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One can buy inexpensive classic film DVDs on eBay.
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I prefer physical videos or movies. I have VHS,( SVHS ) Blu-ray, and HD
New York used to be a city who had many bookstores, magazine stores, newspapers stands and libraries.
Many peoples were reading books in the subways, parks and buses.
Youngster peoples sitting on the floors of the bookstores reading books,
classical movies stores all over, and classical music stores, some of them had 5 stories high.
Stereo equipments stores from USA manufactures, Japan, England and Germany, peoples collected them
Stores specializing on good comics book
All the libraries were managed by professional librarians .
Some stores had several pornograhy magazines and they call it a bookstores
Everything is gone, it is like dropping an atomic bomb of ignorance
TCM Turner Classical Movie is a good channel for classical movies
https://periodismoinvestigativo.com/2026/03/population-decline-driven-deaths-not-migration/
For the third straight year, Puerto Rico’s population decline is being driven by deaths, not migration
A report published by the U.S. Census Bureau in January on population estimates shows that Puerto Rico’s population shrank in 2025 compared with the previous year. It also marks the third consecutive year in which the loss of residents was driven primarily by deaths rather than net migration, a measure calculated by subtracting the number of people leaving from the number arriving. After the Census announcement, several Puerto Rico news outlets reported on and discussed the figures while incorrectly suggesting that the population decline reflected a new wave of migration, even though this indicator has been falling in a nearly steady pattern.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260902234457.htm
Extreme drought now covers 44% of Puerto Rico
Date:
September 4, 2026
Source:
NASA Earth Observatory
Summary:
Puerto Rico’s normally rainy season has instead brought a severe and fast-growing drought. By August 25, three-quarters of the territory was in at least moderate drought, with extreme drought covering 44 percent and some areas receiving less than 20 percent of their usual rainfall. Water shortages have forced rationing, while farmers are losing crops and ranchers are running low on hay. The situation has become serious enough to trigger both local and federal disaster declarations.A chilean worker said: If the copper belongs to the chilean peoples, can I take a piece to make some cooking pot for my family? , they accused him of trying to rob state property, he did not own anything, only his labor power to produce and reproduce
Salvador Allende nationalized the mining industry and workers went on strike due to low wages and high inflation, and he sent the troops and the police to repress the workers, the same troops that overthrew him later on, and the members of the left coalition supported the workers repression instead of supporting the workers rebellions, when Piñera sent the troops to suppress the student the left was protesting against capitalist oppression, the same crap
The leftist were worshipping president Gabriel Boric because he was eating hot dogs on the streets, but Barrack Obama was eating hamburgers, tacos, burritos, pizza and hot dogs in a lot places by the meantime he was bombarding the middle east, and placing embargo on Venezuela and overthrowing governments in latin America
Fidel Castro gave a lot speeches against yankee imperialism, but he was collaborating with Russian imperialism, and cuban troops were sent to Angola to continue receiving aid from soviet Comecon and helping the soviet to establish a stronghold in africa, and they became member of the Third World Coalition which did not support NATO or the Warshaw pact, but of those countries supported either capitalists empires
We cam cite thousands of examples demonstrating that left and right are two wings of the same bird known as capitalism, And we have an articles written by the SPC under the same title, for the left it is like Dracula when he sees the cross, like Leninism versus marxism written by the SPGB, they become deaf mute
Ernesto Che Guevara wrote that a renegade is the worst thing in the so called working class movement, what renegade was he referring to ? He was referring to the workers that do not support them, or the workers that do not support leftwing tendencies, guerrillas fighters or Castroism. The issues is that supporting them will not conduct a worker to obtain class consciousness or become a socialist, He or she will become a reformist and a supporter of salaried slavery. Right there, the concept of ‘Facho Pobre” or Fascist workers can be defined.
When Fidel Castro went to Chile and he met president Salvador Allende and the copper miners went on strikes, he said that they should be repressed because they were reactionary and counter revolutionary, a right wing leader would make the same statement, and that type of statements have been made by Donald Trump too, therefore, there is not difference between right wing and left wing tendencies as they pretend to be, both wings come from the same bird known as capitalism.
Joe Biden who is a right winger walked in a workers strike along with the workers, Allende did not do that
The so called leader of the so called cuban revolution and the commander of the revolution is also a reactionary and a repressive individual willing to kill the workers, even more, as a present or a gift he gave to Salvador Allende a Russian rifle, and he said give arms to peoples but never gave arms to cuban workers because he knew that they were going to be used his own government, like Trujillo who imposed mandatory millitary service but the guns used were made from lumbers, they were not real guns, nobody was allowed to carry guns, the same case is the so called USA second amendment, white men were allowed to have guns but Indians and blacks were not allowed to have guns, the Comancheros were killed and taken to jail when they were found selling guns to the Indians
Ironically Salvador Allende was overthrown by a group of military who he had called the popular army and he brought the head of them to the state apparatus because he was not longer able to control the workers protests and the claim for better salaries and better benefits, and chilean workers in that time had more political education than the present time, after he was overthrown by a brutal coup d’etat his popularity was not higher than the popularity that he had when he was president.
His supporters made a big deal about his medical service proposal ( and he was a medical doctor ) but those social democrats benefits were not his creation and they were not unique, they were implemented in Europe by local social democrats and by the capitalist class to keep workers alive while they were producing commodities and profits, it was not a gift
I have an old Encyclopedia Britannica, but I just keep it as a souvenir or for nostalgia in my storage (Part of my personal library, and I do not get bookworms ) because a lot of the information is outdated. My solution was to obtain an online subscription, which is always updated. Supermarkets and grocery stores were selling volumes of encyclopedias every week, but they are not selling them anymore because people are not reading anything; they are just buying movie star and sports magazines
PS: Bookworms eat the paper, the glue, the leather, the cardboard; rental storage is clean and fumigated, and some are fireproof, and bookshelves can be screwed; houses, condominiums, and apartments get bookworms, silverfish and firebrats. Now, libraries are noisy, and they are like coffee shops
Buying an old used classical book is fine, but buying an old used scientific book is risky. Now, some Hornbooks have a back pocket where updated information can be inserted; therefore, you can get an old, used one and update it, but books for biology, physics, and natural sciences are a different situation
“If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain
Many poor students can not buy a $200 or $300 textbook, so their solution is to buy a cheap used one or to buy a digital one, print it (using software), and turn it into a spiral-bound book, which is about one-quarter of the original cost. Buying an old one means you’re taking the risk of having outdated information
It is only a suggestion; nobody is placing a gun to your head. It is a cheap way to do bookbinding. Some companies make spiral bookbinding. We have to survive in the capitalist jungle. I have done several spiral bookbindings for several textbooks, and I keep the original book on my bookshelf to preserve it
Another format to preserve old books is spiral book binding. It is a good format for big textbooks; they can be opened completely on a school desk and placed on top of a book holder.
A softcover book can be converted into a hardcover book by getting hard cardboard that can be placed on top and on the back of the book and glueing the old artistic cover on top of the cardboard
Digital books can be printed, and they can be turned into spiral books
This is for September 11. Terrorism versus terrorism: there are no better explanations, much better than all the conspiracy theories
September 2026 Socialist Standard for your contacts :
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As well, we can not call fascist or fascism to all right wing political party or right wing political movement, leader, or to any workers that support right wings movement or populist leaders.
In the USA, the democrats and leftists call Trump a fascist and his followers as fascists, but they are members of the working class like any other workers, and they also live in poverty.
They always associate fascism with wars, but they never remember that the soviet union conducted several wars around the world and they supported those wars, and all of them support the concept of the vanguard party to lead .
Probably the concept of “Facho Pobre” applies to both sides or both tendencies
