News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
Dear Comrades, It is the season of giving in the Christian world. We ask our Christian and other comrades to please consider the LLCO in your charitable giving this season. Other charities only alleviate the symptoms of capitalist exploitation. Many religious charities do this well, and with greatness of heart. However, only the LLCO offers... Continue Reading →
[With the failure of Western Christian Evangelicals and Dominionists to impose their arch-reactionary social agenda on the Western imperialist nations they have turned their eyes towards the Third World and Uganda in particular. By taking advantage of the poor education of the oppressed and with huge amounts of cash, groups like the Missouri, US based... Continue Reading →
[As Leading Lights, the protection and preservation of the environment has always been one of our highest priorities. While Pope Francis' definition of revolution certainly differs from ours, this still comes as welcome news. As the leader of one of the world's largest religions, the Pope commands a great deal of influence, especially in many... Continue Reading →
Jerusalem (AFP) - Three leading Christian clerics in the Holy Land appealed Friday for more European governments to recognise a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital. The call from the Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Lutheran prelates -- all of them Palestinian -- came after EU member Sweden last week announced its intention to... Continue Reading →
[US trained and armed death squads assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980. Romero used his position to speak out about injustice in El Salvador. He also wrote a public letter to the President of the United States asking no more military aid be sent to the Salvadorean government that was using the aid to murder... Continue Reading →
[Roughly a quarter of Palestinians are Christian. The US-financed genocide by Israel against the Palestinians is not just a war on Muslims. It is a war on all Palestinians, including Christians. This fact should be raised to those in imperialist countries with Christian populations. --NP] Gaza: Catholic Church told to evacuate ahead of Israeli bombing... Continue Reading →
[Genocide carried out by Israel, backed by the West. According to the West, the only children who matter are Israeli. Imperialism at work. --NP] Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: U.N. Thu, Jun 20 07:24 AM EDT By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces on... Continue Reading →
Researchers: Children exposed to religion have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction (theRawStory) A study published in the July issue of Cognitive Science determined that children who are not exposed to religious stories are better able to tell that characters in “fantastical stories” are fictional — whereas children raised in a religious environment even “approach unfamiliar,... Continue Reading →
[Israeli society is a racist settler society. Hate crimes against Palestinian Christians and Muslims are commonplace. The hate is bankrolled and armed by the USA. -- NP] Suspected Jewish vandals torch West Bank mosque Deir Istiya (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Suspected Jewish extremists torched the entrance to a mosque in the West Bank early on... Continue Reading →
Sharon, war criminal, one of Zionism's leaders of genocide against Palestine.. dead.. if only there were a hell (New-power.org) Sharon was a war criminal, a key leader throughout the Zionist genocide of Palestine. The bourgeois media pretends that there is nothing extraordinary or unusual about the everyday injustices that makeup the genocide of Palestine. Sadly,... Continue Reading →
[Instead of helping the poor, the Mexican state donates land to the Catholic church. This is an example of the irrational priorities of the system. -- NP] Mexican land donation to church draws fire MEXICO CITY (AP) — A government donation of land to the Roman Catholic church to build a chapel in the Mexican... Continue Reading →
US decides to officially arm so-called "rebels" in order to further bleed Syria (NewPower) It is now being reported that the Obama administration has committed itself to arming the so-called rebels in Syria. The United States has decided to arm the opposition even though recent polls show that the majority of Syrians do not support... Continue Reading →
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