News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[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 →
Good stuff: http://youtu.be/2VbYZDohsHk
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 →
[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 →
Thousands of brave communists and people of good conscience left their homes and traveled around the world to fight the tyranny of fascism in Spain. They often returned to their countries only to be harassed and blacklisted as "premature anti-fascists." The served, lived, and died for the people. They are honored martyrs and heroes. We... Continue Reading →
[Chess is a game that can sharpen the mind. It is no accident that many of the past revolutionary leaders played. The following is an article taken from another webpage. In any case, LL believes that individual striving for excellence benefits socialist and communist society so long as it does hurt collective society. There need... Continue Reading →
Map: In the whole world only these five countries escaped European colonialism (Vox.com) It's no secret that European colonialism was a vast, and often devastating, project that over several centuries put nearly the entire world under control of one European power or another. But just how vast can be difficult to fully appreciate. Here, to... Continue Reading →
Remembering the past: Bangladeshi fighters for Palestine of the 1980s By: Yazan al-Saadi (http://english.al-akhbar.com/) Published Thursday, July 3, 2014 A photograph and a grave. These are two relics of a time, now mostly forgotten, of when thousands of Bangladeshis came to Lebanon in the 1980s as volunteers and fighters for the Palestinian cause. They were... Continue Reading →
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