politics

The European Union now stands at 27 member states, with a total population of half a billion people. Bulgaria and Romania, welcome to the European Union.

Today (well I'm 30 minutes late) was the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, or to be more exact the anniversary of when Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos returned from exile from Mexico onboard the Granma, to start the revolutionary war to overthrow the tyrannical regime of Fulgencio Batista. Ernesto "Che" Guevara remembered by the people: Veterans of the revolution out in force: Full text of Raul Castro's speech:...

By Militante: Today federal troops burst into Oaxaca massacring the people - people struggling for justice, decent salaries for their children, and democracy so that they can decide their own destiny - under the excuse of restoring the "order" which they had previously violated. The best of the working people of Oaxaca have risen up to face the troops of the murderous government. The people are firmly resisting on the barricades....

The Mexican government has the nerve to demand that "protesters" in the southern city of Oaxaca lift barricades and end their occupation of the city. Sorry to the un-elected bourgeois government, but the city of Oaxaca is under the control of the people, it has been since June and it will continue. Some parts from the BBC article: The demand came as hundreds of federal police sent by President Vincente Fox were seen arriving in the city....

From the Guardian: The death toll among Iraqis as a result of the US-led invasion has now reached an estimated 655,000, a study in the Lancet medical journal reports today. The figure for the number of deaths attributable to the conflict - which amounts to around 2.5% of the population - is at odds with figures cited by the US and UK governments and will cause a storm, but the Lancet says the work, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, has been examined and validated by four separate independent experts who all urged publication....

You know what I'm sick of? Tory scum. Oh wait, I was sick of them before. But now I'm even more sick of them, their opportunism has no limits. Check this guy out some MEP, elected for scare mongering most likely. North West MEP David Sumberg is urging Europe's top bureaucrat Romano Prodi to bin lyrics for a European anthem with Federalist overtones. Yeah... What lyrics for the anthem? There has never been any official proposal to have lyrics for the anthem of the European Union....

From Another World is Possible, the blog of John McDonnell MP, who, if we have our way will be future leader of the Labour Party: Reports have appeared this morning confirming what many of us suspected. The Bush regime is interfering in the Venezuelan elections in an attempt to depose President Chavez. Funds are being deployed by the US to mobilise support against Chavez. This is an unacceptable act of imperialist inteference in a foreign country which must be condemned by democratic governments across the world....

As Ted Grant passed away just recently, I thought it would be a good time to point out the organisation of which he was a member, The Militant and probably their greatest single achievement. An achievement beyond the dreams of the dozens of left-wing sects of today. In 1983, Labour won the elections of Liverpool City Council with 49 councillors, over the years one died of illness and one was killed, generally known since as the Liverpool 47....

The following resolution in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution was unanimously passed at the world congress of the International Marxist Tendency taking place in Barcelona. Las noticias sobre la enfermedad del comandante Fidel Castro, y la cesión temporal de poderes, suponen un motivo de profunda preocupación para los trabajadores de todo el mundo. La reciente intensificación de la campaña contrarrevolucionaria del imperialismo USA, a favor de la restauración capitalista en Cuba, es un claro indicio de que el peligro para la revolución cubana es muy grave....

From Fidel Castro: I very much appreciate all the messages sent by our compatriots and by many people in the world. I feel sorry for having caused so much concern and bother to our friends in the world. I can not make up good news, because that would be unethical; and if there were bad news, these will only be of benefit to the enemy. Given the specific situation facing Cuba and the plans designed by the empire, the information about my health condition becomes a state secret that can not be continuously disseminated; and my compatriots should understand that....