News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Although Maurice Bishop was neither a true Marxist nor communist, he and his regime fell to a brutal US invasion of Grenada in 1983. The world's greatest super power, the United States, invaded tiny Grenada. All the military might of the imperialists targeted the tiny island. The invasion of Grenada was another one of the... Continue Reading →
The Pentagon's First Worldist gender activism (new-power.org) First Worldist feminism and gender activism is intertwined with empire. First Worldist feminism and gender activism, like First Worldist activism as a whole, is about securing more privileges for the global bourgeoisie, the vast majority of First World peoples, at the expense of the vast majority of Third... Continue Reading →
Paraguay: Police attack peasants in eviction move, 17 dead (Original source CNN.com) Asuncion, Paraguay (CNN) — Paraguay’s President on Saturday named a new interior minister and national police chief following clashes between police and peasants that left at least 17 dead. Former Interior Minister Carlos Filizzola and former police chief Paulino Rojas offered resignation letters... Continue Reading →
US expands 'shadow war' in Africa (The Lookout) The U.S. military is expanding its intelligence-gathering operations across Africa, the Washington Post reports, mainly using small, unarmed planes "equipped with hidden sensors that can record full-motion video, track infrared heat patterns, and vacuum up radio and cellphone signals"—part of a "shadow war" against al-Qaida and other... Continue Reading →
Ward Churchill Background (Kick him, Honey) As I mentioned recently, Ward Churchill v. University of Colorado went before the Colorado Supreme Court last week. In a stroke of great timing, the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom has published two pieces germane to the case. The first is the “Report on the Termination of Ward Churchill” by the Colorado... Continue Reading →
No army can stop the Bahrain Revolution (Press TV) The leader of Bahrain's main opposition group al-Wefaq, Sheikh Ali Salman, says that all armies of the hostile countries would not be able to stop Bahrainis revolution. He made the remarks in a gathering in Saar, about 16 kilometers (10 miles) west of the capital Manama,... Continue Reading →
Israel wants airstrikes against Syria (Press TV) The Israeli regime wants to “push the world, to push the international powers to launch airstrikes… against Syria,” said Maya Nasser, a Damascus-based political analyst, in an interview with Press TV on Monday. The analyst made the comments two days after Ayoob Kara, a senior member of the... Continue Reading →
[The US is fighting a losing war in Afghanistan. The people of Afghanistan continue to resist imperialist occupation. -- New Power] Attack on US base kills 15 in Afghanistan: NATO (Source: AFP) "One of our mujahideen rammed a vehicle packed with ten tons of explosives into a NATO base in Khost city and detonated the... Continue Reading →
[The imperialists are trying to create sectarian chaos in Syria. - New Power] Nasrallah demands release of Lebanese held in Syria (Source: AP) Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called for the release of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims held in Syria in a televised speech on Friday. "The pilgrims should be returned to their families," Nasrallah said, during... Continue Reading →
Leading Light opposes all imperialist attacks on Syria, Iran, and other Third World countries. Imperialism has created sectarian chaos in Syria in efforts to weaken the country as a way to prepare a attacks on Iran.
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