GEORGE GALLOWAY—Inadequate, late-hour opportunistic moves to palliate some of the horrors of Israel’s genocide of Gazans, and their full-throttle complicity in that crime, will not allow the Democrats (or Republicans) to restore their frayed respectability any time soon or ever. The wounds are now too deep. People in the US now understand that people in Palestine need justice, says Garland Nixon. ‘I’ve lost count of the number of Democrats who tell me they’ve changed their minds on Gaza’.
CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM
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Re-reading Glazyev: Europe’s been the battlefield for a century – liberalism has lost
29 minutes readRAMIN MAZAHERI—The nationalist view of modern history obscures the fact that it is ideologies which matter, not borders. Ideologies are what produce and define management systems – i.e. governments – and it’s crystal clear that the last 15 years have seen the socialist-inspired management system (China, Iran, North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia) defeat the liberalism-inspired management system economically, militarily and politically. Liberalism is at a Great Depression-level nadir in terms of global admiration.
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EDITOR—The panel discusses the personality of Trotsky, his political posture, his opportunistic tendencies, and why the bourgeoisie has traditionally seen Trotsky and his movement as a tool to divide and defeat the unity of world Bolshevists, and thereby world revolution. In 1903 Lenin formed a party “of a new type”, Bolshevism, to effect real revolution, separating his group from social democracy. Trotsky, on the other hand, a ferocious egotist, was content with the drift of social democracy, and opposed Lenin on all major points endorsed by the Leninist tendency, acting in effect, like a bourgeois revolutionist, a “Menchevik”. There were also fundamental differences regarding tactics and strategies.
As early as 1903, in making revolution, there was the question of class alliances. Lenin favoured an alliance with the peasantry, the Mensheviks, and Trotsky, favoured the bourgeoisie. Had he emerged victorious in that contest, the Bolshevik revolution would have been doomed.
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INDRAJIT—As that IPCC report says, “there is a growing realisation that mere monetary value of income growth is insufficient to measure national welfare and individual well-being.” What this mouthful is talking about is really degrowth, ie stopping the endless greed in rich countries and bringing the poor up to a shared level of prosperity.
Instead of the neoliberal idea of everything (including the planet) operating within a market, this is the idea of markets operating within a society.
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Iraqi resistance wants to bring about a sea change in the Israeli genocide issue
by Don Hank49 minutes readDON HANK—According to Ukrainian media, after the latest Russian strikes in Kharkov and nearby areas, almost half a million subscribers lost power. The Kharkov administration is talking about a possible complete blackout in some areas of the city, given the emerging crisis situation. The operation of electric transport in the city has been stopped.
As Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said in an interview with Estonian television, there are now practically no entire thermal power plants left in Ukraine.
“80% of Ukrainian thermal power plants were destroyed. Russia continues to attack our energy facilities, destroying transformers and generators,” said the Ukrainian minister.