EDITOR—Outspoken Australian journalist tells it like it is about the situation in the Middle East and the heinous crimes of Israel aainst the captive Palestinian population. But, notes Werleman, Israel, and its main supporter, the US, are now completely isolated. The US stands alone as the sole defender of the Zionist colony, hated across the globe. There’s a tectonic shift taking place in all continents, a shift that is now reaching into the very core of the US empire, notes Werleman. We stand at the brink of a new age.
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JOTI BRAR—Prominent theoreticians besides Ludo Martens who attended the yearly May Day seminars in Brussels during the 1990s included Harpal Brar (Great Britain), Tamila Yabrova (Ukraine) and Nina Andreyeva (Russia). It was greatly to the credit of Comrade Ludo and the PTB that they made contact with so many currents within the former Soviet Union that were struggling to come to terms with what had happened in their country and who continued to uphold the banner of Marxism. It was unfortunate that there was no party or individual with the prestige to bring together the various warring factions and establish a common line, however.
This has been a recurring theme in our movement since the loss of a unified leadership – divisions abound and the impetus to overcome them has never yet been strong enough to create meaningful unity of action across international borders or to unify separate groupings within each country in the way Lenin and the Comintern were able to after the October Revolution.
The truth is that this will probably continue to be the case until a new socialist revolution is successful, and is led by a party that is guided by scientific socialism, restoring the prestige of Marxist science in practice, inspiring the masses of the world, and earning the right to be seriously listened to by Marxists and revolutionaries around the world.
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INDRAJIT—Western media talks about how ‘democracy is losing all over the world’ but what’s really happening is the democracy illusion is falling apart. Liberal democracy was a Trojan Horse we let into our countries, and bankers bust out and ransacked the place. Aristotle said representative democracy trended towards oligarchy and, whaddya know, it does.
If you read Aristotle, there are many species of democracy, he listed dozens of forms across just the Med, each suited to the population. America peddled the audacious illusion that there was one form of democracy, and that it fit neatly into bombs. This is philosophically nonsensical, but politically potent, a modern monotheism for the godless. One ring to rule them all. But this Democracy™ was always an illusion. America was always shit and what it was peddling was always bullshit. Now the stench is simply too much.
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—When I got home a colleague sent me this video. It’s of a young man named Sam Mena, a photojournalist for a local CBS-affiliated media in Arizona. The commotion was because he had set his left arm on fire in protest. Stunning. Adding to the this was the fact that he was screaming, “We spread the misinformation.” This wasn’t just a protest of Washington’s complicity in the Gaza genocide – it was also a protest against the US mainstream media’s coverage of it by a US mainstream media journalist. It’s a shocking scene, and it’s not easy to watch. This is probably the best video of it out there.
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MAIN EDITORS—According to the collected statistics, 26% of Ukrainian families with one child and 39% families with two children (4.4 and 6.6 million correspondingly) are struggling to survive whilst living below the poverty line. Poverty leaves no other option to many people except providing sex services for rich and wealthy foreign guests. A 2008 research of the Ukrainian sex workers’ lifestyle revealed that 39% of them do not use condoms regularly and that 22% are drug users.
