Both Candidates Misleading on Iran and Afghanistan

Nepal: seeds of a new people’s army

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Posted by eric ribellarsi on October 24, 2012

The first convention of the National People’s Volunteers (NPV), a mass fighting force and serve-the-people volunteer organization, has taken place, as thousands of revolutionaries marched through the streets of Kathmandu. The NPV was first formed by Comrade Biplab, a leading members of the Nepali Maoists who has been articulating a program for the continuation of the revolution in Nepal. At this meeting, the leadership of the NPV was transitioned from Biplab to Deepak Chalaune, a former Division Vice Commander of the People’s Liberation Army, an army that now has been dissolved by counter-revolutionary forces in Nepal.

Thousands of former People’s Liberation Army fighters are flocking to the new National People’s Volunteers. Kiran, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist declared at this meeting “this very team will hold up the weapons once again if needed,” and demanded that the ruling Bhattarai government of Nepal fulfill a 70 point demand list the Nepal’s revolutionaries have placed on this regime.

Thanks to Bikkil Sthapit for these photos.

Thousands of NPV members march in formation

Biplab speaks

Chairman Kiran salutes the People’s Volunteers

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Maoist Workers Seize Factory

Aquino's dismissal of abuses complaints is an endorsement of state brutality -- Communist Party of the Philippines

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	National Democratic Front of the Philippines International Information Office

Aquino has shown utter insensitivity and contempt for the victims of human rights violations, their families, friends and supporters... Aquino's denials remind us of how Ferdinand Marcos lied through his teeth when he claimed that there were no political prisoners under his martial law rule.

PRESS STATEMENT
Communist Party of the Philippines
26 October 2012

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns Benigno Aquino III, president of the reactionary state and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), for refusing to acknowledge the increasing number of human rights violations by its military and police forces, and dismissing these as "Leftist propaganda" which "people do not buy."

To further disparage the complaints against his regime, Aquino even risked making himself look ridiculous when he denounced the oppressed people in urban poor communities for "violating the human rights of the military and police" when they hurled stones and resisted the destruction of their homes by government demolition crews escorted by state agents armed with guns, teargas and truncheons.

In making such dismissive statements, Aquino has shown utter insensitivity and contempt for the victims of human rights violations, as well as their families, friends and supporters. Aquino's denials remind us of how Ferdinand Marcos lied through his teeth when he claimed that there were no political prisoners, when at least 70,000 people were imprisoned under his martial law rule.

EU Does Not Deserve A Nobel Peace Prize

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"Long Distance Revolutionary": New Doc Tells Untold Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal's Life Journey

50 years since India declares War on China - Himalayan Adventure by Suniti Kumar Ghosh

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Democracy and Class Struggle publishes this study by Suniti Kumar Ghosh on the 50th Anniversary of the 1962 Indo - China War , it resonates with many contemporary problems and shows the progressive character of Chinese Foreign Policy under Mao Zedong.

A college teacher for a number of years, Suniti Kumar Ghosh has been associated with the Communist movement since the Telengana days of 1946-47. He was expelled from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1949. He was a member of the All India Co-ordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR), formed after the Naxalbari uprising in 1967, and was a founder-member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Lemnist).

‘India declares war on China’

While leaving for Sri Lanka on 12 October 1962, the prime minister of India declared that he had given orders to the army to throw the Chinese out from the India-China border area on the north-east. Next day the New York Herald Tribune carried an editorial entitled “India declares war on China”.[1]

This declaration of war against China was the culmination of a policy that Nehru and his associates had been pursuing since as early as April 1947 when India was still a British colony. On 25 April, the external affairs department of the government of India, of which Nehru was in charge as a member of the viceroy’s ‘interim government’, informed the British secretary of state for India that “Government of India now wish to be represented in Tibet ... and should be grateful to know whether His Majesty’s Government desire to retain separate Mission there in future. If they do not, it would seem feasible to arrange transition from ‘British Mission’ to ‘Indian Mission’ without publicity and without drawing too much attention to change, to avoid if possible any constitutional issue being raised by China.”[2] At the time a civil war was going on in China. Nehru and his associates sought to resort to surreptitious methods to fulfil their expansionist aims.

On 15 August 1947, the day Britain’s direct rule of India ended, the British mission in Lhasa (Tibet’s capital) formally became the Indian mission. The last British representative in Lhasa, H.E. Richardson, became the first Indian representative there. Richardson wrote: “The transition was almost imperceptible: the existing staff was retained in its entirety and the only obvious change was the change in the flag.”[3]

Genocide as Counterinsurgency – Brief Notes on the “Sri Lanka model”

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October 10, 2012

by Karthick RM

Countering insurgencies is as old as states and empires. As a concept, however, study in Counterinsurgency (COIN) gained momentum in the colonial period so as to deal with frequently occurring rebellions in colonies as well as to counter the “communist menace”. COIN grew as a science with late modernity and the rise of what ‘Taraki’ Sivaram) called “counter-insurgency nation-states”. We must understand that COIN has developed as a science, deployed by specific actors in specific conditions as a science. And by virtue of its being a science, each deployment is closely followed, studied and applied by various states engaged in COIN operations according to the particular conditions they encounter. Some refined political analysts, understanding the geo-strategic importance of Sri Lanka, have argued that the Sri Lankan war machine was ideologically and materially equipped in its COIN operations against the Tigers by a confluence of world powers. Reflecting on this, Mark Whitaker writes in his biography of ‘Taraki’ Sivaram that “by the middle 1990s Sivaram had come to view Sri Lanka’s conflict as a kind of military-political laboratory in which the various repressive forces of late modernity (local and international) were testing their clever, often cruel, counter-insurgency tactics”. Just that the lab rats favoured by the world powers in the island had genocidal intentions, Karthick RM argues in this article.

Speaking at a conference at Trinity College, Dublin on 24th May 2012 titled ‘The Local and the Global: The Geopolitics of Peace and Conflict’ exiled Sinhala journalist Bashana Abeywardane, opined that genocide was used as a Counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy by the Sri Lankan state to crush the armed struggle for a sovereign state of Tamil Eelam led by the LTTE. Citing British military strategist Frank Kitson, who had played an important role in suppressing the Mau Mau uprising and the insurgency of the Malayan Communist Party, Mr. Abeywardane said that when you want to neutralize an insurgency movement, you must destroy its “genuine subversive element” – arguing that in the case of Sri Lanka, the genuine subversive element in the island was the Tamil population as such. He further cited geo-political factors that influenced the decision of the world powers to support the Sri Lankan state’s military offensive leading up to May 2009, arguing that the island held geo-strategic importance only if it was a unitary political entity.

Obama, Romney face off in 2nd debate, MSM covers-up candidate arrest

Political Disobedience vs. Revolution: Significance of the Occupy Movement | The New School

Political Disobedience vs. Revolution: Bernard Harcourt and Raymond Lotta Debate the Significance and Implications of the Occupy Movement

India is ripe for revolution ?

We are posting this episode from Bloomberg TV because it is interesting.But this is a bourgeois liberal view of the present Indian situation.

The Coup: We got the Guillotine!

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Posted by Mike E on October 14, 2012

From The Coup’s new album that drops in two days (10/16).

Boots said in an interview (Wired):

“‘We got the guillotine’ means we have the power to get rid of the ruling class to create a classless society,” he said. “One where the people democratically control the wealth that they create with their labor”

Wanna write a review for Kasama?

for the song lyrics >>>

'Monsanto & Frankenstein next!' Max Keiser destroys 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

Executions, Official and Unofficial… the Killing Thing About American Democracy

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This Is the Imperialist System…
This Is What They Want You to Vote For

October 7, 2012 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

If you are horrified by how Black and Latino youth in cities across the country are gunned down by police for some b.s. reason or for no reason at all…if you are outraged at the blatantly racist way disproportionate numbers of Black people are thrown into and executed on death row…and if you are being pulled into the presidential election circus at the same time, then you need to confront this reality: Voting for either candidate means voting for a system that carries out unjust executions, official and unofficial.

The essence of the democratic “rule of law” in the U.S. is the monopoly over the legitimate use of violence by the state to protect and enforce the rule of the capitalist-imperialist class. In practice, wanton illegitimate killing by police—overwhelmingly of Black youth, as well as Latinos and youth of other oppressed nationalities—is so ever-present that the essential “coming of age” talk Black parents must have with their teenage sons is not about sex but about how to act when stopped by cops, in hopes of minimizing the chance of their becoming another police murder statistic. This terror against African-Americans as a people is the modern-day version of the “legal” lynchings of thousands of Black men during the hundred years of Jim Crow.

Presentations from the E4E: Communist strategy today

We are posting the following for the sake of discussion.We have differences with ideas expressed in the post.

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Posted by eric ribellarsi on October 13, 2012

A panel of revolutionary speakers gathered on August 12 at the  Everything for Everyone Festival. The engagement was significant — both in its unities and diversity. The talks confronted a key issue for communist regroupment and action: How do we build a revolutionary movement today in the belly of this beast?

Let’s engage this discussion — and deepen our common purpose.

The audio of each talk is presented here in YouTube and MP3 format — in the order that they spoke at the  E4E plenum.

The speakers are:

• Mike Ely, Kasama Project
• Geoff Mc, formerly with Bring the Ruckus
• Shemon Salam,  Fire Next Time, formerly w/ Unity and Struggle
• Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
• Sopiko Japaridze, Take Back the Block, Atlanta
• Question and answer session 

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Mike Ely, Kasama Project:

MP3 – Mike Ely

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Geoff Mc, formerly with Bring the Ruckus:

MP3 – Geoff Mc

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Shemon Salam,  Fire Next Time, formerly w/ Unity and Struggle

MP3 – Shemon Salam

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Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement:

MP3 – Kali Akuno

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Sopiko Japaridze, Take Back the Block, Atlanta:

MP3 – Sopiko Japaridze

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Question and Answers following the talks

RDF Statement - Condemn the Arrest of All India Fact-finding Team members at Koodankulam

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October 14, 2012

Revolutionary Democratic Front strongly condemns the illegal detention and, arrest and slapping of baseless charges on the members of an all-Indian fact finding team to Koodankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu. The members of the team included Varalaxmi (Secretary, Revolutionary Writers’ Association, Andhra Pradesh) Hamid, Secretary, Rayalaseema Karmika Samakhya, Dastagiri, student, Priyadharshini (Democratic Students Union, JNU), Keshavan (CPCL. Tamil Nadu), K.Palanisamy (Anti-imperialist Movement), Jagan (Students Uprising Movement for Social Welfare, SUMS), Agradi (Women’s Uprising Movement), Pratima (lawyer, Orissa), Damodar and Arvind (Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan, Jharkhand). The team was detained at Nanguneri in the morning of 12th October, which is 20 km away from Koodankulam and does not even fall under the 144 zone which has been declared within 7 km radius of Koodankulam. Yet the police detained them first for “illegal assembly”. After a daylong detention, at night, the police framed them under baseless yet draconian charges. They have been booked under sections 143, 188, 194(B), 353,362, 506(i), R/W 17(1) Criminal Law Amendment Act. Some of these charges are nonbailable and the CLA Act in particular is a draconian Act. The team members have been taken to Palayamkottai prison, and will be produced in court on Monday.

'Nobel Committee making another mistake'

Tariq Ali: EU Awarded Nobel Peace Prize Despite Ties To NATO, Crippling Austerity Cuts

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AMY GOODMAN: We’re on the road in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on our 100-city tour. Check our website at tour.democracynow.org. We begin today’s show with the selection of the European Union for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for its historic role in uniting the continent. Committee chair Thorbjoern Jagland praised the EU for transforming Europe "from a continent of wars to a continent of peace." The selection of the European Union surprised many, as it comes at a time when much of Europe is facing an economic crisis that threatens the EU’s future. Just this past week, thousands of Greeks protested in Athens against a visit by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who has pushed Greece, Spain and Ireland to enact deep austerity measures. For more on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, we go to London, where we’re joined by Tariq Ali, political commentator, historian, activist and editor of the New Left Review. He is the author of over 20 books, including The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. He joins us by Democracy Now! video stream. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Tariq. 

TARIQ ALI: Hi, Amy. 

AMY GOODMAN: When you got up this morning and heard the news that the Nobel Prize committee has honored the European Union, given it the Nobel Peace Prize this year, your response?