News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Update, spoke to soon. It is now reported that the United States has the prisoner. Panama bowed to Uncle San.. no surprise there. -- NP] [Chickens come home to roost -- NP] Panama holds ex-CIA officer in rendition PANAMA CITY (AP) -- A former CIA base chief convicted in the 2003 abduction of a terror... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism is the problem. Revolution is the solution. -- NP] Thousands of workers on strike in Brazil SAO PAULO (AP) -- Tens of thousands of workers across Brazil walked off their jobs on Thursday in a mostly peaceful nationwide strike demanding better working conditions and improved public services in Latin America's biggest nation. Metalworkers, transportation... Continue Reading →
Venezuela offers asylum to U.S. fugitive Snowden By Daniel Wallis and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret U.S. spy programs. Snowden, 30, is believed to be holed up in... Continue Reading →
[Revolution is the solution -- NP] Only one in 10 Bangladesh garment plants safe: Engineers Dhaka: Only one in 10 garment factory buildings inspected by engineers from a top Bangladesh university were structurally sound, underlining the scale of safety problems for the world's second-biggest clothes producer, the head engineer said. Building and factory owners rushed... Continue Reading →
Peru police clash with student protesters (Aljeezera) Police in Peru have used tear gas and water cannons to repel student protesters marching to the National Congress in the capital city. The demonstration on Thursday turned violent after students tried to move through the centre of Lima in protest against a proposed education law that they... Continue Reading →
[Chinese workers stand up! -- NP] U.S. boss held captive by angry Chinese employees released By Maxim Duncan BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese factory workers on Thursday released their U.S. boss, held captive for a week, after a compensation dispute was resolved, a company official and union representative said. Chip Starnes, president of Specialty Medical Supplies,... Continue Reading →
[America has no humanity -- NP] Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 44 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism will always mean poverty. It is a system based on inequality and injustice. If we want justice, then we must fight for revolution, for new socialism, for Leading Light Communism -- NP] TEKANI, Bangladesh (AP) — Moushumi's family now has one of the largest homes in their village — two bedrooms plus a living... Continue Reading →
[US-back deathsquad states terrorize the people of Latin America. So what's new? -- NP] Effort to clean up Honduras police force stalls TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In the midst of a scandal over the police shooting of a university president's son, the government of Honduras launched an unprecedented effort last year to clean up a... Continue Reading →
[Just as in Bahrain, Turkey crushes dissent. There is little word from Washington, DC. In fact, many of the arms used against the peoples in Bahrain and Turkey are from the United States. The United States is a big-time ally of these two regimes that are attacking their own people. Yet the United States cries... 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 →
[Yet more evidence that China has long ago abandoned socialism. --NP] Fire, locked doors kill 119 at China poultry plant BEIJING (AP) — A swift-moving fire trapped panicked workers inside a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China that had only a single open exit, killing at least 119 people in one of the country's worst industrial... Continue Reading →
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