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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wrote this for the Workers Party paper: Obama: Image and reality Much has been made about Barack Obama’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the last remaining Democratic primaries of the United States election year. Numerous capitalist media outlets hailed the outcome as a “tremendous step” for civil rights, while right-wing smear attacks centred on his supposed links with communism or radical Islam (due to his Arabic middle name). Many newspapers have said how Obama’s candidacy has given hope not only to Americans, but to many people all over the world, since Obama is “for the people”. However, if you go scrape away his populist rhetoric, you will find a very different image of the man. He obviously isn’t for the Palestinian people, as was shown in his speech for AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) where he wore a lapel pin with the American and Israeli flags and spoke of his “clear and strong commitment to the security of Israel”. He is not the anti-war candidate some more optimistic liberals are painting him as, and he...

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This is a piece I wrote for a history (museum studies) subject, and I think it's a pretty interesting area, so here goes.