Twerp on the loose

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On Dangerous Ground (1951)

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Peru president pardons ex-leader Fujimori; foes take to streets

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori late on Sunday, triggering Christmas Eve street clashes as protesters denounced the decision as part of a crude political deal.

The decision clears Fujimori of convictions for human rights crimes and graft when his right-wing government was in power from 1990 to 2000, and could define Kuczynski’s legacy and rewrite political alliances.

Police fired teargas at scores of Fujimori’s opponents in downtown Lima, who waved pictures of the victims of a bloody counterinsurgency campaign during his term.

Officers in riot gear stood guard at Kuczynski’s house in the capital’s San Isidro financial district as protesters called for the march to make its way there.

Kuczynski, “you’ve betrayed justice, democracy and victims. History will never forgive you,” said Indira Huilca, a leftist lawmaker whose union leader father was shot dead in 1992 in what the Inter-American Court of Human Rights deemed an extrajudicial killing.

As the pardon inflamed long-dormant political tension in Peru, a representative of the political arm of the Maoist-inspired rebel group Shining Path called for Kuczynski to release its historic leader.

“Freedom for Dr Abimael Guzman Reinoso!” Guzman’s attorney, Alfredo Crespo, wrote in a message to journalists.

Fujimori, along with U.S., imperialism, is responsible for a genocidal war against the Indigenous people of Peru and against the country’s communist-led armed struggles. - redguard

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Taking Russia’s Stark Warning on North Korea Seriously

As the US media obsesses about Russia’s involvement in the U.S. elections, it is ignoring nearly everything else about the Putin government’s role in the world. But recent warnings from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the Trump administration is dangerously escalating the North Korean crisis deserve serious attention.

By Tim Shorrock

Over the weekend, RT—which the U.S. government has just classified as a propaganda outlet—reported that Lavrov, in an interview with Belarusian broadcaster STV, delivered a strong message about US intentions in the massive air exercises that began yesterday in the skies in and around South Korea.

The US-South Korean drills this week involve over 12,000 personnel and nearly 230 advanced aircraft, including the Pentagon’s most powerful warplanes, stealth F-35 Lightning II fighters, and B1-B Lancer bombers.

“Six F-22s, six F-35As and 12 F-35B jets are new to this exercise,” the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, emphasizing its unprecedented size. This is the largest-ever deployment of stealth fighters to Korea, the South Korean military said. CNN reported on Monday that the drills “include attacks against a mock North Korean missile launch site and nuclear facilities.”

On Saturday, as the drills were set to begin, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster turned up the heat by declaring that the potential for war with North Korea is growing. “I think it’s increasing every day, which means that we are in a race, really, we are in a race to be able to solve this problem,” he told a national security conference in California.

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Artwork by Emory Douglas from The Black Panther newspaper

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Live fire, tear gas and brutality will not stop Palestinians from asserting their human rights in the face of Israeli occupation and genocide

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Forced perspective (optical illusion) in a doorway in Pézenas, France. (Wikipedia)  

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Yeah sorry, mental illness will still exist in a post capitalist society, and Communist countries has an equally sordid history of psychiatric abuse as capitalist countries.

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Quinua soup

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Ahed Tamimi: A real wonder woman

The Zionist Colonizer vs the Palestinian resistance — the fake Hollywood “superhero” vs the real Palestinian rebel —the Israeli military occupier vs the Palestinian grit and guts — the US media manufactured icon of New Jersey shopping malls vs the towering courage rooted at the heart of her homeland … Which one would you choose as a role model for your daughters: the Israeli army officer Gal Gadot on the record encouraging her platoon to kill more Palestinians now turned into a fake cartoon character … Or Ahed Tamimi every iota of her courage tested by the most expensive colonial outfit bought and paid for by the US military — Fate has been cruel to the Zionists lately —they spend every one of those mega dollars American taxpayers and Hollywood moguls have donated to them to engineer a fake “Wonder Woman” … And boom Palestinians throw an Ahed Tamimi at them and they don’t know where to hide her — She will not be hidden. She will be seen. She will come out of your dungeons and she will shine. She will live and prosper like Palestine. She is Palestine. She is our Ahed Tamimi and more millions of children and their parents around the world are watching her like a hawk than the whole Rotten Tomatoes and their Tomatometers have reported on the sales figures of your fake “Wonder Woman.”

–  Hamid Dabashi via Facebook

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Eyes of the Rainbow (Gloria Rolando, 1997)

The documentary deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she has lived for close to 15 years. In it we visit with Assata in Havana and she tells us about her history and her life in Cuba. This film is also about Assata’s Afro-Cuban context, including the Yoruba Orisha Oya, goddess of the ancestors, of war, of the cemetery and of the rainbow.

Director Gloria Rolando on the film:

In the struggle of the African American people, many women’s voices in the past and the present have always called for social justice, women who throughout the years have shown integrity and firmness in their principles. For this reason, The Eyes of the Rainbow is dedicated to all women who struggle for a better world.

One of those voices that already forms a part of the history of the African American people is that of Assata Shakur. In the documentary The Eyes of the Rainbow, she recounts aspects of her path as relentless warrior. We are able to create a meeting with Assata Shakur through the symbols of Afro-Cuban culture, which offer us beautiful songs evoking the ancestors.

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“Todo es parte de una sola lucha, y es verdad cuando el imperialismo lo llama con un denominador común, porque aún cuando las ideologías cambien, aún cuando uno se reconozca comunista, o socialista, peronista, o cualquier otra ideología política en determinado país, sólo caben dos posiciones en la historia: o se está a favor de los monopolios, o se está en contra de los monopolios. Y todos los que están en contra de los monopolios, a todos ellos se les puede aplicar un denominador común. En eso los norteamericanos tienen razón. Todos los que luchamos por la liberación de nuestros pueblos luchamos al mismo tiempo, aunque a veces no lo sepamos, por el aniquilamiento del imperialismo. Y todos somos aliados, aunque a veces no lo sepamos, aunque a veces nuestras propias fuerzas las dividamos en querellas internas, aunque a veces por discusiones estériles dejamos de hacer el frente necesario para luchar contra el imperialismo. Pero todos, todos los que luchamos honestamente por la liberación de nuestras respectivas patrias, somos enemigos directos del imperialismo” decía el Che.

Con sus luces y sombras, Fidel cumplió y dignificó, por eso la historia ya lo absolvió. Pocas personas tienen el valor de consagrar su vida a luchar contra lo imposible y vencer. Las ideas, y sobre todo las ideas puestas al servicio de una causa tan noble como lo es la liberación de los pueblos, no mueren jamás.

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Readings on Cuba: History, Revolution, and Criticism

Today, Comandante Fidel Castro, revolutionary leader of Cuba, passed away. As @marxism-leninism-memeism​ pointed out, now is an excellent time to study and reflect on the Cuban Revolution and its influence. So I’ve gathered this list of readings on Cuba, with links provided to either PDFs or where to purchase them online. 

Cuba Pre-Revolution

The Sugarmill: The Socio-Economic Complex of Sugar in Cuba 1760–1860 by Manuel Moreno Fraginals

Cuba and the U.S. Empire: A Chronological History by Jane Franklin [extends into post-revolutionary period]

Cuban Revolution

A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution by Steve Cushion

Revolutionary Cuba

Statutes of the Communist Party of Cuba by the CPC

Those Who Are Not Revolutionary Fighters Cannot Be Called Communists by Fidel Castro

The World Economic and Social Crisis by Fidel Castro

Man and Socialism in Cuba by Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto “Che” Guevara [partial transcription in link- purchase here]

Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World’s Conception of Healthcare by Steve Brouwer

The Economic War on Cuba by Salim Lamrani

Race in Cuba by Esteban Morales Domínguez

Criticism of Cuban Political Economy

Cuba: The Evaporation of Myth by the RCP

Notes on the Political Economy of Cuba [Part I] [Part II] by the RIM

Commentary on Cuba: What Went Wrong? by Lorenzo Canizares

Feel free to add more works to this list, but please be respectful. Thank you.

¡Hasta La Victoria Siempre!

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In Defence of Cuban Socialism

Rainbow Solidarity: In Defense of Cuba by Leslie Feinberg (Lavender & Red)

Cuba Factsheet by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign (UK)

Cuba: A Revolution in Motion by Isaac Saney

20 Reasons to Support Cuba by Carlos Martinez

Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba by Linda O. Fuller

Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion by Arnold August

50 Years of Cuban Socialism by Rock Around The Blockade (RCG)

Cuban Internationalism

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses

Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 by Piero Gleijeses

Cuban Medical Internationalism: A Case for International Solidarity in Foreign Policy Decision Making by Eric James Fiske

Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution, and Goals (Studies of the Americas) by John M. Kirk & H. Michael Erisman

Cuba and Palestine: two countries one struggle by Jorge Luis Garcia

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Cuba

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Havana mourns Fidel Castro – in pictures

Citizens of the Cuban capital react to the passing of their revolutionary leader.

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When the International was formed we expressly formulated the battle-cry: the emancipation of the working class must be achieved by the working class itself. We cannot therefore co-operate with people who say that the workers are too uneducated to emancipate themselves and must first be freed from above by philanthropic bourgeois and petty bourgeois.

Marx and Engels - Letter 1879 (via dailymarx)

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a cool thing to do instead of buying moana merchandise is donate to our 350 Pacific Climate Warriors, a youth led grassroots movement, who are on the forefront of raising awareness and working with communities to fight climate change from the Pacific Islands.

if you don’t have the funds, you can always pledge solidarity with them. share your stance on social media, let them know that their efforts are being recognized and stand with them. you can learn more about the organization here.

this is a much better alternative than normalizing the commodification of pacific island cultures and our bodies.

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