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Why the Israeli Occupation of Palestine Cannot be Justified in the 21st Century
Why the Israeli Occupation of Palestine Cannot be Justified in the 21st Century
To begin with, let me state firmly that I am not anti-Semitic, despite the conclusion you may have jumped to upon reading the title of this article. However, I am an advocate of freedom and equality for all. And it is precisely due to my firm belief in a world free of racial prejudice that I feel compelled to to argue this point. Zionism is the political movement whose aim is to establish a homeland for the Jewish race of people. And it is wrong.
We live in a world where every individual has, according the UN, a fundamental right to practise their religion freely. Therefore it is, of course, the right of the Jewish people to practise their beliefs with unrestricted freedom. However, despite what leading Zionists might have you believe, the reclamation of Palestine as the home of the Jewish people was not an exercise of a right to practise religion freely. This was, and is, a criminal act of expropriation. A criminal act which involved the eviction and... 
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29th November 2008 19:30
by blahpid
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Class-Strugglist Labour: For the Politico-Ideological Independence of [Workers]
Class-Strugglist Labour: For the Politico-Ideological Independence of the Working Class
"'Peaceful' decades, however, have not passed without leaving their mark. They have of necessity given rise to opportunism in all countries, and made it prevalent among parliamentarian, trade union, journalistic and other 'leaders'. There is no country in Europe where, in one form or another, a long and stubborn struggle has not been conducted against opportunism, the latter being supported in a host of ways by the entire bourgeoisie, which is striving to corrupt and weaken the revolutionary proletariat. Fifteen years ago, at the outset of the Bernstein controversy, the selfsame Kautsky wrote that should opportunism turn from a sentiment into a trend, a split would be imminent." (Vladimir Lenin)
The aforementioned words, especially that last sentence, were written just after the outset of the mislabeled “First World War” by a Lenin who recalled earlier remarks made by a Kautsky who actually spoke against vulgar “centrism” – the advocacy of any sort of “unity for unity’s... 
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23rd November 2008 04:08
by Die Neue Zeit
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Party-Recallable, Closed-List, and Pure Proportional Representation
The combating of two-party facades and degenerative personality politics through the institution, in the various legislatures and executives, of the closed-list, proportional-representative form that allows mere parties, including smaller ones, to arbitrarily appoint to and remove from the halls of power the party-affiliated legislators, cabinet officials, and chief executives
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15th November 2008 07:56
by Die Neue Zeit
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The losing republicans & their adherents are a more dangerous enemy now!
BEWARE Companeros/Companeras! Make no mistake how the Racist Xenophobe RepublicsKKKum adversary is not going away anytime soon! After losing the Presidential elections with Barack Obama as the soon-to-be President of the U.S., and a Black man to add insult to "their" injuries, the white supremacist enemies will not rest until "their" white virtues are "vindicated"!
"If you ignore them, ...they will go away!" Yea, ...right! Now, where have we heard that phrase before?! Wasn't that what the German Jews used to think of the Brown Shirt Nazi goons who were at Adolf Hitler's behest and direct orders to terrorize Germany's Jewish population in 1936? We all know what happened thereafter in 1941, ...don't we?!
This is no different than the inhumane atrocities that were committed on the indigenous natives and against other non-white population on this continent. AMERICA'S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY is an eternal history that was written in the blood of our many oppressed ancestors of color! It's unfortunate that many of our Stepnfetchit... 
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15th November 2008 06:33
by memo_cho93
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Fetishizing Decentralized Social Movements and So-Called “Spontaneity”
Fetishizing Decentralized Social Movements and So-Called “Spontaneity”
“People talk about stikhiinost. But the stikhiinyi development of the worker movement goes precisely to its subordination to bourgeois ideology because the stikhiinyi worker movement is tred-iunionizm, is Nur-Gewerkschaftlerei – and tred-iunionizm is precisely the ideological enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie.” (Vladimir Lenin)
This particular rendition of one of the “scandalous passages” in What Is To Be Done?, courtesy of historian Lars Lih and his lengthy analysis of the historical context of that pamphlet, better illustrates the history of “spontaneity,” back then in the form of so-called “trade unionism.” Before continuing, his remarks on translation problems should be reiterated:
"Spontaneity" seems like a plausible translation of stikhiinost because both words revolve around lack of control - but stikhiinost connotes the self's lack of control over the world, while spontaneity connotes the world's lack of control over the self. Thus, our attitude to stikhiinost is... 
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9th November 2008 23:05
by Die Neue Zeit
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Socio-Income Democracy: Direct Democracy in Income Taxation
Socio-income democracy through direct proposals and rejections, at the national level and above, regarding all tax rates on all types of income – such as ordinary employment income, self-employment and managerial income, individual property income such as interest, both individual and corporate business income, both individual and corporate dividend income, and both individual and corporate capital gains – annual plebiscites with the right to create or raise effective tax rates on a steeply graduated basis, including changes to alternative minimum tax rates, transfer pricing tax rates, and gross-ups or multipliers for income outside of ordinary employment
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26th October 2008 02:22
by Die Neue Zeit
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Greek government uses military-police methods against protesting youth
The right-wing government of Kostas Karamanlis has revealed its barbaric face to the whole of Greek society. Last Thursday, March 8, the Greek police brutally attacked a big demonstration of 30,000 university students in the centre of Athens. Dozens of students were heavily beaten about their heads, and 61 of them were arrested. Thousands of students suffered breathing problems after the "storm" of tear gas bombs unleashed by the special police forces.
Many young people were taken to hospital with serious injuries. The hospital workers' union representatives at the Erithros Stavros Hospital publicly denounced the fact that many students were taken to the hospitals under police escort.
As is all this were not enough, the students who had been arrested were kept under complete isolation for three days with no access to their families or their lawyers. And all this took place in a country in this "civilized and democratic Europe", in Greece which has been used as one of the examples of economic growth within the European Union during the last... 
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20th October 2008 02:43
by magnus
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10th October 2008 15:42
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24th September 2008 06:06
by Mujer Libre
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