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21Feb

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Human Rights, Russia

OBITUARY – Gonzalo Lira

Reproduced from the Helsinki Times of 13 January 2024, with thanks Gonzalo Lira, a Chilean-American war commentator known for his critical views on the Zelensky regime and Russia-Ukraine conflict, passed away on January 11, 2024, in a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Lira’s death followed an eight-month imprisonment on charges of ”justifying Russia’s military actions in Ukraine”, sparking international controversy and raising questions about freedom of speech and human rights during wartime. Gonzalo Lira gained notoriety in 2022 as a vocal critic of what he perceived as increasing authoritarianism in Ukraine. Lira saw the conflict as a proxy war waged by US against Russia and criticised the loss of life for a futile and unwinnable war. His arrest in May 2023, under...

21Feb

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Human Rights, Politics, United Kingdom

Report from the courts

Given the lead given by the British government to encourage the forces of law and order to victimise those who support the Palestinian people in their struggles against the Zionist entity that is currently engaged in genocide in Gaza, it is both welcome and surprising that two judicial proceedings last month actually upheld, at least to some extent, the right of people to express their support for Palestine and their opposition to Zionism and the Zionist state that is Israel. David Miller at the employment tribunal Professor David Miller was sacked 2 years ago from his post as a lecturer at Bristol University because he had expressed anti-Zionist views, much to the distress of Zionist supporting students at the university who, as Zionists always do, tried to claim that his v...

Principled stand of the Morning Star against “political policing” – Lalkar’s appreciation and response

21Feb

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Media, United Kingdom

Principled stand of the Morning Star against “political policing” – Lalkar’s appreciation and response

The following is the article by Andrew Murray that appeared in the Morning Star of 13 February, arguing that we must stand together against injustice regardless of political differences. We appreciate their defence of our comrades, as we would stand to defend CPB members and comrades from any other organisation in a similar situation. Nevertheless we do feel it necessary to correct some misapprehensions apparent in Andrew Murray’s article as to the political line of the CPGB-ML on the question of Zionism. WE MUST UNITE AGAINST THE NEW WAVE OF POLITICAL POLICING All shades of red must stand in total solidarity with any person or group, from the CPGB-ML to Socialist Appeal, that is facing the unprecedented attack on left-wing speech that began over the Gaza protest...

Tick. Tock. What did you do to prevent the genocide in Gaza, Daddy?

20Feb

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Tick. Tock. What did you do to prevent the genocide in Gaza, Daddy?

I waited as long as possible, and then negotiated to empty already toothless resolutions of all meaning, my son. On Wednesday 21 February, while British justice was in action figuring out how best to break all its own rules so as to accede to the wishes of US imperialism and extradite the persecuted journalist Julian Assange, the Mother of all Parliaments was making a mockery of another pillar of our hallowed British democracy by tying itself up in knots over the question of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This heinous crime, unfolding in front of the horrified eyes of humanity, is one with which almost all our parliamentarians and parliamentary parties are complicit, but over which they are coming under increasing pressure from an irate and disgusted public. As a result, a...

20Feb

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Russia

Avdeyevka has fallen!

Russian forces are now in full control over the city of Avdeyevka whilst thousands of Ukrainian troops remain there trapped in isolated pockets. Their command structure has broken down and there is little effective communication between units. In an attempt to turn this around, the fascist Azov brigade was sent in to clear the mess but succeeded only in becoming part of the mess themselves. They were last heard of “firing at 360 degrees”, army-speak for being surrounded on all sides and hoping for the best. It is a mark of how bad the situation is for the Kiev junta that the mainstream media are not even trying to cover up the seriousness of this development. The capture of Avdeyevka is the biggest Russian advance since taking Bakhmut last May and opens the way to full control ...

The Palestinian Resistance is changing the world

20Feb

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Palestine Affairs

The Palestinian Resistance is changing the world

The Zionist murder machine continues its daily slaughter of unarmed Palestinian men, women and children, taking a toll of hundreds each day. At the time of writing (22 January), 30,000 Gazans have been murdered, the overwhelming majority of them being women and children, whereas 70,000 have been badly wounded. This horrendous toll does not take into account those who are missing or under the vast areas of rubble that are the result of indiscriminate Zionist bombing raids. Eighty percent of northern Gaza’s homes have been destroyed. The Zionist state has blocked almost all electricity, water, food supplies and medicines from reaching the imprisoned Gazans. As a result, according to UN agencies, at least a quarter of the territory’s population is at risk o...

Daily Mail doxes young people on their return from Russian festival

20Feb

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Russia, UN

Daily Mail doxes young people on their return from Russian festival

Why did Russia’s hosting of an international youth festival provoke such a hysterical reaction from British media? Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel President Vladimir Putin addressed assembled delegates in Sochi during the closing ceremony of the festival. He was one of many Russian leaders who spoke to the young audiences who had gathered from around the world. Nato’s power, the USA’s hegemony and what remains of the British empire are all in irreversible decline. A new world is coming into being and there is no room for imperialists in humanity’s future. This is the context in which the World Youth Festival 2024 took place in Sochi – and why it provoked such a hysterical response from Guy Adams of the fascist-loving Daily ...

Latest twist on Assange’s extradition: cause for pessimism or optimism?

20Feb

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Media, United Kingdom

Latest twist on Assange’s extradition: cause for pessimism or optimism?

While an individualist view tends to despondence, there is a positive aspect to British imperialism’s blatant complicity in persecuting free speech. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel One section of the working class that has very significantly failed to mobilise in defence of Julian Assange in particular, and of journalism and free speech in general, is the National Union of Journalists. Reflecting on some of the discussion about Julian Assange’s case on social and independent media, a few points occur to us which, while not interpreting Tuesday’s high court ruling as a great victory, still can provide us with a more positive overview of the situation as things stand now. ‘What they wanted anyway’ – a defeat? It is perfectly possible to deduce,...

The tragic end of Gonzalo Lira: A voice silenced in Ukraine

20Feb

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Ukraine

The tragic end of Gonzalo Lira: A voice silenced in Ukraine

A US citizen done to death by the US’s fascist proxies in Ukraine for the crime of telling the truth about Nato’s proxy war against Russia. Helsinki Times Subscribe to our channel The inability to tolerate even a modicum of criticism is a sign of the system’s decay and its rulers’ insecurity. Gonzalo Lira was just one man giving his personal commentary in English via video blogs and interviews from Ukrainian soil. Yet even this low-level activity, known only to a select audience of western antiwar activists, was enough to get him targeted by the Kiev junta and its Nato sponsors. Reproduced from the Helsinki Times, with thanks ***** Gonzalo Lira, a Chilean-American war commentator known for his critical views on the Zelensky regime and Russi...

Nicaragua joins South Africa at the ICJ in support of Palestine

20Feb

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Africa, Nicaragua, South Africa

Nicaragua joins South Africa at the ICJ in support of Palestine

The way that different countries have responded to the ongoing genocide in Gaza says everything about which interests their governments really represent. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel The anti-imperialist solidarity between the revolutionaries and national-liberation movements of Nicaragua and Palestine is not new, but it is testament to the principled leadership of the Sandinistas that Nicaragua is willing to put itself forward against zionism on the world stage, knowing full well that this will bring the opprobrium of international finance capital down on its head. While Yemen has been the first state actor to deliver full practical solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, and South Africa was the first to have recourse to international l...