Various media have asked us to comment on the Brixton “slavery” affair. As the media might have established by now, Aravindan Balakrishnan was expelled from an organisation which preceded our own in 1974, at a time when it carried a large amount of work against state-organised racist and fascist violence and in defence of minority rights and the right of the Irish people to self-determination
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Philippines: The People’s Cry for Justice Prose Poem by Jose Maria Sison
Professor Jose Maria Sison
Opening Statement in Prose Poem (Proem) at the Open Source TribunalNicolai Church, Utrecht, Netherlands23 November 2013
The People’s Cry for Justice
CASE: National Democratic Movement of the Philippinesversus Those Responsible for the Unnatural Disaster Related to Supertyphoon Haiyan
By Prof. JOSE MARIA
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Labour in West Bengal: Scenario under the Trinamool Congress rule
by Partho Sarathi Ray An interesting fact has come to light in the recently published “Labour in West Bengal” report brought out by the labour ministry of the government of West Bengal. Designed to tout the achievements of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the field of labour and industrial relations and to portray […]
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Great response to online petition demanding ‘Drop charges against Rasmea Odeh’
Chicago, IL – More than 2500 people have signed the online petition demanding the federal government drop the charges against longtime Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh. Odeh is facing a trumped up immigration charge that could lead to imprisonment, the stripping of her U.S. citizenship and deportation.
Jess Sundin, of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression states, “The online petition is a powerful tool in two ways. First, each signature generates direct messages to those in power who will decide whether and how to proceed with Rasmea’s case. The decision to prosecute an immigration case 20 years after Rasmea entered the U.S. is politically motivated. It’s important that we pressure them to stand down, making it clear that the world is watching this case and standing behind this important Palestinian community leader.”
“Second, we are trying to build a base of support that Rasmea can count on. Everyone who signs on can be contacted again as the need for new actions arise. This is a concrete way to lend your support today and to stand by for whatever is needed next to defend Rasmea Odeh in the days ahead,” said Sundin.
Fight Back! readers can sign the petition by going to http://www.stopfbi.net/sign-petition-rasmea-odeh
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Great response to online petition demanding ‘Drop charges against Rasmea Odeh’
Chicago, IL – More than 2500 people have signed the online petition demanding the federal government drop the charges against longtime Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh. Odeh is facing a trumped up immigration charge that could lead to imprisonment, the stripping of her U.S. citizenship and deportation.
Jess Sundin, of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression states, “The online petition is a powerful tool in two ways. First, each signature generates direct messages to those in power who will decide whether and how to proceed with Rasmea’s case. The decision to prosecute an immigration case 20 years after Rasmea entered the U.S. is politically motivated. It’s important that we pressure them to stand down, making it clear that the world is watching this case and standing behind this important Palestinian community leader.”
“Second, we are trying to build a base of support that Rasmea can count on. Everyone who signs on can be contacted again as the need for new actions arise. This is a concrete way to lend your support today and to stand by for whatever is needed next to defend Rasmea Odeh in the days ahead,” said Sundin.
Fight Back! readers can sign the petition by going to http://www.stopfbi.net/sign-petition-rasmea-odeh
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NAPM commentary on the new Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013
NAPM, November, 2013 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 has been replaced by the “Right to Fair Compensation, Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013” (LARR), seven years after two separate legislations, Land Acquisition Act (Amendment) 2007 and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2007 was introduced by UPA in Parliament in wake of Nandigram Singur, Kalinganagar […]
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Philippines: Unite with the people in facing Typhoon Yolanda devastation, carry out temporary and unilateral ceasefire for two months
We must care for and lead the masses in overcoming the present situation — this should be the principal concern of the revolutionary forces in the next 2 to 6 months. We will carry out during this period a temporary and unilateral ceasefire against the reactionary armed forces.
MEDIA RELEASE
By Fr. SANTIAGO SALAS (Ka Sanny)Spokesperson, NDFP Eastern Visayas Chapter25 November 2013
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Aravindan Balakrishnan : Maoists disassociated themselves from his activities and refused his followers entry into Maoist meetings
Democracy and Class Struggle says Aravindan Balakrishnan the man at the centre of the slavery scandal in Brixton was expelled from Communist England in 1974 and set up a cult around the Workers Institute.
Other Maoist groups were to shun the Workers’ Institute, disassociating themselves from its activities and refusing them entry into their meetings. Aravindan Balakrishnan was generally
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U.S., Japan make threats against China
Minneapolis, MN – U.S. and Japanese authorities are making threats against People’s China in the wake of China’s Nov. 23 establishment of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone.
Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun states that China created the Identification Zone with “the aim of safeguarding state sovereignty, territorial land and air security and maintaining flight order. This is a necessary measure taken by China in exercising its self-defense right.”
Inside the newly created Identification Zone are the Japan-occupied Diaoyu Islands. Historically a part of China, Japan maintains physical control over the Diaoyu Islands and the islands have become a flashpoint in Chinese-Japanese relations in recent years.
Japan’s current Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe – a right winger who defends Japan’s brutal imperial past – is up in arms about the decision to establish the Identification Zone.
A Nov. 24 report in The Guardian states, “Japan has denounced the zone set up by China on Saturday as ‘totally unacceptable’ and indicated that aircraft from its self-defence force would ignore Beijing’s attempt to oblige aeroplanes to obtain its permission before entering.”
On Nov. 23 U.S Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stated, “This announcement by the People’s Republic of China will not in any way change how the U.S. conducts military operations in the region.”
Referring to the Diaoyu Islands as the ‘Senkaku Islands’, which is the name used by the Japanese authorities, Hegel affirmed the U.S. was ready to join a military conflict with China, stating, “We remain steadfast in our commitments to our allies and partners. The U.S. reaffirms its longstanding policy that Article V of the U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands.”
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State Surveillance, Counter-Terror Powers and Global Securitisation Strategies – Meeting 10th December
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC), Statewatch, National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF), Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers invite you to a
PANEL DISCUSSION ONState Surveillance, Counter-Terror Powersand Global Securitisation Strategies
Tuesday 10 December 2013, 6.30-8.30pmVenue: National Union of Journalists, 308-