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Racist persecution of aborigines in Australia

29Nov

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Australia

Racist persecution of aborigines in Australia

In sharp contradiction to the Australia of the ‘Crocodile Dundee’ films where all races get along together, personal differences are sorted out in a manly fist fight followed by all having a few jars at the local boozer in some ‘one horse town’, real-life Australia is for the most part a modern imperialist state where nearly 98% of the population are not classified as indigenous (aboriginal) people and a large part of whom view those indigenous people as some mixture of stupid, criminal, obscene drunks who are completely unreliable as workers. You don’t have to travel too far back in history to find the roots of the anti-aborigine feelings and practices which range from the ‘mildly’ intolerant racism through to the extreme racial hatred of white supremacy that is there in...

Summary of Xi Jinping’s report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC

29Nov

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China

Summary of Xi Jinping’s report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC

The following article by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Keith Bennett provides a brief summary of Xi Jinping’s highly significant and substantial report given at the opening of the CPC’s 20th National Congress on 16 October 2022. Entitled Hold High the Great Banner of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Strive in Unity to Build a Modern Socialist Country in All Respects, Comrade Xi Jinping’s report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a political document of great significance, summing up the work of a 96-million strong party over the last period and outlining its course ahead. Comrade Xi begins by noting that the congress, “takes place at a critical time as the entire Party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups embark on a new ...

Putin tells Germany’s Scholz that Western line on Ukraine is ‘destructive’

29Nov

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Germany, Russia, Ukraine

Putin tells Germany’s Scholz that Western line on Ukraine is ‘destructive’

BY SPEECHIFY Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism. INFO FacebookTwitterCopy URL Russia criticized Germany and 'Western states' for allegedly pumping the Kyiv regime with weapons and training the Ukrainian military Russian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a phone call on Friday, December 2, that the German and Western line on Ukraine was “destructive” and urged Berlin to rethink its approach, the Kremlin said.Its readout of the call served to highlight the gulf between Russia and Western governments over Ukraine, even though Moscow and Washington have both said in the past 24 hours that they are open in principle to talks.“Attention was drawn to the destructive line of Western states, including Germany,...

Obituary: Comrade Avtar Jouhl (1937-2022)

29Nov

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United Kingdom

Obituary: Comrade Avtar Jouhl (1937-2022)

Comrade Avtar Jouhl, a much-loved and much-respected anti-imperialist and proletarian revolutionary, passed away on the morning of 8 October 2022. Born in the village of Jandiala, Punjab, on 2 November 1937, he came to Britain in 1958 to join his brother and father-in-law who were already working and living in Birmingham. He had come over with the intention of pursuing higher studies at university but life took a different turn and he ended up working for three decades in the foundry industry in Smethwick. Coming from a progressive family, some of whom had participated in the struggle for Indian independence from British colonial rule, Avtar was drawn towards Marxism and attended classes in basic Marxism. When at school, he took part in the activities of the student...

The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests

29Nov

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Health, United Kingdom

The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests

We have, as far back as anyone remembers, logged and commented on the attacks on, and, the undermining of, the NHS under both Labour and Tory administrations in this journal on a regular basis. Both exhorting defence of the service where possible and highlighting the total necessity of a socialist system as the only measure possible to ensure real and permanent growth of the NHS into the health service that both its staff and those who use the service deserve and one which will become a leading saver and enricher of the lives of all. That the NHS has a tremendous importance to our class cannot be overstated but it can be said that all of our current society, even our enemies, have a dependency on the service that they don’t always understand or appreciate. Writing in the&nbs...

Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

29Nov

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USA

Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

The ‘polycrisis’ 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 description Jean-Claude Juncker gave the nexus of challenges facing the EU in 2016, when he was European Commission president. Last week the International Monetary Fund underscored how multiple clouds — including the European energy crisis, rapid interest rate rises and China’s slowdown — have been gathering over the global economy. What has seemed like separate crises emerging from many different regions and markets are now coalescing: we may be facing a polycrisis on a global scale. “It is rare for so many engines of the global economy to be stalling all at once: countries ac...

Referenda: Russians exercise their right to self-determination

29Nov

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Russia, Ukraine

Referenda: Russians exercise their right to self-determination

23 September marked the launch of four days of referenda in the Ukraine, with the aim of determining whether the inhabitants of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson wished to be ruled by the fascist junta in Kiev or would prefer to be integrated into the Russian Federation. In all cases the vote was resoundingly in favour of joining forces with Russia. Given that the citizens of the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had suffered over eight years of shelling and blockades at the hands of the Kiev putschists, and the population of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions had been forced to live with the most vicious Russophobic campaign of hatred, the referendum results were never in any doubt – not, as the paid cynics of the imperialist media sneer, because the electorate was voting wi...

Rishi Sunak – the third prime minister in 7 weeks

28Nov

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Politics, United Kingdom

Rishi Sunak – the third prime minister in 7 weeks

On Tuesday 25 October, Rishi Sunak became Britain’s prime minister, replacing Liz Truss who had lasted a mere 44 days (from 6 September to 25 October), the shortest serving prime minister in British history. Sunak is the third prime minister in just seven weeks. His is the fifth consecutive government in six years, forcing one journalist to comment that Britain had acquired Italian-style politics and finances, without the sunshine. Liz Truss had based her campaign to become prime minister on massive tax cuts for the rich, allegedly to promote GDP growth, while proposing to fund these cuts through borrowing. Although Truss won the contest in the Tory membership vote by a margin of 57.5% against 42.5%, it was a smaller margin than predicted. On becoming prime...

Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works

28Nov

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Media, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works

BY JOHN PILGER Photograph Source: Photo by Laurentiu Morariu In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Fuhrer. She told me that the ‘patriotic messages’ of her films were dependent not on ‘orders from above’ but on what she called the ‘submissive void’ of the German public. Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? I asked. ‘Yes, especially them,’ she said. I think of this as I look around at the propaganda now consuming Western societies. Of course, we are very different from Germany in the 1930s. We live in inform...

28Nov

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Ukraine, USA

Uncle Sam’s Long Trail of Wreckage

Very few policymakers even concede that Washington’s overseas military adventures often have not turned out as planned. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House on September 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images) By: Ted Galen Carpenter The leaders and most of the news media in the U.S. seem to believe that Washington’s foreign policy over the past several decades has been a success and benefitted both the United States and the world. That assumption wasn’t really true even during the Cold War, although that confrontation eventually resulted in the peaceful demise of America’s nasty totalitarian adversary. There was plenty of collateral damage along the way, with the suffe...