News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
29 July 2019 Bruce Bolton A death by one thousand cuts, for decades liberals have been trying to privatise the public Australian health system with small reform after small reform. This agenda kicked into a new gear in 2014 as liberals cut health and education funding by $80 billion which is a very significant figure... Continue Reading →
[Following the recent example of Britain’s illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar, Ukraine seized a Russian tanker at the port of Izmail in southwestern Ukraine on the 25th of July. The Ukrainian government claims the Russian-flagged tanker “Nika Spirit” was involved in the Kerch Strait incident that occurred in... Continue Reading →
[Eight years on and the world is still witnessing the horrors of NATO’s regime change operation in Libya. Once considered the “Jewel of Africa”, Libya is now a haven for extremists, torture, violence, and slavery. As this article points out, the victims of these atrocities are often lost at sea while trying to escape the... Continue Reading →
[In response to the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker near the Strait of Gibraltar by British forces, Iran has seized two British oil tankers, one of which has already been released. The one currently being held, the Stena Impero, is British-flagged, and Iran claims that the tanker failed to observe international maritime regulations in... Continue Reading →
[Honduran troops recently shot several students on a university campus who were protesting the privatization of healthcare and education that is taking place under the presidency of Juan Orlando Hernández. Fortunately, none of the students were killed, but some are still in the hospital. In Honduras, a country that suffers from rampant corruption, a majority... Continue Reading →
[There was a recent clash in the Central region of Ghana between cocoa farmers and the staff of a palm oil plantation company when bulldozers showed up unannounced and began bulldozing the area, destroying the farmers’ cocoa trees in the process, to make way for palm trees that the company intends to grow. According to... Continue Reading →
[The article below details how environmental destruction, poverty, and economic crises are rooted in the imperialist nations' problems of overconsumption and unequal wealth distribution. The neo-Malthusian narrative about "useless eaters" and that the world has an "overpopulation" problem is beneficial to the capitalist class because when all focus and blame is shifted away from the... Continue Reading →
[Genuine aid would be unconditional and impartial. Retinal scanning and facial recognition technology should not be a necessary component of a food aid operation. Clearly there are ulterior motives for such a move. It turns out that the largest donors to the WFP (the program responsible for food aid in Yemen) are the same barbarous... Continue Reading →
[This past week, the Ukrainian military has continued its shelling of civilians living near the front line in Donbass, killing one woman, injuring several others, and destroying multiple houses. In addition, they have used white phosphorus shells and incendiary bullets against a residential neighborhood. Three soldiers of the Donetsk People’s Republic were also killed during... Continue Reading →
[The third anniversary of the failed coup attempt against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey falls on the 15th of July 2019. The coup attempt was organized and carried out by a faction of the Turkish military with links to the Gülen movement, an organization designated as a terrorist group by the Turkish... Continue Reading →
[The Venezuelan government has criticized a report recently released by the UN which presents distorted and misleading information about the country’s human rights situation in an attempt to blame the government of Venezuela for conditions which have been largely caused by US sanctions and the freezing of Venezuelan assets abroad. The UN report is in... Continue Reading →
[It should come as no surprise that Ukraine’s health sector would be among the hardest hit in the aftermath of the 2014 Western.-backed coup. As noted by the author below, the country’s health care system had already started to deteriorate following its “independence” and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 as it went... Continue Reading →
