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Release Georges Abdallah: a demand for justice!

26Oct

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France, Human Rights, Politics

Release Georges Abdallah: a demand for justice!

Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rabab Abdulhadi, and several Members of European Parliament join hundreds more in calling for the release of Georges Abdallah who has been imprisoned in France for almost 37 years. BY OPEN LETTER PROTEST IN LANNEMEZAN, FRANCE, OUTSIDE THE JAIL WHERE GEORGES ABDALLAH IS HELD. (PHOTO: COLLECTIF PALESTINE VAINCR) Georges Ibrahim Abdallah is a Lebanese communist of Maronite Christian origin, imprisoned in France for almost 37 years. Why? How is a Lebanese man arrested in 1984 in Lyon still in French prisons despite the fact that he has been eligible for release for 22 years? As a teacher in northern Lebanon in the 1970s, Georges Abdallah worked with the Palestinian people and against colonization. He left his region as a young man to jo...

What Are the Prospects for Peace? An Interview With Abby Martin

23Oct

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Politics, USA

What Are the Prospects for Peace? An Interview With Abby Martin

BY JOHN RACHEL Events are unfolding at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we are looking to our most respected and renowned thought leaders for an honest assessment of both U.S. foreign and military policy to offer their most current thoughts and insights. We know they have some ideas for improving the prospects for peace. Abby Martin is an American journalist, TV presenter and activist. She helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored. She hosted Breaking the Set on the Russian state-sponsored network RT America from 2012 to 2015, and then launched The Empire Files in th...

Empty Gestures or Substantive Change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents

22Oct

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Politics

Empty Gestures or Substantive Change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents

BY RAMZY BAROUD Photograph Source: PalFest – originally posted to Flickr as Abulrazak Gurnah on Hebron Panel – CC BY 2.0 The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if intellectual creativity is largely confined to Western intellectual circles. It is premature to suggest that the Academy has finally decided to break away from its ethnocentric past and genuinely embrace the incredible literature constantly originating from the Global South. One can be excused for appearing too cynical – after all, since its inception in 1901, over 80% of those who have received the award hail from Europe and N...

How the “debt ceiling” has been turned into a weapon against workers

19Oct

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Politics, USA

How the “debt ceiling” has been turned into a weapon against workers

Katie Miernicki Download PDF flyer Photo: Treasury Department headquarters, credit — Florian Hirzinger With passage of the physical infrastructure bill and social program budget deferred as a result of the intransigence of right-wing Democrats, and with a government shutdown averted until December, Congress’ attention is increasingly turning to the “debt ceiling.” This refers to when the federal government reaches the legal maximum of money it is allowed to borrow and needs to ask Congress for an increase. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the country is now just weeks away from hitting the debt ceiling. Yellen predicts that the U.S. government will run out of money on October 18, although different factors could cause the borrowing limit to be reached seve...

Appeal to organisations and representatives of the conscious and organised communist movement around the world

18Oct

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Politics, World

Appeal to organisations and representatives of the conscious and organised communist movement around the world

Appeal to organisations and representatives of the conscious and organised communist movement around the world to send messages and video messages of solidarity to the Factory Collective and to the workers of the GKN factory in Campi Bisenzio (Florence – Italy). On 9 July 2021 the speculative British private equity firm Melrose notified through WhatsApp each of the 490 employees of its subsidiary engineering company GKN that they had been fired because the company was closing down. But workers have risen in rebellion. The GKN factory in Florence has a long history: it has been in existence since 1939. Until 1994 it belonged to FIAT (the Italian car manufacturer). Since then, it has passed from owner to owner, remaining a company that produces components for automotive companies,...

A critique of “Britain’s Road to Socialism” in the 21st century – The Programme of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) – PART THREE

17Oct

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Politics, United Kingdom

A critique of “Britain’s Road to Socialism” in the 21st century – The Programme of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) – PART THREE

Alternative economic and political strategy “This struggle against the policies of British state-monopoly capitalism can open the road to socialism, although any strategy for such fundamental change must be able to outline the distinct stages of revolutionary transformation. This in turn raises the question of how a popular, democratic anti-monopoly alliance would seek political power, including the role of elections and governments” (BRS p.45). “The Communist Party does not advocate separation, because it would fracture working class and progressive unity in the face of a largely united ruling capitalist class.” – but seeks to work with, please and praise the separatist parties! Once cannot run with the fox and hunt with the hounds. The ‘fight on three fronts’ (econ...

Scandalous level of public service corruption in Britain

17Oct

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Politics, United Kingdom

Scandalous level of public service corruption in Britain

Transparency International, TI, the creators of annual reports on corruption worldwide, define corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.” Unfortunately, TI only deals with perceptions, gleaned from public surveys etc., of corruption in national and local government and the judiciary of a given country. This means that the continual and multitudinous corruption facilitated by imperialist powers in foreign countries (whether those countries be their own satellites, those dominated by imperialist rivals, or generally anti-imperialist countries) are not really covered when they compare various countries, and this omission can even lead to corruption from an imperialist source being perceived as corruption emanating from the target country itself. ...

17Oct

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Politics

CPGB-ML’s reply to the lies and slanders of the CPB

In his letter to all the members of the Working Party of the International Conference of Communist and Workers’ Parties, dated 1 September 2008, John Foster, International Secretary of the CPB (Communist Party of Britain) stated that the International Department of the KKE (Communist Party of Greece) had requested the CPB, as “one of the two recognised Communist parties in Britain, to draw up a report giving our assessment of the application of the CPGB(ML) for membership ahead of the meetings of the working party this autumn at which the issue will be discussed”, adding that “this report is now attached”. (This Report by John Foster appears on the website of the CPGB-ML) Before proceeding with our detailed treatment of the CPB’s said report, let it be remarked in passing ...

Arizona Mystery: Did Cyber Ninjas Botch Another 2020 Presidential Recount Attempt?

30Sep

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Politics, USA

Arizona Mystery: Did Cyber Ninjas Botch Another 2020 Presidential Recount Attempt?

BY STEVEN ROSENFELD Did the Cyber Ninjas botch another attempt to recount Maricopa County’s 2020 presidential ballots—an attempt that, so far, has escaped wide media coverage? It appears, at the very least, that a contract signed on July 28 by the Cyber Ninjas—the lead contractor in the Arizona Senate Republicans’ election review—and Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, a Boston-based technologist and unsuccessful GOP U.S. Senate candidate, indicated that all 2020 election results would be tallied by August—and that deadline has now been missed. An Arizona Republic report about Dr. Shiva, as he is known on social media, and the contract quoted Randy Pullen, the Senate review’s spokesman, as saying that Ayyadurai’s tally of the votes on digital images o...

Not a single vote for United Russia! RSM statement on the Duma elections & Mikhail Lobanov’s candidacy

25Sep

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Politics, Russia

Not a single vote for United Russia! RSM statement on the Duma elections & Mikhail Lobanov’s candidacy

by Russian Socialist Movement (RSD) On the eve of this fall’s parliamentary elections, the room for political manoeuvre before our Russian comrades (and all other opposition forces) has shrunk to a bare minimum. In these circumstances, engagement with other opposition forces in a broad front against the party-state appears the only option. Mikhail Lobanov’s parliamentary candidacy via the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) is one particular focal point of the Russian Socialist Movement’s (RSD) electoral strategy. To this end, we publish RSD’s statement on the elections (also available in Russian). The September 19 Russian State Duma elections will be very different from previous ones. On the one hand, they will take place against a background of a rapid declin...