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Ending Nuclear Tests, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
30Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

Ending Nuclear Tests, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

BY RAY ACHESON The Castle Bravo nuclear test, the detonation of the most powerful thermonuclear device ever tested by the United States. Image courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration. In 1945, the United States (US) government built and detonated the first nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico. The fallout from that test spread to 46 US states, Canada, and Mexico. Three weeks later, the US government dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of people and devastating both cities, and leaving a radioactive legacy for generations. Since then, more than 2000 nuclear “tests” have been conducted worldwide by nine nuclear-armed states, causing widespread canc...
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Investigative Reporter: “The CIA Is Playing an Outsize Role” in Ukraine
30Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
C.I.A, Ukraine, USA

Investigative Reporter: “The CIA Is Playing an Outsize Role” in Ukraine

“It’s got its hand in a little bit of everything,” says William Arkin.By Amy Goodman & Juan González ,  DEMOCRACYNOW! PublishedJuly 19, 2023 Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Anew investigation reveals the extent of the CIA’s involvement in the war in Ukraine, where the agency operates clandestinely in what, under a formal declaration of war, would be the domain of the military. We’re joined on the show by the author of the investigation, William Arkin, a national security reporter and senior editor at Newsweek, who says that the CIA has “got its hand in a little bit of everything” in Ukraine. According to various sources, the CIA is shuttli...
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In Bid to Join NATO, Sweden and Finland Back Turkish Repression of Kurds
30Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Sweden, Turkey

In Bid to Join NATO, Sweden and Finland Back Turkish Repression of Kurds

NATO’s July summit betrayed the Kurdish people. The left must stand with both Ukraine and the Kurds — and against NATO.By Khury Petersen-Smith , TRUTHOUTPublishedJuly 19, 2023 Syrian Kurds celebrate the Nowruz New Year festival in the countryside of al-Qahtaniyah in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province, close to the border with Turkey, on March 21, 2023. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. As Ukrainians face a brutal and ongoing Russian siege, NATO’s July summit has endangered and betrayed Kurdish people, cruelly trading the fate of one occupied and repressed group for another. The most celebrated news out of the summit was the fact that th...
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Kids Are Being Kept in Solitary Confinement, Former Death Row Unit With No AC
30Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Human Rights, USA

Kids Are Being Kept in Solitary Confinement, Former Death Row Unit With No AC

“The state’s treatment of kids in Angola has been a series of broken promises,” said one civil rights lawyer. By Zane McNeill , TRUTHOUT The entrance of Angola Prison, Louisiana, pictured on October 14, 2013. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders, and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Children incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day without air conditioning as heat indexes in the area reach up to 133 degrees. The youth, almost all of whom are Black, are being detained in the former death row building of the nation’s largest adult maximum security prison, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (AC...
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A visit with Isabel Crook, lifelong soldier of the revolution
30Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
China

A visit with Isabel Crook, lifelong soldier of the revolution

Memories of a life lived in the service of the people. Proletarian writers In February, while our party was participating in a delegation to China for the 27th Wanshou Forum (a regular international gathering discussing the building of humanity’s shared future), it was a pleasure to be able to take time out and meet with our party’s honorary president, Comrade Isabel Crook, and two of her sons, Michael and Carl, while we were in Beijing. At the age of 103, Isabel can certainly be said to have lived a life in service to the struggle for socialism. Born into a Canadian missionary family living and working in China, she met her husband David, a British communist working in China, in the years before the outbreak of the second world war, when China’s c...
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Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis
29Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
United Kingdom

Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis

Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go. Proletarian writers The market has proved itself to be totally unable to meet the needs of the people. The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society. This model motion for use by trade unionists and others is included in our upcoming pamphlet Manifesto for the Crisis, which will be available to buy soon in the party bookshop. ***** This [conference]* notes that rampant inflation in Britain, as elsewhere, has not been caused by workers, but by capitalists, specifically by the measures the financiers and their governments have been...
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Model motion: No cooperation with the imperialist drive to war
29Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
United Kingdom, USA

Model motion: No cooperation with the imperialist drive to war

Only the collective action of workers has the power to stop the war drive in its tracks. This demand must be taken up in every trade union at every level. Proletarian writers The 78-year US occupation of south Korea has not only kept the south Korean people in misery and the entire Korean peninsula on a war footing, but has also provided the USA with a base from which to terrorise the whole of east Asia. The constant escalation of provocations against the DPRK and China, as well as the remilitarisation of Japan and its inclusion in the ‘eastern Nato’ alliance show clearly that in east Asia as in eastern Europe, US imperialism is set on provoking a new and even more catastrophic war, and is preparing the peoples of the region to become its proxies. And, obedient to the demands of fin...
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Book: Manifesto for the crisis
29Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Literature

Book: Manifesto for the crisis

What do workers need to understand if they are to solve their problems for good? Ella Rule This pamphlet pulls together analysis, demands and a programme for trade unionists and others to take to their workplaces and organisations as the crisis deepens and the class war intensifies. Download a digital copy of this pamphlet. Buy a copy from our shop. Read the other articles in this pamphlet. ***** Following the pandemic, the whole world is finding itself in a situation of economic chaos. The living standards of working people are falling precipitously almost everywhere in the world. Countries such as Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Ghana are already bankrupt and unable to purchase essentials needed by their populations – medicine, food and&nbs...
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Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness
29Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
USA

Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth. Ella Rule Unable to explain the snowballing effect of the overproduction crisis, the economic gurus of the system have to create new words for old phenomena – and to explain the same old problems of the capitalist system as though they had just developed from recent events. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1418885044&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The seriousness of the crisis facing the economies of the capitalist world was recently set out by the Financial Times in the following words: “‘Polycrisis’: this was the descr...
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Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!
29Aug By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
United Kingdom, USA

Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!

It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition. Party leaflet Even as the government rushes through anti-strike legislation, disputes over pay and conditions are spreading, with teachers and Amazon workers the latest to join the fray. Download this leaflet as a pdf. With the cost of living soaring, public services falling apart and anger growing, our rulers are blaming, in equal measure, the workers (for daring to defend their wages) and Vladimir Putin (for daring to resist Nato). Tory chair Nadhim Zahawi recently blamed both, declaring that nurses have chosen the ‘wrong time’ to strike over poverty pay because a rise will ‘inc...
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