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On the Gaza Conflict FDC / Stop the War Coalition (Philippines) 2009-01-09 10:23 AM
Israel’s claims of self-defense are clearly refuted by the disproportionate consequences of its aggression. With the death toll rising to 599, including 133 children, 33 women, and 6 medics, Israel can no longer hide the fact that its actions are tantamount to genocide, as Richard Falk, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, has pointed out. (text/plain)

how to build solidarity and revolutionary movements johnd doe 2009-01-08 6:27 PM
news reports come in from all over the world about attrocities against civilians and nations who have consistently been abused by the first and second world. lately there have been calls for building solidarity, and rightly so. but what are the important steps towards reaching this goal? (text/plain)

U.S. Backed Invasion by Israel: Stop the Israeli Massacre in Gaza! Larry Everest 2009-01-08 5:51 PM
Shortly after darkness fell on Saturday night, January 3, Israel launched a massive land invasion of Gaza involving 9,000-10,000 soldiers, tanks, helicopters, and heavy artillery, engineering and intelligence forces, with the support of Israel’s Air Force, navy, and secret police and spy agencies. The ground invasion came after Israel, for the first time, unleashed an artillery barrage on Gaza, striking a mosque and killing at least 11 people. By the next day, Israeli forces had reportedly cut Gaza in half, “bisecting” it between north and south. (text/plain)

The Long March of the Cuban Revolution posted by F Espinoza 2009-01-08 3:08 PM

In 1960, C. Wright Mills warned Americans that the revolution in Cuba was the start of a wider process that would spread to Latin America and the third world. On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, practically anyone can see that our continent has begun a new era... (image/jpeg)

*NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION* BREAK UP WITH BANK OF AMERICA ON VALENTINES DAY Risiing Tide Boston 2009-01-08 5:41 AM
*NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION* BREAK UP WITH BANK OF AMERICA ON VALENTINES DAY FEB 14th, 2009: MASS DAY OF ACCOUNT CLOSURES STOP ALL EVICTIONS AND FORECLOSURES! STOP FINANCING COAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE! Contact: valentinesday@risingtideboston.org This Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2009, join Rising Tide Boston (RTB) in demanding that Bank of America stop its funding of the dirty and deadly coal industry and demanding, in solidarity with City Life/Vide Urbana, that the Bank stop its unjust foreclosures and evictions of working families. Closing your account with Bank of America (BOA) is an important step in bringing closure to this unhealthy relationship. In Boston, we are planning a day of coordinated bank account closures in at least two locations, and encourage people in other places to organize something similar. (text/plain)

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF GAZA AND PALESTINE! Third World Solidarity Movement 2009-01-04 2:47 AM
Condemn and protest the Wall Street-Bush-Zionist megaterrorist border-occupation and invasion of Gaza and the atrocities against civilians! (text/plain)

Zionist Mass Murder: Break the Siege, Defend Gaza! Internationalist Group 2008-12-30 4:11 AM
At midday on December 27, Israeli warplanes launched a massive bomb attack on the densely populated Gaza Strip. More than 270 Palestinians were killed as wave after wave of U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters dropped more than 100 bombs. The Israeli military said they were targeting Hamas installations, but numerous civilians were killed, including a number of children, as schools had just let out for lunch. The Zionists' attack on downtown areas was deliberate mass murder. The Israeli slaughter was carried out with the full knowledge and a green light from its imperialist patrons in Washington, as well as U.S. client regimes such as Egypt. The Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International condemn the Israeli mass murder in Gaza and call for action by the international working class in defense of Gaza and the Palestinian people, including efforts to break the siege. (text/html)

Continually updated news on the Greek riots l 2008-12-13 6:36 PM
The Center For Strategic Anarchy blog is being continually updated with news, images, video, and accounts from solidarity actions around the world. Come get your piping hot Greek riot news: http://anarchiststrategy.blogspot.com (text/plain)

Friday reports from Greece dim 2008-12-13 3:14 AM
Friday reports from Greece (text/plain)

GeoClan.com interview about Journalists for Mumia Abu-Jamal Hans Bennett interviewed by Clayton Ruley 2008-12-12 2:16 AM

Those advocating this radical journalist's execution show a disturbing lack of concern about the undeniable problems of racism (and all documented police/DA/judicial misconduct) throughout this case. At the most fundamental level, the FOP-led 'Fry Mumia' campaign's lack of concern is racist....The FOP appeals to a racist lynch-mob mentality that has long infected the US, so calling this a 'legal lynching' is no exaggeration. (image/jpeg)

Leftist Union Leaders Assassinated in Venezuela League for the Fourth International 2008-12-06 2:18 PM
On November 27, three leftist union leaders in the Venezuelan state of Aragua – Richard Gallardo, Luis Hernández and Carlos Requena – were gunned down by an assassin. The murder came hours after the unionists had led a workers occupation of a Colombian-owned milk plant which had been brutally broken up by state police. All three were leaders of the UNT (National Workers Union) and of the USI (Socialist Left Unity), a party which has opposed attempts by the government of Hugo Chávez to impose state control of labor, and has fought the rightist opposition backed by imperialism. They may have been murdered by assassins hired by the Colombian company, by elements connected to the police of outgoing state governor, a former Chávez ally, or by supporters of a current official of the governing United Socialist Party. In any case, despite Chávez’ socialist rhetoric, the reality of the bourgeois Bolivarian “revolution” in Venezuela today is that leftist unionists are murdered while the forces of capitalist state repression back up the bosses. While many leftists have called on the Chávez government to investigate, Trotskyists call for organizing workers defense guards and imposing workers control of production. Venezuela today is stuck at a crossroads. Building a Bolshevik-type workers party based on Trotsky’s program of permanent revolution is key. (text/html)

Blame the Takers, Not the Makers Mumia Abu-Jamal 2008-12-03 10:48 AM
The UAW fought long and hard for the wages they've earned. They shouldn't be dogged for this...The media narrative should be, why aren't all American workers paid a more decent wage? (audio/mpeg)

Philippines: An urgent call to the NDF and the GRP regarding the recent killings of farmer Collective 2008-12-02 1:56 AM
An urgent call to the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) regarding the recent killings of farmers! (text/plain)

Continuing, Unrelenting Terrorism and Mumbai Gary Sudborough 2008-12-01 1:38 AM
There are various types of terrorism. There is periodic terrorism by poor, technologically deficient people against targets of the rich like fancy hotels and restaurants and there is an unrelenting, everyday terrorism, mainly from the sky, on poor innocent people because they happen to live above an oil-rich or strategically important area for western capitalists. This everyday terrorism from aircraft, mainly from the United States and Britain, kills and maims many more people than do the periodic attacks on symbols of the rich and powerful, but oh, which gets the media attention? Does one see Iraqi, Afghani or Pakistani children maimed and blown to pieces like one sees the victims of the Mumbai terrorism? The media don't even cover it and it is not called terrorism, but war. One million Iraqis have been killed, but it receives almost no coverage when compared to the few hundred killed in Mumbai. Little Iraqi children suffer from horrible birth defects due to depleted uranium, but again just try to get some media coverage of these terrible events. In fact, the tons of depleted uranium dropped in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia are a threat to the genetic heritage of the whole world, since the atmosphere is global and the wind can carry radioactive particles anywhere around the planet. This is terrorism on a colossal scale. Wedding ceremonies, funeral processions and tribal gatherings are continually bombed in Afghanistan and the United States will always claim it is an accident. I have been following these events for years and these "accidents" occur every year. When something occurs time after time over a long period, it is likely not an accident. If a child of yours was killed or maimed by a bomb from a foreign power, would that not engender a desire for revenge. Terrorism breeds terrorism. Another seldom remembered event was the so-called convoy of death in Afghanistan in the early months of the US occupation of that country. Hundreds of Taliban were crowded into a trailer truck like cattle and then were attempted to be moved from the north of the country to a prison near Herat. Not only was there no space to move, there were no air holes so people could breathe. When it became obvious they were smothering to death, an order was given to open fire and blow air holes in the trailer. This caused even more deaths. Finally, the survivors were herded into the desert, machine gunned and given a mass burial. A documentary was made of this event, but as usual the mass media didn't want the American people to see it. There is another kind of terrorism practiced by the United States called torture. Terrorism is violence intended to intimidate, and torture fits this definition perfectly. The CIA tortures at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and various rendition centers around the world. Hooding people is a very insidious form of torture because deprivation of light can cause major depression in the brain and this is horribly painful. This is terrorism and it didn't start as Jane Mayer implies in her new book The Dark Side when George W. Bush came to power and America was virtuous until that time. The CIA has been torturing for years, particularly in Latin America. Dan Mitrione of the US Office of Public Safety taught the Uruguayan police how to torture the Tupamayo guerrillas by kidnapping homeless people off the streets and torturing them to death. Noam Chomsky in his book Turning the Tide gives the example of how the elite commandos in El Salvador, trained by the United States, killed a whole family suspected of sympathizing with the guerrillas, decapitated them and placed the heads around the dinner table just in front of the torsos. This is the epitome of intimidation and terrorism done on behalf of the United States. Michael Parenti also discusses the various forms of torture used by the CIA and their lackeys in Latin America including electric shock to the genitals and even tying one man's penis so he couldn't urinate, ruining his kidneys. Sister Diana Ortiz suffered horribly in Guatemala at the hands of the Guatemalan police and CIA. She was lowered into a pit of dead and dying human beings covered with rats and forced to stab a dying person with a machete. United States government terrorism has been going on for a very long time. When asked why priests and nuns were targeted, the Guatemalan special forces spokesman simply stated that it was because they were for the poor people and therefore, communists. A man who survived the Mumbai disaster said it was pure evil. He was right. However, the greatest pure evil comes from the ruling class of the United States and the violence they can propagate through their agencies like the Pentagon and CIA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (text/plain)

Cien días de incoherencias, inoperancia y corrupción Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-11-30 12:47 PM
Como cien días de incoherencias, inoperancia y corrupción podrían calificarse a los primeros tres meses de gobierno del obispo Fernando Lugo. (text/plain)

ARE THEY KINGS OF SLAVES OR THE US CONGRESS ?? DOUGLAS FIELD 2008-11-29 10:13 PM
PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS TO TELL THE LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD US DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS ~ LET MY PEOPLE GO ! (text/plain)

Capitalism in Crisis Gary Sudborough 2008-11-28 10:52 PM
Some thoughts on the current economic crisis and capitalism (text/plain + 1 comment)

China's lessons of globalization, borderless financial cisis, entrepreneurship, politics globalization, finance, politics forum 2008-11-26 6:09 AM
is global financial cisis changing global politics and business map? Is Chinese century arriving sooner? What is really behind all the changes inside Chinese and Indian politics, business, finance and society? Get most provocative lessons and knowledge from a timely book. (text/plain)

On forming a squatter camp Resolved White 2008-11-25 3:48 PM

It's easy and cheap (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

WILL THE ROYAL FAMILY NOW HELP PRESIDENT OBAMA ~ FREE THEM ? DOUGLAS FIELD 2008-11-22 1:53 AM

The global crisis is a crisis of capitalism Workers' Party - Philippines 2008-11-22 1:17 AM

It is time for the workers and the poor in the Philippines to prepare for the worse the moment its government keeps on repeating the mantra that the economic fundamentals remain good and thus there is little to worry about effects of the global recessionary trend. The world found itself in the present mess precisely because of such blind faith in neoliberal fundamentalism. (image/jpeg)

Barack Obama's Africa Policy Implications Peter O. Otika 2008-11-20 6:22 PM
An insightful look at how the appointment of Sen. Hillary Clinton as US Secretary and Barack Obama's appointment of former President Bill Clinton's insiders will negatively affect US-Africa policy. (text/plain)

Philippine social movements storm US Embassy Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) 2008-11-17 1:28 PM

Philippine social movements hit G-20 summit’s exclusivity, call for a new and democratic world order (image/jpeg)

Filipino Workers to heads of G20: Creating a better world order is no more your business Partido ng Manggagawa (Workers Party) 2008-11-16 10:52 AM

Relegating the world’s future to the hands of same leaders who created the current global economic crisis is a recipe to further disaster, according to Partido ng Manggagawa (Workers Party), a militant labor party in the Philippines which joined hundreds of other protesters in a march to the US embassy this morning in time for the G20 Summit in Washington DC. (image/jpeg)

Film from Nahr al-Bared Camp (Lebanon): "Transitions" a-films 2008-11-13 10:08 PM

More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in North Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation... (image/jpeg)

Election Protection hotlines voter schmotor 2008-11-03 11:40 PM
Give these to outraged voters (text/plain)

Defend the RNC8! Drop the Charges!!! MPLS 2008-11-03 2:59 AM
Please show solidarity with those still trapped within the St. Paul courts... Below is a petition to dismiss the charges against the RNC 8. Once it reaches 100,000 signatures it will be sent to the Ramsey County Attorney, Susan Gaertner. (text/plain)

How to stop computerized vote stealing Bill Forman 2008-11-02 5:28 PM
The Democrats need to ask the Courts to quarantine all computerized voting machines in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and any other state where Sen. Obama had a lead in the polls before the election but lost the election because the votes may have been flipped for McCain. (text/plain)

Calling all for a Anti-Capitalists bloc November 15th against the World Economic Summit UAsleepercell 2008-11-01 8:38 PM
Calling all for a Anti-Capitalists bloc November 15th against the World Economic Summit. On November 15th the ruling elite of the 20 richest nations will converge in Washington DC for a “World Economic Forum.” The decisions the G20 make ultimately will benefit a small handful of transnational corporations and further the exploitation of all oppressed people. ic Summit (text/html)

The Fraudbuster’s Manual Citizen's Group to Prevent Voting Fraud 2008-10-29 11:36 PM
Manipulation of voting machinery looms large over the upcoming election. A discussion is provided, to be spread freely if you please, so that the eyes of We the People can guard our Liberty from any would-be oppressor. An emergency voting system to be established in case of Fraud is described. (text/plain)

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