Afghanistan war plans hit snags

President Barack Obama is already planning an massive buildup in Afghanistan and he is already hitting snags in this plan. He’s not sure he likes the country’s elected leader and international groups in Europe are reacting against his buildup.
I can also ad that some of us here in the US see this as a major foreign policy problem and we intend to devote as much time against this war as we did its twin in Iraq.

From McClatchy:
January 29, 2009

Will Obama support Karzai's re-election in Afghanistan?
Thursday that Afghanistan's second presidential election since the Taliban regime was ousted in 2001 will be held on Aug. 20 poses a critical question for the Obama administration: Should it favor a second term for President Hamid Karzai?
Relations between Karzai and the U.S. are worse than at any time in the past eight years. Each side accuses the other of conduct that has enabled the revival of the Taliban and soured many ordinary Afghans on the Kabul government and its international backers.
U.S. and European officials say they've grown frustrated by Karzai's failure to curb corruption, cronyism and incompetence, and they say he's refused to crack down on powerful officials, allegedly including one of his brothers, who are involved in the world's largest opium trade.

And from the (new)Italian Communist Party:


2009, January 29th
EiLE finally translated to English the (new)Italian Communist Party's 2008 August 22nd Statement on Afghani people's resistance to imperialist aggression. Here you will find the English translation of the Statement.

2008, August 22nd Statement

Afghan Resistance has hit the aggressors hard again!Long live Afghan people's heroic Resistance!
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Afghan Resistance has hit the aggressors hard again!
Long live Afghan people's heroic Resistance!
More and more killed soldiers among the mercenaries the Authorities of imperialist countries send to Afghanistan!
The Papal Court and the criminals who govern us are slaughterers of oppressed peoples, corrupters and murderers of our fellow countrymen!
Afghan people fights a just war against the aggressors, the occupiers and their puppets and collaborationists!
Afghan people's Resistance against imperialist and Zionist aggressors, strengthens the popular masses of imperialist countries too, who fight against exploitation, who defend their civilization and welfare attainments, who fight to establish the socialism!
Popular masses of imperialist countries' struggle against the bourgeoisie and its governments strengthens oppressed peoples' resistance!

On Monday August 18th, in a firefight about fifty kilometres from the capital Kabul, Afghan Resistance's forces have put at one blow out of action 31 French soldiers of the occupying forces: 10 dead and 21 wounded. Before such a serious blow, French authorities have not been able to hush all up, they have fallen prey to the panic, the soldiers' families protest and Sarkozy government had to promise a parliamentary debate on "French government's Afghan policy" for September 22nd .
In the two following days Afghan Resistance eliminated, in further fights, at least other 8 occupying forces' members, but the occupation headquarters has denied, as often it does, to provide the press with the particulars and the nationality of the fallen. The aggressors try not to alarm the public opinion of respective countries and not to strengthen the people's opposition to the imperialist expedition occupying and pillaging Afghanistan since autumn of 2001: at that time USA imperialists and their satellite states gave as pretexts for the aggression the attack to the Twin Towers in New York (September 11th 2001), officially waged by "Islamic fundamentalists" mostly coming from Saudi Arabia, and the contemporary Afghan government's "barbarity".
Afghan Resistance's forces more and more sturdily oppose the occupation and the puppet authorities set up by USA imperialists and by Zionists. In the whole Afghanistan the Resistance gets by now stronger day by day.

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Nepal: Prachanda said he will defend the revolution

Nepalese people will seize power

- By Prachanda

When we were in People's War for the political and social transformation, the enemies of the people had thought to assassinate us and end the process of social transformation at that time. However, Nepalese people, the justice loving people, did not support their plot and plan to be unimplemented. People's War, rather, developed into its leap, one after another, and advanced forward to smash the hundreds of years of feudal reign.
After we entered into the peace process, the reactionary elements, inside and outside the country, had thought that CPN-Maoist would have split into three fragments. However, their "dream" smashed and failed within a few days. This shows that their prediction was empty and hypocrisy. CPN-Maoist advanced ahead with its strong unity.
A few days ago, some of the leader of the parliamentary parties publicly addressed that the CPN-Maoist-led Government will fall down due to its weaknesses. Along with it, they made many conspiracies to abort the process of unity between CPN-Maoist and CPN-Unity Centre-Masal. Nevertheless, in the course of time, we have unified and the reactionaries have become smashed. This unity is the example of the victory of all the revolutionary forces and the defeat of all the reactionary forces. Thus, unity is a great leap in the revolutionary continuation. This is a new victory of the Nepalese people against the anti-people forces.

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Bhutan’s Maoist get more news

From The National:

Expelled Bhutanese turn to Mao – and guns
Don Duncan, Correspondent
Last Updated: January 28. 2009 9:30AM UAE /

THIMPHU // The cliff-perched fortresses that dot this Himalayan nation’s mountainous perimeter are a testimony to a long-standing effort to keep out foreigners. But in the 1980s, Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist nation of just 600,000 inhabitants sandwiched between China and India, found itself with what it considered a foreign problem.Bhutan’s minority population of ethnic Nepalese had mushroomed to represent one-third of the kingdom, causing the then king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, to launch a policy called “one nation, one people”, a campaign that stripped many ethnic Nepalese of the Bhutanese citizenship they had acquired and also curtailed the rights of those who were illegal. According to the US state department and several human rights NGOs, the campaign ended with the expulsion of 105,000 of Bhutan’s ethnic Nepalese, plus beatings, torture and murder perpetrated by the Royal Bhutan Army in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
“We left because we were scared that they would imprison us, that they would beat us, that I would be raped,” said Matimya Moktan, 41, who went to Nepal in 1991 and now lives in a small wattle and daub hut with her three children and husband in the Beldangi I camp, one of seven refugee camps dotted across the plains of eastern Nepal.These camps are where those expelled from Bhutan ended up. Locked in political limbo, somewhere on the remote margins of the diplomatic agendas of Bhutan, Nepal and India, a number of these refugees have formed militant organisations that is gaining force and sophistication and that could soon become a significant security concern for Bhutan as it takes its first shaky steps towards democracy.Last year, Bhutan became the world’s newest democracy, two years after King Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated his throne in favour of his son, ending almost a century of autocratic rule. By the time Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 28, was crowned Bhutan’s fifth king in November, the country’s political system had been completely overhauled with a democratically elected government and a new constitution. Bhutan’s king is now the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.

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China takes an interest in Nepal

Mergers of minor communist parties with the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) have captured the attention of China. This raises some interesting questions. Does China see the new government in Nepal, one that has been critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, a possible ally? Is this a shift for China’s foreign policy that was once antagonistic to such a revolution?

According to Yahoo News:

Maoist juggernaut starts rolling in Nepal with communist merger
Tue, Jan 13 11:44 AM
Kathmandu, Jan 13 (IANS) Following the example of northern neighbour China's monolithic communist party, Nepal's ruling Maoist party has started the process of unification of left parties in the Himalayan republic with a formal merger with another formerly underground party………..

China, which has begun wooing the Maoist government in a bid to suppress anti-Beijing protests in the Himalayan republic by Tibetan dissenters, has been urging Nepal's communist parties to unite and form a single powerful left party.

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And from the Chinese View, an official news agency of that country:

CPN-M becomes 2nd largest party in Nepal
2007-09-24

KATHMANDU, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) became the second largest party in Nepali Interim Parliament with 84 lawmakers after it's unification with the CPN-Marxist Leninist Maoist (CPN-MLM) on Monday.
Speaking at a function organized to announce the unification of the two parties on Monday, senior CPN-M leader Dr. Baburam Bhattarai hinted at political polarization between the communists and the democratic groups in the Nepal's unfolding political scenario.
Bhattarai said the issue of monarchy that divided the political parties is no more the topic of debate. He stressed the need of one communist party in Nepal to fulfill the aspirations of the people's democracy in true sense and called on all communist groups to get into this bloc.

A good read

Can You Pass The Acid Test is a book about the use of drug and sex laws that have been used for a variety of repressive measures by the ruling class. Here is an excerpt:


Drugs have influenced our culture since the earliest civilizations. The
earliest known record of cocaine use is found on a three-inch ceramic
head of a Valdivian in Ecuador, in 1500 BC.1 Hector Berlioz wrote“Symphonie Fantastique” in 1830, inspired by an opium dream he had.
Writers from the last three centuries have written on their drug
experiences. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, was
devoted to opium. Fritz Hugh Ludlow wrote the classic Hashish Eater,
(published in 1857).2
There has been a history of literature and pop culture that thumbed its
nose at the puritanical and conservative political culture of early America.
At the turn of the century (about 1910), the Masses, a Greenwich Village
magazine, fused the cultural radicalism of American Bohemianism with
radical socialist politics. Various anarchists’ publications of the late
1800s promoted fee-love.
In recent years, as then, there have been attempts to suppress culture
that offends the puritan values of the US. By the 1990s politicians and
pundits of the right, far right and center left have called for a “culture war”
against the movie, music and television industry. This is not just for the
portrayal of drug use, but for sex, too much violence, themes involving
suicide, the acceptance of homosexuality and a number of other taboos as
well.
The US Senate held a three-hour hearing, November 6, 1997, to
criticize violent and “anti-social” song lyrics. Senator Sam Brownback,
R-Kansas, made it clear he wanted to shame the music industry into acting
more responsible.3
“Looking at the lyrics of some of this music... particularly in the shock
rock and gangster rap area, it’s very violent,” Brownback said. “It’s
hateful to women, much of it is quite racist, it glorifies things like cop
killing and date rape that I think everyone in society agrees is wrong.”4
These attacks are nothing new. At the beginning of the 20th century
Anthony Comstock introduced the Comstock Act. Comstock was a
Christian social activist who promoted censorship laws to suppress
anything of a sexual nature. He not only campaigned against pornography
and sinful behavior, he lobbied for federal and state anti-obscenity
legislation.5
Most drug laws were passed before or after the time of alcohol
prohibition. The main difference between alcohol and most other drugs
was that the other drugs were more closely linked to minorities in the eyes
of the public. Cocaine was associated with blacks, opium the Chinese and
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marijuana the Mexican immigrants. Yet alcohol was seen at the time as a
vice of European immigrants. These immigrants were considered a threat
to the traditional middle-class values that have often been summed up as
White Anlgo-Saxon Protestant (WASP).

Charlie Parker was a drug addict who was also a progressive musician. He is written about in this book.
This book is available from Barns & Noble.

News from Nepal

I’m not sure what the significants of this merger is.

Posted at http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/MAOIST_ REVOLUTION/

“Maoists prepare to unite with CPN-ML Revolutionary
Kantipur Report
KATHMANDU, Jan 24 - Having completed the unification with Unity Centre (Masal), the Maoists are now preparing to merge with another leftist party, CPN-ML Revolutionary.
A meeting of the Unified CPN-Maoist and ML Revolutionary on Saturday agreed to form a high-level panel for finalising work division.
CPN-ML Revolutionary leader Navaraj Sharma informed that agreement concerning party unification has been reached in principle, however no understanding has been reached on work division at the meeting held at Maoist party headquarters at Buddhanagar in the capital.
A recent meeting of the Unified CPN-Maoist Central Committee had decided to initiate the process for the unifying with other leftist parties.”

This is the second non-armed communist party to merge with the CPN(M). The affects of this meger on the new larger party is hard to gage. It’s also not clear how this will affect the CPN(M) relations with the CP-UML, a Marxist rival of the Maoists.

The following information comes from Wikipedia:

Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist), was an underground political party in Nepal. It was founded 1978 by the All Nepal Communist Revolutionary Coordination Committee (Marxist-Leninist). The founding congress was held December 26, 1978-January 1, 1979. The first general secretary of CPN(ML) was C.P. Mainali.[1]
CPN(ML) was inspired by the Indian CPI(ML). It was linked to the Vinod Mishra faction of CPI(ML), a group that was strong in Bihar (bordering Nepal). CPN(ML) conducted armed activities against the regime. CPN(ML) rapidly emerged as the main communist faction in the country.
CPN(ML) published Varg-Sangarsh (Class Struggle) and Mukti Morcha (Liberation Front).
In 1982 a major shift took place. The party abandoned the strategy of armed struggle and opted for mass democratic struggles instead. Mainali was deposed as general secretary, and Jhala Nath Khanal took over the helm.
In 1986 the process of reform of CPN(ML) accelerated further, with moderate Madan Bhandari elected general secretary.
In 1990 the party took part in the United Left Front and this led to CPN(ML) merged with Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) to form Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) in 1991.

Europe said Mujahedeen of Iran not a terrorist group

The European Union has decided to take the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, or PMOI,off their official terror list. This group was never a terrorist group to begin with. They have always been a type of Moslem liberation theology.
The George Bush administration continued to keep them on the US official “terrorist list.” They have always been a paramilitary group, but a liberal one. They did oppose the Shah, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) of Iran, who was a CIA stooge.
According to The Wichita Eagle:

EU takes Iranian group off terror blacklist
By CONSTANT BRAND
Associated Press Writer
“BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union decided Monday to remove an Iranian opposition group from the EU's terror list and lift the restrictions on its funds, a move likely to further damage relations strained over Tehran's nuclear program.
The decision by the 27-nation bloc's foreign ministers means that as of Tuesday, the assets of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, or PMOI, will be unfrozen. It is the first time an organization has been "de-listed" by the EU.”

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The group is based in Paris and now has access to bank accounts that were frozen when the group was designated a terrorist group. Now it is time to see what the Barack Obama government will do in response.

Afghanistan – the other imperialist hot spot

Another contested spot for US imperialism is Afghanistan. While there has been some commentary at Maoist Revolution and at
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION,
That posting is analysis by an American blogger. I decided to focus on The Communist Party (Maoist) of Afghanistan, which is also looking at this major hot spot that will plague the Barack Obama Regime. So here is:

Afghanistan and the occupiers' dilemma: more troops or a different approach?
19 January 2009. A World to Win News Service. The debate over the need for a new strategy in Afghanistan has reached a fever pitch among imperialist circles. There is rarely a news item about that country that does not at least state the need for a new approach. The occupiers' think tanks and Afghanistan experts are busy discussing and debating the necessary elements. Barack Obama’s inauguration as U.S. president may provide the occasion for the rollout of a new plan, or at least steps touted as such.
It is now very widely recognized that the approach the U.S. has been using so far has failed. While the U.S., which is leading the imperialists occupying Afghanistan, finds it difficult to openly admit this failure, that judgement is implicit in American officials' demands that other Nato countries match the U.S. in greatly increasing the number of foreign troops. (See AWTWNS, 2 November 2008).
The U.S., Canada, the British and other imperialists fighting in the war zones tried hard for a long time to pressure other Nato countries to fight alongside them. There has been an alarmist tone to reports from imperialist circles, including military and parliamentary spokespeople and certain humanitarian agencies, highlighting the deteriorating situation, the resurgence of the Taleban and the real possibility that, as they like to put it, "Afghanistan could become a failed state." Most of their reports recommend that other Nato countries take part in the fighting and that they all send more troops, warning that otherwise the result could be complete failure.
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Korea - US imperialism keeps going

The world’s last super power is not over yet. The following came from KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK

and it is a reminder that there is much work to stop imperialism in this modern age. It is one of the last isms we need to stop and that will be no small task.

U.S. Defense Department Designates DPRK as Nuclear Weapons State

Pyongyang January 23 (KCNA) -- A special investigation committee for nuclear weapons management and examination of the U.S. Department of Defense recently made public a report designating the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state.

The report said that the DPRK has not only several nuclear weapons but a missile system capable of delivering them.

Commenting on this, foreign press reports said that the report put the DPRK in the same category as that of India and Pakistan recognized as unofficial nuclear weapons states.

DPRK's Foreign Policy Stand Reiterated

Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- The stand and principle of the foreign policy of the DPRK to develop friendly relations with the countries friendly towards it remains unchanged. The DPRK government will make positive efforts to develop the fair international friendly relations in the future, too. Rodong Sinmun Friday says this in a signed article.

It goes on:

The present international situation urgently calls upon each country and nation to strengthen the true friendship.

Only when the progressive people of the world boost the true friendship, supporting and cooperating with each other, is it possible to foil the imperialists' moves for aggression, interference and domination and successfully advance the cause of global independence. Strengthening this friendship alone can provide a guarantee for the victory of the world progressive people in the struggle to achieve independence.

The imperialists are fanning up friction and antagonism among the people desirous of independence in a bid to bar them from promoting friendship. They are also interfering in disputes in some countries and regions and making them more complicated.

Gag Rule lifted

We’ve finally seen the end of the “gag rule” a law that made it illegal for any foreign agency to receive any birth control related aid if abortion is mentioned in any way. This has ment a catastrophy for those who have had serious overpopulation problems, especially inter cities with large slums. Over population means that the earth’s resources are spread thin to try and take care of all the new people coming into the world. This is one piece of positive information.

From Planned Parenthood:

The global gag rule was a threat to the health of millions of women. Clinics have closed, contraceptive supplies have dwindled, and women were left without basic and critical health care services. As a result, there were more unwanted pregnancies and more unsafe abortions. Today, one woman dies every minute of every day due to pregnancy-related causes, including unsafe abortion, and over 200 million women in developing countries who wish to delay or end childbearing lack access to modern contraceptives.

By overturning the global gag rule, President Obama has taken a tremendous first step toward promoting women's health around the world. Overseas health care providers will now be able to offer counseling, referrals, and services for the full range of reproductive health services without fear that the U.S. government will strip them of their funding.

Join Planned Parenthood in sending our new president a message of thanks on behalf of these providers and the women they serve.

Rebellion grows in Bhutan

The Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist Leninist Maoist) has become the center of controversy lately as the people’s war becomes more of a reality. The country is half the size of Nepal and it is a small kingdom wedged in the Himalayan areas between India and China. Lately, Bhutan citizens who have been forced to live in exile are returning and filling the ranks of the revolutionaries. The Druk kingdom now treats all returning refugees as revolutionaries.

This is from
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION:

Kathmandu, Jan 21st 2009 A 20-year-old exiled journalist of Nepali origin has been sentenced to jail for seven and a half years for terrorist activities by the royal government of Bhutan even as the party in question denied having any links with him.
Shantiram Acharya, who used to work for the Bhutan Reporter, a monthly newspaper brought out amidst great hardship by Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal, received the sentencing by Bhutan's high court for being allegedly involved in subversive activities against the Druk kingdom, including participating in military training conducted by the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist Leninist Maoist) in Nepal, an armed underground organisation that is banned in Bhutan and believed to be operating from Nepal and India to end Bhutan's hereditary monarchy.
According to the Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA) Bhutan, an exiled Bhutanese media group based in Kathmandu, Acharya, a Bhutanese of Nepali origin who was living in the refugee camps in eastern Nepal, was arrested in 2007 when he visited Bhutan to meet his relatives.
Acharya was kept in secret detention for almost two months and tortured by police to extract a confession, APFA said. According to the exiled media group, the Bhutan police charge sheet said he was arrested for taking photographs of an outpost of the Royal Bhutan Army.
APFA also said it believed Acharya was convicted because he could not hire an attorney to defend him as Bhutan does not have any independent attorney. Also, he had no money since he was produced in the court without the knowledge of his family members.
Though the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist Leninist Maoist), from whom Bhutan police said Acharya had received arms training, said it had no association with the exiled reporter, the denial was not heeded by the Bhutanese court.
Condemning the charges and the verdict by court, which APFA said was controlled by the state, the media group is asking the Bhutan government to open the case for review and let the 20-year-old hire an independent attorney.
It is also asking for the jailed journalist's whereabouts to be made public.
In November 2008, Bhutan was catapulted into world attention as it celebrated the crowning of its fifth king, the 28-year-old Oxford-educated Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk.
The crowning was projected as another step towards democracy by the isolated Druk kingdom as the previous king, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, abdicated in favour of his son.
The change of guard is viewed with mixed feelings by over 100,000 Bhutanese of Nepali origin who have been languishing in Nepal for nearly two decades since their expulsion from Bhutan during a crackdown on ethnic communities.
While some of the refugees hope the new king will show a human face and re-open talks with Nepal for their repatriation, others however feel that the old king still continues to wield power and the abdication and drafting of the first-ever constitution are a facade to placate foreign donors who want Bhutan to respect human rights.

What’s a communist to do?

By 史蒂夫 奥托

The inauguration is over and Barack Obama is now our president. It’s great to be rid of George Bush, with his murder, torture and war waged on Arab people. But what lies ahead?

To most people I know, this is a time of optimism and hope. Obama is a hero to the Afro-American community, much as John F Kennedy was to the Catholics. Even if he can straighten out the economy, what happens to the revolutionary left in this country?

Nothing will change in most of the third word. The Afghanistan people must fight for their rights of self determination. Struggles in the Philippines, Bhutan, India and other locations will continue as before.

Revolutionary movements building up in parts of Europe will also continue. But in the USA, we must continue with the same old problem: “how to convert working Americans to the left?”

There are three organized Maoist groups here in the US. The Revolutionary Communist Party is being attacked for making a cult of personality of Bob Avakian by the Kasama Project. Kasama is trying to replace it as a vanguard party of revolution. The RCP also gets attacked from the Maoist International Movement that sees it as too liberal.

MIM is easy to dismiss because of their dogmatic approach, divisive attacks on the Revolutionary International Movement and all its supporters and their ridiculous theory of a “labour aristocracy.” Yes they believe that the American worker is not a victim of capitalism, but a modern form of aristocracy. After all, they have a higher standard of living and it is made possible by the work of third world workers, who live in squalor so our workers can live in luxury.

The problem is that the American Worker has no political power. Leftist theoretician Herbert Marcuse correctly analyzed modern industrialized society in two books, One Dimensional Man and Counter Revolution and Revolt. In these, he explained that the bourgeoisie has made servitude palatable, even unnoticeable. But he never said it had disappeared. As Marcuse pointed out, Industrial society uses elections as a placebo. The mainstream media, religion and the educational system’s focus on anti-communist hysteria, has created a work force which has affluence, but no political power at all. In the US, we have a two party system designed to preserve the status quo. And when we get a charismatic leader, such as Obama, we have a hard time changing anything.

These conditions are unique to industrialized nations as the US. To write off the entire American working class is pure foolishness and prevents any kind of revolution, if the conditions ever allow for it. This theory smacks in the face of revolutionary reality that MIM chooses to ignore.

As for the RCP and Kasama, neither has a sizable following at this time. Countries in Europe have had more tradition of being forced to tolerate large communist parties in France and Italy, for example. That is in stark contrast to the situation in the US, where anti-communism, McCarthyism and a strong religious tradition has prevented a large communist movement with the exception of the 1930s, during the great depression. Neither of the two groups makes a dent on the US political landscape at this time. Kasama is new, but I have not seen “the grand plan” for convincing the religious working class right or the “redneck” working class right to jettison their backward beliefs for a revolutionary left.

So what does a communist do for now? It is more important to defend what we are, than it is to promote what we are at this particular time. We don’t know what will really come of the Obama presidency. It may fail. It may be another JFK cult or Franklin D. Roosevelt cult. Either way, we must prevent the return of rabid anti-communism that has crippled us before. Even today I have to disguise my name when I publish these articles so I don’t lose employment over them. But the McCarthyism attacks have not been as bad, these last few years, as they were in the 1950s or even the early 1960s. We can be communist today, mainly because the ruling class is preoccupied with radical Islamic factions. We need to be ready to defend ourselves before we can promote our ideas.

The next few years will tell whether we will find converts looking for a way out of the capitalist mess we are now in, or whether a successful Obama presidency will put us on the defensive. We may have to settle for supporting revolutions where they are being successfully staged and won for the immediate future. We always work to lay the foundations of change if and when the time is right. We must also carve out a niche in this society and defend our right just to exist.

Nepal Maoist pledge for revolutionary constitution

January 19, 2009

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"The Revolution continues and that for the proper conclusion of the Maoists' led revolution, drafting of a revolutionary constitution is a must".

A Maoist party high level meeting currently in progress in Kathmandu since Friday January 16, 2008, decided to take necessary steps towards achieving the objective of drafting a revolutionary constitution right being in the Government, in the Constituent Assembly and also from the streets.

"To make the Maoists' tenure in government a successful one and to draft a People's oriented revolutionary Constitution we need to take actions right being in the government, in the Constituent Assembly and if need be take to the streets", the Maoists meeting decided after unanimously accepting a political proposal.

The meeting was first of its kinds after the much-publicized unity between the Maoists' Party and the Unity Center-Masal recently took place.

The political proposal passed by the united Maoist party declares that the Maoists' led rebellion must continue until the drafting of a revolutionary constitution.

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More news from Bhutan

Distributed by http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/MAOIST_ REVOLUTION/

"Avoiding busy border towns, they prefer to cross into Bhutan through the thick jungles that straddle its porous border with India. They make their way to rendezvous spots in the jungle, with backpacks laden with explosives, knives, some guns and another kind of weapon -- Communist literature.

"If all we had to show were our weapons, we wouldn't get very far," says Comrade Umesh . "So we also run classes in Bhutan: we have lectures, teach our ideology and train cadres in explosives-making and in guerrilla fighting."
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Nat Turner- Afro-American rebel

Nat Turner was a slave who led a rebellion on February 12, 1831. His rebellion started with only about 50 slaves, yet of all the slave rebellions, his prompted the most fear in the eyes of southern whites. If one group of slaves could foment a bloody rebellion, what would happen if more slaves took up such a fight?

Nat started out as a preacher. The time he chose for his rebellion was coordinated with a sign he believed came from God.

In this time of black pride, when we just had Martin Luther King Day and now it is inauguration day for the first Afro-American President, I chose to remember a black rebel from our rich history, here in the USA.

From Wikipedia:

By early 1828, Nat was convinced that he "was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty.” While working in his owner's fields on May 12, Turner "heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first." Nat was convinced that God had given him the task of "slay[ing] my enemies with their own weapons." Nat "communicated the great work laid out for me to do, to four in whom I had the greatest confidence" – his fellow slaves Henry, Hark, Nelson and Sam.

Beginning in February 1831, Turner came to believe that certain atmospheric conditions were to be interpreted as a sign that he should begin preparing for a rebellion against the slave owners.

Nat started with a few trusted fellow slaves. The rebels traveled from house to house, freeing slaves and killing all the white people they found. The rebels ultimately included more than 50 enslaved and free blacks.

Because the rebels did not want to alert anyone to their presence as they carried out their attacks, they initially used knives, hatchets, axes, and blunt instruments instead of firearms. Nat called on his group to "kill all whites." The rebellion did not discriminate by age or gender, although Nat later indicated that he intended to spare women, children, and men who surrendered as it went on.

Before Nat and his brigade of rebels met resistance at the hands of a white militia, they killed a total of 60 white men, women and children. They spared a few homes "because Turner believed the poor white inhabitants 'thought no better of themselves than they did of negroes.'

Nat Turner's rebellion was suppressed within 48 hours, but Nat eluded capture until October 30 when he was discovered hiding in a hole covered with fence rails and then taken to court. On November 5, 1831, Nat was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. He was hanged on November 11 in Jerusalem, Virginia, now known as Courtland, Virginia. His body was then flayed, beheaded and quartered.

From Bolivia: NO VOTE, a true People's Movement

The Bolivian Revolutionary Front of the People-Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, seems to have a lot in common with the Senderos in Peru. But they have not announced plans for a “peopple’s war.” They do seem to have many of the same ideas. I got this from my e-mail:

A google translation

NO VOTE, a true People's Movement

Collusion and conflict, unity and struggle. That is the dynamics of the dominant classes, the factions of the bourgeoisie and large landowners. The unit is on, the struggle is constant, calculating politician, gave what one or the other in the allocation of state benefits is what the Bolivian people have seen in the political process in 2008.

The deepening rifts between the bureaucratic bourgeoisie (represented by the government) and the middle class buying more landowners (embodied in the opposition, "crescent") to impose its proposed restructuring of government and state n pact became a stamping in the draft Constitution which will be voted on January 25 2009. The omens of civil war and a separation of Bolivia, from the doom of one faction or another, ended in nothing. The explanation for this lack of "inevitability" is that the ruling classes did not commit suicide, by contrast, is threatened when the old rule, which called democratic, and agree to resolve their contradictions, which is why the worsening of their differences is a prerequisite for collusion or agreement. In that context happened demonstration forces on the streets during the 2008 and the political negotiations led by the ruling classes in line with a pact that deployment of forces on the battlefield. As always, the people put the dead and wounded.

The pact of the dominant classes
As we have noted, the government of Evo Morales is seeking the restructuring and reform of the State that n is in deep crisis. For this raises the old bureaucratic bourgeoisie program, implemented in 1952 by the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR). That means that the disputes between the government and the opposition (representatives of the factions of the big bourgeoisie) is a contradiction between bourgeois and bureaucratic another buyer. Contradictions within the ruling classes and not a contradiction between the people and the right "as opportunists and revisionists argue in government.

The agenda of the bureaucratic bourgeoisie 52 advocated the formation of a "national bourgeoisie" can bring the country out of backwardness and misery. Besides led liberal democratic reforms, the nacionalizació of mines and agrarian reform under pressure from mining and peasant masses. The farm at that time raised formally end the latifundio, but in the east began the reform of the way the concentration of land in the hands of the "new" landowners. Advocated an "alliance of classes" to the "national revolution", according to some theorists of the "Movement (MNR), the working class was negligible for the socialist revolution.

The original:

NO VOTAR, DESARROLLAR UN VERDADERO MOVIMIENTO POPULAR

Colusión y pugna, unidad y lucha. Ésa es la dinámica de las clases dominantes, de las facciones de la gran burguesía y los terratenientes. La unidad es relativa, la lucha es constante, el cálculo político, cuánto cede uno o el otro en el reparto de los beneficios estatales, es lo que el pueblo boliviano ha visto en el proceso político del 2008.

La agudización de las pugnas entre la burguesía burocrática (representada por el gobierno) y la burguesía compradora más los terratenientes (encarnados en la oposición, “media luna”) para imponer su proyecto de gobierno y de reestructuració n del Estado devino en un pacto estampado en el proyecto de Constitución Política que será votada el 25 de enero del 2009. Los augurios de una guerra civil y una separación de Bolivia, por parte de los agoreros de una u otra facción, terminaron en nada. La explicación de esta ausencia de “fatalidad” es que las clases dominantes no se suicidan, por el contrario, cuando se ve amenazado el viejo Estado, al que llaman democrático, pactan y resuelven sus contradicciones, por eso es que la agudización de sus diferencias es un paso previo para la colusión o acuerdo. En ese marco sucedió la demostración de fuerzas en las calles durante el 2008, y la negociación política de las clases dominantes derivó en un pacto acorde con ese despliegue de las fuerzas en el campo de batalla. Como siempre, el pueblo puso los muertos y los heridos.

El pacto de las clases dominantes

Como venimos señalando, el gobierno de Evo Morales es reformista y busca la reestructuració n del Estado boliviano que está en crisis profunda. Para ello levanta el viejo programa de la burguesía burocrática, aplicado en 1952 por el Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR). Eso significa que las pugnas entre el gobierno y la oposición (representantes de las facciones de la gran burguesía) son contradicciones entre un programa burgués burocrático y otro programa comprador. Contradicciones en el seno de las clases dominantes y no una contradicción entre “el pueblo y la derecha”, como argumentan los oportunistas y revisionistas en el gobierno.

El programa de la burguesía burocrática del 52 propugnaba la formación de una “burguesía nacional” capaz de sacar al país del atraso y la miseria. Junto a eso concretó reformas democráticas liberales, la nacionalizació n de las minas y la reforma agraria por presión de las masas mineras y campesinas. El programa agrario de ese tiempo planteó formalmente acabar con el latifundio, pero en el oriente la propia reforma inició el camino de la concentración de tierras en manos de los “nuevos” terratenientes. Se propugnó una “alianza de clases” para hacer la “revolución nacional”, pues, según algunos teóricos del “movimientismo” (MNR), la clase obrera era insignificante para hacer la revolución socialista.

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The Inaugural Poem

This Jan. 20 they will have an Inauguration poem read. I thought I’d write one of my own. It is generic so I can read it at any future Inauguration. I also wrote a good-by Bush poem

By 史蒂夫 奥托

The Inauguration Poem

So we bring in the new prez.

Not like the old prez.

A heroes’ welcome will last a year or two

Than we will see what you can do

A ship under water is hard to float

But they told you this would be a big boat

We are all waiting- yes we’re waiting to be told

That you are not just another politician bread and sold

Enjoy your magic while the people sing

Or in four year by your neck you will swing

Ode to Dubya Bush

Flop flop

Wiz wiz

Oh what a relief

It is

Good-by

Good riddance

Fflluushhhhh!

Class Struggle TV

Democracy and Class Struggle TV this week

http://www.mogulus. com/democracyand classstruggle

Zionism - Enemy of The Jewish People.

John Pilger on Zionism

Norman Finkelstein on Gaza

Norman Finkelstein and Alan Hart on Palestine

http://www.mogulus. com/democracyand classstruggle

On violence in the Kashmir and Hindus against Christians in India

Here is part of an interview of Communist Party of Indian spokesperson Comrade Azad on two major issues, the violence in the Kashmir province ( a target of terrorism for many years) and in recent years, violence against Christians by Hindu groups.

Interview on Kashmir and Khandamal
with CPI(Maoist) spokesperson, Comrade Azad,

MIB: I would like to ask your opinions on two of the most important developments which took place
in our country in the past one month—the massive movement for azadi in Kashmir and the attacks by
VHP-Bajrang Dal on the Christian community in Orissa. How do you look at these developments?
Azad: The first, the mass uprising of the Kashmiris, is a significant turning point in the struggle for
self-determination of the Kashmiri nation. It is a development that all democratic forces and people of
India at large should support unequivocally. And the second development, the savage attacks on the
Christian community by the saffron terrorists, should be squarely condemned by one and all. there is
urgent need to unite all secular and democratic forces to isolate and fight back this fascist offenisve on
the religious minorities by the state-backed Hindu fanatic
terrorists.
In this context, I would like to first stress the point that the
greatest threats to our society and the security of the people
of various religious communities are state terror and Hindu
fascist terror. These stand as the most important weapons
in the hands of the reactionary Indian ruling classes in their
war on the people. These two types of terror are so intertwined
that most often they become indistinguishable. In
Gujarat, for instance, it will be difficult to say how many had died in direct attacks by Hindu fascist
gangs and how many in the violence unleashed by the state against the minority Muslim community.
Overall, even where the state had no direct role in the murders and brutal attacks on the people
belonging to religious minorities, it played a dubious role by not intervening and acting as a passive
bystander when the attacks on helpless people is taking place. Not controlling Hindu fascist mobs and
allowing them to kill at will is one form of pro-Hindu partisanship of the Indian state. While both are
seen in Kashmir and Orissa, it is state terror which has been claiming the lives of thousands of people in
Kashmir while in Orissa, it is Hindu fascist terror backed by the state that had played havoc with the
lives of the minority Christian community.

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Obama must answer questions on Bush

Many would like to see George Bush brought up on war crime charges. That probably won’t happen but Obama is getting an ear ful from those of us who feel it should happen. This video is from Democrats.unity. There are many of us who want action taken agaisnt George Bush and those who are responsible for the war in Iraq, torture and illegal detention of prisoners without due process. Many of us would ask:

Obama whether he'll appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush

Others want change to our capitalist systems

Other groups, in Europe, are agreeing that the industrial countries can’t just tolerate the national bourgeoisie. The (new)Italian Communist Party has also declared that they will change large corporations, if they ever succeed in a revolution. As with the US, they are not in a small third-world country at the mercy of powerful neighbours and even more powerful blocks of industrialized countries that can make or break them at will. In these more industrialized countries we can help those smaller governing parties by setting an example and dismantling our own ruling class masters. We have the power to put corporations in the hands of the workers if we can ever raise enough of the workers consciousness in order to make a revolution happen. That may be easier done in a European country than it is in the US, since revolutionary parties have been larger and stronger there. They also have less anti-communism drilled into their people than in the US.

This is from:

(new)Italian Communist Party
Provisional Commission of the Central Committee

“The big companies must not belong to masters anymore! The big companies must belong to workers and to their new state!

The new state have to give to the small firms work orders for producing what is necessary and to make deliver them all the supplies that they need!

The companies must not produce profits anymore! They have to produce goods and services for workers! The whole society must be reorganized in accordance with this new base!

The situation is favourable, the confusion is great. Only the New Power of the working class will put an end to the current decay!

Comrades, workers, proletarians, women, youth and immigrants: join the (new)Italian Communist Party!

Join and make join your working and struggling fellows the campaign for propagandizing socialism, the study and the debate on the Manifesto-Program of (n)PCI!

Join the campaign of organization of the Party, form a Party Committee clandestinely in every company, in every area and in every mass organization!”

To see the entire statement and their call for a “people’s block” to fight against our capitalists societies click on:

Their Website: http://lavoce-npci.samizdat.net

Ruling party merges with Maoist- Masal party in Nepal

Maoists-Masal official merger today
Kantipur Report
KATHMANDU, Jan 13 - Supporters of the unification of CPN-Maoist and Unity Centre (Masal) have gathered at the Open Air Theatre in the capital on Tuesday afternoon.
A joint Central Committee convention of the two parties held yesterday had decided to make the official announcement of the unification and birth of a new party— Unified CPN-Maoist— today.
Supporters took out a victory rally from Tinkune, Chabahil, Maharanjung, Gongabu, Balaju and Kalanki and reached the Open Air Theatre.
The joint convention also decided to expand its CC to 175 members chaired by Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Only 137 members of the 175-member CC— 106 members of Maoists and 31 of Masal— have been included in the central committee for the moment. The remaining 38 will be included after the new central committee's first meeting scheduled for Jan 15 concludes.
Click for on line video: http://uk.youtube. com/watch? v=0kh-PHaP1Lg&eurl=http:// www.nepalnews. com/archive/ 2009/jan/ jan13/news12. php

(From left) general secretary of the now-dissolved CPN-Unity Centre (Masal)...

Martin Luther King celebration in Wichita, KS

A Time to Break the Silence
Martin Luther King, Jr.

7:00 pm, Thursday, January 15, 2009
Lindquist Hall, Rm. 100, WSU

(Tallest building SE of stadium, with bust of Martin Luther King South of the building.
Park in lots SE of stadium )
Hear the immortal speech originally delivered at Riverside Church, April 4, 1967, in a 24-minute newsreel film; then participate in the panel-led discussion about the relevance and significance of his speech today. The panel will feature:

Kevin Myles, President, Wichita NAACP.

Dr. William Hoston, WSU, Political Science.

Dr. Gretchen Eick, Friends Univ., History.

Sponsored by:
Peace and Social Justice Center - 316 263-5886
Wichita NAACP - 316 219-6996

Aircraft companies crash their work force. Will they crash?

Cessna Aircraft told employees Monday it plans to cut another 2,000 jobs as it adjusts its 2009 production schedule for the second time.
According to The Wichita Eagle, today.
With the bad economy, aircraft plants are showing us once again that the American worker is expendable. By laying off that many people the company saves money in the short run, but not in the long run where the lack of incomes just adds to the recession that has gripped this country and is spreading around the world.
There was a time when Japanese firms never layed people off. They knew it was to their advantage to keep the workes on in some copacity until business picked up again. But US corporations have always looked at the short run. This is evident by their lack of environmental standards and the car companies reliance on large vehicles to make them more money in the short run while ignoring peak oil.

War is still on in Bhutan

Distributed by
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"We are preparing a 'protracted people's war,'" says Comrade Umesh, the 27-year-old leader of one of the stronger insurgent groups, the Communist Party of Bhutan (Barat faction). "Like every Maoist struggle in the world, we have started a low-tech war. We use homemade weapons, explosives for ambushes and, after a certain point, we will progress to a high-tech war."

http://www.worldpol iticsreview. com/article. aspx?id=3137

Nepal’s captains of industry safe – but not in the US!

By 史蒂夫・奥托

My blogs have been supportive of the new Prachanda regime of Nepal. I’ve been supportive of most of their ideas on democracy for the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). But I do have one difference with them. According to a report from the BBC, 15 August 2008:

“After his party emerged as winner, one of his first moves was to reassure foreign investors and privately-run businesses that he would not eradicate the private sector.”

Here is where I differ. If a revolution ever comes to the US, I would insist that large corporations be nationalized. Their owners would be stripped of all political power and their income redistributed. I don’t propose killing them if they are willing to accept changes in their status and lifestyle. But considering their reliance now on violence, it would not surprise me if some are willing to fight to the bitter end to defend their class and privileges. That is their choice and it will be met with violence.
Unlike small underdeveloped country, large corporations are our the largest problem in America. I’m not including small business people (petite bourgeois). They are not the problem and they are often victimized the same as the workers or worse.
In the US, corporations need to be democratized. Their presidents and board members should be accountable to the workers in the same way as a mayor or governor is, through elections. Their salaries should be known to the workers and they should be up to the voting workers as to whether these people deserve the raises they now give themselves without any worker input. Any corporate bosses willing to accept the new changes would be invited to stay on. Those who cling to the past need to put pushed out and replaced with someone who respects and works for the benefit of their employees.
Unlike small countries, we don’t need a large bloated bourgeoisie. It needs to be smashed and reorganized immediately. The main problem in this country is that it is controlled so solidly by the captains of industry. No revolution can take place here that does not change that.

Elections and Democracy

By 史蒂夫・奥托
A question has arisen in one of my comments on the establishment of elections. Does that make a democracy?
On the question of US elections, we have two parties. The press, the Electoral College and the two ruling parties have all collaborated to insure that Republicans and Democrats are the only ones to be taken seriously. The Libertarian Party has had presidential candidates on the ballet in every state for several elections and they get no press coverage at all. On various levels (national, state, local) the press has paid the most attention to the candidate who spends the most money. The money comes from special interest groups, the majority of which are corporations. Anti-abortion groups, environmentalists, and other special interest groups make up a very small percentage of the campaign contributions politicians get to run for office. This means that the corporations get most of a congress person’s attention. The campaign contributions are protected by our constitution even though they amount to a legal form of bribery.
Add to that, new savvy advertising gimmicks to “spin” a candidate’s record to misrepresent the facts, and our elections become a joke. The joke is on the voter who seriously hopes that the person voted for will head that person’s concerns. That doesn’t happen when a candidate is in dept to a lobbyist who financed his/her campaign. The candidate uses TV ads with short sound bites and witty one-liners to persuade the voter using very few details on his/her policies. A few hot-button issues, such as abortion, are used to reach a voter’s emotional feelings. It all ads up to manipulation.
In foreign affairs elections are even more useless. The US government uses the military as a veto of elected heads of state not in line with its agenda. Salvador Allende, of Chile, Jacobo Arbenz, of Guatemala, Mohammed Mosaddeq (محمد مصدق‎), of Iran were all elected heads of state who were overthrown in a CIA directed military coup. This was because they wouldn’t support US business interests. Since these elections can be vetoed by a CIA coup, elections in these countries don’t mean much.
There are also the elections the US has set up in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no way a true opposition leader can win an election with troops and US politicians deciding which political groups are allowed to take part in the elections. President George Bush banned the Bath Party and others he considered “pro-terrorist.” That begs the question –what is it they are actually deciding?
It is also outright absurd to insist that the US can “give a country democracy.” Since self determination comes from the self, it can not come from some one else’s self. These elections are a farce for both the Iraqis and the Afghanis.
As a Marxist I work for a system that is both socialism and democratic, The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has established a republic with a multi-party system. There are those Maoists who insist on a single party to liberate the masses fully. That may work in some counties, were the size and culture is suited to such a system. Many countries, including the US and, as Prime Minister Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal) has insisted, Nepal must have a multi-party system.
While I disagree on the single party state, I do agree with the argument that elections do not guarantee democracy. They can just as easily be used to manipulate the public. That is what we have in the US today and in the “new democratic” puppet governments the US has set up in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If elections are completely open and allow all parties to take part in, and they get equal coverage from the press, that would be closer to a true democracy. In smaller countries as Nepal, the rebel armies must be integrated into the former military to prevent coups fostered by imperialist powers. This has been done in El Salvador to some extent and Nicaragua. There is still outside and inside contradictions that may prevent real socialism from emerging. That is why it is important not to confuse democracy with elections. Elections can be a part of a democracy, but they can also be a form of manipulation by the powers-to-be to gain a false sense of approval.

End Guantanamo as a detention and torture center with a rally

It's long past time to close Guantanamo. This has been an embarrassment for many of us and one of the low points of the failed presidency of George W. Bush. His actions in Guantanamo have drawn world condemnation and now is the time to put an end to them. - 史蒂夫・奥托

President-elect Barack Obama has promised to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo and end the use of torture by the U.S. We intend to help make that a reality. This Sunday, January 11, Witness Against Torture -- a Catholic Worker-led UFPJ member group -- will mark the 7th year of the use of Guantanamo as a detention and torture center with a rally and procession in Washington, D.C. And on January 20, the 100 Days to Close Guantánamo & End Torture will begin in Washington and around the country.
United For Peace and Justice has co-sponsored this timely effort, and we encourage you to participate in it and lend your support. For more information about how you can be involved, please check the details below.
See below for details. - Frida Berrigan, War Resisters League & UFPJ Steering

Committee member - Judith Le Blanc, UFPJ Organizing Coordinator
"I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantánamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture, and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture." - President-elect Barack Obama, November 16, 2008
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January 11, 12:45pm at Dupont Circle in DC

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