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This morning as we again awaken to the realization that American women have lost their bodily autonomy, that five individuals can decide that States rights cant control guns, but that they do have the power to control womens bodies, we mourn the loss of 50 years of a right to an abortion. Yet, as we argue that this is returning us to a dark historical period, we must also look to how this decades-long battle by the Christian Right has made use of conspiracy theories, God, country, and a battle against communism, socialism, and humanism to disempower and manipulate those with the greatest power in elections: women.

These battles against the rights of women, people of color, and those in the LGBTQ2SA communities have never wavered. Erupting each time progress has been made, these groups have for decades pushed a cohesive message that activated an angry minority who interpret our world as infringing upon their rights, and who perceive injustice in every gain made for those who neither look like them nor believe as they do.

As many of us fought for rights, inclusivity, equality, and individuality, these individuals brought moral panics, conspiracy theories, and abject fear to the table to motivate their followers. To this way of thinking, behind every step forward, lay an evil cabal, a demon or minion of Satan, while they, as the soldiers on the side of the eternal, were commanded to battle in the streets and storm the voting booths.

In the 1960s, America saw the rise of a socio-political movement in the John Birch Society (JBS). Robert Welch and his National Council, a few members of which he dubbed Gods Angry Men, worked endlessly to marry free enterprise with religion. Armed with the knowledge that the three most influential groups in society were youth, women, and religious leaders, they created a three-pronged approach to inflict fear on their membership to mobilize them to battle for God, country, and family.

That motto alone articulates how their brand of nationalism was to be formed. In their monthly magazine American Opinion, best-selling author Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985) wrote articles to the women of the Society reinforcing the evils of feminism, of communism, and of free choice via conspiracy theory, Christian persecution, and an unwavering dedication to traditional gender roles. Replace communism with socialism and such an article would be right at home in todays National Review or in one of the larger legacy papersostensibly to ensure balanced coverage.

For Caldwell, the injustices of society were at the hands of the LGBTQ2SA community and feminists. Using a creative version of nostalgia, she perpetuated a scenario where sexual freedom and womens equality was the death knell to America. She wrote of the importance of women in raising manly men, where there was no blurring of the sexes, and a mans word was law in his house, no matter how shrewish his wife, as she wrote in her 1967 article, Love Thy Neighbor An Example of Divine Humor. In her words Papa had nights out with the Boys, and if he came home a little beery, and late, Mama knew enough to keep her mouth shut. That was the wondrous world that Caldwell and the JBS wanted to create.

As with most articulations of nationalism, women were portrayed as the ones who protected American values of family, gender roles, morality, and religion. In Caldwells articles, and in the rhetoric of much of todays conservative movement, it was Americas abandonment of God and embrace of LGBTQ2SA communities, feminism, and effeminate men, that opened the door for the communist/socialist infiltration. Caldwells advice was to treat your son, from the very bassinet, to be manly, as he wasnt an adorable baby, but rather an embryo man. Women were to respect his status as a man even while an infant.

This was in harmony with her direction on how a woman was to treat her husband as her dearest treasure above all else, whose children are secondary to her mate in all things, as she put it in a 1968 article On Manliness: So You Want to Raise A Boy? Those feminists who were not bearing children, not getting married, and were using their powers of seduction to dupe men into working for the communists, were at fault for the state of America.

These feminists and those perverts were being used by the Illuminati to destroy America, God, and all that was good in the world to create a New World Order, where Christians, capitalists, and true Americans would be enslaved. If you hope to shrug this off as ancient history take a look at Tucker Carlsons 2022 documentary The End of Men, about which Annika Brockschmidt writes, For Carlson, the alleged decline of conservative values, and thus the decline of America, can be explained directly by the effeminization of men.

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Response to the John Birch Society has long been one of ridicule and dismissal (as is the case more recently regarding Tucker Carlsons documentary). Groups like the JBS, and influencers who spread disinformation and conspiracy theories have been perceived as a tinfoil-hat-wearing fringe with no influence. This response has culminated in the position we find ourselves in today. Weve ignored and mocked, while theyve gathered momentum and built a contemporary movement held together by conspiracy, moral panics, and fear.

The groomer panic we see today is a culmination of decades of adherence to conspiracy theories, that hold that women and feminists, are the ultimate weapon of the great replacement of white people. The seduction of sexuality is the downfall of God, country, and family.

In the social media posts of conspiracy theories, extremists, and white nationalists the morning after the ruling we saw a repeat of history:

Roe v. Wade has just been overturned. Millions of unborn White Children may now have their lives protected, protection that should have never been taken away in the first place. The pendulum that is our society is beginning to swing back in our direction. White Lives Matter!

The end of Roe v. Wade isnt celebrated as a constitutional victory, its reframed as attacks on LGBTQ2SA communities and women, and is celebrated as a win for God, country, and family. The enemy remains an evil cabal intent on ending a nation.

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While we continue to ridicule those building a socio-political movement rooted in manufactured nostalgia, they continue to build on this perceived win for God, and for true patriots of the nationi.e., those who are heterosexual, Christian, patriarchal, and white. This SCOTUS decision is a return to an America where only traditional gender roles were acceptable, sex is a mans domain (and available on demand), and where God ruled the nationa very nostalgic return.

Nostalgia is a form of timekeeping thats rooted in politics. Its a lens through which to look at the contemporary world in which fear and anxiety are the catalyst for a longing for the past. In this context the past is envisioned as a period where the decline of society began; where a moral absence started creating the contemporary world; where theres a lack of true social relationships and personal authenticity.

Nostalgia isnt a need for or recollection of a past utopia but is instead a criticism of the present. It isnt a personal memory but is instead a collective one about the biography of groups or the nation; nostalgia lies in the plane between the personal and the collective memory. In this light MAGA was the perfect slogan for a figure like Donald Trump.

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Using language and memes that promote the idea of the degeneration of the nation at the hands of feminism or gender rights, nationalists are positioned as the opposition to progress and create a stigmatization of groups who are on the margins of society, labelling them as degenerate classes. LGBTQ2SA groups, sex workers, criminals, feminists, and substance-addicted individuals are defined as racial deviants and at odds with the culture of the nation. The selective use and support of feminist issues, such as TERF ideologies, construct a narrative to reinforce traditional norms of femininity and masculinity and patriarchal and heteronormative values.

Its imperative that we acknowledge the power of conspiracyand of fear and how its a motivating factorwoven into the language of religion and Gods work, in order to stop the hemorrhaging of our rights. While the official framing of the removal of rights is constructed within the Constitution, or historical precedents, the truth is, the movement behind these decisions, is standing upon a revisionist history of nostalgia, hate, and fear.

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Devised by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962, Operation Northwoods called for CIA agents to attack U.S. military personnel and civilians so they could blame it on Cuba's communist regime.

In the early 1960s, Americas leaders turned an increasingly nervous eye south, where communist leader Fidel Castro had risen to power in Cuba. Determined to end his reign, the U.S. government came up with several false flag attacks under the banner of Operation Northwoods.

The classified plan, organized under the umbrella of the anti-Castro Cuba Project, or Operation Mongoose, proposed a number of ways that the U.S. could fake a Cuban attack against America as a way to justify U.S. military intervention in Cuba. Military leaders suggested staging attacks at Guantanamo Bay, sinking ships full of Cuban refugees, and even staging the shooting down of a civilian aircraft.

And Operation Northwoods was more than just idle scheming. It was a concrete plan co-signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and presented to the office of President John F. Kennedy. This is the story of Operation Northwoods.

By 1959, Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States were nearing a fever pitch, and it was at this moment that Fidel Castro came on the scene.

In 1959, the communist revolutionary Castro overthrew the U.S.-backed Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista and established Cuba as the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Americans, accustomed to worrying about the distant threat of the U.S.S.R., suddenly had a communist country just 90 miles off the coast of Florida. The Cold War, it seemed, could get hot.

One should not forget, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said in July 1960, driving the point home, that now the United States is no longer at an unreachable distance from the Soviet Union as it was before.

U.S. policymakers got the message. And as they publicly declared they would not tolerate international communism in the Western Hemisphere, intelligence organizations got to work behind the scenes.

American intelligence first set out to neutralize the Castro threat with the CIA-led Bay of Pigs attack in 1961, developed under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. When that plan failed, according to ABC, U.S. military leadership decided it was their turn.

In 1962, General Edward Lansdale, the chief of operations for the anti-Castro Cuba Project, or Operation Mongoose, asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff for a brief but precise description of pretexts which would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba.

In response, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, led by Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, produced Operation Northwoods.

On March 13, 1962, Lemnitzer presented Operation Northwoods to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the document outlined a number of ways that the U.S. could incite a war with Cuba.

One plan suggested inventing well-coordinated incidents in and around Guantanamo to make it seem like the U.S. base was under attack. To make the attack seem credible, Operation Northwoods suggested using rumors, friendly Cubans, starting fires, and conducting mock funerals for victims.

Another proposed a Remember the Maine incident, referring to the U.S.S. Maine, which blew up under mysterious circumstances in Havana harbor in 1898 and gave the U.S. justification to go to war with Spain. The 1962 version of this plan, Operation Northwoods proposed, could be arranged in several forms.

The U.S. could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Or, they could blow up an unmanned vessel, then conduct a fake rescue operation. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation, the report noted.

Other suggestions in Operation Northwoods involved developing a Communist Cuban terror campaign in Florida or perhaps Washington D.C., sinking a boat of Cuban refugees (real or simulated), plotting public attacks on Cuban refugees, exploding bombs, and planting evidence that suggested that Cuba was plotting an attack in South America.

But perhaps the most ambitious plot in Operation Northwoods involved a civilian airliner. This plan proposed creating an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner.

The airline in question could be charted by fake college students or any groupings of persons with a common interest and convincingly painted to make it seem real.

In the end, however, Operation Northwoods never got further than a memo. According to ABC, President John F. Kennedy told Lemnitzer directly on March 16, 1962, that he had no plans to use any sort of force to take Cuba.

Operation Northwoods, all the crazy schemes they devised to invade Cuba, shocked him, horrified him, Oliver Stone, who directed the 1991 movie JFK and produced the documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, which suggested that the government killed the president, told Jacobin. Thats what he was dealing with a war-state mentality that came out of the 1950s.

For decades, according to James Bamford, who brought Operation Northwoods to light in his 2001 book Body of Secrets, the set of anti-Castro plots was stuffed into a drawer.

The reason these were held secret for so long is the Joint Chiefs never wanted to give these up because they were so embarrassing, Bamford told ABC, calling Operation Northwoods one of the most corrupt [plans] ever created by the U.S. government.

He added, The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is the complete reverse, the military trying to trick the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants.

Though most of the leading players in Operation Northwoods have since died Kennedy, of course, was assassinated in November 1963 those close to the president have flatly denied any knowledge of the anti-Castro plot.

Ive never heard of Operation Northwoods. Never heard of it and dont believe it, Theodore Sorenson, Kennedys White House special counsel, told The Baltimore Sun in 2001. Obviously, it would be totally illegal as well as totally unwise.

And Robert McNamara, who allegedly saw the plan before the president, also denied knowing about it. I never heard of it, he told The Baltimore Sun that same year. I cant believe the chiefs were talking about or engaged in what I would call CIA-type operations.

As such, the legacy of Operations Northwoods is an appropriately mysterious one. Though it reflects Cold War tensions and fears about Cuba, it also reveals what methods American military brass were willing to consider. Had the operation succeeded, Bamford noted, the U.S. would have imposed military rule over Cubans.

Thats what were supposed to be freeing them from, he told ABC.

The only way we would have succeeded is by doing exactly what the Russians were doing all over the world, by imposing a government by tyranny, basically what we were accusing Castro himself of doing.

After reading about Operation Northwoods, see how British intelligence hoodwinked the Nazis with an ambitious plot dubbed Operation Mincemeat. Or, look through these false flag conspiracy theories that are totally false.

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By Nikos Mottas.

The same old fairytale of left-progressive governments is back in the news following the electoral victory of social democrat Gustavo Petro in Colombia, as well as the performance of leftist Jean-Luc Mlenchon in French parliamentary elections.

As it happened last December with Gabriel Boric' victory in Chile, a number of left-wing, opportunist forces in Greece and abroad celebrate the recent results, presenting them as a triumph of the left which can allegedly bring positive developments for the working people.

Historical experience, both in Europe and Latin America, demonstrate that the so-called left governments cultivate and spread illusions about the humanization of capitalism. Nonetheless, the painful reality is that humane capitalism is like Santa Claus; it does not exist. The case of PSUV in Venezuela is an emblematic example of the failure of the opportunist theory of 21st Century Socialism. The examples of Lula-Rousseff in Brazil and Lopez Obrador in Mexico confirmed that no left or progressive government, no matter its intentions, can provide actual and radical solutions to the people's problems as long as the means of production remain in the hands of the capital. In the best of cases, these governments adopted some policies against extreme poverty, but even these measures were subsequently retracted as long as they were incompatible with capitalist economy. After all, the prosperity of the working class is by definition incompatible with the profitability of the monopolies.

Such political forces overlook or underestimate the laws governing capitalist economy, as well as the de facto reactionary character of the bourgeois state. The tragic outcome of Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government in Chile must be a constant reminder that socialism is impossible to come through peaceful ways and parliamentary illusions, but only through the overthrow of the capitalist system and the eradication of monopolies' power.

Is there any particular reason for the working class in Colombia and France to celebrate the electoral achievements of Petro and Melenchon? For us, the answer is pretty clear. The working people must have no illusions. The real way out for the people's interests does not lie in the old and faded fairytales about left governments, but only in the intensification of the organized class struggle against the system of exploitation, capitalism.

* Nikos Mottas is the Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism.

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The government and all the other bourgeois parties, with insignificant individual differences, propose as a solution the strengthening of the market rules in the health system. In other words, they refer to all those tools that on the one hand shaped this miserable public health system and on the other hand formed a robust private business health sector. The only thing they demonstrate is the magnitude of the decay of the capitalist path of development (...)

In our opinion, on the occasion of this publication, the healthcare workers first and foremost but also the people who are concerned about their health and life should take a step further in their thinking, stance, and daily activity.

The KKE wages a daily struggle for staff recruitment, the expansion of benefits to the people, and the increase of the funding from the state budget. It is also charting a path of development that will treat public health as a universal and free right safeguarded by a workerspeoples government and its state. It calls upon the people to rally with the KKE, for the protection of health; for a system without any business activity, where the people will be able to meet their basic and urgent needs with all available means. (...) In the final analysis, science can defeat all this irrationality and obscurantism overwhelming us and its source, that is, capitalist exploitation and barbarism.

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The mythology surrounding the so-called Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, is exposed in a concise 78-pages book edited by Nikos Mottas and published in Greek language by Atexnos Publishing House.

For many decades, the issue of the Ukrainian famine in 1932-33, the famous Holodomor, occupies a prominent place in the arsenal of anti-communism. Especially after the counter-revolutionary overthrows in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, the Holodomor is at the forefront of a systematic and persistent attempt to vilify socialism of the 20th century and present it as an evil, inhumane system which is supposedly responsible for millions of deaths.

The book by Nikos Mottas attempts to present, in a simple and comprehensive way, the factors that led to the 1932-33 famine and to reveal lies, distortions, unscientific approaches and propaganda mechanisms that contributed to the formulation of the anti-communist theory of premeditated genocide instructed by the Soviet leadership.

What was the collectivization? What was the role of the Kulaks? What environmental factors contributed to the famine? From the fake reports of Thomas Walker and pro-Nazi media mogul William Randolph Hearst to British intelligence agent and professional anti-communist Robert Conquest and from Dr Goebbels to Harvard's professors, the Holodomor fallacy is exposed. Was the famine a premeditated crime of Stalin? Within a few pages, the book Truth & Lies about the Famine in Ukraine unfolds, with names and facts, the thread of mythology that has been developed around the 1932-33 Famine, in an effort to shed light on those aspects of history that the dominant, bourgeois historiography has managed to remain in darkness.

Publisher's contact details: Atexnos Publishing House, 11 Fidiou Str, 10678 Athens, Greece, http://ekdoseis-atexnos.gr, ekdoseisatexnos@gmail.com.

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