Hex talks about Venezuela, where it is today and how it got there. Hex gets pretty bummed. 

Further Reading:

https://venezuelanalysis.com/tag/communes

https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/Venezuelan-Food-Company-Caught-Burying-Alive-Millions-of-Chicks-20171113-0013.html

https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/Shortages-Smuggling-and-Paramilitaries-in-Venezuela-20150821-0034.html

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Opposition-Violence-Responsible-for-23-Venezuelans-Burned-Alive-20170723-0010.html

https://popularresistance.org/world-ignores-opposition-violence-at-venezuela-protests/

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Hex continues reading J. Sakai's "Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat". In this episode, we cover chapters 9 and 10, respectively 'Neocolonial Pacification in the United States', and '1950's Repression and the Decline of the Communist Party USA', which will bring us out of the WWII period and into the 1950s.

Music in this episode:
"Sharecropper Blues" performed by Ben Wiley Payton
"El Grito de Lares" composed by Daniel Santos

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Red State Read-Along: Settlers by J. Sakai, Chapters 9 & 10

Hex continues reading Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai, with chapters 5 and 6. These chapters continue explaining the role European immigrant labor and large unions played in the imperial core around the time of World War 2.

Music: 
"Let My People Go" Uknown Quartet
"No One Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Scrapper Blackwell

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Red State Read-Along: Settlers by J. Sakai, Chapters 5 & 6

Hex begins reading "Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern" by J. Sakai.

Support protesters arrested recently in Louisville:
https://bailproject.org/louisville/?form=donate

Support protesters arrested recently in Austin:
https://gogetfunding.com/help-austin-georgefloyd-protesters-facing-state-repression/?fbclid=IwAR2CqI

Red State Read-Along: Settlers by J. Sakai, Chapters 1-3

Indigineity And The Jumma: The Chittagong Hill Tracts by Hex

Indigineity And The Jumma: The Chittagong Hill Tracts

In this episode, Hex talks with a comrade about the politics of Korea, north and south. 

The article mentioned in the episode:
https://tjen-folket.no/index.php/en/2020/05/14/the-august-incident-the-fight-against-the-right-opportunist-line-in-the-workers-party-of-korea/

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