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JVP: We shut down 8 bridges in 8 cities on the 8th night of Hanukkah

19Jan

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

JVP: We shut down 8 bridges in 8 cities on the 8th night of Hanukkah

Last Thursday [15 December], on the eighth night of Hanukkah, Jewish Voice for Peace members shut down eight bridges and highways in eight cities across the US to demand an end to the genocide of Palestinians. Thousands of Jews and allies protested in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and San Diego — eight cities symbolizing the eight candles lit on the final night of Hanukkah, plus the shamash, or “helper” candle. JVP members blocked traffic for hours, singing, chanting, carrying giant menorahs, and holding signs reading “Jews says ceasefire now” and “Let Gaza live.” Hundreds were arrested…. Today, half of the over two million people who live in Gaza are starving, and the vast majority of them have been forced ...

Book review: Thoughts on Stalin – the history and critique of a black legend by Domenico Losurdo – Part 1

18Jan

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Literature

Book review: Thoughts on Stalin – the history and critique of a black legend by Domenico Losurdo – Part 1

Originally published in Italian in 2008, Iskra press has just released the first authorised translation into English edition, translated by Henry Hakamäkr and Salavatore Engel-Di Manso. The present review is based on a version that was re-translated from the Portuguese version. This book is a refreshing change from the countless books on the subject of Stalin written by despicable paid mercenaries pretending to be objective academics, who attempt to pass off their lies as historical truth. Following the Second World War, in which she almost single-handedly defeated the Hitlerite war machine, the Soviet Union and its undisputed leader, JV Stalin, were held in the highest regard not only by ordinary people all over the world, but also in large numbers by statesmen, intellectuals,...

18Jan

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Georgia

Why re-imagine Soviet Georgia?

By Sopiko Japaridze Reproduced from Monthly Review, with thanks (posted Dec 15, 2023) “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”—Malcolm X A couple of years ago, I was hanging out with friends and decided to play a game. It resembled Mafia night but involved “Who is Hitler?” cards. We deal the cards, someone receives the Hitler card, and we have to figure out their identity through conversation. It’s a spin on the classic ‘Mafia’ game popular in Georgia. The ‘good guys’ were the ‘liberals,’ featuring a crest reminiscent of the Soviet Union—minus the hammer and sickle, which was replaced by a dove. The game pitted the liberals against the villainous fascists. None...

Obituary: Benjamin Zephaniah – lifelong champion of the oppressed

18Jan

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Lithuania

Obituary: Benjamin Zephaniah – lifelong champion of the oppressed

One of Britain’s most important and impactful cultural workers breathed his last breath on 7 December 2023, having been diagnosed with a brain tumour eight weeks previously. Benjamin Zephaniah was widely known as a poet, author and actor, but also as a tireless and courageous campaigner for justice. He never hesitated to speak his mind; he never put his career before his principles. He was unique in his ability to cut through ruling class cultural hegemony – a function of his prodigious talent and his strong roots in the British working class, in particular among oppressed communities. As a black man from a working class Jamaican background, Zephaniah faced racism all his life, and anti-racism was one of his main areas of focus as an activist. For decades, he stood shoulder ...

Athens declaration: The world is entering a new era of anti-imperialist struggle

18Jan

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Greece

Athens declaration: The world is entering a new era of anti-imperialist struggle

The following declaration was agreed by parties that attended the fifth international conference of the World Anti-imperialist Platform, held in Athens on 18 November 2023. ***** Understanding: That we are emerging from the period of deep reaction that followed the capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union and east European socialist bloc, when the strength of the capitalist-imperialist system seemed overwhelming and the forces of national liberation and socialism were in retreat. That as a result of this shift in the balance of forces, the remaining socialist and anti-imperialist countries and movements became isolated and exposed and were forced to make difficult compromises in order to survive (developing the tourism industry in Cuba, signing the nuclear agreement ...

18Jan

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USA

The murderous legacy of Henry Kissinger

Reproduced from Middle East Eye, with thanks Kissinger’s amoral, genocidal crimes revealed him to be a faithful representative of the US elites whom he served all his life Nothing notable distinguished the birth of Heinz Alfred Kissinger on 27 May 1923 to a German Jewish family in Furth, a city in Bavaria, who died on Wednesday [29 Nov.] at the age of 100. In 1938, when he was 15, he and his family fled Nazi Germany to New York before Kristallnacht. When the adolescent Heinz became Henry in the US, while retaining his heavy German accent, no one could have predicted that he would order the murder of hundreds of thousands of people as an adult, and become a millionaire as a result. In 1943, at the age of 20, Kissinger was drafted by the US Army. He became...

Victory of Javier Milei reveals the failure of Argentina’s popular forces

18Jan

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Argentina

Victory of Javier Milei reveals the failure of Argentina’s popular forces

How could a candidate with such an overtly anti-worker programme be elected by workers in dire economic straits? In the recent election in Argentina (19 November 2023), Javier Milei, a fascist in politics and ultraliberal in economics became president of the country. Milei, who was the candidate of the far-right ‘Libertad Avanza’ coalition, won the presidential run-off by a convincing margin, scoring 56 percent as opposed to the 44 percent of votes cast for Sergio Massa, candidate for the ruling party’s ‘Unión por la Patria’ coalition. Around the world, many will wonder how it is possible that a candidate who campaigned on a promise of eliminating workers’ rights under the slogan “Where there is a need there is no right”, and who pledged besides to introduce tuition fees for...

18Jan

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Health, United Kingdom

Murder by a thousand cuts

As the NHS is gradually dismembered in the interests of privatisation, the rate of avoidable deaths is soaring. The Office for National Statistics has highlighted the fact that in the UK some extra 55,000 people a year are dying prematurely of preventable diseases, i.e., more than 1,000 every week. The effect is most dramatic among the middle-aged: “…excess deaths since June 2022 have been concentrated in middle-aged and younger adults. Over the past year, deaths have been 15 per cent above normal in those aged 50 to 64. “Deaths from cardiovascular disease such as heart attack and stroke are 33 per cent higher among this age group, with diabetes deaths also up by 35 per cent…” (Eleanor Hayward, ‘Hundreds more middle-aged adults dying a month since Covid pandemic’, Th...

Jewish Nazi far right’s plans for expulsion and expansion

18Jan

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

Jewish Nazi far right’s plans for expulsion and expansion

Israeli far right’s plans for expulsion and expansion Reproduced from Le Monde Diplomatique of December 2023, with thanks “There needs to be a path to a Palestinian state,” says Joe Biden, but it’s far from clear what that path looks like. Meanwhile, Israel’s right see an opportunity in the tragedy. by Gilbert Achcar It’s often said that wars are easier to start than finish. Israel’s war in Gaza is already proving to be a particularly telling demonstration of this. Hamas’s operation Al-Aqsa Flood of 7 October has given Israel’s far right, which dominates the government Binyamin Netanyahu formed in late 2022, the ideal opportunity to implement their plan for a Greater Israel that includes the West Bank and Gaza, in other words, the whole of British Manda...

Ukraine: defeat in war reveals the cracks

18Jan

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Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine: defeat in war reveals the cracks

The imperialist proxy war against Russia is now dead in the water, with the much-lauded Ukrainian ‘offensive’ stuck in the mud and all the previous claims of imminent victory ringing hollow. Attempts to soften the blow of defeat by rebranding it as a ‘stalemate’ fool nobody: there is neither an equality of rival forces nor any serious obstacle to Russian advance. Kiev’s quiet decision to shift from an offensive to a defensive posture on the battleground makes it clear that the proxy war, costing so much in blood and gold, has failed. The reality of this failure is even being hinted at by the mainstream press. The Times described Ukraine’s last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Russian forces in Avdievka “desperate,” fuelling perceptions of an “inevitable collapse” ...