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Gideon Levy: ‘Israel can’t imprison two million Gazans without paying a cruel price’
Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Gideon Levy: ‘Israel can’t imprison two million Gazans without paying a cruel price’

Gideon Levy reminds his Israeli readership of a truth that the imperialists and their proxies ignore at their peril: oppression breeds resistance. Gideon Levy Subscribe to our  channel Bombing of the Gaza Strip has intensified as Israel prepares for an expected ground offensive. While it is freely admitted that the tunnels used by the resistance are too far below the ground even to be affected by so-called ‘bunker busters’, the Israeli government is taking the opportunity to further its ethinic cleansing plans by urging Palestinians to evacuate their homes. Plans to evict the entire two million population to Egypt are doomed to fail, however. The Palestians have made it clear they will not endure another Nakba. Nor will regional allies stand meekly by and allow the zion...
Hamas resistance: the Zionists are failing despite their horrendous crimes
Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Hamas resistance: the Zionists are failing despite their horrendous crimes

Palestinian resistance calls on the world to join the fight to stop the fascistic genocide and to send food and medical relief to the starving and wounded of Gaza. Hamas Subscribe to our  channel Fighters from the Al-Qassam brigades assemble locally-made sniper rifles in an underground workshop. Far from defeating the resistance by its use of indiscriminate carpet bombing, two months of crazed zionist blitzkrieg has succeeded only in unifying the people of Gaza and across the Palestinian territories more firmly around the resistance, certain that there is no other future for them but a liberated one. The following summation of a recent Hamas press conference, given by movement leader Dr Ghazi Hamad, is taken from the Resistance News Network Telegram channel...
Scott Ritter: USA ‘builds trap for itself’ in Red Sea
USA, Yemen, ZIO-NAZI

Scott Ritter: USA ‘builds trap for itself’ in Red Sea

The US imperialist playground bully is being exposed as never before, and by a force far too few had hitherto taken seriously. Scott Ritter Subscribe to our  channel Yemeni forces patrol the Red Sea. Despite the huge disparity in the size and scale of their armaments, the Yemenis have shown that they are able to keep firing missiles at imperialist gunboats and shipping – and that there is very little the USA can actually do to stop them. Meanwhile, their threat of widening their targets to include Saudi and Emirati oil infrastructure is no idle one, and is only deepening the already wide fractures in the camp of imperialism. Reproduced from Sputnik Globe, with thanks. ***** On 18 December, following a tour of the middle east with stops in Kuwait,...
Imperialism, Brics and the ‘global south’
Russia, USA

Imperialism, Brics and the ‘global south’

The rapid shift in the global balance of power looks set not only to continue but to accelerate in 2024. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our  channel As US military power is increasingly exposed as a hollow shell, the growing moves towards economic sovereignty by non-imperialist countries of all types can only grow stronger. The lessons of 2023 are being well learned by the oppressed, and with its economic, military and technological supremacy all in doubt, the future looks grim for the crisis-ridden system of global monopoly capitalism. As part of the XV Brics summit in South Africa on 24 August 2023, the leaders of the bloc invited six countries: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Ar...
Cuba 60: Hasta la victoria siempre!
Cuba

Cuba 60: Hasta la victoria siempre!

Progressive humanity continues to cheer the incredible achievements of the tiny island nation, made in the teeth of the imperialists’ determined and unceasing aggression. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our  channel Nearly one million people gather to hear Fidel in the Plaza Cívica (now José Martí's Revolution Square), Havana, 1959. Celebrations were held all across Cuba in the new year, marking 60 years of Cuban socialism. On 1 January 1959, after three years of guerrilla warfare, the revolutionary army led by Fidel Castro rose victorious over the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, along with a number of important provinces, causing the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista to flee. The people had triumphed. From Spanish colony to US neo-colony Cuba spent so...
JVP: We shut down 8 bridges in 8 cities on the 8th night of Hanukkah
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
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,...
Obituary: Benjamin Zephaniah – lifelong champion of the oppressed
Literature, United Kingdom

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 ...
Why re-imagine Soviet Georgia?
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...
Athens declaration: The world is entering a new era of anti-imperialist struggle
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 ...