Archive for the 'Civil liberties' Category

Fragging statement: MSH and Anwar al Awlaki
November 10, 2009

Fragging statement: MSH and Anwar al Awlaki
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
All the facts about the Fort Hood shootings are not in yet. The facts may never be fully known. After all, the bourgeois media, the accused’s handlers, and others, will try to craft their own narratives around the events. However, it is reported that there was a mass shooting [...]

Czy socjalizm polepszy życie ludzi w Pierwszym Świecie?
October 29, 2009

Czy socjalizm polepszy życie ludzi w Pierwszym Świecie?
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com, Will First Worlders benefit from socialism? translated into Polish by the NKP(M))
Socjalizm doprowadzi do pogorszenia się standardu materialnego mieszkańców Pierwszego Świata. Pierwszoświatowcy zarabiają znacznie więcej niż wynosi wartość ich pracy. Zarabiają znacznie więcej niż dostarczyłaby egalitarna, socjalistyczna dystrybucja na skalę światową. Dostają znacznie więcej niż zasługują, żyjąc [...]

Ganapathi on Jihadists, revisionists in Nepal, Amerikkkans
October 20, 2009

Ganapathi on Jihadists, revisionists in Nepal, Amerikkkans*
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
In a recent interview, Ganapathi, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist) elaborates his positions on key issues. Ganapathi correctly describes the revolutionary position on Islamic anti-imperialist movements. It is important to note that Ganapathi’s line is the same as our own and differs from the position of the crypto-Trotskyist [...]

Будет ли первомиристам польза от социализма?
October 13, 2009

Будет ли первомиристам польза от социализма?
(monkeysmahesheaven.wordpress.com, this is a Russian translation of Dear Maoist-Third Worldist… Will First Worlders benefit from socialism?)
Социализм повлечёт снижение материального уровня жизни для жителей Первого мира. Жители Первого мира получают во много раз больше, чем стоит их труд. Они получают во много раз больше, чем подразумевает эгалитаристское, социалистическое распределение во всём [...]

Shoe-thrower Muntadhar al-Zaidi free, delivers speech
September 17, 2009

Shoe-thrower Muntadhar al-Zaidi  free, delivers speech
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
 
We thank McClatchy for making this eloquent statement available in Eng£ish. We congratulate Muntadhar al-Zaidi and broadly endorse these comments. At the same time, we point out that while Bush is indeed a criminal, so is the whole of Amerika. Of course, a patriotic Iraqi cannot throw a shoe at [...]

Review: District 9 (directed by Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
August 22, 2009

Review: District 9 (directed by Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
by Prairie Fire
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
 
District 9 is a faux documentary that follows the arrival of an alien ship and its, eventual, departure decades later. The film opens with a huge  alien ship that hovers above Johannesburg, South Africa. When humans board the ship, they find aliens living in squalor who [...]

How much is a Nigerian child’s life worth according to Pfizer?
July 29, 2009

How much is a Nigerian child’s life worth according to Pfizer?*
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
 
After months of negotiation, Pfizer, the US drug giant, has agreed to pay an out of court settlement to Nigerian victims of a 1996 drug trial. In 1996, Pfizer preformed an illegal trial of its bacterial meningitis drug Trovan on 200 children in the northern [...]

Dear Maoist-Third Worldist… Will First Worlders benefit from socialism?
July 27, 2009

Dear Maoist-Third Worldist… Will First Worlders benefit from socialism?
 
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
 

Dear Maoist-Third Worldist,

 
Will First Worlders benefit at all from socialism?

Thank you for writing. 
 
Socialism will lead to a lower-material standard of living for First World peoples. First World peoples earn many times more than the value of their labor. They earn many times more than an egalitarian, socialist [...]

Movie Review: ‘Overturning the Culture of Violence’
July 15, 2009

Review of ‘Overturning the Culture of Violence’ (1)
by Serve The People and End Imperialism
(internationalistjacobinclub.wordpress.com)
Overall, this video in two parts from the African People’s Socialist Party based in the U$ is excellent.  We have several major points of unity with APSP.  In particular, we strongly defend APSP’s insistence that the white working class is historically and up [...]

Pigs deny Ward Churchill job and damages
July 8, 2009

Pigs deny Ward Churchill job and damages
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
 
In a recent ruling Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves ruled against Ward Churchill’s request to be reinstated to Colorado University and against financial damages. This ruling is a contrast to the jury verdict in April that concluded that Churchill was illegally removed from his position for his political [...]

RAIM:Review of ‘The Old Future’s Gone: Progressive Strategy Amid Cascading Crisis,’ a talk by Robert Jensen
June 29, 2009

Review of ‘The Old Future’s Gone: Progressive Strategy Amid Cascading Crisis,’ a talk by Robert Jensen
(http://raimd.wordpress.com)
Last month, author and activist Robert Jensen spoke in Denver at an event sponsored by Argusfest entitled “The Old Future’s Gone: Progressive Strategy Amid Cascading Crisis.”  It was based on a writing that has circulated among left-liberal websites.  A professor [...]

Pigs 1, Lovelle Mixon 4
April 3, 2009

 

Pigs 1, Lovelle Mixon 4
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
On Saturday, March 21st, 2009, a Black man, Lovelle Mixon, before being killed, managed to take four kkkops with him. According to one source, Lovelle Mixon shot two traffic kops. He fled to a building and was surrounded by 200 kops. There two more died, including Mixon, in the shootout that [...]

Ward Churchill wins!
April 3, 2009

see commentary at wardchurchilltrial.wordpress.com for details

RAIM:Remember Luis “Junior” Martinez
March 31, 2009

 

Remember Luis “Junior” Martinez
(raimd.wordpress.com)
“To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai…
Wherever there is struggle there is sacrifice, and death is a common occurrence. But we have the interests of the people and the sufferings of the great majority at heart, and when we die for the people it is a worthy death.”
- Mao [...]

Via RAIMD: Ben Whitmer: Why I Support Ward Churchill
March 7, 2009

Ben Whitmer: Why I Support Ward Churchill
(raimd.wordpress.com)
[Ben Whitmer is a long time supporter of Indigenous struggles and has been at the forefront of the local campaign to support Ward. Currently, he maintains the Ward Churchill solidarity blog, wardchurchilltrial.wordpress.com]
I’ve spent four years defending Ward Churchill in every way I could think to do so.  And not [...]