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10Oct

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Politics, USA

From whistleblowing to revolution

NOVANEWS Proletarian issue 56 (October 2013) Whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning are performing a vital service for progressive humanity by ripping the ‘freedom-loving’ mask from psychopathic imperialism’s face. When the American computer specialist Edward Snowden first leaked details about Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance activities to the Guardian back in May of this year, he became the latest in a line of secret service insiders to blow the whistle on the extent of the US state’s spying – both on ordinary civilians and on sovereign governments all over world, and all in the name of the ‘defence of freedom’ and the ‘war on terror’. Disillusioned insiders Snowden hardly started out as what...

10Oct

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Politics, United Kingdom

No cooperation with capitalist austerity!

NOVANEWS Proletarian issue 56 (October 2013) We need to organise a mass movement of non-cooperation with the cuts, and to choose a new leadership that is ready to take on the ruling class. The biggest programme of cuts and privatisation in welfare and public spending since the second word war is now well underway, and its effects are starting to have serious, even fatal, consequences for workers. Even as suicide rates among the unemployed and benefit-dependent climb, councils are moving to implement the much-reviled bedroom tax. Thousands of families are on notice from their local authority that they will have to move if the cut to their housing benefit means that they can no longer afford the rent on their homes. Debt, poverty and homelessness will undou...

10Oct

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Politics, United Kingdom

Birmingham meeting pledges solidarity with Syria and Korea

NOVANEWS Proletarian issue 56 (October 2013) The CPGB-ML hosted a successful anti-imperialist political meeting, along with a barbecue and social at its centre in Birmingham on Saturday 31 August. Syria was a major topic, along with the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), with speakers including CPGB-ML chairman Comrade Harpal Brar, DPRK ambassador Comrade Hyon Hak Bong (who was present along with embassy minister Thae Yongho) and comrades from the Indian Workers’ Association (IWA-GB). The IWA comrades called for a fight-back against recent racist actions by the government. These include the notorious ‘Go home’ vans and a string of immigration crackdowns, clearly focused overwhelmingly on the black and Asian communities. Comrade...

10Oct

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Politics

Bourgeois justice, working-class injustice

NOVANEWS Proletarian issue 56 (October 2013) Black, working class and poor? Guilty! Party comrades recently attended a trial at Woolwich Crown Court, cosily situated to act as an adjunct of Belmarsh high security prison in south London. There they witnessed a blatant exposure of the hypocrisy of British imperialism, which claims to be a steadfast champion of civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law. In the criminal courts, in particular, the jury trial is supposed to safeguard the golden principle that nobody can be convicted of a crime unless the evidence shows beyond all reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty as charged. Jury manipulation What our foray into Woolwich Crown Court showed, however, is that proceedings can be and are manipulat...

10Oct

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Politics, United Kingdom

Left Unity: another Trotskyist attempt to mislead the working class

NOVANEWS Proletarian issue 56 (October 2013) The latest attempt to divert workers’ burning desire for change down pointless avenues of non-activity takes support for imperialism to a new level by including a class A war criminal amongst its leading lights. On 30 November, London’s Royal National Hotel is set to be the venue for the founding conference of yet another self-proclaimed party, purporting to represent the interests of working people in Britain. Since making an initial appeal in March, Left Unity claims, in a letter published in the Guardian on 12 August, that “more than 9,000 people have signed up and more than 100 local groups have been established across the country”. (‘Left Unity ready to offer an alternative’) Sounds impressive – and at least in part ...

30Sep

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Politics

Decriminalising Bashar – towards a more effective anti-war movement

NOVANEWS On 10 April 1993, one of the greatest heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle, Chris Hani, was gunned down by a neo-fascist in an attempt to disrupt the seemingly inexorable process of bringing majority rule to South Africa. Although direct legal culpability for this tragic assassination belonged to only two men – a Polish immigrant by the name of Janusz Waluś and a senior Conservative Party MP named Clive Derby-Lewis – the crime formed part of a much wider onslaught against the ANC and its allies. This onslaught – paramilitary, political, legal, psychological, journalistic – was not primarily conducted by fringe lunatics such as Waluś and Derby-Lewis, but by the mainstream white political forces and their puppets within the black community (such as the Inkatha Freedom Party)...

28Sep

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Politics

ALTERNATIVE SATURDAY CARTOONS

NOVANEWS Last minute addition. Thank you Beulahman. But let's start off with a song by one of my favourites, Jon Bon Jovi performing with Iranian singing star Don Was, that great song, "Stand by Me". More pertinent and timely a song I cannot think of after this week's explosive advances in Middle Eastern politics. The power of music. Personally, I think Jon would be a much better communicator than Kerry and reach more people too! He is also much easier on the eyes and isn't a closet Chosenite! * Is it any surprise that this week there is a surplus of political cartoons slamming Putin as a fool, jerk, etc. Fortunately, I found a few that said otherwise. . The simple beauty of the humble potato bug. Call me sick, but I LOVE th...

28Sep

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Me, Gilad Atzmon and the 'Truth'

NOVANEWS By: Gilad Atzmon Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: Roy Bard is a known figure within Britain’s far left, anti-war and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement. He is a member of the Indymedia UK collective, a leading British anti-capitalist media outlet. I first encountered Bard five years ago. At the time the site was subjected to an international Jewish ‘anti’-Zionist campaign: a cabal of ethnic activists demanded that Indymedia deleted my articles. Being a principled man, Bard didn’t bow to their pressure. Bard has been subjected to a malicious slanderous campaign ever since. The article below is about sadness – if the personal is political, as some progressives insist, this article is an intimate insight into the medium in which such a transition takes place. It reveals the measures...

27Sep

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Politics

Understand Capitalism – understand your life!

NOVANEWS Capitalism is in crisis. On this point all are agreed. But what is the crisis? How can it be solved? Is capitalism the ‘end of history’, as Francis Fukuyama famously said after the counter-revolutions in the USSR and Eastern Europe in 1989-91? Will capitalism simply ‘sort itself out’? Is it the best of a bad lot, as Churchill and Thatcher maintain? OR is it up to you and me, the working people to lay hold of the means of production – the factories, mines, banks, offices, warehouses, shopping empires, shipping, rail, trucking conglomerates, and run them ourselves; to plan production sustainably to satisfy OUR basic needs and to meet OUR pressing interests. For what will be the cost exacted from the masses of working people of the world in ‘blood and treasure’ for capitalism’s on...

22Sep