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Condemn the demolition of monuments to the WW2 victory over Nazism!

11Apr

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Germany, Russia, USA, World

Condemn the demolition of monuments to the WW2 victory over Nazism!

History is being rewritten and Soviet sacrifices are being desecrated as hundreds of WW2 memorials are dismantled across the Baltics. Party statement The imperialists have for decades been pushing a rewritten version of history that equates fascism with communism and ascribes any number of imaginary ‘crimes’ to the Soviet victors of WW2, who are presented as somehow having been ‘as bad as’ the vicious Nazi occupiers. The intense russobia that has accompanied the Ukraine war has furnished an excuse for the latest offensive in this propaganda campaign, with hundreds of war memorials all over the Baltics being targeted for demolition. The following joint statement was initiated by the Baltic Platform and has been signed by our party. ***** The ruling political forces in the&nb...

2023: Changing the world is still possible

17Jan

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World

2023: Changing the world is still possible

Looking ahead: We are not doomed to define ourselves by a ‘human condition’ in which change is not possibleImage Credit: Pixabay When the news-stand of Giuseppe Trani was swept away by massive flooding that devastated the southern Italian town of Casamicciola, near Naples, the 70-year-old man lost everything. Not for long, though, as the townsfolk, who were also affected by the flooding and landslides experienced throughout the whole region, raised the needed funds to help Trani rebuild his kiosk. It is incorrect, let alone unfair and fatalistic, to associate the ‘human condition’ with nothing but greed, selfishness and propensity to violence. Though a case can be made for the latter, especially in 2022 — where our collective self-awareness was largely shaped by war, famine and d...

After Repeated Interest Rate Hikes, IMF Warns a Third of World Will Suffer Recession in 2023

16Jan

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World

After Repeated Interest Rate Hikes, IMF Warns a Third of World Will Suffer Recession in 2023

International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva speaks at the IMF Women's Forum on July 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Cory Hancock/IMF/flickr/cc) With the world's three largest economies slowing down, said the IMF managing director, economic conditions will "feel like recession for hundreds of millions of people" this year. JULIA CONLEY After numerous warnings in recent months from economists and economic justice advocates alike that repeated interest rate hikes could help send the world into a recession, the International Monetary Fund is warning that a third of the global economy will likely face a downturn in 2023. With the world's three largest economies—the United States, European Union, and China—"all slowing down simultaneously," I...

Metaphors of Belligerence: Wars by and Against Nature

13Jan

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USA, World

Metaphors of Belligerence: Wars by and Against Nature

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photo by Zac Durant Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else. – Aristotle, Poetics (1457b) It all seemed familiar. Anthropomorphised Mother Nature in vengeful mood; humans wondering if they might meet a frozen demise in trapped vehicles; the planners taking stock as to how best to cope with grim circumstances. The New York State governor Kathy Hochul was happy to stick her head out in declaring the latest lethal winter storm in Buffalo to be nothing less than a “war with Mother Nature, and she has been hitting us with everything she has.” Having found her less than imaginative metaphor, the governor ran with it, suggesting that Mother Nature had laid waste to the region around Bu...

Envisioning a World Without Nuclear Weapons

13Jan

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World

Envisioning a World Without Nuclear Weapons

BY PATRICIA HYNES Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair January 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global lifeboat supported by 70% of the world’s countries. Meanwhile, the US Department of Energy’s 2023 budget request for nuclear weapons’ upgrade is more than $21 billion and close to $8 billion for radioactive and chemical cleanup at nuclear weapon sites across the country. Stack this up against the same department’s 2023 budget for energy efficiency and renewable energy – $4 billion – and we see the future: weapons trump wind turbines; war worsens climate crisis. Moreover, the government’s budget has no line items for the massive existential costs of nuclear weapons, three of which are described her...

OBITUARY – Jose María Sisón, 8 February 1939 – 16 December 2022

10Jan

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World

OBITUARY – Jose María Sisón, 8 February 1939 – 16 December 2022

The veteran revolutionary anti-imperialist fighter, Comrade Jose Maria Sison, passed away on 16 December 2022. LALKAR sends its condolences to his family, comrades and friends. His life and his work are best summed up in his own words, uttered during an interview he gave in January 2021 to Comrade Steve Sweeney for the Morning Star newspaper. On being asked to explain about his background, how he became politically active, and his subsequent life, he answered thus: “While I was a graduate student and instructor in English language and literature at the University of the Philippines in 1959, I opposed the McCarthyite witch-hunt being conducted by reactionary members of Congress. “Faculty members and students were accused of violating the anti-subversion law be...

Microchips and monopoly – a new front in the global struggle

10Jan

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World

Microchips and monopoly – a new front in the global struggle

As a key driver of manufacturing and technological progress, bourgeois economists are paying increasing attention to the development and manufacture of the new generations of semiconductor microprocessors, and they are not alone. The legislators and ruling class of the chief imperialist powers, in particular the USA and Britain, ever keen to stifle the rise of China as an economic competitor, are seeking to leverage their technological advantage in this field to preserve their otherwise ebbing global economic and military hegemony. “A world war was declared on 7 October [2022]. No news station reported on it, even though we will all have to suffer its effects. That day, the Biden administration launched a technological offensive against China, placing stringent limits...

A Gloomy 2023? Here Are Some Bright Spots

2Jan

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World

A Gloomy 2023? Here Are Some Bright Spots

By Ron Paul The prospects for peace, justice, and the advancement of liberty in 2023 may at first seem further away than ever. Washington’s determination to overthrow the Russian government via a proxy war in Ukraine has brought the threat of nuclear war closer than ever in history. The mainstream media is even “normalizing” the idea that a nuclear attack on the US is really no big deal. Yahoo News wrote yesterday that a “public health expert” is “concerned” that Americans are not sufficiently prepared for nuclear bombs hitting major US cities! The Yahoo article even links to a FEMA-authored “nuclear detonation planning guide” to help us better get through a barrage of nuclear missiles. Are they insane? They act as if a nuclear attack on the United States ...

The West and the Majority World – Repression Versus Openness

1Jan

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World

The West and the Majority World – Repression Versus Openness

The majority world (in red) | Photo: Stephen Sefton Since its inception, the leaders of the ALBA countries have denounced North American and European imperialism's brutal exploitation and domination and its gangster diplomacy of “Do what we want or else...”. By Stephen Sefton In 2004, Comandante Fidel Castro and Comandante Hugo Chávez founded what is now the Bolivarian Alliance of the peoples of our America, ALBA which now includes Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the Caribbean island nations of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda and Santa Lucía. A year earlier, in 2003, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formally constituted, which now includes China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekis...

This Year’s Top 10 Global Climate Disasters Each Cost Over $3 Billion

27Dec

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World

This Year’s Top 10 Global Climate Disasters Each Cost Over $3 Billion

An aerial view of Ft. Myers Beach, Florida taken after Hurricane Ian shows homes, businesses, and property destroyed by the storm. (Photo: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images). Christian Aid said its new report is "hopefully a wake-up call for politicians to take urgent climate action in 2023." BRETT WILKINS A faith-based coalition's annual report on the economic impact of climate-driven natural disasters revealed Tuesday that each of the costliest extreme weather events of 2022 caused more than $3 billion in damage. The report—entitled Counting the Cost 2022: A Year of Climate Breakdown—was published by Christian Aid, a London-based relief agency of over 40 U.K. and Irish churches seeking more urgent climate action by Global North nations, wh...