Monthly Archives: December 2011
Venezuelan Embassy Labor Attaché Marcos Garcia Visits Uhuru House
On Friday, December 30, 2011, Marcos Garcia, Labor Attaché to the Venezuelan Embassy in the U.S. visited the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, FL. Read the rest of this entry
The Defeat of the Left-Wing in the Cultural Revolution
Hold high the great red banner of Mao Zedong Thought to wage the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to the end--Revolution is no crime, to rebel is justified
Following up on my posting of the Leading Light Communist Organization’s basic points on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, I am posting this much more drawn out analysis of the defeat of the two principal left-wing factions within the GPCR – Lin Biao’s People’s Liberation Army and the spontaneous mass movements. This piece was written by LLCO member Prairie Fire and was published with the title Two Roads Defeated in the Cultural Revolution.
As I noted in my posting of the LLCO’s basic points, the GPCR and its outcomes, especially the defeat the left-wing, was an a world historic shaking event and is of key importance for revolutionary communists to understand. Firstly, because Mao and others blazed a path in laying out, and then acting on, the necessity to not only revolutionize the relations of production, but also the superstructure (culture, institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals, and state) as well. Read the rest of this entry
Resistance in the Congo Continues
A riot policeman faces opposition protesters through a could of tear gas in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa
By Libanga Tika-Kongo writing for Uhuru News.
On December 23, 2011, Etienne Tshisekedi, the opposition leader from the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social, UDPS) boldly swore himself in as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in defiance of the elections that opposition parties argue were rigged in favor of the current neocolonial president, Joseph Kabila.
The election results, announced by Congo’s election commission (CENI), were quickly disputed by all opposition parties as well as some observers, including the head of the Catholic church in Congo.
Africans from Congo had been mobilized for the previous two weeks, in hopes that the elections would end Kabila’s neocolonial government and establish UDPS’s leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, as the new neocolonial president. Read the rest of this entry
Some Basic Points on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
This article originally appeared on the home page of the Leading Light Communist Organization (LLCO) with the title Beginning Talking Points on the Cultural Revolution Era. While I have attempted to put forward a critique of the Maoist-Third Worldist politics of the Leading Light Communists from the understanding of African Internationalism/Yeshitelaism, it cannot be denied that they do on occasion produce articles that are thought provoking and worth discussing.
Some of their more interesting work has been on the era of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This key period was paradoxically both the highest advance of the revolution in China and the period immediately preceding the restoration of capitalist social relations and the entrance of China into the camp of imperialism. Read the rest of this entry
In Memory of Chairman Mao Zedong
December 26th marks the birthday of Chairman Mao Zedong, one of the greatest philosophers, military strategists and revolutionary leaders ever known. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, struggled against Soviet false internationalism, lead the people’s war against Japanese imperialism, the Chinese compradors and the feudalists, initiated the world historic Chinese Revolution in which one quarter of humanity stood up to shake off domination by imperialist white power, and he opened up the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, one of the most profound revolutionary social experiments yet seen. As Chairman Omali rightly points out, it was Chairman Mao who more than anyone else he taught us that it is the masses of oppressed people who are the agents of history.
Long Live Chairman Mao Zedong!
Victory to the Oppressed Peoples of the World!
Three Years After Gaza Massacres: The Palestinian People Remain Steadfast
From the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP is a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist organization fighting for national liberation and socialism in occupied Palestine.
Marking the third anniversary of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, Comrade Jamil Mizher said that the occupation, despite its vast crimes and massacres, failed to achieve its objectives and could not break the will or steadfastness of the Palestinian people.
“Three years after the criminal war on the Strip, our people have regained our capacity and capabilities to confront the Israeli occupation, and despite the continuing threats, have not and will never surrender to their occupation, said Mizher, a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Read the rest of this entry
“Band-Aid” Resistance in Attiwapiskat
The so-called Assembly of First Nations, lead by 'National Chief' Shawn Atleo (centre) is the chief Native comprador body in Canada
A new article by Johnny Hawke of the northern Ontario based Anishinabek Confederacy to Invoke our Nationhood (ACTION). In this article he examines the indigenous response to the situation in the Cree community of Attiwapiskat that has been in the mainstream Canadian media so much lately and consequently and driving White people into a fury again about Indians.
The Mushkegowuk Community of Attawapiskat is making headlines in the media where they have declared a state of emergency regarding their housing crisis where any response has only provided shelter for the massive public opinions on tax payer’s rights, corruption, third party management, accountability, sovereignty, and civil disobedience, while the real issue of housing gets left out in the cold. Read the rest of this entry
Communist Party of the Philippines: Further Strengthen the Party to Advance the People’s War
We celebrate today with boundless happiness the 43rd anniversary of the reestablishment of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and all the victories that we have won since then in the Filipino people’s democratic revolution against US imperialism and the local exploiting classes of big compradors and landlords.
We salute and honor all Party cadres and members, all the revolutionary forces and the entire people for all their efforts and sacrifices in bringing about victories in the revolution. Let us fervently extol and emulate our revolutionary martyrs and outstanding heroes.
Since last year, we have seen significant achievements in our ideological, political and organizational work. We have scored major successes in fulfilling the political requirements for realizing the plan to advance from strategic defensive to strategic stalemate. We have strengthened the political foundation for intensifying the people’s war. Read the rest of this entry
The African Revolution Builds Proletarian Internationalism
Interim Chair of the African People’s Socialist Party-Bahamas Meets New Cuban Ambassador
Alex Morley, Interim Chair of the African People’s Socialist Party-Bahamas, exchanged formal introductions with His Excellency Enersto Soberón Guzmán, during a meeting at the Cuban Embassy this Thursday, December 22, 2011.
The two spoke on points of mutual interest including the continuation of the work of Friends of the Cuban Five here in Nassau, the unjust and criminal blockade imposed by the Government of the United States on the people of Cuba, and the upcoming African Socialist International Caribbean & Latin American Regional Conference being held here in Nassau April 2012.
Ambassador Guzman succeeded Ambassador Jose Ponce Caraballo. Read the rest of this entry
Korea Stands Strong: Kim Jong-Il in Context
The following is from Fight Back! News, the official organ of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (Marxist-Leninist) in the United States.
The morning of Dec. 19 started like a normal Monday for the Korean staff at the Hae Dang Hwa restaurant in Beijing. The greeting staff welcomed hungry customers at the front door, the chefs began prepping their fine selection of kimchi and other Korean dishes and the waitresses and waiters began taking down orders for their guests. All of that changed when a China Daily reporter mentioned in a conversation with a waitress that Kim Jong-Il, the head of state for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), had died that morning of a heart attack. In minutes, the entire Korean staff – from the waiters to the chefs in the kitchen – broke down in tears and, after apologizing to the customers, closed the restaurant early for the day so they could grieve the national tragedy together. Read the rest of this entry
Christopher Hitchens: An Obituary for a Professional White Man
I had been ignoring more or less the death from cancer of the pro-imperialist, white power apologizing, misogynistic, faux-leftist turned open neoconservative, guru of the ‘new’ atheism Christopher Hitchens. A wormy piece of shit like him (who is now well on his way to being worm food) is generally below the radar of this site and not worth posting on, even in the event of their death. Plus, there has been much more important stuff going on these past few days, especially the news from Democratic People’s Korea of the death of Kim Jong-Il.
However, other people out there have been hard at work providing us with obituaries of him that do not spend time fellating him because of his talent with a pen and the British tongue or because he helped make witty atheism popular. Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley has written a particularly acerbic obit of the man. Read the rest of this entry
Understanding North Korea
Latin American revolutionary & martyr Ernesto "Che" Guevara meeting with Kim Il-Sung, the founder of the DPRK
Given the current state of events with the death of the leader Democratic People’s Korea, Kim Jong-Il, the mainstream press, which is in the service of imperialist white power, have gone into overdrive in trying to instill fear and propaganda against both Kim and his country. As such, it is very important for those of us in the camp of world revolution to provide a counter to imperialist propaganda. What we need is a sober, truthful outlook on the tiny country of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka “North Korea”).
With that goal in mind I present the following article. It was originally written in March 3, 2007, by Canadian foreign policy analyst Stephen Gowans, on his blog What’s Left. You can get another analysis of the DPRK from the presentation ”A Reality Check on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” given by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) Read the rest of this entry
Mumia Abu-Jamal: On the Nation of Islam & Kim Il-Sung
The Black Panther, featuring Kim Il-Sung and one time African revolutionary Eldridge Cleaver
The following is an extract from Mumia’s book We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party. It was first put up by the comrades over at Sons of Malcom.
Competition on the Corner
The 3rd Avenue El in the Bronx was a major thoroughfare in the borough, and as such was a prime site for one trying to sell The Black Panther.
I had recently been assigned to the Bronx office and in an attempt to sell my 50 copies, I chose a stop on the line where the foot traffic would be quite heavy, as people descended from the elevated train ride. At roughly the same time, another young Black man elected to stop at the busy corner with the intention of selling his wares.
His wares were essentially the same as mine—newspapers. There, however, the similarity ended, for it was clear from his product that competition was inevitable.
The young man wore a dark-green iridescent suit and a brightly colored bow tie. Read the rest of this entry
