Politics

NOVANEWS Roman church dismisses comments by head of rebel Catholic traditionalist group, saying it does not see Jews as enemies ynet The Vatican on Monday dismissed anti-Semitic comments by the head of a rebel Catholic traditionalist group, saying the Roman church did not see Jews as enemies. Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the rebel Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), said last month that Jews were among those “who over centuries have been enemies of the Church.” Jewish support for the modernizing reforms of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council showed they were opposed to the Church, he said. The SSPX rejects the Council as a heretical event that betrayed age-old Catholic teaching and undermined the Church. “It is impossible to speak of the Jews as enemies of the Church,” Vatican spokesman R...

NOVANEWS BY MARK WEBER After all the internet nonsense you come across it's always nice to get back to the solid, old-school style of Mark Weber. So ingrained has the Six Million figure become in the popular consciousness that while the average American may be quite sure that six million Jews were slaughtered by the Germans in the Second World War -- that is, in what is now called "the Holocaust" -- he has no idea of how many British, Poles, Russians, or even Americans died during that global conflict, or, for that matter, of how many of his fellow countrymen lost their lives in the American Civil War. This is hardly surprising, considering how relentlessly the Six Million figure is hammered into the public consciousness, not only in newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, and television,...

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Sr www.lalkar.org Harpal Brar, Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) was invited by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) to a two-day conference in Beijing. Entitled ‘The crisis of capitalism and the future of socialism’, the conference was organised by the World Socialism Center of CASS and the Centre for Contemporary World Studies of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC) and was held on 29-30 November 2012. In addition to the 19 foreign delegates – from Cuba, the US, Britain, Germany, Vietnam, Russia, Nepal and France, nearly a hundred Chinese Marxist academics and communists participated in the deliberations of this very important conference. To give...

NOVANEWS November 27th, 2012, Beijing Comrade Harpal Brar, Comrade Ella Rule, Comrade Zane Carpenter Chairman, Vice Chairman, General Secretary Dear Comrade Brar, Comrade Rule, Comrade Carpenter, Entrusted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and General Secretary Xi Jinping, the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC) would like to thank you for your letters of congratulations upon the convening of the 18th National Congress of the CPC and Comrade Xi’s election. China attaches great importance to the friendly relations between the CPC and the CPGBML and those between China and Britain. We are ready to work with you to further expand the cooperation in various fronts between our two parties and countries for the benefit of our two peoples. In...

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research   The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky In this expanded edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. The result as his detailed examples from all parts of the world show so convincingly, is a globalization of poverty. This book is a skillful combination of lucid explanation and cogently argued critique of the fundamental directions in which our world is moving financially and economically. In this new enlarged edition – which includes ten new chapters and a new int...

NOVANEWS Posted by Paul Eise

NOVANEWS Some years ago I attended the Socialist Workers Party 'Summer School' which takes place annually in London. I was really impressed - with their scholarship, their organisation and their commitment - impressed that is, right up till the very last day. On that last day they held a rally in Friends Meeting House. It was okay - the 'Politburo' on the stage, the usual tedious speakers - much like the average PSC event. When suddenly (I think my attention must have wandered for a moment), the whole lot of them leaped to their feet and yelled in unison: "The workers united will never be defeated!  The workers united will never be defeated!" That was it. I left, never to return. Similarly, if I'd lived in National Socialist Germany I'd have hated it for the same reason that l left that ...

NOVANEWS A few weeks ago I posted The Hayward Thesis  and remarked that it was my favourite Holocaust revisionist text. I also mentioned that, under pressure, Hayward recanted. I would no more believe Hayward saying, under pressure, that millions perished in gas chambers than I would have believed Galileo, also under pressure, saying that the sun went round the earth. I don't believe it and I don't believe Hayward (or Galileo for that matter) believed it either. Still, this piece by Thomas Fudge describes and evaluates some of that pressure and, after you've read it, you can read what happened to Thomas Fudge. This all happened over ten years ago but it's still happening now so, we might also ask ourselves, how long are people going to put up with this? The Fate of Joel Hayward in New Ze...

NOVANEWS History is written by the victors so this revisionist narrative of the Second World War is very different from what I was taught in school. As always, I'm no historian, so I can't with any certainty, vouch for the absolute historical accuracy of this or any text. But in any event, it's a point of view that should be heard. It begins with a short sequence of Angela Merkel opening the seventieth-year commemoration of the start of the war. As a Jew (dread phrase), and therefore a member of the oppressing tribe, I don’t comment on the doings of our victims whether that is the Palestinians and their leaders or, as in this case, the Germans. But I hope German readers and others will have plenty to say. Posted by Paul Eisen