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What is happening in the Russian economy?

31Aug

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Russia

What is happening in the Russian economy?

Enforced separation from the world market has reinforced moves back towards nationalisation and planning. Ever since the treacherous ‘secret’ speech given by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, the reputation of the revolutionary period of socialist construction in the USSR (personified in the figure of Joseph Stalin) has been routinely traduced and slandered to the descendants of those who built it – first by revisionist leaders and then by their openly capitalist successors across the formerly Soviet territory. This was done in spite of the fact that these leaders stood on the achievements of this period – as even Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to admit in his book Perestroika. Revisionism degenerated to such a degree that by the time the Soviet Union entered its ...

31Aug

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Ukraine

Ukraine: changing proxies in midstream?

As the fabled Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’ against Russian forces stutters on with nothing to show for itself save a few terrorist spectaculars (like the drone attack on the Kremlin and drone attacks on the Kerch bridge and a Russian oil tanker) and a mounting death toll, it is proving increasingly difficult to conceal from the world what a disaster for the Ukrainian people has been their leaders’ decision to turn their country into a launchpad for a failing imperialist proxy war against Russia. Periodic claims that this or that village has passed from Russia to Ukraine are dutifully hailed by Western media as marking a “glimmer of hope” or even a “turning point” in the war, only to be quietly dropped days later, making way for the next hyper-inflated claims to be churned out ...

31Aug

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United Kingdom

Obituary – Isabel Crook

Honorary President of the CPGB-ML All at LALKAR are mourning the death on 20 August 2023 of our comrade Isabel Crook at the grand old age of 107. We extend our deepest condolences to her son Michael, and all her family and comrades, in China, Canada, England and throughout the world, while with them we also celebrate a meaningful productive and revolutionary life, well lived. When we celebrated her 100th birthday, LALKAR noted that Comrade Isabel was an outstanding communist, and veteran proletarian revolutionary. She was both a friend to the Chinese people, and a staunch soldier of the Chinese revolution. Isabel Brown was born on 15 December 1915 in China’s Sichuan province, the daughter of Canadian missionaries, and grew up in China. In the 1930s, she went to Canada ...

Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution

31Aug

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Africa

Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution

Another Sahel comprador regime has fallen to a popular movement led by patriotic army officers. The contagion is bound to spread. On 26 July, units of his presidential guard arrested Niger’s president, Mohammed Bazoum. The guards proceeded to dismiss the regime headed by Ouhoumodou Mohamadou, and head of the presidential guard General Abdourahamne Tchiani was declared the leader of a new government entitled the ‘National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland’. It soon became clear that this was no mere squabble between rival factions of the Nigerien ruling class. Actions in the streets showed unequivocally that the coup leaders had mass support – not only in Niger itself but also across the wider Sahel region. In its first official communique, the new government decla...

Alabama Executes James Barber Despite Outcry Over Death Penalty Methods

31Aug

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Human Rights, USA

Alabama Executes James Barber Despite Outcry Over Death Penalty Methods

Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action, an execution abolitionist group, protests near the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex in July 2015. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) "There's no humane method of execution," said one human rights group. JULIA CONLEY The three liberal justices on the U.S. Supreme Court said the right-wing majority was allowing Alabama to use a death row inmate as a "guinea pig" early Friday when the court denied an emergency request to halt James Barber's execution, making him the first person killed by the state since Gov. Kay Ivey suspended capital punishment last year. Barber, age 64, was pronounced dead just before 2:00 am local time on Friday at the William C. Holman Correctional Faci...

Germany prosecutes 98-year-old concentration camp guard

30Aug

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Germany, ZIO-NAZI

Germany prosecutes 98-year-old concentration camp guard

The elderly suspect was a teenager when he oversaw prisoners at the Nazi regime’s Sachsenhausen camp A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, January 27, 2019 © AP / Markus Schreiber German authorities have charged a 98-year-old man with complicity in the murder of 3,300 people at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II. The case comes after a 97-year-old former secretary was found guilty of aiding the mass murder of 10,505 people at another Nazi prison. The man, whose name has not been released, “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail” between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors in the German state of Hesse said in a statement...

Guatemalan president-elect cries foul over lawfare ‘coup’

30Aug

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Guatemala

Guatemalan president-elect cries foul over lawfare ‘coup’

Bernardo Arevalo’s surprise electoral victory last month has led to efforts to deplatform his party Guatemalan president-elect Bernardo Arevalo © AFP / Johan Ordonez The mounting political and legal opposition to Guatemalan president-elect Bernardo Arevalo and his Movimento Semilla (Seed Movement) party constitute “illegal political persecution,” Arevalo, who ran on an anti-corruption platform, told reporters on Friday. “We are seeing a coup d’etat in motion in which the justice apparatus is used to violate justice,” he said during a news conference, warning that “these political mafias will try to consummate the coup d’etat” during the four months preceding January’s swearing-in ceremony. Citing his political opponent’s refusal to concede as well as ...

Can American voters trust rising Republican star Vivek Ramaswamy?

30Aug

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USA

Can American voters trust rising Republican star Vivek Ramaswamy?

The ‘skinny guy with a funny name’ is proclaiming himself a Trump fan and MAGA follower now, but that’s a very recent about-face Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream. @Robert_Bridge Vivek Ramaswamy speaks to a reporter following the first Republican Presidential primary debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 23, 2023 © KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP As many Americans are now familiarizing themselves with Vivek Ramaswamy, a smooth-talking Republican candidate who is quickly climbing in the polls, it might be wise to read the fine print on this novice first. During the first debate of the Re...

Secret Doc Exposes Flaws in Pentagon Claim That No Civilians Were Killed in al-Baghdadi Raid

30Aug

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C.I.A, Iraq

Secret Doc Exposes Flaws in Pentagon Claim That No Civilians Were Killed in al-Baghdadi Raid

Syrian youth inspect a van that was carrying civilians when it was attacked by U.S. forces during a raid on the hideout of former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi near Bashira, Syria. (Photo: Mustafa Dahnon/picture alliance via Getty Images) "Over the past 20 years, the U.S. military has struggled with escalation of force and many civilians were killed when they were falsely viewed as a threat. This incident appears to be one of many such cases," said one expert. BRETT WILKINS A formerly classified document published Friday by NPRrevealed how the Pentagon dismissed highly credible evidence of civilian deaths caused by the October 2019 U.S. assassination of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria. In a raid hailed&...

Letter from London: The Dove and the Bomb

30Aug

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United Kingdom

Letter from London: The Dove and the Bomb

BY PETER BACH Last week the artist and I sat in a slightly penned-off area of the park, one of the lungs of London, where concealed Second World War gun emplacements once awaited elements of the 1,500 German aircraft crossing the Channel daily. In this small south-east London neighbourhood, 1,396 high explosive bombs were dropped from 7th October 1940 to 6th June 1941 alone. These were 50kg and 250kg, sometimes 500kg, sometimes even 1,000kg, 1,400kg and 1,800kg bombs. Big brutes when not compared to the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mind you, we were making plenty Germans homeless too. This is how war works. I still can’t get my head around it. The artist and I continued in silence before three fulsome cedar trees. I have never been to Kyoto in Japan, with its...