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11Sep

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Literature, Politics

Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?

‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.’ -- Karl Marx Ranjeet Brar https://youtu.be/v8sqNwPUbB0 In this short video, leading communist Dr Ranjeet Brar speaks to a meeting held in 2018 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth. It’s generally agreed, he says, that Karl Marx had a profound effect on the thinking of humanity. Even a BBC poll at the turn of the century pronounced Marx to be the greatest thinker of the millennium. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, workers were drowned in a deluge of capitalist triumphalism. In Germany, we watched Chancellor Cole hold up a copy of VI Lenin‘s Imperialism and Marx’s Capital before dramat...

The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

10Sep

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Politics

The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

We do not advocate and we cannot allow the bourgeoisie to impose this divisive ideology upon us. Proletarian writers The following speech was delivered by a central committee member to the party’s eighth congress in September. This is a very interesting debate, comrades. I find it both encouraging and discouraging at the same time. Why are we having this debate? I would like to say that I agree with motion 8. It’s quite clear that this is an issue which is causing genuine confusion – and not only in our party. Our party is the reflection of society, and so if it is confusing us, you can be sure there is a far greater confusion outside our ranks – and that, if you like, is why we’re having this debate. While I am sympathetic with the arguments put forward by t...

The blatant hypocrisy of the USA’s lies about China’s Uighur muslims

10Sep

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Campaigns, China, Politics, USA

The blatant hypocrisy of the USA’s lies about China’s Uighur muslims

Why are we still expected to pay any attention to the imperialists’ neverending barrage of fake news? Ella Rule Uighur muslims study at a re-education centre. The Chinese government is combining economic development of the area with vocational training courses to make sure that locals have better options and are less likely to be pulled in by the lies of imperialism’s jihadi-recruiting proxies. Imperialist powers feeling threatened by the rise of China are relentless in their disinformation campaigns designed to foment unrest and weaken China internally, as well as to undermine its international support. The crocodile tears splashed with monotonous regularity all over the bourgeois media concerning supposed human rights abuses against China’s Uighur muslim minority are ver...

Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

10Sep

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Politics, Russia, Ukraine

Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

The same old tired lies are being recycled under the guise of ‘fresh evidence’ in order to remind workers they must not think about taking state power. Proletarian writers A new film, Mr Jones, is receiving rave reviews from the corporate media, praised for bringing to life a forgotten Welsh hero who helped expose supposed Stalinist crimes in Ukraine. Nothing, however, is said of the fact that his journey to Soviet Ukraine began and ended in Nazi Germany, where he was the guest of Adolf Hitler. Mr Jones – coming to a cinema near you Presented as a mere ‘Welsh journalist’, Gareth Jones was not in fact anything like your average correspondent for the South Wales Echo. Jones was a well-educated Cambridge graduate, reputedly with family links to Ukraine, a multilingual onetime...

10Sep

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Politics

Why gay rights is not a class issue

It is not ‘homophobic’ for socialists to focus their attention on those contradictions that concern the whole working class in its struggle for socialism. Ella Rule Judith Gough, British Ambassador to Ukraine, at Pride Kiev 2017, shows how gay rights are used by the bourgeoisie as she claims it to be "Another step forward for equality in Ukraine". This text is an excerpt from a speech made by a member of the central committee to the party’s eighth congress in September. The speech was part of a long discussion on the topic of identity politics in general and LGBT+ activism in particular. At the end of the discussion, the central committee’s emergency motion on identity politics was overwhelmingly adopted by the congress. Other motions on the topic, as...

Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle

10Sep

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Politics

Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle

Refuse to allow our movement to be hijacked by hostile class forces! Party statement The following motion was passed overwhelmingly at the party’s eighth congress in September. While being totally opposed to discrimination on grounds of race, sex or sexual proclivity, this congress declares that obsession with identity politics, including sexual politics, is anti-Marxian. Congress therefore resolves that the propagation of identity politics, including LGBT ideology, being reactionary and anti-working class and a harmful distraction and diversion from the class struggle of the proletariat for its social emancipation, is incompatible with membership of the party, rendering those involved in its promotion liable to expulsion. ***** We will be publishing materials to ...

Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

10Sep

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Human Rights, Media, Politics, United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

Craig Murray The following is a slightly shortened version of an account posted earlier this week on Craig Murray’s website, reproduced with thanks. Read Craig’s account of the February extradition hearing. ***** Today, the same corporate media that cried ‘Media freedom’ when Extinction Rebellion blocked the billionaire-owned propaganda presses is silent as Julian Assange’s Calvary for bringing real truth unfiltered to the public moves on to its next station; the macabre Gothic architecture of the Old Bailey. The Tories appeared remarkably tolerant in the days when Extinction Rebellion were causing general disruption to the public. But to threaten the interests of billionaire paymasters is something against which the entire political cl...

9Sep

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Palestine Affairs, Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Pompeo courts Trump’s culture warriors in Jerusalem speech

Josh Ruebner Power Suits With occupied East Jerusalem as his backdrop, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a pitch to President Trump’s Evangelical base. (C-SPAN) In likely violation of US law and State Department regulations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech on Tuesday laced with anti-Chinese racism to the Republican National Convention (RNC). He spoke from outside the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem while on a taxpayer-funded, official diplomatic visit. Texas Representative Joaquin Castro, chair of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, launched an investigation into Pompeo’s speech. Calling it “highly unusual, and likely unprecedented, for a sitting secretary of state to speak at a partisan convent...

9Sep

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Politics, USA

Moves to impeach President Trump

What is the real motivator of all the bile being levelled against Donald Trump? The Democrats can’t possibly be offended by corruption. Lalkar writers On 24 September 2019, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. This in itself is slightly strange as there is already supposed to be an impeachment inquiry into President Trump that was formally started on 12 September by the House Judiciary Committee when it positively voted in a “resolution for investigative procedures”. That, apparently, is needed to guide the committee through an “investigation to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment” – ie, an impeachment inquiry. Moreover, the committee’s chair, Jerry Nadler, is al...

9Sep

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Politics, USA

Bernie Sanders drops out – again

The great hope of the American left leaves his supporters in the lurch, putting his weight behind the establishment choice. Lalkar writers On Wednesday 8 April, Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race to become the Democratic party candidate who will face Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election. This was Mr Sanders’ second time of running to secure the Democrat nomination. Last time, he was stitched up big time by the Democratic party hierarchy, which wanted the arch-warmonger Hilary Clinton, believing that she would ‘walk it’. This time around, Bernie Sanders walked away from the race he had at one point commandingly led because he lost a series of primaries to former vice-president Joe Biden, who is seen by the Democrat great and good as the one to ...