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 →
[Human rights is a joke under capitalism - NP] MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Amnesty International said Thursday that five years after the Philippines passed a law criminalizing torture, the practice continues, with an overstretched police force resorting to "shortcuts" to extract confessions from criminal suspects. The Philippine National Police has acknowledged violations persist but stressed... Continue Reading →
[Natural disasters are not fully or even mostly natural. Had infrastructure been developed to withstand these storms, the masses in the Philippines would not suffer. Had the Philippines been governed by rational, scientific socialist planning, the masses would not be in harm's way. Instead, capitalism puts profits ahead of people. So, people are left to... Continue Reading →
[Awesome.. -NP] (http://anonhq.com/) The famous Turkish hacker team ‘Redhack’ announced hacking into power administration system and canceling 1.5 million liras (approx. 650K US dollars) of electricity bills to be paid to Soma Electricity Production company. Soma is a district recently noted for a historic massacre of 301 mine workers, and now struggling with destruction of... 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 →
[Northern Korea is not a socialist regime, but a nationalist one. For historical reasons, it ended up aligned with the socialist bloc, taking on a superficial communist look, but its underlying ideology is very rightist. -- NP] by ERIC TALMADGE TOKYO (AP) — The U.N. agency that has provided food aid to North Korea for nearly... Continue Reading →
[First Worldist feminism and gender activism are just other forms of social-imperialism. It is a narrow kind of feminism that focuses on advancing the life options and quality of life for First World women at the expense of Third World peoples, both women and men. Expanded life options in the First World is connected to... Continue Reading →
[Poor infrastructure is one part of underdevelopment. Imperial neglect, underdevelopment, corruption.. all lead to blackout. --NP] (RT) Imagine what happens when electricity is cut off nationwide in a country of 160 million people. In Bangladesh, everyday life was brought to a standstill on Saturday as factories, hospitals, and homes plunged into darkness or had to... Continue Reading →
[The homes are not rebuild because under capitalism poor people do not matter. Capitalism is a system that serves the rich and kills and enslaves the poor. -NP] MANILA (Reuters) - The mayor of the central Philippine city worst hit by a super typhoon a year ago said on Tuesday fewer than 100 of 14,500... 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 →
(http://www.cbc.ca/) By: Tarannum Kamlani Who made that T-shirt you’re wearing? The one so stylish and cheap you had to have it in 5 different colours? Until April 24, 2013 not many of us really thought about the hands that made that shirt, or where it was made. On that day when the 8-story Rana Plaza... Continue Reading →
(BBC) The air strikes on Daglica were in response to PKK shelling of a military outpost, the armed forces said. Both sides have been observing a truce and it is the first major air raid on the PKK since March 2013. Kurds are furious at Turkey's inaction as Islamic State (IS) militants attack the Syrian... Continue Reading →
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