EDITOR—Harpal Brar, Caleb Maupin and Joti Brar discuss the nature of Imperialist war, the importance of revolutionary defeatism, and the fact that Imperialist war isn’t an aberration within capitalism, but an inevitability while capitalism holds sway over the world. The panel also looks at the effect of the emergence of nuclear weapons on the international communist movement, the gain and subsequent loss, thanks to soviet ingenuity in Russia and China, of the monopoly of nuclear armaments by the US empire, and how revisionism used the fear of nuclear doom to undermine the necessity of continued class war.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—This is because propaganda only works if it doesn’t ring people’s cognitive alarm bells. You can’t slide propaganda down people’s throats if it triggers their critical thinking gag reflex. If you want to poison someone’s food, you can only pull off the deed if they don’t taste the poison or throw it up before it takes effect.
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EDITOR—Comrades Harpal Brar, Joti Brar and Caleb Maupin discuss the conditions that led to the division of Korea and the history of free Korea, its struggle to build a socialist state while enduring massive sanctions and the torrent of Imperialist misinformation.
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The head of the Communist Party in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Boris Litvinov, shared his thoughts on the redistribution of power in the world, fighting fascism, the Wagner mutiny, and the EU’s dependence on the US.
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PATRICK LAWRENCE—The FBI informant, a Ukrainian–American, seems to be similarly savvy. All of the informant’s encounters with Zlochevsky took place in the presence of one Alexander Ostapenko, who introduced the informant to Zlochevsky and who, as the file puts it, “works in some office for the administration of President Zelensky,” The FBI man thus made sure he had a supporting witness. My read of Ostapenko, such as we know anything about him, is that he may be a Ukrainian variant of whoever it was who leaked the Democrats’ mail seven years ago—an insider disgusted with the corruption all around him.
