News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[We don't expect much out of this uprising, but this is an interesting history article. -NP] October 31, 2014 8:30AM ET by Kingsley Kobo (AlJeezera) OUGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - In the early hours of a night in 1987, one of Africa’s youngest leaders, Thomas Sankara, was murdered and quietly and quickly buried in a shallow grave.... Continue Reading →
(RT) Over 41,000 Kenyans have waged an attempt to sue the British government for compensation, alleging maltreatment and physical abuse during a Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s against UK colonial rule. The litigation suit, launched at the high court in central London, marks the second Mau Mau case against the British Foreign and Commonwealth... Continue Reading →
[Imperial intervention has led to chaos and tyranny in Libya -- NP] By Tim Whewell ( News, Tobruk) They've been chosen to rule a vast country that holds Africa's biggest oil reserves. They represent the democratic future of a land the world helped free from tyranny. But three years after the fall of Gaddafi, Libya's new... 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 →
[Libya is still in chaos after NATO and their Islamist allies deposed the Gadhafi regime. Instead of prosperity, Libya is now a land ruled by militias, warlords, and death squads. NATO has delivered the people of Libya into the hands of right-wing sectarian warlords. Without a strong central state, Libya's resources are more easily... Continue Reading →
[NATO deposes Gaddafi. Libya is in sectarian chaos. Now, the UN is planning an official invasion of "peace keepers." Typical imperialist MO. -- NP] Rival militias are battling for control of Libya's international airport, which is closed after rocket fire destroyed most of the planes on the ground. (Christian Science Monitor) A daily roundup of... Continue Reading →
[Too bad more r-r-revolutionaries in the First World won't do the same. --NP] Viva l'Algerie! Solidarity Forever! (source: http://inside-left.blogspot.com/2014/07/viva-lalgerie-solidarity-forever.html ) Wow. Just wow. If this story is true then the decision taken by the Algerian national football team to donate their World Cup prize money to the people of Gaza is a quite amazing act... Continue Reading →
"Counter-Revolution of 1776": Was U.S. Independence War a Conservative Revolt in Favor of Slavery? (Democracynow) As the United States prepares to celebrate Independence Day, we look at why July 4 is not a cause for celebration for all. For Native Americans, it may be a bitter reminder of colonialism, which brought fatal diseases, cultural hegemony... Continue Reading →
[It is the duty of Leading Lights to protect the people, but also protect the Earth and its creatures. Capitalism is a system where the poor and Earth are brutally oppressed. Leading Light will provide a better life for all --NP] Kenyan police seize 300 elephant tusks being packed at port city By Joseph Akwiri... Continue Reading →
Activists: Morocco back to pre-Arab Spring abuses RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Ouafa Charaf was heading home from a solidarity sit-in with a group of laid off workers in the northern port city of Tangiers, she says, when a small white van pulled up and two men forced her into the back and blindfolded her. "They... Continue Reading →
[Climate change threatens all of humanity, but it especially threatens the global proletariat, the poor peoples. Climate change is a result of a system that values profits over people. It is a result of a system that requires infinite growth to survive. Capitalism not only consigns the vast majority of humanity to poverty and suffering,... Continue Reading →
[When the racist apartheid regime fell, there was no socialist revolution. Capitalism was retained in South Africa. The African masses remain exploited and oppressed. It is not enough to reform capitalism, to replace white capitalism with black capitalism. Revolution, all the way to Leading Light Communism, is the only solution. --NP] Losses mount as South... Continue Reading →
