Democracy and Class Struggle says Carl Bildt a political low life goes even lower sponsoring an Internet Conference banning Wikileaks and all those involved in exposing US/UK mass survelliance.
Carl Bildt’s concept of freedom excludes exposing Mass State survelliance and those that expose it.
Truely democracy for the few and powerful.
by Richard Mellor
If we wonder why our services are being cut, or why our streets and social infrastructure are falling apart we might consider that sending troops all over the world and supporting every element that might lead to opportunities for US corporations to expand their business interests might cost money. The Obama administration is now about to train Syrian opposition forces as a counterterrorism challenge. The War on Terror! What a great deal for the defense industry because there is no such adversary or nation as “terrorism”. Terrorism is a tactic and any form of resistance can be labelled such. The War on Terror is a term for war without end. The US has troops in Northern Nigeria as well. Then there are those in Poland. There are the almost 300 bases around the world. All this has to be paid for.
There is an increased presence in the Black Sea as US warships are sent there. That’s not provocative is it? Help matter does it? Of course not, it’s not supposed to. Wait and see what happens when a Chinese or Russian nuclear sub floats around in the Baja.
Obama the anti-war president. Wait, isn’t the white man making him do it? Of course, it’s not a political question at all. He’s not the leading figure of a social class is he? He represents us all and is fighting for the workers rights against the tide. If only they’d let him do what he wants.
US capitalism in decline is a dangerous animal and it is the leading force pushing the world in to increased conflict. I recall the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya that took place when I was a child. It was perhaps the last gasp of a dying British colonial power. But despite being at the end of its colonial rule and most of the British ruling class knowing their days at the top of the pecking order were numbered, British imperialism waged a most violent war against the Kenyan’s struggle to oust them and have some control over their own destiny. Some murderous bastards these people are.
We hear of the backwardness and brutality of slavery and feudalism but capitalism is unsurpassed in its brutality and the US bourgeois the most ruthless of all. As I sit in this motel in a small rural community in Utah I realize how detached a huge section of the US population is, they link life will go on like this forever.
They’re in for a rude awakening.
As May turns into June the quiet loneliness of war-torn Jaffna lies before me. For how much longer, years or decades into the future, will I look back into the past? And who will help me reflect on that past? Some, fifty years ago, the tragedy of Biafra unfolded. I grew up hearing about the […]
The CPP condemns widespread violations of human rights under the Thai military rule. The military junta has employed army soldiers to suppress demonstrations, arrest protest leaders and ordinary people and detain government and political leaders.
MEDIA RELEASEBy Communist Party of the Philippines27 May 2014
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the 22 May coup
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following May 27 statement from the United Electrical Workers (UE) on developments in the Ukraine and U.S. intervention.
The Ukraine Crisis and the New Cold War
On February 22, the elected president of Ukraine was overthrown in a coup which was supported by the Obama administration. Since then, the country has been torn apart and violence has escalated. On May 2 in the southern city of Odessa, supporters of the new unelected Kiev government, including members of the violent extremist Right Sector party, surrounded peaceful, unarmed anti-government protestors who had taken refuge in the city’s main union hall. The right-wing crowd then set the union hall on fire, and 46 people died by being burned alive or jumping to their deaths trying to escape.
We are troubled by this horrific atrocity, and by the fact that mass murder was committed by burning a union hall. We are concerned about the conflict in Ukraine, by the massing of Russian troops near Ukraine’s eastern border and U.S. and NATO troops and planes in neighboring Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which signal the return of the Cold War and the threat of a much hotter war.
A defining period in the history of UE was our union’s courageous opposition to the Cold War. At the end of World War II there was great hope among union members and other Americans for a continuation of FDR’s New Deal, with progressive social and economic policies including national healthcare, expanded Social Security, and progress against racial discrimination in employment. What we got instead was the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act and the Cold War. Military spending, including the nuclear arms race, continued to trump all other priorities. Local conflicts all over the world were treated as global showdowns between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. In the name of “fighting communism,” the U.S. sided with the French and British colonial empires against independence movements, and backed many brutal dictators against their own people. The 40-year-long Cold War included some very hot wars – notably Korea and Vietnam. The CIA organized coups that overthrew democratic governments that dared to disagree with the U.S. government or corporations. On the domestic front, the Cold War was a massive attack on civil liberties and an effort to wipe out organizations, including UE, that refused to enlist in the Cold War.
UE said the U.S. government should direct its resources toward making life better for its own people. UE favored negotiations to resolve differences between the U.S. and the Soviets, and to end conflicts such as Vietnam. UE said the arms race robbed human needs on both sides of the Cold War divide. As UE President Albert Fitzgerald often said, “You can’t have guns and butter.”
The Cold War supposedly ended with 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, which had been composed of the USSR and its Eastern European allies. A key event was the 1990 agreement between the U.S., West Germany and the Soviet Union allowing the reunification of Germany. In those negotiations, President George H.W. Bush promised Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO – the U.S.-led anti-Soviet military alliance – would not expand any further east than Germany.
Yet despite that promise, and despite Russia and its former allies no longer having communist governments, NATO has moved steadily eastward toward Russia. NATO now includes the former socialist states of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria, as well as three former republics of the U.S.S.R. which border Russia – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Two more former Soviet republics, Ukraine and Georgia, have been promised eventual NATO membership. NATO is now clearly an alliance against Russia, sitting on Russia’s doorstep.
In late 2013 the U.S. began expressing hostility toward Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and sympathy with the often violent anti-government protestors in Kiev. Yanukovych was not an exemplary leader – we now know that he’d been feathering his own nest – but he was elected in a fair election, and the U.S. supports many governments that are more corrupt and undemocratic than his.
What made Yanukovych a target for regime change was his decision in November to reject harsh loan terms from the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) – including the kind of pension cuts and austerity that have driven Greece into poverty. Yanukovych instead accepted a more favorable offer of economic aid from Russia. His proposal that Ukraine have good economic relations with both Russia and the EU was rejected by the EU and the U.S., which wanted a Ukrainian government hostile to Russia.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met in December 2013 with Oleh Tyahnybok, head of the far-right Svoboda Party. In a 2012 resolution the European Parliament had called Svoboda “racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic” and appealed to democratic parties in Ukraine “not to associate with, endorse or form coalitions with this party.” In May 2013 the World Jewish Congress labeled Svoboda “neo-Nazi” and called for the party to be banned. Svoboada leader Tyahnybok has called for ridding Ukraine of the influence of “the Moscow-Jewish mafia.” Svoboda is also anti-gay, anti-black, and hostile to equal rights for women.
But since the overthrow of Yanukovych, Svoboda holds four cabinet ministries in Ukraine’s “provisional government” (including deputy prime minister.) In a Feb. 4 conversation caught on tape, Nuland and the U.S. ambassador to Kiev discussed who would get which positions in the new government, including cabinet seats for Svoboda.
In Europe since the end of World War II, there has been a political taboo against allowing fascist and neo-Nazi parties into any government. The Obama administration has now broken that taboo and allied our country with fascists in Ukraine. According to German media reports, about 400 elite mercenaries from the notorious U.S. private security firm Academi (formerly Blackwater) are taking part in Ukrainian military operations against anti-government protesters in southeastern Ukraine. News that Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has joined the board of directors of Ukraine’s largest private gas company adds the element of conflict of interest. Obama’s policies toward Ukraine and Russia have significantly increased the chances of military confrontation between the U.S. and Russia, the world’s two nuclear superpowers. This threatens world peace.
It is unclear whether the presidential election conducted on May 25, under conditions of near-civil war, will help to defuse the crisis in Ukraine.
We reaffirm UE’s historic position. We favor peace and friendly, equitable economic relations between nations. We favor negotiations rather than military confrontation to resolve disputes, including this one. We believe the countries that defeated Nazism in World War II, including the U.S. and Russia, should work together against any resurgence of racism, anti-semitism and fascism in Europe.
Bruce Klipple, General President
Andrew Dinkelaker, General Secretary-Treasurer
Bob Kingsley, Director of Organization
May 27, 2014
“नेहरू के बाद कौन ?” आज से पचास साल पहले यह सवाल रह-रह कर पूछा जाता था. भारत के राजनीतिक पटल पर ही नहीं, उसके दिल-दिमाग पर नेहरू कुछ इस कदर छाए थे कि अनेक लोगों के उनकी अनुपस्थिति की कल्पना करना कठिन था. लेकिन किसी भी मरणशील प्राणी की तरह नेहरू की भी मृत्यु […]
Tucson, AZ – Tucson activists organized a presentation and discussion on the crisis in Ukraine, May 23. The teach-in was part of the nationwide emergency action campaign, initiated by the United National Antiwar Coalition, against U.S. intervention in Ukraine.
The event, attended by 20 anti-war activists and Tucsonans eager to learn about the ominous developments in Ukraine, featured speakers from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Alliance for Global Justice, and Workers World Party. The presentations covered the history and dynamics leading up to the Maidan protests, the U.S. and NATO-backed fascist coup in February, the current anti-fascist resistance across the country and the role of U.S. imperialism and the corporate media.
Paul Teitelbaum with Workers World Party and an organizer of the panel explained, “People will never be told the truth of the situation by the bourgeois media. So it’s important to gather and learn about the role of U.S. imperialism in creating the crisis in Ukraine and the relationship between the imperialists and the fascists. Combating media lies and clarifying the political character of the events will help us build the strong anti-imperialist, anti-war movement that we need.”
After the presentations, a lively question and answer discussion shed further light on the urgent need to oppose the U.S. efforts that are backing fascists in Ukraine and the malicious expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe. Speakers and participants also drew connections between U.S. meddling in Ukraine, Belarus and Venezuela.
In front of a flag of the newly established Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine, activists demanded “U.S. hands off Ukraine,” and “Victory to the anti-fascist resistance,” and vowed to uphold solidarity with the people of Ukraine in opposing the U.S.-backed Kiev junta.
1. Editorial: Fascism: Now and Here
2. सम्पादकीय : हमारे समय का फासीवाद
3. फासीवाद की राजनितिक संस्कृति – जयरस बानाजी
4. Majoritarian Victimhood and the Muzaffarnagar Riots – Usman Javed
6. और भी कारण हैं श्री मोदी की मुख़ालफ़त के – प्रभात
7. ठोकर मारकर अपनी बात कहना : एक लोकतांत्रिक अधिकार के रूप में धर्म परिवर्तन – निवेदिता मेनन
8. A Death Sentence and an Anointment: Popular Ideological Beses of Growth of Fascism in Contemporary India – Sanjay Kumar
9. Burma: Lest We Don’t See, A Genocide is in the Making – Bonojit Hussain
10. Anti-POSCO Movement: A Visit to Jagatsinghpur District – Misha Maitreyi
11. Delhi University Photocopy Law Suite and the Curious Case of IRRO – Apoorva Gautam
12. Film Review: Red Ant Dream – Kislay Gonzalvez
13. Dalit Cultural Resistance in Maharastra – Prem Ayyathurai
14. लैटिन अमरीका का एकान्त – गेब्रियल गार्सिया मार्खेज
15. सांझी शहादत सांझी विरासत – किशोर झा
16. अंग्रेज़ी जूते में हिंदी को फिट करने वाले ये भाषाई रहनुमा – मुक्ति बोध
17. निर्देशक की नज़र से – मनोज कुमार सुमन
18. Statement: Condemn the Gruesome Massacre in Bodoland – New Socialist Initiative
19. ‘बंगलादेशी घुसपैठिये’ या बंगलादेशी भारतीय मुसलमान? – बॉनोजीत हुसैन
20. A Half-Widow’s Lament – Soibam Haripriya
Editorial Collective: Aashima Subberwal, Amrapali Basumatary, Bonojit Hussain, Devika Narayan, Kavya Murthy, Lokesh, Malay Firoz, Mayur Chetia, Misha Maitreyi, Naveen Chander, Pravin Kumar, Praveen Verma, Sanjay Kumar, Subhash Gatade, Sudha Vasan, Vasundhara Jairath, Urmi Ninad.
Front Cover: Painting by John Heartfield “The Old Motto of New Empire: Blood and Iron”.
Back Cover: Sketch by Bhagwati Prasad “The Wave”.
On 25 May 2014 Podemos entered candidates for the 2014 European parliamentary elections, some of which were unemployed.
In a surprise result, it polled 7.97% of the vote and thus was awarded five seats out of 54.
PODEMOS (meaning ‘We can’ in Spanish) is a Spanish political party created on 11th March 2014 by Spanish leftist activists associated with the 15-M movement that emerged from the