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19Oct

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Politics, United Kingdom

Farewell to Eric Levy

Eric Levy, a veteran of the anti-imperialist movement, died on 20 July 2022 at the age of 94. Some of us had known him since the 1960s. Born in 1928 in Manchester, spending his childhood in Egypt, he was an active participant in the working-class movement in America, before moving to London in 1958, where he threw himself into anti-racist, anti-imperialist and communist work. A friend, and lifelong admirer, of the great African-American singer, actor and progressive political activist Paul Robeson, he met Claudia Jones when Robeson came to London after the US government was forced to return his passport. Claudia, a talented and dedicated communist and founder of the Notting Hill Carnival, who had been deported following her imprisonment in the United States, became a c...

Imperialist lies – dissecting the clichés of Anglo-American ethnocentrism

19Oct

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United Kingdom, USA

Imperialist lies – dissecting the clichés of Anglo-American ethnocentrism

Former US ambassador calls on Britain and the USA to ‘come to the rescue’ of the world … ‘again’. Robert Wood Johnson, US ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2021, recently wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph of 5 August 2022 entitled ‘Britain and America must save Europe from humanitarian disaster’. One should expect a former US ambassador to know better than to refer to the USA as ‘America’, but this is a mere hint of ethnocentricity as compared with what follows in his text. The article’s subtitle reads: “For decades, our two countries have come to the aid of humanity in its darkest hours. We must do so again,” but it will soon be made clear that humanity has no interest in receiving any more of such ‘aid’. Lies about Ukrainian refugees John...

19Oct

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Russia

The International Anti-Fascist Congress

On the 20 August 2022, in Patriot Park, Kubinka near Moscow, the inaugural gathering of the International Anti-Fascist Congress (IAFC) was opened. Organised by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MOD) with the stated aim of uniting “the efforts of the international community to combat the ideology of Nazism in all its manifestations,” the Congress began with a plenary session addressed by the Russian Minister of Defence, Army General Sergei Shoigu. In welcoming the forum participants from many nations, he asked them to participate in discussing the causes of neo-Nazism in the modern world and ways of countering it. In his opening address General Sergei Shoigu listed some of the examples and proofs of fascism to be found in today’s world, stating: “Today we are witnessing ano...

Resolutely condemn US and South Korean provocative war exercises

19Oct

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South Korea, USA

Resolutely condemn US and South Korean provocative war exercises

Posted by: John Phoenix US imperialism and its minion, the South Korean regime, began large scale joint military exercises on 22 August 2022 – the first in four years. These exercises, held along the border with the DPRK, included joint aircraft carrier strike drills and amphibious landing training, making them the largest-scale drills undertaken since 2018 at which time they were scaled down ahead of a summit to be held between the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong Un, and the then US president, Donald Trump. Coinciding with these drills, South Korea also staged a four-day civil defence exercise involving 480,000 people. Yoon Suk-yeol, the South Korean president, stated that “in order to maintain peace on the Korean peninsula, our watertight security posture must ...

A brief history of the Comintern – the Third International of the working class

19Oct

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Literature, World

A brief history of the Comintern – the Third International of the working class

The history of the Comintern is the history of the first worldwide wave of working-class revolution. Let its lessons inform our quest to build the next wave. A recent video on Proletarian TV showed a wide-ranging discussion on the historical backdrop to the Communist (Third) International (aka the Comintern), its development and its eventual dissolution, between comrades Harpal Brar of the CPGB-ML and American Marxist Caleb Maupin. During their talk, they touched briefly on the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, the nature of the Chinese revolution, and the tactical shift in Comintern policy between 1928 and 1935 in the face of the rise of fascism. We reproduce here some accompanying background information to those earth-shaking events. The video itself can be viewe...

How British Imperialism Crushed the Greek Revolution

19Oct

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Greece, United Kingdom

How British Imperialism Crushed the Greek Revolution

Part 2 (By Nina Kosta and George Korkovelos) The British in Greece English historian Elizabeth Barker writes that during WW2, the British government “continued to behave as if Greece was its fiefdom“. The only military aid that Britain gave to Greece was Italian loot from North Africa, while at the same time undermining efforts to buy modern aircraft from the US, which eventually, although paid for by Greece, ended up in the RAF. The British presence in occupied Greece was a brutal colonial operation that led to the Greek Civil War (1946-1949). Churchill considered Greece to be an integral part of the British Empire and wanted exclusive control over it: “Even the last British employee controlled the Greek government abroad (exiled in Cairo) completely. They co...

19Oct

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Russia

Is Russia imperialist?

Since Russia began its Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, not only Trotskyite and revisionist outfits, but also quite a few communist parties have denounced Russia. Further, they have asserted that the conflict in Ukraine is an inter-imperialist war in the outcome of which the proletariat has no interest; that Russia is not defending its national sovereignty against the NATO-led proxy war in which the Ukrainian people are being used as cannon fodder to further NATO’s attempt at domination of Russia. In our view, Russia, though capitalist, is not an imperialist power. It is defending its sovereign right to an independent existence. As such, the proletariat ought to support Russia’s SMO and work for the defeat of NATO’s military and economic war on Russia. In this...

The Rank Hypocrisy Behind Biden Officials’ ‘Fury’ at Mahmoud Abbas

19Oct

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Palestine Affairs, USA, ZIO-NAZI

The Rank Hypocrisy Behind Biden Officials’ ‘Fury’ at Mahmoud Abbas

https://youtu.be/8SL6dBKb9AM After stabbing Palestinians in the back for decades, U.S. officials are now “offended” that President Abbas doesn’t trust them and wants Russia involved. By Juan Cole Barak Ravid at Axios reports that Biden administration officials are furious about remarks by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas saying he lacked confidence in the US as a mediator. What Ravid does not say is that Washington has no right, none, to get on a high horse. Since the US sponsored and co-signed the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993, which guaranteed Palestinians a state in the West Bank and Gaza by 1997 in return for PLO recognition of Israel, Palestinians have been royally screwed over. Not only did the Israelis not withdraw from Areas C, B, and A in turn, as the accords ...

In Neocolonial Rant, EU Says Europe Is ‘Garden’ Superior To Rest of World’s Barbaric ‘Jungle’

18Oct

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Europe, USA

In Neocolonial Rant, EU Says Europe Is ‘Garden’ Superior To Rest of World’s Barbaric ‘Jungle’

EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell showed the West’s neocolonial mentality claiming “the world needs Europe” as a “beacon” and beautiful “garden” to civilize the barbarous “jungle” in the Global South. He also called for regime change to create a “post-Putin Rus. EU foreign-policy chief Joseph Borrell says Europe is a superior “garden” and “beacon” that must civilize the violent “jungle” in the rest of the world By Ben Norton / Multipolarista The European Union’s top foreign-policy official showed how the colonialist mentality is still very much alive on the continent. EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell said “Europe is a garden,” which is “beautiful” and superior to the vast majority of the countries on Earth. On the other hand, he claimed, “Most of the rest of the ...

Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason

18Oct

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USA

Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason

The powerful keep those they exploit from knowing who they are, where they came from and the crimes of the ruling class. As social inequality mounts, so does the campaign to keep us in darkness. Song – by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost August Wilson wrote 10 plays chronicling Black life in the 20th century. His favorite, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, is set in 1911 in a boarding house in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. The play’s title comes from “Joe Turner’s Blues,” written in 1915 by W. C. Handy. That song refers to a man named Joe Turney, the brother of Peter Turney, who was the governor of Tennessee from 1893 to 1897. Joe Turney transported Black prisoners, chained in a coffle, along the roads from Memphis to the Tennessee State Penitentiary ...