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22Aug

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Catholic Sex Abuse Stems From Monarchy and Exclusion of Women From Power

NOVANEWS BY: Amy Goodman Democracy Now! For the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope has addressed a letter to the entire population of 1.2 billion Catholics on the topic of sex abuse by clergy. In the scathing 2,000-word letter, Pope Francis wrote, “We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them.” Last week in Pennsylvania, a grand jury report revealed how more than 300 Catholic priests sexually abused 1,000 children, and possibly thousands more, over seven decades and that the church leadership covered up the abuse. More than 1,000 Catholic theologians, educators and parishioners have called on all Catholic bishops to resign. We speak with Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK, an advocacy group for Catholic so...

18Jul

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Literature, Middle East, ZIO-NAZI

BDS in Books: British Author Refuses to Publish in 'Israel'

NOVANEWS BDS in Books: British Author Refuses to Publish in 'Israel' – and She's Not the Only One British author Kamila Shamsie, whose early works had been translated into Hebrew, refuses to publish her new books in Israel. She's not the only one. Gili Izikovich Kamila Shamsie, a prize-winning and highly praised British author of Pakistani descent, refused to be translated in HebrewLEONARDO CENDAMO / leemage / AFP Last week one Israeli publisher had an unusual experience. It started off perfectly ordinarily: The publisher wanted to acquire the rights to publish the last two books by British author Kamila Shamsie, a prize-winning and highly praised British author of Pakistani descent. Her early books were published in Israel – the last of them was “Burnt Shadows,” wh...

9May

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Party Foundation Day Observed with Resolution to Defeat Fascism

NOVANEWS The 50th Foundation Day and 149th birthday of Comrade Lenin were observed with programmes organized at various places across the country. In Bihar, programmes were held at the Party office at Patna, Chitkohra, Digha, Kankadbagh, and Patna City. The day was also observed at Bhojpur, Patna Rural, Siwan, Arwal, Muzaffarpur, Jehanabad, Gaya, and other Blocks and districts with flag hoisting, tribute to martyrs and a reading of the message put out by the Central Committee of the Party. After paying tributes to Com Lenin and Founder-General Secretary Com Charu Mazumdar, the Call by the Party was read out and then the meeting was addressed by Com BB Pandey, Com Kunal and others. The speakers said that the dark forces of fascism are spreading their tentacles everywhere including the ...

9May

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Marx Bicentenary: The Continuing Long March for Human Emancipation

NOVANEWS “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it”: Karl Marx (5.5.1818-14.3.1883) had reached this conclusion quite early in his life when he was still in his late twenties. Till his last breath he worked relentlessly to this end, producing the richest and most inspiring legacy of human endeavour geared towards both comprehending and transforming the world we live in. From the Communist Manifesto, jointly produced with his lifelong comrade-in-arms Friedrich Engels in 1848, when he was only thirty, to his magnum opus Das Kapital (Capital), which was published in full only after his death, Marx remained steadfast in his spirit of ‘ruthless criticism of all that exists’ – ‘ruthless’, as he said, ‘both in the sense of not...

6May

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Trotskyist Delusions. Split into Rival Tendencies

NOVANEWS Obsessed with Stalin, the disciples of Leon Bronstein see betrayed revolutions everywhere By Diana Johnstone I first encountered Trotskyists in Minnesota half a century ago during the movement against the Vietnam War. I appreciated their skill in organizing anti-war demonstrations and their courage in daring to call themselves “communists” in the United States of America – a profession of faith that did not groom them for the successful careers enjoyed by their intellectual counterparts in France. So I started my political activism with sympathy toward the movement. In those days it was in clear opposition to U.S. imperialism, but that has changed. The first thing one learns about Trotskyism is that it is split into rival tendencies. Some remain consistent critics ...

6May

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Brief biography of Marx by V.I. Lenin

NOVANEWS By VI Lenin Karl Marx and VI Lenin. Liberation graphic. As part of our continuing celebration of the Marx bicentennial, we present here a brief biographical sketch of Karl Marx by V.I. Lenin, accompanied by his essay on The Marxist Doctrine. Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism Marx, Karl, was born on May 5, 1818 (New Style), in the city of Trier (Rhenish Prussia). His father was a lawyer, a Jew, who in 1824 adopted Protestantism. The family was well-to-do, cultured, but not revolutionary. After graduating from a Gymnasium in Trier, Marx entered the university, first at Bonn and later in Berlin, where he read law, majoring in history and philosophy. He concluded his university course in 1841, submitting a doctoral thesis on the philosophy o...

6May

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Marx bicentennial: What is capitalism?

NOVANEWS By Liberation Staff Karl Marx May 5, 2018 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. In honor of this occasion, we are reposting an essay from our “Fundamentals of Marxism” series found on Liberation School. Party for Socialism and Liberation is committed to keeping alive the legacy of Marx, not as an academic endeavor but as a living tool in the class struggle. Originally published in 2004. Today, there is an enormous economic gap between the rich and the poor. According to the International Labor Organization, “one billion people are unemployed or underemployed” worldwide. Yet, six of the world’s richest people have a combined wealth of $134.6 billion.These six people have more money than nearly everyone else will see in their lifetime. That is the nature of cap...

19Apr

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Marx’s Theory and Philosophy of Praxis: Between Academia and Ideology

NOVANEWS By Alex Demirović The Bullet Hungarian writer and historian György Dalos described his relationship to Marx in a short, reflective piece that appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on 25 October 2017. In it, he claims that Marx drew upon that age-old human ideal of a society living in wealth and security and without fear of violence or retribution; and that Karl Kautsky canonised Marx’s teachings as “Isms”. This involved a need to understand the principle of social evolution and its socioeconomic formations, starting with primitive-communal, moving to capitalist and then culminating in communist. Dalos writes that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, having secured the supposed legalities, was able to assert its claim that it would pull level with the advanced capital...

16Apr

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"The Young Karl Marx" Is an Urgent Reminder to Revisit Marx's Ideas

NOVANEWS By Dan Falcone, Truthout | Film Review (Photo: Wikipedia) With rising inequality in the US, and increasing under Donald Trump, there's a pressing need for a new economic system. Recently, in discussion with sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, Professor Marcello Musto indicated how, "for three decades, neoliberal policies and ideology have been almost uncontested worldwide [and that] almost everywhere around the world, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Marx's birth, there is a 'Marx revival.'" Musto argues that "returning to Marx is still indispensable to understanding the logic and dynamics of capitalism." Some of the most famous words in history are the words of Karl Marx: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." Marx was a German...

11Mar

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Literature, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

The Punishment of Gaza

NOVANEWS by Gideon Levy" "The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy" Author: Levy, Gideon Israel’s 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows how the ground was prepared for the assault and documents its continuing effects. From 2005—the year of Gaza’s “liberation”—through to 2009, Levy tracks the development of Israel policy, which has abandoned the pretense of diplomacy in favor of raw military power, the ultimate aim of which is to deny Palestinians any chance of forming their own independent state. Punished by Israel and the Quartet of international powers for the democratic election of Hamas, Gaza has been transformed into the world’s lar...