politics

I am so fed up with the damn Christian fundamentalists constantly using this in their propaganda, we have one of Kent Hovind's videos going on about evolution was Hitler's religion we have many others attacking atheism because Hitler was an atheist. He and anybody else claiming that is lying, some evidence to back this up from Mein Kampf: "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord....

The current representatives of the US ruling class in the White House have so far described the three recent suicides in Guantanamo Bay as 'an act of war' 'a good PR move' and a 'planned event' - opposed to an accidental suicide I suppose. Capitalism has to go. You smash one set of bastards and another set of bastards pop up somewhere else. Enough of this madness. I'm really losing respect for Americans who just aren't concerned about their own violations of human rights....

"We were expecting this. It's the authorities that are allowing this to happen," said a woman holding a limp red carnation who identified herself only as Anna, a lesbian. Talking to the press after the religious and nationalist groups violently interfered in a gay parade in Moscow. Yuri Luzhkov Moscow's mayor simply said "as long as I am mayor, we will not permit these parades". Police detained the rally's main organizer, Nikolai Alexeyev, as he attempted to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a symbol of the Soviet Union's victory against fascism in World War II, just outside the Kremlin wall....

I was planning on writing my own article on this today, however due to problems with the server my time was wasted elsewhere, instead I'll point to an article written 5 years ago on the subject by Socialist Appeal; Britain 1926 General Strike: On the Verge of Revolution: 75 years ago an earthquake shook the very foundations of British capitalism. In the greatest display of militant power in its history the British working class moved into action in the General Strike of 1926....

After the Trade Union Congress expressed its unconditional solitarity with the Venezuelan Revolution, British students continue the trend. From HoV: The National Union of Students at its Easter National Conference passed a resolution supporting the Venezuelan Revolution. The motion recognised the “enormous social change has taken place in Venezuela in recent years, with the government funding wide-ranging social programmes.” It pointed to the “dramatic increases in democratic participation, especially by indigenous people, women and the poor, including in eight national elections and referenda since Hugo Chavez’s election as President in 1998....

Getting ready for May Day..... Send in any pictures of marches or meetings and I'll post them up. E-mail them to webresponse@smirnov.demon.co.uk thanks!

I'm sure everyone on the left in Britain has heard of the Socialist Workers' Party - they're the largest "Marxist" organisation in Britain. However they are under complete control of a tiny minority of people, they stifle all other groups in their coalitions, like the Socialist Alliance, RESPECT and the Stop the War Coalition. Time and time again they have stamped out any traces of democracy to maintain their control of an organisation that believes solely in membership numbers and nothing in Marxism....

By Alan Woods and Ted Grant, Saturday, 14 April 2001: From the start of the War, Connolly was virtually isolated. Internationally, he had no contact. Outside of Ireland, the Labour Movement seemed to be as silent as the grave. True, there were symptoms of a revival in Britain, with the Glasgow rent strike of 1915. But Connolly feared that the workers of Britain would move too late. The idea of an uprising had clearly been taking shape in Connolly's mind....

On February 22, the Chinese government shut down the China Workers' Website and Discussion Lists, a website that allowed Chinese workers and farmers to discuss their struggles and the problems they face. The developments and changes in China are of extreme significance for workers and youth of the whole world and in this regard, this interview, conducted by Stephen Philion for the Monthly Review Magazine, is extremely interesting and important, and provides an insight into the conditions of the Chinese workers, youth and peasants....

Who produces the wealth and who gains most from its production? In a pamphlet written in the early 20th century, John Wheatley described an imaginary court case, with a coalmaster, a landowner and several others being charged with “having conspired together and robbed an old miner, Dick McGonnagle.” The pamphlet, How the Miners Are Robbed, had considerable impact before the First World War. Its basic class analysis remains valid for workers today as they are still being robbed....