Well comrades, time for another rambling entry to the never-ending journey leftward

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A democratic republic is the best possible shell for capitalism, and, therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell, it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions, or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.

- Lenin

The other day I was reading Lenin's State and Revolution, and I stumbled...

[From the Fracción Trotskista, ft-ci.org, – unofficial translation]

A shameful sentence against the Pussy Riot feminist activists in Russia

By Celeste Murillo
Saturday, August 18, 2012

On February 21, this year, the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot carried out an action repudiating the Orthodox Church and recently re-elected President Vladimir Putin. The feminist activists entered Moscow’s main cathedral, and, in a completely peaceful action,...

[From the Fracción Trotskista ft-ci.org – unofficial translation]

Statement of the Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas

The government of the African National Congress massacres 34 workers in South Africa


By PTS, Argentina
Saturday, August 18, 2012

The Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas expresses its most emphatic condemnation of the massacre of 34 mineworkers in South Africa, perpetrated by the police, in the context of a strike...

[From the Fracción Trotskista, ft-ci.org – Unofficial translation]

Chile: For a plan of struggle to stop the Hinzpeter Law
Repression is not making us surrender

By: PTR–CcC (Partido de los Trabajadores Revolucionarios - Clase contra Clase), from Chile
Thursday, August 16, 2012

With a mobilization that brought together thousands nationally, August 8 was marked by the intransigence of Piñera’s government and police repression dictated from...

[This is an unfinished piece, written as part of what will hopefully become an article on the history of the 21st century of the Nova Mundi creative writing project. My original intention was to set the scene by writing a few short paragraphs about the facts of what happened in various parts of the world, but when the subject of Africa came up I got sidetracked into an exposition of the history of the Malagasy Nanotopia. I thought the results were worth sharing for the purposes of gathering feedback....