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Thursday, March 24, 2011

India - 27 injured in clash between Maoists and jail staff

Twenty seven people, including six jail staff, were injured during a clash with Maoists lodged in Midnapore Central Jail here today.
Six jail staff, including head warden Deepak Kumar Baidya, were injured when Maoists lodged in the prison complex clashed with them following the death of an undertrial prisoner here last night, said officials.
The Moaists alleged that the undertrial prisoner, Kailash Das, had died due to the negligence of the prison officials.
Twenty one prisoners were also injured in the melee, said officials, adding that the injured have been rushed to the Midnapore Medical College Hospital.
For the last two months, Maoists lodged in the complex have been agitating against the alleged poor quality of food served in the jail other sub-standard facilities.
Many high profile Maoists including PCPA leader Chattradhar Mahato are lodged in the Midnapore Central jail.

Are mega marts our future?

From


We have a new mega store down the street called Menards. What do they sell? They sell everything. They have food, hardware, gardening equipment, just about everything a store can sell.
They even advertise themselves as a “mega store.” We already have a Wal*Mart, a Target, for food and jus about everything else. We have a Lowe’s for all the hardware projects a person may need.
I can remember when there were little stores that sold groceries. We still have nursery stores that not only sell seeds and plants, but they have experts who can tell us about them. We have a small hardware store that can tell us what kind of wood we might use as siding or for window sills. But what happens to them when low wage, super-volume mega marts start taking over. Will these young low wage owners actually know much about the department they work in? Will low prices put the smaller shops out of business?
Besides these questions there is the look of these mega stores. They seem as large as a football field and have a parking lot just as big. They are REALLY well lit. That means if you live within a block of these eyesores you will never see most of the stars, nor will you really see a dark night for as long as you live in your house.

Yoko Ono, Patti Smith and others to raise funds for the Japan disaster

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Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Patti Smith with Tony Shanahan
Cibo Matto & more
Tuesday March 29th 2011

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

BBC's Katty Kay: Obama Doesn't Want Media To Report Bahrain Rebellion

I believe we need to keep reminding people that there are rebellions in other parts of the Middle-east besides Libya. So here is another report on Bahrain. -សតិវ​ អតុ

From NewsBusters;

Despite our air attacks in Libya this weekend, most Middle East experts view the growing rebellion in Bahrain as being far more important to America.
Yet according to the BBC's Katty Kay, who was a guest on the syndicated "Chris Matthews Show," the Obama administration doesn't want the press reporting what's going on there (video follows with transcript and commentary):


Rachel Maddow: Michigan's Dystopian (Corporate Republican) Future And Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Virgil “let’s shoot illegal aliens” Peck should resign

From
Even after he apologized onCNN, Kansas Democrats continued their call Friday for Rep. Virgil Peck, Republican to resign, according to The Wichita Eagle.
Peck’s Comments have made it to the national news and he is getting plenty of attention. Most of it is not good.
 
Jessica Hord of Newsy.comwarned someone may be inspired to do such a thing. She said this is just fuel to the fire for some unstable mind who believes it must be OK if Peck thinks it is.
She said a nine year old girl was killed by a vigilante border guard in Arizona.
Various laws are being considered that are similar to the state of Arizona, where a person who simply “looks Latino” could be stopped for suspicion of being an illegal alien.
According to CNN;
"We must call upon Rep. Peck to resign his seat in the House of Representatives and allow someone who will respect the proper role of a state representative to take his place," House Minority Leader Rep. Paul Davis said Friday.
KansasHouse Speaker Mike O'Neal refused to comment on the call for Peck's resignation. O'Neal told reporters he "considers it a private matter" and would not comment further.
Also, according to The Wichita Eagle, calls for Peck to resign have also been from the National Council of La Raza, Somos Republicans, the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Latino Information Network of Kansas.
Apparently, Peck and many of his Republican friends don’t realize how serious his “joke” was. Killing innocent people is never funny. Peck should resign as he is being asked to by so many Latino groups.

The construction of the Second Communist International is an essential aspect of the work of any communist party

This is what we read in the latest issue of the review of the (new) Italian Communist Party. The CARC Party fully agrees with this, and acts accordingly.
The complete article is reported below.

CARC Party – International Department




Ten, hundred Egypt! Tens, hundreds Nepal!
The second wave of proletarian revolution advances all over the world

The peoples of the Arab countries are rising one after the other. They have taken the first step, one after the other puppet governments of the International Community led by the U.S. government and blessed by the Pope of Rome are overthrown. The authorities and imperialist groups run for cover. So the rivalry between them worsened. The racist and theocratic state built by the Zionists who colonized Palestine is moving towards its end: its duration it will be less than that of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1187) founded by the Crusaders in Palestine. The revolt smoulders in other countries, even in the imperialist countries. The discontent and the turmoil are growing in the U.S.A.: sooner or later the masses of U.S.A. will find their way to establish socialism. The maniacal fury with which the U.S. bourgeoisie accumulates money, creates new weapons, expands its military bases and its police agencies around the world will show what it is: the manifestation of the desperation of the commander of the Titanic who cannot do anything but obsessively multiply old rites, make the orchestra play and the passengers dance while his ship is sinking. The deviation towards capitalism in China will clash with the general crisis of capitalism: the wisdom of the teaching of Proletarian Cultural Revolution and of Mao Tse-tung will shine out.
Is this what will happen? No! This is what we Communists and the masses will do! They are the men who make their history!
The crisis of capitalism deepens. They are the system of social relations of capitalist mercantile production that the bourgeoisie has imposed all over the world, the system of international relations that ensued from it, the world imperialist system which brought about, perpetuate and aggravate this crisis. The economic crisis combines with the environmental crisis. No State that respects the imperialist world system, subjected to its monetary and financial system can cope with the effects of the crisis, even to the most serious one, much less to end the crisis. We have before us a turning point in human history. The exhaustion of the first wave of proletarian revolution and the perpetuation of the imperialist world system have led humanity into a chaos of exceptional gravity.
Humanity will come out of it establishing socialism, then  it will go towards communism. Of course the road is still long. The exploited classes and oppressed peoples will have to overcome many difficulties. It will be a difficult and painful way. But it is the only possible way and we will do it. The human species is an intelligent species. In its thousands of years evolving from a state similar to that of other animal species to its present state, it has overcome more serious difficulties with more primitive means. Humanity now has the intellectual and moral resources to deal successfully with the situation.
Just over 150 years ago, Marxism has shown the nature of evolution that humanity is going along and discovered the laws which govern its course. The communist movement is this ongoing transformation led by Marxism. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is the Marxism enriched by the experiences till now done.
We Communists have the basic tools to analyze the conditions, forms and results of the path that humanity is going along and to discover the special steps that must be done country by country. We must take full advantage of the tools we have and give us the means of our policy. Marxism is a science, is the philosophy of human history. In each country, the Communist Party must translate its general terms in the special conditions of its country, obtaining a line and apply it in practice. At the same time it has to gradually forge closer ties with the communist parties of other countries, because the work we have to do is international. The construction of the Second Communist International is an essential aspect of the work of any communist party.
The first essential condition for successfully carrying out our work is that we Communists assimilate the communist conception of the world and apply it creatively to the concrete conditions of our work. The greatest damage of the exhaustion of the first wave of world proletarian revolution is the discredit that the defeat has thrown on our doctrine in our own ranks, a discredit that the bourgeoisie and the clergy tried by all means to accentuate and perpetuate. The bourgeois left[1] is the personification of this discredit. The vanity of its work and the demonstrated inability to achieve its aspirations confirm that humanity has no road or other method of processing than those that Marxism has shown. From here we must start to advance. Marxism is the theory that guides us and we develop and enrich it developing our experience. We must assimilate it, apply it and develop it.
The mobilization on a large-scale, of millions of the popular masses has begun. It will extend. The maneuvers in which the bourgeoisie, the clergy, the other ruling classes, their spokesmen and agents certainly resort to keep power, far from stifling the mobilization of the masses, the will feed it. Our mistakes will slow it down, but they will not stifle it. We shall learn from our mistakes, to find the right path and illuminate it better. When the masses are mobilized, it is necessary that the Communists launch the watchwords in which those who want to advance will recognize themselves, that the Communists proclaim the objectives that the masses have to carry out to free themselves, to transform and move forward. In this way the Communists direct. Let the sad people the laments because there are still backward aspects and because the road ahead is long. This is the international situation. This is the spirit with which we Communists face it!

Nicola P.
La Voce,  n. 37 del (nuovo)Partito comunista italiano



[1] The bourgeois left, in Italy, is represented by the political forces in which the revisionists gradually transformed themselves, that is to say anti-communist or anyway not communist intellectual and political men, whose programs and objectives are completely enclosed in the horizon of the bourgeois society.

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER-March 20th -26th

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER will be lit from March 20th -26th 2011
to celebrate the first week of Spring and John & Yoko's wedding anniversary.
The Tower is lit from approximately 9pm until midnight, Reykjavik time.
Visit the official website, IMAGINEPEACETOWER.com, where you can watch a live feed of the TOWER and send your wishes LIVE to IMAGINE PEACE TOWER by Twitter, Facebook, Email or regular mail.

Monday, March 21, 2011

New War Front In Libya

Now President Barrack Obama is learning to speak out of both sides of his mouth. Tonight on TV he said the US wants Muammar Qaddafi, معمر القذافي out of Libya, but his military interveniont is only to stop the killing of civilians

On Bloomberg.com, even conservatives are unimpressed with the Obama double speek;
March 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. lawmakers in both parties are demanding a detailed plan from President Barack Obama for what he wants to accomplish through military action in Libya, expressing concerns that the mission could drag on without a clearer endgame.
Republicans who were among the most vocal advocating for aggressive U.S. intervention against Muammar Qaddafi now are criticizing Obama for failing to explain his goals in participating in air and missile strikes in Libya. At the same time, some congressional Democrats have called on Obama to come to Congress for authorization to use force in the conflict.

The truth is he isn’t fooling anyone. On the left we know he cares nothing about human rights and everything about oil and the US Empire.

While US suppresses rebellion in Bahrain

If there is any doubt that the US is playing a hypocritical game of “let’s help the rebels we agree with and ignore the plight of those who want freedom from our own despots,” it is this article from The Telegraph(UK);

Saudi Arabia's support for the Gulf state risks drawing Iran into the conflict, writes Con Coughlin.

The issue occupying diplomats at the UN yesterday was how best to respond to the Libyan crisis. But an even graver threat to our future prosperity and security is unfolding in the tiny Gulf state of Bahrain.
At first glance, the decision by Bahrain's Sunni royal family to call in the Saudis to help quell an anti-government revolt by Shia protesters might seem the logical outcome to a dispute that showed no sign of a peaceful resolution. Ever since the protesters made the Pearl roundabout the epicentre of their campaign in mid-February, the ruling family has made strenuous efforts to meet their demands. Sheikh Salman al-Khalifa, the Crown Prince, has repeatedly sought to open a dialogue with the demonstrators, with a view to addressing their concerns. But the more the royal family has attempted to reach out, the more intransigent the demands of the protest movement have become.

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