To-do list

Issues which came up which need to be resolved or topics discussed that need to be expanded upon or investigated.

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### **Maintenance**

* We have hosting but need technical support in setting up a wiki. We will then need support migrating it all over.
* Label political biases of news sources (eg. owned by a company)
* Figure how to categorize blog posts and opinion pieces to make long pages more navigable or readable
* Move primary sources (eg. letters, diary entries) to “Documents”
* Find audiobooks for people who don’t benefit from text-to-speech software
* Should some of the sections be split into categories considering how large they are?
* Need to spend some time separating opinion articles from news articles
* Focus on finding non-Western sources
* Create a section about the suppression of workers’ movements in Political Repressions; will have to involve moving stuff from other sections
	+ Debate if that should go into the protests section actually
* Transform hyperlinks under Hungarian Revolution into full URLs so users know what they are clicking on
* Pull stuff from 2012-2016 to give better context why communists outside the USA started putting out warning signals about red-brown alliances
* Need to go through the document again to label biased sources
* Mobile users say wiki is difficult to use
	+ Creating a custom menu seem to have a hard limit in how many pages to link to
* Create OSINT toolkit
* Add category on prisons
	+ pages could be pulled from many existing pages.
* Add regional and national categories for areas with multiple pages
* Sort out formatting on Marxist critiques and Marxist-Leninist critiques
* Convert capitalization in page titles to lowercase
* sort out Dumping area
* Give original editors (30+) of the document administrative access or moderator positions

### **Africa Assorted**

* Sankara: a coup, not a revolution; strike-breaking and union-busting; Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committees\_for\_the\_Defense\_of\_the\_Revolution\_(Burkina\_Faso)) as armed gangs, vigilantes, and union-busters
* Documentary about anti-Blackness in Libya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ud7LzbaOt8
* Add Section on Mozambican economy
* Add section on Libyan economy
* continuation of capitalism and white land control in South Africa
* Angola
* Angolan Civil war
	+ US, apartheid South Africa, and China on the same.
* Burkina Faso (China and Qaddafi were involved in assassination of Sankara)
* Angola
* Benin (Kérékou)
* Republic of Congo (Sassou Nguesso)
* Tanzania (Nyerere)
* Guinea (Touré)
	+ Prisons and executions
* Somalia (Barre)
* Marxism leninism, centralism and the danger of the coup
	+ discussed in Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Ervin

### **East Asia Assorted**

* Vietnam collaborating with Western nations and making sure anything critical is discouraged in the West
* Cite Meo Mun
* Perhaps a subsection on the Ne Win regime of Myanmar under the so-called “Burmese Way to Socialism” from 1962-1988 and persecution of citizens of Chinese and Indian origin.
* Add Section on relationship of Laos to Vietnam
* Cambodia (Kampuchea)
* Add a section on the Philippines (Duterte) (as ridiculous as it is there are tankies for him)
	+ include reference to how NPA supported him at first

### **China**

* build: China Protests
* Expand Kashmir
* Research evictions & resistance to them in China
	+ more on property relations in china in general
* Talk about the infatuation for Westerners/Western culture in China (and its tendency to hire white guys for propaganda)
* Find evidence that Mao thanked the Japanese Empire for the CCP’s dominance
* General PRC suppression of non-Mandarin languages, including Tibetic languages, Uyghur, Mongolian, Zhuang, Hokkienese, Shanghainese, Cantonese, etc.
* Persecution of scientists in China
	+ Lysenkoism in China
* One Hundred Flowers Campaign, China
* expand: Chinese "Cultural Revolution", 1966-1976
	+ Make Shanghai Commune, 1967 its own section
* Make Tiananmen Square, 1989 its own section
* China enforcing territorial claims in Bhutan and Kashmir
* Anti-blackness in China
	+ Robert Williams, Black activist, had issues with Mao over race issues
	+ Black activists were under heavy surveillance in Mao’s China
* 2014 umbrella protests
* Put in website that talks about censorship and repression in China in Chinese
* Cite Tsering Shakya’s videos on Tibet
* Add section on Chinese imperialism in Africa
* Add section on Belt and road
* Chinese famine (needs more)
* Add section on the invasion of Vietnam
* Add section on Cambodian genocide

### **Eastern Europe Assorted**

* Hungary (Kádár)
* Belarus economy
* East German (DDR) repression of social movements
* Add a section on Hoxha and reinforcing/producing Albanian nationalism (also add to nationalism section)
* Add a section on the Albanian economy
* Add a section on Serbian nationalism (under fascism? also add to nationalism section)
* Add a sections on Yugoslavia
	+ Economy
	+ Serbian nationalism
* Romania (Gheorghiu-Dej)
* Romania (Ceausescu):
	+ misogynist, antiziganist,
	+ pro-austerity policies
* add section on the Economy of Polish People's Republic
* Prague spring
* Bulgaria
* Poland
	+ Solidarity

### **Russia**

* Russification policies by USSR/banning of non-Russian languages
* Expand more on Katyn massacre
* Develop the section on Kazakh famines and neo-colonialism of Siberia
* Make sure famine in Kazakh is weighed the same as famine in Ukraine
* Find discussions about racist Soviet jokes about Jewish people and Chukchi people
* Need to find references to KGB infiltrating neo-Nazi organizations in West Germany and planting antisemitic messages to antogonize Jewish neighbourhoods
* Persecution of scientists in the USSR
	+ lysenkoism in the USSR
* The USSR refused to support the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, allowing the Nazis to steamroll the Poles
* Pick up this book, it covers Stalin’s antisemitism: https://institute.eajc.org/%D0%B8%D0%B7-%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85-%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B9/
* Book about Soviet persecution of Swiss communists: https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/19752
* Find a liberated copy of “Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry” by Anatol Lieven for “Russian Chauvinism” section
* Add a section on prison uprisings in the USSR

### **Fascism**

* Develop section about how reactionaries and the far-right believe US government or the CIA funds MLs, Marxists and anarchists under “Anti-Government Reactionaries'' since red-brown fascists keep palling around with neo-Nazis, right-wing accelerationists (eg. Atomwaffen, 3%ers) and alt-right / New Right
* Add more citations about Peronism under “Red-Brown Alliances in the 20th Century”
* Investigate who Fabio Massimo Parenti is and figure out why he mentioned *Strategic Culture Foundation* [Duginist front] four times in the *Global Times*. Italian fascists are disproportionately over-represented in Dugin’s bullshit media ecosystem
* Develop section on how deplatforming works and why
* Talk about how East Germany's failure to purge Nazis after WW2 under "red-brown alliances, 20th century"
* Touch on Rohingya genocide
* Add why Duterte is anti-communist
* Add why Lukashenko is anti-communist (European Stalinists and Marxist-Leninists hate Lukashenko, but American campists keep thinking Belarus is socialist)

### **Latin America Assorted**

* Talk more about the Shining Path’s atrocities against Indigenous and poor people
* Add related sections on Peronism
* Peronist economics
* Pro-USSR Forbes Burnham of Guyana was responsible for the assassination of Black revolutionary Walter Rodney
* AMLO
* PT and capitalist extraction
* venezuela emmigration

### **Cuba**

* FIgure out how to handle nuance of Cuba’s repression of LGBTQIA+ & Cuba’s anti-Blackness without reinforcing right-wingers trying to “own the libs” (same regarding sensitivity and right-wing co-option of discussing racism / colorism)
* Find more information about Castroist repressions of Cuban anarchists (In Spanish)
* Robert Williams, Black activist, criticized Fidel Castro over race relations in Cuba and his lack of support for Black nationalism

### **Middle East Assorted**

* Brett Beletz (Turkish ultra-nationalist) wrote an absurd piece on Medium where they (don’t know their pronoun) accuses everyone who doesn’t support the Turkish-backed militias in Syria [and the Turkish-backed militias in Armenia] of being fascists. We should probably resolve this because if Grey Wolves politics (see this summary for why anti-capitalists will be confused by their presence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey\_Wolves\_(organization)) crosses the Atlantic, anti-fascist scenes will be complicated to navigate as it is already a mess in Vienna
* Add section on Iranian economy
* Add section on Syrian economy
* General section on repression of the Arab spring
* Flesh out section on chemical attack denialism
* build Syria Protests

### **Western Social Democrats and Communists**

* Need to find articles about how B.C. NDP and Alberta NDP aligned themselves with conservatives and right-liberals against leftist discourses [out of shared class interest of anti-immigrant sentiments, anti-poor measures, hatred of unemployed disabled people anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism and settler-colonialism] under “Populism”
* French communist party antisemitism and homophobia (Michel Foucault mentioned this)
* Talk about Jeremy Corbyn
* Bernie and Afghanistan

### **Various**

* Imperial tendencies in Marx and Engles (needs more)
* Split "Suppression of anarchist movements"
* Split "Suppression of Marxist movements"
* Cite Kevin Carson, a C4SS (Center For Stateless Society) contributor
* Marxism-Leninism is coined by Stalin, figure out where to put it
* Need someone who can read French: http://www.lespetitsmatins.fr/collections/les-reseaux-du-kremlin-en-france/
* Need to dig up Esha’s Islamophobic tweet-- Jim Kovpak said she has a history of being cruel to Afghan and Syrian refugees
* Recover the tweets Clara Sorrenti made about Communist Party of Canada is red-brown when she realized neo-Nazis and her former comrades were reading the same news sources (eg. Global Research)