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The Russian President has ordered to halt military operations during the upcoming 80th anniversary of the USSR’s defeat of Nazi Germany

The Russian President has ordered to halt military operations during the upcoming 80th anniversary of the USSR’s defeat of Nazi Germany

Luisa González of the Citizens’ Revolution rejects Ecuador’s election results, alleging fraud and calling for a recount. Tensions rise as she demands transparency in the electoral process.

In a strong statement following the second round of elections in Ecuador, Luisa González, presidential candidate for the political movement Citizens’ Revolution, expressed her rejection of the results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE). González alleged that fraud occurred in the vote tally, accusing current president Daniel Noboa of benefiting from an irregular electoral process.

“Before my people, facing them as I always do and as is right for good women,” González stated, emphasizing that her movement has accepted defeats in the past when polls indicated so. However, this time she declared: “Today we do not recognize the results.”

The candidate called on “the men, women, and young children I represent,” urging a review of the electoral process. “I refuse to believe there is a people who prefer lies over the truth. We will demand a recount and that the ballots be opened,” she concluded.

She insisted that they will request a recount. “We are going to defend our right to democracy. Ecuador cannot continue to be governed by a person incapable of leading it toward peace and development, someone who only prioritizes their business and the well-being of their family,” he said.

“Now more than ever, we must be vigilant about what the person who calls themselves the President of the Republic is doing. I publicly denounce that they are committing fraud. We continue in the fight,” he concluded.

Previously, González denounced that the president did not request unpaid leave from the National Assembly and used state resources to campaign, in addition to not entrusting the presidency to the elected vice president, Verónica Abad, as mandated by the Constitution.

The day before, the Parliament and the legislative bench of the Citizens’ Revolution accused Noboa of violating fundamental guarantees by declaring a state of emergency without just cause and imposing it in provinces where the vote did not favor him.

A few hours earlier, Noboa decreed the closure of borders to prevent international observers from entering the country, which would contribute to the transparency of the runoff election. In no case did the electoral authority—the CNE—speak out against these and other irregularities.

In addition, this Sunday, after the polls closed, the former presidential candidate of the Citizens’ Revolution, Andrés Arauz, denounced that the CNE (National Electoral Council) is uploading vote records without signatures, a requirement established in Article 127 of the Democracy Code to validate the results.

Arauz published images of six electoral records lacking the joint signatures of the president and secretary of the Voting Reception Boards (JRV). According to his complaint, all these unsupported records favor the current president, Daniel Noboa.

Don't wanna wade through thousands of disclaimers about how "cultural revolution was actually bad", just want a dissection or discussion over that particular part of it as I haven't found much on my usual reading.

Tired of duckduckgo using MSN's amp thing for news or blocking some websites, and it's now adding shit AI too. Don't want to spend any money running a searxng instance for the time being and most public instances are too overwhelmed.

Any suggestions? Doesn't need to be perfect, just not too annoying.

I've been leading the effort for building up a local institution that has been in a "zombie" state of existence for a while.

It's a very small org, not necessarily communist, and even our political parties don't pay much attention to it. It's stressful and sometimes a thankless job. Since we're rebuilding it and have very few people, everything takes way more of my time than it should.

But it's damn satisfying to see how much can be done just by pooling together some working class people, and how much we help the lives of people affected by us, materially or socially. It's made it even more clear to me how mentally unsustainable society has become through individualism.

So this is your regular call to get organised.

You don't need to devote too much of your time to it, because every little bit helps a lot. You also don't need to build something from the ground up, you can join a bigger effort around you. It also doesn't need to be a party chapter (specially if you don't have one near you), it can be other necessary organisations like tenants'/trade/workers'/students' unions, animal rescue groups, homeless shelters, food banks and soup kitchens. Heck, even some churches can often have progressive projects that materially help the working class.

From a theorectical and material perspective, no revolution will come without organised and connected labour with practical experience. But from a personal and subjective view, building up those connections in service of your class and community is something you probably can do in your immediate surroundings and feel in concrete terms what Marxists mean by "organising" and how effective it can be. So it's a win-win scenario.

Got curious but couldn't find anything similar to marxists.org but for prominent anarchist authors, specially for non-english languages.

I've noticed some users here have mentioned the work of Paul Cockshott and I'm interested in looking into the computational aspects of planning.

I already know a bit about operations research, but couldn't find a good introductory paper about modern economic planning theories, specially since stuff like Google Scholar ranks by citations.

I'm currently reading "Towards a New Socialism" but it doesn't look like it'll delve too deeply into algorithms as far as I've got. Should I drop it and look into "Classical Econophysics" first? Or does anybody know a more technical book that I should look into?