News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
Death, hunger, looting: Typhoon-ravaged Philippines' state of national calamity (RT) In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, which left thousands dead, many more displaced and survivors battling for survival amid devastation and chaos, the Philippines has declared a state of national calamity to help restore order to the reeling nation. In a primetime television speech delivered... Continue Reading →
[There is nothing natural about this disaster. Centuries of colonialism, feudalism, and underdevelopment have created a situation where the Filipino people are placed at the mercy of natural forces. Under capitalism, development is aimed at creating more capital for a small few. By contrast, socialist development aims to protect and serve the people, including protecting... Continue Reading →
In Pictures: Life in a Cambodian rubbish dump Anlong Pi, Cambodia - Just a few dozen kilometres away from the world-famous Angkor temples, about 300 people have lived for the last three years in a rapidly expanding rubbish dump - fighting the daily realities of extreme poverty. Since 2010, the situation in the Anlong Pi... Continue Reading →
[Capitalist development is leading the world to ecologically catastrophe. And the worst people effected by pollution are those in the Third World. First World peoples disproportionately benefit from global capitalism, Third World people are disproportionately the victims of the system. China reverted back to capitalism in Mao's last years. Today's capitalist China is a a... Continue Reading →
[The poor of the Third World starve while the First World people throw food into the garbage. -- NP] UN: One-third of food worldwide gets wasted ROME (AP) — The U.N. food agency says one-third of all food produced in the world gets wasted, amounting to a loss of $750 billion a year. The Rome-based... Continue Reading →
[Such disasters are not natural. Avoiding such disasters can be easily done with modern technology. The real culprit here is centuries of underdevelopment and neglect have left poor people venerable. Capitalism is an unnatural disaster. --NP] Death toll from earthquake in Pakistan rises to 327 By Gul Yusufzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - The death toll... Continue Reading →
[Notice that the vast majority of the life-threatening pollution is in the Third World. This is today's capitalism. The First World reaps the benefits of global capitalism, the Third World suffers. Third World people toil for long hours breathing toxic air while First World people consume and live in safer environments. Class struggle is global.... Continue Reading →
[This tragedy is an old one, but not an unavoidable one. The natural world is not the main culprit for poverty or disaster in India. The reason that so many poor people live precarious lives, the reason so many suffer on the edge of survival, is because of how wealth and power are organized under... Continue Reading →
[We do not particularly know who is telling the truth. Either side could have used chemical weapons. What we do know is that the US has a long history of using largely false claims about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMDs) to justify its imperialist wars and interventions. This was the method of the Bush regime,... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism cares nothing of the workers in the Third World. Cheap shirts for the First World and profit are more important than Third World lives. -- NP] 450 garment factory workers fall ill in Bangladesh DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — About 450 garment workers fell ill during their shifts at a sweater factory near Bangladesh's capital,... Continue Reading →
["The majority of the global social product is consumed by First World peoples. The current system serves those in the First World, not those in the Third. Almost all First World peoples have lavish lifestyles by global standards, yet Third World peoples make enough only to survive, if that. Yet the First World often expects... Continue Reading →
["Capitalism, in its quest for profits, had led us to a point where there are several global environmental catastrophes on the horizon: global warming, dead zones in the oceans, mass extinctions, etc. Capitalism is the problem, not the solution to environmental problems. Capitalism is pushing the planet’s ecosystem to the brink of destruction. Capitalism has... Continue Reading →
