News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[This article was written and translated from its original German by our Comrade Klaus Markstein. While it is mostly relevant to our comrades and allies in Germany, it still highlights some of the dangers communists must face within the legal systems of the entire imperialist core.] “When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained... Continue Reading →
[Just shows that human rights mean nothing to the imperialists. The imperialists violate human rights as they please -- NP] Western ally Saudi Arabia sentenced a Palestinian poet to death for renouncing Islam (This article is published in Salon.) Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death by a Saudi Arabian court for renouncing Islam,... Continue Reading →
[The Indian state cares nothing of justice, nothing for the people. It allows murders to walk free and it terrorizes the people who fight oppression. The Indian police are death squads that assassinate those who fight for justice in the countryside, in the villages, the slums, and on the campuses. The police-death squads manufacture "fake... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism kills and keeps on killing -- NP] By Nita Bhalla BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Wednesday outside the abandoned factory which caused the world's deadliest industrial disaster in the Indian city of Bhopal, burning effigies and demanding justice for survivors suffering 30 years later. Elderly women and men,... Continue Reading →
[Human rights is a joke under capitalism - NP] MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Amnesty International said Thursday that five years after the Philippines passed a law criminalizing torture, the practice continues, with an overstretched police force resorting to "shortcuts" to extract confessions from criminal suspects. The Philippine National Police has acknowledged violations persist but stressed... Continue Reading →
(http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/) RAIPUR: The outlawed CPI (Maoist) has blamed Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and state Health Minister Amar Agrawal for the deaths of 13 women during a recent sterilisation drive and sought their resignation. The Maoists dropped pamphlets and put up banners in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Dantewada district protesting against the sterilisation tragedy. "The pamphlets and... Continue Reading →
(RT) Over 41,000 Kenyans have waged an attempt to sue the British government for compensation, alleging maltreatment and physical abuse during a Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s against UK colonial rule. The litigation suit, launched at the high court in central London, marks the second Mau Mau case against the British Foreign and Commonwealth... Continue Reading →
Trial Begins for Blackwater Guards Over Baghdad Massacre Article originally published on Common Dreams by Andrea Germanos Jury selection began Wednesday for the trial of four former Blackwater guards charged for their role in the infamous Nisour Square massacre that left 14 Iraqi civilians dead and wounded at least 18 others. The defense argues that... Continue Reading →
[The CIA illegally kidnaps, and tortures people in secret prisons.No due process. No trails. This is the "democracy" of imperialism. -- NP] Convictions of 5 Italians thrown out in CIA case ROME (AP) — Italy's top criminal court on Monday tossed out the convictions of five Italian intelligence agents accused of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric... Continue Reading →
Nestle is facing allegations that it used cocoa plantations in Africa that employed slave labor. (allgov.com) Three residents of Mali sued Nestle USA in U.S. federal court in 2009 claiming they were forced as children to work without pay and were abused at Ivory Coast plantations that supplied Nestle with cocoa. They brought their case... Continue Reading →
[Support the right to fight against the police-intelligence state. Support the rights of whistle blowers. -- NP] Greenwald: Snowden docs contain NSA 'blueprint' RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Edward Snowden has very sensitive "blueprints" detailing how the National Security Agency operates that would allow someone who read them to evade or even duplicate NSA surveillance,... Continue Reading →
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