Garland Nixon

EDITOR—While the establishment media downplays the “collective Biden”s horrific decision to escalate even further in the West’s war against Russia, millions of people around the globe are well aware that this may indeed be the start of WW3, and that the population of the United States better communicate their concern to Trump in unrqivocal ways if the world is to avoid a nuclear cataclysm.

EDITOR—Garland’s wide-ranging conversation with Palestinian journalist Laith Marouf about the latest developments in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and other key regions in the Resistance, and how Hezbollah’s tenacity and good strategic and tactical planning —despite enormous losses in its leadership—have been defeating Israel’s big army and its criminal air force. Israel has not been able to penetrate more than a mile into Lebanon, and Netanyahu’s promise to return settlers to Northern Palestine dissipates into thin air with each passing day.  Looking at the election, Garland believes that Democrats being voted out of office because of their loyalty to Zionism is not a deterrent for many of these politicians. Their calculus is simple: If they lose because of their support for Israel, they can always count on a cushy job somewhere. If they vote against Israel, they stand to lose plenty. Short of a real revolution, they become “political orphans.” Besides, the Dems have long made their pact with the ruling elites, seeing themselves as the natural political platform for the PMC class and its billionaire class sponsors, not to mention their MICIMATT-dominated Deep State. For his part, Trump will not be able to deliver on any of his promises. He won’t upset the abominable status quo that MAGA people abhor because he is fully embedded in it, he’s a con man. 

EDITORS—Joti tracks the reasons for the Dems’ recent embarrassing defeat at the polls, and the UK Laborites’ dismal performance. 
TOPICS: UK/US working class apathy and alienation from the political establishment and taking part in elections, a fact that worries the ruling elites as elections serve to legitimate their rule.  • Trump’s MAGA people may represent the last contingent of true believers in the US promise of an actual popular democracy, notes  • Joti describes in detail how WOKISM (identity politics) is nothing but a shameless ruling class tactic to disarm the working class by introducing issues that serve to divide it, while presenting the state (in the hands of one or another wing of the plutocracy) as their saviours.  Insofar as identity politics replaces the actual class struggle, in which economic factors play the preponderant part, it buries the possibilities for revolutionary social change. This is seen in issue after issue. Radical bourgeois feminists, for example, taught women in the 1980s that their “natural” enemy was men, not the ruling elites.  Bourgeois feminism ended up subverting women’s power. • Same with the “woke” anti-racist movement. Capitalism, in fact, needs racism; it is one of the ideologies fuelling and justifying colonialism and the ruthless expropriation of people around the globe, often using racist imperial soldiers who come from the exploiting country’s working class.

EDITOR—Garland discusses the increasingly toxic relationship between the US empire and its vassals around the globe, disciplining the EU, for example, where Washington blatantly ordered the destruction of the Russo-German Nord Stream 2 pipelines, ordered a detachment and active hostility toward China, and has insured the economic and political subjugation of the continent using local and regional straps (Macron, Schultz, von der Leyen, etc.). Garland stresses that Washington has maintained a firm grip on Western Europe (including its “Eastern European” zones, such as Poland, the Baltics, etc.) despite the apparent surge of leaders and parties seeking political independence and sovereignty. Brexit, he reminds, was an effort for the Brits to regain their sovereignty from the EU machinery clearly dominated by the US, but now they see that the problem is much more serious and deeper, as things have significantly gotten worse after Brexit and the downfall of the Tories. 

EDITOR—Joti Brar demolishes the carefully cultivated myth that bourgeois democracy and periodic elections can possibly improve the lot of the working class, or eventually hand over power to the actual producers instead of the (ever-fewer) billionaires. Topics: History of elections and electioneering in capitalist nations. Joti reviews the record of capitalism as far back as 1820 • Overproduction, the incurable illness of capitalism • Election time circus in the US • The looting of the Soviet Union could not solve global capitalism’s problems • Inexorable impoverishment of the vast majority of humanity under global capitalism. • Constant instability and war.