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5Jun

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Politics, United Kingdom

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. Proletarian writers 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...

5Jun

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Health, Politics

Dilemma of the covid crash vultures

Having maximised indebtedness in order to avoid paying taxes, vulture capitalists now find they are missing out on state aid during the crisis. Proletarian writers Whilst workers are driven to their wits’ end trying to make ends meet and keep their families safe through the current health emergency, spare a thought for the trials and tribulations endured by those private equity firms that specialise in buying up troubled companies, stripping their assets, sacking their workforce and then leaving them burdened with enormous debts, earning for themselves the title of vulture capitalists. Such private equity dealings reach fever pitch during the crisis of overproduction when footloose capital, starved of opportunities for productive investment, instead indulges i...

Extraordinary Disconnect Between Stock Prices and Economic Collapse

5Jun

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Literature, Politics, World

Extraordinary Disconnect Between Stock Prices and Economic Collapse

By Stephen Lendman US equity prices are near or at all-time highs at a time of unprecedented economic collapse, a festering main street Depression, unemployment way higher than in the 1930s, with no prospect for a V-shaped recovery, only its illusion. The Wall Street owned and controlled Fed is responsible for the extraordinary melt-up in stock valuations, money printing madness to blame — saving the stock market at the expense of the economy and welfare of ordinary Americans. For the first time in US history, the Fed’s balance sheet exceeds $7 trillion. It’s up from around $250 billion in the late 1980s and $750 billion in late December 2007, the onset of the 2008-09 financial crisis — a colossal example of mismanagement, an eventual price to pay for what’s going on. Wall St...

4Jun

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Literature, Politics

Harpal Brar: Long live Leninism!

Why does Lenin hold such an honoured position in the lexicon of socialist leaders? A century later, what can we learn from his teachings? Harpal Brar 22 April this year marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the inspirer of the great proletarian socialist revolution in Russia, the leader of the Russian and world proletariat. We publish this article in tribute to his earth-shaking contribution to the cause of world proletarian revolution and the struggle for the overthrow of world imperialism. ***** VI Lenin fought all his life against opportunism in the working-class movement, in Russia as well as in the west. He exposed and fought against the German socialist Kautsky’s degeneration into opportunism, making a concrete analysis of ever...

Beyond Nuclear Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging High-Level Radioactive Waste Dump for Entire Inventory of US “Spent” Reactor Fuel

4Jun

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Beyond Nuclear Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging High-Level Radioactive Waste Dump for Entire Inventory of US “Spent” Reactor Fuel

By Beyond Nuclear Today the non-profit organization Beyond Nuclear filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit requesting review of an April 23, 2020 order and an October 29, 2018 order by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), rejecting challenges to Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance’s application to build a massive “consolidated interim storage facility” (CISF) for nuclear waste in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec proposes to store as much as 173,000 metric tons of highly radioactive irradiated or “spent” nuclear fuel – more than twice the amount of spent fuel currently stored at U.S. nuclear power reactors – in shallowly buried containers on the site. But according to Beyon...

31May

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Health, Politics, World

From Plague to a Livable World

by EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The 2020 corona virus pandemic is not merely killing countless people. It is also having invisible but deleterious effects: psychological, political, and intellectual. Some people cannot cope with the severe economic effects of the plague, the constant barrage of bad news, and of being alone and isolated. They probably commit suicide. Others enter realms of fantasy and conspiracy. And still others, who know how to oil the wheels of power and influence, are taking advantage of America’s corrupt Trump administration. It’s like we are back to the dark ages when religious superstition, oppression, ignorance and oligarchy dominated life and politics. In 2020, our first sense that things are wrong is our “distancing” fro...

30May

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Human Rights, Politics, United Kingdom

UK: Police force faces inquiries over tasering of black men

Neil Johnston, Midlands Correspondent The police watchdog has promised to investigate allegations of racially motivated brutality by England’s second biggest force. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said that it was carrying out nine “full, fair and thorough” inquiries into officers at West Midlands police over use of force on black men. The investigations are connected to six incidents in Birmingham, including claims black men were wrongly tasered by a rogue officer, the watchdog said. The investigation began last month after video emerged of an officer beating a 15-year-old boy in Newtown on April 21. The officer was suspended after he appeared to knock the boy down with a punch before kicking him. It emerged that the previous day the same officer had been fi...

29May

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Palestine: Resisting the Nazi annexation

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr “when they demolished it the first time, my wife and children started screaming and crying. Next minute they were pushing soldiers around and challenging them”... Stories of native Palestinians who have no choice but to resist. Qassam Muaddi For a week now, Palestinians are supposed to be free of all agreements signed with ‘Israel’, according to the Palestinian president’s declarations in response to the occupation state’s announcement of annexing parts of the West Bank, coming July. While this supposed break-up and the accompanying EU and UN warning declarations, once more, show no concrete effects on the ground, Israeli annexation plans do. Occupation authorities have been issuing eviction orders to Palestinians living in the areas threatened...

Leftist Perspectives on Zoom: Socialist Struggle while Social Distancing

29May

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Leftist Perspectives on Zoom: Socialist Struggle while Social Distancing

by JACK WAREHAM - DYLAN BURGOON Photograph Source: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Scalable Grid Engine – CC0 Social distancing regulations have made video-chatting a necessity for many students, office workers, and anyone interested in maintaining their relationships while quarantined. No one foresaw that video-chatting software would receive such a large boost in popularity in 2020—least of all Zoom Video Communications, a Silicon Valley-based tech corporation that, in the past few months, has seen a $1 billion valuation turn into a $40.3 billion market cap. Zoom’s stock market frenzy was so rapid that many investors didn’t take the time to check the tickers: a penny-stock company called ZOOM Technologies, completely unrelated to the popular teleconferencing software, ...

The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism

28May

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Politics

The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism

by: WALDEN BELLO Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The morning will comeWhen the world is mine.Tomorrow belongs to me!From Cabaret In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging. One is that the emergency necessitates extraordinary measures, but the basic structure of production and consumption is sound, and the problem lies only in determining the moment when things can return to “normal.” One might say that this is the dominant opinion among political and business elites. Representative of this outlook is the infamous Goldman Sachs-sponsored teleconference involving scores of stock market players in mid-March of this year, which concluded that “there is no systemic risk. No one is even talking about that. Gove...