News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Everyone deserves a good education and a decent job. Capitalism is a system that is designed for profit, not people. Under socialism, by contrast, society is organized to empower the poor. Serve the people. Society is organized by the principles of revolutionary science, Leading Light Communism. Over and over, we see people starve. Farmers can't... Continue Reading →
[Islamophobia is alive and well in Europe. Islamophobia plays a similar role to anti-migrant, especially Latin American, sentiment in the United States. In many ways, these play the role that anti-communism played decades ago during the Cold War. All of these reactionary literatures are filled with images of commie, Mexican, narco, Islamic hordes overwhelming Christendom.... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism is not capable of solving environmental problems in the long term. Capitalism is about increasing profits. It is not about serving the people. To capitalism, people, and their environments, do not matter. Capitalism is designed to meet the needs of market, not the needs of people. The anarchy of production under capitalism is irrational... Continue Reading →
[Learn from history. "Without the people's army, the people have nothing." Leading Lights of the past, just as the Leading Light today, teach that revolution is not simply about changing the personnel in the government. Rather, it is about smashing the Old Power, including the old state, while simultaneously creating New Power. The current state... Continue Reading →
[It is a myth that justice is blind under capitalism. Bias, people's assumptions about society, the state, race, class, gender, etc. -- skew the process all the time. Even areas considered "hard science" are not immune. First Worldism, White supremacy, classism, racism, sexism, national chauvinism, patriarchy, age-ism, etc. all enter into the decision making process.... Continue Reading →
[Do you think Palestinian soldiers in Israeli captivity would be treated so well? Israeli jailors are known to torture and torment their prisoners. What about American jailors? Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo. The United States is known to torture soldiers who fight against it and even those who do not. Then there is the practice of rendition... Continue Reading →
Confirmed: Pentagon deploys military forces to Jordan-Syria border (RT) US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has confirmed that US troops have been dispatched to the Jordan-Syrian border to help bolster the former’s military capabilities in case violence escalates in the volatile region. “We have been working with Jordan for a period of time now…on a... Continue Reading →
KKKolumbus Day should be abolished (llco.org) Columbus Day occurs around October 12th, the day that Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas. In the United States, it is celebrated on the second Monday in October. It is celebrated on other, similar days across the hemisphere. Columbus Day represents oppression, racism, imperialism, white supremacy. Columbus Day should... Continue Reading →
[The United States has long-standing relations to the Guatemalan military and security establishment. In 1954, the CIA backed a coup against the progressive, nationalist regime of Jacobo Árbenz. The United States installed a brutal, military dictatorship there. The new regime ruled by means of mass terror backed up by US military power. The regime ruled... Continue Reading →
Iran president: 'Psychological' blows hit currency By NASSER KARIMI (AP) TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president on Tuesday blamed the steep drop in Iran's currency on "psychological pressures" linked to Western sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program and Iran's increasing bitter political battles. The remarks were part of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's attempt to deflect criticism from political... Continue Reading →
Remember the in Mexico on October 2nd (New-Power.org) From Dawn of the Red: "On Oct. 2, 1968, 10 days before the opening of the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, police officers and military troops shot into a crowd of unarmed students. Thousands of demonstrators fled in panic as tanks bulldozed over Tlatelolco Plaza. Government sources... Continue Reading →
[We have long maintained that the regime in Venezuela is not truly a socialist one. Rather it is a regime of the patriotic bourgeoisie that has played a progressive and anti-imperial role. What this means in the case of Venezuela is that it is a regime that aims at national development and social democracy, but... Continue Reading →
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