News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Revisionism is real. Prachanda's Maoists of Nepal have betrayed the revolution there. - NP] THEHE, Feb 27 (AFP)— When Nepal's Maoist-led government outlawed bonded labour in 2008 and promised to compensate victims, farmworker Hiralal Pariyar was elated to walk away from a life spent in virtual slavery. But the compensation never came, leaving a homeless... Continue Reading →
[Empire and human rights...] (Reuters) - An Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for renouncing his Muslim faith, the English-language daily Saudi Gazette reported on Tuesday. The man, in his 20s, posted an online video ripping up a copy of Islam's holy book, the Koran, and hitting it with a... Continue Reading →
[This is just one of the recent escalations to the inter-imperialist conflict between NATO and Russia. It will be interesting to see how this develops. -Uziel] LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday Britain would send military personnel to Ukraine soon to help train its army, warning Moscow would move to destabilize... Continue Reading →
[Obviously...] (NYPOST) The United States is the greatest threat to world peace. That’s the finding of an end-of-the- year, WIN/Gallup International survey of people in 65 countries. Of the 66,000 people polled, just under a quarter named Uncle Sam as the greatest threat to world peace. Other menaces didn’t even come close: 8 percent named... Continue Reading →
[The real war criminals are the imperialists who destabilized Syria, then armed and trained the al-Nusra Front and ISIS. Any ad hoc tribunal would be a farce without including as suspects: the United States, NATO, and their Mideast allies. -Uziel] GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations war crimes investigators plan to publish names of suspects involved... Continue Reading →
The Nerfed World A spoken word (new-power.org) The First Worldists want a safe, comfortable world. They want a world where they have driven everything real away. They want coffee without caffeine. They want near beer. They want revolution without revolution, without violence. They want pads, cushions on everything, even the human soul. No sharp edges,... Continue Reading →
[The Indian state cares nothing of justice, nothing for the people. It allows murders to walk free and it terrorizes the people who fight oppression. The Indian police are death squads that assassinate those who fight for justice in the countryside, in the villages, the slums, and on the campuses. The police-death squads manufacture "fake... Continue Reading →
BY LEITH FADEL (http://www.almasdarnews.com/) Two days after an armored convoy of reinforcements entered the city of Aleppo, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) – in cooperation with the National Defense Forces (NDF) and Kata’eb Al-Ba’ath (Ba’ath Batallions) – captured the strategic Ratyan, Hardatineen, and Bashkawi Quarters from the militants of the Islamic Front (Jabhat Al-Islamiyya). As... Continue Reading →
Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah is fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq, its chief Hassan Nasrallah revealed for the first time Monday in a speech beamed to supporters. "We may not have spoken about Iraq before, but we have a limited presence because of the sensitive phase that Iraq is going through,"... Continue Reading →
[This piece points out that the Palestinian victims of Israeli aggression are mainly civilians. It is rare to see a western, mainstream news outlet make such a report. While the Associated Press has traditionally been viewed as one of the few sources in the mainstream western media that isn't blatantly pro-Israel, one can hope that... Continue Reading →
by By DESMOND BUTLER, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. agency's secret infiltration of Cuba's underground hip-hop groups scene to spark a youth movement against the government was "reckless" and "stupid," Sen. Patrick Leahy said Thursday after The Associated Press revealed the operation. On at least six occasions, Cuban... Continue Reading →
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