News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Mao said that "Women hold up half of heaven!" Women are the world's majority. To rape anyone is to commit a horrible crime. To commit rape or sexual assault is to rob someone of their very soul. The women's struggle is an important one as it hits close to home for all. All comrades should... Continue Reading →
[Water is key to life! Without fresh water we are doomed! Through pollution, climate change, and over-consumption, fresh water is becoming more and more scarce. In the article below we can see how the oppressed in India have mistakenly turned against each other in the fight for water. It is important that the oppressed maintain... Continue Reading →
by Max Bearak (NYtimes.com) NAHORANI TEA ESTATE, India — For a century and a half, Madhu Munda’s forebears toiled on the same tea plantation that she lives and works on now. Belonging to central Indian tribes brought to what is now the northeastern state of Assam by the British in the mid-19th century, they and... Continue Reading →
A People’s History of Churchillian Madness by ELLIOT MURPHY (counterpunch.org) This year marked the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, which is almost universally seen in Britain as purely a war against the Nazis and their UK-bound warplanes. Unlike the First World War or the wars in Indochina and Iraq, the... Continue Reading →
[Once again we see evidence of how severe weather patterns, which could be linked to global climate change, are disproportionately punishing the poor in the 3rd world. What would amount to simple property damage in most 1st world countries, becomes a large death toll in the poorer areas of the world which lack the proper... Continue Reading →
[Al-Qaeda launched its South Asian branch last September, saying it would take its fight to Myanmar, Bangladesh and India. Make no mistake about what this means: We as Leading Lights are in a direct conflict with these religious extremists for the support of the people on the Indian subcontinent. They offer a future of medieval... Continue Reading →
[Here we see another example of how global climate change disproportionately affects the poor in the third world. Tea workers in Assam make about $2 US per day. These tea firms would probably resist pay raises for their workers regardless of the worsening crop conditions, but the reality of climate change gives them a convenient... 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 →
(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 →
[Unfortunately, this article went to our spam folder for some reason. We just noticed it in there. We regret that we did not see it earlier. Our apologies to the author. -- NP] The Bali Package By Red Lion (new-power.org) The Bali Package is a trade agreement that was signed on December 2013 by the... Continue Reading →
Toxic metals flood major Gujarat rivers AHMEDABAD: The discharge of untreated toxic effluents and sewage into the state's rivers is taking a toll on the purity of these invaluable sources of water. One of the country's most comprehensive surveys covering 16 river basins carried out to measure toxic metal content in Indian rivers, has detected... Continue Reading →
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