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Increasing state repression and the ‘non-personing’ of Nigel Farage

23Jul

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United Kingdom

Increasing state repression and the ‘non-personing’ of Nigel Farage

The targeting of such a pro-imperialist figure is a warning to all those who might engage in acts of dissent against the establishment. Proletarian writers Denial of access to banking services in the modern world is an extremely draconian sanction. Its increasing use against all kinds of people indicates how repressive the British state is becoming. Former United Kingdom Independence party (Ukip) leader Nigel Farage has revealed that the bank where he had kept his money since 1980 (Coutts) recently given him two months’ notice of its intention to close all his accounts by the end of June. Mr Farage made the announcement via a Twitter video on 4 July 2023, complaining that seven further banks had refused to open new accounts for him on application....

Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise

23Jul

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Health, United Kingdom

Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise

How can we explain the seemingly absurd combination of British workers’ failing health from malnutrition alongside rising obesity? Proletarian writers In the days of the cold war, British people were bombarded with scare stories about the horrors of socialist rationing and shortages. In today’s Britain, supermarket shelves are crammed with brightly-coloured packages, but capitalist-style rationing – by pay packet – keeps many workers from accessing the kind of foods that will actually keep them and their families in good health. While fresh fruit and vegetables are priced out of their range, they are instead sold ultraprocessed addictive foodlike substances that seem to satisfy the tastebuds, but fail to bring nourishment to the body. Around 11,000 people in England were hospital...

South Korea: the ‘Land of Morning Calm’ is working itself to death

23Jul

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South Korea

South Korea: the ‘Land of Morning Calm’ is working itself to death

Capitalist dystopia in action: behind the ‘economic miracle’, the daily grind keeps getting harder. Renaud Lambert South Korea is often held up as a model of modern technological capitalism. But daily life for the masses is much harsher than the glossy image projected by popular culture. This photo shows a man in his home in Guryong slum, very close to south Korea’s wealthiest district of Gangnam. Established in 1988, Guryong now has about 3,000 residents, making it the largest slum settlement in Seoul. The following article is reproduced from Le Monde diplomatique, with thanks. ***** It’s a tired old media trope. When someone questions the virtues of western liberal democracy, back comes the riposte: ‘Why don’t you try north Korea then?’ The Korean...

Peruvians take over Lima, continuing to pressure Boluarte coup regime

23Jul

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Peru

Peruvians take over Lima, continuing to pressure Boluarte coup regime

Seven months in and, in the face of brutal state repression, the people of Peru continue their struggle against the neoliberal dictatorship of the US-backed junta. Clau O'Brien Moscoso The resistance to the US-backed coup in Lima continues to grow and to spread, despite the huge repression meted out by state forces. This article is reproduced from Black Agenda Report, with thanks. ***** National strike, day 196 On 19 July, over seven months after the parliamentary coup that ousted President Pedro Castillo, tens of thousands of Peruvians gathered in the capital city for the Third Takeover of Lima. This date marks the anniversary of the 1977 national march and strike against the military dictatorship of General Morales Bermúdez. The march and strike, whic...

Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes

23Jul

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Human Rights, United Kingdom

Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes

Human rights in Britain? What human rights? Lalkar writers A raft of anti-worker legislation has recently been passed by Parliament, whose collective effect is to render almost any act of resistance or protest a ‘crime’. Clearly, the hope of our rulers is that workers will be cowed into submission as the crisis deepens and the class war escalates. The Public Order Act (POA) 2023 is another extreme limitation of, and general attack on, the civil liberties of protesters who want to stay within the legally acceptable rules while expressing their displeasure over any aspect of government policy, or who are trying to fight against a bellicose hostile employer. The truth that has not yet sunk into the psyche of even many advanced workers in Britain is that trying to obey t...

The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette

23Jul

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NATO, Russia, Ukraine, USA

The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette

BY ALFRED DE ZAYAS Photograph Source: VasenkaPhotography – CC BY 2.0 Deliberate provocations of a nuclear rival, coups d’état, colour revolutions, broken promises, broken treaties, escalation of tensions, demonization, invective, double-standards — all this while asserting adherence to international legal norms and playing innocent about our aggressions, our violations of the Hague and Geneva Conventions, of articles 1(2)[1], 2(3)[2], 2(4)[3] and 39[4] of the UN Charter. Abrams tanks, Leopard tanks, F-16, indiscriminate weapons, depleted uranium, cluster bombs. Summits illustrate how the moral compass of the collective West is lost in the avalanche of fake news[5], fake history, fake law, bellicose rhetoric, media hyperbole, serial mobbing of dissenters, p...

European Parliament Approves Vicious Anti-Cuba Resolution

23Jul

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Cuba, Europe

European Parliament Approves Vicious Anti-Cuba Resolution

BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Diliff – CC BY-SA 3.0 Signs were evident. Touring Spain in May, the Cuban musical duo Buena Fe (Good Faith) had their concerts disrupted by thugs; some were canceled. A month later in Paris, protests orchestrated by a Cuban émigré university professor forced a prestigious poetry festival to withdraw the honorary presidency it was going to award Cuban poet Nancy Morejón. On July 12, Cuba’s unstable relations with European governments went downhill fast. The European Parliament approved a “Resolution on the state of the EU-Cuba PDCA in the light of the recent visit of the High Representative to the island.” There were 359 votes in favor, 226 against, and 50 abstentions. The PDCA is the Politica...

Hindutva Goes to Washington: Narendra Modi’s US Visit

23Jul

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India, USA

Hindutva Goes to Washington: Narendra Modi’s US Visit

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Again, he was at it, that charming show on two legs, playful and coy. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been burning the charismatic fuel of late, making the necessary emissions in visiting friendly countries. Each time, he seems to be getting away with more and more, currying (pun intended) favour with his hosts and landing the necessary deals. For all the excitement of going to a fellow cricket loving state such as Australia, no one was under any illusion about the prize. Easy gains there on matters of commerce, education and security: a pliant PM, a pliant Cabinet, a political and business class hungering for access to a country which recently passed China as the most populous on the planet. In all ...

Ron DeSantis and the Politics of Ugly Freedoms

23Jul

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USA

Ron DeSantis and the Politics of Ugly Freedoms

BY HENRY GIROUX Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr, Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. – Bob Marley Freedom in the current historical moment has turned ugly.[i] The dark side of freedom as a call to domination and repression is with us once again; it no longer hides in the shadows; nor is it relegated to the margins of society. Americans live in an age when the summons to freedom is being falsely appropriated by the far-right to dominate, suppress, and exclude those considered unworthy, disposable, and excess. It is also being weaponized as a polit...

Arming Taiwan is an Insane Provocation: For the Sake of Our Survival it Must Stop

22Jul

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China, USA

Arming Taiwan is an Insane Provocation: For the Sake of Our Survival it Must Stop

BY JOHN V. WALSH Photo by Jack Brind The Island of Taiwan has been turned into a “powder keg” by the infusion of U.S. weaponry, pushing the Taiwanese people into the “abyss of disaster.” These are the words of the Chinese Defense Ministry in reaction to the recent $440 million sale of U.S. arms to the island. And now the U.S.is also giving, not selling, arms to Taiwan, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. The “First Island Chain” Strategy of the U.S. Taiwan is but one in a series of islands along the Chinese coast, often called “The First Island Chain,” which now bristles with advanced U.S. weapons. These are accompanied by tens of thousands of supporting U.S. military personnel and combat troops. The “First Island Chain” extends from Japan in the north southward through Ja...