Author: nickglais

We have learned from supporters and loved ones of Angola 3 member Herman Wallace that he passed away early this morning, on Friday October 4, just three days after being released from prison in Louisiana after 42 years in solitary confinement, and shortly after the state announced it would re-indict him. Wallace was suffering from terminal liver cancer and would have turned 72 on October 13.

“That is why a visionary who has armed force on his side has always won, while unarmed even your visionary is always a loser.”

(Machiavelli, The Prince, 1613, p.23, Penguin ed.)

“One of the things historians admired about the Achaean leader Philopoemen was that even in peacetime he thought of nothing but military strategy and when he was in the country with his friends he would stop

Vandals – Insulters of our History – A Council of Cretins ordering the smashing of Newports Chartist Mural before the major Saturday protest to Save it

Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr is raging with anger at the insult delivered to the people of Newport and Wales by the destruction of the Newport Chartist Mural today.

The destruction of our past is for us to lose confidence in our future – it is a wake

Today on October 3rd ,2013 we commemorate the 10th anniversary of comrades Dalvi and Khan who martyred themselves by commiting suicide in protest.

Their struggle lit torchlight in the struggle of the workers against the barbaric contract system Today, thousands of workers are enslaved by the tyranny of the contract system,worldwide. Inspite of strong protest the contract of labour

 Syria opened its doors to international inspectors and committed to the destruction of its sizeable chemical arsenal.

And yet questions still remain about where, when and by whom chemical weapons may have been used. Is such a Herculean task even possible?

Angela Kane, the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, joins Oksana to discuss these issues.

PRESS STATEMENT By LUIS G. JALANDONI NDFP Chief International Representative 02 October 2013

NDFP condemns arrest of 18 HERRIRA members

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) strongly condemns the arrest of 18 members of HERRIRA by the Spanish Guardia Civil on 30 September 2013. HERRIRA is the Basque organization defending the rights of 600 Basque revolutionary

PRESS STATEMENT By LUIS G. JALANDONI NDFP Chief International Representative 02 October 2013

NDFP condemns arrest of 18 HERRIRA members

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) strongly condemns the arrest of 18 members of HERRIRA by the Spanish Guardia Civil on 30 September 2013. HERRIRA is the Basque organization defending the rights of 600 Basque revolutionary

Tea Party candidates strong desire to roll back New Deal comes out of the GOP establishment’s own creation

Corporations in support of the Tea Party have pit themselves against GOP establishment Republicans who take their cue from Wall Street.

See Also: http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/us-health-struggle-obamacare-debate.html

                                      King Edward the 8th/Duke of Windsor shares a joke
                                                                     with Hitler

The first avowedly fascist organisation in Britain was the ‘British Fascisti’ (later just plain old ‘British Fascists’) formed in 1923. Largely comprised of military officers it was little more than a strong arm squad

The proprietor of the Daily Mail sent a series of supportive and congratulatory telegrams to Nazi Germany’s leaders, including Hitler, just months before the second world war, papers released reveal.

Intercepted messages from Lord Rothermere to Berlin are among the first papers to be released from Foreign Office intelligence files.

The files also show how, as early as