[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 →
Colombia rebels opaque heading into talks
[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 →
KKKolumbus Day should be abolished
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 →
Rage erupts in Guatemala after 6 protesters shot
[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 →
Remember the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico on October 2nd
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 →
Hugo Chavez says he’d vote for Obama
[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 →
Townsfolks sickened after Peru toxic spill
[The poor peoples of the world pay for the global capitalist system. The poor peoples of the Third World suffer. The Earth suffers. The peoples of the First World benefit. Same old story. -- New Power] Townsfolks sickened after Peru toxic spill (AP) SANTA ROSA DE CAJACAY, Peru (AP) — It began with a loud... Continue Reading →
Armed & Bailed: US ‘Blackwater’ mercs pay crimes with fines
A recent report from Russia Today states: "Department of Justice is letting a contractor away with a fine despite it being charged with arms smuggling and other crimes. The group formerly known as Blackwater must now fork out over seven and a half million dollars to avoid criminal prosecution." Although the Russia Today report makes... Continue Reading →
Che’s last moments, scenes from a documentary
Che was an important communist leader from Latin America. He was murdered by the CIA in Bolivia on Octoer 9, 197. Che died before the full implications of great polemic between the Maoists and revisionists had fully unfolded. Che would have probably aligned more forcefully against the revisionists had he lived another decade. Even though... Continue Reading →
“No to impunity! We wont forget, we won’t forgive!”
"No to impunity! We wont forget, we won't forgive!" (Lima Protest) On Friday, the 20th, an instance of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Javier Villa Stein, hearing matters related to some of the accusations against the members of the Fujimori dictatorship's notorious Grupo Colina death squad issued its verdict. The members of the death... Continue Reading →
Peru’s anti-riot tactics unmatched in lethality
Peru's anti-riot tactics unmatched in lethality (AP) LIMA, Peru (AP) — Sixteen-year-old Cesar Medina was returning home from an Internet cafe, his mother says, and got caught up in a crowd of demonstrators when police and soldiers opened fire. A bullet tore into his head, killing him instantly. The youth was among five civilians killed... Continue Reading →
Huge protests rock Mexico
Huge protests rock Mexico (New-power.org) Huge protests are occurring in Mexico over accusations of election fraud. The media has downplayed the events. According to one online source: "The largest public protests, rallies and demonstrations that the world has ever seen are happening right now - with almost no media coverage. Not only is ... there... Continue Reading →