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Zelensky decries ‘revolting’ military recruitment practices

28Jul

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Human Rights, Ukraine

Zelensky decries ‘revolting’ military recruitment practices

The Ukrainian president has acknowledged “numerous abuses” exposed by an audit of military conscription centers Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky speaks at an event last month in Kiev. © Clodagh Kilcoyne - Pool/Getty Images Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has denounced corruption uncovered by an audit of the country’s military recruitment centers and vowed to publicly disclose all of the investigation’s findings. “The investigation is revealing numerous abuses, and they are frankly revolting,” Zelensky said on Thursday in his nightly video address. He made his comments after a “detailed conversation” with Interior Minister Igor Klimenko and security service (SBU) chief Vasiliy Malyuk. Investigators last month discovered a large-scal...

28Jul

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United Kingdom

Watch out for this WhatsApp scam

Large community and religious WhatsApp groups are being targeted by scammers who infiltrate them to try and deceive their members into sending them money. Since January of this year, 268 people have reported falling victim to this scam. The fraud often begins when a member of the group receives a WhatsApp audio call from the fraudster, pretending, or claiming, to be a member of the group. This is done in order to gain the individual’s trust, and often the scammer will use a false profile picture and / or display name, so at first glance it would appear to be a genuine member of the group. The fraudster will then call the victim and say they are sending a one-time passcode which will allow them to join an upcoming video call for group members.The scammer then asks the victim to sha...

28Jul

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North Korea

DPRK pledges firm support for Russia

Kim Yo Jong affirms her country’s solidarity while highlighting the futile criminality of the USA’s proxy war in Ukraine. Workers Party of Korea While many countries have refused to give open support to the US war effort, showing a clear turn away from the era when it could dominate and bully most of the world, the DPRK is among only a handful of brave states that have openly and at every turn given their full and unconditional support to Russia’s just war in defence of its sovereignty and independence. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1500233164%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-Jym6jGLPXdH&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The following press statement was issued by Kim Yo Jong, vice-department director of t...

Michael Palin in the DPRK: a western exceptionalism showcase

28Jul

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North Korea

Michael Palin in the DPRK: a western exceptionalism showcase

Workers in Britain could learn much from our Korean comrades, but they are unlikely to realise that from listening to Palin’s arrogant commentary. Proletarian writers Mr Palin’s comedic talents at one time were employed satirising old colonial attitudes, now he personifies them. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1576635190%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-pgI2lsyTP4A&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true This article is reproduced from the Class Consciousness Project, with thanks. ***** This article was prompted by an awful piece of BBC propaganda, entitled Michael Palin in North Korea. If you want to understand western exceptionalism, watch this programme, first with and then without sou...

Remembering the 1980 armed uprising against imperalism in Gwangju, Korea

28Jul

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South Korea

Remembering the 1980 armed uprising against imperalism in Gwangju, Korea

The spirit of Gwangju still burns bright amongst large sections of the Korean people, who yearn to reunite their country and free it from colonial rule. World Anti-Imperialist Platform Very few people outside of Korea are aware that there was an armed uprising against colonial rule and fascist dictatorship in south Korea. Even fewer are aware that the uprising lasted for ten days and established a people's commune in the city. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1580836263%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-6y2mOBoCBat&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true This article is reproduced from Platform News, with thanks. ***** The Gwangju people’s uprising was a popular uprising of the people of Gwangju, Jeollana...

28Jul

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Ukraine

Ukraine: Nato slams the door

The Vilnius summit was supposed to be a show of strength. Instead, it highlighted the weakness at the heart of the imperialist alliance. Proletarian writers It has been pointed out that one of the reasons the imperialists are loath to admit Ukraine into Nato’s ranks is that if they were to do so, they would either have to go all in on their arms-length war against Russia, which they would in all likelihood lose, or renege on the mutual defence clause of the alliance’s constitution. Either way, Nato ‘protection’ would be revealed as a sham and the alliance would be rendered defunct. When the Nato warmongers first began to prepare for their Lithuanian jamboree in July, hopes ran high amongst the credulous – especially those whose evaluation of the Ukraine war’s likel...

Landmark judgment finds murdered Irish teen was blameless

28Jul

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Human Rights, Ireland, United Kingdom

Landmark judgment finds murdered Irish teen was blameless

The wheels of justice? War crimes committed by the British occupiers in northern Ireland fifty years ago are only now being officially acknowledged. Irish Republican News The exoneration of Leo Norney, half a century after his wanton murder and its cover-up by the British army of occupation, reminds us why the British government is so keen to pass its ‘legacy’ bill. The new legislation is aimed at limiting any future investigations and legal action relating to crimes committed by British state forces during the Irish liberation war of 1968-98. This article is reproduced from Irish Republican News with thanks. ***** The family of a teenage boy killed by the British army in 1975 has welcomed an inquest judgment that found he was entirely innocent when he w...

France in flames after yet another racist police murder

28Jul

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France

France in flames after yet another racist police murder

The divide between French ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ is constantly exacerbated in order to keep workers from making common cause against their rulers. Lalkar writersnel France’s immigrant communities, largely drawn from the areas of French colonisation in the middle east and Africa, often live in ghettos on the outskirts of its major cities. Suffering from lower wages and life opportunities, routinely harrassed and oppressed by police, and ignored by the majority of French trade unions, they perform the useful role of a permanently victimised and vilified underclass in French society – alternately a source of low-wage labour or a useful pool of unemployed workers from which to draw in time of need and to act as a downward pull on wages generally. While the battle over pensio...

28Jul

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USA

Lessons of 1914: Imperialism means war

Reams of WW1 historiography serve only to conceal the essence of that terrible conflagration – which gave birth in its turn to the era of proletarian revolution. Harpal Brar The first world war, a result of the inbuilt and inescapable contradictions of capitalist imperialism, was both proof of the rottenness and decay of that system and the beginning of its end. As a system, imperialism has been declining ever since, notwithstanding some shortlived jubilation following the counter-revolutions in the socialist countries of Europe and central Asia. Imperialism today, while driving ever harder to war, is enmeshed in an even deeper crisis that drove it into the war of 1914-18. A new wave of revolutions is bound to be the result, and workers everywhere are duty-bound to prepare the force...

27Jul

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USA

Whitewashing Slavery

BY DAVID TOPEL Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia, 1853. Painting by Eyre Crowe. The tide of freedom in America is receding. Reproductive rights, affirmative action, lgbtq+ rights and the accuracy and integrity of Black history have been crippled for the comfort and convenience of a radically conservative minority. A minority disproportionately represented in our highest court. Since the abolition of slavery the fight for racial equality has moved at a glacial pace. Despite periods of stagnation, there has been relatively consistent forward motion. Now, three rapid-fire reversals of Supreme Court precedents based on religious dogma and bigotry have set equality back decades for people of color, women and the lgbtq community. (Since its inception the court ha...