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Final Resolution of the 19th Plenary of the ICMLPO
In the Middle of the World, in an atmosphere of internationalist comradeship and solidarity, the members of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) met to share and discuss analysis and experiences. We arrived at resolutions that will contribute to the fulfillment of the historical role of the Marxist-Leninists, the revolutionaries, anti-imperialist and…
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Venezuela: The Right Conspires While the Government Does Not Solve the People’s Problems
En Marcha #1640 February 21 to 27, 2014 Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador The most reactionary sectors of the Venezuelan right are trying to exploit the discontent among a large sector of the population to prepare a coup and create destabilizing actions, instructed by U.S. imperialism. The Venezuelan government should radicalize its…
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Fascists take deputy prime minister and other posts in Ukraine’s new government
By Tash Shifrin Fascists are now part of Ukraine’s government. Oleksandr Sych, of the fascist Svoboda party, has been appointed as deputy prime minister of Ukraine. He will take the post under prime minister Arseniy Yatseniuk of the neo-liberal, conservative Batkivshchyna (“Fatherland”) party. Sych is one of Svoboda’s 36 MPs and has made a particular name for…
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Euromaidan: The play with EU integration
by Dmitry Kolesnik A large group of aggressive young men smash windows and fiercely throw bottles and stones. Behind them there’s a huge crowd shouting ‘We want in the EU’. The picture should apparently frighten people in the EU countries. Some comments in the western media suggest, as a joke, that the picture resembles barbarians amassing…
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Michael Parenti: 85 Billionaires and the Better Half
The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. I think the 85 richest individuals, who together are worth many hundreds of billions of…
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Michael Parenti: What’s a Slum? Urban Poverty and Marginality in America
When I was about thirteen-years-old I chanced upon an article in Henry Luce’s Life magazine that described East Harlem ( a Manhattan working class neighborhood) as “a slum inhabited by beggar poor Italians, Negroes, and Puerto Ricans,” words that stung me and wedged in my memory. “We live in a slum,” I mournfully reported to…
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Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela: 2014 – A Decisive Year for Venezuela
2014 – A Decisive Year for Venezuela The year that has just begun suggests a change in the conditions of struggle in Venezuela, changes that have been growing since early 2013 when the bourgeoisie intensified its economic, political and ideological campaign to attract the masses hopelessness and alienation in relation to Bolivarian project. This intensification of…
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Red Action (Croatia): Information Concerning the Current Rebellion in Bosnia and Herzegovina for our Foreign Comrades
– Protest started on 4th of February in the industrial city of Tuzla. Workers of several privatized companies based in Tuzla organized a protest (without the help or support of trade-unions) demanding the cancellation of privatizations and against closing-down of the factories. They were joined by large number of people from the city and the…
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New Munich agreement
Neoliberal whitewashing of neo-Nazis in Ukraine There is no such ‘miracle’ that cannot be done with the help of just media whitewashing. As if with a wave of a magic wand, those who were first portrayed as reactionary thugs suddenly become progressives. Overtly neo-Nazi groups don’t need even to hide their xenophobic approach and agenda.…
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Get off that Bandwagon
By George Bialek. If you’re a Facebook user chances are you’ve probably seen a popular “meme” regarding Iceland. It’s the one that supposedly quotes some Icelandic politician who was asked something like “Why has Iceland managed to do so well after the economic crisis of 2008?” His response was something about punishing bankers and letting…
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