Democracy and Class Struggle is re- publishing this information has it is essential background to the current Ukraine Crisis.
The Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda holds a rally in Kiev, January 1, 2014. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)
This article was first published in TheNation.com and Foreign Policy In Focus.
As the Ukrainian crisis has
Editor Michelle Chen and instructor Xiaoming Chai discuss the
workers’ demands and whether the rise of strikes in signal a decline of cheap labor in China.
With May 1st just days away we call for International Working Class Solidarity for our Chinese Brothers and Sisters – we call for the release of the detained activists Zhang Zhiru and Lin Dongo
Long Live International Working Class
Self-defence troops have confirmed they attacked a Ukrainian military helicopter at an airfield in eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. A plume of smoke can be seen rising over the area in a number of online videos. The Helicopter was destroyed by a RPG rocket propelled grenade.
Ukrainian troops were ordered to commence the next stage of the so-called ‘anti-terrorist operation’ around 12pm local time (10:00 GMT), according to coup-appointed acting head of presidential administration Sergey Pashinsky.
“The aim is to completely isolate Slavyansk to localize the problem. At the moment, the operation is ongoing,” the official told media as quoted by RIA Novosti.
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Defending James Connolly’s ideas against revisionism today.
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The value of these street interviews is up to the viewer but they show contradictions amongst the people and contradictions with the enemy the Kiev Putschists.
The Interviews follow on after another automatically.
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Larry Wilkerson: President Obama’s trip to East Asia exemplifies the need for the U.S. to control China’s influence instead of looking for ways to collaborate.
Since 2011 the Pivot to Asia has created tension in the Asia Pacific that tension is growing not diminishing just as the US pivot to the Ukraine has brought the highest level of tension since the Cold War in Europe.
Imperialism means
Pictures presented by Washington and Kiev as evidence of Russia’s involvement in Ukraine, and published on Monday by the New York Times, were unverified and in fact contradicted the claims they were to support.
The US State department acknowledged the error and the New York Times back-tracked on its Monday story, which claimed “photographs and descriptions from eastern Ukraine endorsed by the
To justify its growing military presence, the US has been stoking diplomatic tensions in the South China Sea… US warships, jetfighters and armed troops have been arriving in the Philippines with greater frequency and in greater numbers. In 2012, warships docked at least 80 times, growing to 150 in 2013.
MEDIA RELEASE CPP Information Bureau 23 April 2014
On 28 April 2014,