News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
Who won the war? Russians take a different view on D-Day (Reuters) - Sitting in the shade on a bench in the center of Moscow, 77-year-old Galina Makarenko pauses for several seconds before delivering her blunt opinion on the Allied D-Day landings of June 6, 1944. "It helped us a little. But only a little,"... Continue Reading →
Stalingrad name may return to city in wave of second world war patriotism (theGuardian) For more than 300 years, the Russian city of Volgograd was known as Tsaritsyn. It was dubbed Stalingrad in honour of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin for a mere 26 years, but then his successor Nikita Khrushchev dropped that name as part... Continue Reading →
[More genocide by the Israelis against the Palestinians. Yet another genocide bankrolled by the USA. --NP] Israel 'unblocks plans for 1,800 settler homes' Jerusalem (AFP) - The Israeli government on Thursday ordered officials to move forward with plans for another 1,800 settler homes, just hours after issuing tenders for 1,500 housing units, an official said.... 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 →
Bowe Bergdahl Wrote Before Capture: ‘I Am Ashamed to Be an American’ (www.mediaite.com) U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, recently released from years of Taliban captivity following the negotiation of a deal to swap him for the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees, allegedly deserted his fellow soldiers just prior to being captured by Taliban fighters.... Continue Reading →
[India's people suffer. Imperialism, capitalism, feudalism, patriarchy, caste, have created a brutal system where India's poor lived in terror. India's poor suffer daily violence from the system. The only answer is for them poor to make their voices heard, to raise their fists, to raise their weapons, to take power and smash the system. Revolution... 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 →
[First Worldist, imperialist military gets even more high-tech. It is important for Leading Light people's warriors to develop strategies for countering new imperial technologies. Wars of the future will not look like wars of the past. We must adapt to counter new threats. -- NP] U.S. Military's 'Iron Man' Suit Prototype Debuts This Month (livescience)... Continue Reading →
[Marx wrote that part of why capitalism was so revolutionary is that it unleashed the productive forces, technology. However, there comes a point where the capitalist system of economic, social, power relations begins to hinder further advance. It is easily within our ability to provide a decent, creative, fun, dignified life for everyone on the... Continue Reading →
[Israel is a racist society that has waged a genocide against the Palestine people for over half a century. As a proxy state of US imperialism, Israel has waged nonstop war against its neighbors since it was founded. The genocide of the Palestinians is bought for and paid by Uncle Sam. --NP] Israel Arabs rekindle... Continue Reading →
[Private spooks illegally spying using social networking.. NP] US contractors profiled 'Cuban Twitter' responses As part of a program shrouded in secrecy to build a "Cuban Twitter" on the Communist-governed island, Cambronero profiled Cuban cellphone users, categorizing them as "pro-revolution," ''apolitical" or "anti-revolutionary." The social media network, paid for by the U.S. Agency for International... Continue Reading →
[Don't agree with 100% on the part on Stalin. The video falls into liberal Trotskyist cliches without much evidence. If Stalin were put on trial, he too would be found not guilty. Leading Lights like Lenin and Stalin lived through very difficult times. They had to face challenges that few leaders ever do. They led... Continue Reading →
