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South Africa: Waiting for Stalin

Racism continues to shield a ruling-class oligarchy from unified rebellion and oil the wheels of capitalist accumulation. In early August the British government reacted to a flurry of anti-migrant riots by piously declaring war on bigoted far right thugs and promising fast-track retribution. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper brayed: Britain is a proud and tolerant country, and nobody should make any…

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The Climate Change Briefing

The Climate Change Briefing The Scientific Consensus Wikipedia credits John Cook – the founder of the Skeptical Science website – for bringing to public attention the consensus about anthropogenic global warming in the scientific community. Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature frequently referred to as John Cook et al. (2013) was a landmark…

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BBC, impartiality and hypocrisy

Gary Lineker, the BBC’s highest paid sports presenter (£1.3m a year) is back in his job after his criticism of the government’s Illegal Immigration Bill raised concern about the BBC’s impartiality. He was quick to thank Tim Davie, director general of the BBC. “I’d like to thank Tim Davie for his understanding during this difficult period. He has an almost impossible job keeping everybody happy,…

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The origins debate

“The 1619 Project,” was published by the New York Times as a special 100-page edition of its Sunday magazine on August 19, 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of the initial arrival of 20 African slaves at Point Comfort in Virginia. They were traded for food for the Dutch ship on which they had come and their employment status is indeterminate. The Project, according to the Times, intends to…

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The invention of the white race

Some  50 years ago, Indian students from the smallest ethnic minority in South Africa became the vanguard of a ‘black consciousness’ boycott of racially segregated universities. A new wave of public protest emerged breaking a decade of silence that followed the banning of black political organizations after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. The student boycott began in May 1972 at the University of…

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The Durban moment

The invention of the white race in 18th century America was intended to secure a system of racial slavery. It distinguished African Americans from the rest of Virginia’s European – and largely English labourers -and facilitated the formation of a white alliance across class lines. Here’s Theodore Allen: The hallmark of racial oppression in its colonial origins and as it  has persisted in…

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The reinvention of the white race

The reinvention of the white race

Fifty years ago, Indian students from the smallest ethnic minority in South Africa became the vanguard of a ‘black consciousness’ boycott of racially segregated universities. A new wave of public protest emerged breaking a decade of silence that followed the banning of black political organizations after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. The student boycott began in May 1972 at the University of…

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Covid 19- lying to the dead and dying.

Covid 19- lying to the dead and dying.

Journalist Iain Davis recently excoriated the BBC for its hypocrisy. The corporation claims – incessantly – that its journalism is built on the highest standards of accuracy and fairness. “Trust is the foundation of the BBC. We’re independent, impartial and honest.”  Davis shows this is patently untrue. Despite its reckless, irresponsible and partisan coverage of the “Covid 19 pandemic” Aunty…

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Marxism, Conspiracy, and Covid 19

Marxism, Conspiracy, and Covid 19

Until there is proof that SARS-COV-2 exists, estimates of the number of people supposedly infected, or killed by the virus are meaningless. There is no public health rationale for lockdowns; for using the BBC to push novel gene therapies that will be tested on people without their consent. Civil rights attorney P. Jerome scrutinised the arguments for coercive vaccination and found: Government…

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Nineteen years ago the 9/11 attacks on New York ushered in the war on terror and a ‘new normal’. The official account of what happened was underpinned by an investigation by the National Institute of Technology. Although patently unconvincing it has been established as the truth by declaring all else conspiracy.

Here’s OffGuardian’s introduction to its commemoration of the anniversary.

Just as…

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Railroading Julian

On September 7 a court sitting in the Old Bailey in London resumed the task of extraditing Julian Assange to the US. Reports of earlier proceedings by Craig Murray, Your man in the public gallery, have been vital in exposing the judiciary’s capricious and partisan conduct of the process and its utter disregard for Assange’s right to a fair trial.

Here’s Murray writing before heading back to court.

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Murder most foul

There is no pandemic. The real purpose of the lockdown is to gut national economies so that capitalism – on its death bed-  can mutate (with trillions of dollars in ‘bail-outs’) into a global kingdom ruled by a corporate elite. People are being culled in droves in the Great Reset, a new deal for the already fabulously wealthy. But as the AIDS industry demonstrates, mass murder can be conducted…

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Accumulation by dispossession

Lockdown, a brutal control measure in American prisons, is touted  as a merciful choice between contagion and starvation. Thanks to the New York Times we learn this policy was inspired by the school project of 14 -year-old Laura Glass. And then used by ‘concerned health experts’ to persuade a reluctant president to do the right thing and shut- down the economy in an election year.

Some time in…

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The capitalist virus

Capitalism is a virus condemned by its genetic code to destroy all life forms including the rich.

  John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and an expert in biomedical data science at Stanford University, has drawn attention to the remarkably sensational –  and vacuous -reporting of the Covid 19 pandemic.

This year’s coronavirus…

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The communist virus

A pep talk by the Queen has rallied the troops. With the same courage that young lads in the Great War went ‘over the top’, into a hail of machine-gun fire and certain death, Brits are on their doorsteps engaging in hand to hand combat with the ruthless Communist virus. The situation is hopeful.

The demonic pandemic, a cunning…

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Power to the people

Power to the people

Daya Naicker, the editor of the radical South African student magazine, Mnyama, has died. Few will have heard of the title, which is the Zulu for Black, and none will have read it in print. The first edition submitted to the authorities at The Island – the University College for Indians housed in a former army barracks in Durban Bay -was promptly banned.

Daya Naicker: A luta continua

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Exit Notes - moving on

Exit Notes – moving on

Late last year I read an interview with Z’bu Zikode conducted by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. It is preceded by a quotation from Frantz Fanon’s ‘Wretched of the Earth”, which may yet prove useful to the natives of the West. “Salvation lies in their own cohesion, in the true understanding of their interests, and in knowing who their enemies are.”

The Thames from Cannon Street…

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