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  • April 27: How social media gives new voice to Brazil’s protests

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/27/social-media-gives-new-voice-to-brazil-protests How social media gives new voice to Brazil’s protests Luke Bainbridge When the battered body of a young Brazilian professional dancer, Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, was found in the Pavão-Pavãozinho favela in Rio de Janeiro, local people refused to believe the police statement – that his injuries were “compatible with a death caused […]

  • An Un-Ethical Code

    By P K Vijayan Source: Countercurrents.org A “Code of Professional Ethics” came into effect for Delhi University teachers last month. The document in question is a collection of, for the most part, vague platitudes, clichés, bromides and sundry truisms about the teaching profession, which, as long as they remained vague elements of a vague stereotype […]

  • Defeating the Forces of Communal-Fascism

    Narendra Modi’s rise to power does not augur well for the working people, minorities, women, dalits and tribals of this country, i.e.,. it does not augur well for the vast majority of the Indian population. Modi’s regime will mean the brutal rule of big capitalists. It will mean the erosion of hard won democratic rights […]

  • Seven Decades of Nazi Collaboration: America’ Dirty Little Ukrainian Secret by Paul Rosenberg and Foreign Policy in Focus

       

    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

  • Unforgotten Wounds: Remembering Ali Mustafa

    By David McNally

    Toward the end of his review of the moving film, 5 Broken Cameras, came words that stayed with me. Celebrating this documentary of one Palestinian village’s resistance to colonization, Ali Mustafa quotes its cameraman and co-director, Emad Burnat: “Forgotten wounds cannot be healed. So I film to heal.”[1]

  • China : 30,000 Chinese Factory Workers Strike Against Maker of Nike Sneakers

    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

  • Minneapolis changes Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day

    Minneapolis, MN – With Native American activists and other supporters of social justice packing City Hall, the Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Friday, April 25 to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. Minneapolis is the first city in Minnesota to do so, while Red Wing is about to vote on a similar resolution.

    The Minneapolis resolution recognizes “the annexation of Dakota homelands for the building of our city” and says, “Indigenous Peoples Day shall be used to reflect upon the ongoing struggles of Indigenous people on this land, and to celebrate the thriving culture and value that Dakota, Ojibwe, and other Indigenous nations add to our city.”

    The resolution is largely symbolic, with the name of the holiday changing on official Minneapolis communications from Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. But its symbolic nature does not negate its importance. Native organizations such as the American Indian Movement (AIM) and many others have pushed for such changes for decades to recognize the genocide carried out against Native peoples throughout the Americas and resistance to that genocide.

    The resolution notes that the idea of Indigenous Peoples Day was first proposed in 1977 by a delegation of Native nations to the United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas. In 1990 representatives from 120 Indigenous nations at the First Continental Conference on 500 Years of Indian Resistance unanimously passed a resolution to transform Columbus Day into an occasion to strengthen the process of continental unity and struggle towards liberation, and thereby use the occasion to reveal a more accurate historical record.

    Newly elected Ninth Ward City Councilperson Alondra Cano spearheaded the resolution. See the full resolution here.

  • Ukraine: Kramatorsk Peoples Self Defence Forces attack and blow up Ukrainian Army Helicopter

    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.

  • Ukraine: Slavyansk being encircled by Ukrainian Army says Graham Phillips

    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.

  • Eirigi Easter Commemoration – Remembering 1916 Uprising

    See Also the Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr remembering Sean McLoughlin

    http://greatunrest2012.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/easter-1916-uprising-remembering.html

    Defending James Connolly’s ideas against revisionism today.

    http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/remembering-james-connolly-and-exposing.html