BeardTube

I found this website that is a leftist alternative to YouTube but has a separate community instead of just reuploading YouTube videos without ads or tracking like the websites in the Tankie Reply Bot.

A short, simple video that explains why countries need to start from China's path in 1949.

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Meddling in their democracy is putting it very mildly. [Washington] basically restructured their entire political economy, and then left it in a complete shambles.

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I interviewed, with Alex Zaitchik, the head of the OSCE mission, which is the election observer mission, which is basically a Western European-led body. He was a British MP, and he straight up said the [1996] election was stolen. It was fraudulent and “the OSCE did everything to wash my report,” and so it was officially known as free and fair. There was fraud in every single Russian election.

I mean it was fairly significant fraud by our standards, not hugely significant, let’s say, by some hardcore dictatorial standards, but certainly three, four, five percent was often stolen and the template was really set in the 1996 elections that got Boris Yeltsin from about a 3% [approval] rating.

Surprisingly not bad, as long as you ignore the racism from some of the anglos interviewees.

This is a weird one, but hear me out. All of the videos on this channel are about real-life occurrences, mostly man-made disasters including the structural collapse of buildings, ships, trains, and the devastating effects of industry.

Most pertinently, every video focuses heavily on the victims, who are usually workers. Most videos end with a detailed account of policy changes that happened (or didn't happen) in order to prevent future disasters from occurring. He also makes it damn clear that it's usually the capitalists' fault, who shunt their responsibilities to keep their workers safe.

It's less horror and more discussion of anti-worker policies, where legal protections for workers' safety come from, architectural science, and preserving the memory of historical accidents and catastrophes. Well worth a sub imo.

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Documentary film in three parts: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (1975), The Coup d'état (1976), Popular Power (1979). It is a chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. It won the Grand Prix in 1975 and 1976 at the Grenoble International Film Festival. In 1996, Chile, Obstinate Memory was released and followed Guzmán back to Chile as he screened the 3-part documentary to Chileans who had never seen it before.

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The following dispatch is an email that I received from Prof. Furr:

Dear friends:

This interview of me by Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez took place a few months ago. But I did not get the link to it until two weeks ago.

The introduction is pretty long -- about 6 minutes of A/V, and has a kind of "cult of Stalin" feel to it -- something I criticized in the talk (and Stalin also criticized).

So, if you prefer, start about 5:59 or so, to get just the interview itself.

https://youtu.be/vTfEq6qIleY

(long link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTfEq6qIleY )

Do not hesitate to send me comments and criticisms. They help my work to improve.

Feel free to forward it to any and all you know who might be interested.

I hope you find it useful.

Warm regards and solidarity,

Grover Furr

P.S. You can download a complete list of my published books at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/fourteenbks

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