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Written by In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 21:20 |
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Supporters of the International Marxist Tendency in Morocco have just published the first edition of their paper, The Communist. Here we provide a brief explanation of the contents and also make it available online for any reader who wishes to download it.
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Written by Lal Khan in Lahore
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 20:42 |
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The US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan are fighting an unwinnable war. This fact is seeping into the consciousness of millions of people in the west who are now opposed to the war. But also in Afghanistan there are signs that the ordinary people are tired of both the imperialist occupation forces and the Taliban. The only alternative to the present barbarism is the struggle for a socialist federation of South Asia, which would include a socialist Afghanistan.
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Written by James Connolly(1908)
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 21:02 |
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James Connolly was a Marxist Internationalist, a fact that is quite lost on many of the political groups and parties who lay claim to his legacy. This article written in 1908 gives an insight into his revolutionary ideas, we are proud to reprint it alongside two articles about India and Pakistan written Comrades from the Pakistani Marxist Tendency "The Struggle" :
"British rule in India, like British rule in Ireland, is a political and social system established and maintained by the conquerors in the interest of the conquered. So runs the legend. But there are not wanting men and women who, strangely enough, maintain that British rule, whether in India or Ireland, is one of the heaviest curses ever inflicted upon an unfortunate people; that its fruits are famine, oppression and pestilence, and that it has but one animating principle wherever found, viz., to extract the utmost possible tribute from the labor of its unfortunate subjects. With that aspect of British rule peculiar to Ireland we are all in a position to be thoroughly acquainted, but there are, unfortunately, many reasons why a like acquaintance with the history and facts of British rule in India is impossible of attainment to the vast majority of our fellow countrymen. Therefore the writer, having had for some time exceptional opportunities of learning the real position of affairs in that country, feels he is doing a service to the cause of freedom and humanity in laying before the readers of the Harp a short sketch of the predisposing causes which had led up to the devastating famine which at present holds and the incipient rebellion which threatens the Indian Peninsula."
This article was originally published on the Marxist Internet Archive: http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1908/01/india1.htm
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Written by Fightback Editorial Board
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Sunday, 04 October 2009 18:41 |
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The Lisbon Treaty Referendum has resulted in a victory for the Yes camp by 67.1% to 32.9%. The result was in part due to the enormous resources of the Yes campaign which had the support of big business, Robbie Keane, the Bishops, Seamus Heaney and of all the government and main opposition parties. The outcome was a dramatic reversal of the last referendum with swings of more or less 20% in many constituencies.
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Written by Umar Shahid in Sialkot, Pakistan
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 20:45 |
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We publish a comment by a Pakistani Marxist on the situation in India today. He outlines the appalling levels of poverty, highlighting that this is getting worse, not better, as the gap between rich and poor gets ever wider. The answer is to be found in the unity of workers across the whole of the South Asian subcontinent in the struggle for a socialist federation.
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