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in case anyone else is struggling to read, here are screenshots. IDs under cut.

apologies for any errors, I'd be very happy to correct them.

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Image 1: [Diagram with 5 boxes, connected by arrows.

Box 1 reads: US-led imperialist states. An arrow leads from Box 1; arrow reads: Regime change, War, Sanctions, PSYOPs, Cripple economies. (Attempted transcription: co-opt and subvert popular movements.) This arrow connects to Box 2; Box 2 reads: "Enemy states"; "Authoritarian Regimes"; "Undemocratic."

Box 3 is labelled Promote "Free Trade"; reads: IMF, World Bank, WTO, EIB, APEC, NAFTA, G20, Private lenders. An arrow leads from Box 3 to Box 4; arrow reads in bullet points: structural adjustment programs; predatory load arrangements; "foreign aid"; neoliberalize economy; open up a market for privitazation; create foreign debt.

Arrows lead from Boxes 2 and 3 to Box 4. Box 4 is labelled Semi-colonies; reads: "Staunch Allies", "Friendly relations"; "Trade partners"; "Free market".

An arrow leads from Box 4 to Box 5. This arrow is labelled Remove/Relax; reads in bullet points: labor laws; trade regulations; ladn and environmental protections; indigenous sovereignty; indented: corporate taxes; public spending; social services

Box 5 reads: Global North-based multinational corporations. Two bullet points beneath Box 5 read: extract raw materials; exploit labour, land, (attempted transcription: environment)]

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Image 2: Capitalist-imperialism (monopoly capitalism).

The final stage of capitalism, characterized by the transfer of wealth from oppressed nations to oppressor nations, monopolies' decisive role in economic life, the emergence of finance capital (the merger of industrial with banking capital), the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations, and the territorial division of the world by capitalist powers.

Imperialism enriches the oppressor country whose ruling class, the borgeoisie, utilise various instruments including international free trade organizations, financial institutions, the state apparatus, and fascist forces to expropriate wealth generated by the worlking class in the exploited semi-colonies (neocolonies) in the Global South (The Third World).

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Image 3: [bullet points only]

The top 1% of the world's population owns more wealth than the rest of the world combined

The Global North (The first World) consumes 80% of the worlds' national resources while complrising only 20% of the world population

Under capitalism, an estimated 25 million people die every year due to poverty, starvation, and lack of access to basic healthcare and sanitation - the vast majority in the Globla South

152 million+ children are engaged in child labor, the majority living in the Global South

While the wealthiest 10% of the world population is responsible for 50% of global carbon emissions, poor communities bare the brunt of climate change with 98-99% of climate change-related deaths occurring in the Global South

An additional 250,000 deaths per year are predicted between 2030 and 2050, mostly in the Global South

Tax evasion and illicit financial flows amount to $1 trillion+ yearsly globally, with multinational corporations accounting for a significant portion.

Drain from the Global South to the Global North measured in terms of raw material, land, energy, and labor is estimated between $3.6 trillion and $20.3 trillion

Between 1990-2015, total drain sum from South to North amounts to $242 trillion

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Image 4: bureucrat capitalism (bureaucratic-comprador capitalism)

The capitalist system implemented in oppressed nations by imperialist powers which maintains a backwards economic based with semi-colonial and often semi-feudal production relations. In this system, the oppressed country's puppet bureaucrats, comprador bourgeoise, and big landowners (often in the form of feudal landlords) siphon wealth generated by the proletariat and the peasantry to the imperialist bourgeoisie.

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Image 5: [bullet points only]

Narendra Modi implemented neoliberal economic policies that priotize the interests of Western corporations furthering the exploitation of Indian farmers living in semi-feudal conditions, and who represent over 60% of the population

Following the US-backed Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs" campain and extrajudicial killings that claimed over 30,000 lives in the Philippines, the US-backed Bongbong Marcos has become president after a fraudulent election - Marcos recently announced plans to build 5 new US military bases in the country and expand joint military exercises in an effort [corrected from "affort"] to maintain US geopolitical dominance and protect multinational corporate interests

Under Jair Bolsonaro's rule in Brazil, land-grabbing and attacks on indigenous land protectors increased while environmental protections were dismantled to serve US mining and logging companies - Brazil has been the deadliest country for land/environmental activisits with at least 1,119 killed between 2010-2019

Following the right-wing parliamentary coup in Peru last year, states forces brutally repressed protestors, killing 69 civilians & arresting hundres - this year the US ambassador to Peru met with the Peruvian minister of energy and mining, its vice minister of hydrocarbons, and the vice minister of mining to discuss investment in extractive industries

Under Mohamman bin Salman's rule, Saudi Arabia has remained a loyal partner to US imperialist interests in its oil reserves, with both countries and the UK conducting a genocidal blockade on Yemen while arming Saudi Arabia - over 233,000 Yemenis have been killed since 2015 with 131,000 a result of blockade-induced food insecurity and lack of access to health services

Throughout Paul Biya's rule in Cameroon, IMF structural [corrected from "strucutral"] adjustment programs have kept millions in high profits and causing environmental degradation.

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Image 6: [black-and-white picture of Patrice Lumumba overlayed with a large red x.]

Western-backed overthrow & execution of Patrice Lumumba, pan-African leader and first Prime Minister of the DRC (1961)

State sponsors: US, UK, Belgium, anti-Lumumba Congolese forces

Profiteeers: Texaco, Anglo American, Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, others

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Image 7: [black and white picture of Indonesian people behind bars, watched by uniformed guards holding automatic weapons.]

Western-backed Indonesian genocide

killing 500,000-1,000,000+ communists, alleged communists, sympathizers, activists, urban poor, farmers, teachers, students, women & minorities (1965-66)

State sponsors: US, UK, Australisa, Indonesian Army & death squads

Profiteers: Shell, Unilever, Freeport-McMoRan, Cargill, Nestlé, others

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Image 8: colonialism

Open control and exploitation of a nation's indigenous people and land by a colonial power, usually by military force and settlers

While older forms of colonialism still exist totday, most people live under neocolonial (semi-colonial) rule. As colonial powers granted colonized nations nominal independence in the 19th and 20th centuries, semi-colonial relations were maintained by international capitalist powers. Backwards economic bases and their superstructures established under colonialism persist under capitalist-imperialism today - this is recognizable in institutional racism, the sex trade, human trafficking, mass incarceration, prison labor, land grabbing, militarism, forced migration, and the super exploitation of workers in the Global South and oppressed nations within the Global North such as Black and Indigenous peoples.

Oppressed countries who resist Western colonialism and semi colonialism face the threat of US Sanctions, which currently affect a third of the world population.

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Image 9: [bullet points only]

During Nakba in 1948, Israeli forces expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands, capturing 78% of historic Palestine

Following increased US support of Israel in 1967, Israeli forces and settlers have continued their ethnic cleansing campaign, killing over 10,000 Palestinians - a significiant portion being women and children - while building illegal settlements

Israel refuses right of return to the global 5.7 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants whereas Israel's Law of Retun grants Jews citizenship and the right to settle

28% of Guam and 25% of Hawaii is owned by the US military

43% of sex trafficking cases in Hawaii involve Native Hawaiian girls in Waikīkī, O'ahu and an anti-sex trafficking operations revealed 38% of people arrested by soliciting sex online from a 13-year-old girl were US military personnel

In 2021, the US Navy contaminated O'ahu's water aquafer with jet fuel, poisoning 93,000 residents

In Canada, Inigenous women and girls are 12x more likely to be murdered or go missing than members of any other demographic

Despite the US representing 5% of the world's population, it houses 20% of the world's prisoners - Black people are incarcerated 5x the rate of White people, and Indigenous 4x the rate

There are 60+ overseas territories controlled primarily by the US, UK, France, Netherlands, and Denmark with the majority of residents, especially Black and Indigenous, experiencing higher levels of poverty than the national level

Residents of US territories, British overseas territories, French overseas territories, the Dutch Caribbean, and the Danish Realm's autonomous regions do not have the right to vote for the president/prime minister

~90% of Northern Ireland is owned by descenedents of English and Scottish settlers who arrived during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th Century

The US has nearly 800 overseas military bases in 80+ countries, supplies arms to 100+ countries, and has 173,000+ troops deployed in ~150 countries, covering about 77% of the world's total countries

The US spends nearly a trillion each year on the military

For every dollar US taxpayers pay in income taxes, 24 cents go to the military

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Image 10: proletarian internationalism

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Image 11: [black-and-white image of Claudia Jones speaking in a panel. Claudia Jones quote and description.]

"We communists adhere to the fundamental belief that complete and lasting equality of imperialist oppressed nations and people can be guarunteed only with the establishment of socialism.

...Our approach is based on proletarian internationalism, which recognizes that the workers of an oppressing nation best fight against national oppression - especially by their "own" bourgeoisie - once they understand that such is the road to their own freedom. It is based on the Marxist proposition that "no nation can be free if it oppresses other nations!"

Claudia Jones

On the right to self-determination for the Negro people in the black belt [1940s; final digit of the year is obscured]

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