Browsing Archive: September, 2010
Deepwater drilling: disaster after disaster 20 September 2010. A World to Win News Service. The BP oil well that has been spewing poison into the Gulf of Mexico since April was declared officially "killed" 19 September. But like the undead in a horror movie who rise up again and again to attack the living, one after another deepwater oil rig is coming at humanity.
The Deepwater Horizon rig hired by BP was drilling for oil and gas on the seabed 1.5 kilometres underwater, and its tubes extended ... Continue reading ...
More police murders of Bangladesh revolutionaries
More police murders of Bangladesh revolutionaries
20 September 2010. A World to Win News Service. According to information we received, Bangladesh police have killed two people said to be leading members of the Communist Party of East Bengal (Marxist-Leninist) (Red Flag), also know as the Purba Bangla Communist Party - Lal Pataka.
On 5 September, the Rapid Action Brigade (RAB) announced that they killed Abdur Rashid in what they claimed was a raid on a party meeting in a village in the Pabna Di... Continue reading ...
France and the Roma: ethnic cleansing and national identity
France and the Roma: ethnic cleansing and national identity
13 September 2010. A World to Win News Service. France is moving to forcibly expel its population of immigrant Roma, known pejoratively as Gypsies.
In August and early September, the police carried out raids on more than a hundred squats and improvised camps in vacant lots. They herded family after family – about a thousand people – onto buses, took them to detention centres and marched them onto chartered flights back to Romania,... Continue reading ...
Kissinger: Statesman or murderer? Ask Chileans
Kissinger: Statesman or murderer? Ask Chileans 13 September 2010. A World to Win News Service. On 10 September in Geneva Henry Kissinger was greeted by jeers of ″murderer″ from over 100 demonstrators, mainly Chilean, as well as Argentines. The man who made the 11 September 1973 military coup in Chile possible, Kissinger had come to Switzerland to deliver the keynote speech on "Power shifts and security" at a meeting of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
As National Security... Continue reading ...
Open Protest Letter from the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
Posted by NMSG Lanka on Thursday, September 9, 2010,
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Open Protest Letter from the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
(With Copies to the Participating Parties and Organizations of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement)
The Nepalese Armed Lackeys, a Contingent of Occupying Forces in Afghanistan
The presence of Nepalese armed lackeys was seen in Afghanistan almost simultaneously when the American private security companies appeared in Afghanistan. Since then the issue has been reported in Shola Jaw... Continue reading ...
Flood control and social transformation in revolutionary China – "Teaching water to climb mountains"
Flood control and social transformation in revolutionary China – "Teaching water to climb mountains"
6 September 2010. A World to Win News Service. Following are excerpts from an article that appeared in issue 13 (1989) of A World to Win magazine. It was originally published in the Revolutionary Worker (now called Revolution), voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, 10 June 1985.
For hundreds of years, floods and droughts had been the "twin scourges" of China. A major flood or dro... Continue reading ...
The Pakistan flood, economic damage and the truth about foreign aid
The Pakistan flood, economic damage and the truth about foreign aid
6 September 2010. World to Win News Service.
The immediate loss of life due to the continuing flooding in Pakistan is tragedy enough, but the long-term impact may cause even greater disaster.
The devastated fields long the Indus and other rivers, some still under water and others waterlogged and filled with mud and stones, constitute Pakistan's agricultural heartland and the foundation of its economy. This season's maize, cot... Continue reading ...
Drowning Pakistan: what it means for the people and who is responsible
recevied from The AWTW News Service Drowning Pakistan: what it means for the people and who is responsible
30 August 2010. A World to Win News Service. "When the water came, we moved our women and children to high ground. Three of my daughters stayed behind to help the men pack up whatever belongings we could carry with us… within minutes, the current got too strong and the waters rose head high." This is how a villager from Sardaryab, a village in northwest Pakistan, lost two of his daughter... Continue reading ...
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