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International communists on the attack against anti-Stalin lies

27Apr

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International communists on the attack against anti-Stalin lies

Workers will never find courage in their own strength until they have learned to see through the exploiters’ lies about socialism. Proletarian writers Josef Stalin worked tirelessly in the service of the people from the age of 15 until his death. He is hated and his legacy is feared by the imperialists because he led the working class in building a prosperous and peaceful life without exploitation. The following resolution was passed by a gathering of communist and workers’ parties in Minsk, Belarus on 15 December 2019. ***** Decisive resistance to anti-Stalinism is an ideological condition for the victory of a modern socialist revolution We, representatives of the communist and workers’ parties, gathered in the hero city of Minsk for an international conference dedicate...

12Apr

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Study guide: What is to be done?

By Liberation School Lenin and manifestation by Isaak Brodsky. Source: Wikicommons. Published in 1902, What is to be done? Burning questions of our movement, is Lenin’s argument for a distinct kind of revolutionary organization, and is thus often viewed as the founding text of the Leninist form of the party. Written in response to the particularities of the Marxist movement in Russia at the time, and as an intervention in the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, it still speaks volumes to the present day. While the arguments in the book are crucial to Marxism, they’ve also been widely misunderstood and caricatured. We hope this study and discussion guide will help comrades and friends make their way through the text, reading the arguments on their own terms and with...

30Mar

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On GypsiesThe EU interviewed 8,000 Gypsies, the results will shock you!

By: GUILLAUME DUROCHER Gypsies in France, 1980s. Credit: Wikimedia Commons I for one am fascinated by Gypsies. I find it remarkable that a people, hailing from the dregs of medieval Indian society, could cross the whole Middle East, arrive in eastern Europe, and maintain their identity among other peoples for 1500 years. The Gypsies did this, furthermore, without maintaining their own sovereign state or religion, the two traditional ways of preserving peoplehood. That is, by any yardstick, a remarkable achievement. Unfortunately, the realities and remarkable nature of Gypsy society and culture are never a subject of polite conversation. I once asked an eastern European affluent white female liberal for sources on the topic and she unhelpfully pointed to a Soros-funded NGO’s ...

30Mar

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Islam, authoritarianism and underdevelopment

Review by James Dorsey Ahmet T. Kuru’s new book Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment, A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is a ground-breaking history and analysis of the evolution of the state in Muslim countries. Thoroughly researched and accessibly written, Kuru’s work traces the template of the modern-day state in many Muslim-majority countries to fundamental political, social and economic changes in the 11th century. That was when Islamic scholars who until then had by and large refused to surrender their independence to the state were co-opted by Muslim rulers. It was a time when the merchant class lost its economic clout as the Muslim world moved from a mercantile to a feudal economy. Religious and other scholars ...

22Mar

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The engaged intellect, not the suicidal intellectual … the birth climate so that the term does not become fashionable.

Dr.. Adel Samara The third anniversary of Basil Al-A’raj’s martyrdom is now passing, as it was found in his papers that he used the term clashing cultured, which gave the term an important boost to the association of culture with armed struggle. But since Basil's martyrdom, articles that have used the term, especially from outside the occupied land, have fallen to the point that almost makes the term a mere fashion, which has lost its militant content, and capitalist companies have used the image of Guevara to market their products. Many did not notice that the phenomenon of Basil Al-Aaraj is associated with a situation in which the Palestinian resistance is living, the moment of retreat and even the decline of many powers after the settlement agreements and the issue’s verge of...

20Mar

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Literature, World

Civilization Ruffled by Another Perfect Epidemiological Storm

by JOHN DAVIS Plague is defeated, detail of the “Column of the Plague” (Pestsäule), Graben, Vienna, Austria. Photograph Source: Jebulon – CC0 It is the beginning of the twenty-first century and most humans remain inhabitants of what James C. Scott calls the ‘Multispecies Resettlement Camp’ – the aggregation of men, women, children and their domesticated plants and animals that was made possible by the development of agriculture. His book, Against the Grain – A Deep History of the Earliest States, 2017, takes a jaundiced look at sedentism – the staying put that initially gave rise to urban culture and that would, some millennia later, come to define modernity. This progression represents our understanding of the development of Western Civilization which we are acc...

9Feb

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Education, Literature

Roaming Charges: When Satan Quotes Scripture

by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Satan Spills the Plagues, William Blake. Yes, yes my love, they promised well,Till workmen got for them the places;But soon as did the traitorous band,Assume the reins to give command,They mock’d us to our faces.– from: “A recitation: The imprisoned Chartist’s wife and daughter,” 1840. + The caucus system has been fetishized by the political pundit class for decades as an example of small state “town hall” style democracy in action. In fact, they’re anti-democratic, often controlled by party bosses, where, lacking secret ballots, people bullied into voting with the mob. Less than 10 percent of registered Democrats turn out for these spectacles, far less than 60 percent you’d expect to vote in a primary. In the last few election cycles, however, Obam...

10Jan

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Africa, Literature, Rwanda

“Rwanda, the Truth About Operation Turquoise: When the Archives Speak”

A Book Review By Dennis Riches Global Research, January 09, 2020Region: sub-Saharan AfricaTheme: History, Media Disinformation In France, it is difficult to speak about certain subjects without unleashing the guard dogs of correct thought and dominant ideology. The sensitive dossiers are well-known: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the civil-global war in Syria, and the Rwandan genocides. Even to speak of “genocides” in the plural is to take a serious risk, as the guardians of the temple have erected the singular as a totem of their religion: from April 7, 1994 until July 17, 1994, the “evil” Hutu massacred the “gentle” Tutsi. Definitively, the morality of it is always this simple. And from then on: spread the word, as there is nothing more to comprehend because it is...

11Dec

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Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend

Where is LGBT ideology taking us and why does it matter? Proletarian writers Download a digital copy now. Pre-order a print copy in our online shop. ***** Alongside a push to legislate for unquestioning acceptance of the concept of ‘gender fluidity’, we are witnessing a drive by the state to police not only actions, but words, and to criminalise as ‘hate speech’ all attempts to discuss the most basic facts of the matter. Can you be born in the ‘wrong body’? Is sex something real or just an imaginary social construct? Does who you sleep with define who you are? Why is there such growing and persistent abuse of the word ‘community’? And how have we arrived at a moment where the exploiters are able to appoint themselves the judges of all matters relating to the struggle for ...

6Dec

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Literature, Politics

Western Progressives and Imperialist Inquisition

Anti-imperialist graffiti in Caracas. | Photo: Reuters By: Tortilla Con Sal They foolishly trust demonstrably false reports from undeservedly prestigious Western NGOs and incessant phony coverage in liberal and progressive news media. Most people who think of themselves as progressive in the imperialist countries of North America and Western Europe, continue to believe the right-wing opposition version of events in Nicaragua in 2018. A great many also accept some version of the right-wing opposition account of the crisis in Venezuela. One obvious reason they do so is that they foolishly trust demonstrably false reports from undeservedly prestigious Western NGOs and incessant phony coverage in liberal and progressive news media. Nicaragua Vows No Retu...