1,000 Dead Taliban In Syria

Kavita Krishnan, AIPWA: "Freedom Without Fear Is What We Need"

THE INTERNATIONAL UNITY OF THE COMMUNISTS REQUIRES THE DEFEAT OF AVAKIANIST REVISIONISM, CENTRISM AND ALL FORMS OF REVISIONISM!

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A year ago, nine parties and organizations communist of several countries proclaimed in a joint statement: The International Unity of Communists requires the Defeat of revisionism and centrism!.

Once again they denounced the revisionist betrayal of the revolution in Nepal, they recognized the collapse the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement as leading center, rejecting the revisionist theory of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA that they led that movement to bankruptcy. They called the Marxist Leninist Maoists to fight for the international unity of the communists demolishing the false revisionist theories and eclectic positions of centrism, tracing a deep demarcation between Marxism and opportunism across the general line of the international communist movement as a firm basis for unity to build the new International.

Following that correct line today in this new birth anniversary of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, teacher in an irreconcilable struggle against opportunism, we denounce the so called Avakian's new synthesis, adopted in 2008 by the Revolutionary Communist Party, United States (RCP,USA) as a form of revisionism, the main danger in our time for the unity of the International Communist Movement.

Fight Violence Against Women Across the Country- Viplav Sanskritik Manch

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December 29, 2012

FIGHT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY!

The horrific gang-rape of a young student in the Munirka-Mahipalpur area on December 16th has sparked off wide protests in Delhi. Thousands of people, young and old, have congregated at police stations, India Gate and the CM’s residence expressing their outrage at the brutal incident and the government and police’s lax attitude.

But instead of sensitively listening to people demanding ‘justice’ for the young woman, the Delhi government has created an Emergency like situation and attacked protestors with tear gas, smoke grenades, water cannons and lathi charge! It is heartening to see that common people have braved the systematic force used by the government and still collected in the area. Women with young children, elderly people, families on a Sunday outing, young girls in a discussion on violence they face, activists, journalists-were indiscriminately beaten up by the Delhi Police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) at India Gate on 22-23 December. Metro stations around India Gate are closed and Section 144, which prohibits the assembly of more than 5 people in a public space, has been applied in the area. It’s striking to see the government acting so swiftly and efficiently against peaceful protestors, when during riots, emergencies or when common people are harassed, they are nowhere to be found.

The Fed Targets Unemployment With More Money for Banks

Does the E.U. Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Critics Condemn Role in Bruta

Was the Bangladesh Factory FIre Caused by a Cost-Benefit Analysis?

Partho talk in Columbus part:http://www.youtube.com/user/SanhatiCollective?

The Famished Architects of Shining India

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December 1, 2012

by Tathagatha Sengupta

At first sight, the main underlying reasons for the phenomenon of seasonal mass migration from western Orissa to Andhra Pradesh and other southern states could be ascribed to inadequate rainfall leading to agricultural crises. Most of these areas, covered by the so-called KBK (Koraput-Bolangir-Kalahandi) districts allow only one crop per year. This means migration of a highly impoverished population of about 4 lakh people every year under desperate economic conditions, mainly to the urban centers and thereabouts of Andhra Pradesh, to work in the numerous brick kilns and construction works. Although the role of nature behind this annual catastrophe can not be denied, but as one digs deeper into the socio-economic and political conditions of this region, other man-made factors emerge that are quite hard to ignore.

Tale of Three Villages
Let us look into the case studies of a few villages in Bolangir district. The village of Ganjaura (Turrekela block), deep inside a reserve forest, is inhabited mainly by tribal families, and a few dalit and OBC households. The village was formed around 1865, and vanished temporarily around 1932-35 when people left following a massive cholera attack. It was resettled again in 1965. The forest department of independent India used to effectively rule this village till 2 years back, before the officers fled from this area out of the fear of CPI (Maoist) squads. The end of their dictatorship was marked by an incident in 2009 when a drunken forest officer, with a few forest guards, visited the village during a village meeting and started abusing the people. The women of the village retaliated, and beat up the forest officer and his cohorts, to the point that the officer actually defecated in his pants, and ran off.

"Boycott Elections!" International Significance of the Slogan

Published:  Liberation, December 1968
Source: Selected Works of Charu Mazumdar
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The year was 1937. German, Italian and Japanese fascism, the three advanced detachments of world imperialism, were conspiring to redivide the world among themselves. German and Italian fascism intruded on the stage of Spain as active supporters of General Franco.The world working class came out in support of the united front government of Spain, and an International Brigade was formed with people who came from different countries. But unfortunately Franco succeeded in smashing the resistance put up by the International Brigade and in imposing his brand of fascism on Spain.

Just at that time, the Communist Party of China headed by Chairman Mao liberated a small area, Yenan, and stood up to oppose Japanese militarism. Not only that. It smashed all the boasts of Japanese militarism and began to create one liberated zone after another by rousing the poor peasants in the Japanese-occupied areas. These liberated zones not only survived the fierce Japanese attacks but also struck back hard at Japanese imperialism. At that time the Communist Party of China headed by Chairman Mao Tse-tung had not only to fight Japanese imperialism but also had to resist the reactionary Kuomintang government led by Chiang.

Then the Second World War broke out. The colonies of the older imperialist powers crumbled like a house of cards. The colonial people saw before their eyes how the so-called powerful imperialist powers fled before Japanese aggression like a dog beaten and with its tail between its legs. German fascism brought all the imperialist powers of entire Europe (excepting the British) under its heels through its superior military technique and strength. The old imperialist powers proved unable to meet the onslaught of fascism. With the entire industrial wealth and resources of Europe at their disposal, the power-drunk German fascists launched an aggression against the Soviet Union, the only state at that time where the working class held power. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union headed by the great Stalin soon recovered from the initial shock of this treacherous surprise attack and mobilized the entire Soviet people, imbued them with the sacred determination to defend the country and smashed all the boasts of the German fascist hordes. The defeat inflicted on German fascism in the battlefield of Stalingrad ensured the victory of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Stalin. The example of the great Communist Party of China inspired the world's people wherever they were oppressed by fascism and they rose arms in hand to oppose fascism and established rural base areas in order to fight it. That is how world fascism was destroyed. After the war when the old imperialists tried to reestablish their exploitation and rule, the wrath of the people of the colonial world, who had been roused and had realized their own strength, spread like a wild fire and the flames of armed struggle spread through the colonies and semi-colonies. At the time when the Communist Party of China led by Chairman Mao was advancing towards a decisive victory, there emerged in India, Telengana, where, under the leadership of the communist revolutionaries, a peasant guerrilla force was formed, hundreds of thousands of peasants were roused with the spirit of revolutionary resistance, and hundreds of villages were liberated.

No Peace without Justice - Support the Jaffna Students defend Tamil rights

We strongly condemn the Sri Lankan Military repression of a student Demonstration in Jaffna on Remeberance Day.

The continued rule by the Sri Lankan Military in Tamil areas is an insult to democracy as are the Sri Lankan Governments continued Land Grabs of Tamil Lands.

There can be no peace without justice.

We urge the people of Sri Lanka and our Tamil comrades to reject bourgeois nationalism with its pro imperialist movements and especially Indian expansionism .

The nature of any genuine nationalist movement should be anti capitalist and anti-imperialist.

The Sri Lankan Tamils fight for their self determination and should join the worlds anti-capitalist anti-imperialist movements.

Capitalist Global Imperialism planned the Tamils Genocide hand in hand with Indian expansioniism.

They fed Sri Lankan fascist president Rajapaksha.

We urge the Tamils who have a social conscience in the diaspora to take your place in the anti-imperialist movement thorough out the world.

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We urge the Left in Sri Lanka to also reject the anti marxist bourgeois cosmopolitanism that rejects the right of self determination for the Tamil people.

With a new anti imperialist revolutionary leadership coming forward in the Tamil community and the Singhalese Left rejecting bourgeois cosmopolitanism then a new chapter can be written in Sri Lankan history with the unity and harmony of all its people's.

Without class struggle against imperialism and its local cliques the Tamils will never achieve self determination and the Singhalese Left without rejecting bourgeois cosmopolitanism create their own barrier to a successful Tamil/Singhalese struggle for a better life for all working people..

Smash the twin evils of bourgeois cosmopolitanism and bourgeois nationalism - forward to a Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

March 26th Movement - British Isles

Democracy and Class Struggle - Wales

Pan- Afrikan Voice - London

Great Unrest Group - Wales

See Also : http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/protest-and-boycott-against-military.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-uns-grave-failure-in-sri-lanka.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/genesis-of-sinhala-tamil-conflict-by.html

Naxalbari has not died and it will never die.:Long Live the Heroic Peasants in Naxalbari!

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The social system that exists in India is semi-feudal and semi-colonial. So the democratic revolution in this country means agrarian revolution. All the problems of India are related to this one task. On this question of agrarian revolution there has been difference of opinion in Marxist circles from the beginning of this century and among Marxists the struggle between the two policies-the one revolutionary and the other counter-revolutionary-continues. The Mensheviks side-tracked the question of State power and searched for a solution in municipalization. Lenin declared a crusade against it and said that it was not possible to solve the problem by side-tracking the question of State power. He showed that however progressive the legislation framed by one might be, the present State structure could not implement it. The condition of the peasant will remain the same. That was why he said that only the democratic State of workers and peasants, led by the working class, could solve this problem. Only the other day even the Soviet Party writer, Yudin, while criticizing Nehru's Basic Approach, said that Nehru had not till then been able to solve the peasant problem. He challenged Nehru to show, in practice, how this problem could be solved in a peaceful way and added that Nehru would fail to do so. History has proved that, far from solving this problem, Nehru was not able even to bring about an iota of change.

Genesis of the Sinhala - Tamil Conflict by N.Sanmugathasan

It is just as well, at this point to study the communal problem as it arose at that time.

One of the main reasons why the Tamils occupied a better place in the government service and the professions under British rule than the Sinhalese did was due to the head start they had in the sphere of learning English although this was by accident and not design.

The American Ceylon Mission was started in the Jaffna peninsula by the American Methodist Missionaries in 1816. In her very recent book, "Communal politics under the Donoughmore Constitution" Jane Russell gives a good account of the services rendered by these missionaries to education in Jaffna.

According to her, the reason why the Mission chose Jaffna as the focus of its activities was because "the colonial government was anxious to avoid a clash with the English Missions and partly because its strategic position was the key to India which was the Mission's main target".

By 1822, 42 schools staffed by Americans who were fluent in Tamil, had been established in the peninsula. In 1823, was set up the Batticotta (not to be confused with Batticaloa) Seminary at Vaddukoddai. This was the first English school in Asia. It was a free boarding school whose standard has been compared to that of a University, It taught English, Tamil prose, Mathematics, Greek, Latin History, Geography and. Philosophy.

Capitalism Is The Crisis (Full Movie)

Egypt on verge of New Revolution

Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 7 (December 2012)

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The Editors

  

» NOTES FROM THE EDITORS

As we write these notes at the beginning of November climate change is once again in the headlines in the United States and around the world. This is because of the devastating impact of Hurricane Sandy, not only on islands in the Caribbean, but also on the northeastern United States and particularly New York and New Jersey, with the impact of the storm dramatized by the damage to New York City. Coincidentally almost twenty-five years ago it was a heat wave experienced in New York, coinciding with climatologist James Hansen’s famous testimony to Congress, that first made global warming a public issue, and increasingly an international one with the formation that year of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Whether Hurricane Sandy’s destruction in New York and New Jersey will lead to a similar elevation of climate change as a public issue this time around remains to be seen.

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SPEECH FROM THE GALICIAN COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT PEOPLE´S WAR IN INDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE OF THE MAOIST COMMUNIST PARTY OF GALICIA (SPANISH STATE) ADDRESSED AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF PEOPLE´ S WAR IN INDIA (HAMBURG, 24 NOVEMBER 2012)

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Comrades,

A warm red salute from Galicia.

For the comrades that are part of this delegation, it is an honor to be able to address those participating and assert that, from this small country without state, from theFinisterrae of Europe, there are women and men that look with happiness the victories of the masses that today in India carry out revolutionary people´s war.

That learn from their struggle and how they carry out the application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete conditions of revolution. There are men and women who firmly support the Indian sister people and work to apply also the road to revolution to the concrete conditions of Galicia.

We send our greetings to the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the heroic detachment who leads this glorious struggle which cannot be crushed no matter what sort of crimes are carried out against the people by the reactionaries.

A heartfelt lal salam in memory of comrade Azad, of comrade Kishenyi, that together with thousands of sons and daughters of the people, are today flames of the people´s liberation, of the people´s war that moves forward in spite of the repressive and criminal actions like Operation Green Hunt.

Extremist groups vs. Islam-Islam and Life-12-06-2012

Conflict in Egypt, Agendas of the Oppressors… And the Need for Another Way

by Alan Goodman | December 9, 2012 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

Massive protests are sweeping Egypt, and many people who are part of them have aspirations for real liberation from oppression. At the same time, right now the terms of what is possible in Egypt are far too much defined by the interests of competing oppressive agendas, and a whole other way is needed to liberate Egypt. AP Photo

Massive protests are sweeping Egypt, triggered by Egyptian President Morsi’s November 11 decree that, among other things, radically restricted the role of Egypt’s judiciary. While it is difficult to get a clear picture of the forces in the field, they appear to represent a wide range of interests, agendas, and sections of society, including the ongoing aspirations of the people of Egypt for real liberation from oppression.

At the same time, right now the terms of societal conflict in Egypt are defined in the main by intense contradictions between two sections of the ruling class. Neither of these forces represents anything positive for the millions of Egyptian people who rose up with such inspiring courage in 2011.

The Uprising of 2011

The significance of, and the challenges facing the inspiring uprising in Egypt in 2011 were identified incisively in Bob Avakian’s statement, “Egypt 2011: Millions Have Heroically Stood Up…The Future Remains to be Written.”

That statement begins:

From A World to Win News Service

Bangladesh workers burned alive in death-trap garment factory

December 9, 2012 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

November 26, 2012. A World to Win News Service. On November 24, 121 garment workers died and at least 200 were injured in a fire that spread rapidly throughout the Tazreen Fashions factory in Ashulia, an industrial suburb outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Many of the bodies were burned beyond recognition. Thousands of people flocked to the factory frantically looking for their relatives. Sabina Yasmine, a worker from a nearby factory, found the body of her daughter-in-law. Her son was still missing. ''Where is my son?'' she cried out. ''I want the factory owner to be hanged. For him many have died, many have gone.'' (Associated Press, November 24, 2012) Tazreen's clients include clothing retail giants from the U.S., Europe and Canada.

An electrical shortcircuit seems to have been the cause of the fire. This has been the reason for many other industrial fires, whether the factory building is a more modern one like Tazreen Fashion or an older construction in the heart of congested Dhaka. At Tazreen, there were no outside escape routes, such as exterior fire escapes, even though the building was nine floors high. There were ground floor fire exits, but they were locked.