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Communists have lost touch with grassroots: Jan Myrdal

February 9, 2012
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Well known Swedish author and radical Leftist Jan Myrdal said today, “The world over the communist and social democratic movements failed for the communists lost touch with the grassroots level.” Myrdal was in the city on Wednesday. He addressed a packed hall at Punjabi Bhawan and was invited to the city by the Shaheed...

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Being a communist in 2012

February 9, 2012
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Being a communist in 2012 is not a political choice, but rather an existential matter, writes Santiago Zabala. … Contrary to the opinion of most disillusioned Marxist, it is just this historical defeat that constitutes communism’s greatest possibility to redeem itself not only as a political force, but also as the salvation of human...

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Just What Is The Program of The Russian Communist Party?

February 9, 2012
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There is a new division of the world – the seizure of natural resources and markets to the imposition of pro-Western regimes. The U.S. is waging several wars of conquest. Washington Project “Greater Middle East” – only part of the plans for world domination. Our country needs a shield against any aggression. Without it,...

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Want to raise your pay? Join a union

February 8, 2012
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* The median weekly income of a male unionist – all eight million of them – was $982 last year. That’s 18 percent above the 2011 median for all male workers ($832). That’s one hundred and fifty bucks extra per week in your pocket, 52 weeks a year. It’s also 23 percent above the...

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Eight Ways Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture

February 7, 2012
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Monsanto Company is the dominant player in commercial genetically engineered (GE) crops, the biggest seed company in the world, and—to hear them tell it—a leader and innovator in sustainable agriculture. Monsanto aggressively touts its technology as vital to achieving laudable goals such as ensuring adequate food production, responding to the challenge of global warming,...

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Are robots the future of the WA mining industry?

February 7, 2012
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Robots and remote controlled mines could be the solution to some of the biggest challenges facing Australian miners today, according to industry giant Rio Tinto. But innovation would likely only come after long runs of trial and error and at considerable cost to miners, according to a privately commissioned report. Rio Tinto's labour-intensive iron...

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Monsanto to pull GM operation from Britain

February 5, 2012
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LONDON, Feb. 3 (UPI) — Monsanto Co. said it’s leaving Britain due to opposition to genetically modified foods. Officials at Monsanto — a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation and leading producer of genetically engineered seed — said the company is closing its wheat growing operation, based in Cambridge, which employed 125 people, and selling off...

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Russian Communists Court Discontented Youth

February 5, 2012
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  Party Secretary Kononenko says the Communists understand the many mistakes made during the Soviet era. "The party has evolved pretty much. We are not against private property now. We are just saying we have to nationalize the mineral resources, the oil, gas and big industry," Kononenko says. "But the small business and medium...

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February 4, 2012 Day of Mass Action to Stop War on Iran

February 4, 2012
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NO war NO sanctions NO intervention NO assassinations In many ways, the U.S. war on Iran has already begun. The U.S. government is shaping public opinion to accept military intervention in Iran in the name of “national security.” Fabricated stories that claim evidence of Iran pursuing nuclear weapons is being blasted through mainstream media...

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Karl Marx is never going to provide therapy for bankers

February 4, 2012
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Today there is clearly a growing popular sentiment that the economic exploitation of ourselves and of natural resources is approaching a limit. We simply cannot go on like this. It’s time we stepped back from the abyss and began to put people before profit. It’s an obvious sentiment that few people today – or...

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Marxism -- Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition

"We have always distinguished the social kernel from the political form of bourgeois democracy; we have always revealed the hard kernel of social inequality and lack of freedom hidden under the sweet shell of formal equality and freedom – not in order to reject the latter but to spur the working class into not being satisfied with the shell, but rather, by conquering political power, to create a socialist democracy to replace bourgeois democracy – not to eliminate democracy altogether."

"But socialist democracy is not something which begins only in the promised land, after the foundations of socialist economy are created; it does not come as some sort of Christmas present for the worthy people who, in the interim, have loyally supported a handful of socialist dictators. Socialist democracy begins simultaneously with the beginnings of the destruction of class rule and of the construction of socialism. It begins at the very moment of the seizure of power by the socialist party. It is the same thing as the dictatorship of the proletariat. Yes, dictatorship! "

"But this dictatorship consists in the manner of applying democracy, not in its elimination, but in energetic, resolute attacks upon the well-entrenched rights and economic relationships of bourgeois society, without which a socialist transformation cannot be accomplished. But this dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class – that is, it must proceed step by step out of the active participation of the masses; it must be under their direct influence, subjected to the control of complete public activity; it must arise out of the growing political training of the mass of the people."


Rosa Luxemburg