#communist party of germany

[commiepinkofag]

For United Action Against Fascism New York: Communist Party of USA [1933]

An early anti-fascist pamphlet from the CPUSA originally published as an editorial in the April 1933 issue of The Communist, and reprinted as a pamphlet for the Madison Square meeting against Fascism, April 5, 1933. The Party traces fascism’s emergence in Germany and the conditions by which it grew, including the inability of German Communists to unite with the social-democrats in opposing Hitler. The pamphlet concludes by detailing the work of the CPUSA in organizing a united front against fascism.

[katchwreck]

Rote Fahne (Red Flag) of February 26 and 27, 1933

Communist Party of Germany (KPD)

'FASCISM IS THE MORTAL ENEMY OF COMMUNISM!'

“Because fascism is the form of government of rotten capitalism against a socialist change of the existing capitalist barbarism. The conditions of their continued existence are the destruction of the revolutionary workers' organizations, the beheading of the fighting proletariat, the annihilation of proletarian leadership. Just as Noske crushed Spartacus in 1918/1919 to give capitalism a break, today, at a new point under the post-war capitalist crisis, the organizing force of the proletarian struggle for freedom must be crushed, they chant. The leadership of the ruling class has changed. Its only enemy, communism, has remained the same. Not a hair of a capitalist has been touched, not a bank expropriated, not a stock exchange newspaper banned. But no KPD newspaper is published anymore. The freedom of demonstration for revolutionary workers has been completely abolished. KPD's election material is confiscated, workers are arrested, anti-fascists are murdered by brown gangs, even a poorhouse raided by fascists. The current regime is the largest concentration of all fascist forces to date. It is at the same time the expression of the extreme intensification of the fascist methods of attack against the proletariat, but at the same time it is also the expression of weakness, of the permanent fear of the mass revolutionary uprising, of the understanding of the bourgeoisie that a solution of the crisis seems impossible for the foreseeable future. Fascism is not capable of remedying the general crisis, of cutting off the nodes and contradictions of the Versailles system, or of satisfying even the most elementary and burning needs of the working masses. The more fragile the capitalist system, the bigger, faster and more surprising the internal and external conflicts will be, the narrower the parliamentary base of fascism, the more obstinately, furiously and violently fascism will try to assert itself. In our unshakable will for socialism, we, the German communists and antifascists, know that we are one with Comrade Stalin, the leader of the world Communist party: for the Bolsheviks, there is no fortress that they will not conquer!”

[scienceoftheidiot]

Me *likes a post about how USA was very close with nazis prior to WW2 and wouldn't have made a single move without Pearl Harbor, wanting to potentially correct a little and add what I know about this which is kinda true and very interesting

Tumblr : oh you are a communist. You love Stalin. You want more posts about how Europe is so bad for saying the USSR was bad to its people when it was in fact heaven on earth and we should all strive to bring back the glorious days of the USSR

I have a deep feeling the algorithm's name is Emmanuel Macron 😒

PS : I still hate the USA !!!! I hate my own colonialist country !!! That's not a good reason to glorify the USSR and lie about it !!!

PS 2 : I also hate the Nazis. I mean. Do I really have to specify this part.

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Can i just say, cuz i saw the tag and it’s bothering me a little (as a lover of history)

Yes Japan allied with germany in world ward II, but they didn’t really do it because they agreed with germany. Like i’m not giving Japan a pass on anything they’ve done (they’re very much a coloniser as well)

But Japan joined germany out of anger a spit not out of shared ideology. Japan was angry they got short shafted after world war I where they fought alongside the allied forced and helped win some major battles, and then when it came to making a peace treaty they got nothing.

They didn’t get any labd like britian, france and the USA.

They didn’t even really get invited to be a part of the peace treaty like other countries on the winning side.

Japan joined Germany more out of frustration than being actual fascists. Like, yes. Their country has gone a really sort of terrible way in terms of government and they did commit a lot of war crimes and murder for the sake of getting rid of people they deemed ‘beneath them’

But had the other allied countries shown them even an ounce of respect after world war I maybe they would have stayed on their side.

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

bruh let's not call holocaust a "mass execution of communists", the poles who were killed in the holocaust were largely anti-communist since soviets were also our oppressors and soviets and nazis literally went hand in hand a lot of times (like that one time they literally signed a peace treaty just to divide poland between themselves, because yknow, fascists are fascists) it was a white surpremacist mass killing and most people who were killed were jewish people and poles that both had nothing to do with communism at the time

… Anon I was not calling the holocaust that, but the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of communists who were previously marked with a red triangle was what that post was alluding to. What on EARTH are you talking about.

[pinkieroy]

Said this on the tags and would like to add because the workers party never wants to miss a chance of saying something ridiculous instead of shutting up (they don't even have Twitter anymore, they can't keep getting away with it 😭😭) the party's vp posted that the guy deserves to get a "Christian forgiveness" + some other shit about cancel culture

[minnesotafollower]

Another Indictment of the Cuban Economy

Cuba Siglo 21 has published a new dossier by economist Emilio Morales that provides a statistical x-ray of the collapse of the regime’s system on the island. [1] “The Cuban economy is in a critical phase due to the drastic fall of more than 50% of its main sources of income: export of medical services, remittances and tourism. This financial collapse has accelerated the countdown of the…

[jovialbasementbouquetblr]

2007: Shan Shilian on Party/PLA Factionalism

Studying factionalism is one of the approaches to a big picture, long-term view of Chinese politics. Shan Shilian examines the patterns of Chinese politics are reflected in PRC Marshal Nie Rongzhen‘s memoirs 《聂荣臻回忆录》which were published by the PLA Publishing House in 1983 (then named Solider Publishing House) and re-isssued in 2007. Factional strife occurs in all countries; in China perhaps a…

[kneedeepincynade]

A new axis? Wouldn't be a surprise in these times. The west seeks confrontation with China and it will have if they continue on this road.

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The collective is on telegram

⚠️ GERMANIA E GIAPPONE SI UNISCONO CONTRO LA CINA, ASSE 2.0? ⚠️

🇨🇳 Nel mentre il Governo Cinese, guidato da Xi Jinping, lavora per la Pace, per la costruzione di un Mondo Multipolare e di un Vero Multilateralismo (真正的多边主义), la Germania e il Giappone Neo-Militarista si riavvicinano, per rafforzare gli scambi sia in ambito economico che in ambito militare in funzione anti-Cinese ⚔️

🤔 Germania e Giappone, nuovamente unite contro una potenza socialista. Cosa vi ricorda? 🤔

Scholz e Kishida, invece di indugiare nell'avventurismo anti-Cinese e anti-Comunista, dovrebbero ricordarsi cosa è successo l'ultima volta che i loro due Paesi si sono "uniti nel settore della Difesa" - più passa il tempo, e più sembra che la Germania si stia ritrasformando nella Germania nazista e che il giappone si stia attrezzando per tornare all'impero giapponese|

🤮 Il Governo Tedesco e il Governo Giapponese sono accomunati dall'aver avuto sul loro territorio i due peggiori regimi nella storia dell'umanità, dal Nazismo Hitleriano delle camere a gas al Militarismo Giapponese dell'Unità-731 e del Massacro di Nanchino 🤢

🔍 Per chi volesse approfondire, può rifarsi a questi post del Collettivo Shaoshan:

🔺Mao Ning: "Il Giappone deve riflettere sulla sua lunga storia di aggressioni e rispettare le preoccupazioni per la sicurezza dei suoi vicini asiatici" 🇨🇳

🔺La Repubblica Popolare Cinese commemora le vittime del Massacro di Nanchino ad opera dei militaristi giapponesi

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

⚠️ GERMANY AND JAPAN UNITE AGAINST CHINA, AXIS 2.0? ⚠️

🇨🇳 While the Chinese Government, led by Xi Jinping, works for Peace, for the construction of a Multipolar World and True Multilateralism (真正的多边主义), Germany and Neo-Militarist Japan are getting closer again, to strengthen exchanges both in the economic and military fields in an anti-Chinese function ⚔️

🤔 Germany and Japan, united again against a socialist power. What does it remind you of? 🤔

Scholz and Kishida, instead of indulging in anti-Chinese and anti-Communist adventurism, should remember what happened the last time their two countries "joined in the defense sector" - the more time passes, the more it seems that Germany is transforming back into nazi Germany and that Japan is gearing up to return to the Japanese empire.

🤮 The German Government and the Japanese Government are united by having had the two worst regimes in the history of humanity on their territory, from the Hitlerian Nazism of the gas chambers to the Japanese Militarism of Unity-731 and the Nanjing Massacre 🤢

🔍 For those who want to learn more, you can refer to these posts from the Shaoshan Collective:

🔺Mao Ning: "Japan must reflect on its long history of aggression and respect the security concerns of its Asian neighbors" 🇨🇳

🔺The People's Republic of China commemorates the victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese militarists

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

[anarcho-yorpism]

To all the communist transvestites, VOTE👏VON👏HINDENBURG👏

I'm just as radical as you; I'm a proud member of the great Social Democratic Party of Germany! I don't know what the crazy communists are telling you, but Paul von Hindenburg is our only hope to defeat the Nazis. After we elect him, then we can discuss other politics, but this is the BARE MINIMUM, and if you don't vote for him, you clearly have this crazy purity test that'll bring us all to fascism.

I know you might be worried about his "senility" and "failing health", and I know you may not like him because of his push to the right, and I know you may be worried about the brownshirts, and the recent persecution of Dr. Hirschfeld and his work, and maybe you STILL haven't gotten over the whole Rosa Luxemburg stuff,

but none of that really matters! We need to keep the SPD in power, or else Hitler will get in charge! This is the most important and most basic thing you could do to help Germany stay a democracy. In 6 years, then maybe we can find a better candidate, but no matter what you think about von Hindenburg, he's the best shot we have at keeping the fascists out of power. We can totally push him left!

Any vote against von Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler. #Hindenburg1932

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BRITISH COMMUNIST PARTY SAYS SEX WORK ISN'T WORK

To be more specific, they say the mantra "sex work is work" should be retracted by trade unionists and society at large.

Some highlights:

Women and girls should be able to secure well-paid jobs, good housing and education without the need to prostitute themselves. Prostitution is not a genuine and free choice; it is a survival behaviour, mostly engaged in by working class women and girls who suffer economic disadvantage.

Prostitution is inherently violent and requires in and of itself the subjugation of women and girls – there is no form of work where this could ever be acceptable.

Health and safety regulation is impossible in the sex trade: in any occupation that involves exposure to bodily fluids workers wear masks, gloves, gowns, and goggles to protect themselves. Prostitutes can never benefit from these levels of protection because of the nature of prostitution.

Extreme levels of violence, rape, degradation, and humiliation cannot be regulated against as they are part and parcel of prostitution. Such levels of harm against workers in work would never be tolerated. Women in prostitution experience more physical and sexual violence that women on average. A study by Germany’s federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth reports that 41% of women in prostitution experience physical or sexual violence, or both, in the context of prostitution.

The sexual sadism that prostitutes are exposed to causes the type of physical internal injuries and psychological trauma that should never be accepted in the world of work.

The murder rate is particularly high in the sex trade. Prostitutes are almost nine times more likely to be killed than soldiers in combat. Legalisation of the sex trade does not protect the lives of prostitutes. Since Germany’s legalisation of the sex trade in 2022, there have been 85 homicides of prostituted persons committed by clients. In addition, there have been at least 49 attempted homicides.

Pregnancy and even multiple pregnancies are risks arising out of prostitution which have adverse implications for the woman herself, for children born out of prostitution, and for society itself. This should never be accepted as an overhead of “employment”.

The high levels of substance use necessary to enable prostitutes to cope with the abusive practices of the men who buy sex should never be tolerated in the world of work.

Alternating bolding for readability.

Highly suggest reading the whole thing!

[dremilioastutoworld]

What is the Perspective of the Controversial Investment Agreement that the EU and the People's Republic of China concluded in January 2021 and the COSCO-HHLA Financial Participation Deal of October 26th, 2022? Lecture by Dr. Emilio Astuto. VHS Germering, November 2nd, 2022. TFF!

[radiofreederry]

Happy birthday, Angela Davis! (January 26, 1944)

A prominent and influential Black Marxist feminist intellectual and activist, Angela Davis was born and raised in Jim Crow Birmingham, Alabama. Her activism started early, as she marched against segregation as a Girl Scout. Her involvement in the communist movement began in high school, and deepened during her undergraduate education in West Germany. She moved to California to pursue her graduate degree, and had a brief and tumultuous stint as a professor at UCLA, where she was fired for being a communist, rehired by court order, and fired again for her political beliefs. Davis became a cause celebre for progressives and the left when she was put on trial for murder for having purchased weapons later used in a killing. She was ultimately found not guilty. She continued her activism and academic work with her increased public profile, and was the Communist Party's candidate for Vice President in 1980 and 1984. She terminated her long association with the Party in 1991, helping to found the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. Davis has written a number of books on feminist, Marxist, and Black struggle, including Are Prisons Obsolete? and Women, Race and Class.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

[mesetacadre]

Half-doubting if this anon was even a good idea to begin with but, am I a bad communist for being actively hostile against any form of authoritarian concentration of power?

I just don't think any single person could embody the revolution much less serve it on a system built entirely on personalism where we worship the leader instead of the workers themselves. The only role individual people should have on communism is that of thinkers and philosophers, not of absolute rulers.

This may be drawn from a personal bias though, my country was destroyed by a dictatorship that would have gladly shot me and hid my body for being a lesbian and I have developed animosity towards authoritarians that is perhaps unhealthy.

Where do we draw the line to avoid becoming a red painted tyranny? Or am I just not a good communist for my intransigence?

Thank you for your time

I'll break this down into two parts, authority and idolatry

Authority is a value-neutral, metaphysical concept. It is the use of some kind of force to impose a will on others. If you consider yourself a communist, then how do you intend to overthrow capitalism without exerting authority? Engels said it best: «A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all». We must come to terms with this, as revolutionary marxists. If we refuse the concept of authority all-together, then all that can happen is that authority is applied against our entire class, for the rest of time. I also live in a first-world country that used to have a fascist dictatorship, and the ~150,000 thousand killed for political reasons, 30,000 disappeared, 500,000 interned in concentration camps, more than 100,000 summary trials, tens of thousands of slaves and the thousands tortured up to the very end can speak to its destructiveness. But it wasn't as simple as "they used authority, therefore all authority (abstractly) is bad". Franco's dictatorship responded to a series of needs that the Spanish and European bourgeoisie had, by the time of their sponsored coup d'etat in 1936, Spain was at the forefront of organization of the working class in Europe, the communist party had hundreds of thousand members if you include their youth wing, and the biggest unions reached the millions, in a country of just under 25 million. Italy, Germany, Austria and Portugal found themselves in a similar resurgence when their fascists took power, in every case financed by their biggest capitalists, national and foreign.

The point I'm getting at is that, if you want to understand class society, you have to go beyond the black-and-white, metaphysical liberal philosophy. Violence can be exerted by multiple classes through their own class organizations, and the character, context and sense of that violence changes accordingly. I'm not saying that all violence committed by workers without exception is wholly good. I'm saying that the relationship each class has with class society modifies the very reasoning and effect of that violence. And no example of violence in history can be really described as senseless. My country's dictatorship did not kill, torture and repress that many people for no reason, the holocaust did not happen because Hitler was an evil entity, and the various proletarian states, past and present, have not exerted their authority senselessly.

In marxist theory there are two very important concepts: the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (DotB), and the dictatorship of the proletariat (DotP). The DotB is a catch-all term for any state of any form that serves capitalist interests. This is useful because, whether it's a liberal democracy with a strong welfare system, or Pinochet's Chile, they both ultimately serve to protect and expand the interest of the capitalist class. Put another way, the capitalist economy sustains the state and other entities like the media, the military, the government (what we call the suprastructure), while the capitalist economy underneath it all (what we call the infrastructure) maintains its existence. It is a dictatorship because it is one class enacting their own will in their own interests. The DotP is the same concept, but turned on its head. After our class has taken power and has began to build socialism-communism, it is actively enacting their sole will in their own interests. Why would the formerly exploited listen to what their former exploiters want? The proletariat must be able to repress the extant capitalist elements within and the permanently hostile capitalist class without. Dwell on this for a moment. While a DotP fosters democratic mechanisms for its class, the social majority (as all DotP in history have done), it simultaneously exerts its authority on those extraneous to the working class. If you live in a capitalist state, the very same thing is happening, just reversed. The managers of capitalism, i.e. the representatives in liberal democracy, govern for the capitalist class, even representing various sections of that class, while simultaneously repressing or preventing any organization of the working class.

I did not mention Chile as an example for no reason beforehand. When the working class of Chile attempted to build socialism through non-violent means, after the election of Allende (there were many tendencies within Allende's party and among his entire support base but that's beyond this post), they were met with an intervention that did not have any qualms about using violence, kickstarting Pinochet's 17 year long dictatorship, backed by Chilean and USAmerican capitalists, atop the corpses of at least 40,000 executed and/or tortured. Look up the massacre of Estadio Nacional if you're interested, it's where Victor Jara was murdered.

"Authority" in DotP is never as widespread nor as violent, firstly because it doesn't aim to repress the social majority, but rather the small but resourceful capitalist class, and secondly because its "repression" more often than not manifests in our actual goals, which is to build a socialist economy, which would necessarily eliminate the social basis for a capitalist class to exist in the first place. In the USSR, for example, the rich landowner peasants disappeared first an foremost because the structure of land ownership was completely changed, eliminating the source of their power. Any instances of actual violence were mostly against saboteurs during collectivization or during the grain seizures to curb the mass starvation that happened in the cities during the civil war, since no grain made it there. Capitalist authority is meant to keep the mass of working people subservient and exploited, proletarian authority is meant to protect the project of socialism-communism against attacks. It has never been about killing all the rich people, it has been about abolishing the capitalist mode of production and building a new one, one which does not need the oppression of any kind of people to keep functioning.

I recommend the following books if you're interested in sources about "authority" and democracy in DotPs:

The Soviets Expected It, Anna Louise Strong (1941). It is focused on the USSR's lead-up to the fascist invasion, but it contains a few examples from ALS' own, unsupervised, experience with soviet democracy and the general attitude of working people

In North Korea: First Eyewitness Reports, Anna Louise Strong (1949). Same as the previous one, it has a few examples of ALS' unsupervised travels through North Korea before the Korean War that talk about how democracy was set up.

The Triumph of Evil, Austin Murphy (2002). I've said a lot how this author is very annoying about keeping to this useless good vs evil dichotomy when talking about socialism and capitalism, but apart from those sporadic remarks, it's incredibly well researched. It focuses on economic aspects, but chapters 1, 2, especially 3, and 7 all contain analyses on the actual mechanisms of authority that DotP use, taking East Germany as an example. Again though, the author is very annoying as soon as he begins to give his personal opinions on morality.

Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It, Bruni de la Motte and John Green (2015). Pretty self explanatory title, this one goes into more detail about the security apparatus of East Germany. I haven't read this one in full, but it has a dedicated chapter on democracy and the state security service.

Onto idolatry. I promise this part will be shorter.

I've written more in detail about this, but while personality worship is a problem, I don't agree that it leads to the problems you outline. It's undeniable that there have been elements of individual idolatry, but that's neither a reflection of actual power concentration or ever a substitution for the elevation of workers. Leadership in any communist party is always collective, and if it follows Leninist principles of organization even partially, then internal democracy is always guaranteed save for the most extreme of situations. Stalin might have been a popular figure, but the Central Committee he was a part of was not below him, and the periodical Congresses had more authority than the CC or any individual person. ALS mentions how, for example, the 1936 constitution was made. It was a wholly democratic process, more than a hundred thousand suggestions were all recieved and considered by the organs in charge. It was the most progressive constitution in its time, it guaranteed rights many of us still do not have. And that process supposedly happened while the "worship" of Stalin was in full force. Every position in DotPs has some mechanism of recall and accountability, everything is elected and ratified. Can you start a process of recall for any specific member of the state administration in your DotB? In one instance, as ALS says, in the region of Crimea up to half of the elected officials were all recalled in one year.

I keep using the USSR as an example because it's the system I'm most familiar with, but any other DotP you can think of has similar mechanisms and limitations to power. Once again, was there a certain amount of idolatry towards a few individuals? Yes. Was this a harmful vice which created unchecked concentration of power and undue oppression? Most certainly not. Besides this, we're materialists, and we understand that human psychology is largely molded by the underlying material conditions. Focusing on individuals when it comes to these sorts of things is almost inevitable for large groups of people because of how the exploitative economic conditions modify psychological tendencies. It is a remain of liberal ideology for the most part, and it should be fought against. But you can't expect millions of people to change how they view certain processes, changes like those take a lot of time, generations, and education.

I've spent essentially all of my political life within a party structure not very dissimilar from that of Cuba's, the USSR's, China's, the DPRK's, etc, and I can say with full confidence that it is the most democratic and simultaneously productive set of principles you can have in political activity. Compared to liberal democracy, and compared to horizontalist/non-centralized structures, even those employed by anarchists, which I have also experienced, it is still far more democratic and effective at taking into account all input without devolving into a glorified debate club.

I don't think you're a bad communist, having these doubts and talking to other people about it is a very good habit to have. If you still have doubts or want to keep talking about this, feel free to shoot me another ask or a private message :)

[nobrashfestivity]

Reproduction of photograph by Tina Modotti, Published by Communist Workers Party of Germany, publishing activities c. 1921–1936 1931

[embroid-away]

What If: Captain America Were Revived Today? #44 (April 1983) by Peter B. Gillis and Sal Buscema; Original Image by John Romita Sr.

In this What If? Marvel tale, Captain America is unfrozen in 1983 rather than the 1960s. Without the leadership of Steve Rogers, The Avengers disband. Meanwhile, a Captain America imposter, who calls himself a "real American," has decided to use his newfound influential media status to publicly support a National Identity Card to "deal with illegal aliens,” to suggest that members of civil rights groups "ought to think seriously as to whether or not their actions contribute to the strengthening of communist enemies," and declare that if those groups tear the country apart with protests, martial law is justified "for the peace to find a solution.”

Neighborhoods with large black populations (e.g., Harlem) are walled off and forced into poverty, and one character even mentions that Jewish people are being “put back into camps.” The right-wing politicians make sure that things like this aren’t shown on television, keeping the majority of the American public ignorant of the horrors committed with their indifferent support. The public are simultaneously told that with some sacrifices, America can be free once again. The fake Captain America confronts a group of peaceful protestors, and he is shot by a sniper (in what reads like an inside job), allowing the police to have “reason” to attack the protestors. The imposter does not die and instead uses the attack to provide more reason for the violent crackdown against protesting groups.

When the true Captain America is unfrozen, he is horrified to see what America has become, especially with his emblem stamped all over it. He immediately seeks out the resistance forces (who clearly represent the Black Panther Party) and joins their cause, stating that "the wrongs [he's] seen will take much more than one man to right -- but [he's] got a name to clear, a costume to unsoil-- and a country to die for!!"

By the time Steve joins them, the resistance only has one chance left to stop the American downfall: a political convention where the "America First" party will be able to secure its support to sweep the national elections and allow them "to return America to the pure and great nation [the] forefathers envisioned."

The resistance strikes just as the convention begins. The Captain America imposter is no match in a fight against the true Captain America -- especially against a Steve Rogers who's fucking pissed. ("Get up so I can knock you down!!")

With the imposter knocked unconscious, Captain America addresses the convention crowd, warning that an America that does not represent all its people does not deserve to exist at all; that liberty can be "as easily snuffed out [in America] as in Nazi Germany" and "as a people, we are no different from them."

The crowd realizes that the man speaking before them is the true Captain America and cheers. Captain America holds his hand up and silences them, stating that he will not allow them the chance to simply replace one idol with another. He alone can’t undo the horrible damage, and he pleads that there’s still a chance for the people to “find America once again.”

Fascism doesn’t change its tune, just its singers.

A 2021 Marvel Trumps Hate ( @marveltrumpshate ) commission, completed on 22-count aida cloth with embroidery floss and watercolors on a 9" diameter bamboo hoop.