Forwarded from Steve Sweeney Journalist
Hamas chooses Sinwar as its leader
Hamas announced that it had decided, “after in-depth and extensive consultations and deliberations in its leadership institutions,” to choose its leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, as head of its political bureau. The movement confirmed, in a statement, its confidence in Sinwar “as its leader at a sensitive stage, and in a complex local, regional and international situation.”
Source: Al Akhbar
Hamas announced that it had decided, “after in-depth and extensive consultations and deliberations in its leadership institutions,” to choose its leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, as head of its political bureau. The movement confirmed, in a statement, its confidence in Sinwar “as its leader at a sensitive stage, and in a complex local, regional and international situation.”
Source: Al Akhbar
Forwarded from Joti Brar
One of the main objectives of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation launched by Palestinian resistance forces on 7 October was the taking of hostages, with the aim of exchanging them for the tens of thousands of uncharged and viciously maltreated Palestinians who are currently held in the dungeons of the zionist regime.
This aim is a vital one for the resistance, and historically only hostage exchanges have ever succeeded in securing the release of Palestinian captives.
https://thecommunists.org/2024/08/07/news/hannibal-directive-western-media-cover-up-israel-mass-murder/
This aim is a vital one for the resistance, and historically only hostage exchanges have ever succeeded in securing the release of Palestinian captives.
https://thecommunists.org/2024/08/07/news/hannibal-directive-western-media-cover-up-israel-mass-murder/
The Communists
‘Hannibal directive’: western media covers up Israel’s mass murder of Israelis
Why is it now believed that more than half of those killed on 7 October were gunned down by their own side?
Forwarded from KFA UK
To Realize People's Long-cherished Desire
Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- Mt Paektu is the ancestral mountain shining with the sacred history of the Korean revolution.
The Korean people see the past and present and the future of Juche Korea shining with victory and glory in its majestic appearance.
The indomitable spirit created on this sacred mountain of the revolution is still cherished in the minds of the Korean people as their immortal faith and will. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.8.14.)
Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- Mt Paektu is the ancestral mountain shining with the sacred history of the Korean revolution.
The Korean people see the past and present and the future of Juche Korea shining with victory and glory in its majestic appearance.
The indomitable spirit created on this sacred mountain of the revolution is still cherished in the minds of the Korean people as their immortal faith and will. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.8.14.)
Forwarded from Joti Brar
USSR Support For The Arab People Of Palestine 1982.pdf
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A reminder of what the world lost with the fall of the USSR is contained in this little Soviet pamphlet from 1983, expressing full and militant support for the Palestinian struggle, including its armed struggle, explaining what measures the Soviet Union was taking to support that struggle (including the supply of arms) and denouncing US imperialism's support for genocidal zionism.
Interesting to note from the letters quoted how well informed Soviet citizens were about what was really happening in the middle east. Compare with the general ignorance prevailing amongst western workers, then and now, to see what a difference a decent education and an internationalist and anti-capitalist media make to the outlook of the people.
And this was at a time when the Soviet Union was in a state of fairly advanced decay as compared with the ideological and educational high point of the Stalin era.
Interesting to note from the letters quoted how well informed Soviet citizens were about what was really happening in the middle east. Compare with the general ignorance prevailing amongst western workers, then and now, to see what a difference a decent education and an internationalist and anti-capitalist media make to the outlook of the people.
And this was at a time when the Soviet Union was in a state of fairly advanced decay as compared with the ideological and educational high point of the Stalin era.
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Forwarded from Joti Brar
Think about what this graphic represents. Think in particular about the tiny geographical space into which all these tons of bombs have been concentrated.
And then think about how our media’s non-outrage and normalisation of this horrific crime feeds the sense of resignation amongst the wider western public.
Not only Netanyahu, Biden, Sunak and Starmer should be in the dock. But also all the editors of the corporate media papers and TV channels that promote zionist narratives, criminalise resistance and leave the wider population either in complete ignorance or feeling that this activity is somehow normal, acceptable and/or unalterable.
And then think about how our media’s non-outrage and normalisation of this horrific crime feeds the sense of resignation amongst the wider western public.
Not only Netanyahu, Biden, Sunak and Starmer should be in the dock. But also all the editors of the corporate media papers and TV channels that promote zionist narratives, criminalise resistance and leave the wider population either in complete ignorance or feeling that this activity is somehow normal, acceptable and/or unalterable.
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Forwarded from Joti Brar
CPGB-ML party members have returned from a visit to Xinjiang with glowing reports of the thriving multi-ethnic society they saw there.
One in which all citizens are valued equally; in which the best aspects of their language, culture and heritage are preserved and valued; and in which opportunities for education and a decent life are being opened up to all.
https://thecommunists.org/2024/08/23/news/how-a-peoples-government-defeated-a-west-backed-terrorist-insurgency/
One in which all citizens are valued equally; in which the best aspects of their language, culture and heritage are preserved and valued; and in which opportunities for education and a decent life are being opened up to all.
https://thecommunists.org/2024/08/23/news/how-a-peoples-government-defeated-a-west-backed-terrorist-insurgency/
The Communists
How a people’s government defeated a west-backed terrorist insurgency
The success achieved by removing the basis for radicalisation of poor workers shows the wisdom of China’s policy in Xinjiang.
Forwarded from Slavyangrad (M)
Archives on the decision of European countries to wage war against the USSR have been declassified.
At the beginning of 1940, England and France made a fundamental decision to start a war against the USSR – to strike from Finland and from the Caucasus, and also to create a “national Russian government.”
This data was obtained by Soviet intelligence, and now it has been published by the Presidential Library.
— wrote People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Lavrenty Beria.
According to the head of the NKVD, this decision of the military council led to the resignation of the British Secretary of State for War, Leslie Hore-Belish, “who at this stage was categorically against war with the USSR.”
— Beria noted.
To justify the attack on the Soviet Union, the British and French prepared an action with fakes and wrote a whole collection of fictitious stories. In the end, it was never published due to Germany's military successes in Western Europe in 1940.
@Slavyangrad
At the beginning of 1940, England and France made a fundamental decision to start a war against the USSR – to strike from Finland and from the Caucasus, and also to create a “national Russian government.”
This data was obtained by Soviet intelligence, and now it has been published by the Presidential Library.
At the last meeting of the Supreme Military Council, a fundamental decision was made to begin military action against the USSR. On the basis of this decision, a sharp anti-Soviet campaign was launched in all newspapers to prepare public opinion,
— wrote People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Lavrenty Beria.
According to the head of the NKVD, this decision of the military council led to the resignation of the British Secretary of State for War, Leslie Hore-Belish, “who at this stage was categorically against war with the USSR.”
The main objective is to capture Leningrad, which, according to the allies, should deal a strong blow to the USSR,
— Beria noted.
To justify the attack on the Soviet Union, the British and French prepared an action with fakes and wrote a whole collection of fictitious stories. In the end, it was never published due to Germany's military successes in Western Europe in 1940.
@Slavyangrad
Forwarded from Class Consciousness Project
Keir Starmer is over in Berlin today to start the process of undoing Brexit. The Brexit vote in 2016 was a great revolt, largely of the working class, against the wishes of the most powerful sections of the ruling class. That's why the rich hate it and have been working non-stop to undo it ever since.
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Forwarded from Communism
“Formerly, the victory of the revolution in one country was considered impossible, on the assumption that it would require the combined action of the proletarians of all or at least of a majority of the advanced countries to achieve victory over the bourgeoisie. Now this point of view no longer fits in with the facts. Now we must proceed from the possibility of such a victory, for the uneven and spasmodic character of the development of the various capitalist countries under the conditions of imperialism, the development within imperialism of catastrophic contradictions leading to inevitable wars, the growth of the revolutionary movement in all countries of the world-all this leads, not only to the possibility, but also to the necessity of the victory of the proletariat in individual countries.”
- J. V. #Stalin (The Foundations of #Leninism)
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- J. V. #Stalin (The Foundations of #Leninism)
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Forwarded from The Communists
This article by Josef Stalin was written in response to denunciations of the Soviet Union by Labour foreign minister Herbert Morrison.
It contains a wonderfully pithy summary of the difference between socialist and imperialists definitions of the concept of ‘freedom’, as well as being an excellent rebuttal of the 1945ism (nostalgia for the supposedly ‘good old days’ of a ‘socialist’ Labour government after WW2) that still plagues the vast majority of the self-identifying ‘left’ – an illusion that they pass on continually to the British working class.
https://thecommunists.org/2024/09/05/news/history/josef-stalin-labour-party-nato-ussr-1951/
It contains a wonderfully pithy summary of the difference between socialist and imperialists definitions of the concept of ‘freedom’, as well as being an excellent rebuttal of the 1945ism (nostalgia for the supposedly ‘good old days’ of a ‘socialist’ Labour government after WW2) that still plagues the vast majority of the self-identifying ‘left’ – an illusion that they pass on continually to the British working class.
https://thecommunists.org/2024/09/05/news/history/josef-stalin-labour-party-nato-ussr-1951/
The Communists
Josef Stalin on the Labour party and Nato
‘The Labour government has agreed to turn Britain into a military and air base for the United States of America to attack the Soviet Union.’