Literature Archives - Page 17 of 55

2Jun

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Human Rights, Literature, USA

In Search of a Lost Socialism

by JOSHUA FRANK In May of 1914 — 107 years ago this month — a small, yet vibrant socialist colony on the edge of Los Angeles County took root that is worth revisiting. In the Age of Covid-19, and with the continued violent assault on black and brown people across the US, one must visualize a more peaceful, egalitarian future, where healthcare is free and police are non-existent. The seeds of revolution are all around us, they just need planting. – JF Chelsea inside the old silo at Llano del Rio. It’s a typical summer day in the desert of Southern California. Very little breeze and blazing, unforgiving heat. We’re in the Mojave on an excursion to find the ruins of Llano del Rio, a socialist colony that sprouted here in 1914. The temperature is well over 100 and it feels even hotte...

31May

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Literature, USA

Fundamentalist Pandemics

What evangelicals could learn from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam by: Juan Cole In the U.S., a variety of evangelical religious leaders have failed the test of reasoned public policy in outrageous ways. (Photo: CC) This spring, the novel coronavirus pandemic has raised the issue of the relationship between the blindest kind of religious faith and rational skepticism—this time in two countries that think of themselves as polar opposites and enemies: Supreme Leader Ali Khameini’s Iran and Donald Trump’s America. On the U.S. side of things, New Orleans pastor Tony Spell, for instance, has twice been arrested for holding church services without a hint of social distancing, despite a ban on such gatherings. His second arrest was for preaching while wearing an ankle moni...

Seeds of Destruction: The Diabolical World of Genetic Manipulation

25May

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Literature

Seeds of Destruction: The Diabolical World of Genetic Manipulation

PREFACE. This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. By F. William Engdahl Global Research, “Control the oil, and you control nations. Control the food, and you control the people.”* -Henry Kissenger “Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation” by F. William Engdahl is a skillfully researched book that focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms. The author cogently reveals a diabolical world of profit-driven political intrigue, government corr...

Book: The Drive to War Against Russia and China

22May

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China, Literature, Russia

Book: The Drive to War Against Russia and China

Why do the US and British ruling classes seem so set on war with Russia and China, and what can the working class do to prevent such a cataclysm? Joti Brar Download a digital copy of this pamphlet. Buy a copy from our shop. It cannot have failed to attract the notice of our readers that we are witnessing an increasing drive to war against both Russia and China by our own and other imperialist ruling classes. The first question we have to ask ourselves is: why? Why do the US and British ruling classes seem so set on war with Russia and China, and what can the working class do to prevent such a cataclysm? What is the relation between this drive to war with Russia and China and conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria,...

7May

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Literature, USA

History Is More or Less Bunk

The Light at the End of the Tunnel? By Tom Engelhardt Let me quote a Trumpian figure from long ago, Henry Ford. That’s right, the bigot who created the Ford Motor Company (and once even ran for president). Back in 1916, in an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, he offered this bit of wisdom on the subject of history: "Say, what do I care about Napoleon? What do we care about what they did 500 or 1,000 years ago? I don't know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across and I don't care. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today." As it happened, Napoleon Bonaparte di...

7May

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Literature, USA

A Greatest Generation We Are Not

Posted by Andrew Bacevich There was certainly a hint that the previous century was not going to unfold in a particularly propitious manner when World War I, “the war to end all wars” (a phrase famously attributed to American President Woodrow Wilson), proved but an introduction to a second world war that would make the first look more like a skirmish. Add in the fact that the pandemic to end all pandemics, the 1918 “Spanish flu” (that may actually have originated in the United States), killed at least 50 million people on this planet before being forgotten in the catastrophic Great Depression and, until recently, essentially dropped from history. And that, mind you, is the world that Andrew Bacevich’s parents and mine inherited. They -- at least those of them who foug...

7May

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Literature, USA

The War in Questions

Making Sense of the Age of CarnageBy Tom Engelhardt My first question is simple enough: After 18-plus years of our forever wars, where are all the questions? Almost two decades of failing American wars across a startlingly large part of the planet and I’d like to know, for instance, who's been fired for them? Who’s been impeached? Who’s even paying attention? I mean, if another great power had been so fruitlessly fighting a largely undeclared set of conflicts under the label of “the war on terror” for so long, if it had wasted trillionsof taxpayer dollars with no end in sight and next to no one in that land was spending much time debating or discussing the matter, what would you think? If nothing else, you’d have a few questions about that, right? Well, so m...

Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 2

27Apr

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Literature

Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 2

How the communists led the fight against aggressive nationalism and established peace and socialism in the Caucasus. Lalkar writers Insignia of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. Read part one on how the Bolsheviks established themselves as the leading force against tsarist oppression in the Caucasus. ***** The Baku commune In the central committee of the Bolshevik party, the right-opportunist position (expressed by Kamenev and Zinoviev) attempted sabotage of the October 1917 uprising in Petrograd. In the Caucasus, the Mensheviks played the leading role in opposing the transformation of the bourgeois-democratic revolution into the proletarian revolution. Despite this sabotage, the Bolshevik revolution had an electrifying effect acr...

Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 1

27Apr

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Stalin and the Bolsheviks of Transcaucasia, part 1

How the revolutionary communists established themselves as the leading force against tsarist oppression in the Caucasus. Lalkar writers It might be asked why we should have any particular interest in the conduct of the class struggle in Transcaucasia that was carried out by the Bolsheviks. Beyond the fact that JV Stalin is known to have been a Georgian, little is known amongst our comrades about the history of the region. Generally speaking, our comrades know the story of 1917 in the setting of Petrograd and Moscow. With the consolidation of power by the Khrushchevite revisionists at the 20th party congress, a concerted effort was made to rewrite the history of Bolshevism. At that congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1956, the A...

Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?

27Apr

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Literature

Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?

Workers need to take inspiration from the achievements of October; an example that our rulers would prefer us to forget. Ella Rule Annual celebration of the Great October Socialist Revolution, held in Saklatvala Hall, Southall, 9 November 2019. The following speech was delivered by our party’s chairman, Ella Rule, in Southall on 9 November 2019. ***** We are meeting here this evening to mark the 102nd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution led by the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, the Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The victory of this revolution enabled such a vast territory as that of the USSR to rid itself of feudalism and capitalism and to establish a planned economy designed to maximise production for the benefit o...