News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
South Africa: rhino toll topped 1,000 in 2013 JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government says the number of rhinos killed for their horns topped a record 1,000 in 2013, and that three dozen have been poached so far this year. The department of environmental affairs said in a statement Friday that about 60 percent... Continue Reading →
[The genocide of Palestine continues, financed and armed by the USA.. - NP ] Israel plans 261 settler homes deep in West Bank Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel on Wednesday moved forward with plans for 261 new homes in two settlements located deep in the occupied West Bank, a watchdog said, drawing strong European condemnation. It was the fifth such move in just over... Continue Reading →
[Imperialism imposes oppressive borders on the land. It is behind their borders and fences that the wealthy world enjoys its privilege and comfort. It is behind such walls that the elites manage their ongoing conquest and acquisition of the labor and resources of others. The Bourgeois World is mostly one of comfort and leisure when... Continue Reading →
[Imperialism expanding its presence in Asia. We must oppose the expansion of imperialism everywhere. --NP] United States sending more troops and tanks to South Korea WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it will send 800 more soldiers and about 40 Abrams main battle tanks and other armored vehicles to South Korea next... Continue Reading →
[Israeli society is a racist settler society. Hate crimes against Palestinian Christians and Muslims are commonplace. The hate is bankrolled and armed by the USA. -- NP] Suspected Jewish vandals torch West Bank mosque Deir Istiya (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Suspected Jewish extremists torched the entrance to a mosque in the West Bank early on... Continue Reading →
[The imperialists improve their science of oppression every month.. revolutionary scientists must match them. If we stay stuck in dogma, the masses will never win. -- NP] Report: NSA maps pathway into computers WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world — but not in the... Continue Reading →
Sharon, war criminal, one of Zionism's leaders of genocide against Palestine.. dead.. if only there were a hell (New-power.org) Sharon was a war criminal, a key leader throughout the Zionist genocide of Palestine. The bourgeois media pretends that there is nothing extraordinary or unusual about the everyday injustices that makeup the genocide of Palestine. Sadly,... Continue Reading →
[Al-Qaida unknowingly shows us why revolutionary scientific leadership of the anti-imperialist united front is so important. Rather than joining with Iran and Hezbollah against the main enemy of the peoples of the Middle east, AQ points its spear at Iran and Hezbollah. Hezbollah has been at the forefront of the struggle against the USA and... Continue Reading →
[In Palestine there is a genocide by the Zionists against the Palestinians. However, this genocide is in slow motion, so to speak. It is a genocide by attrition. The Zionists yap and pretend to negotiate, but the reality is that they keep taking more Palestinian land. Thus they make a Palestinian state not viable. It... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism means prosperity for the wealthy, for the Bourgeois World. For the poor, the Proletarian World, it means poverty and death. China's socialism went off course in the 1970s. China has long since restored capitalism. With capitalism comes tragedy for the workers and poor peoples of the world. -- NP] Fire at Chinese shoe factory... Continue Reading →
Nestle is facing allegations that it used cocoa plantations in Africa that employed slave labor. (allgov.com) Three residents of Mali sued Nestle USA in U.S. federal court in 2009 claiming they were forced as children to work without pay and were abused at Ivory Coast plantations that supplied Nestle with cocoa. They brought their case... Continue Reading →
[The FARC's attempted, negotiated entry into parliamentary politics did not arise spontaneously. It is part of a long history that includes numerous political errors stemming from revisionism. It cannot be stressed more that revolution does not happen through negotiation and participation within the confines of Old Power, the old state and institutions of reactionary society.... Continue Reading →
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