africa?
http://chinaafricaproject.com/china-africa-media-western-bias-bbc/
● Is China the new imperialist force in Africa? (super good article)
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2018/10/is-china-the-new-imperialist-force-in-africa
● Ties between African countries and China are complex. Understanding this matters
https://ibw21.org/commentary/ties-between-african-countries-and-china-are-complex-understanding-this-
matters/
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● Is China a new imperial power? (mentions Pakistan, Hambantota port Sri Lanka, and Malaysia)
http://www.atimes.com/is-china-a-new-imperial-power/
● China: the Imperialist People’s Republic of Africa?
https://www.herald.co.zw/china-the-imperialist-peoples-republic-of-africa/
● Why China’s debtbook diplomacy is a hoax (good analysis of the Hambantota port in Sri Lanka)
https://schillerinstitute.com/why-chinas-debtbook-diplomacy-is-a-hoax/
● Report shows labor conditions at Chinese and American firms in Kenya comparable
http://www.chinafile.com/china-africa-project/report-shows-labor-conditions-chinese-and-american-firms-
kenya-comparable
● An insider’s view of the China-Africa debt trap debate (excellent podcast episode)
https://soundcloud.com/chinatalkingpoints/an-insiders-view-of-the-china-africa-debt-trap-debate
● Chinese manufacturing not moving to Africa all that soon: survey
https://qz.com/africa/1146018/china-in-africa-chinese-manufacturing-not-moving-to-africa-all-that-soon/
● Russia and China are not imperialist
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/06/russia-and-china-are-not-imperialist/
● Here’s what Africans think about China’s influence in their countries
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/28/heres-what-africans-think-about-chi
nas-influence-in-their-countries/?utm_term=.8873dc93febf
● What Africans really think of China
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/03/africa/what-africans-really-think-of-china/index.html
● Why African students are abandoning the US for China
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/29/africa/african-students-china-us/index.html
● China’s “rogue” aid to Africa isn’t as much or as controversial as we thought
https://qz.com/africa/1104209/chinas-rogue-aid-to-africa-isnt-as-much-or-as-controversial-as-we-thought/
● To call China a colonial power is to diminish the horrors that were faced by colonized
communities. A thread on China in Africa by Ian Goodrum
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1030954967132065792.html?refreshed=yes
● How is China fueling economic growth in African nations? (short video)
https://twitter.com/China__Focus/status/1034259305107677184
● Africa is China’s Strategic Depth
http://www.cnfocus.com/africa-is-chinas-strategic-depth/
● Is China’s aid to Africa neo-colonialism?
https://www.facebook.com/globaltimesnews/videos/459517061212325/
● Correcting the record on China and Africa by Ian Goodrum
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201809/03/WS5b8ce1d5a310add14f38948f.html
● Chinese investment in Africa: Beijing’s testing ground
https://www.ft.com/content/0f534aa4-4549-11e7-8519-9f94ee97d996?mhq5j=e1
● Experts pleased over China’s ‘Five No’s’ approach to Africa
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Experts-PleasedOver-Chinas-Five-Nos-Approach-toAfrica-20180
919-0011.html
● How China is building the future in sub-Saharan Africa - and why the US needs to rethink its
approach
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1940036/how-china-building-future-sub-saharan-
africa-and-why-us
● Chinese FM rejects claim China’s financing increases Africa’s debt burden
http://www.china.org.cn/world/2018-01/15/content_50225798.htm
● Tired of US “aid” (exploitation), Africa and global south look to China
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tired-of-us-aid-exploitation-africa-and-global-south-look-to-china/236405
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● Challenging the myth of Chinese land grabs in Africa
https://soundcloud.com/chinatalkingpoints/challenging-the-myth-of-chinese-land-grabs-in-africa
● 5 myths about Chinese investment in Africa
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/04/5-myths-about-chinese-investment-in-africa/
● Why anti-Chinese sentiment in Africa is on the rise
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http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1076/why-anti-chinese-sentiment-africa-rise
 ● Does Chinese Employment Benefit Africans? Investigating Chinese Enterprises and their
Operations in Africa
http://sites.clas.ufl.edu/africa-asq/files/v16a8.Tang_.HD_.pdf
● China cancels 150 mature debts of 32 African countries
http://www.focac.org/eng/ltda/dscbzjhy/FA32009/t623384.htm
● China announces debt cancellation at African summit
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/12/04/china-announces-debt-cancellation-african-summ
it
● China cancels $1bn of African debt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/966645.stm
● China may be a lot of things in Africa, but it’s not a colonizer
https://soundcloud.com/chinatalkingpoints/china-africa-colonialism-hannah-ryder
● Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa
https://monthlyreview.org/2015/07/01/imperialism-and-anti-imperialism-in-africa/
● China in Africa: ‘Imperial power’ or ‘altruist’?
https://www.pambazuka.org/global-south/china-africa-’imperial-power’-or-’altruist’
● China not neocolonialist
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2010-11/16/content_11554152.htm
● Here’s what Africans think about China’s influence in their countries
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/28/heres-what-africans-think-about-chi
nas-influence-in-their-countries/
● China colonizing Africa? MOFA urges EU parliament chief to ‘learn basic facts’
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d45544f33497a4d/share_p.html
● China will not take path of “Western colonists” in Africa - foreign minister
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-not-path-western-colonists-africa-foreign-minister-062432467.html?r
ef=gs
● The real story behind China’s alleged conquest of African farmland
https://qz.com/527570/the-real-story-behind-chinas-alleged-conquest-for-african-farmland/
● Demonising China: pundits get its role in Africa wrong
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10054&page=0
● Chinese investment in Africa is more diverse and welcome than you think
https://qz.com/488589/chinese-investment-in-africa-is-more-diverse-and-welcomed-than-we-give-it-credit
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● China by far the largest investor in African infrastructure
https://www.ft.com/content/716545c0-9529-11e5-ac15-0f7f7945adba
● China’s direct investment in Africa: Reality versus myth
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2015/09/03/chinas-direct-investment-in-africa-reality-vers
us-myth/
● China to expand skills programme to Africa
http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1418574/china-expand-skills-programme-200-africans
● Chinese train producer makes Africa’s fastest trains
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0915/c90000-9269696.html
● China’s growing health aid to Africa encouraged
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1062245.shtml
● China is training Africa’s next generation of transport and aviation experts
https://qz.com/1030978/china-is-training-africas-next-generation-of-aviation-and-transport-officials/
● China has overtaken the US and UK as the top destination for anglophone African students
https://qz.com/1017926/china-has-overtaken-the-us-and-uk-as-the-top-destination-for-anglophone-africa
n-students/
● China offers support package to Ghana's renewable energy program
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/01/c_136408065.htm
● China pledges $60bn to develop Africa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35005048
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● Zimbabwe, China seal 1bn power deal, investment to create 25,000 jobs
https://www.herald.co.zw/zim-china-seal-1bn-power-deal%E2%80%A2-investment-to-create-25-000-jobs
-%E2%80%A2-new-ferrochrome-smelters-to-be-set-up/
● South African President attacks Western countries for slandering China’s assistance to Africa
http://www.xinhuanet.com//english/2015-12/07/c_134890609.htm
● The war in Mali and AFRICOM’s agenda: target China
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-war-in-mali-and-africoms-african-agenda-target-china/5322517

Belt & Road Initiative , “Imperialism” etc

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● Ok, what is the Hambantota Port?

It’s a port in Sri Lanka constructed between 2008 and 2010, with chinese and sri lankan capital,
built by China Harbour Engineering Company and Sinohydro Corporation, with a majority of
chinese capital (85%). The port was conceived in 2003 by the sri lankan government as part of a
project to develop the area of Hambantota and China was chosen as a partner in this project. [1]

The port turned out less profitable than expected and, as a result, the sri lankan government
started to have problems in paying off the debt that was contracted with china to build the
facilities. So, in a visit to China, the Sri Lankan prime minister negotiated the debt by leasing the
port, with 70% of the shares being controlled by CMPort, a Chinese company, and the remaining
30% being controlled by sri Lanka's firm SLPA[2]. For this lease, China paid aprox 1 billion dollars
to Sri Lanka, and has agreed to invest 1.1 billion dollars in the PPP with sri lankan government.
[3][4]

It is obvious that this isn’t a “predatory move” from China nor a “handout” from Sri Lanka. This
was a negotiated deal between two nations (the USA and its allies absolutely hate this kind of
thing) where the best outcome for both parties was agreed upon.

Oh, and the lease was signed in 2017. Why is this appearing on the news now? It’s because the
USA government sanctions against China aren’t working and they are now realying on the usual
mediatic warfare to do the dirty job of imperialism.

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[1] https://web.archive.org/.../www.../port_hambantota.asp...
 [2] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/.../10/content_30420018.htm

[3]https://economynext.com/China%E2%80%99s_CM_Port_makes...

[4] http://www.hirunews.lk/.../framework-agreement-signed…

● China builds new type of globalization

https://www.workers.org/2017/05/28/china-builds-new-type-of-globalization/#.WXPNi9PytsM
● The origins of the Belt and Road initiative
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/04/28/the-origins-of-the-belt-and-road-initiative/
● The myth of a neo-imperial China
http://www.atimes.com/article/myth-neo-imperial-china/
● The hidden economic rationale of China-Europe rail
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2018/03/22/the-hidden-economic-rationale-of-china-europe-r
ail/#792ac17440d1
● China’s Belt & Road plan set to dominate world trade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXROXiIpvQ
● China's billions set to revive Pakistan's colonial era railways
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/chinas-billions-set-to-revive-pakistans-colonial-era-railways-1841147

● China and Pakistan’s belt and road plan might not convince other investors
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/19/china-and-pakistans-belt-and-road-plan-might-not-convince-other-inve
stors.html
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 ● China and Russia are not Imperialist
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/06/russia-and-china-are-not-imperialist/China’s “One Belt, One
Road” looks to take construction binge offshore
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-economy-silkroad-idUKKCN0R60X820150906
● NYT sees Chinese investment in Greece through Western centric lens
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1064219.shtml
● China codifies crackdown on “irrational” outbound investment
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-18/china-further-limits-overseas-investment-in-push-t
o-reduce-risk
● Work begins soon to bring Haiti into Silk Road after China invests $30bn
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Work-Begins-Soon-to-Bring-Haiti-into-Silk-Road-After-China-Inves
ts-US30-billion-to-Develop-Infrastructure-20170901-0003.html

● China pledges billions in development aid, debt forgiveness

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/china-pledges-billions-development-aid-debt-forgiveness
● How China is building the post-Western world
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-china-is-building-the-post-western-world/
● China hopes to get past obstacles in Nepal economic ties
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1078483.shtml
● China is cancelling the debt of the worlds most impoverished nations
http://thehigherlearning.com/2015/09/29/china-is-canceling-the-debt-of-the-worlds-most-impoverished-na
tions/
● China’s B&R initiative leading a resurgence of Asia
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1057805.shtml

Worker/labor rights, Society (etc)

● Workplace safety now better in China than in Australia
http://www.trotskyistplatform.com/workplace-safety-now-better-in-china-than-in-australia/
● CIA funding for China Labor Bulletin
https://twitter.com/korcounterprop/status/1062751438617493504
● Is China becoming a world leader on Human Rights?
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/12/16/is-china-becoming-a-world-leader-on-human-rights/
● What about the Chinese Workers? (brilliant piece by Roland Boer)
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/08/27/what-about-the-chinese-workers/
● China’s Labour Market (article by the Reserve Bank of Australia showing huge increases in
worker pay)
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2011/sep/4.html
● China Labor Watch shouts nonsense at Apple again
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/29/china-labor-watch-shouts-nonsense-at-apple-again/
#51e5ad8280bc
● Xi asks labor unions to protect workers’ rights
http://en.acftu.org/28623/201405/12/140512173707181.shtml
● Labor rights in China (from 2006)
https://fpif.org/labor_rights_in_china/
● China’s labor movement keeping pace with globalization - article about the All-China Federation
of Trade Unions (ACFTU) - part 1
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/chinas-labor-movement-keeping-pace-with-globalization/
● Times are changing for China’s labor movement - article about the All-China Federation of Trade
Unions (ACFTU) - part 2
http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/times-are-changing-for-chinas-labor-movement/
● Thread by Ian Goodrum: “the participation of workers in management embodies the Party’s
principles of running enterprises by relying on the working class”
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043159032935006208.html
 ● China’s investment in ‘human capital’ jumps as US falls behind
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2165732/chinas-investment-human-capital-jumps-us-fa
lls-behind
● China’s missing girls: the millions hiding from the one child policy (interesting article about the
OCP)
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/chinas-missing-girls-the-millions-hiding-from-the-one-
child-policy/news-story/00d13f5e36b04f241eaf70b0795576a7
● Chinese skilled manufacturing labour
https://www.facebook.com/FortuneMagazine/videos/10155596353037949/
● Friend or foe? The true role of criticism in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXNn-USB1To
● White paper hails China's 'remarkable progress' in rights
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/0/201/241/1513334832914.html
● Full text: New Progress in the Legal Protection of Human Rights in China
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/165/9/61/1513330628857.html
● China, rising wages and worker militancy
https://www.workers.org/2015/07/21/china-rising-wages-and-worker-militancy/#.WWwfFdQrJdg
● New labor contract law changes employment landscape
http://en.people.cn/90001/90776/90785/6330594.html
● Labor rights in China (very good article)
http://fpif.org/labor_rights_in_china/
● Chinese state steelworkers beat private firm boss to death
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/26/china-steel-workers-riot
● Housing should be for living in, not speculation, says Xi
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/xi-renews-call-housing-should-be-for-living-in-not-
speculation
● Chinese textbook finally teaching proper Sex Ed, but some parents are having none of it
https://qz.com/925037/a-chinese-textbook-is-finally-teaching-proper-sex-ed-but-some-parents-are-havin
g-none-of-it/
● China’s first law against domestic violence: It’s no longer a private matter
https://asiafoundation.org/2016/01/20/chinas-first-law-against-domestic-violence-its-no-longer-a-private-
matter/
● China bans use of Anti-Islam words online
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-bans-use-of-anti-islam-words-on-social-media-1753377?fb
● Planning outline for the construction of a social credit system
https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/planning-outline-for-the-construction-of-a-so
cial-credit-system-2014-2020/
● The big layoff in China (China supporting industrial workers after factory closures)
https://www.axios.com/the-big-layoff-in-china-2511630146.html
● Rising Chinese wages will only strengthen Asia's hold on manufacturing
https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21646180-rising-chinese-wages-will-only-strengthen-asias-hol
d-manufacturing-tightening-grip
● China issues white paper on health
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/29/c_136647997.htm
● Quality of life: India vs China
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/05/12/quality-life-india-vs-china/
● Test gives prisoners medical insurance (good article, compare/contrast with USA etc)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/26/WS5a418804a31008cf16da35df.html
● China’s complicated approach to Transgender rights
https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/chinas-complicated-approach-to-transgender-rights/
● The LGBTQ movement in China
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/4289.html

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Pollution & the environment

● China’s war on pollution will change the world
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-china-pollution/
● What we can learn from China’s fight against environmental ruin
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/what-we-can-learn-from-china-s-fight-against-environmental-r
uin
● China’s continuing renewable energy revolution: global implications
https://apjjf.org/2014/12/12/Hao-Tan/4098/article.html
● Ian Goodrum: China and the Paris climate agreement (very well sourced thread. Recommended
reading)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034219465150353408.html
● China will be the world's biggest champion of fighting climate change
https://qz.com/833859/with-trump-as-president-china-will-be-the-worlds-biggest-champion-of-fighting-cli
mate-change/
● China is the acid test for a technology that could save the world from catastrophic climate change
https://qz.com/1157788/china-is-the-acid-test-for-a-technology-that-could-save-the-world-from-catastrop
hic-climate-change/
● China is making electric buses cheap, just like it did for solar panels
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/4/17/17239368/china-investment-solar-electric-buse
s-cost
● What does China’s ecological civilization mean for humanity’s future?
https://mronline.org/2018/02/12/what-does-chinas-ecological-civilization-mean-for-humanitys-future/
● Chinese government to plant 6.6 million hectares of forest
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Chinese-Government-to-Plant-6.6-Hectares-of-Forest--20180107-
0006.html
● China to plant forest the size of Ireland in bid to become world leader in conservation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/05/china-plant-forest-size-ireland-bid-become-world-leader-co
nservation/
● China’s sponge cities are turning streets green to combat flooding
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/28/chinas-sponge-cities-are-turning-streets-green-to-comb
at-flooding?CMP=share_btn_fb
● High speed rail presents major opportunities for decarbonisation of transport
https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2017/december/high-speed-rail-presents-major-opportunities-for-de
carbonisation-of-transport.html
● Hainan to evaluate officials on green vision
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/29/WS5a4593e0a31008cf16da41db.html
● Over 18,000 penalized for failing to rein in pollution
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/29/WS5a459336a31008cf16da41d5.html
● How China beats the U.S. at clean air progress
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-20/how-china-beats-the-u-s-at-clean-air-progress
● European smog could be 27 times more toxic than air pollution in China
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/european-smog-27-times-more-toxic-chinese-air-pollution-chi
na-quality-a7572051.html
● China is winning environmental clean up race, minister says
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/02/19/china-is-winning-environmental-clean-up-race-minister-sa
ys/
● ‘Hawaii of China’ dumps GDP targets to save its tropical beaches
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2125732/hawaii-china-dumps-gdp-targets-save-its-tro
pical-beaches
● China shows global leadership in environmental governance
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/137/63/161/1512532083441.html
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● China’s forest cover to reach 23% by 2020: UN
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/nation/2016-05/27/content_15440055.html
● UNEP: China sets example in sustainable development
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/225/88/23/1512899319276.html
● China well on track with air quality goals
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/28/228/37/1512959669806.html
● International group praises green revival
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/227/83/243/1513054553361.html
● Good news - China’s dropping coal consumption putting brakes on global carbon
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/barbara-finamore/good-news-chinas-dropping-coal-consumption-putting-br
akes-global-carbon
● Greenpeace says China city air pollution drops by 10%
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/greenpeace-says-china-city-air-pollution-drops-by-10-percent/
● Vice-premier: China strives to enhance environmental protection
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/148/134/227/1513005689100.html
● Greenhouse pollution in China, India drops thanks to low-tech fixes
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060719-energy.html
● China cementing global dominance of renewable energy and technology
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/06/china-cementing-global-dominance-of-renewable
-energy-and-technology
● China could have a meltdown-proof nuclear reactor next year
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600757/china-could-have-a-meltdown-proof-nuclear-reactor-next-ye
ar/
● Following damage caused by economic rise, China tackles ambitious conservation experiment
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2017/0820/Following-damage-caused-by-economic-rise-C
hina-tackles-ambitious-conservation-experiment
● “My job is to clean up the environment. China really wants to do that!”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/10/my-job-is-to-clean-up-the-environment-china-real
ly-wants-to-do-that
● China shuts down tens of thousands of factories in pollution crackdown
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/23/559009961/china-shuts-down-tens-of-thousands-of-fact
ories-in-unprecedented-pollution-crack
● China sees 4% drop in carbon intensity in first 3 quarters of 2017
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1130/c90000-9299020.html
● Beijing air pollution notably reduced in winter: environment minister - China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-12/03/content_35178784.htm
● China tops the world in renewable energy production - report
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/10/c_136432582.htm
● China plans to quintuple sea water desalination capacity
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/241/204/43/1513150249999.html
● China’s envoy: climate goals boost green finance
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/225/9/136/1513147735609.html
● China aims to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions through trading scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/19/china-aims-to-drastically-cut-greenhouse-gas-e
missions-through-trading-scheme
● Donald Trump success helps China emerge as global climate leader
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/donald-trump-success-helps-china-emerge-as-gl
obal-climate-leader
● Chinese greenhouse gas emissions may peak by 2025, says study
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/08/chinese-greenhouse-gas-emissions-may-peak-by-2025-
says-study
● China is building solar roadways
https://electrek.co/2017/12/21/china-solar-roadways-transparent-concrete-solar-cells-charge-cars/amp/

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Tibet

● Dalai Lama poem about Mao

https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/09/19/like-the-sun-shining-over-the-world-the-dalai-lamas-poem-praisi
ng-mao-zedong/
● Mao’s liberation of Tibet
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/09/19/maos-liberation-of-tibet/
● Tibet is pulling its weight as part of China
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/03/13/tibet-pulling-its-weight-as-part-of-china/
● Democratic imperialism: Tibet, China and the N.E.D.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/democratic-imperialism-tibet-china-and-the-national-endowment-for-demo
cracy/6530
● Tibet, and the CIA’s anti-China crusade
https://www.workers.org/ww_books/Workers_World_Tibet.pdf
● Lhasa: The Open City
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=7B613EA5712CB74FAC279D29C142A2A4
● Friendly Feudalism - the Tibet myth
http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
● Tibet (with map) by Arthur Clegg, Labour Monthly, 1950
http://www.unz.org/Pub/LabourMonthly-1950feb-00086
● China, Tibet, and U.S.-sponsored counter revolution
https://www.liberationnews.org/08-04-01-china-tibet-ussponsored-coun-html/
● Tibet now amongst fastest-growing Chinese regions
http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-04/26/content_24919867.htm
● CIA Tibetan program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program
● Dalai Lama group says it got money from the CIA
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/world-news-briefs-dalai-lama-group-says-it-got-money-from-ci
a.html
● Secret Files: Untold story of CIA covert operations in Tibet
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612131048516027-china-cia-tibet/
● Some thoughts on Tibet
http://www.dontow.com/2008/04/some-thoughts-on-tibet/
● Economic patterns of the Tibet Autonomous Region (from 1995, somewhat dated but interesting)
https://case.edu/affil/tibet/moreTibetInfo/documents/TibetEconomy2.pdf
● Tibet’s GDP increased by 281 times in 50 years
http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-09/06/content_21797818.htm
● The Imperialist Dalai Lama: ‘Too many refugees entering Europe’
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/DalaiLamaRefugee-20160601-0014.html
● When serfs stood up in Tibet - Anna Louise Strong , 1959
http://www.marxistsfr.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1959/tibet/index.htm
● Tibet’s race riots of 2008
https://gwydionwilliams.com/42-china/tibet/the-tibetan-race-riots-of-2008/
● Tibet and International Law (very good blog post)
https://gwydionwilliams.com/42-china/tibet/tibet-and-international-law/
● The Dalai Lama wants to return home (contemporary article)
https://thewire.in/201726/dalai-lama-india-china-tibet/
● Tibet: religious freedom comes with Chinese characteristics
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2021650/tibet-religious-freedom-comes-chinese
-characteristics
● Tibetans invite US lawmakers to region
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https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/151/27/192/1512628335251.html
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 ● CLASH Podcast: Trouble on the Silk Road (very interesting podcast episode about Xinjiang)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-55-trouble-on-21205934
● Why Xinjiang? Why now? - Very good post by Prof. Roland Boer
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/11/17/15095/
● Full transcript of interview with Xinjiang government chief on counterterrorism, vocational
education and training in Xinjiang
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/16/c_137535821.htm
● Ajit Singh interviewed by Eugene Puryear (Listen at 40:00-59:00)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/should-google-be-regulated-western-xenop
● China’s Xinjiang Problem made in the USA
https://journal-neo.org/2015/11/10/chinas-xinjiang-problem-made-in-usa/
● China’s Uyghur problem: the unmentioned part
https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/05/china-s-uyghur-problem-the-unmentioned-part/
● What about the Uyghurs? (By Prof. Roland Boer - brilliant article)
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/09/15/what-about-the-uyghurs/
● Inside America’s meddling machine: the US funded group that interferes in elections around the
globe (MUST WATCH) - see second half for Uyghur section
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIJ25ob1aA
● Xinjiang - the new Great Game (very good)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/24/xinjiang-the-new-great-game/
● From Idlib to Xinjiang - Uyghur fighters trained for terror (excellent read)
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/09/26/from-idlib-to-xinjiang-uyghur-fighters-trained-for-terror/
● Most of what we hear about China is Red Scare, Yellow Peril propaganda
http://armedwithapen.com/anti-china-propaganda/
● China launches anti-poverty drive in restive Xinjiang
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/china-launches-anti-poverty-drive-restive-xinjiang-1802181505
17058.html
● Fighters from Xinjiang join ISIS
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/isil-video-threatens-china-rivers-bloodshed-170301103927503.
html
● If China Is Anti-Islam, Why Are These Chinese Muslims Enjoying a Faith Revival?
http://time.com/3099950/china-muslim-hui-xinjiang-uighur-islam/
● “China is not eradicating Islam” - a thread by Ian Goodrum
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1004884261051092993.html
● China bans anti-Islam terms from social media
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1067405.shtml
● No, the UN did not report China has massive internment camps for Uighur Muslims
https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-china-internment-camps-uighur-muslims/
● Syria says up to 5,000 Chinese Uighurs fighting in militant groups
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-china/syria-says-up-to-5000-chinese-uighurs-fighti
ng-in-militant-groups-idUSKBN1840UP
● Turkey’s misguided Syrian policy fanning Uyghur insurgency against China
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/turkeys-misguided-syrian-policy-fanning-uyghur-insurgency-against-china/
● Chinese Uyghur colonies in Syria a challenge for Beijing
http://www.atimes.com/chinese-uyghur-colonies-syria-challenge-beijing/
● Xinjiang, what a wonderful place (article by the Chinese ambassador to Indonesia)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2018/09/25/xinjiang-what-a-wonderful-place.html
● Soft landing in Xinjiang
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1123066

Tiananmen Square
● Tiananmen Square massacre is a myth; all we’re remembering are British lies
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tiananmen-square-massacre-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies-1451
053
● Massacre? What massacre?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2014/06/massacre-what-massacre/
Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananm
en-Square-cables-claim.html
● Workers World: China’s Tiananmen Square
https://www.workers.org/ww/tienanmen.html
● Tiananmen Square ‘massacre’ was a myth
https://www.workers.org/2011/world/tiananmen_0707/
● The myth of Tiananmen
http://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php
● What really happened at Tiananmen?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/06/03/commentary/world-commentary/really-happened-tianan
men/#.WkLsPVVl-Ul
● West hypes false Tiananmen death toll
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1081851.shtml#.WkEUa6pPD8U.facebook
● The original fake news: Tiananmen Square massacre
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/12/25/the-original-fake-news-tiananmen-square-massacre/
● The defeat of counter-revolution in China
http://www.frso.org/about/statements/2009/looking-back-at-tiananmen-square.htm
● WikiLeaks - LATIN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF JUNE 3-4 EVENTS
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ON TIANANMEN SQUARE (1989)
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html
● Richard Roth - There Was No "Tiananmen Square Massacre" (2009)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/
● Yenica Cortes - Tiananmen Square and the threat of counterrevolution (2009)
https://www.liberationnews.org/09-06-04-tiananmen-square-threat-counterr-html/
● Tiananmen - the massacre that wasn’t
https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt/
● No, 10,000 were not killed in China’s 1989 Tiananmen Crackdown (anti-Chinese source, but still!)
http://supchina.com/2017/12/25/no-10000-not-killed-in-tiananmen-crackdown/
● Deirdre Griswold - Tiananmen Square ‘massacre’ was a myth (2011)
http://www.workers.org/2011/world/tiananmen_0707/

Important Excerpt: Two cables dated July 7, 1989 — more than a month after the fighting — related the
following:

“A Chilean diplomat provides an eye-witness account of the soldiers entering Tiananmen Square: He
watched the military enter the square and did not observe any mass firing of weapons into the crowds,
although sporadic gunfire was heard.
He said that most of the troops which entered the square were actually armed only with anti-riot gear —
truncheons and wooden clubs; they were backed up by armed soldiers.”

A following cable stated: “A Chilean diplomat provides an eye-witness account of the soldiers entering
Tiananmen Square: Although gunfire could be heard, he said that apart from some beating of students,
there was no mass firing into the crowd of students at the monument.”

● Malcolm Moore - Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim (2011)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananme
n-Square-cables-claim.html
● The Telegraph - Wikileaks Tiananmen cables (2011)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/8555896/Wikileaks-Tiananmen-cables.html
● An excerpt from a review of the book "Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China" by Ezra F. Vogel,

"First, stability and unity were paramount in Deng’s plans, according to Vogel. He knew that the economic
transformation China must go through would be wrenching and tumultuous, and he believed that only the Communist
Party, with its discipline and order, could effectively manage the change...In 1978, Deng formulated the Four Cardinal
Principles, essentially four red lines that could not be crossed in China (socialist path; dictatorship of the proletariat;
leadership of the Communist Party; Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought), and he never wavered from them.
In fact...the military crackdown at Tiananmen Square in 1989...was taken precisely because the protests were openly
challenging the Four Cardinal Principles."

Great Leap Forward / Cultural revolution

● MIM commentary on academic distortions about the GLF
https://web.archive.org/web/20080929061324/http://www.etext.org:80/Politics/MIM/bookstore/books/chin
a/macfarquhar.html
● Revolutionary leaders are not gods but human beings: on Mao’s deviation
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/11/13/revolutionary-leaders-are-not-gods-but-human-beings-on-maos-
deviation/
● Did Mao really kill millions during the Great Leap Forward?
https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
● The Battle for China’s Past - a book about the Mao era
https://espressostalinist.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/battle-for-chinas-past.pdf
● On the cultural revolution by Jason Unruhe
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v52f86H_yZI
 ● Chinese Socialism and the legacy of Maoism
https://lonelyhourreflections.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/chinese-socialism-and-the-legacy-of-maoism/
● Revisiting alleged 30 million famine deaths during China’s Great Leap
https://mronline.org/2011/06/26/revisiting-alleged-30-million-famine-deaths-during-chinas-great-leap/
● Mao reconsidered
https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/

Chinese research & development, science, etc.

● Stealing intellectual property: fake news
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/19/stealing-intellectual-property-fake-news
● China’s rise as a scientific power has been remarkably rapid
https://qz.com/1375565/chinas-rise-as-a-scientific-power-has-been-remarkably-rapid/
● China’s children are its secret weapon in the global AI arms race
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-artificial-intelligence-education-superpower

Venezuela

General

● Which Way Out of the Venezuelan Crisis?

● Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela
● Venezuela at the Crossroads
● Authoritarianism in Venezuela? A Reply to Gabriel Hetland
● Venezuela and the struggle for socialism: ‘The agenda is to deepen the revolution’
● new battles lie ahead
● Venezuela declares emergency: Support Bolivarian Revolution
● Facing Opposition Onslaught, Chavismo Must Return to Roots
● Chavistas Gain Upper Hand, Big Challenges Remain
● The People Themselves Are Radicalizing Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
● Open Letter to the People and Government of the United States of America by the People of
Venezuela
● Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?
● What Does the Sale of Venezuelan Oil in Currencies Other Than the US Dollar Mean?
● Is Venezuela Turning Left?
● Venezuelan socialists make election gains

Constituent Assembly

● Q & A: The National Constituent Assembly in Venezuela

● Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly Explained
● Venezuela Opposition Blocks Roads Against Constituent Assembly
● Venezuelan Opposition, Business Lobby to Boycott Constituent Assembly /
 ● Venezuela to Install Truth, Justice and Reparations Commission
● Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Assumes Legislative Functions
● Why Does Venezuela Have a National Constituent Assembly?
● Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly: People’s power vs. counter-revolution

Achievements of Bolivarian gov’t

● Viva Venezuela: Fighting for Socialism (2013 documentary)

● Venezuela - The threat of a good example
● Maduro Orders Shuttered Factories Seized and Given to Workers
● 4 Gains Maduro’s Venezuela Made That Mainstream Media Ignores
● Goal Complete: Venezuela Builds 1.4 Mil Homes For Poor Families
● The Ten Victories of President Maduro in 2016
● Venezuela's National Minimum Wage Increases by 60% on May Day
● Venezuela’s Maduro Highlights Social Achievements in Annual Address to the Nation
● The Achievements of Hugo Chavez

Internationalism

● Venezuela leads the way in hurricane relief efforts

● Venezuela to Donate $5m to Hurricane Harvey Relief
● Venezuela's Citgo Provides Free Gas to Harvey Rescue Teams
● Venezuela Sends Aid to Hurricane-Ravaged Dominica, Solidarity to Mexico
● Venezuela Delivers 10.4 Tons of Aid to Earthquake-Ravaged Mexico

LGBTQ+/Women

● Venezuela Launches Massive Campaign to Liberate Women

● Achievements of a Black, Working Class Transgender Woman
● Venezuela's LGBTQ Movement Presents Political Platform Ahead of Constituent Assembly
● Venezuela's Revolutionary Sex and Gender Diversity Alliance: 'The Constituent Assembly Has
Been a Huge Boost to the Spirit of Chavistas'
● 'Venezuelan Women Build the Revolution': Constituent Assembly Creates Commission for
Gender Equality
● Venezuela’s Media Watchdog Suspends Radio Program for Homophobic Comments
● Venezuela Creates Day of Socialist Feminism

Afro-Venezuela

● Why Are There No Barricades in Afro-Descendant Communities?

● “We Will Defend the Revolutionary Process”: Afro-Venezuelan Youth and Today's Struggle for
Freedom
● Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution Embraces its African Roots
● Travelling Through the Heart of Afro-Venezuela
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Imperialist aggression

● The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003 documentary)

● Who Is Behind the State Department's Coup Plot in Venezuela?
● Venezuela Cash Reserves Reach New Low Amid U.S.- Led Sabotage
● Fighting sanctions and sabotage
● Trump Hits Venezuela with New Sanctions as CIA Chief Plugs Intervention
● US Occupation Has Already Begun and Is Being Conducted by ExxonMobil
● The Diplomatic War Against Venezuela
● US backs counter-revolutionaries in campaign to oust Maduro
● Bipartisan US Senate Bill Pushes Tougher Sanctions against Venezuela
● U.S. Destabilizes Venezuela, Syria To Retain Hegemony In Global Oil, Gas Markets
● After Venezuela’s Election, U.S. And Allies Turn Up Heat – A Coup Could Be Ahead
● US Condemns Venezuela Opposition Leaders' Return to Jail, Hints at Regime Change
● Mercosur suspends Venezuela, urges immediate transition
● Trump Rules Out Call But Keeps Military Option for Venezuela
● VP Pence Says US Determined to Bear Its Power Against Venezuela
● Trump administration imposes sweeping sanctions on Venezuela
● The Real Price of Trump’s Venezuela Sanctions
● US Sanctions Against Venezuela Blocked 18 Million Boxes of Food
● Trump Threatens “Further Action” Against Venezuela at UN
● Canada to Sanction Venezuela
● 'The Tougher, the Better': Trump's New Anti-Venezuela 'Travel Ban' Explained

The propaganda war

● The AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program and the 2002 Coup in Venezuela
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/1977
● Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting
libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=2D0FF39EDACA729B8FB14005FC637BCD

● Imperialist lies, socialist advances

● The Truth Behind Shortages in Venezuela
● Venezuela Fake News Debunked: Assembly Not Annulled, No Coup
● The disinformation campaign on Venezuela
● Democracy on display in Venezuela; “Fake news” on display in the US
● Here’s Your Guide to Understanding Protest Deaths in Venezuela
● US hypocrisy re Venezuela: the racist, undemocratic US constitution
● A Review of US Media Coverage on Venezuela
● The Media on Venezuela: Double Standards and First Impressions

The opposition is dominated by U.S.-backed right-wing oligarchs

● What Marxism Teaches Us About Protests in Venezuela

● Amid US-Backed Economic War, Venezuela's Wealthy Live in Luxury
● imagery of the opposition
● Venezuela's Opposition Openly Calls for Economic War /
● So How Many Did Vote in Venezuela's Opposition Plebiscite?
 ● U.S.-backed offensive against Venezuela intensifies
● Meet Venezuela's Opposition Leader: Front Man for the Oligarchs Sidelined by Hugo Chavez
● What The Media Isn’t Telling You About The Jailing Of Opposition Leaders In Venezuela
● The Specter of Fascism in Venezuela
● Class struggle alive in Venezuela

Role of the OAS

● Venezuela Demands OAS Suspend 'Interventionist' Meeting

● Venezuela to leave OAS, defends its sovereignty
● OAS to Swear in “Parallel” Venezuelan Supreme Court in Washington

Opposition acts of terror

● Empire Files: Abby Martin Meets the Venezuelan Opposition

● Strange Fruit: Venezuela has an Opposition that Nobody Should Support
● Venezuela Opposition Attacks Nursery at VTV, Forcing Evacuation
● Racist Mobs Lynch, Set Fire to Venezuelans with Brown Skin, Assuming Them Chavistas
● Venezuela Opposition Pays Kids to Protest
● Venezuelan Opposition Burns Trucks, Attacks Military Base in So-Called 'Peaceful Blockade'
● Opposition-Aligned Armed Gangs Attack Maternal and Children's Hospital in Venezuela
● Amnesty International Whitewashes Venezuelan Opposition Abuses
● ‘Terrorist attack’: Hijacked military helicopter strikes Venezuela court, ministry (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
● Opposition members burnt 40 tons of food that was ready to be delivered to schools to feed
thousands of children in the region, by throwing molotov cocktails in the warehouse where the
food was stored.
● Maternity Hospital Attacked in Venezuela, Death Toll Rises to 53
● Venezuela Violence: Alleged Chavista Set on Fire as Death Toll Hits 55
● Majority Killed in Venezuela Opposition Protests Not Protesters
● Leader in Worker Controlled Company Killed in Venezuela
● Fascist Right-wing Paramilitaries Continue Campaign of Terror in Venezuela
● Venezuela Condemns Attack on UN Ambassador in New York
● Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote
● Venezuela: 10 Dead, 200 Voting Centers Attacked as US Sanctions Maduro
● Venezuela crushes small anti-Maduro uprising at military base
● 10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela

Resistance to opposition

● Maduro Invites the Opposition to Talks Before Assembly Vote

● Venezuela Calls for Expanding Armed Civilian Militias To Counter U.S.-Backed Opposition
● Defending Socialism, Venezuela Workers Resist Right-Wing Strike
● Venezuela’s Maduro calls masses to the streets
● Planting alternatives: Venezuelans survive in face of economic warfare
● The battle against police corruption and counter-revolution
● Venezuelans Reject Trump Threats with Anti-Imperialist March
● Maduro Announces Major Shifts to Address the Nation's 'Economic War' /
Role of the Left in imperialist countries

● The right-wing Venezuelan opposition is citing Jacobin's anti-TeleSUR propaganda in order to

deny the violent opposition's many atrocities
● Jacobin magazine attacks Venezuela, Cuba and TeleSUR
● Why Can’t the U.S. Left Get Venezuela Right?
● Time for the International Left to Take a Stand on Venezuela
● In Defense of Venezuela
● Taking the side of the Bolivarian Revolution
● Critiquing Maduro from the Left

The communes

● Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela

● Venezuela: Building a Socialist Communal Economy?
● Venezuelan National Assembly to Investigate Expropriated Land, Communes Threatened
● Why Doesn't the Venezuelan Government Talk About the Communes Any More?
● Venezuela's Hidden Rural Revolution

Opinion polls

● 75% of Venezuelans Support Socialism: Poll

● 85% of Venezuelans Oppose Joining Violent Protests: Poll

Venezuelan communist views

● DEFEAT THE COUP AGAINST THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC

● Iturriza vs. the "Young Communists": Political Responsibility and Leftist Critique in Venezuela
● Venezuelan grassroots socialist on the challenges facing the Bolivarian process
● Javier Biardeau: Chavismo Must Face the Crisis and Correct its Course
● Venezuela’s communists: New stage of the Bolivarian Process

● Ian Goodrum: thread on propaganda about Venezuela food shortages

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1018288487949262849.html
● On the eve of Venezuelan presidential elections, the U.S. empire isn’t sitting idly by
https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuela-eve-presidential-elections-us-empire-isnt-sitting-idly/242103/
● Escalation of imperialist aggression against Venezuela
https://mronline.org/2018/02/18/escalation-of-imperialist-aggression-against-venezuela/
● Venezuela - the hidden agenda
https://youtu.be/f1zl-k6QQj0
● Racism and the Venezuelan counter-revolution
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/10547
● President Maduro and Venzuelan Communists arrive at historic agreement
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/2/28/president-maduro-and-venezuelan-communists-arrive-historic-a
greement /
 ● Venezuelan food company caught burying alive millions of chicks
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Venezuelan-Food-Company-Caught-Burying-Alive-Milli
ons-of-Chicks-20171113-0013.html
● There is no humanitarian crisis in Venezuela says UN expert
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/There-Is-No-Humanitarian-Crisis-in-Venezuela-Says-UN-
Expert-20180220-0041.html
● Venezuela opposition leader abandons dialogue with government after being ‘censured’
by opposition
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-Opposition-Leader-Abandons-Dialogue-After-
Being-Censured-By-MUD-Coalition-20180107-0010.html
● Venezuela’s Maduro defies odds, comes out stronger in 2017
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Venezuelas-Maduro-Defies-Odds-Comes-Out-Stronger
-in-2017-20171229-0016.html
● Washington Posts’ one sided cheerleading for coup and intervention in Venezuela
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/12/08/wapos-one-sided-cheerleading-for-coup-and-interven
tion-in-venezuela/
● No humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, says UN expert, condemning international
sanctions
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/No-Humanitarian-Crisis-in-Venezuela-says-UN-Expert-C
ondemning-International-Sanctions-20171205-0032.html
● Crisis in Venezuela - an excellent overview of recent history in Venezuela by Tariq Ali -
highly recommended
https://youtu.be/0-O0CUR-NTI
● Venezuelan Socialism
http://writetorebel.com/2017/04/09/venezuelan-socialism/
● The reality about Venezuela: five myths
https://communismgr.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-reality-about-venezuela-five-myths.html
● “Socialism is terrible, just look at Venezuela” by BadMouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le86H7Xfjrc

● Comprehensive reading guide on Venezuela

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LvHlf5LfND7zzipltzuifwR_7J2ilFCMJEvAA3
wluGE/edit

Communist Military Interventions

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 ● Czechoslovakia and Counter-Revolution - why the Socialist countries intervened (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/ApthekerCzechoslovakia
● Czechoslovakia at the Crossroads (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/GusHallCzechoslovakia
● Military interventions - progressive vs imperialist
https://gowans.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/military-interventions-progressive-vs-imperialist6.pdf
● A revolution betrayed (Afghanistan)
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/asia/afghanistan/714-a-revolution-betrayed-frfi-166-apr-may-200
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● Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Chapter 2, short section on Afghanistan)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the
%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
● The Triumph of Evil - Chapter 1 (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● The Kruschevites: Hoxha discusses Hungary
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/10.htm
● The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism (1957 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/Hungary1956Kallai
● The Hungarian Soviet Republic (1979 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/HungarianSovietRepublic
● Hungarian counterrevolution of 1956
http://ciml.250x.com/archive/events/english/1956_hungary/1956_counterrevolution_in_hungary.html
● The Truth About Hungary (1957 scanned book)
https://espressostalinist.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/the-truth-about-hungary.pdf
● The Fascist Hungarian Counter-Revolution of 1956
https://espressostalinist.com/2011/11/29/the-fascist-hungarian-counterrevolution-of-1956/
● The counter-revolution in Hungary in the light of Marxism-Leninism (1957 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/Hungary1956Kallai

Democracy: Communism and Capitalism

Cuba
● A comparative analysis of US and Cuban democracy
http://wp.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/A-Comparative-Analysis-of-US-and-Cuban-Democracy-20180303
-0005.html
● How is the president elected in Cuba?
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2018-02-21/how-is-the-president-elected-in-cuba
● Democracy in Cuba and at home
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/09/democracy-in-cuba-and-at-home/
● This is how Cubans run, campaign and vote in elections
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/This-is-How-Cubans-Run-Campaign-and-Vote-in-Elections-20171
116-0017.html
● Cuba - human rights and self-determination
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/cuba-human-rights-and-self-determination/
● Obama’s Cuba visit illustrates US arrogance
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/24/obamas-cuba-visit-illustrates-us-arrogance/
● The truth about unions in Cuba
https://www.workers.org/2015/01/22/truth-unions-cuba/#.WFk3ufArJdh
● All in this together : Cuba’s participatory democracy
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http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi/article/187/all-in-this-together-cubarsquos-participatory-democra
cy
● People’s Power: Cuba’s experience with representative government (book)
http://b-ok.org/book/2482948/67174c
● Cuban Constitution
http://www.walterlippmann.com/cubanconstitution.html
● Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba by Linda O Fuller (book)
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=fdfc7aee98499baaae696d5b1e04c065
● Cuba and its neighbours - democracy in motion by Arnold August (book)
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=79273783e814b6a8747ea24710d15f0c
● The elected delegate and the dissident in Cuba’s municipal elections - Dissident Voice
https://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/the-elected-delegate-and-the-dissident-in-cuba%E2%80%99s-municip
al-elections/
● Cuba and the real battle for democracy
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/cuba-and-the-real-battle-for-democracy/
● Do the Cuban people have the right to choose their leaders?
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Do-the-Cuban-People-Have-the-Right-to-Choose-Their-Leaders
-20160317-0056.html
● Cuban Democracy: the power of the community
http://www.ratb.org.uk/130-news/ratb-writes/253-cubademocracy-community

USSR
● Socialism and Democracy: a reply to opportunists (1974 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SocialismDemocracyReplyOpportunists
● The Soviet Form of Popular Government (1972 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SovietFormOfPopularGovernment
● The USSR: Democratic or Totalitarian? By Endymion
https://youtu.be/Okz2YMW1AwY
● Talks on Soviet Democracy by M.A. Krutogolov
https://archive.org/details/TalksOnSovietDemocracy
● Soviet Government and electoral system by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/9PoYzPfguJc
● Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan (scanned book)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1ZP6ZurgOg-R1pjc2NVQkQxYmM/edit
● The undemocratic dissolution of the USSR by Comrade Hakim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFTgCf67Bw
● USSR - the democracy you didn’t know about
http://londonprogressivejournal.com/article/view/2185/the-ussr-the-democracy-you-didnt-know-about
● On the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/11/25.htm
● Joseph Stalin’s struggle for democracy by Grover Furr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkSuyrUdzs
● Is The Red Flag Flying? Chapter 5 - Political processes
https://ia800504.us.archive.org/35/items/IsTheRedFlagFlying/Is%20the%20Red%20Flag%20Flying.pdf
● Anti-Stalinism and the legacy of “State Socialism”
https://web.archive.org/web/20150801083826/http://marxism-third-worldism.tumblr.com/post/826103065
86/anti-stalinism-and-the-legacy-of-state-socialism
● Reassessing the History of Soviet Workers - Opportunities to Criticize and Participate in
Decision-Making by Robert Thurston
https://www.docdroid.net/t9gG4jQ/thurston-robert-reassessing-the-history-of-soviet-workers-opportunitie
s-to-criticize-and-participate-in-decision-making.pdf#page=4
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● Human Rights in the Soviet Union (read the entire book)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the
%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
● Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin: When the White House fixed a Russian election
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/14/yelt-j14.html
● People’s Control in Socialist Society, 1973 (scanned book)
https://ia601301.us.archive.org/7/items/PeoplesControlInSocialistSociety/Peoples%20Control%20in%20
Socialist%20Society.pdf

Eastern Bloc
● Bulgaria, 1990, Albania, 1991: teaching communists what democracy is all about
https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/bulgaria-albania
● The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (read the entire book) - democracy in the GDR
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● The German Democratic Republic - scanned 1986 book - see Chapter 2
https://ia800805.us.archive.org/13/items/GDR1986/GDR%201986.pdf
● An outline history of Poland, 1986 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/TopolskiPoland1986
● Encounters in Democracy - a US journalist's view of the GDR, 1981 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/PittmanGDR
● Behind the Scenes in Two Worlds, 1978 (scanned book) - Chapter 14, GDR
https://archive.org/details/BehindtheScenesTwoWorlds

China
● People's democracy: the heart of Chinese politics.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/688430344583422/permalink/1899737626786015/?__tn__=-R
● Despite Western skepticism, democracy thrives in China
http://africa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201802/28/WS5a95f1eba3106e7dcc13e79f.html
● Eric X Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_systems

● Does China’s system of government lead to corruption?

“No one, not least the party itself, disputes that corruption is a significant problem in China. But
does authoritarian rule have anything to do with it?

According to Transparency International, the top 20 cleanest (least corrupt) places worldwide
include only four non-Western governments: Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar and Japan — three of
the four are authoritarian regimes; the same three are the only ones that belong to the developing
world. By Transparency International’s account, China (78) ranks higher than India (87),
Philippines (134), Indonesia (110), Argentina (105) and many more, and tied with Greece (78),
barely below Italy (67) — all electoral democracies. Apparently, China’s one-party system is less
corrupt than many democratic countries.”

● Is China’s political system elitist?

“The Communist Party’s Politburo, the highest ruling body, consists of 25 members. Currently,
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only seven of them come from any background of wealth or power, the so-called princelings. The
 rest of them, including the president and the prime minister, come from ordinary backgrounds
with no special advantages. They worked and competed all the way to the top. In the larger
Central Committee, those with privileged backgrounds are even scarcer.

A visit to any top university campus in China would make it obvious to anyone that the
Communist Party continues to attract the best and the brightest of the country’s youth. In fact,
China’s Communist Party may be one of the most meritocratic and upwardly mobile major
political organizations in the world — far more meritocratic than the ruling elites of most Western
countries and the vast majority of developing countries. What is wrong with self-perpetuation
through merits?”

● If China does not hold Western style elections, is it democratic?

“According to the Pew Research Center, the Chinese government enjoys popular support
that is among the highest in the world. The Chinese people’s satisfaction with the
direction of their country was at 87 percent in 2010 and has been consistently above 80
percent in recent years. Sixty-six percent perceive progress in their lives in the last five
years. A whopping 74 percent are optimistic about the next five years.

We need to ask: How do most governments produced by elections compare with these
numbers? Are elections the only viable way to validate consent and the legitimacy it
brings?”

● What is democracy in China?

https://youtu.be/ArvnEpIKmAs
● China most confident and optimistic country in the world - IPSOS survey
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/08/09/china-most-confident-and-optimistic-country-in-world-ipsos
-survey/

DPRK
● Socialism and democracy in the DPRK
http://writetorebel.com/2017/03/28/socialism-and-democracy-in-the-dprk/
● A model of democratic and participatory socialism
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/2kwid3/a_model_of_democratic_and_participatory_socialist/
● Socialism and Democracy in the DPRK
http://writetorebel.com/2017/03/28/socialism-and-democracy-in-the-dprk/
● Elections in the “socialist motherland”: democracy in the DPRK
https://leftistcritic.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/elections-in-the-socialist-motherland-democracy-in-the-dprk/
● The Democratic Structure of the DPRK
http://www.lalkar.org/article/2654/the-democratic-structure-of-the-dprk
● Constitution of the DPRK
https://www.kfausa.org/dprk-constitution/
● North Korean report on 2014 elections in English (short)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4P0dMEH4RQ
● The parliamentary system of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
http://web.archive.org/web/20120303054935/http://www.asgp.info/Resources/Data/Documents/CJOZSZTEPVVOC
WJVUPPZVWPAPUOFGF.pdf

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Venezuela
● What the United States could learn from Venezuelan democracy
https://www.mintpressnews.com/what-the-united-states-could-learn-from-venezuelan-democracy/242055
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● Why the US demonises Venezuela’s democracy - Here is what Jimmy Carter said about
Venezuela's "dictatorship" a few weeks ago: "As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've
monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/why-us-dcemonises-venezuelas-democracy
● Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly - Dictatorship or Democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEcW6UgDRrw
● Back from the brink: Chavismo reloaded? (article with excellent facts about the October 2017
Venezuelan election)
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13476
● Why Socialism keeps winning in Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lldKsHpPpBI
● Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly - Dictatorship or Democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEcW6UgDRrw
● Over 1,300 observers monitor Venezuelan election
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Over-1300-Observers-Monitor-Venezuela-Election-20171015-000
6.html
● In Venezuela’s upcoming election US seeks observers it can influence
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-weisbrot/venezuela-election-us_b_8554750.html
● BBC: Venezuelan opposition banned from 2018 elections after boycotting previous election
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-42304594?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_
breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
● Chavismo triumphant in Municipal elections: 15 key factors
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Chavismo-Triumphant-in-Municipal-Elections-15-Key-Factors-2
0171211-0016.html
● Chavismo virtually wipes US-backed opposition from municipal map
https://mronline.org/2017/12/13/chavismo-virtually-wipes-u-s-backed-opposition-from-municipal-map/

General
● The myth of “totalitarianism”
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2009/09/10/the-myth-of-totalitarianism/
● Working versus Talking Democracy
https://ia801302.us.archive.org/4/items/WorkingVersusTalkingDemocracy/Working%20Versus%20Talkin
g%20Democracy.pdf

Socialism doesn’t work, and other common myths

● Ian Goodrum: how to abolish profit
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1013965845293232128.html

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The USA has no history of Socialism/Communism & “it will never work
here”
● Socialism in America - Abby Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvBokz2-XNc
● Millennials aren't satisfied with capitalism — and might prefer a socialist country, studies find
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article182765121.html
● COINTELPRO
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
● Labor Management Relations Act of 1947
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Management_Relations_Act_of_1947
● History of May Day
https://jacobinmag.com/2016/05/may-day-history-iww-haymarket-american-labor-movement
● Marxist works on US history
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=202462.0
● The Era of McCarthyism (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/EraMcCarthyism
● The Palmer Raids, 1948 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/ThePalmerRaids
● Marxism in the United States before the Russian Revolution
https://archive.org/details/MarxismUSHistoryBeforeRussianRev
● The Workingmen’s Party of the United States: A History of the First Marxist Party in the Americas
https://archive.org/details/HistoryWorkingmensPartyUS
● Before October: the unbearable romanticism of Western Marxism
https://mronline.org/2011/10/08/before-october-the-unbearable-romanticism-of-western-marxism/
● Wealth inequality in USA most severe since ancient Egypt - Jimmy Dore interviews Richard Wolff
(pt. 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZIVrwOS7Y
● Establishment politics failing worldwide - Jimmy Dore interviews Richard Wolff (pt. 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3_rPX97FiU
● Solution for capitalisms’ brutalities easier than you might think - Jimmy Dore interviews Richard
Wolff (pt 3)
https://youtu.be/-45IV5QV_9Y
● Leftist Economist "Trump Best Organizer I Can Ever Have!" Jimmy Dore interviews Richard Wolff
(pt 4)
https://youtu.be/D402PxiXUmc
● Verso books - Marxism in the United States - a history of the American Left
https://www.versobooks.com/books/1192-marxism-in-the-united-states
● When the US government destroyed a political party by Richard Wolff
https://youtu.be/9Pj2JDbb-yk?t=28m27s
● Economic Update: US Labor Unions: Past, Present, Future by Richard Wolff  
Https://youtu.be/d1v8prxZFU8?t=30m12s

Quality of life under Socialism

General
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gxwhh-vdeB--47HM-20cEVRC9eAMhrapb
Nf0Sk8VSOs/edit#heading=h.pq9z4uekf5hy

- Michael Parenti

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● In 28 of 30 comparisons between countries at similar levels of economic development, socialist

countries showed more favorable PQL (physical quality of life) outcomes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646771/pdf/amjph00269-0055.pdf
● Communism did work for millions of people - Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tmi7JN3LkA&feature=youtu.be
● Do publicly owned, planned economies work?
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/
● Socialism’s agenda time
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/socialism%E2%80%99s-agenda-time/
● Historical legacy of Socialism by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/Q50uidrIW4w
● Socialism vs capitalism: why the values of society assume socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06GphFrcP7M
● Socialism gives a better quality of life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3LA_VkDTYo
● Cuban-Venezuelan ‘Operation Miracle’ program returns eyesight of 688,000 Bolivians
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuban-Venezuelan-Operation-Miracle-Program-Returns-Eyesight
-of-688000-Bolivians-20171013-0024.html
● A tale of two islands: Cuba and Puerto Rico’s response to hurricane season contrasted
http://www.frontline.in/world-affairs/a-tale-of-two-islands/article9892265.ece?homepage=true#test
● Socialism, not neoliberalism, creates stability: Bolivia’s Evo
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https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Socialism-Not-Neoliberalism-Creates-Stability-Bolivias-Evo-20170
315-0038.html
● The social and economic achievements of North Korea
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-social-and-economic-achievements-of-north-korea/5594234
● Thomas Sankara: An African hero
http://www.globalblackhistory.com/2017/10/thomas-sankara-african-hero.html
● Before the Hurricane - Cuba’s response to Hurricanes
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/hurricane-harvey-cuba-disaster-plan
● The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (Chapters 1, 2, 4)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● Communism did work for millions of people by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tmi7JN3LkA
● Brazil: sharp decline in inequality under Worker’s Party
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-Sharp-Decline-in-Inequality-Under-Workers-Party-2017112
8-0025.html
● Real DPRK economic data by Jason Unruhe
https://youtu.be/AM0faLccYuQ
● Venezuela rehabilitates over 490,000 working class homes
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-Rehabilitates-Over-490000-Working-Class-Homes-201
70902-0013.html
● The italian place where Co-ops drive the economy and most people are members
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-italian-place-where-co-ops-drive-the-economy-and-most-
people-are-members-20160705
● Real problems of Socialism and some answers - Paul Cockshott
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/real-problems-of-socialism-and-some-answers/

● http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/reports/219/hdr_1990_en_complete_nostats.pdf (page 111)

UN's Human Development Index. It calculates 'human development' based on three factors: Life
Expectancy, Education (adult literacy and gross enrollment), and GDP. Figures from late 80’s:

130 countries ranked, with the 130th the most developed (in this case Japan with 0.996). An
index of 1 would be perfect.

The GDR ranks 110th with 0.953

Czechoslovakia ranks 106th with 0.931
The USSR is 105th with 0.920
Bulgaria is 104th with 0.918
Hungary is 101st with 0.915
Yugoslavia is 100th with 0.913
Poland is 98th with 0.910
Romania is 90th with 0.863

For some comparison:

Canada is 126th with 0.983
The Federal Republic of Germany is 119th with 0.967
The USA is ranked 112th, with 0.961
Cuba is 92nd with 0.877

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China

● China’s poverty alleviation miracle: how tea is transforming Guizhou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zivSw1p9gLc&feature=youtu.be
● Chinese growth’s contribution to poverty reduction challenges World Bank and IMF neoliberal
policies
http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2017/12/chinese-growths-contribution-poverty-reduction-challenges-
world-bank-imf-neoliberal-policies/
● Chinas subway boom slows down (ignore headline)
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/02/chinas-subway-boom-slows-down/552935/?utm_source=
fbb
● After Bringing 800 Million out of Poverty, China Aims to Eradicate it Completely by 2020
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/After-Bringing-800-Million-out-of-Poverty-China-Aims-to-Eradicate
-It-Completely-by-2020-20170903-0021.html
● China's growth in life expectancy between 1950 and 1980 ranks as among the most rapid
sustained increases in documented global history.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331212/
● The big layoff in China (China supporting industrial workers after factory closures)
https://www.axios.com/the-big-layoff-in-china-2511630146.html
● Economist Richard Wolff discussing the Russian Revolution and China (excellent talk)
https://youtu.be/zPv8gpZSpqI?t=58m57s
● What China achieving ‘moderate prosperity’ means for itself and the world
http://www.learningfromchina.net/what-china-achieving-moderate-prosperity-means-for-itself--the-world.h
tml
● Full text: China's Progress in Poverty Reduction and Human Rights
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2016-10/17/c_135760210_2.htm
● China’s achievement is literally the greatest in world economic history
http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2012/02/chinas-achievement.html
● Last two decades see rising life expectancy in every province of China
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151026092918.htm /
● Urbanization in China prevents 450,000 premature deaths since 1980: study
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1057205.shtml
● Chinese graduate volunteers go west
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/22/c_136464306.htm
● China to strengthen social support in poverty alleviation
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/18/c_136537233.htm
● Xi Jinping’s targeted war on poverty
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/05/c_136659741.htm
● China fights for final victory over poverty
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/13/c_136522861.htm
● Chinese wages now higher than in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico
https://www.ft.com/content/f4a260e6-f75a-11e6-bd4e-68d53499ed71
● China’s income inequality improving
https://qz.com/937137/chinas-extreme-income-inequality-appears-to-be-improving-after-decades-of-dete
rioration/
● Recent changes in China’s income inequality
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002459/245943e.pdf
● U.S. vs. China: Whose income inequality is worse?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usa-china-income-inequality-economic-research/
● Full text: China's Progress in Poverty Reduction and Human Rights
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2016-10/17/c_135760210_2.htm
● China’s achievement is literally the greatest in world economic history
http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2012/02/chinas-achievement.html
● Quality of life: India vs. China
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/05/12/quality-life-india-vs-china/
● China and India - 13 charts that show how the countries compare
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/16/china-and-india-13-charts-that-show-how-the-c
ountries-compare
● World Bank: Poverty and Equity - India
http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/IND
● World Bank: Poverty and Equity - China
http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/CHN
● China’s socialist model outperforms capitalism
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1002098.shtml
● Data shows China's 'socialist development model' outperformed capitalist development strategies
http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2016/08/data-shows-chinas-socialist-development-mo
del-outperformed-capitalist-development-strategies.html
● Why did China, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia grow so fast?
http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2016/09/why-did-china-grow-so-fast.html
● China is leaving Donald Trump’s America behind
https://www.ft.com/content/1ac0337c-9470-11e7-83ab-f4624cccbabe
● China spends more on infrastructure than U.S. and Europe combined
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-15/china-spends-more-on-infrastructure-than-the-u-s-
and-europe-combined
● World Bank China overview
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview

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USSR
● Seven myths about the USSR
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/seven-myths-about-the-ussr/
● “Communism doesn’t work” by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjx0P3WzPUs
● Five-Year plans: Soviet Industrial Revolution by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/e4YDkWzQZAw
● Results of the 1st and 2nd Soviet Five-Year plans
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/the-results-of-the-1st-2nd-soviet-five-year-plans-soviet-indus
trial-revolution/
● Socialism Betrayed - talk about the book by Roger Keeran & Thomas Kenny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUC41PuR_10
● Socialism Betrayed - by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny
https://athens.indymedia.org/media/upload/2015/04/25/Roger_Keeran_Thomas_Kenny-Socialism_Betra
yed__Behind_the_Collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union-International_Publishers_2004_nmzzdl4.pdf
● Achievements of Socialism in the Soviet Union by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5axVunzQSA
● Farm to Factory: the Soviet Industrial Revolution by Jason Unruhe
https://youtu.be/Mrw54F4Vu78
● Farm to Factory: the Soviet Industrial Revolution (text)
https://maoistrebelnews.com/2017/01/11/farm-to-factory-the-soviet-industrial-revolution/
● Why we continue to defend the Soviet Union
http://liberationschool.org/10-11-30-why-we-continue-to-defend-soviet-html/
● Educational achievements in the Soviet Union (short)
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=47941
● In defence of Communism: why Socialism is superior to capitalism
https://communismgr.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/why-socialism-is-superior-to-capitalism.html
● A Reassessment of the Soviet Industrial Revolution by Robert C. Allen, FRSC, FBA2, Professor
of Economic History, Oxford University
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.507.8966&rep=rep1&type=pdf
● Public Education in the U.S.S.R. - Education at all levels was free
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm
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http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm
● Higher education in the USSR: educational studies and documents , 1961
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf
● USSR Health Service - free and high quality
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/~/media/cafa342c2e65452085e510ab3d4f0f15.pdf
● Free health service with highest doctors per capita in the world
https://www.marxists.org/archive/newsholme/1933/red-medicine/index.htm
● Emergency medical care in the USSR
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0735675784900482
● We Lived Better Then - the USSR eliminated poverty
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/
● Economist Richard Wolff discussing the Russian Revolution (very good talk)
https://youtu.be/zPv8gpZSpqI?t=58m57s
● How the USSR radically reduced inequality - even amongst its adversaries
http://www.socialisteconomist.com/2017/10/how-ussr-radically-reduced-income.html?m=1

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Cuba
● Cuba hailed as world champion on protecting Children’s rights
https://www.facebook.com/telesurenglish/videos/1313058045504261/
● Has Cuban Socialism been a success?
https://soapboxie.com/economy/Has-Cuban-Socialism-Been-A-Success
● Cuba hits record low mortality rate
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/1/3/socialist-cuba-hits-record-lows-infant-mortality-rate
● The US has a lot to learn from Cuba about sustainable agriculture
https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-15/us-has-lot-learn-cuba-about-sustainable-agriculture
● Lessons from Cuba’s incarceration model
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
● Selected moments of the 20th Century - UNESCO report ranks Cuban students first in
international math and reading tests - 1998
http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1998cuba.html
● The world must learn from Cuba
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-World-Must-Learn-From-Cuba-20161203-0019.html
● Cuba says no to Transphobia and Homophobia
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Says-No-to-Transphobia-and-Homophobia-20170503-0030.
html
● Cuba before the Revolution
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/cuban-revolution-fidel-castro-casinos-batista/
● Redefining Socialism in Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/18/redefining-socialism-in-cuba/
● Solidarity from Cuba, courtesy of the revolution
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/02/solidarity-from-cuba-courtesy-of-the-revolution/
● The unrelenting economic war on Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/28/the-unrelenting-economic-war-on-cuba/
● Latin Lessons: what we can learn from the world's’ most ambitious literacy campaign (Cuba)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/latin-lessons-what-can-we-learn-from-the-worldrsquo
s-most-ambitious-literacy-campaign-2124433.html
● Over 150,000 Haitians benefit from Cuban literacy program
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http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Over-150,000-Haitians-benefit-from-Cuban-literacy-program
-12522.html
● Australia: Cuba's 'Yes, we can' literacy campaign success in outback
http://links.org.au/node/3422
● Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame (excellent article)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cuban-medics-in-haiti-put-the-wo
rld-to-shame-2169415.html
● Cuba’s Green Revolution
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cubas-green-revolution-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94-achieving-sust
ainability
● Homelessness in Cuba? Not likely
https://fresnoalliance.com/homeless-in-cuba-not-likely/
● The Latin American school of Medicine today: ELAM
https://monthlyreview.org/2011/03/01/the-latin-american-school-of-medicine-today/
● Community Drills Part of Cuba’s Top-Notch Disaster Response System
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/05/community-drills-part-of-cubas-top-notch-disaster-response-system/
● Michael Parenti on the Cuban Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npkeecCErQc&feature=youtu.be

“Human Rights”
● Chinese theory and practise of Human Rights
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2016/11/29/chinese-theory-and-practice-of-human-rights/
● Police states: theirs and ours
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/police-states-theirs-and-ours/
● Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on
extreme poverty and human rights*
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=E

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 ● Is China becoming a world leader on Human Rights?
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/12/16/is-china-becoming-a-world-leader-on-human-rights/
● Beijing declaration on Human Rights
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/12/09/beijing-declaration-on-human-rights/
● Full text: New Progress in the Legal Protection of Human Rights in China
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/165/9/61/1513330628857.html

● Amnesty International and the Human Rights Industry

https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/08/amnesty-international-and-the-human-rights-industry/
● Imperialists for “Human Rights”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/imperialists-for-human-rights/
● Human Rights in the Soviet Union (read the entire book)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the
%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
● Crimes against humanity? Unpacking the North Korean Human Rights Debate by Prof. Hazel
Smith
https://www.academia.edu/6296645/Crimes_against_humanity_Unpacking_the_North_Korean_Human_
Rights_Debate
● Liu’s Nobel Prize for Capitalism
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/liu%E2%80%99s-nobel-prize-for-capitalism/
● Whose Rights? - the myth that respect for civil and political liberties is more highly advanced in
the United States and other capitalist countries
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/whose-rights/
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● Is France’s Human Rights record really better than Cuba’s?
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Is-Frances-Human-Rights-Record-Really-Better-Than-Cubas-201
61204-0021.html
● Do Human Rights actually exist?
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Do-Human-Rights-Really-Actually-Exist-20161210-0021.html
● UN report on North Korea could be about the United States or South Korea
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/un-report-on-north-korea-could-be-about-the-united-states-or-
south-korea/
● Cuba, Human Rights and self-determination
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/cuba-human-rights-and-self-determination/
● Raqqa offensive highlights U.S. Human Rights hypocrisy
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Raqqa-Offensive-Highlights-US-Human-Rights-Hypocrisy-2017
1021-0003.html
● China encourages civilians to film police to curb abuses
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Encourages-Civilians-to-Film-Police-to-Curb-Abuses-20160
829-0009.html
● China issues report on US human rights
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1036861.shtml
● The bias of Human Rights Watch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/14/the-bias-of-human-rights-watch/
● Is Human Rights Watch too closely aligned with US foreign policy?
https://www.thenation.com/article/is-human-rights-watch-too-closely-aligned-with-us-foreign-policy/
● Human Rights Watch rated among least transparent think tanks in US
http://www.mintpressnews.com/human-rights-watch-rated-among-least-transparent-think-tanks-us/21820
5/
● Human rights hypocrisy - Colombia vs Venezuela
https://youtu.be/fWAP8a7R5Uo
● Venezuelan opposition awarded EU human rights prize amidst controversy
https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuelan-opposition-awarded-eu-human-rights-prize-amid-controvers
y/235715/
● Authoritarianism in Socialist countries - Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/6gtUaGV6mNI
● A socialist approach to Human Rights
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2016/12/15/more-on-a-socialist-approach-to-human-rights/
● The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (Chapter 1)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● Lessons from Cuba’s incarceration model
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
● How Human Rights were used to hurt the USSR and blunt the Left
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/How-Human-Rights-Were-Used-to-Hurt-the-USSR-and-Blunt-th
e-Left-20160908-0001.html
● Amnesty International’s kangaroo report on Syria
http://theduran.com/amnesty-international-saydnaya-prison-report/
● Amnesty claims mass executions in Syria, provides zero proof
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/02/amnesty-report-hearsay.html#more
● Human rights hypocrisy: US criticizes Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/human-rights-hypocrisy-us-criticizes-cuba/

● Short essay by SocialistMusings on the topic of Human Rights:

Is health care a "human right"? Well, what are "human rights "and what is their historical origin?
When the medieval serfs or the slaves of the ancient republics revolted, they didn't wage their revolts
based on any conceptions of "human rights." Their struggles were based on concepts of equality and
fairness, not universal rights. Human rights are relatively new developments in human history,
corresponding, unsurprisingly, to the rise of the bourgeoisie as a class. As the Enlightenment thinkers /
 subjected every prejudice, tradition, government, and religion to the ultimate test of Reason, more and
more feudal conceptions started falling apart and everything that was developed by bourgeois
philosophers was declared as the ultimate form of government and morality. We know now that these
ultimate truths were nothing but the truths corresponding to the class interests of the bourgeoisie.
That equality and justice found themselves realized as bourgeois conceptions of equality and justice.
The right to property was therefore declared as one of the natural rights of Man and the government
of Reason could only come into existence as a bourgeois democratic republic and nothing more.
Moral theories or conceptions of rights have always been the products of the economic developments
of society at the time and as society has always moved in class antagonisms, these theories have
been the products of the dominant class in each era. Class morality is nothing more than the
justifications given for the existence of the dominant class and its subjugation of the oppressed
classes. This was true of the ancient Greek Republics, it was true of the feudal kingdoms, and it is
true of the bourgeois states.
We now find ourselves at a time when bourgeois morality finds itself challenged by proletarian
morality and by extension, proletarian conceptions of human rights. The demands to include "positive
freedoms" such as the right to food, shelter, health care are nothing but the class interests of the
proletariat expressed as "ultimate" rights. These are in contradictions with bourgeois conceptions of
rights and in direct contradiction with the ultimate right bourgeois morality grants humanity: the right to
property. This is why the reformist liberals cannot justify how health care can be a human right when it
violates the right to property. They're trying to resolve a contradiction that can only be resolved by the
introduction of a socialist system, by openly proclaiming that these demands for equality and "positive
rights" are nothing but the demands of the proletariat's class interests and if the right to property is in
contradiction to them, that is because it has outlived its time and finds itself against a society that
nurtures a revolution in its womb for a more developed society. But liberals being interested not in
class struggle but in class unity where unity can't be found, are hostile to any outright declarations of
class interests. They therefore try to give these proletarian demands a universal character in
bourgeois societies and find themselves stuck in the maze of bourgeois conceptions of rights.
As socialists with a historical and materialist understanding of rights, we understand that rights are
nothing but the formalized class interests of the dominant class in society and demands for health
care, housing, food are human rights insofar as they are the class interests of the proletariat — not
derived from Nature or some universal truths but from the material needs of the proletariat as a class.
And finally, that these rights could be fully realized only in a socialist society due to their proletarian
character (as evidenced by the existence of these as human rights in the Soviet Union, Cuba etc.) but
we must still struggle for them in bourgeois societies for better living conditions for the proletariat.

● Stalin, Foundations of Leninism, on Rights:

The dictatorship of the proletariat cannot be "complete" democracy, democracy for all, for the rich
as well as for the poor; the dictatorship of the proletariat "must be a state that is democratic in a
new way (for the proletarians and the non-propertied in general) and dictatorial in a new way
(against the bourgeoisie)." The talk about universal equality, about "pure" democracy, about
"perfect" democracy, and the like, is a bourgeois disguise of the indubitable fact that equality
between the exploited and exploiters is impossible. The theory of "pure" democracy is the theory
of the upper stratum of the working class, which has been broken in and is being fed by the
imperialist robbers. It was brought into being for the purpose of concealing the ulcers of
capitalism, of embellishing imperialism and lending it moral strength in the struggle against the
exploited masses. Under capitalism there are no real "liberties" for the exploited, nor can there
be, if for no other reason than that the premises, printing plants, paper supplies, etc.,
indispensable for the enjoyment of "liberties" are the privilege of the exploiters. Under capitalism
the exploited masses do not, nor can they ever, really participate in governing the country, if for
no other reason than that, even under the most democratic regime, under conditions of
capitalism, governments are not set up by the people but by the Gates, Rothschilds and
Stinneses, the Rockefellers and Morgans, etc, etc. Democracy under capitalism is capitalist
democracy, the democracy of the exploiting minority, based on the restriction of the rights of the /
exploited majority and directed against this majority. Only under the proletarian dictatorship are
real liberties for the exploited and real participation of the proletarians and peasants in governing
the country possible. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, democracy is proletarian
democracy, the democracy of the exploited majority, based on the restriction of the rights of the
exploiting minority and directed against this minority.

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“human nature” ?
● Scientists probe human nature: discover we are good after all
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-probe-human-nature-and-discover-we-are-good-afte
r-all/
● “Mankind is mankind, and no matter what system you have, socialism or capitalism, mankind is
flawed, and there are people who wanna steal and take advantage and get ahead."

Parenti: “It is because people are imperfect that you don’t build a system that feeds their
imperfections and harms their perfections. People who want to help... often get punished,
whereas the people who pursue money in the most treacherous and amoral ways, they get
benefitted. And you’re telling me about them; you’re saying, 'We can’t do without them!' You’ve
got it in your brain that we can’t do without people who steal and deceive and plunder… You
need a government that is going to help parse out things fair and square.”

● Debunking the “human nature” argument by Finnish Bolshevik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqYcpeQwtL4
● Does Human Nature make socialism impossible? By Verso Books
https://youtu.be/hhE5-zBlmcw

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“Communism killed millions of people”
● Stalin’s millions
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/04/24/stalins-millions/
● The revolution will not be televised - article by S. Gowans about communist leaders and societies
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-nor-will-it-be-brought-to-yo
u-by-russell-brand-oliver-stone-or-noam-chomsky/
● “Stalin killed 60 million people” - graphic
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1f348b6dbdb7bff1ed27ef1b4ce65982-c
● Monster or liberator? The legacy of Mao Zedong
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/12/monster-liberator-legacy-mao-zedong/
● Revisiting alleged 30 million famine deaths during China’s Great Leap
https://mronline.org/2011/06/26/revisiting-alleged-30-million-famine-deaths-during-chinas-great-leap/
● On the number of deaths in Stalin’s USSR
https://albertvalente.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/on-the-number-of-deaths-in-stalins-ussr/
● Authoritarianism in Socialist countries by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/6gtUaGV6mNI
● How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
● Triumph of Evil - Introduction, Chapter 1
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● China's growth in life expectancy between 1950 and 1980 ranks as among the most rapid
sustained increases in documented global history.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331212/

See section on “Holodomor”, “Great Leap Forward / Cultural Revolution” “USSR / Stalin”, “Gulags”,
“Purges”

Socialism isn’t innovative

● Putting China’s science on the map
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00544-1?error=cookies_not_supported&code=c5995d09-ae
56-4e17-bfca-d858a483cd85
● China’s breathtaking transformation into a scientific superpower
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-breathtaking-transformation-into-a-scientific-superpow
er/2018/01/21/03f883e6-fd44-11e7-8f66-2df0b94bb98a_story.html?utm_term=.143beb07eeb6
● China just overtook the US in scientific output for first time
https://www.sciencealert.com/china-just-overtook-us-in-scientific-output-first-time-published-research
● China spent an estimated $279 billion on R&D last year
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/china-spent-an-estimated-279-billion-on-rd-last-year.html?__source=s
harebar|facebook&par=sharebar
● Progress in China
Progress in China video
● Space advancement in the USSR
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1934792833509509
● Physics achievements of the USSR
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1949126525409473
● How China is taking on the world in space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYS5gaEIQ4A
● China is building solar roadways
https://electrek.co/2017/12/21/china-solar-roadways-transparent-concrete-solar-cells-charge-cars/amp/
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● China’s stealth fighter is operational
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a28436/chinas-stealth-fighter-is-operational/
● Get ready for China’s laser-weapons arsenal
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/get-ready-chinas-laser-weapons-arsenal-20138
● Innovation makes poor land green: China’s saline/alkaline resistant rice hybrids
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/5/98/219/1512715331552.html
● ‘No innovation under socialism’ by Comrade Hakim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uylnpj6zLWw
● Technology, innovation, growth and capitalism
http://www.marxist.com/technology-innovation-growtn-and-capitalism.htm
● What innovations have communist societies developed? (Reddit)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/5k5y51/what_innovations_or_inventions_have_
communist/

● Solidarity from Cuba, courtesy of the revolution (discusses health care, education etc)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/02/solidarity-from-cuba-courtesy-of-the-revolution/
● The Chinese haven’t invented anything in the last 600 years, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8g1Sb3g6lI
● The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (pp. 82-85)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● Cuba begins clinical trials to delay progress of Alzheimers
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Begins-Clinical-Trials-to-Delay-Progress-of-Alzheimers-201
70515-0013.html
● Cuba develops new skin cancer medicine
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Develops-New-Skin-Cancer-Medicine-20160909-0007.html
● Cuba's internationalist solidarity recognized once again - doctors awarded the Dr. Lee Jong-wook
Memorial Prize for Public Health from WHO
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Internationalist-Solidarity-Recognized-Once-Again-Doctors
-Awarded-by-WHO-20170524-0024.html
● Cuba's agricultural revolution: Vanguard for global food system
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Agricultural-Revolution-Vanguard-for-Global-Food-System-
20161129-0010.html
● Cuba’s sustainable agro-ecological model could save the world
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Cubas-Sustainable-Agro-Ecological-Model-Could-Save-the-Wor
ld-20161013-0023.html
● Cuba’s Socialist biotechnology sector a global leader
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Socialist-Biotechnology-Sector-a-Global-Leader-20160517
-0041.html
● Cuba’s innovative biotechnology attracts global attention
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Innovative-Biotechnology-Attracts-Global-Attention-201511
03-0018.html
● Sputnik marked the beginning of space research
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Sputnik-Marked-the-Beginning-of-Space-Reasearch--20141004-0
011.html
● Redefining Socialism in Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/18/redefining-socialism-in-cuba/
● Cuba: reflections on life and death (talks about ecology etc)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/cuba-reflections-on-life-and-death/
● Latin Lessons: what we can learn from the world's’ most ambitious literacy campaign (Cuba)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/latin-lessons-what-can-we-learn-from-the-worldrsquo
s-most-ambitious-literacy-campaign-2124433.html
● Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame (excellent article)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cuban-medics-in-haiti-put-the-wo
rld-to-shame-2169415.html
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● Cuba’s Green Revolution
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cubas-green-revolution-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94-achieving-sust
ainability
● Cuba’s overlooked developments in science
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=73510
● Cuba creates four anti-cancer vaccines, media ignores it
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cuba-creates-four-anti-cancer-vaccines-media-ignores-it
● Cuba launches the first vaccine against lung cancer
https://actualidad.rt.com/ciencias/view/32388-Cuba-lanza-primera-vacuna-contra-cancer-de-pulm%C3%
B3n
● Science: accomplishments and lessons of Cuba after 50 years of US blockade
http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2010/05/04/reportaje-revista-science-sobre-impacto-bloqueo-medi
cina/#.WgUc2lu0OUk
● Vaccines from Cuba and Brazil save thousands of lives in Africa
http://www.cubainformacion.tv/index.php/lecciones-de-manipulacion/47621-vacunas-de-cuba-y-brasil-sal
van-miles-de-vidas-en-africa-pero-los-medios-solo-hablan-de-las-de-bill-gates
● They recognize advances in Cuban biotechnology
http://www.opciones.cu/cuba/2012-03-09/reconocen-avances-de-la-biotecnologia-cubana/
● Director General of UNESCO notes achievements of Cuban biotechnology
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2012-11-29/directora-general-de-la-unesco-constata-logros-de-la-bi
otecnologia-cubana
● Cuba vaccine deal breaks embargo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/406780.stm
● Soviet Russia had a better record of training women in STEM than America does today
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-russia-had-a-better-record-of-training-women-in-ste
m-than-america-does-today-180948141/
● China launches ambitious bid to dominate space exploration
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Launches-Ambitious-Bid-to-Dominate-Space-Exploration--
20171117-0020.html
● Chinese satellite detects mysterious signal in search for Dark Matter
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1130/c90000-9298618.html
● Trial planting of China’s japonica hybrid rice succeeds in Cambodia
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1129/c90000-9298591.html
● Cuba’s cancer vaccine CIMAvax is finally coming to US
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cubas-lung-cancer-vaccine/505778/
● Why is China tech smoking the West? Because they have socialist vision!
https://soundcloud.com/44-days/why-is-china-tech-smoking-the-west-because-they-have-socialist-vision-
china-rising-radio-sinoland-170831
● China’s FAST identifies three new pulsars
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/180/200/206/1513075342491.html
● China is the most plugged in big economy in the world
http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/08/26/china-is-the-most-plugged-in-big-economy-in-the-world-chi
na-rising-radio-sinoland-170824/
● The surprising rise of China as IP powerhouse
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/the-surprising-rise-of-china-as-ip-powerhouse/
● China’s Nio takes on Tesla with a car half the price of model X
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/17/chinas-nio-takes-on-tesla-with-a-car-half-the-price-of-model-x.html
● Some of the most successful IPO’s of Internet companies on the New York Stock Exchange and
Nasdaq have been Chinese startups. Chinese businesses are well on their way to dominating the
global alternative-energy industries. Breakthroughs in public policy have taken private home
ownership from near zero in 1990 to at least 80 percent today — among the world’s highest, in
this relatively still poor country.

The Royal Society in London reports that China’s share of scientific research papers published in
recognized international journals went from 4.4 percent in the period between 1999-2003 to 10.2 /
 percent in the period between 2004-2008, now just behind the United States. In 2008, China
overtook France as the world’s number three in contemporary art auction revenues. Fifteen out of
35 living artists worldwide who command seven-digit sales for their work are Chinese. If these
facts do not demonstrate innovation, what does?

Life under communism was/is boring/dull/grey/repressive (etc)

● Pictures of Soviet life from “Ogonyok” magazine
https://cccp.temadnya.com/1252749450857679377/kartiny-sovetskoj-zhizni-iz-zhurnala-ogonek/
● Do Communists have better sex? (Documentary about sex attitudes in East Germany)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x222wl0
● Album of photography from the DPRK
https://imgur.com/gallery/WU4Mb
● Soviet Lithuania in 1972 (with Jazz!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsRhPzRCwIU
● Video about the DPRK
https://www.facebook.com/154377811744930/videos/275659842950059/
● Solidarity from Cuba, courtesy of the revolution /
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/02/solidarity-from-cuba-courtesy-of-the-revolution/
 ● Havana, Cuba: a spirited city in transition
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/17/havana-cuba-a-spirited-city-in-transition/
● Sports in Cuba: another achievement of the Revolution
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=90054
● Art education in Cuba
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=82102
● A Berklee professor dives into Cuba’s vast music scene
http://legacy.wbur.org/2013/01/16/a-berklee-professor-dives-into-cubas-vast-music-scene
● Hip Hop & the Cuban Revolution
https://www.workers.org/2007/world/hip-hop-1011/

Non-violence??
● Gandhi was wrong - nonviolence doesn’t work
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2009/10/18/gandhi-was-wrong-nonviolence-doesnt-work/
● Pacifism as Pathology - Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America
https://takku.net/mediagallery/mediaobjects/orig/f/f_ward_churchill_-_pacifism_as_pathology.pdf
● How Nonviolence protects the State
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state
● 9 MLK quotes the mainstream media won’t cite
https://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/riot-language-unheard-9-mlk-quotes-mainstream-media-wont-cite
● Does America have a gun problem, or a white supremacy capitalist empire problem?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/07/does-america-have-a-gun-problem-or-a-white-supremacy-capi
talist-empire-problem/
● More reflections on pacifism
http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/more-reflections-on-pacificism.html

Communism = White people?

● Most of these were marxist-leninists and upholders of what is called "authoritarian communism"
(forgetting that all class society is authoritarian to the extent it needs to be to secure its continued
reproduction, forgetting that the authority of the working class is a good thing)
The ones who weren't (like Malcolm) worked closely with leninists and supported a strong and
principled anti-imperialist line as well as national liberation, and recognized the progressive
character of the national bourgeoisie against the imperialist bourgeoisie. Lines which get us
called "tankie" like it's an insult. /
 These were/are all inspiring, amazing revolutionaries who have helped educate hundreds of
millions of workers throughout the globe.
To deny the success of marxism-leninism is to deny the success of hundreds of millions of
colonized workers in achieving their own liberation and building socialism as best they could
under their given material conditions.

● Is socialist just a western, eurocentric concept? Video by Verso Books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2i583cJs9M
● Narratives of betrayal: a Western Marxist trope
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/11/13/narratives-of-betrayal-a-western-marxist-trope/
● Red People, Red Flags - a rejoinder to Russell Means
https://medium.com/@devongritolares/red-people-red-flags-seizing-russel-by-the-means-8480be79cc68

Socialism = big government?

● Socialism is when the government does stuff? Video by Verso Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmntzb7jtw

Cultural Marxism?
● Ending the Cultural Marxism meme by Xexizy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhhGmwxZ5I
● Is Jordan Peterson the stupid man’s smart person?
http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/is-jordan-peterson-the-stupid-mans-smart-person/

“Communism is dead” (etc)

● Communism is not dead - by Finnish Bolshevik

https://youtu.be/mlFHPljOQxs
● The war continues - lesser known active armed communist groups by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/09qTJBiwjy8
● India’s Red Tide
https://youtu.be/E4dPlPU8058
● Naxalbari - its relevance for today and for tomorrow
http://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/india/naxalbari-its-relevance-for-today-and-for-tomorrow/
● Dismantling neo-liberal education: a lesson from the Zapatistas
https://roarmag.org/essays/neoliberal-education-zapatista-pedagogy/
● Kerala Communism still alive
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/bloggers/Kerala-Communism-Still-Alive-20150203-0001.html

Collapse of Communism in the 20th Century

General
● A failed system’s failed promises
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/a-failed-systems-failed-promises/ /
 ● Reflection on the overthrow of communism - excellent talk by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVes44hcJg
● Study looks at mortality in Post-Soviet era
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/world/europe/16europe.html
● Mass privatisation and the post-communist mortality crisis: a cross-national analysis. Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(09)60005-2.pdf
● According to the UN Human Development Index—which measures levels of life expectancy,
education, adult literacy and income in the poorest nations—twenty-one states have experienced
a decline. These included 14 African countries as well as Russia and six former Soviet Republics.
Commenting on the situation in the former Soviet Union after capitalist restoration, Fabre stated,
“We have catastrophic falls in several countries, which often are republics of the former Soviet
Union, where poverty is actually increasing. In fact poverty has tripled in the whole region.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/07/unpo-j28.html
● Global rollback - After Communism by Michael Parenti
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Parenti/Global_Rollback_Parenti.html
● “The boys of Capital, they also chortle in their martinis about the death of socialism. The word
has been banned from polite conversation. And they hope no one will notice that every socialist
experiment of any significance in the twentieth century — without exception — was either
overthrown, invaded, corrupted, perverted, subverted, destabilized, or otherwise had life made
impossible for it, by the United States and its allies. Not one socialist government or movement
— from the Russian Revolution to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, from Communist China to the
FMLN in El Salvador — not one was permitted to rise or fall solely on its own merits; not one was
left secure enough to drop its guard against the all-powerful enemy abroad and freely and fully
relax control at home. It’s as if the Wright brothers’ first experiments with flying machines all failed
because the automobile interests sabotaged each test flight. And then the good and god-fearing
folk of the world looked upon these catastrophes, nodded their heads wisely, and intoned
solemnly: Humankind shall never fly.”
— William Blum, “Killing Hope: US Military And CIA Interventions Since World War II.”

The USSR

● Did post-Soviet Russians drink themselves to death?

https://mronline.org/2018/11/09/did-post-soviet-russians-drink-themselves-to-death
● USSR: The biggest sell-off in history by teleSUR
https://www.facebook.com/telesurenglish/videos/988869624589773/
● Number of Russians who regret collapse of USSR hits 10-year high
https://www.rt.com/politics/414254-share-of-russians-who-regret/
● Nato expansion: what Gorbachev heard (discussion of the NATO creep eastwards after German
reunification)
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-he
ard-western-leaders-early
● Why doesn’t the Soviet Union exist anymore? Part 1: Introduction
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2017/11/why-doesnt-the-soviet-union-exist-any-more-part-1-introduction/
● Why doesn’t the Soviet Union exist anymore? Part 2: Economic stagnation
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2017/12/why-doesnt-the-soviet-union-exist-any-more-part-2-economic-st
agnation/
● Why doesn’t the Soviet Union exist anymore? Part 3: Ideological deterioration and decaying
confidence
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2017/12/why-doesnt-the-soviet-union-exist-any-more-part-3-ideological-
/
deterioration-and-
 ● The Demise of the Soviet Union: The Secret War that Helped Destroy Soviet Socialism,
1981-1991
http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/RR-PAUL-SECRETWAR.pdf
● The collapse of the Soviet Union reconsidered
https://mltoday.com/article/1920-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union-reconsidered/22
● Sean Gervasi: How the US caused the breakup of the USSR (very good talk from 1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_aYcpxClA
● Post-Soviet Russia: America’s “colony” to #1 Enemy (excellent video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Aajppo5Zk
● Empire Files: Post-Soviet Russia, made in the U.S.A. (very good video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HwvFyMg7A
● Life after the USSR: Buying the dream, living the nightmare - teleSUR
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Life-After-the-USSR-Buying-the-Dream-Living-the-Nightmare-2
0160712-0009.html
● A case-study of capitalism - Ukraine by Comrade Hakim
https://youtu.be/CmH9oNtXzF8
● The collapse of the Soviet Union by Matt Florence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWXc3ttPYxU
● An epidemic of street kids overwhelms Russian cities
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/an-epidemic-of-street-kids-overwhelms-russian-cities/articl
e4141933/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
● Ukraine Junta bans Communism, honors Fascism
https://www.newcoldwar.org/ukraine-junta-bans-communism-honors-fascism/
● Catastroika has not only been a disaster for Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/16/russia.comment
● Death surge linked with mass privatisation
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2009-01-death-surge-linked-mass-privatisation.html
● Thousands still living in Russia’s Soviet-era past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CteL4t_NNds
● Nostalgic Russian photos set right after the collapse of Communism
https://www.slavorum.org/nostalgic-russian-photos-set-right-after-the-collapse-of-communism/
● Why Russians still don’t hate Communism
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/why-russians-still-dont-hate-communism-9294
● The fall of the USSR and capitalist restoration by M-L Theory
https://youtu.be/5KpS2eAay_8
● Switch to capitalism causes rise in drug-resistant Tuberculosis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62453/
● Russian men losing years to vodka - study
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/31/russian-men-losing-years-to-vodka
● How the Soviet collapse enriched a few and destroyed millions
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/How-the-Soviet-Collapse-Enriched-a-Few-and-Destroyed-Millions
-20160905-0009.html
● Gorbachev, Yeltsin and the demise of the USSR
https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-09-26/gorbachev-yeltsin-and-demise-ussr
● Russia rejects Ukraine ban of communist symbols
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Russia-Rejects-Ukraine-Ban-of-Communist-Symbols-20150411-0
010.html
● New migration data shows every 4th prostitute in Europe is a citizen of Ukraine
http://theduran.com/new-migration-data-shows-every-fourth-prostitute-europe-citizen-ukraine/
● How the USSR reduced income inequality (shows drastic rise in inequality after capitalism
restored)
http://www.socialisteconomist.com/2017/10/how-ussr-radically-reduced-income.html?m=1
● Inequality in Russia, 1905-2015
/
http://wid.world/news-article/new-paper-inequality-series-russia/
 ● BBC: the town that disappeared
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_town_that_disappeared

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The Eastern Bloc
● Europe’s great depression
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/28/eu.politics5
● The rule of the market in East-Central Europe is absolute
https://mronline.org/2017/08/29/the-rule-of-the-market-in-east-central-europe-is-absolute/
● Cold, angry, and surrounded by chicken - post-Communist Czech Republic’s “economic success”
https://mronline.org/2017/10/28/cold-angry-and-surrounded-by-chicken/
● The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (read the entire book)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
● German reunification: 25 years on: how different are East and West really?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/german-reunification-25-years-on-how-different-are-east
-and-west-really
● Happiness and freedom: East German version
http://www.ianwelsh.net/happiness-and-freedom-east-german-version/
● Pragmatism trumps ideology as Germany finds west isn’t always best
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/03/thuringia-socialist-east-germany-influence-in-unified-ger
/
many
 ● Bulgaria, 1990, Albania, 1991: teaching communists what democracy is all about
https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/bulgaria-albania
● Eastern Europe has the largest population loss in modern history
https://www.ft.com/content/70813826-0c64-33d3-8a0c-72059ae1b5e3

GDP of Eastern Bloc countries 1950-2002

Yugoslavia
● The year was 1991: the demise of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-defining-year-was-1991-the-demise-of-yugoslavia-and-the-soviet-unio
n/5628115
● The rational destruction of Yugoslavia - Michael Parenti
http://www.michaelparenti.org/yugoslavia.html
● US-NATO jets bomb Serb auto plant
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/04/balk-a10.html?view=article_mobile
● The US war on Yugoslavia - by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/GEzOgpMWnVs
● Sean Gervasi exposing US, German role in Balkans
https://youtu.be/ePw0Wp7lsxA
● Yugoslavia - the avoidable war
https://youtu.be/u04IL4Od8Qo
● Croatia - neoliberalism and corruption
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/croatia-karamarko-neoliberalism-corruption-bridge/
● The Weight of Chains (full movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw49iL6zGyQ&feature=youtu.be
● Srebrenica’s legacy should be one of peace, not war
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/273142-srebrenica-massacre-anniversary-balkans/
● Harpal Brar - NATO’s predatory war on Yugoslavia (book)
http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secName=books&subName=display&bookId=15
● Socialism is the transitional society from capitalism to communism characterised by the
dictatorship of the proletariat and socialisation of the economy, and a step backwards or a stall in
this process doesn’t necessarily mean that socialism has been overthrown.
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The example of Yugoslavia is the most compelling evidence of this retrograde tendency on the
left. It is also living proof of what is at stake. During the last four decades of the existence of the
Soviet Union, U.S. imperialism acted in a more or less friendly way toward Yugoslavia. Although
it was led by a Communist Party, Yugoslavia maintained “neutrality” in the U.S.-Soviet conflict.
Yugoslavia’s leadership introduced market reforms, largely abandoned the monopoly of foreign
trade, integrated the country into the world capitalist economy, became heavily indebted to
western banks, allowed large-scale unemployment to develop in accordance with the principle of
the “market” and its need for a flexible labor pool, and began following the dictates of the
International Monetary Fund. By the late 1980s, Yugoslavia was characterized by most of the left
as a “capitalist country” with the clear implication that there was nothing remaining for the left to
defend.

But because the League of Communists continued to hold onto power in Yugoslavia, it emerged
as a force of resistance when German imperialism initiated a full-scale effort to dismember the
country in 1990 and 1991. The overthrow of the East German socialist government in 1989 and
its reincorporation into West Germany triggered an intense drive by German imperialism to
enlarge its sphere of influence. It financed and secretly organized the secession of Slovenia and
Croatia, the westernmost republics within multinational Yugoslavia. This in turn set off a
predictable and classic imperialist scramble between Germany, France, England and finally the
United States to carve up Yugoslavia into spheres of influence for neo-colonial penetration.

In the face of this imperialist-inspired counterrevolutionary campaign, the League of Communists,

led by Slobodan Milosevic, abruptly changed course. Privatization of industry was slowed and in
some cases reversed. Cooperation with the IMF was slowed or halted. Imperialism demonized
the Yugoslav leadership, imposed economic sanctions and set on a course of regime change.
Yugoslavia fought back against the forces of disintegration. It had to rely more on its
working-class base. This would have been an impossible turn by a fully capitalist regime, a
regime that did not have its roots in social revolution and socialized property.

The only way for imperialism to succeed in Yugoslavia was to wage an all-out bombing war. From
March 24 to June 4, 1999, NATO’s collective imperialist air force dropped 23,000 bombs and
missiles on Serbia until the Yugoslav government decided to let Kosovo go into the arms of the
imperialists. Without pause, imperialist pressure intensified after the conclusion of the 1999 war
to carry out the final counterrevolutionary ouster of the Yugoslav government and its replacement
by a servile, proxy force.

59) Having long abandoned a political defense of Yugoslavia on the basis that there was nothing
remaining, in the social and economic sense, from the initial Yugoslav revolution, big sections of
the international left remained on the sidelines in 1999 watching the carnage. Others actually
supported NATO’s war or gave support to some variant form of imperialist-sponsored
dismemberment, mouthing vulgarized proclamations about “self-determination” for Kosovo. Real
self-determination, under those circumstances, meant only one thing: militantly defending the
Yugoslav government as it resisted the imperialist aggression and the counterrevolution.

The Yugoslav example proves that there is an organic connection between imperialism and
counterrevolution in all the societies with governments created by a socialist overturn.

Despite the emergence of conservative and non-revolutionary leaderships in the

socialist-oriented governments, there has never been a long-term, stable partnership between
any of these regimes and imperialism or any single imperialist government.

The very existence of a communist party as a ruling party—which is based on the interests of the
working class—means that the relationship with imperialism is inherently unstable. The reason
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 for the instability is that the mere hold on power by the communist parties constitutes an obstacle
to the full and complete takeover and neo-colonial re-enslavement of the country by imperialism.

In its systematic and inherent quest for super profits, imperialism is driven towards
counterrevolution with the principal objective of overthrowing the political rule of the communist
party. The thrust toward counterrevolution is in the very nature of the beast.

While Yugoslavia is one example of this counterrevolutionary phenomenon, one can look at
recent Chinese history to observe a nearly identical process, most notably the events leading to
the suppression of the Tiananmen Square counterrevolutionary movement in 1989. It was the
leadership of the Communist Party of China, and in particular the leadership of Deng Xiaoping,
who took steps to suppress a mass movement that occupied Tiananmen Square for seven weeks
in 1989, the same year that most of the socialist bloc governments in Eastern Europe were
overthrown.

“Why don’t you ask people who lived under communism?” and “people
aren’t happy under socialist systems”
● We lived better then
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/
● Opinion poll conducted in China, compared to the USA:
85% satisfied with direction of country (31% satisfied in U.S.)
88% think current economic situation is good (33% in U.S.)
82% say children will be better off than parents (33% in U.S.)
http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/05/23/chapter-1-national-and-economic-conditions/
● The undemocratic dissolution of the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFTgCf67Bw
● How Russians really feel about their Soviet past and Communism (Sochi 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNGs5Ep7Xas
● Joseph Stalin statues go up in Russia as U.S. Civil War statues fall
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/08/16/soviet-union-terror-josef-stalin-popularity/556625
001/
● Pragmatism trumps ideology as Germany finds west isn’t always best
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/03/thuringia-socialist-east-germany-influence-in-unified-ger
many
● Majority in former Soviet states believe breakup was harmful mistake - poll
https://www.rt.com/news/ussr-collapse-mistake-poll-585/
● East Berlin woman interviewed
https://www.facebook.com/dw.stories/photos/a.196618090449937.36404.183239561787790/138452039
8326361/?type=3
● Why don’t you ask people who lived under communism
https://youtu.be/_1d3Kxx36gY
● Account of a woman from the USSR currently living in New Zealand (very good)
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/photos/a.1922050888117037.1073741828.192170606148485
3/1936840316638094/?type=3&theater

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Opinion polls in former socialist/communist states

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 ● Struggling Romanians yearn for Communism
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/30/struggling-romanians-yearn-for-communism/
● Romanian opinion poll
http://www.ires.com.ro/uploads/articole/romanii_si_nostalgia_comunismului.pdf
● Number of Russians who regret collapse of USSR hits 10-year high
https://www.rt.com/politics/414254-share-of-russians-who-regret/
● Polls show a spectre is haunting Europe… and much of the rest of the world
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/polls-show-a-spectre-is-haunting-europe%E2%80%A6and-m
uch-of-the-rest-of-the-world/
● Former Soviet countries see more harm from breakup
http://news.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx
● Most Russians prefer return of Soviet Union and Socialism: poll
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Most-Russians-Prefer-Return-of-Soviet-Union-and-Socialism-Poll-
20160420-0051.html
● Serbia poll: life was better under Tito
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/for-simon-poll-serbians-unsure-who-runs-their-country
● Romanian opinion polls show nostalgia for Communism
http://www.balkanalysis.com/romania/2011/12/27/in-romania-opinion-polls-show-nostalgia-for-communis
m/
● Hungary: better off under Communism?
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/04/28/hungary-better-off-under-communism/
● Majority of Eastern Germans feel life better under Communism
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-fee
l-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html
● Majority in former Soviet states believe breakup was harmful mistake - poll
https://www.rt.com/news/ussr-collapse-mistake-poll-585/
● Nostalgia for Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe
https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/nostalgia-for-communism-in-russia-and-eastern-europe/
● Majority of Russians think “it is a great misfortune that the Soviet Union no longer exists”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/soviet-empire-poll_n_5288261.html
● Why nearly 60% of Russians ‘deeply regret’ the USSR’s demise
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https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/1223/Why-nearly-60-percent-of-Russians-deeply-regret-t
he-USSR-s-demise
● Stalin popularity among Russians reaches a 16 year high
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/feb/17/stalin-popularity-among-russians-reaches-a-16-year/
● Russian support for Vladimir Lenin peaks ahead of Bolshevik Revolution centennial
http://www.newsweek.com/lenin-support-peaks-russian-revolution-bolshevik-centennial-586201
● Why Russians still don’t hate Communism
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/why-russians-still-dont-hate-communism-9294
● Why more than half of Russians miss the Soviet Union
https://www.rbth.com/politics_and_society/2016/11/04/why-more-than-half-of-russians-miss-the-soviet-un
ion_643655
● Most Russians regret USSR collapse, dream of its return - poll
https://www.rt.com/politics/340158-most-russians-regret-ussr-has/
● Happiness and freedom: East German version
http://www.ianwelsh.net/happiness-and-freedom-east-german-version/
● Russians name Stalin, Lenin, as most outstanding world figures
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Russians-Name-Stalin-Lenin-as-Most-Outstanding-World-Figures-
20170627-0019.html

Communism, feminism, racism and LGBTQ+

General / “IdPol”
● The world's’ first affirmative action constitution
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2014/10/09/the-worlds-first-affirmative-action-constitution/
● What we talk about when we talk about class
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/07/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-class/
● Some thoughts on Identity Politics by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9PyFR3Dr8I
● I am a woman and a human: a Marxist feminist critique of intersectionality theory - Eve Mitchell
https://libcom.org/library/i-am-woman-human-marxist-feminist-critique-intersectionality-theory-eve-mitche
l
● Let them eat diversity
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/01/let-them-eat-diversity/
● The imposition of class - Manifold identities and socialist class politics
https://mronline.org/2017/10/30/the-imposition-of-class/
● Limitations of identity based politics
https://medium.com/@pravdamedia/limitations-of-identity-based-politics-d05b71c9ad

Feminism

Theory
● How capitalism uses gender oppression to rule
https://mronline.org/2017/11/19/how-capitalism-uses-gender-oppression-to-rule/
● Women and Marxism - Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/subject/women/index.htm
● The making of capitalist Patriarchy: interview with Silvia Federici
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11947
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● What is Proletarian Feminism?
https://maosoleum.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/what-is-proletarian-feminism/
● Male terrorism and the political economy of gender oppression by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/xUv_dtVLNPg
● Marx on gender and the family - a summary
https://monthlyreview.org/2014/06/01/marx-on-gender-and-the-family-a-summary/
● Clara Zetkin: The Profoundly Relevant Marxist Feminist
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Clara-Zetkin-The-Profoundly-Relevant-Marxist-Feminist-2017070
4-0048.html
● How does Socialism solve Racism, Sexism and other oppressions?
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/how-does-socialism-solve-racism-sexism-other-oppression/
● Lise Vogel - Marxism and the Oppression of Women (full book)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxD_FnW_o-X8dXJrUzk3dmNHeGs/view
● Women’s equality vs patriarchy
http://sfr-21.org/women.html
● Mao on Women
http://sfr-21.org/mao-women.html
● Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung - Women
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch31.htm
● International Working Women’s Day - V.I. Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/mar/04.htm
● Women and the Struggle for Socialism
http://www.marxist.com/marxism-feminism-class-struggle-emancipation-women.htm
● African American Equality and Racism (section on Women)
http://www.cpusa.org/party_info/excerpts-from-the-classics-african-american-equality-and-racism/
● Marx on Gender and the Family
http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/marx-gender-family.pdf
● Women, Race and Class
https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/davis-angela/housework.htm

History
● Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Chapter 4: Women in the USSR)
https://ia600300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the
%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1940991216223004 - easy reading link (part one)
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/photos/a.1922050888117037.1073741828.192170606148485
3/1940991676222958/?type=3&theater easy reading link - (part two)
● Women’s Liberation: the marxist tradition
https://isreview.org/issue/93/womens-liberation-marxist-tradition
● Why women had better sex under socialism
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism.html
● Women’s rights in Afghanistan
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/women%E2%80%99s-rights-in-afghanistan/
● Communism & Women’s rights by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYeIleea3FA
● Women in the Russian Revolution
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/socialism/4930-wr100817
● Soviet women remember Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933jsB5ChlA
● Soviet Power and the Status of Women - Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm
● Venezuela creates day of Socialist feminism
https://mronline.org/2017/10/03/venezuela-creates-day-of-socialist-feminism/
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 ● Constitution of the USSR guaranteed full equality between men and women and went a long way
to eliminating sexism and patriarchy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1977,_Unamended)#Chapter_6._Citiz
enship_of_the_USSR_.2F_Equality_of_Citizens.27_Rights
● October Revolution - Women’s liberation by Proletarian TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXvqFPH4k8Y
● The image of a woman in Soviet propaganda
http://russiatrek.org/blog/art/the-image-of-a-woman-in-soviet-propaganda/
● The Bolshevik Revolutions’ pioneering gains for women
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/The-Bolshevik-Revolutions-Pioneering-Gains-for-Women-201711
01-0045.html
● Cuban Parliament: 43% Women
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=19854
● Cuba in the top 10 world rankings for number of women parliamentarians
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2015-03-09/cuba-in-the-top-10-world-rankings-for-number-of-women-parliame
ntarians
● Soviet Russia had a better record of training women in STEM than America does today
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-russia-had-a-better-record-of-training-women-in-ste
m-than-america-does-today-180948141/
● The Soviet Woman - a Full and Equal Citizen of Her Country
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1946/full.htm
● Womens participation in politics in the USSR (from The Soviet Woman — a Full and Equal
Citizen of Her Country)

● Quotes from “Pickaxe and Rifle” on the rights of women in Albania:

In 1938 there were 668 women workers in all Albania, mostly girls of 14 or 16 working a ten hour
day for appallingly low wages. By 1967 over 248,000 women, which is 42% of rural and urban
workers, were engaged in production work on exactly the same terms as men"

Regarding the 1965 "new family code":

Marriage is contracted with the free will of husband and wife and rests on solid feelings of love,
equality and mutual respect. Only monogamous marriages are recognized.

Partners in marriage can choose as their surname that of husband or wife or each may keep his
or her original name or add them together.

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 A wife can choose her work or profession without her husband’s permission and the handling of
the family income is managed by mutual agreement.

Personal property held by either before marriage remains his or hers and anything acquired
afterwards is joint property. All children regardless of sex are entitled to equal shares in the
inheritance of joint personal property and the wife is the heir of first rank.

Divorce is allowed when a marriage has lost all meaning and cohabitation has become
intolerable. Causes for divorce are continuous quarrels, maltreatment, breach of conjugal faith,
permanent mental illness or punishment for serious crimes. There is no distinction between
husband or wife in the right to sue for divorce and the rearing of children is confided to that parent
who in the court’s opinion is better qualified to bring them up.

All parental rights belong to both parents equally and disagreements are settled by tutelage
committees or by the courts.

Single mothers enjoy all due respect and the state guarantees their economic security and
protection. Children born outside marriage are equal in every way to those born within.

Abortions are allowed after consultation with a committee of doctors. Birth control is a matter of
personal choice. There is no family planning in the sense of national campaigns to limit births
because Albania is an underpopulated country in which all births are welcomed"

Anti-racism, anti-colonialism etc

Theory etc
● It’s not racism vs antiracism, it’s capitalist vs socialism
http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/its-not-racism-vs-antiracism-its-capitalism-vs-socialism/
● “Where are the people of color?”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/left-diversity-people-color-white-identitarian-solidarity-difference/
● Women, Race and Class
https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/davis-angela/housework.htm
● Colonialism is doomed! Poster art from the USSR
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/multimedia/Colonialism-is-Doomed-Poster-Art-from-the-USSR-2017041
9-0040.html

History
● History of the Asian nationalities of the USSR
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1926775650977894 (Part one)
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1926776104311182 (part two)
● Soviet Affirmative Action - the Harvard Interview Project of 1950-51
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2015/05/15/soviet-affirmative-action-the-harvard-interview-project-of-1950-5
1/
● The lost world of communist Africa
https://theanonymousrevolutionary.com/2015/05/02/the-lost-world-of-communist-africa/
● The Russian Revolution, Africa and the Diaspora
http://www.aaihs.org/the-russian-revolution-africa-and-the-diaspora/
● Anti-racism in early Soviet visual culture /
http://www.aaihs.org/anti-racism-in-early-soviet-visual-culture/
● Marxism and the Caste question
http://peoplesdemocracy.in/2016/0403_pd/marxism-and-caste-question
● 29 astounding Soviet propaganda images promoting racial equality
https://www.buzzfeed.com/marcjaysonc/29-astounding-soviet-propaganda-images-promoting-r-ffhg?utm
_term=.lnqMMMkax#.ad6PPPaQ8
● Racial harmony in a Marxist utopia: how the Soviet Union capitalised on US discrimination
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2016/jan/24/racial-harmony-in-a-marxist-utopia-ho
w-the-soviet-union-capitalised-on-us-discrimination-in-pictures#img-6
● The Bolshevik Revolution: unacknowledged inspiration of liberation movements everywhere
http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-bolshevik-revolution-unacknowledged-inspiration-of-liberation-mo
vements-everywhere/
How does Socialism solve Racism, Sexism and other oppressions?
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/how-does-socialism-solve-racism-sexism-other-oppression/
● In Russia, early African-American migrants found the good life
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-c1-black-russian-americans-20141119-story.html
● Paul Robeson on the Soviet Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU_-0qKhNeg
● Soviet But Not Russian: The “Other” Peoples of the Soviet Union
https://archive.org/details/SovietButNotRussian
● African American Equality and Racism
http://www.cpusa.org/party_info/excerpts-from-the-classics-african-american-equality-and-racism/
● Resurrecting Thomas Sankara
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/thomas-sankara-burkina-faso-assassination/
● The Bolshevik Revolution and the legacy of Anti-Imperialism
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Bolshevik-Revolution-and-the-Legacy-of-Anti-Imperialism-2
0171102-0012.html
● Black Marxism by Cedric J Robinson
https://libcom.org/files/Black%20Marxism-Cedric%20J.%20Robinson.pdf
● Graphic detailing some of the different ethnic groups in the USSR
https://img3.goodfon.com/original/4879x3021/1/ab/sssr-karta-nacionalnosti.jpg
● Black Bolsheviks and White Lies: Reflections on the Black Radical Tradition
http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/black-bolsheviks-and-white-lies.html#.WgJidY9-rcv
● How the Russian Revolution inspired and assisted National Liberation struggles
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/How-the-Russian-Revolution-Inspired-and-Assisted-National-Li
beration-Struggles-20171023-0012.html
● Soviet influences in Latin America
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Soviet-Influences-in-Latin-America-That-You-May-Not-Know-2017
1023-0008.html
● Black and Red - Communists in the early Civil Rights fight
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Black-and-Red-Communists-in-the-Early-Civil-Rights-Fight-201
60905-0021.html
● Cuba - showing how to defeat racism
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cuba-showing-how-defeat-racism
● 50 years on the frontline: the revolutionary contributions of Ho Chi Minh
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2015/05/fifty-years-on-the-frontline-the-revolutionary-contributions-of-ho-
chi-minh/
● Patrice Lumumba: The Truth About a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/LumumbaTruth
● Patrice Lumumba: Fighter for Africa’s Freedom (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/LumumbaFighter
● National Liberation Movement in West Africa, 1956 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/NatLibWestAfrica
/
● Africa Wins Freedom, 1965 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/AfricaWinsFreedom
● A Short History of the National-liberation Movement in East Africa
https://archive.org/details/NatLibEastAfrica
● Diplomatic Battles Before World War II
https://archive.org/details/DiplomaticBattlesBeforeWWII

LGBTQ+
● Leslie Feinberg: Transgender Liberation: a movement whose time has come
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ftUXgJ14OXhWxcGpVYUmLBl_VS5Okct/view
● A closer look at gay rights in China
https://thediplomat.com/2017/05/a-closer-look-at-gay-rights-in-china/
● An introduction to China’s LGBTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9djA4t0VY8&feature=youtu.be
● Gay or Nay: China’s changing attitudes toward homosexuality
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001348/gay-or-nay-chinas-changing-attitudes-toward-homosexuality
● China’s complicated approach to Transgender rights
https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/chinas-complicated-approach-to-transgender-rights/
● Lavender & Red - Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
https://www.workers.org/lavender-red/
● Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba
https://www.workers.org/lavender-red/LavenderRed_Cubabook.pdf
● Cuba enjoys new benefit of free sex-change operation
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/01/cuba.sex.change/index.html
● Homosexuality in Cuba: revolution within the revolution
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43b/172.html
● How does Socialism solve Racism, Sexism and other oppressions?
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/how-does-socialism-solve-racism-sexism-other-oppression/
● Cuba says no to Transphobia and Homophobia
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Says-No-to-Transphobia-and-Homophobia-20170503-0030.
html
● Fillipino Maoist army conducts first same-sex marriage in Phillipines
http://www.wheninmanila.com/lovewins-npa-weds-gay-couple-in-the-philippines/
● How Fidel Castro’s niece Mariela led a LGBTQ revolution in Cuba
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/11/26/how_fidel_castro_s_niece_mariela_led_a_lgbtq_revoluti
on_in_cuba.html
● Looking at Cuba’s LGBTQ revolution through an objective lens
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Looking-at-Cubas-LGBTQ-Revolution-Through-an-Objective-Le
ns-20161204-0018.html
● Che Guevara myths: The truth about the racist, homophobic, murderer
https://www.inquisitr.com/opinion/4289617/che-guevara-myths-the-truth-about-the-racist-homophobic-mu
rderer/amp/
● Cuba: from Machistas Lenninistas to educating homophobes
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/30/cuba-from-machistas-leninistas-to-educating-homophobes/
● Homosexuality in the USSR
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/04/08/homosexuality-in-the-ussr/
● Is Cuba taking the lead on LGBTQ equality in Latin America?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-duran/is-cuba-taking-the-lead-on-lgbt-equality-in-latin-america_b_
2411729.html
● Cuba’s CENESEX led the way on sexual rights
https://www.workers.org/2007/world/lavender-red-107/
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Communism and religion

Communist theory towards religion

● What has Marxism to do with Religion? By Roland Boer (excellent video, highly recommended)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOmT5nRSCeE
● Congress of the Peoples of Daghestan (Speech by Stalin)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1920/11/13.htm
● Attitude of the Workers’ Party towards Religion (by Lenin)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm
● A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (by Marx)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm
● The Program of the Blanquist Fugitives from the Paris Commune
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1874/06/26.htm
● Third Meeting of Hoxha with Stalin
November 1949
“You should never put the struggle against the clergy, who carry out espionage and disruptive
activities, on the religious plane,” Stalin said, “but always on the political plane. The clergy must obey
the laws of the state, because these laws express the will of the working class and the working
people. You must make the people quite clear about these laws and the hostility of the reactionary
clergymen so that even that part of the population which believes in religion will clearly see that, under
the guise of religion, the clergymen carry out activities hostile to the Homeland and the people
themselves. Hence the people, convinced through facts and arguments, together with the
Government, should struggle against the hostile clergy.
You should isolate and condemn only those clergymen who do not obey the Government and commit
grave crimes against the state. But, I insist, the people must be convinced about the crimes of these
clergymen, and should also be convinced about the futility of the religious ideology and the evils that
result from it."
Hoxha, Enver. With Stalin: Memoirs. Tirana: 8 N‘ntori Pub. House, 1979.

How religion was/is treated in communist countries

● In China’s crackdown on religions, Buddhism gets a pass
https://www.worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/in-china39s-crackdown-on-religions-buddhism-gets-a-pass

● Article 68 of the DPRK Constitution: “Citizens have freedom of religious belief. This right is
granted through the approval of the construction of religious buildings and the holding of religious
ceremonies. Religion must not be used as a pretext for drawing in foreign forces or for harming
the State or social order.”
https://www.kfausa.org/chapter-v-fundamental-rights-and-duties-of-citizens/
● Religion in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2015/06/16/religion-in-the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea/
● pp.61-63 (Islam), pp.88-98 (Judaism) Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Al Szymanski
https://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion
● Tibet: religious freedom comes with Chinese Characteristics
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2021650/tibet-religious-freedom-comes-chinese
-characteristics

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World history of Imperialism, anti-Communism (etc)

General
● Deny the British empire’s crimes? No, we ignore them
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/23/british-empire-crimes-ignore-atrocities
● Global Britain was built as a Narco empire (Britain forced China to buy opium)
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/global-britain-was-built-as-a-narco-empire/
● The British pioneered the concentration camp
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/05/uk-concentration-camps-wwii-poland-internment-prisoners
● Classified intelligence: U.S. soldiers r**ed boys in front of their mothers
https://www.mintpressnews.com/classified-evidence-us-soldiers-raped-boys-in-front-of-their-mothers/200
160/
● List of atrocities committed by US authorities
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md
● Why we must protect the world from the United States
https://mronline.org/2018/01/18/why-we-must-protect-the-world-from-the-united-states/
● The return of great power rivalry (very good article)
https://mronline.org/2018/02/06/the-return-of-great-power-rivalry/
● The forgotten coup: how america and britain crushed the government of their ally Australia
http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-forgotten-coup-how-america-and-britain-crushed-the-government-of-thei
r-ally-australia
● List of countries that the U.S.A. has troops in
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/1068442999963873/
● Military spending already bankrupting America
https://www.mintpressnews.com/military-spending-already-bankrupting-america/237593/
● Overkill: the US military in Hawaii
http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/12/overkill-the-us-military-in-hawaii/
● Abby Martin exposes untold history of U.S. Empire (with Jimmy Dore)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qKrPPv2ErY
● Abby Martin discussing journalism, fake news etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDo0AUtW_Bo
● Black Book of Imperialism: US/CIA Military interventions since WW2 (very good resource)
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2002823756710213&id=2002075330118389
● Poll: US the greatest threat to peace in the world today
http://www.mintpressnews.com/polls-us-greatest-threat-peace-world-today/230660/
● 5 reasons why NATO is a destabilizing global force
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/5-Reasons-Why-NATO-Is-a-Destabilizing-Global-Force-201604
04-0034.html
● Imperialism: draining trillions of Dollars out of oppressed nations
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/capitalist-crisis/4764-id050417
● The Empire Files: the rise of history’s biggest Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZLLpgsK_pg
● CIA in the Dock: Soviet Journalists on International Terrorism
https://archive.org/details/CIAInTheDock
● International Criminal Court makes request to investigate US for war crimes
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ICC-Makes-Request-to-Investigate-US-for-War-Crimes-20171122
-0005.html
● Monetary Imperialism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/29/monetary-imperialism/
● The Hunger Games: how modern Imperialism creates famine around the world /
http://www.mintpressnews.com/modern-imperialism-creates-famine-world/229346/
EU (inc. Ukraine)
● U.S-backed Fascist Azov Battalion in Ukraine is training and radicalizing American White
Supremacists
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-backed-fascist-azov-battalion-in-ukraine-is-training-and-radicalizing-
american-white-supremacists/251951/
● American White Supremacists receive training from Ukrainian Neo-Nazi’s
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/american-white-supremacists-receive-trai
● CP of Ukraine information note to the 20th IMCWP (very good reading)
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Ukraine-To-the-20th-IMCWP-Information-Note-of-the-CP-of-Ukrain
e/
● Trials of Andreas Georgiou and the fraud that drove Greece into austerity
http://www.mintpressnews.com/trials-andreas-georgiou-fraud-drove-greece-austerity/235102/
Global Empire - Capitalism and Democracy (2nd half discusses the EU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2DiEBXByJ0

Cuba
● CIA motto: proudly overthrowing the Cuban government since 1959
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/15/cia-motto-proudly-overthrowing-the-cuban-government-since-
1959/
● The unrelenting economic war on Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/28/the-unrelenting-economic-war-on-cuba/

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DPRK

● Understanding what North Korea has been through (great article by Jay Tharappel)
https://www.theorientaldespot.com/article/understandingnorthkorea
● Ian Goodrum: a long thread on Imperialism in the Korean Peninsula
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002586372874461184.html
● DPRK Economic sanctions: war by other means
http://militarywatchmagazine.com//read.php?my_data=70299
● Empire Files: War with North Korea - propaganda vs reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDJlNQlRbIA
/
● Donald Trumps threat to destroy North Korea is totally illegal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5TQ5E5T9Mo
● What war with North Korea looked like in the 1950s and why it matters now
http://www.newsweek.com/us-forget-korean-war-led-crisis-north-592630
● Americans have forgotten what we did to North Korea - Vox
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089913/north-korea-us-war-crime
● Crimes, Concealment and South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
https://web.archive.org/web/20081007071649/http://www.japanfocus.org/_______Khiem___Kim_Sung_soo-Crimes
__Concealment_and_South_Korea___s_Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission
● People’s Armies: how small states under threat manage to maintain large military forces
https://www.facebook.com/ImperialMilitaryWatch.Analysis/posts/1847834395536589
● National liberation and the DPRK
http://writetorebel.com/2017/03/29/national-liberation-and-the-dprk/
● Review of book detailing US germ warfare in Korea
https://shadowproof.com/2015/03/30/book-review-this-must-be-the-place-how-the-u-s-waged-germ-warfare-in-kore
an-war-denied-it-ever-since/
● A lost document from the Cold War: the International Scientific Commission report on bacterial warfare
during the Korean War
https://valtinsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/a-lost-document-from-cold-war.html#.WdzNrFtSyUk
● CIA document suggests US lied about biological, chemical weapons use in the Korean War
https://shadowproof.com/2013/12/10/cia-document-suggests-u-s-lied-about-biological-chemical-weapon-use-in-the-
korean-war/
● No Gun Ri massacre
https://www.facebook.com/telesurenglish/videos/1079553265521408/?hc_location=ufi
● Expert exposes US biological warfare during Korean War
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Expert-Exposes-US-Biological-Warfare-During-Korean-War-20171005-000
6.html
● Suppressed report on 1952 US Korean War Anthrax attack
https://valtinsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/revealed-suppressed-report-on-1952-us.html#.WelhWVWnGUk
● South Korea owns up to brutal past
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/south-korea-owns-up-to-brutal-past/2008/11/14/1226318928410.html?page=ful
lpage#contentSwap1
● Truth Commission reveals history of Korean War: U.S.-South Korea carried out massacres of civillians
http://iacenter.org/korea/skorea070608/
● America’s big lie about bioweapon crimes in Korea by Jeff. J Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kRUY8wcTDk
● Imperialism’s drive to war in Korea
https://redyouth.org/2017/04/21/imperialisms-drive-to-war-in-korea/
● John McCain threatens North Korea with “extinction”
http://www.mintpressnews.com/john-mccain-threatens-north-korea-with-extinction/231943/
● What is the US military’s presence near North Korea?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/09/what-is-the-us-militarys-presence-in-south-east-asia
● Tillerson talks of pre-emptive strikes on NKorea citing weapons of mass destruction
http://www.mintpressnews.com/tillerson-talks-of-pre-emptive-stikes-on-nkorea-citing-weapons-of-mass-destruction/
226009/
● U.S. aggression heightens tensions in Korea as Park government overthrown
https://www.liberationnews.org/u-s-aggression-heightens-tensions-in-korea-as-park-government-overthrown/
● North Korea threatens ‘final doom’ after US deploys strategic bombers
http://www.mintpressnews.com/north-korea-threatens-final-doom-after-us-deploys-strategic-bombers/227435/
● Prelude to war: defend People’s Korea!
https://anti-imperialism.org/2017/04/14/crisis-on-the-peninsula-defend-peoples-korea/
● UN asserts link between North Korea and Syrian chemical weapons
http://www.mintpressnews.com/un-asserts-link-north-korea-syria-chemical-weapons-program/231262/
● When the piper pays you: following the dangerous tune of the South Korean regime
https://anti-imperialism.org/2015/09/02/when-the-piper-pays-you-following-the-dangerous-tune-of-the-south-korean
-regime/
● Reviewing the evidence of DPRK culpability for the Cheonan Warship incident
https://www.globalresearch.ca/reviewing-the-evidence-of-dprk-culpability-for-the-cheonan-warship-incident/22133
● War crimes investigation of North Korea ludicrous beyond words
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/war-crimes-investigation-of-north-korea-ludicrous-beyond-words/ /
● North Korea’s “Hate America Month?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu3nasgUk6A
● Pentagon leads over 300,000 troops in a rehersal for an invasion one week after the white house
announces its considering military action against North Korea
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/pentagon-leads-over-300000-troops-in-a-rehearsal-for-an-invasion-one-
week-after-the-white-house-announces-its-considering-military-action-against-north-korea/
● Washington considers military action against North Korea to force regime change
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/washingtons-considers-military-action-against-north-korea-to-force-regi
me-change/
● Beating the drum for a ‘good’ nuclear war with North Korea
http://www.mintpressnews.com/beating-the-drum-for-a-good-nuclear-war-with-north-korea/231710/
● South Korea’s plan to assassinate Kim Jong-Un
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/23/asia/south-korea-plan-to-assassinate-kim-jong-un/
● Colin Powell says U.S. should destroy North Korean regime if it uses Nuclear Weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7g_8mxaLvQ
● US and North Korea: nuclear threat returns
http://revolutionarycommunist.org/americas/united-states/4985-uan021117
● Pentagon: only ground invasion can destroy North Korean nuclear program
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/05/pentagon-ground-invasion-north-korean-nuclear-program
● “Better a million dead Koreans” - Ex US army official
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Better-a-Million-Dead-North-Koreans-Ex-US-Army-Official-20170905-0019.h
tml
● Biological warfare in the Korean War: Allegations and Cover-up: Socialism and Democracy Vol 31, no. 1.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2016.1265859
● Report of the International Scientific Commission For The Investigation of Facts Concerning Bacterial
Warfare in Korea and China
https://cryptome.org/2015/01/isc-biowar-kr-cn.pdf
● North Korea: The Struggle Against American Power by Tim Beal - (Excellent book)
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=94A5D82DAE9E30CD65FAF8C0E7EE5A9B
● US-DPRK: The Second Phase of the Nuclear Crisis, or “Who Started What
https://journal-neo.org/2017/11/26/us-dprk-the-second-phase-of-the-nuclear-crisis-or-who-started-what/
● “Serious concern” about sanctions’ impact on North Korea aid work: UN DPRK rep
https://www.nknews.org/2017/12/serious-concern-about-sanctions-impact-on-north-korea-aid-work-un-dprk-rep/?c=
1512654806814
● Tokyo & Washington to limit North Korean access to oil
https://www.rt.com/business/401457-us-japan-north-korea-oil/
● DPRK doctor states that sanctions are putting childrens’ lives at risk
https://www.facebook.com/PRESSTV/videos/1732744936767286/?hc_ref=ARQodwscBdMGd6gXmH8BvMVXHUE
xtsMHLKxbf3BJ54yyKv24ypUAUtQSp36-kBU0CwI
● Report: North Korea faces fertilizer shortage due to China coal sanctions
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/05/05/Report-North-Korea-faces-fertilizer-shortage-due-to-China
-coal-sanctions/3391493997741/
● The economy of the DPRK: myth and reality
http://writetorebel.com/2017/03/28/the-economy-of-the-dprk-myth-and-reality/
● Genocide by sanctions: UN double standards pertaining to sanctions and their devastating impacts
https://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-un-double-standards-pertaining-to-sanctions-and-their-devastating-soci
al-impacts/5364484
● US sanctions against the DPRK - a North Korean perspective
https://www.nknews.org/2017/08/new-u-s-sanctions-against-the-dprk-a-north-korean-perspective/
● US representatives pass harshest sanctions ever against North Korea
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Reps-Pass-Harshest-Sanctions-Ever-Against-North-Korea-20171025-00
06.html
● Is the United states credible as a guarantor of international peace and security?
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/is-the-united-states-credible-as-a-guarantor-of-international-peace-and-
security/
● Why UN sanctions against North Korea are wrong
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/why-un-sanctions-against-north-korea-are-wrong/
● It’s just a sanction, bro!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stT-yhxFinA
● The Bombing of North Korea - death toll
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https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bombing_of_North_Korea_1950-1953#Death_Toll
 ● State of fear: how history’s deadliest bombing campaign created todays crisis in Korea
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/08/state-of-fear-how-historys-deadliest-bombing-campaign-created-todays-
crisis-in-korea/
● Hunger in North Korea is devastating. And it’s our fault.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/opinion/weapons-north-korea-hunger.html?mtrref=www.facebook.com&asset
Type=opinion

USSR (historical)
● Empire Files: Post-Soviet Russia, made in the U.S.A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HwvFyMg7A
● We Can Be Friends: Origins of the Cold War by Carl Marzani
https://archive.org/details/WeCanBeFriends
(This book was published in 1952 during the Korean War and was written while the author was in prison for
concealing his Communist Party membership when he was a part of the OSS during World War II. The author
shows through quotes from conservatives, such as Stimson, Summer Welles, and Herbert Hoover as well as /
liberals such as Eleanor Roosevelt and FDR's son Elliott that contrary, to popular belief, it was the U.S., not the
Soviet Union, which started the Cold War.

Truman abandoned FDR's policy of maintaining big three unity in order to prevent war and adopted the "get tough
with Russia" policies of conservatives such as Arthur Vandenburg, and Forrestal who had opposed FDR's foreign
policy ideas.

The U.S. used the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to attempt to soften up the Soviets and get them to give into U.S.
demands. Secretary of War Stimson proposed that the U.S. propose to the Soviet Union a nuclear disarmament
proposal, but Truman rejected that approach and the U.S. proposed through the Baruch Plan, a U.S. dominated
Commission that would control all fissionable materials and prevent any nation, especially the Soviet Union from
breaking the U.S. nuclear monopoly.

Marzani, argues that the the hawks wanted a Cold War with the Soviet Union so that they could use the massive
military budget resulting from the Cold War to shore up the economy and prevent another Depression as well as to
attack radicals who want major reforms in the U.S. economy such as the proposals FDR made in his Second Bill of
Rights Speech, made in 1944 calling for Universal Health Care, Full Employment, and an education and housing.)

● The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War against Soviet Russia

http://www.shunpiking.org/books/GC/
● American Policy Toward Russia Since 1917: A Study of Diplomatic History, International Law & Public
Opinion, 1928 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/AmerPolicySovRussiaSince1917
● Reagan approved plan to sabotage Soviets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/reagan-approved-plan-to-sabotage-soviets/a9184eff-4
7fd-402e-beb2-63970851e130/?utm_term=.4cf1bcd33e6f

Latin America & Carribean

General
● Timeline of U.S. intervention in Central America that caused the ‘migrant crisis’
https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148
● Moderate Rebels podcast: Washington’s war on Haiti and the neocolonial charity-industrial
complex
https://soundcloud.com/moderaterebels/haiti-neocolonial-charity-kim-ives-episode-25
● The media’s fake news about Latin America
https://mronline.org/2018/03/06/the-medias-fake-news-about-latin-america/
● When Ford built a torture chamber (1970s Argentina)
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/02/ford-factory-argentina-videla-mauricio-macri
● How the US funds dissent against Latin American governments
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/How-the-US-Funds-Dissent-against-Latin-American-Governme
nts-20150312-0006.html
● Bolivia’s president declares total independence from World Bank, IMF
https://www.mintpressnews.com/bolivias-president-declares-total-independence-world-bank-imf/230062/
● War on Democracy (film) by John Pilger - history of US ‘interventions’ in Latin America
http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy
● Cuba evokes the history of American imperialism in Latin America
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/23/cuba-evokes-the-history-of-american-imperialism-in-latin-amer
ica/
● Banana land: Blood, Bullets and Poison - history of the banana trade in Central America
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/banana-land-blood-bullets-poison/
● The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - story of the US-backed opposition coup against Chavez
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363510/
● US-Led economic war, not Socialism, is tearing Venezuela apart
/
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-led-economic-war-not-socialism-tearing-venezuela-apart/218335/
 ● Differences between Venezuela fighting corruption and the USA
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Differences-Between-Venezuela-Fighting-Corruption-and-the-U
S-20171104-0009.html
● Colombia is safe for business, but not for people
https://mronline.org/2017/12/06/colombia-is-safe-for-business-but-not-for-people/
● Civic strike paralyses Columbia’s principle pacific port
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/civic-strike-paralyses-colombias-principle-pacific-port/
● CIA in the Dock: Soviet Journalists on International Terrorism (Chile,
https://archive.org/details/CIAInTheDock
● Proving Ground for US Neocolonialism: An Historical Outline of the Infiltration of Latin America by
Monopoly Capital
https://archive.org/details/ProvingGroundsForUSNeocolonialism
● The U.S. role in the Honduras coup and subsequent violence
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-us-role-in-the-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence_us_57
66c7ebe4b0092652d7a138
● Honduras elections turning the tide of US backed violence and neoliberalism
https://www.mintpressnews.com/honduras-elections-turning-the-tide-of-us-backed-violence-and-neoliber
alism/234932/
● Honduras elites blamed for violence against environmental activists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/honduras-environmental-activists-global-witness-violenc
e-berta-caceres
● The World Today: Obama’s coup in Honduras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Fk0Y8zJRs
● Honduras in Flames
https://mronline.org/2017/12/12/honduras-in-flames/

Brazil
● Brazil’s Fascist threat and U.S-backed war on Latin America’s Leftist Pink Tide (great podcast)
http://moderaterebels.libsyn.com/brazils-fascist-threat-and-us-backed-war-on-latin-americas-leftist-pink-ti
de-w-aline-piva-e29
● Thy Will be done: Brasil’s holy war
http://www.brasilwire.com/holy-war/
● Hidden History: the U.S. “war on corruption” in Brasil
http://www.brasilwire.com/dont-call-it-brazilgate
● How Obama’s normalization of the Brazil coup prefigured Trumpism
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-obamas-normalization-of-the-brazil-coup-prefigured-trumpism/
● Why Bolsonaro won: beyond the cliches
http://www.brasilwire.com/why-bolsonaro-won-beyond-the-cliches/
● Bolsonaro victory opens new stage in Brazil’s political struggle (Loud & Clear interview 30 min)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/bolsonaro-victory-opens-new-stage-in-bra
● Fearing Bolsonaro: the backlash after Brazil’s elections (20 min interview)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/fearing-bolsonaro-the-backlash-after-bra
● Brazil and the rise of authoritarian neoliberalism (80min podcast)
https://soundcloud.com/deadpundits/ep-75-brazil-and-the-rise-of-authoritarian-neoliberalism-w-alex-hoch
uli
● Brazil’s fascist threat and US-backed war on Latin America’s leftist Pink Tide (75 min interview)
http://moderaterebels.libsyn.com/brazils-fascist-threat-and-us-backed-war-on-latin-americas-leftist-pink-ti
de-w-aline-piva-e29

Chile
● The myth of Chile’s economic miracle under Pinochet /
https://www.facebook.com/Kristeva.Hysteresis.5/posts/291493771347853
 ● Chile - the anatomy of an “economic miracle”
https://libcom.org/library/chile-anatomy-of-an-economic-miracle
● Chile - lessons of the coup
http://revolutionarycommunist.org/americas/latin-america/664-chile-lessons-of-the-coup-frfi-144-aug-sep-
1998
● Patricio Guzman interview
https://newint.org/features/2015/11/01/patricio-guzman-interview

Nicaragua
● New Revelations expose role of Catholic Church in Nicaragua unrest
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/new-revelations-expose-role-of-catholic-
● The New Battle of Nicaragua (excellent documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZM2wAbmVnc
● US-funded NGO that sank $4.1mn into Nicaragua protests says it's 'misleading' to report about it
https://www.rt.com/news/444172-us-democracy-nicaragua-protest/
● How an American anthropologist tied to U.S. regime change proxies became the MSM’s man in
Nicaragua
https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-an-american-anthropologist-tied-to-us-regime-change-proxies-bec
ame-the-msms-man-in-nicaragua/249868/

China
● The Coming War on China by John Pilger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsdOw2_LGsk
● China, Tibet, and U.S.-sponsored counter revolution
https://www.liberationnews.org/08-04-01-china-tibet-ussponsored-coun-html/
● CIA Tibetan program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program
● Dalai Lama group says it got money from the CIA
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/world-news-briefs-dalai-lama-group-says-it-got-money-from-ci
a.html
● Secret Files: Untold story of CIA covert operations in Tibet
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612131048516027-china-cia-tibet/

See sections on Tibet and Tiananmen Square under “PRC” -

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gxwhh-vdeB--47HM-20cEVRC9eAMhrapbNf0Sk8VSOs/edit#hea
ding=h.q9uo3dbxv5qc

Eastern Bloc (historical)

● Bulgaria, 1990, Albania, 1991: teaching communists what democracy is all about
https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/bulgaria-albania
 

Middle East & Afghanistan

● Moderate Rebels: Yemen (excellent podcast episode)
https://soundcloud.com/moderaterebels/yemen-shireen-al-adeimi-episode-16
/
● New study finds 6 trillion spent on so-called War on Terror
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/new-study-finds-6-trillion-spent-on-so-c
● Saudi Arabia stealing 63% of Yemen’s oil production
https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/war-on-yemen/1537-saudi-arabia-yemen-oil-tota
l.html
● Imperialism, the Islamic State and the policy of endless war
http://liberationschool.org/imperialism-the-islamic-state-and-the-policy-of-endless-war/
● A history of the Afghanistan War, Fool’s Errand: interview with Scott Horton (excellent interview)
http://mediaroots.org/a-history-of-the-afghanistan-war-fools-errand-interview-w-scott-horton/
● How many people has the U.S. killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan post 9/11?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-many-people-has-the-u-s-killed-in-afghanistan-and-pakistan-post-9
-11/239962/
● America has spent $5.6 trillion on the War on Terror and counting
https://www.mintpressnews.com/hidden-costs-americas-wars/237677/
● The $1.5 billion campaign to whitewash genocide in Yemen
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/05/the-1-5-billion-campaign-to-whitewash-genocide-in-yemen/
● What if we avoided the war on terror?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/what-if-we-never-fell-for-al-qaedas-trap-avoided-war-on-terror/234855/
● Hit & Run: book exposes New Zealand’s cover up of its possible war crime in afghanistan
https://www.mintpressnews.com/hit-run-book-exposes-new-zealands-cover-up-of-its-possible-war-crime-
in-afghanistan/238192/
● Yemen: the most forgotten country in the world
https://mronline.org/2017/11/16/yemen-the-most-forgotten-country-in-the-world/
● UK military working alongside Saudi bomb targeters
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/12102089/UK-military-working-alon
gside-Saudi-bomb-targeters-in-Yemen-war.html
● Saudi Arabias slaughter in yemen fueled by oil interests, not democracy
https://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-arabias-slaughter-yemen-fueled-oil-interests-not-democracy/2152
07/
● Afghanis submit 1.17 million complaints of crimes against humanity
http://theantimedia.org/afghanis-submit-million-war-crimes/
● Kissinger’s occupation of Iraq destroys agriculture
http://www.mintpressnews.com/kissingers-occupation-iraq-destroys-agriculture/226407/
● U.S. destabilizes Venezuela, Syria to retain hegemony in global oil and gas markets
http://www.mintpressnews.com/u-s-destabilizes-venezuela-syria-to-retain-hegemony-in-global-oil-gas-m
arkets/227831/
● James Le Mesurier: The former British mercenary who founded the White Helmets
http://www.mintpressnews.com/james-le-mesurier-british-ex-military-mercenary-founded-white-helmets/2
30320/
● Pentagon report predicted Wests’ support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/05/22/pentagon-report-predicted-wests-support-for-islamist-rebels-wo
uld-create-isis/
● RT: Yemen, the neglected war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lreEMTQfTA
● When Washington cheered Jihadists
http://www.mintpressnews.com/washington-cheered-jihadists/235430/
● Yemen: a western-sponsored genocide
http://www.thedawn-news.org/2017/12/19/yemen-a-western-sponsored-genocide/
● U.S. to extract minerals from Afghanistan to defray cost of US assistance
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-to-extract-minerals-from-afghanistan-to-defray-cost-of-us-assistance/
232333/
● Riyadh’s bloody ‘vietnam’ in Yemen not going as planned
https://sputniknews.com/military/201712241060291223-riyadh-yemen-war-like-vietnam/
● A total horror show: the new plan for Yemen
/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/22/a-total-horror-show-the-new-plan-for-yemen/
 ● Yemen: 5 children dying per day
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/16/yemen-war-children-dead-injured-malnourished
● The UAE overthrew the Yemeni Government
http://theantimedia.org/uae-overthrew-yemen-government/

Syria

General
● The economic atom bombing of Syria
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2018/06/23/the-economic-atom-bombing-of-syria/
● Washington’s Long War on Syria isn’t about to end
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/washingtons-long-war-on-syria-isnt-about-to-end-on-the-contr
ary-the-white-house-has-blessed-pentagon-plans-for-more-aggression/
● Surprise video changes Syria timeline (documents armed groups escalating the uprising)
https://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/sandbox/surprise-video-changes-syria-timeline
● Syria: the hidden massacre (very interesting article that proves the uprising was violent and
armed from the start)
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/157412-syria-hidden-massacre-2011/
● Al Jazeera advocating Alawite genocide in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWchMZfUkMQ
● Wanted: The “Butcher of Damascus” to return normalcy to Syria (great article examining Western
hypocrisy about governments in MENA)
https://www.mintpressnews.com/wanted-butcher-damascus-return-normalcy-syria/240936/
● The Syria Deception: Al-Queda goes to Hollywood (great documentary, *must* watch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FUpbZXaN9w&feature=youtu.be&bpctr=1538652218
● Syria: the emerging reality of the U.S. coalition regime change war - on the ground reporting
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/08/20/syria-the-emerging-reality-of-the-u-s-coalition-regime-change-wa
r-on-the-ground-reporting/
● A dose of sanity on Syria - with Rania Khalek (very good podcast episode, required listening!)
https://soundcloud.com/moderaterebelsradio/syria-rania-khalek-episode-17
● The “Human Rights” war on Syria
https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/2166-human-rights-war.html
● War, abuse and other people's: a personal account (excellent article by anti-Imperialist academic
Tim Anderson)
https://ahtribune.com/politics/2228-war-abuse-tim-anderson-syria.html
● Who is the real culprit behind the chemical attacks in Syria? A brief history
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2018/04/15/who-is-the-real-culprit-behind-the-chemical-attacks-i
n-syria-a-brief-history/
● How the Syrian-American Medical Society is selling regime changes and driving the US to war
https://www.mintpressnews.com/al-qaedas-mash-unit-how-the-syrian-american-medical-society-is-sellin
g-regime-change-and-driving-the-us-to-war/240393/
● Times declares: stop asking questions on Syria
https://www.mintpressnews.com/stop-asking-questions-on-syria/240679/
● Syria and ISIS: some anti-imperialist observations and analysis
https://www.workers.org/2016/01/21/syria-and-isis-some-anti-imperialist-observations-and-analysis/
● Syria and the project to balkanize the Middle East
https://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-and-the-project-to-balkanize-the-middle-east/5589177 (very good
article)
● New report confirms Israel has been secretly funding Syrian rebels for years
https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-report-confirms-israel-secretly-funding-syrian-rebels-years/229038/
● America, the Kurds and history: only a pawn in their game /
https://www.mintpressnews.com/america-the-kurds-and-history-only-a-pawn-in-their-game/237151/
● ISIS commanders cell phone shows direct ties to Turkish intelligence
https://www.mintpressnews.com/killed-isis-commanders-cell-phone-shows-direct-ties-to-turkish-intelligen
ce/212317/
● US and Saudi Arabia significantly enhanced ISIS’ military capabilities, report reveals
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-us-saudi-arabia-arms-fighters-jihadis-military-
capability-enhanced-weapons-syria-terrorism-a8112076.html
● Russia finally tells us what it really thinks of the illegal occupation of Syria
http://www.eurasiafuture.com/2018/02/09/russia-finally-tells-us-really-thinks-illegal-occupation-syria/
● The war in Syria is a war against secularism
http://www.eurasiafuture.com/2018/03/03/war-syria-war-secularism/
● Impossible for families to leave Ghouta, they’re being shelled & sniped – nun at Syrian monastery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlIe-ihkk30
● America’s illegal sojourn in Syria
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/03/01/america-illegal-sojourn-syria.html
● UN feigns outrage over Ghouta while terrorist rockets rain down on Damascus
https://www.mintpressnews.com/un-feigns-outrage-over-ghouta-while-terrorist-rockets-rain-down-on-dam
ascus/238148/
● Ghouta, Raqqa, Aleppo: ceasefire decisions and humanitarian concern
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ghouta-raqqa-aleppo-ceasefire-decisions-humanitarian-unconcern/2381
87/
● Russia blamed for Eastern Ghouta crisis - the West’s hypocrisy knows no bound
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/02/25/russia-blamed-eastern-ghouta-crisis-the-west-hypocri
sy-knows-no-bounds.html
● Western howls over the Ghouta siege ring hollow
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ghouta-siege-syria-death-toll-civilians-armed-attack-rebel-aleppo-la
test-a8221086.html
● Syrian War for dummies: three versions
https://www.sott.net/article/377588-Syrian-War-for-Dummies-Three-Versions
● Sudden surge of media coverage on the CIA’s arming of ISIS
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-surge-of-media-coverage-on-the-cias-arming-of-isis/235587/
● Excellent analysis of media reporting on Syria
https://markdoran.wordpress.com/2018/02/10/syriana/
● How the Western media ignores their role in the conflict
https://twitter.com/markcurtis30/status/962712345003864066
● ISIS morphs from deadly enemy in Syria to useful weapon in Abu Kamal (excellent article)
https://www.mintpressnews.com/isis-morphs-from-deadly-enemy-in-syria-to-useful-weapon-in-abu-kamal
/237896/
● The pundits were wrong about Assad and the Islamic State.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-abrahms-glaser-isis-assad-20171210-story.html
● Study shows Islamic State’s primary opponent is Syrian Government
http://news.ihsmarkit.com/press-release/aerospace-defense-security/study-shows-islamic-states-primary
-opponent-syria-governmen
● Media blacks out Pentagon report exposing US role in ISIS creation
http://www.mintpressnews.com/media-blacks-out-pentagon-report-exposing-u-s-role-in-isis-creation/206
187/
● Homage to Syria
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/08/31/homage-to-syria/
● The last days of Jobar mark the end of the proxy war in Syria
http://www.mintpressnews.com/the-last-days-of-jobar-mark-the-end-of-the-proxy-war-in-syria/235453/
● Julian Assange: US, Israel, planned to overthrow Assad in 2006
http://www.mintpressnews.com/julian-assange-us-israel-planned-to-overthrow-assad-in-2006/209493/
● US confronting Iran inside Syria: spoiling for an unlawful fight
/
http://www.mintpressnews.com/u-s-confronting-iran-inside-syria-spoiling-for-an-unlawful-fight/235771/
 ● Why the conflict in Syria was always Israel’s war
http://www.mintpressnews.com/why-conflict-syria-was-always-israels-war/231532/
● U.S. will lose Syria to Iran and abandon Kurdish allies, former ambassador says
http://www.newsweek.com/us-military-kurds-lose-iran-syria-former-ambassador-627395?utm_source=int
ernal&utm_campaign=right&utm_medium=related2
● Ex-Marine’s analysis of US intervention in Syria (from 2013)
https://www.facebook.com/MintpressNewsMPN/videos/1422559624454235/
● The CIA origins of ISIS
http://theantimedia.org/someone-finally-explained-isis-created-will-make-question-everything/

The “Imperial Left” and Syria

● Noam Chomsky among progressives calling for continued US involvement in Syria
https://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-among-progressives-calling-for-continued-us-involveme
nt-in-syria
● The Cruise Missile Left now cheerleading NATO’s next wars
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-cruise-missile-left-now-cheerleading-natos-next-wars/241157/
● Another beautiful soul: counterpunching the global assault on dissent
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/another-beautiful-soul-counterpunching-the-global-assault-on
-dissent/
● Dear Mehdi Hassan: should we remind you that you work for Qatar?
http://www.syriana-analysis.com/dear-mehdi-hassan-should-we-remind-you-that-you-work-for-qatar/

White Helmets, NGO’s etc

● London Review of Books: The Red Line and the Rat Line
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
● Western media attacks critics of the White Helmets (very good ‘summary’ article)
https://mronline.org/2018/11/09/western-media-attacks-critics-of-the-white-helmets
● Vanessa Beeley meets the White Helmets and armed group leader in Daraa
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/10/17/syria-exclusive-vanessa-beeley-meets-the-white-helmets-and-ar
med-group-leader-in-daraa-al-balad/
● The Syria Deception: Al-Queda goes to Hollywood (great documentary, *must* watch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FUpbZXaN9w&feature=youtu.be&bpctr=1538652218
● The White Helmets are a propaganda construct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vNwe7yKbwo
● 100 images exposing White Helmets as terrorists
https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/05/01/now-you-see-me-over-100-white-helmet-self-posted-facebook-ima
ges-expose-fake-humanitarian-group-as-fsa-terrorists-in-bed-with-al-qaeda/
● Carla Ortiz visits the Aleppo former headquarters of the White Helmets
https://www.facebook.com/CarlaOrtizOfficial/videos/2132748790076439/
● Report traces “neutral” Syria war observer SOHR funding to UK foreign office
https://www.mintpressnews.com/report-traces-neutral-syrian-war-observer-sohr-funding-to-uk-foreign-offi
ce/242096/
● How Syrian White Helmets played Western media
https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/how-syrian-white-helmets-played-western-media
● Sarin gas materials sent to ISIS from Turkey claims Turkish MP Eren Erdem
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/sarin-gas-materials-sent-to-isis-from-turkey-claims-
mp-eren-erdem-34286662.html
● Seven steps of highly effective manipulators
https://dissidentvoice.org/2015/04/seven-steps-of-highly-effective-manipulators/ /
● The White Helmets controversy
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/22/the-white-helmets-controversy/
● Syrian War propaganda at the Oscars
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/24/syrian-war-propaganda-at-the-oscars/
● Did Al-Queda dupe Trump on Syrian attack?
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/11/09/did-al-qaeda-dupe-trump-on-syrian-attack/

Rebel groups (etc)

● Syrian villagers describe massacre by militant group spared from UN terror blacklist
https://www.rt.com/news/342983-syria-zara-carnage-alsham/
● There is no FSA, only Al-Queda
https://arretsurinfo.ch/there-is-no-fsa-there-is-only-al-qaeda/
● With war looming, the voices of Syrians are being suppressed once again
https://www.mintpressnews.com/with-war-looming-the-voices-of-syrians-are-being-suppressed-once-aga
in/240529/
● Syria war diary: what life is like under “moderate rebel” rule
https://www.mintpressnews.com/syria-war-diary-what-life-is-like-under-moderate-rebel-rule/231201/

Support for Assad

● Syrians support Assad, but you wouldn’t know from reading Western Propaganda (from 2012!)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/syrians-support-assad-western-propaganda
● The revolutionary distemper that wasn’t (from 2016 - very good article)
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/the-revolutionary-distemper-in-syria-that-wasnt/
● With war looming, the voices of Syrians are being surpressed once again
https://www.mintpressnews.com/with-war-looming-the-voices-of-syrians-are-being-suppressed-once-aga
in/240529/
● Syrians support Assad, but BBC won’t report it, British Baroness tells RT after fact finding trip
https://www.rt.com/uk/424930-syrians-support-assad-bbc/
● Over 500,000 Syrian refugees return to Government-controlled areas of Syria (July 2017)
https://theantimedia.com/500000-syrian-refugees-return-syria/

Chemical Weapons allegations

● The Sarin Mysteries: Syria, Sarin, and Casus Belli (Parenti article on the 2013 attacks)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36395.htm

Douma
● Leaked documents poke more holes in establishment Syria narrative
https://southfront.org/caitlin-johnstone-leaked-document-pokes-more-holes-in-establishment-syria-narrati
ve/
● Douma part 1: deception in plain sight
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/douma-part-1-deception-in-plain-sight-media-lens/
● The BBC try unsuccessfully to make former British Ambassador Peter Ford go along with the
Syria narrative
https://www.facebook.com/WearRedStandUpAndBeCounted/videos/1853637471336793/
● US reporter in Syria: nobody saw or heard anything like a chemical attack
https://www.facebook.com/handsoffsyria/videos/1702816346498433/
● OAN journalist travels to Douma
https://steemit.com/news/@emmafiala/someone-finally-explained-what-happened-in-douma-and-it-will-m
ake-you-question-the-entire-syria-conflict
● Fisk puts to test the free press myth in Douma
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018-04-18/fisk-puts-to-test-the-free-press-myth-in-douma/
/
 ● Famed war reporter Robert Fisk reaches Syrian chemical attack site; concludes they were not
gassed
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2018/04/18/famed-war-reporter-robert-fisk-reaches-syrian-chemi
cal-attack-site-concludes-they-were-not-gassed/
● Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly
complete nonsense
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/eight-reasons-why-the-latest-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-
allegations-are-almost-certainly-complete-nonsense/
● Syria chemical weapons attack: the facts
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/syria-chemical-weapons-attack-the-facts/
● The search for truth in the rubble of Douma - excellent article by veteran journalist Robert Fisk
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-gas-douma-robert-fisk-ghouta-damascus-a8
307726.html
● Guilty! The US, UK, France commit gross violation of international law (excellent discussion of
wider Douma situation)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/guilty-the-us-uk-france-commit-gross-vio
● Syrian boy reveals truth about White Helmets
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201804181063698154-syrian-boy-reveals-truth-helmets/
● Syria poison gas attack pretext for U.S. military attack
https://www.workers.org/2018/04/10/syria-poison-gas-pretext-for-u-s-military-attack/
● BBC presenter declares ‘info war against Russia’ after ex-navy chief questions Syria ‘evidence’
https://www.rt.com/uk/424508-bbc-information-war-west-syri

Libya

● Timeline of events in Libya

Libya events timeline
● Michael Parenti on Libya and Gadaffi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZqSJgtve5A
● Gaddafi’s Libya was Africa’s Most Prosperous Democracy by Garikai Chengu, MA
https://www.countercurrents.org/chengu120113.htm
● Hillary Clinton and the truth about Libya
https://youtu.be/NvSi6CsjVDo
● Libya without Gaddafi: 5 years of turmoil (Special Report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHCh_eCzzws
● Libya chose freedom, now it has slavery
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/27/libya-chose-freedom-now-it-has-slavery/
● Libya’s frozen accounts: €10 billion missing
https://www.rt.com/news/420837-flozen-libyan-billions-missing/

Palestine (“Israel”)
● The Empire Files: Israeli Army vet’s expose: “I was the terrorist”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rk1dAIhiVc
● How Israel spies on U.S. citizens
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-israel-spies-on-us-citizens/
● The Empire Files: Max Blumenthal on Palestine’s rebellion, Israel’s fascism (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_-_KvTQJMw
● Scenes from censored Al Jazeera documentary “The Lobby”
https://www.facebook.com/grayzoneproject/videos/357384908135157/
/
● Killing Gaza
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/killing-gaza/
● Palestinians have no choice but to continue the struggle
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/05/16/palestinians-have-no-choice-but-t
o-continue-the-struggle/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e237d153d4c3
● Incredible video of an interview between CBS news and a peace activist. Required watching!
https://www.facebook.com/JewishVoiceforPeace/videos/10157392479514992/
● Israeli troops are turning their weapons onto international journalists
https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-troops-are-turning-their-weapons-onto-international-journalists/24
2054/
● Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by
Richard Carleton, Beirut 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h_drCmG2iM
● Thousands of Israeli’s take to the streets calling for Palestinian genocide
https://www.mintpressnews.com/thousands-israelis-take-streets-calling-palestinian-genocide/221168/
● As Gaza dries out, Israel turns off fresh water
https://www.mintpressnews.com/genocide-as-gaza-dries-out-israel-turns-off-fresh-water-spigot/237683/
● The lies and self-deceptions at work within Israels moral military
https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/the-lies-and-self-deceptions-at-work-within-israel-s-moral-ar
my-1.709910
● Israeli army’s lies can no longer salvage its image
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/06/israeli-armys-lies-can-no-longer-salvage-its-image/
● Israel moves to outlaw criticism of the military
https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-moves-to-outlaw-criticism-of-the-military/238212/
● Golan Heights: Israels forgotten occupation
https://muftah.org/golan-heights-israels-forgotten-occupation/#.Wgi8-lu0OUl
● Former Israeli soldier: I helped entrench the occupation
https://www.mintpressnews.com/watch-former-israeli-soldier-i-helped-entrench-the-occupation/237799/
● United states and Israel: re-evaluating a toxic relationship
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/United-States-and-Israel-Re-evaluating-a-Toxic-Relationship-20
171224-0013.html
● Jewish Voice for Peace video about the BDS movement
https://www.facebook.com/JewishVoiceforPeace/videos/10156917331149992/
● The contemporary Jewish dilemma: adopt or reject Zionism and White Supremacy
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Contemporary-Jewish-Dilemma-Adopt-or-Reject-Zionism-a
nd-White-Supremacy-20171207-0010.html
● 52% of Israeli Jews agree: African migrants are ‘a cancer’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/most-israeli-jews-agree-africans-are-a-cancer/
● Israel orders African refugees to leave country within three months or face prison
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-refugees-africa-order-leave-country-prison-t
hreat-a8138961.html
● Netanyahu openly boasts of Israel's war against Africans
https://electronicintifada.net/content/netanyahu-openly-boasts-israels-war-africans/19051
● Asa Winstanley reviews James Horrox's account of anarchism in the Zionist kibbutzim, which, in
its marginalisation of the Palestinians, suffers from the same blindness and moral lacunae as the
kibbutz ideologues it attempts to study.
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_receiving_end_of_our_dreams
● Zionism from the standpoint of its victims by Edward Said
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Edward-Said-Excerpt.pdf
● Israel tortures Palestinian children, keeps them in outdoor cages in winter - human rights group
http://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-tortures-palestinian-children-keeps-them-in-outdoor-cages-in-winte
r-rights-group/212808/
● Everyday Israeli’s express support for Genocide to Abby Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFoxL3sOAio
/
● Abby Martin discusses Palestine (among other topics) - very good (and disturbing) talk
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/needs-title
● What does the BDS movement mean for Palestine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAxYkenR48w
● Israeli Palestinian conflict explained: an animated introduction to Israel and Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y58njT2oXfE
● No Man’s Land - the history of the Israeli Black Panthers’ struggle against racist state violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uSQA1TMbw
● Mental health in Palestine among world’s worst
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2017/5/12/mental-health-in-palestine-among-worlds-worst
● Global Empire - The Israeli State and its Rogue Allies
https://youtu.be/55BXncWCcoM
● Global Empire - Eyal Weizman: Excavating Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQbwDemd3jY
● The World Today - the tragedy of Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kofa7w71nlM
● Empire Files: Home Demolitions for Illegal Settlements Surging
https://youtu.be/-sGSRLrE-is
● Five Broken Cameras - A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent
resistance to the actions of the Israeli army
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125423/
● John Pilger: Palestine is still the issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYF0td7Ykus
● In Search of Palestine - Edward Said's Return Home BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09FjpTf_3Q
● Empire Files: Touring Palestine's Besieged Refugee Camps
https://youtu.be/f3RypMScEMQ
● Thank God it’s Friday
https://vimeo.com/226575842
● Exposing Israel's Ultra-Nationalist Settler Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xatIsNxa1mw
● Occupation 101 - full documentary
https://youtu.be/CDK6IfZK0a0
● Homeland Insecurity: Palestine’s refusal to die haunts Israeli colonial celebrations
http://www.mintpressnews.com/homeland-insecurity-palestines-refusal-to-die-haunts-israeli-colonial-cele
brations/235033/
● Myth: the Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3212-myth-the-palestinians-voluntarily-left-their-homeland-in-1948
● Israeli soldiers: Army deliberately targeted civilians in Gaza
http://www.mintpressnews.com/israeli-soldiers-army-deliberately-targeted-civilians-in-gaza/205287/
● 42 times the US has vetoed UN resolutions against Israel
http://www.mintpressnews.com/42-times-the-us-has-vetoed-un-resolutions-against-israel/235700/
● China Rallies Support for Four-point Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.804541
● Chinese President Calls for East Jerusalem as Capital of Palestinian State
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.698833
● From the River to the Sea: PFLP’s 50 years of struggle
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/From-the-River-to-the-Sea-PFLPs-50-Years-of-Struggle-201712
11-0017.html
● Jeremy Hardy vs the Israeli Army (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gw6j9DaSY4
● Promises and Betrayals: Britain and the Holy Land
https://youtu.be/7VBlBekw3Uk
● TRUMP UNSUCCESSFULLY BULLIES UN MEMBERS TO VOTE AGAINST SHARED AND
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PEACEFUL JERUSALEM
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/trump-bullies-un-members-vote-shared-peaceful-jerusalem/

● “As far as the history of religion in the Middle East, I think one thing that is really instructive is to
look at the destruction of the ancient temples in Palmyra by Daesh. These temples were
destroyed, supposedly, because Islam required them to be destroyed, and this is the reputation
of Islam today, that it would destroy such temples.
But of course Syria has been ruled by Muslims since the 7th century when it was conquered by
Caliph Abubakr, who was the father-in-law and close friend of Mohamed. Neither Abubakr nor
any of the possibly hundreds of Muslim rulers -- including of course Bashar al Assad -- who
controlled Palmyra between the 600s and Daesh's conquest in, like, 2013, felt it necessary to
destroy the temples.
Similarly, the Yazidis were nearly wiped out by Daesh, and this, also is taken as demonstrative of
Muslim attitudes toward minority religions. Yet, of course, Iraq has been Muslim since the 600s as
well, and none of the previous Muslim rulers wiped out the Yazidis.

It would be inaccurate and idealistic to say that there was no interreligious conflict in Muslim
countries prior to the 20th century. But it is absolutely the case that on the whole a number of
religions were able to coexist in those areas, despite the conflict -- which at times could be
bloody.
This business of wiping people out, of demanding purification, and etc., is basically a 20th
century thing. And that is true whether we are talking about the Turkish genocide of the
Armenians (and just as there are still Palestinians in spite of genocide there are also still
Armenians) as well as Assyrians and Greeks in Turkey.
And it is true also of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Prior to the 20th century, the majority
religion in Palestine was Sunni Islam but there were also Christians, Jews and Shia. Yes, there
was conflict, but they all managed to survive. Only today, under the Zionist state, do we have this
situation where one religious group is seeking to wipe out all the others.

And I do not think that any of the Palestinian resistance groups seek to do to the Jews what the
Zionists are seeking to do to the Palestinians, which is to say force them all to die or leave.”
(From facebook)

Iran
● US anti-Iran summit coincided with foreign-based terror attack in Iran killing 25
https://www.mintpressnews.com/iran-terror-attack/249714/
● How the US came to label Iran the top state sponsor of terrorism
https://www.mintpressnews.com/why-the-us-spreads-falsehoods-about-iran/234834/
● Leaked papers show Whiet House planning regime change in Iran
http://theantimedia.com/white-house-planning-regime-change-iran/
● Birth of an insurgency: US-Israeli secret deal to manipulate protests in Iran
https://www.mintpressnews.com/birth-insurgency-us-israeli-secret-deal-manipulate-protests-iran/236009/
● US government runs anti head-scarf campaign in Iran
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/01/us-government-runs-anti-head-scarf-campaign-against-iran.html
● What the media won’t tell you about the US’ true intentions in Syria
https://www.mintpressnews.com/what-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-us-true-intentions-in-syria/2385
86/
● US Empire is running same script in Iran that it ran in Libya, Syria
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-empire-running-script-iran-ran-libya-syria/235967/
● For 40 years, Iran’s been preparing for the war the US has been threatening
http://www.mintpressnhttps://www.mintpressnews.com/us-empire-running-script-iran-ran-libya-syria/2359
/
67/ews.com/for-40-years-irans-been-preparing-for-the-war-the-us-has-been-threatening/224677/
 ● US defense secretary Mattis rejects war on Iran
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-defense-secretary-mattis-rejects-war-on-iran/235706/
● We need to talk about the Iran protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gz7o20p7rI
● How Operation Merlin poisoned U.S. intelligence on Iran
https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-operation-merlin-poisoned-u-s-intelligence-on-iran/238472/

Iraq
● Playing games with war deaths
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/01/17/playing-games-with-war-deaths/
● Burying the Lancet report… and the children
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=18696
● Iraq and beyond: how many millions have been killed in American wars?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/iraq-and-beyond-how-many-millions-have-been-killed-in-american-wars/
239468/
● Iraq's elections: hope in a land wrecked by imperialism
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/5/10/iraqs-elections-hope-land-wrecked-imperialism
● How many millions of people have been killed in America’s post 9/11 wars? Part one: Iraq
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/03/22/how-many-millions-of-people-have-been-killed-in-americas-post
-9-11-wars-part-one-iraq/
● Remember when the media sold us the Iraq WMD lies? It’s happening again
http://theantimedia.org/media-iraq-lie-peddling-russia-war/
● Saddam Hussein’s CIA interrogator: He tried to warn us, we didn’t listen
http://theantimedia.org/saddam-hussein-cia-interrogator-warn-us/

East / Southeast Asia

● The plight of the Rohingya: sorting through the propaganda (great article)
http://liberationschool.org/the-plight-of-the-rohingya-sorting-through-the-propaganda/
● Amid marine base hazards, Okinawa struggles with new wave of US and Japanese militarization
https://www.mintpressnews.com/amid-marine-base-hazards-okinawa-struggles-new-wave-us-japanese-
militarization/238357/
● Operation Pacific Eagle in the Philippines: Washington's new colonial war (part 1)
https://www.mintpressnews.com/operation-pacific-eagle-in-the-philippines-washingtons-new-colonial-war
/237281/
● Operation Pacific Eagle in the Philippines: Duterte falls in line with US plans (part 2)
https://www.mintpressnews.com/operation-pacific-eagle-duterte-falls-in-line-with-us-plans-for-the-philippi
nes/237641/
● Operation Pacific Eagle in the Philippines: The US and Duterte take aim at China and the poor
(part 3)
https://www.mintpressnews.com/operation-pacific-eagle-the-us-and-duterte-take-aim-at-china-and-the-ar
med-poor/237942/
● No, the US didn’t ‘stand by’ Indonesian genocide - it actively participated
https://mronline.org/2017/10/20/no-u-s-didnt-stand-by-indonesian-genocide-it-actively-participated/
● Vietnam 40 years on: how Communist victory gave way to capitalist corruption (good summary of
some of the brutality of the Vietnam War and the subsequent economic warfare against Vietnam,
read critically)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/22/vietnam-40-years-on-how-communist-victory-gave-way-t
o-capitalist-corruption

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Africa

● US-funded report illuminates enormous South Sudan death toll but leaves America’s role in the
dark
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-funded-report-illuminates-enormous-south-sudan-death-toll-but-leav
es-americas-role-in-the-dark/249974/
● Every leader who has stood up for Africa’s right to economic self-determination has been
eliminated
https://howafrica.com/every-leaders-who-has-stood-up-for-africas-right-to-economic-self-determination-h
as-been-eliminated/
● US Neocolonialism in Africa (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/USNeocolonialismAfrica
● Looking out for Western business and investor rights, the invasion of Libya
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/looking-out-for-western-business-and-investor-rights-why-the-
west-approves-military-interventions-to-topple-one-arab-government-and-prop-up-another/
● Patrice Lumumba: The Truth About a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/LumumbaTruth
● Patrice Lumumba: Fighter for Africa’s Freedom (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/LumumbaFighter
● Libya in 2017 is home to the slave trade
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201711211059291956-libya-slave-trade-intervention/
● Shadow armies: the unseen but real US war in Africa
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Shadow-Armies-The-Unseen-But-Real-US-War-in-Africa-20180
107-0013.html
● Shell ruling is bad for democracy and the planet - Shell involvement in Nigeria
https://mronline.org/2018/02/18/shell-ruling-is-bad-for-democracy-and-the-planet/
/
 

Imperialist and anti-communist propaganda explained

Note: this entire section will be re-worked at some point

The Cold War

● Nato expansion: what Gorbachev heard (discussion of the NATO creep eastwards after German
reunification)
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-he
ard-western-leaders-early

● To summarize Michael Parenti: The media and government has portrayed anticommunist and anti-Soviet
policies as understandable defensive responses to Soviet aggrandizement. According to the standard
narrative, The Cold War started in 1947 when Russia proved itself to be an expansionist and menacing
power. In response to that aggrandizement, the US alerted the public to the Soviet menace. We reacted to
this threat with the NATO shield, armaments, interventions in various countries, and so on. The Truman
Doctrine was established, which reoriented foreign policy to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion.

However, in the eighties, the American Historical Association published a set of documents that they got
from the State department under the Freedom of Information Act. These documents reveal that the State
department *never* believed that the Soviets had any intention, interest, or capability of invading Western
Europe in the late 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s. This is of course mind-blowing for those who were raised
in that post-war era and heard constant reports about the Soviet menace in Europe. Just ask your parents.
Their generation made to believe that what we needed, above all else, was a NATO shield.

"... the capitalists, although they clamour, for 'propaganda' purposes, about the aggressiveness of the
Soviet Union, do not themselves believe that it is aggressive, because they are aware of the Soviet Union's
peaceful policy and know that it will not itself attack capitalist countries." -- Stalin, 1951

Anti-communist propaganda (general)

● Left Anti-Communist: the Unkindest Cut
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/
● The great myths about the Soviet Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3vecJDKTBg
● Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqIU9_zKg4
● Robert Conquest - lies about Socialism, Stalin and the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vcHuTskBz4
● Talk by Grover Furr on Tim Snyder’s Bloodlands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxYdGSIP0d0
● Top 10 lies about the Bolshevik Revolution (part 1)
https://www.bolshevik.info/top-10-lies-about-the-bolshevik-revolution-part-one.htm
● Reflection on the overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVes44hcJg
● Anti-Sovietism in the media by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/FUWrgLpazwE
● America’s unofficial religion - the war on an idea by Abby Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hznlp-DwgSw
● Russia rejects Ukraine ban of communist symbols
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Russia-Rejects-Ukraine-Ban-of-Communist-Symbols-20150411-0
010.html
● Inside The Myth: Orwell, Views From The Left, 1984 (scanned book) /
https://archive.org/details/OrwellViewsFromTheLeft

Propaganda (work in progress)

● Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting
libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=2D0FF39EDACA729B8FB14005FC637BCD&fbclid=IwAR2SRz4x4vPT4t
OPGBh_MgcVgI2SaMG_KrjwyNB5KRwnKmSGEo-GEWThv5Q
● Which side are you on? Jacobin and the revolution in the Philippines
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/9/8/which-side-are-you-jacobin-and-revolution-philippines
● Israel reveals plan to flood internet news feeds with propaganda
http://21stcenturywire.com/2018/01/25/israel-reveals-plan-flood-internet-news-feeds-propaganda/
● U.S. State Department gives $40m boost to troll farm propaganda efforts
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-state-dept-gives-40m-boost-troll-farm-propaganda-efforts/238349/
● State funded news
https://www.facebook.com/telesurenglish/videos/147333035960595/
● Colonizing the Western mind (excellent article
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/02/colonizing-the-western-mind/
● The great US information double standard
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/420501-us-russia-meddling-election/
● Mueller, Russia and Oil politics
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/19/mueller-russia-and-oil-politics/
● Imperialist propaganda on “responsibility to protect” chauvinism
https://www.facebook.com/100010891506889/videos/531340873905625/
● On Russia, today’s liberals take their cues from Fascists
https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/on-russia-todays-liberals/
● The United States and the Russian devil: 1917-2017
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/08/the-united-states-and-the-russian-devil-1917-2017/
● Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/03/unspeakable-the-black-book-of-imperial-terrorism/
● New York Times laments forever wars its editorials helped create
https://mronline.org/2017/10/24/nyt-laments-forever-wars-its-editorials-helped-create/
● Amnesty International’s kangaroo report on Syria
http://theduran.com/amnesty-international-saydnaya-prison-report/
● Amnesty claims mass executions in Syria, provides zero proof
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/02/amnesty-report-hearsay.html#more
● COINTELPRO
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
● In defence of the Hammer & Sickle
http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/in-defense-of-the-hammer-and-sickle.html#.WgERP4-0Pcv
● The contradictory treatment of “Dictatorships” by the US government
In the NOW video
● Citizens’ Comission to Investigate the FBI:1971 (COINTELPRO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVcS4yGcSY
● Seeing Red: It’s time to quit shying away from a positive communist politics. Turning away from
the past only gives our opponents ammunition.
https://medium.com/@pravdamedia/seeing-red-b6234d9d91a3
● Fake news isn’t new: dissecting two decades of war propaganda
http://www.mintpressnews.com/fake-news-isnt-new-dissecting-two-decades-of-war-propaganda/224022/
● 10 conspiracy theories that turned out to be true
http://theantimedia.org/10-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/

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Amnesty International, HRW etc
● Human Rights Watch report an attempt to undermine peace in Korea (pt1)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/human-rights-watch-report-an-attempt-to-
● What’s the truth behind new Human Rights Watch report on North Korea? (pt2)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/what-s-the-truth-behind-new-human-rights
● Amnesty Internationals’ kangaroo report on Syria
https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/1501-amnesty-international-syria.ht
ml
● The “Human Rights” war on Syria
https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/2166-human-rights-war.html
● Amnesty International and the Human Rights Industry
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/08/amnesty-international-and-the-human-rights-industry/
● Explained: the West’s NGO “Human Rights” scam
http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/09/27/explained-wests-ngo-charity-human-rights-scam/

NGOs/Aid (general)
● How Washington hacked Mongolia’s democracy
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/mongolia-elections-mccain-international-republican-institute
● Inside America’s meddling machine: the US funded group that interferes in elections around the
globe (MUST WATCH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIJ25ob1aA
● Tired of US “aid” (exploitation), Africa and global south look to China
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tired-of-us-aid-exploitation-africa-and-global-south-look-to-china/236405
/
● NGO’s pushing for war in Syria
https://www.facebook.com/BehindTheHeadlineMPN/videos/830034220462030/
● Imperialism and NGO’s in Latin America
https://monthlyreview.org/1997/12/01/imperialism-and-ngos-in-latin-america/
● The useful altruists: how NGO’s serve capitalism and imperialism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/20/the-useful-altruists-how-ngos-serve-capitalism-and-imperialis
m/
● USAID: the soft arm of imperialism
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2012/11/24/usaid-the-soft-arm-of-imperialism/
● How American Libertarians are remaking Latin American politics
https://theintercept.com/2017/08/09/atlas-network-alejandro-chafuen-libertarian-think-tank-latin-america-
brazil/
● US military used missionary spies as front for North Korea espionage
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/26/pentagon-missionary-spies-christian-ngo-front-for-north-korea-espio
nage/
● USAID: In Africa for the American corporations
https://www.grain.org/article/entries/493-usaid-in-africa-for-the-american-corporations

National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

● How Washington hacked Mongolia’s democracy
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/mongolia-elections-mccain-international-republican-institute
● Inside America’s meddling machine: the US funded group that interferes in elections around the
globe (MUST WATCH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIJ25ob1aA /
● US meddling across southeast Asia
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-meddling-across-southeast-asia/5613748?utm_campaign=magnet&ut
m_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles
● Cambodia exposes, expels US network involved in “Democracy Promotion”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cambodia-exposes-expels-us-network-involved-in-democracy-promotion/5
606081?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles
● Wikileaks: HK protests linked to US government
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Wikileaks-HK-Protests-Linked-to-US-Government--20141002-001
1.html
● How the US funds dissent against Latin American governments
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/How-the-US-Funds-Dissent-against-Latin-American-Governme
nts-20150312-0006.html
● The dirty hand of the NED in Venezuela
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/25/the-dirty-hand-of-the-national-endowment-for-democracy-in-ve
nezuela/
● Trojan Horse: the National Endowment for Democracy
http://www.iefd.org/articles/trojan_horse.php

Regime change / Color revolutions

● How Washington hacked Mongolia’s democracy
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/mongolia-elections-mccain-international-republican-institute
● The Guns of August: Nazi’s, Nato and Color Revolutions
https://archive.org/details/TheGUNSOfAUGUSTNazisNATOAndColorRevolutionsFinal
● The media’s fake news about Latin America
https://mronline.org/2018/03/06/the-medias-fake-news-about-latin-america/

Election interference
● How Washington hacked Mongolia’s democracy
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/mongolia-elections-mccain-international-republican-institute
● Inside America’s meddling machine: the US funded group that interferes in elections around the
globe (MUST WATCH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIJ25ob1aA
● SCL: a very British coup
http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/03/20/scl-a-very-british-coup/
● US governments own data shows US interfered in 81 foreign elections
https://www.mintpressnews.com/governments-own-data-shows-us-interfered-in-81-foreign-elections/226
143/
● Russian senators list 100 examples of US meddling in foreign nations’ affairs
https://www.rt.com/politics/419231-presidential-candidate-grudinin-joins-russian/
● Former CIA director James Woolsey Jr. openly admits election interference
https://www.facebook.com/pslweb/videos/10155568785652515/
● Election meddling: a two-way street long traveled by US government
https://www.mintpressnews.com/election-meddling-two-way-street-long-traveled-us-government/233677/

War propaganda
● Pentagon & Hollywood's successful and deadly propaganda alliance
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/421064-pentagon-hollywood-propaganda-dod/
● Lifting of US propaganda ban gives new meaning to old song
https://www.mintpressnews.com/planting-stories-in-the-press-lifting-of-us-propaganda-ban-gives-new-me
aning-to-old-song/237493/ /
● Dissecting war propaganda
https://www.facebook.com/BehindTheHeadlineMPN/videos/vb.767857530013033/956521161146668/?ty
pe=2&theater
● Michael Parenti: Lies, Wars, & Empire
https://youtu.be/8a2lisF4XGg

Anti-DPRK propaganda
● North Korea is more rational than you think: an interview with Bruce Cumings
https://mronline.org/2018/02/12/north-korea-is-more-rational-than-you-think-an-interview-with-bruce-cumi
ngs/

Anti-Russia propaganda / Russiagate

● U.S. Congress fails to discover collusion on election interference
https://www.mintpressnews.com/congress-fails-discover-collusion/241527/
● The New Blacklist: Russiagate, Trump, Putin, Mueller and targeting dissent
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/taibbi-russiagate-trump-putin-mueller-and-targeting-dissent-w51748
6
● Loud & Clear: Putin likely to win election as anti-Russia hysteria grips US and UK (excellent)
https://sputniknews.com/radio_loud_and_clear/201803171062620020-putin-likely-to-win-election-as-anti-
russia-hysteria-grips-us-and-uk/
● Russia’s long road toward resurgence
https://southfront.org/russias-long-road-toward-resurgence/
● UK spy poisoning case a carefully constructed drama: propaganda against Russia
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/UK-Spy-Poisoning-Case-a-Carefully-Constructed-Drama-Propaga
nda-Against-Russia-Analyst-20180319-0012.html
● Doubts about Novichoks
http://syriapropagandamedia.org/doubts-about-novichoks
● British governments nerve agent claims are bullshit
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-british-governments-russia-nerve-agent-claims-are-bullshit-a
69b4ee484ce
● John Pilger: Campaign against RT is McCarthyism & propaganda
https://www.rt.com/uk/421744-british-media-campaign-against-rt/
● Loud & Clear - Anti-Russia crusade intensifies (starts at 4:00, really good discussion)
https://sputniknews.com/radio_loud_and_clear/201803161062581433-anti-russia-crusade-intesifies-trum
p-and-britain-order-new-sanctions/
● Election meddling: a two-way street long traveled by US government
https://www.mintpressnews.com/election-meddling-two-way-street-long-traveled-us-government/233677/
● Fake news on Russia and other official enemies (brilliant article!)
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/
● Russiagate narrative crumbling with Seymour Hersh phone call
https://www.mintpressnews.com/seymour-hersh-phone-call-russiagate-disinformation/230531/

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● Last Men in Aleppo: Vanessa Beeley investigation

https://sputniknews.com/interviews/201801251061072815-last-men-in-aleppo-vanessa-beeley-investigat
ion/
● How Liars in US news media build on prior lies in US news
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/03/06/how-liars-us-news-media-build-prior-lies-us-news.html
● The dirty war on Syria: chemical weapons fabrications and the East Ghouta incident
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-dirty-war-on-syria-chemical-fabrications-the-east-ghouta-incident/5493
698
● Mattis admits there was no evidence of Assad using poison gas on his people
http://www.newsweek.com/now-mattis-admits-there-was-no-evidence-assad-using-poison-gas-his-peopl
e-801542
● Al Jazeera, CNN & BBC cover up genocidal crimes of US-backed Syrian rebels
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-medias-whitewashing-of-syrian-rebel-war-crimes/226952/
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● 5 reasons to be absolutely certain that the establishment is lying about Syria
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/five-reasons-to-be-absolutely-certain-that-the-establishment-is-lyin
g-about-syria-46402a4c7888
● In Shocking, Viral Interview, Qatar Confesses Secrets Behind Syrian War
https://www.zerohedge.com/ne2017-10www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-28/shocking-viral-interview-q
atar-confesses-secr
● The day before Deraa: how the war broke out in Syria
https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/1135-day-before-deraa.html
● We’ve got to do something about Syria! - no you don’t
https://steemit.com/syria/@caitlinjohnstone/we-ve-got-to-do-something-about-syria-uh-no-you-don-t-plea
se-don-t
● No Sarin gas used by Assad
https://www.facebook.com/handsoffsyria/videos/1648802778566457/
● Democracy Now & guest slammed for backing ‘neocon project of regime change in Syria’
https://www.rt.com/news/419853-blumenthal-pearlman-syria-twitter/

Black book of communism

● Criticism of Black Book of Communism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism#Criticism
● The black book of Communism debunked
https://maoistrebelnews.com/2011/08/10/the-black-book-of-communism-debunked/
● The Black Book of Communism is Bullshit
https://twitter.com/i/moments/923349474390528000
● Divisions among team of historians that compiled the black book of communism
http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1997/10/31/les-divisions-d-une-equipe-d-historiens-du-communis
me_3811179_1819218.html

CIA and other intelligence agencies, mass surveillance etc

● Thread on the history of the CIA and other imperialist agencies
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1060724655219195904.html?fbclid=IwAR1e4fWUYvLc278RlpPMGi
FFpNbjtuT2noB63RFKvzEJoZSqio9-uD5XJ5M
● Media Roots Ratio: the Watchdogs Didn’t Bark, interview with John Duffy & Ray Nowosielski
https://soundcloud.com/media-roots/the-watchdogs-didnt-bark-interview-w-john-duffy-ray-nowosielski
● Tibet, and the CIA’s anti-China crusade
https://www.workers.org/ww_books/Workers_World_Tibet.pdf
● Snowden docs show British spises used sex, dirty tricks
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/exclusive-snowden-docs-show-british-spie
s-used-sex-dirty-tricks-n23091
● 70 years of disinformation: CIA funded opinion magazines in Europe
https://www.mintpressnews.com/70-years-disinformation-cia-funded-opinion-magazines-europe/236739/
● Meet the CIA: guns, drugs and money
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/26/meet-the-cia-guns-drugs-and-money/
● CIA and American Labor: The Subversion of the AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy
https://archive.org/details/CIAAndAmericanLabor
● Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
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● Wikileaks reveals Marble: proof CIA disguises hacks as Russian, Chinese, Arabic
https://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-reveals-marble-proof-cia-disguises-hacks-russian-chinese-ara
bic/226475/
● The CIA and the Cultural Cold War revisited
https://monthlyreview.org/1999/11/01/the-cia-and-the-cultural-cold-war-revisited/
● Historical, structural reasons for skepticism of CIA claims
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/12/historical-structural-reasons-for-skepticism-of-cia-claims-remai
ning-agnostic-on-claims-of-russian-hackers/
● The surveillance that never sleeps
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/14/surveillance-that-never-sleeps/
● The unthinkable consequences of outsourcing U.S. intelligence
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-unthinkable-consequences-of-outsourcing-u-s-intelligence/237793/
● FBI whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar’s campaign to neuter Wikileaks
https://www.mintpressnews.com/fbi-whistleblower-on-pierre-omidyar-campaign-to-neuter-wikileaks/2364
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Academia, publishing and media

● When the press attacks: the Times’ and BBC’s war on the truth
https://renegadeinc.com/press-attacks-times-war-truth/
● The CIA’s 60-year history of Fake News
http://www.mintpressnews.com/cias-60-year-history-fake-news-deep-state-corrupted-many-american-wri
ters/236042/
● Washington Post publishes fake history of Soviet Union
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201710111058145604-washington-post-fake-history-USSR/
● Methods of media manipulation by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/v6LJEhYnfCY
● Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/9-SK8bUsshQ
● The Culture Struggle by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYCMjoM5vY
● A review of US media coverage on Venezuela
https://mronline.org/2017/08/25/a-review-of-u-s-media-coverage-on-venezuela/
● Why does the Pseudo-Left hate Grover Furr?
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2017/11/19/why-does-the-pseudo-left-hate-grover-furr/
● Silencing Dissent In Academia - Richard Wolff & John Summa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuPfM1JYqPI&index=88&list=WL
● Demonization of the leader - by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/HHE7rPJoUtQ
● The collapse of the media and what you can do about it
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/01/the-collapse-of-media-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
● Vera Shlakman, professor fired during Red Scare, dies at 108
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/obituaries/vera-shlakman-professor-fired-during-red-scare-dies-at-1
08.html
● John Pilger: the BBC is and has been the most refined propaganda service in the world
https://www.facebook.com/RTUKnews/videos/1868032526819955/

Fascism explained
● 27 million died in Russia because Wall Street built up Hitler’s Wehrmacht to knock out Soviet
Union
https://countercurrents.org/2017/08/09/27-million-died-in-russia-because-wall-street-built-up-hitlers-wehr
macht-to-knock-out-soviet-union
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● Was Nazi Germany made in America?
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/227396/was-nazi-germany-made-in-america
● “Fascism in a pinstripe suit” from Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti
https://books.google.com/books?id=XGBrLo4WbJ8C&pg=PA32&dq=fascism+in+a+pinstriped+suit&hl=e
n&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIzseTjfHUAhUBUGMKHaQYCWMQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
● Communism vs Fascism: busting the myths
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Communism-vs.-Fascism-Busting-the-Myths-20171023-0019.html
● The Supermanagerial Reich - the political economy of Nazism
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich
● Fascism’s ties to capitalism: Dr. Michael Parenti interviewed by Dave Emory (1993)
https://youtu.be/KQYTY2oZhwg
● 21st Century Fascism
http://rallycomrades.lrna.org/2016/01/21st-century-fascism/
● Fascism in a pinstripe suit by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu6QTSnJbFs
● The role of property in Nazi Germany: The case of industry
http://www.piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capitalisback/CountryData/Germany/Other/Pre1950Series/RefsHistoric
alGermanAccounts/BuchheimScherner06.pdf
● The class character of Fascism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm#s2
● Empire Files: Chris Hedges & Abby Martin - Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP5gjrh-3Ew
● 14 characteristics of Fascism (not enough emphasis on the Capitalist aspects, otherwise good)
http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm
● Abby Martin interviews Chris Hedges on Trump, Fascism and the Christian Right (very good
interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP5gjrh-3Ew
● The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
in the United States
http://b-ok.org/book/695088/112435
● The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the
Working Class against Fascism - by Georgi Dimitrov
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm
● Donald Trump and the rise of American neo-fascism
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2016/03/26/donald-trump-and-the-rise-of-american-neo-fascism/
● Is Fascism making a comeback? Part 1
https://mronline.org/2017/12/06/is-fascism-making-a-comeback-part-1/

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World War 2

General
● 27 million died in Russia because Wall Street built up Hitler’s Wehrmacht to knock out Soviet
Union
https://countercurrents.org/2017/08/09/27-million-died-in-russia-because-wall-street-built-up-hitlers-wehr
macht-to-knock-out-soviet-union
● 5 myths about Nazis people still believe today
http://www.cracked.com/article_25848_5-myths-about-nazis-people-still-believe-today.html
● Why the US & EU falsify memory of Russia’s role in defeating the Nazi’s
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201709291057821043-russia-us-eu-history-nazi-germany/
● Soviet Storm - relatively unbiased doc on WW2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhXKlYnSWjA&t=
● December 1941 - turning point of World War 2
https://www.globalresearch.ca/70-years-ago-december-1941-turning-point-of-world-war-ii/28059
● Proving Nazi Germany was capitalist...again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLpX3t6g0AA&index=64&list=WL
● Stalin 'planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed pact'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3223834/Stalin-planned-to-send-a-million-troo
ps-to-stop-Hitler-if-Britain-and-France-agreed-pact.html
● Michael Parenti - the real causes of WW2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Lievywdoo (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDmovEja_f0 (part 2)
● Don’t forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/08/dont-forget-how-the-soviet-union-save
d-the-world-from-hitler/?utm_term=.bc09cc50810e
● How the Russians took Berlin single-handedly
https://www.rbth.com/arts/history/2017/04/25/how-the-russians-took-berlin-single-handedly_749878
● Lend Lease Act explained
https://www.globalresearch.ca/roosevelts-world-war-ii-lend-lease-act-americas-war-economy-us-military-
aid-to-the-soviet-union/5449160
● WW2 Lend Lease - was the US aid that helpful? (plus, US collaboration with the Nazi’s)
http://orientalreview.org/2015/05/13/wwii-lend-lease-was-the-us-aid-that-helpful-ii/
● Another View of Stalin - “Stalin and the Anti-Fascist War”
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
● 70 years on - the real story behind the defeat of the Nazi’s
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/70-Years-On-The-Real-Story-Behind-the-Defeat-of-the-Nazis-20
150506-0038.html
● The Origin of World War 2 and the Prewar European political crisis of 1939 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/NikonovOriginWWII
● Why the War was not Prevented - A Documentary Review of the Soviet-British-French Talks in
Moscow, 1939
https://archive.org/details/SovBritFrenchTalks
● The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War against Soviet Russia
http://www.shunpiking.org/books/GC/
● The Lesson of Germany: A Guide to her History
https://archive.org/details/TheLessonOfGermanyGuideHistory
● The Soviets Expected It, 1942 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SovietsExpectedIt
● Soviet-U.S. Relations, 1933-1942, 1989 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SovUSRelations33to42
● Diplomatic Battles Before World War II, 1982 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/DiplomaticBattlesBeforeWWII
● Secrets of the Second World War
https://archive.org/details/SecretsofWWII
● The Road to Great Victory: Soviet Diplomacy, 1941-1945, 1985 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/RoadtoGreatVictory
● The State Department and the Cold War: A commentary on its publication, “Nazi-Soviet
Relations, 1939-1941”, 1948 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/StateDepartmentColdWar
● Declassified documents reveal vast Soviet assistance to Poland during WW2
https://www.rt.com/news/410121-poland-ussr-help-ww2/
● How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
● Cars and Nazis - Hitler’s biggest allies were Ford and General Motors
https://dogandlemon.com/sites/default/files/cars_nazis.pdf
● How America inspired the Third Reich
http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/35581/how-america-inspired-third-reich
● Stalin had 1M ready to fight Hitler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc8TNURC2CY&index=66&list=WL
● The Soviets spent the 1930s trying to contain Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. They called for
collective security between the USSR, UK and France, called for genuine non-intervention in
Spain (which would have ensured the defeat of Franco's rebellion; instead the German and
Italian fascists sent assistance to the Francoists while the UK and France looked the other way),
called for embargoing Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia, etc.

The goal of the British and French bourgeoisie was to make Hitler march east and embroil
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Germany into a war with the USSR in which both sides would be badly weakened. The Soviets
 knew this. For instance, this is how a Soviet diplomat privately reacted in her diary when hearing
of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact:

"Yesterday, August 23, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression pact in
Moscow....

I did not drop the paper in dismay, and indeed, the news did not surprise me particularly. It is a
most correct step on our part, a logical conclusion drawn from the situation in the world today...
We are in the presence of a double game of the imperialist powers. A scheme conceived by them
long ago is ready for realisation. The impact of a German attack would have to be sustained in
full measure by the Soviet Union, with the imperialists' kindly connivance. Britain and France
would merely look on, the former from its isles and the latter from behind the trenches of the
Maginot Line. This is how they had calculated it. The treaty with Germany has upset these
imperialist plans, and even if it fails to eliminate the threat of German attack, it will at least gain us
time."
(Kollontai, Alexandra. "The 'Seven Shots' in the Winter of 1939." International Affairs (January
1990). p. 184.)

The Nazis had already agreed among themselves to invade Poland whether the pact existed or
not. The Polish regime had spurned Soviet offers of protection against foreign invasion, and its
government fled when the Nazis invaded. The Soviets did not expect Poland's government to
flee. It having fled gave the Nazis a pretext to occupy the entire country. For this reason, the
Soviets marched into eastern Poland. This area was annexed to the Polish regime as a result of
its war with Soviet Russia in the early 20s. It was inhabited by Ukrainians, Byelorussians and
Jews who were oppressed by the chauvinistic Polish regime. As a result the Soviets were
welcomed as liberators.
works on Soviet diplomacy in the 1930s up to 1941:

* https://archive.org/details/TheMunichConspiracy
* https://archive.org/details/WhoHelpedHitler
* https://archive.org/details/LightOnMoscow
* https://archive.org/details/MustTheWarSpread
* https://archive.org/details/SovBritFrenchTalks
* https://archive.org/details/BeforeTheNaziInvasion

● Imperialism in South-East Asia:

..Immediately after the end of the war, the US, British, Dutch and French took control of the
remaining Japanese armies in China, Korea, Indochina, Malaysia and Indonesia, re-armed them,
and used them to reimpose their own authority in those countries. US-directed Japanese troops
fought against the Chinese Red Army in the late 1940s, Dutch-directed Japanese troops fought
against the Indonesian national liberation forces in the late 1940s, and French-directed Japanese
troops fought against the Viet Minh in the late 1940s

The atomic bombing of Japan

● Imperial Japan, the Bomb & the Pacific Powder Keg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZd7Hr3MBmg
● The decision to bomb Hiroshima
https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/05/the-decision-to-bomb-hiroshima/
● Rethinking nuclear weapons in light of Hiroshima
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/winning-weapon-rethinking-nuclear-weapons-light-hiroshima
● The bomb didn’t beat Japan… Stalin did
/
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/amp/
 ● The war was won before Hiroshima - and the generals who dropped the bomb knew it
https://www.thenation.com/article/why-the-us-really-bombed-hiroshima/

Finland
● Soviet-Finnish wars and “Soviet Imperialism” by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/9_DQ3IhNH9o
● War and Peace in Finland (1940 scanned book)
https://ia800104.us.archive.org/11/items/WarPeaceFinland/War%20Peace%20Finland.pdf
● Russia, Finland and the Baltic (1940 scanned book)
https://ia600104.us.archive.org/2/items/RussiaFinlandBalticsCoates/Russia%20Finland%20Baltics%20C
oates.pdf
 

Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact
● Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: untold story
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201508231026098760-molotov-ribbentrop-pact-untold-story/
● The USSR and Germany Never had a common plan to split Poland (by Finnish Bolshevik)
https://youtu.be/kp5CU3OB2UU
● Grover Furr - did the Soviet Union invade Poland in September 1939?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9z_PlnAf5s
● Did the Soviet Union invade Poland in September 1939?
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/mlg09/did_ussr_invade_poland.html
● Another View of Stalin - “Stalin and the Anti-Fascist War - the German-Soviet Pact”
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf

Katyn Massacre
● Evidence that the Katyn Massacre was committed by the Germans
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/katyn/
● Falsification about Nazi aims, then and now
http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmlw2013/W43034.HTM
● Yeltsin’s regime falsified Katyn documents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TgqDVrkREw&app=desktop
● The real story of the Katyn Massacre - exposing an anti-communist fabrication
http://houstoncommunistparty.com/the-real-story-of-the-katyn-massacre-exposing-an-anti-communist-fab
rication/ /
 ● The truth about Katyn - report of Special Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the
Circumstances of the Shooting of Polish Officer Prisoners by the German-Fascist Invaders in the
Katyn Forest
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/katyn.htm
● The “Official” version of the Katyn Massacre disproven?
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/furr_katyn_preprint_0813.pdf
● An interview with Prof. Grover Furr on the Katyn Massacre
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/05/07/an-interview-with-prof-grover-furr-on-the-katyn-massacre/
● The Katyn Massacre - by Prof. Ella Rule
http://stalinsociety.net/?p=103
● More documents on the Katyn Forgeries
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/04/20/more-documents-on-the-katyn-forgeries/
● Katyn Forgeries revealed
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/04/20/katyn-forgeries-revealed/

Misc

Khmer Rouge
● Who is and was really responsible for genocide in Cambodia?
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html
● Who supported the Khmer Rouge?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/16/who-supported-the-khmer-rouge/
● The US is even more guilty than Pol Pot
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/polpotmontclarion0498.html
● Butcher of Cambodia to expose Thatcher’s role
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/09/cambodia
● Nixon and the Cambodian genocide
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/khmer-rouge-cambodian-genocide-united-states/
● Kampuchea - the Revolution Rescued (1986 scanned book)
https://ia802600.us.archive.org/17/items/KampucheaTheRevolutionRescued/Kampuchea%20The%20Re
volution%20Rescued.pdf
● Cambodia 1975-1982 by Michael Vickery (1999 scanned book)
http://michaelvickery.org/vickery1999cambodia.pdf
● Truth about Pol Pot and Maoism
https://youtu.be/n1HG9G54szg
● Chomsky and Pol Pot’s genocidal regime
https://libcom.org/history/chomsky-pol-pots-genocidal-regime-cambodia
● The China Cambodia Vietnam Triangle by Wilfred Burchett (1981 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/ChinaCambodiaVietnamTriangle
● What went wrong with the Pol Pot regime? 1999 article
http://www.bannedthought.net/International/RIM/AWTW/1999-25/PolPot_eng25.htm

Recommended YouTube talks

● Michael Parenti: Marxism and the Crisis in Eastern Europe (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQfibsxYg8E
● Crisis and openings: introduction to Marxism - Richard Wolff
https://youtu.be/T9Whccunka4
● The Empire Files: understanding Marxism and Socialism with Richard Wolff /
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yEiv1fIhyE
 

Other reading guides

● Comprehensive reading guide on Socialism in Asia

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KMAZopkLyjP74vOssz6XAdPxvMh-1rJRptFnFD54bPg/edit?usp=
sharing
● Comprehensive reading guide on China
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16iw83noTdWvDiECaITX83rGhP_lros8QdBTrNnCoe6c/edit?usp=s
haring
● Comprehensive reading guide on the DPRK compiled by this author
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1we5OEdteZFfAh11v0s_RVh3LWAkVICGrFn
vksVynGxw/edit?usp=sharing
● Comprehensive reading guide on Venezuela
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LvHlf5LfND7zzipltzuifwR_7J2ilFCMJEvAA3
wluGE/edit?usp=sharing
● Comprehensive reading guide on the Syria conflict
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c5KNtwuqBSs3wbZQt7UsOrmFHPD-ajbHT
mqnanUjne8/mobilebasic