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A new movement is unfolding in Turkey, beginning as a demonstration against the demolition of park in Istanbul, but rapidly transforming into a challenge of the legitimacy of Turkey's ruling government. It is already being compared to the Rgyptian and Tunisian revolutions and the Occupy movement in the United States. Turkey is a society with major communist revolutionary forces, and sits as the central geostrategic bridge between the Arab world and Europe. A revolutionary crisis could rapidly spread from Turkey…Read More +
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On the day of and in the week leading up to Jackson's elections, reactionary hysteria is being whipped up about candidate Chokwe Lumumba, a founding member of the revolutionary New Afrikan People's Organization (NAPO), who is running for mayor of Jackson as a part of the Jackson Kush Plan, a plan attempting to use a combination of mass movement of the people and radical left participation in elections to spark a Black liberation movement in the South of the United…Read More +
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by Ed Thompson I listened to this audio presentation by Tithi Bhattacharya and I'd like to respond to some points.The overall thesis is that Maoist politics are defunct, and that they replace the emancipation of the working class by the working class itself with guerrilla units leading a guerrilla war.Ms. Bhattacharya assumes that “in a conflict between a guerrilla army and a fully functioning state, it is not a mystery who will win”.Is it? Guerrilla warfare has developed for hundreds…Read More +
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by Nat Winn Thanks so much for your late intervention HiFi. It's really appreciated and at least we agree that the debate is an important one. I want to jump right into our differences to give readers a clear sense of where they lie (as your comments also do very well). Again on unity of Object and Subject HiFi states: Through conscious intention human beings objectify themselves socially. They create forms, which, in turn, becomes the condition for their existence.…Read More +
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Kasama is pleased to share news of a new international pubilcation being produced by the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist called People's Voice. The following is an introduction article to this new magazine. Kasama will be sharing articles from the magazine over the next few days. A PDF version of the magazine is also available. Towards New Revolution International Department of Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist has decided to bring out regular informative online service, which can fulfill the demand of our…Read More +
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The fact is that this election is being conducted not for drafting of the new constitution. Instead the election is to goad the country towards party less system and also is being held or will be held at the cost of national sovereignty. That is why I would say that the entire process of the election is nothing more than a drama. This election will not be held. We will not allow it to happen. For months now, the coup…Read More +
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Sanitation " the proper treatment and/or disposal of urine and excrement" could be considered "the most important medical milestone" in modern history according to the British Medical Journal. Yet for at least 2.5 billion people, more than a third of the world's people, this most basic human need is unmet. Most cases of diarrhea are caused by water and food contaminated by faeces, and this disease kills 1,800 children every day. "If 90 school buses filled with kindergardeners were to crash…Read More +
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by Nat Winn Maoist dialectics assert that all that exists is contradiction. Where every thing that exists contains within it both unity and struggle, it is struggle that is the driving force of dialectics and that lays the basis for transformation. Dialectics is not a drive to some final unified process (the unity of subject and object for example). On Life Activity as essence of being humanI've thought a lot about a recent comment by Eve Mitchell where she says:Read More +
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Last year, Fire on the Mountain called on the grayer heads to revisit the days when Ohio National Guardsmen shot dead four of us on Kent State campus. Here is my small piece of that much larger picture. By Mike Ely (Kasama Project) May 1970. Forty years have passed. It is history now in the eyes of the world. But for me, and many others, it is raw and alive. It always will be. I won’t tell the well known…Read More +
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May 1 in Nepal: "If they use arms, we'll do the same"
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- Created on Thursday, 02 May 2013 04:57
- Written by eric ribellarsi
Reports are beginning to come in from May 1 in Nepal. Kasama will share more as the develop. Special thanks to Bikkil Sthapit for sharing photos and reports.
Thousands of workers marched through Kathmandu in rallies organized by the All Nepal Revolutionary Trade Union Federation, chanting demands for 8 hours for work, 8 hours for recreation, and 8 hours for rest. The workers delivered a 25 point demand list, chanting "implement it without change."
The crowd was led by Biplab, a leading member of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, who then gave a speech stating that the unconstitutional coup government of Kil Raj Regmi has been attempting to brutally suppress their party, and that the sham elections are a part of that plan. Biplab said that the Maoists have heard the state is planning to deploy the police and the army if they disrupt the sham elections. "Our decision is, if they try to conduct the election without arms, we'll defy it without arms. If they use arms or armed forces, we'll do the same."
More photos after the break.
May 1 in Turkey: Police Terror and Militant Resistance
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- Created on Thursday, 02 May 2013 00:28
- Written by Halkin Gunlugu
There photos come to Kasama from Halkin Gunlugu, a radical newspaper sympathetic to the Maoist Communist Party of Turkey (MKP). Kasama will be translating reports from Turkey when possible.
"With 80 countries around the world marking May 1 as a public holiday, Istanbul's Taksim Square was in lockdown on Wednesday, after the Turkish government banned May Day protests there.The square is the site of a 1977 May Day massacre in which dozens of people died under disputed circumstances. Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Istanbul, said: "There have been scuffles, particularly in areas that lead to Taksim Square, which has been sealed off. "Protesters say they should be given access to celebrate May 1 in a place of symbolic importance; they want to honour the memory of those who were killed here. There is a tug of war under way between the government and people." Earlier images showed police spraying water at protesters who threw objects at their vehicles...
May Day marchers continue clashes with police in Istanbul, Turkey, after Turkish police blocked access to a city square. Masked protestors throw objects during clashes in Istanbul. Turkish riot police used water cannon and tear gas on Wednesday in a bid to disperse hundreds of protesters who defied a Labour Day ban on demonstrations in a central part of Istanbul. Protestors use a makeshift barricades during clashes -- Cops using teargas, water cannons."
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