Norway to open new Arctic warfare base

Oslo plans to establish a new NATO Arctic and amphibious warfare center where US, British, and Dutch marines will be trained amid heightened tensions with Russia, the Defense Ministry announced on Friday.

The new hub will be created in the municipality of Sorreisa north of Lofoten in Norway's Arctic, some several hundred kilometers, as the crow flies, from Russia's strategic port of Murmansk, which is a key military and naval base. 

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Delhi gridlock: Farmer protests bring city to a standstill

The Indian capital braces for massive traffic jams as thousands of farmers took to the streets, demanding the reallocation of 10% of developed plots for agriculture workers displaced by land acquisition.

Supported by local industry unions, the farmers also ask for new legal benefits, including revised rules for farmer welfare.

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Echoes of Color Revolution: Parallels between US-backed 2014 coup in Ukraine and 2024 carnage in Georgia

Mass protests were triggered by a drive to join the EU and eventual integration into Western institutions. A decade of interference, a cycle of destabilization - and the parallels between the fiery violence is uncanny.

In both Ukraine and Georgia, masked provocateurs stirred anger and violence - armed, these are not your average protesters.

Meanwhile, the US State Department announced Washington had suspended its strategic partnership with Tbilisi until it submits to its wishes... or face more consequences.

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More of this sort of thing!

Workers everywhere need to be emulating the Greek dockers, who are setting a fine example of internationalism.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/12/05/news/greek-dockworkers-block-ammunition-shipment-israel-war-crimes-non-cooperation/

"Classes are large groups of people distinguished by their place in a historically determined system of social production, by their relationship (mostly fixed and formalized in laws) to the means of production, by their role in the social organization of labor, and consequently, by the methods of obtaining and the size of the share of social wealth that they possess. Classes are such groups of people, one of which can appropriate the labor of another, due to the difference in their place in a certain structure of social economy."

- V. I. Lenin

This is one of the most important lessons we have to learn if we want the British working class to stop sitting on the sidelines treating international politics like a spectator sport and instead become an active force in history and master of its own destiny.

Look carefully at how the supposed ‘friends of the people’ behave in these dark hours. Everyone who cheers the fall of Syria is an enemy of human progress; an enemy of the working and oppressed peoples everywhere.

Remember who cheered for Libya’s destruction. Watch who cheers today. These are the enemy within; these are the forces whose influence amongst the working class must be destroyed for any progress to be made.

There is only on answer to such setbacks as these. Not despair. Not passivity but action. We must get off the sidelines and build the axis of resistance!

The "communist" party in Britain now says, following the Syrian collapse that the anti war movement must "redouble our efforts". Will if we double zero we still get zero "comrades", your miserable gang spent a decade collaborating with the trots and opposing meaningful action against the imperialist war on Syria. Now the imperialists have won their (albeit temporary) victory the bold heroes of the "communist" party come out and cry "to the barricades!". These organisations are road blocks in the way of building anything serious in terms of an actual anti imperialist movement and they must be swept aside.

https://x.com/CPBritain/status/1866063792930439404

Western media often constructs a cult of personality around individuals, attributing a nation's actions to a single figure. For example, when discussing Russia, everything is framed as being orchestrated by Putin. Similarly, in Syria, they label Bashar al-Assad as "the dictator" rather than acknowledging him as the President of Syria, who operated within a bourgeois government structure.

Bashar al-Assad oversaw Syria's decline, which also marked the collapse of Ba'athism. While the Ba'athist movement was more progressive than many Pan-Arabist movements, it was still dominated by bourgeois cliques. Such systems inevitably allow comprador elements to align with the highest bidder.

This failure was compounded by external pressures, including imperialist intervention and the exploitation of internal divisions by foreign powers. The absence of a strong, organised working-class base left the country vulnerable to destabilisation, both from within and without. The contradictions of Ba'athism—a movement attempting to balance Pan-Arab ideals with class hierarchies—ultimately left it unable to withstand these pressures.

We do not consider President Assad a dictator, nor do we hold him solely responsible for Syria's downfall. Without the support of the working class, fractures within the system were unavoidable.

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