News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Capitalism kills and keeps on killing -- NP] By Nita Bhalla BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Wednesday outside the abandoned factory which caused the world's deadliest industrial disaster in the Indian city of Bhopal, burning effigies and demanding justice for survivors suffering 30 years later. Elderly women and men,... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism, unchecked consumption, is unsustainable. Capitalism is destroying the planet. - NP] LIMA, Peru (AP) — With temperature data showing 2014 currently tied for the hottest year on record, the U.N. weather agency on Wednesday rejected claims that global warming has paused. The World Meteorological Organization said the global average temperature in January-October was 0.57... Continue Reading →
[Human rights is a joke under capitalism - NP] MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Amnesty International said Thursday that five years after the Philippines passed a law criminalizing torture, the practice continues, with an overstretched police force resorting to "shortcuts" to extract confessions from criminal suspects. The Philippine National Police has acknowledged violations persist but stressed... Continue Reading →
[Natural disasters are not fully or even mostly natural. Had infrastructure been developed to withstand these storms, the masses in the Philippines would not suffer. Had the Philippines been governed by rational, scientific socialist planning, the masses would not be in harm's way. Instead, capitalism puts profits ahead of people. So, people are left to... Continue Reading →
by JOANNA ROTHKOPF (Salon.com) 40,000 Masai people will be evicted from their homeland in Tanzania, because the Dubai royal family has bought it with the intention of using it as a reserve to hunt big game. Last year, the Tanzanian government had resisted the purchase, proposing instead a “wildlife corridor” dedicated to hunting near the Serengeti... Continue Reading →
(RevolutionNews on facebook) Mexico: University of Mexico site of the shooting earlier this evening of two students and a dog. Riot Police entered UNAM earlier tonight, students have since secured some entrances around the university center and set up barricades to keep cops out. Supposedly the car of one of the officers involved in the... Continue Reading →
[Awesome.. -NP] (http://anonhq.com/) The famous Turkish hacker team ‘Redhack’ announced hacking into power administration system and canceling 1.5 million liras (approx. 650K US dollars) of electricity bills to be paid to Soma Electricity Production company. Soma is a district recently noted for a historic massacre of 301 mine workers, and now struggling with destruction of... Continue Reading →
(http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/) RAIPUR: The outlawed CPI (Maoist) has blamed Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and state Health Minister Amar Agrawal for the deaths of 13 women during a recent sterilisation drive and sought their resignation. The Maoists dropped pamphlets and put up banners in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Dantewada district protesting against the sterilisation tragedy. "The pamphlets and... Continue Reading →
[The truth is the the entire Mexican state is guilty. It has been killing the masses for decades.. NP] By Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican mayor and his wife were "probable masterminds" behind the disappearance of 43 student-teachers last month in the restive southwest, the country's attorney general said on Wednesday. The... Continue Reading →
[Northern Korea is not a socialist regime, but a nationalist one. For historical reasons, it ended up aligned with the socialist bloc, taking on a superficial communist look, but its underlying ideology is very rightist. -- NP] by ERIC TALMADGE TOKYO (AP) — The U.N. agency that has provided food aid to North Korea for nearly... Continue Reading →
[First Worldist feminism and gender activism are just other forms of social-imperialism. It is a narrow kind of feminism that focuses on advancing the life options and quality of life for First World women at the expense of Third World peoples, both women and men. Expanded life options in the First World is connected to... Continue Reading →
[Poor infrastructure is one part of underdevelopment. Imperial neglect, underdevelopment, corruption.. all lead to blackout. --NP] (RT) Imagine what happens when electricity is cut off nationwide in a country of 160 million people. In Bangladesh, everyday life was brought to a standstill on Saturday as factories, hospitals, and homes plunged into darkness or had to... Continue Reading →
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