Support for the Maoist Indian revolution growing in countries across the World

Yes it's true! And it is only the beginning! From the International Committee 
support people's war India!

Mani Gupta
The Indian Express:

The CPI (Maoist) has emerged as a "role model" for the Communist movement 
across the world, according to revolutionary groups based outside India 
which have pledged support to it. The revelation could add to the worries of 
the government, which considers the Maoist group as India's "biggest 
internal security threat".
The support for CPI (Maoist) was voiced at the first International 
Conference in Support of the People's War in India, which was attended by 
delegates of Communist parties from more than two dozen countries. It was 
held exactly a year ago in Hamburg on November 24, 2012 to commemorate the 
first death anniversary of Maoist leader Mallojula Koteshwara Rao alias 
Kishenji, who was killed in an encounter in West Bengal.
While senior members of the CPI (Maoist) have established contacts with 
revolutionaries in other countries, it was the first time a major 
international seminar was held to pledge support — financial, cultural and 
strategic — to the outfit and emphasized their global strategic 
significance.
The seminar was jointly organized by the International Committee to Support 
the People's War in India and the Hamburg-based League Against Imperialist 
Aggression. In fact, the Committee was formed in Paris in January 2010, 
purely considering the strategic advantage the CPI (Maoist) lent to the 
global movement. Now it has branches in several countries to support the CPI 
(Maoist).
According to copies of speeches and presentation made by the delegates, 
available with The Indian Express, the CPI (Maoist) has become a "red 
linchpin" for the Communist movement across the globe. "The victory of the 
people's war in India would change the global balance of strength between 
imperialism and oppressed nations. The people's war in India is an important 
common point of reference for all of us, it is a red linchpin for the 
international Communist movement," the Communist Party of Austria said in 
its presentation.
"Let us learn today from the example of the Indian comrades, that the 
ideological struggle and the struggle to establish a correct and red 
political line are the basic principles by which the struggle to build the 
Maoist Communist Party of the proletariat must be carried out," it said.
The Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada said the CPI (Maoist) is a "good 
example of a revolutionary party that has been able to break with many of 
the sectarian tendencies in the revolutionary movement. We hope that we can 
all learn from this experience".
The delegates noted that while in other countries "the struggle against 
imperialism is only a resistance without any perspective", the Indian 
Mao-sits are "worth taking a look".
Disclosing the strategic aid CPI (Maoist) receives from abroad, the 
delegates said "concrete steps" have been made to "coordinate" the forces 
who support it.
"The innovative way in which the CPI (Maoist) is able to handle the immense 
diversity of the contradictions in India... and the way in which this party 
fights for the unification with the people's war... is an example that the 
highest attention should be given to," League Against the Imperial 
Aggression said.
The delegates said posters of Kishenji and slain Maoist spokesperson Azad 
have found their way in over 30 countries, including Colombia, Canada, 
Italy, Sweden, Austria, Spain, France, Germany, Turkey and Italy as they are 
building organizations to mobilize support.
The groups shared their experiences of how they are extending support. The 
Revolutionary Front in Defense of The People's Right of Brazil gave several 
instances when they held agitations outside the Indian consulate extending 
support to the CPI (Maoist). Maoist Communist Party of France said it 
distributed thousands of leaflets and posters in several universities.
While the CPI (Maoist) delegates could not attend the event, they sent a 
written message that was read out. "Despite the efforts of the enemy, we 
grow in strength in the guerrilla areas and expand in new areas," it said, 
and expressed appreciation for the support.
SPREADING WINGS
2010 JAN: International Committee to Support the People's War in India 
formed
SEPTEMBER: French
Committee to Support the
Revolution in India formed
2011 APRIL: First International Week of mobilization in support of people's 
war held in many countries
2012 JAN: Second International Week held
NOV: Hamburg conference organized. Attended by Maoist/Communist groups of 
more than two dozen countries, like France, Britain, Italy, Croatia, 
Afghanistan and Germany
2013 SEPT: International Committee to Support the People's War in India 
holds meeting in Milan, slams police action against DU teacher G N Saibaba, 
decides to celebrate 10th anniversary of CPI (Maoist) formation in 2014 

Comitato Sostegno GP India

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On the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assasination

I remember him as a kid. I didn’t know much about politics and I went to a Catholic school until the sixth grade. His picture hung on the wall of every Catholic school and even in some churches. He was the first Catholic to be elected president. So this was a monumental moment for members of the Catholic Church and it would show the rest of the people in the country that Kennedy would NOT be taking orders from the Pope...it never happened.

Like other past presidents, Kennedy was occasionally right and actually did the right thing a few times. That’s compared to all the presidents since Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.

Kennedy was a cold warrior and he meddled in Eastern Europe and Indochina. Many of his supporters don’t believe he would have sent all those troops to Vietnam as President London Johnson did. But they have no solid evidence to support that. So if he wasn’t assassinated he might have built the war just as Johnson did.

There was his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech declaring he would protect West Berlin from being annexed by the East German government. That government wasn’t much more than a military dictatorship controlled by a foreign power. Of course Kennedy was not a Berliner. The irony of this is that when the wall came down, All Eastern parts of Germany were annexed by the West—people were charged with crimes they committed in the past, in a country that was not really part of West German. The East Berliners were give substandard jobs, corporate bosses in West Germany simply took over the party and state companies, leaving most East Berliners out business opportunities. The Western Government confiscated all money and valuable assets that the former ruling party had.  There political parties were dwarfed and made insignificant when the political system was completely merged. East Berliners only made up about ¼ to 1/3 of the population. I short, the West screwed over the Easterners.

Then there was the Cuban-missile crisis. Kennedy’s staff figured out the Soviet Union was putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. Many people think the Soviets were unsure if the own missiles could reach the US if there was a nuclear war. Castro probably hoped the missiles would help defend his Island from a US attack. At the end of it all, Cuba won out. Kennedy signed an agreement not to invade Cuba and the Soviets had to withdraw their missiles. Kennedy became the first and only president to come close to launching nuclear missiles on the Soviet Union.

Kennedy had already tried to launch an invasion of the country, so the real winners of this were the Cuban Marxist government.
Kenney favored civil rights, but it was his vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who actually passed all the country’s anti-discrimination laws.

When he was assassinated the Warren Commission did such sloppy and rushed job, concerning others who might have been involved, that few people belied that his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone.

Many people who supported the Warren Commission and its member get angry and frustrated that most people don’t believe them when they insist Oswald acted alone. There are dozens of people with theories on who backed the assassination from the CIA to organized crime.

We can thank the Soviet Union for launching Sputnik, small satellite the orbited the earth doing little else. Kennedy came up with the idea of a manned moon landing and this was probably the high point of his presidentsy. The space program lasted long enough to land a man on the Moon (1969). In my opinion the Space Program is one of the few things this country did right. 

Although he was very popular he really didn’t make many substantial changes. He was a cold warrior who tried to topple the Fidel Castro Regime. I’m a communist myself, so I can relate to those communist who hate him. I wasn’t pro-Soviet, but I imagine if there were a lot of Maoist Countries or a Maoist revolution in Latin America, Kennedy would try to stop it. It was his idea to create the Peace Corps to prevent poor people in those countries listening to revolutionaries.

So he was a nice guy, even though he was a cold warrior. I was 5years old when he got elected. If I had been much older I would probably be one his critics. He was an imperialist, that part made him a bad preside. Yet he pushed for the space program. With all his faults he was still a lot better than the republicans (and some Democrats) who followed him.It’s the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I remember him as a kid. I didn’t know much about politics and I went to a Catholic school until the sixth grade. His picture hung on the wall of every Catholic school and even in some churches. He was the first Catholic to be elected president. So this was a monumental moment for members of the Catholic Church and it would show the rest of the people in the country that Kennedy would NOT be taking orders from the Pope...it never happened.

Like other past presidents, Kennedy was occasionally right and actually did the right thing a few times. That’s compared to all the presidents since Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.

Kennedy was a cold warrior and he meddled in Eastern Europe and Indochina. Many of his supporters don’t believe he would have sent all those troops to Vietnam as President London Johnson did. But they have no solid evidence to support that. So if he wasn’t assassinated he might have built the war just as Johnson did.

There was his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech declaring he would protect West Berlin from being annexed by the East German government. That government wasn’t much more than a military dictatorship controlled by a foreign power. Of course Kennedy was not a Berliner. The irony of this is that when the wall came down, All Eastern parts of Germany were annexed by the West—people were charged with crimes they committed in the past, in a country that was not really part of West German. The East Berliners were give substandard jobs, corporate bosses in West Germany simply took over the party and state companies, leaving most East Berliners out business opportunities. The Western Govrment confiscated all money and valuable assets that the former ruling party had.  There political parties were dwarfed and made insignificant when the political system was completely merged. East Berliners only made up about ¼ to 1/3 of the population. I short, the West screwed over the Easterners.

Then there was the Cuban-missile crisis. Kennedy’s staff figured out the Soviet Union was putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. Many people think the Soviets were unsure if the own missiles could reach the US if there was a nuclear war. Castro probably hoped the missiles would help defend his Island from a US attack. At the end of it all, Cuba won out. Kennedy signed an agreement not to invade Cuba and the Soviets had to withdraw their missiles. Kennedy became the first and only president to come close to launching nuclear missiles on the Soviet Union.

Kennedy had already tried to launch an invasion of the country, so the real winners of this were the Cuban Marxist government.
Kennedy favored civil rights, but it was his vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who actually passed all the country’s anti-discrimination laws.

When he was assassinated the Warren Commission did such sloppy and rushed job, concerning others who might have been involved, that few people belied that his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone.

Many people who supported the Warren Commission and its member get angry and frustrated that most people don’t believe them when they insist Oswald acted alone. There are dozens of people with theories on who backed the assassination from the CIA to organized crime.

We can thank the Soviet Union for launching Sputnik, small satellite the orbited the earth doing little else. Kennedy came up with the idea of a manned moon landing and this was probably the high point of his presidentsy. The space program lasted long enough to land a man on the Moon (1969). In my opinion the Space Program is one of the few things this country did right. 

Although he was very popular he really didn’t make many substantial changes. He was a cold warrior who tried to topple the Fidel Castro Regime. I’m a communist myself, so I can relate to those communist who hate him. I wasn’t pro-Soviet, but I imagine if there were a lot of Maoist Countries or a Maoist revolution in Latin America, Kennedy would try to stop it. It was his idea to create the Peace Corps to prevent poor people in those countries listening to revolutionaries.

So he was a nice guy, even though he was a cold warrior. I was 5years old when he got elected. If I had been much older I would probably be one his critics. He was an imperialist, that part made him a bad preside. Yet he pushed for the space program. With all his faults he was still a lot better than the republicans (and some Democrats) who followed him.

-សតិវ អតុ 

After he died, they put his face on the Half Dollar coin. The first year it was minted it was 90% silver. For the next six years the coin was 40% silver. After that all US coins had their silver removed including the JFK half dollar. For a couple of years people hoarded the coin and today it is rarely seen in circulation.

Addam's Family Values Thanksgiving Play

It’s Thanksgiving time again. We go home to eat lots of turkey and other fine fixings. We eat with family members and catch up on family gossip. While it is a nice holiday, we don’t usually focus on the negativity of it. Ironically the US Native American Indians showed people what plants they could grow for food and how to make use of the game animals they hunted. In return, white folks took advantage of them—ran them off their land, stuck them in places they were unfamiliar with and eventually white folks as myself fought a number of Indian wars.

So let’s enjoy a play that shows a more realist view of what White Europeans and Native American Indians had hope would happen rather than what DID happen.

-សតិវ អតុ

Organizations around the world support the revolution in India

Organizations around the world are supporting the revolution in India, which is largely led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Most of the countries in Europe have a solidarity committee of some kind to support India’s revolution. There have also been calls to stop the arbitrary arrest of Raj kishore Singh , General Secretary of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of India. Conferences are being planned for next year for a coordinated effort to support India’s revolution. Here in the US, many of us have covered these events, but actual support committees are not wide spread yet. This blog and Kasama Project have given a lot of coverage to the Indian revolution, but it might take a while to be able to interact with our European counter-parts.

-សតិវ អតុ

This is from the India Solidarity (Sweden):

Comrades and friends,

The board of India Solidarity (Sweden) have today decided to support the
first 8 points in the document (21th September) by the International
Committee to Support the Peoples War India (CSPWI). Point 9 and 10 is not a
question for our organization which is united on a anti-imperialist and
anti-feudal platform.

1. The maximum mass diffusion and study of Ganapathy PCIm Documents in all
languages possible.

*We will make a plan for the translation of important documents to Swedish
and print a collection of during 2014.*

2. The development on the organisative and political plan of the national
committees and national coordination in all countries of all various forces
that support people's war India with the target of development of prolonged
campaigns in the next 6 months.

*We will contact other political forces in Sweden for this purpose.*

3. The birth of a new and complete international website for information
and counter-information in the world, in English, Spanish and original
languages, ready for 25 November 2013.

*We will support the site with information in swedish and english if
needed.*

4. The launch of a new unified international campaign - starts 5 October
2013 - against Indian Government’s attacks against SAIBABA, Students for
Resistance, Artists and Intellectuals. This campaign must be developed in
all Universities, Schools, and Intellectual AREA in all countries.

*The board will discuss how this can be developed the coming month and
decide on some points of action.*

5 . The development a new international day for the 4000 Maoist and popular
political prisoners and for the liberation of some PCIm leaders - this day
will be fixed after 25 November after international consultation.

*The board will act to inform the public in Sweden on the situation of the
political prisoners in India and develop some kind of local actions when
the day is set. *

6. For 2014 - International Committee develops a planified work for an
INTERNATIONAL DELEGATION IN INDIA WITH THE PARTECIPATION OF SOLIDARITY
MILITANTS, INTELLECTUALS, PERSONALITIES, ETC FOR TO DENOUNCE AND TO
OPPOSE Operation Green Hunt
AND ALL FORMS OF REPRESSION AGAINST INDIAN PEOPLE STRUGGLING FOR NEW
DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION !

*The board have decided to try to send a delegation to India during 2014.*

7. The most important decision - for the 10th anniversary of PCIm
foundation - International Committee support people's war in India with all
Maoists, revolutionaries, anti-imperialists forces organized a
Second International Conference of support - possible not in Europe.
Convocation for this new conference will be issued in the spring 2014.

*The board will try to send a delegate to a coming conference.*

8. International Committee SPW India supports the liberation struggle of
Philippines and partecipes to all supporters initiatives, IC support all
people's wars and all armed anti-imperialist struggles in the world .

*The board will publish news on the liberation struggle in the Philippines
and inform the **Philippines society in Sweden.*

Solidarity greetings,

India Solidarity (Sweden), Stockholm, 2013-11-10

Arbitrary arrest of Raj kishore Singh, General Secretary of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of India

From Brazilian Center of Solidarity with the Peoples – CEBRASPO:

A Google translation;

For the immediate and unconditional release of Raj kishore !

Kshore Raj Singh is the leader of the popular movements in India and was one of the prominent voices against the war from the Indian state to its people miserable. It has been one of the main spokesmen of the fight against the so-called Operation Green Hunt , a campaign of persecution of activists and poor people which is being executed by the reactionary army at the behest of the Indian central government with the support of state governments .

The arrest of Raj kshore was not an isolated act of the Indian state that has systematically hunted people linked to the struggle of the people criminalizing leaders and grassroots activists , such as the recent case of Saibaba , the arrest and incarceration of the executive members Dandapani Mohanlalty in Orissa , Raja Sarkhel Bengal West Bengal RDF Committee Member Prasun Chatterjee .

We condemn the arrest of Raj Singh kshore and criminalization of activists and social movements . We demand immediate and unconditional release !

Prisão arbitrária de Raj kishore Singh, Secretário Geral da Frente Democrática Revolucionária da Índia
The oritional:
Pela libertação imediata e incondicional de Raj kishore!

Raj kshore Singh é dirigente dos movimentos populares na Índia e foi uma das vozes destacadas contra a guerra do Estado indiano ao seu povo miserável. Tem sido um dos principais porta-vozes da luta contra a chamada Operação Caçada Verde, uma campanha de perseguição aos militantes e ao povo pobre que vem sendo executada pelo exército reacionário a mando do governo central indiano com apoio de governos estaduais.

A prisão de Raj kshore não foi um ato isolado do Estado indiano que tem caçado sistematicamente pessoas ligadas à luta do povo criminalizando os dirigentes e ativistas populares, como o recente caso de Saibaba, a detenção e encarceramento dos membros executivos Dandapani Mohanlalty em Orissa, Raja Sarkhel de Bengala Ocidental , Bengala RDF Membro do Comitê Prasun Chatterjee.

Repudiamos a prisão de Raj kshore Singh e a criminalização dos ativistas e movimentos sociais. Exigimos imediata libertação incondicional!

Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos - CEBRASPO

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Tyson Foods dumps pig farm after NBC shows company video of alleged abuse

I have nothing against people eating pork, but treating animals like this is a disgrace. This is what the mechanization of corporate farming does to both animals and people. When we treat animals this way we lose our own humanity.

-សតិវ អតុ

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Philippines-Mindanao sympathizes with the victims of Yolanda—calls for mass support—criticizes the Aquino regime for its incompetence to the crisis

From the National Democratic Front of the Philippines;

By Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris)
Spokesperson
NDFP Mindanao Chapter

NDFP-Mindanao commiserates with thousands of families and individuals in Eastern, Central and Western Visayas, including some parts of Luzon and Mindanao, who tragically lost loved ones and livelihood, ravaged by the fiercest natural disaster ever to hit the country in over 30 years, supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan).

We would like also to express our deep concern to all Party members, Red fighters and the masses in the numerous guerrilla bases and zones across affected areas who suffered the extensive damage of Yolanda but continue to courageously defy the elements. By mainly relying on your revolutionary unity and fervor, we know you can overcome these most trying of times.

NDFP-Mindanao calls upon all revolutionary forces in the five regions of the island to mobilize the masses and allies in raising financial and material support for calamity victims. Given that our circumstances preclude us to participate in the actual distribution of relief items, all monetary and material donations collected may be channelled through reliable organizations or media centers for distribution to the beneficiaries.

Our Revolutionary victories in the last 45 years of hard struggle should be widely disseminated and rightfully celebrated, however, we call on all revolutionary forces in Mindanao to maintain frugal yet meaningful celebrations of our Party’s anniversary next month or any other activity that may require substantial resource. Any financial resource saved from this effort could very well be donated to the victims of typhoon Yolanda.

The people have been angered by the inutile, snail-paced, and inadequate assistance that Aquino III once hailed as “impeccable,” as was shown in the aftermath of the series of calamities brought on by Sendong and Pablo in Mindanao, and the recent 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Central Visayas. And now that the whole of Visayas reels under a greater calamity, a week after “Yolanda” struck, the masses in the region are further infuriated by the utter failure of the government’s response to this massive crisis, even as Aquino III arrogantly and stupidly declared, beforehand, “zero casualty”, and continued to down play figures of casualties.

The NDFP-Mindanao criticizes the Aquino regime for its gross inability to quickly reach out to as many victims as possible that, if not for the help of non-government entities and the international community, it would be a lame duck in the face of this immense catastrophe. We call on the entire Filipino people to press the Aquino regime to utilize and mobilize government resources, including the Legislature’s and Aquino’s pork barrel funds, to help rescue, immediately provide basic needs to, and rehabilitate millions of victims.

We also condemn the Aquino regime’s insensitivity in the wake of the current national calamity by its continued militarization of the countryside in Mindanao and the whole country through its intelligence operations, “Community Organizing for Peace and Development”(COPD) and widespread combat operations. The millions in taxpayer’s funds used in these operations may well be put to good use if channelled to the calamity fund.

Without a shred of doubt, these series of supertyphoons can only be the result of rapid “global warming,”which is exacerbated by carbon emissions from imperialist industries and its wanton destruction of the environment over the last 50 years by way of logging, agri-plantations and mining. Ironically, it is not the imperialists and the local ruling classes, whose businesses are the foremost culprits in the plunder and destruction of the environment, who are the chief victims of the typhoon, but the vast majority of poor people whom they have oppressed and exploited for many years.

The millions of peasants, workers and middle classes are the most vulnerable to the wrath of an environment now seeking payback, while the real criminals, who could not care less, remain safe and out of harm’s way in their haven. If the environment itself fails to make these exploiters accountable to their grave crimes, then the people will, without delay. The NDFP-Mindanao calls on the people to unite and expose, condemn and oppose the crimes committed by the imperialists and their local cohorts in causing this man-made calamity.

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Brown Recluse—another example of people’s fear of nature

Once again we see that people still have out dated fears of nature’s critters. I probably have brown recluse spiders living in my house. I don’t usually kill them. If they are in an inconvenient place, I put them outside. I can’t be sure they are recluses because there are a few spiders that look like them. The only way to be sure is to check their eyes and I don’t have a big enough magnifying glass. I have found some at my father’s house, where he has a bigger magnifying glass. I have been bitten only once by these brown spiders and nothing happened at all. It may have been one of the many look-alike spiders or, as a friend said, maybe I’m naturally immune to their bite. But I respect these critters as I respect snakes in the wild. They are simply small animals that are well protected with their venom. People who spray for them probably do more damage to themselves with the chemicals than they will ever suffer from the bites of these things.

People put their faith in chemicals that may be more dangerous than the small animals they don’t trust the way most people hate snakes. As with water snakes, people often mistake them for water moccasins which are extremely rare in Kansas. The article below says a scholar asked people to send in any brown recluses and He received 1,773 specimens, from 49 states. Less than 20 percent — 324 — were brown recluses.

-សតិវ អតុ

From Wired;

It’s hard to think of a critter that inspires as much hyperbolic hysteria as the brown recluse spider. They’re pretty much universally hated. If you believe the tales, these small arachnids are biting people all day, every day, producing massive, stinking flesh-craters that require months of intensive care and perhaps a prosthetic appendage. Sometimes, it seems these spiders have nothing better to do than hunker down in dark corners throughout North America, waiting for tender human skin to present itself.

Though there are strands of truth in the hype, on the whole, it’s bunk.

It is true that some of the spider’s bites lead to necrotic skin lesions, but around 10 percent of them. The others (like the one at right), aren’t that bad. The brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa) only lives in a few states – basically, the warmer ones between the Rockies and the Appalachians. And they don’t really want to bite you. It’s actually not that easy for them.

For more click here.

Rebel Diaz: Get On the Floor

CNN’s Anderson Cooper versus Noynoy Aquino on the Typhoon Yolanda situation: like fact versus fiction

It has been a while since I’ve seen a mainstream journalist or pundit actually take on a foreign government that is clearly a US ally. Here a journalist for CNN is taking on the Philippines’ government for their corruption and injustice to their own people.  

-សតិវ អតុ

This is from CNN;

There is now an ongoing battle for the truth about the real situation in typhoon-ravaged areas amidst the tragedy that is still unfolding a week after super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) left the Philippines. On one side, members of the international media are giving factual reports from the ground at the disaster zone. On the other side are people from Malacanang including President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino who are giving a much rosier update from a cozier distance.

While CNN journalist Anderson Cooper reporting from Tacloban City observed that he sees “no real evidence of organized recovery or relief” effort coming from the Philippine government where he is at, the same day President BS Aquino was giving a “reassuring” report during an interview with CNNstudio reporter Christiane Amapour that the Philippine government’s relief and rescue operations were well on its way. The President even said, “all national roads have been reopened and most national airports are back to operating levels”.

Amapour’s professionalism remained commendable despite her receiving some ambiguous responses from BS Aquino. Others would have asked for pictures as proof of the President’s claims, or else it hasn’t happened. In fact, ground reporter Cooper was actually reporting live and showing actual footage from the ruins of Tacloban airport. The picture he showed was grimmer.

For the rest click here.

 Telling it like it is in Tacloban: CNN’s Anderson Cooper

Philippines- CPP calls for mass mobilization, international support for relief operations

From the Communist Party of the Philippines;

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)...(Nov. 9) extended its sympathies to the millions of people affected by supertyphoon Yolanda which ravaged provinces in Eastern and Central Visayas, in Panay, Negros, Masbate, Mindoro, Palawan and other islands, as well as in areas in Eastern and South Eastern Mindanao, Northern Mindanao and provinces in Southern Luzon.

At the same time, the CPP called for mass mobilization across the country and abroad to generate emergency supply and funds for rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts. The CPP called on “people in the areas least affected by the storm to extend maximum possible help to the people who are most in need of emergency assistance.”

Yesterday, tropical storm Yolanda (international name Haiyan) barreled across the Philippines, leaving a wide swath of destruction. Yolanda is considered to be among the strongest typhoons ever to hit land, and one of the most powerful of storms over the past 30 years.

The CPP said that among the areas which were devastated by the strong winds are revolutionary base areas which are within the scope of authority of the provisional revolutionary government and in the areas of operation of the New People’s Army and other revolutionary mass organizations.

The CPP also pointed out that many of the areas ravaged by the typhoon were those recently hit by powerful earthquakes where people were most vulnerable to the strong winds and rains.

“These areas are among the most impoverished in the entire country, where the majority are poor peasants, unemployed farm workers, small fisherfolk and indigenous peoples,” said the CPP. “They have long been abandoned by the reactionary government and will not be among its priorities for assistance.”

The CPP said it is still awaiting detailed reports from its local committees, as well as mass organizations and NPA units in the areas.

Veteran’s Day—nauseating clichés—outright lies—but at least I get the day off

Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day and after watching ABC News and our local KAKE TV News, I am already nauseated. I usually run something about Veteran’s Day and what all our wars really amount to such as fighting for cheap gas, but this year seems to be the worst yet and I am guessing it will only get worse.

I just finished watching the evening news (ABC) and when I say News I’m using the term loosely because very little of it is actually was news. There was a large segment of surprise homecomings for the family of a navy sailor who just came back from fighting for our empire. Equally important was a segment of Beyoncé giving a fan a photo of herself at a concert. I’m sure nothing more important in the world was going on other than that. And Beyoncé is one of those plastic meaningless shallow singers who has virtually nothing of substance to sing about.

Then came our local KAKE TV with more about veteran’s and that phrase I have heard over and over and over and over and over all week long—“These are the people who are fighting for our freedom.” That is a blatant lie. NO ONE IS FIGHTING FOR MY FREEDOM. And this is a country that is more and more based on lying to its people through corrupt nefarious politicians and lazy ass-kissing TV anchors who act as if they are just mouth pieces for the two indistinguishable political parties that rule this so called “free country.” I don’t feel very free living here, but I guess that doesn’t matter to our corporate masters who have full control of our media and government.

Last week I worked at a school and could over-hear a teacher indoctrinating the students with a story about a soldier who just died and “They fight for the freedoms you take for granted while you sleep at night.”

It’s enough to gag me. I have tomorrow off due to this wonderful and important holiday and at least I have the option of NOT watching the phony news.

Happy Veteran’s Day! If you love killing people you don’t know, taking their countries over and stealing all their resources—be sure and thank a Vet.

-សតិវ អតុ

THEY ALL FOUGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM!

Nepal—a glimpse of hope—liberals red-bate us

It was this morning that I was listening to NPR, the so called “liberal” radio station. I guess it is liberal at times. But if the far-right and liberals have one thing in common, it is red bating. For example an NPR described China under the Maoist years as a “totalitarian economic basket Case.” Of course he didn’t call present day China as a totalitarian society. He went on to explain that China needs to be more like the west to become a major economic player.

That’s not the first right-wing comment I’ve hear by liberal NPR. They were giving a lot of positive coverage of the Free Syrian Army some time ago. Many of us see them as agents of imperialism.

Then there is the Huffington Post. This is what they had to say about the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and their attempt to return to their revolutionary roots and boycotting the present election system in Nepal;

A small faction of the Maoist party is hell-bent on creating chaos and disrupting the election. Nepali media is reporting sporadic episodes of attack on candidates and obstruction to campaigns all over the country. Nepali Congress, the United Marxist-Leftist (UMP) and the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will dominate the seats in the Assembly.

And soon we have Veteran’s Day and I’ve already had to overhear a teacher, in this place I am working, telling his students, “A soldier just died. They are out there defending you while you sleep at night.”

It was enough to make me puke. On the TV this morning there was a whole episode on the morning news about families being re-united with their military loved ones as they return (from defending the empire).

So it was a welcome relief to see the following articles written about the revolution in Nepal, published in Kasama Project;

By Mike Ely

 In our world, it is rare that defiance overruns despair.

The spread of revolutionary dreams among the planet's poorest people is a precious and welcome development. And the poor of Nepal have such dreams. The large revolutionary movement in Nepal, one of the world’s poorest countries, is almost unknown in the U.S. It is invisible in the world’s mainstream news reporting. It is treated as unimportant, marginal and even (most unfair of all) as "terrorist."We ask you to take a moment to learn about it. We ask you to help spread the word. Millions of people in Nepal have sacrificed for radical change – acting together in waves of uprisings across the last twenty years.

Click here for the rest.

And; 

By Gorki

The people of Nepal are speaking up - the Nepalese communists have a right to boycott their country's thoroughly bourgeois elections. Nepal is at a crossroads: it can either take the capitalist road or the socialist road; one leads to continuing misery and exploitation of the Nepalese people by the first world (and, it can be said, India), while the other will lead to new forms of popular representation and a renewed movement to finally rid Nepal of its rampant corruption and inequality under capitalism.

Click here for the rest.

So in the US—especially in such places as Wichita—we endure tons of right-wing propaganda that is excruciatingly dull, boring and just plan annoying.

I have many friends in this town who are either liberals or democratic socialists. We are friends and we get along, especially on such issues as abortion. However, their ideology and their establishment proponents can become our enemies. We get disgusted and depressed over a system that rolls over us and squashes us like a bug. My friends and I have an agreement to disagree.

And the revolution in Nepal gives people as I real hope for change somewhere in the world. In a world gone mad, this is the best we ever had or as Mao(毛泽东) said; “Combat Liberalism.” 

-សតិវ អតុ

Italy—Organize and Unite for the General Uprising

From the Communist Maoist Party-Italy;

Masters, Finance, Banking and their government - today Letta/Alfano/Berlusconi - deny a job to many unemployed, temporary workers, particularly in the south, to maintain with dignity their family, and many of them now have no longer any income; layoffs and closures of factories increase, the wages of workers and people's masses are attacked and so the cost of health care, education, housing, social services and the living in general get more expensive, the right to health and life is denied and increasingly at risk in the factories and polluted territories, while the government quickly finds the money for military spending, warships, F35 aircraft, while hundreds of immigrants escaping from hunger and war die in our waters.

Masters, governments and their state respond with repression to the movements of proletarians and people’s masses struggling, but repression does not stop but feeds the struggle!

Parties and official unions unite around the interests of the imperialist bourgeoisie to download the crisis on workers and people’s masses, while the politicians’ corruption, bribing and the big organized crime flourish.

In the crisis, the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer!

Can we accept this? Can we do this life?

We call the workers, unemployed, temporary workers, youth, women, the masses to rise up and organize to defend their living conditions, to struggle for a job, income and health with a real general strike that really paralyzes the country and, within it and beyond it, to develop a general uprising to topple the Letta government and any government of the masters, against the bourgeois state and for the proletarian power.

It is in the fire of the outbreaks of this general uprising that the revolutionary party is built, the communist party, vanguard political fighter of the working class, for a new beginning of protracted people's war. It is in the fire of a general uprising the we can win and develop the mass organizations - class union, people’s organizations, revolutionary youth organization (red block), and proletarian revolutionary feminist movement - united in a revolutionary united front.

Any other path is the peaceful and parliamentary way that never gave any result for the proletariat and the people’s masses, any other organization, no matter how it defines itself, is dogmatic-revisionist or reformist and opportunist.

And this is the path of the workers who build the Maoist Communist Party in Italy, this is the path we and propagate in the national day of struggle on 7^th of November – 93^rd anniversary of the October Revolution.

 Partito Comunista maoista – Italia

E-mail: pcro.red@gmail.com

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