News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Once again ISIS shows its ignorance and blatant disregard for history and culture. If these crimes weren't so damaging to our shared human history, they would almost be comical in their stupidity, akin to book burnings. -Uziel] Baghdad (AFP) - Condemnation poured in Friday of the Islamic State group's bulldozing of the ancient city of... Continue Reading →
by Rakhi Chakraborty (http://yourstory.com/) “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.” ... Continue Reading →
[The fascists murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, political dissidents, including communists. The Red Army saved the world from Hitler's genocidal tyranny. -- NP] (Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/) The Red Army has liberated the Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland. According to reports, hundreds of thousands of Polish people, as well as Jews from a number... Continue Reading →
Through the 1950s, Africans and Native Americans Were Kept In Zoos As Exhibit By M.B. David Political Blindspot, February 13, 2013 Throughout the early 20th century, Germany held what was termed a, “Peoples Show,” or Völkerschau. Africans were brought in as carnival or zoo exhibits for passers-by to gawk at. Brussels, Belgium in 1958 Only decades... Continue Reading →
[The USA ends its embargo. This is a mixed blessing. It will allow people in Cuba a higher standard of living, but it will also increase US influence in Cuba. Obama certainly justified his move by saying it will allow the US to better influence Cuba's development. On the good side, the Cuban 5 prisoners,... 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 →
[Wayne was a fascist, so this is a point in Stalin's favor. -NP] (bbc) Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was so angered by John Wayne's anti-communism that he plotted to have him murdered, according to a new biography of the Hollywood legend. John Wayne: The Man behind the Myth, by British writer Michael Munn, says there... Continue Reading →
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Iguala’s Martyrs are Immortal (llco.org) Recently, following violence where six students were killed and 43 went missing in Guerrero, Mexico, burned remains were found in a mass grave in Iguala, about 200 km south of Mexico’s capital. The bodies in the grave reportedly match video images of students who were taken away by police. Several... Continue Reading →
(www.npr.org) In the summer of 1968, Mexico was experiencing the birth of a new student movement. But that movement was short-lived. On Oct. 2, 1968, 10 days before the opening of the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, police officers and military troops shot into a crowd of unarmed students. Thousands of demonstrators fled in panic... Continue Reading →
[Looks like liberal PC censors and language police types shut down a great anti-imperialist art exhibit. The liberals shut down the anti-racist exhibit in the name of anti-racism. Just another example of how liberalism takes many forms. -- NP (al Jeezera) A London exhibit meant to critique(link is external) 19th century 'human zoos' shows African... Continue Reading →
[Many revisionists confuse Russian imperialism and socialism. Some of these revisionists see Putin's authoritarianism and Russian nationalism as anti-imperialism or even socialism, the reality is very different. -NP] Putin Disses Lenin BY MASHA LIPMAN (The New Yorker) As Russia’s military escalation in eastern Ukraine continued last week, Vladimir Putin found time to visit the Seliger... Continue Reading →
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