A statement from the Donetsk said on the killing “it was conducted by special operations forces of Ukraine under control of US special services.”
Killed DPR leader's Aleksandr Zakharchenko's adviser Aleksandr Kazakov gave an exclusive comment to RT confirming the self-proclaimed Republic's borders are closed and the investigation is ongoing, from Donetsk on Friday. "Both Ukrainian and Russian borders are closed. We are searching for the executor [of the murder]. The military council is ongoing at the moment, it will be followed by ministry council where he decision on republic management will be taken. All the military and police units are up in arms," he said. Previous footage from Donetsk showed the city cordoned off and full of military vehicles. In answer to a question about the Minsk agreements which had been signed by Zakharchenko, he said "it's a complicated question." Kazakov went on saying that the "ball is in Kiev's side' regarding the future of the Minsk agreements. Forty-two-year-old Aleksandr Zakharchenko died in hospital after Donetsk's central café Separ was hit by an explosion while he was inside at about 17.00 PM GMT on Friday.
Democracy and Class Struggle says the Minsk agreement is dead - it died with Zakharchenko . “The assassination of the DPR head makes the Minsk accords devoid of sense,” Russian parliament speaker Alexander Volodin said. Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded Zakharchenko, who was 42, as “a true people’s leader” and promised Donetsk residents that “Russia always will be with you.” A statement from the Donetsk said on the killing “it was conducted by special operations forces of Ukraine under control of US special services.”
“Instead of fulfilling the Minsk accords and finding ways to resolve the internal conflict, the Kiev war party is implementing a terrorist scenario,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said of Zakharchenko’s death. “Having failed to fulfill the promise of peace, apparently they decided to turn to a bloodbath.” REPORT FROM RT BELOW Zakharchenko’s murder “must show to the whole world what some people may have known … for some time, which is that Ukraine is not interested in a political settlement,” Laughland said. He also said that Poroshenko stated just recently that he is “adamantly opposed”to the idea of Ukraine’s federalization, which effectively means that he is against any autonomy for the eastern Ukrainian regions and is not eager to fulfill the Minsk Agreements. His words were echoed by Jatras, who said that “if anyone had any doubt that the Minsk process was absolutely dead, this should end all such doubts.” Pavic, meanwhile, said that the murder was apparently “intended to undermine the new impetus given to the Minsk process after the latest Putin-Merkel meeting.”
An explosion that rocked a cafe in central Donetsk city in eastern Ukraine killed the leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, and injured several other top officials. There had been previous unsuccessful attempts on his life of the son of the working class of Donestsk. This is clearly an attempt to destablize the Donetsk People's Republic - we will report in more detail later when more information comes to hand. Democracy and Class Struggle stood with the people of Donetsk from the first day and we stand with them today more than ever in their loss of a son of the working class - whatever political disagreements we may have had over direction of Donetsk self determination.
Democracy and Class Struggle says it was officers from this mass murder that joined the new NAZI PARTY back in Germany and the Brown Shirts were military quality brown shirts worn by the NAZIS similar to shirts worn by German Troops who carried out the genocidal massacre of the Herero and Name Peoples. German Fascism grew out of German Imperialism as the late Italian philosopher and historian Professor Domenico Losurdo showed in his writings.
Dr. Anand Teltumbde explained how the BJP Government under Narendra Modi is slowly turning India into a proto-fascist state buttressed by the twin evils of communalism and casteism. Despite being self-declared nationalists, the BJP Government aligns with the colonial rulers in its persistent attack on minorities, and in its rampant Hinduisation of Indian culture, so much so that the term secularism now seems like a misnomer. Democracy and Class Struggle says Dr Anand Teltumbde hits the nail on the head - speaking the truth is now proving dangerous in India with Anand Teleumbde being targeted by the Modi Government.
Democracy and Class Struggle calls for full spectrum resistance against the onslaught of the Indian State on human rights activists - Red Salute to those who have taken to the streets and may they be joined by millions more.
SALUTE THE SHIIMERING LIGHT OF RESISTANCE ENGULFING THE NATION TO EXTINGUISH THE MONSTER OF SAFFRON FASCISM PROVES INDIA WILL NOT TAKE IT LYING DOWN A Spark seem to be turning into a prairie fire with the banner of resistance against fascism shimmering all over Punjab . The Communist revolutionary contingent has most boldly protested against the fascist arrest of Varavara Rao, Gautam Navlakha, Sudna Bhardwaj, Arun Ferreir and Vernon Gonzalves condemning the act in the crudest possible manner. Today a major protest took place in Bathinda comprising 500 people. Significant that workers,peasants,intellectuals and students participated. Other significant protests mainly led by C.P.I.(M.L.) New Democracy occured in Gurdaspur ,Jalandhar,Sangrur,Patiala and Ludhiana In Jalandhar and Ludhiana industrial workers mobilized.
Very progressive to witness the whole contingent of the communist revolutionary camp participate in these rallies.The speakers explained how the torch of fascism was spreading it's wings at a height never before reached and the need to build a concerted democratic secular movement to extinguish it. Also qualitatively great protests in Benares University campus, Allahabad and Delhi where the press conference resembled big rally. Interview of Comrade Aparna of Indian Federation of Trade Unions most inspiring summarizing the root and spread of fascism in the nation . Many democratic intellectual joined the protests which was noteworthy. In Mumbai anger was simmering in the hearts of many members of the judicial system like lawyer Indira Jaising who openly stated that the nation is facing a worse state than the 1975 emergency Most progressive to witness such rage in the hearts of so many Indian people who cannot accept the monster of fascism. In coming days tempo of protest and against state will probably elevate. Very bold speeches of Anand Teltumde, Arundhati Roy,Indira Jaisingh and Prashant
The analyst seems to think Trumps words do not count - they do and are the basis of the Peace Process - if they have no meaning then the Peace process has no meaning.
Democracy and Class Struggle says the more we examine Jordan Peterson the more we reveal a precursor of Fascism - that means an enabler of Fascism a Proto Fascist - Proto Fascism was a necessary prelude to Fascism and we are in danger of entering that stage from USA Europe to India - and it needs exposure. Proto fascists do not have to be outright fascists but they lay the road for it - the real Fascist murderers come later, and the proto Fascists wash their hands of them claiming never to have seen what was coming.
Jordan Petersen claims to have read "Ordinary Men" and uses this to normalize Nazism rather than expose the racist elitist capitalist nature of Nazism. For Jordan Petersen capitalist exploitation of Labour is "natural" order. Do not be surprised - he hates egalitarianism so he can hardly be ideologically against the anti egalitarian racist elitism of Nazism when he promotes "natural man" against feminism - all echo Nazi fight against Cultural Bolshevism.. Patriarchy was fundamental to Nazism Thanks to commie space invader for helping Three Arrows on history. SEE ALSO: https://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.com/2018/08/jordan-peterson-again-collapses-under.html
THE INTENSITY OF THE LIES ABOUT JEREMY CORBYN HAVE TO BE SEEN TO BELIEVED. WE DO NOT DEFEND HIS PARTY WHICH HARBOURS SOME OF THE MOST BACKSTABBING AND VICIOUS PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM - BUT WE DO RECOGNISE THAT JEREMY CORBYN HAS STOOD UP FOR PALESTINE AND THIS HAS EARNED HIM THE UNDYING HATRED OF PRO ISREAL ZIONISTS IN AND OUTSIDE THE LABOUR PARTY. STOP THE SMEARS AND EXPOSE THE MORE THAN 150 EXECUTIONS OF PALESTINIAN UNARMED PROTESTORS DURING THE GREAT MARCH OF RETURN
JUSTICE AND TRUTH WILL PREVAIL DESPITE THE LYING BRITISH PRESS .
Democracy and Class Struggle has always been a critic of the Intercept - we are always being told that money of Pierre Morad Omidyar does not determine editorial line at Intercept or elsewhere by other Leftists sites. We have seen those that monetized on the Internet are more careful to keep their cheques coming and trim their editorial to ensure they are not sanctioned - which was why we refuse to monetize despite our three million viewers. Therefore the money effect does not need to be conscious but sub consciously implemented.
Honour the Panmunjom Declaration Last week, South Korea tried to send a train into the North for a joint field study on the roads and railways... that will hopefully, one day connect the whole peninsula. But it was apparently blocked by the UN Command. A Unification Ministry official told reporters... the train was turned back because Seoul failed to inform the UNC 48 hours in advance that it would be passing through the demilitarized zone. That notification didn't happen in time because talks with Pyongyang had been delayed. The official didn't elaborate, but did mention... he was informed the main reason for the rejection wasn't the late notice. He added the joint study does not violate sanctions on the regime,... and that the government will continue to work closely with Pyongyang and Washington to move ahead with the transportation project, as part of efforts to implement the Panmunjom Declaration.
OPEN UP LINKS BETWEEN THE KOREAN PEOPLES' STARTING WITH THE RAILWAYS - LONG LIVE THE TRAIN OF RE_UNIFICATION
The Meeting between Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in in September now has a chance of success. Will Trump honour his promise at the Summit in Singapore with Kim Jong Un to sign a Peace Treaty and go beyond the armistice agreement and end the Korean War ? There appears to be resistance within the Trump Administration to signing a Peace Treaty.
RED SALUTE TO EDDIE DEMPSEY FOR TAKING ON THIS NONSENSE THAT HAS JEREMY CORBYN THE PRO PALESTINIAN LABOUR LEADER IS AN ANTI SEMITE. THE MORE THE UK MEDIA SPIN THIS STORY ON BEHALF THE THE ISRAELI EMBASSY THE MORE RIDICULOUS IT BECOMES
Statement from the Central Organising Committee Indian Workers Association (GB) Oppose the arbitrary arrest of Intellectuals, Dalits and Democratic Rights Activists in India We the Indian Workers’ Association, Great Britain, condemn the raids on homes of nine human and democratic rights activists across India, on 28th August 2018. Amongst the people on whom the raids were conducted include Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy, Kranti Teluka and Prof K Satyanarayana. These raids also include Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao, Gautam Navlakha and Vernon Gonsalves, all five are now under arrest charged, under one of the most draconian law the UAPA (Unlawful Activity Prevention Act). This is one of the most barbaric law, copied from the colonial law book, which allows an indefinite detention (arrest) of any citizen the Government suspects of having an intent to commit a crime against the State. There are many other such laws on the Indian statute, e.g. NSA under which Chandrashekar Azad Ravan, leader of the Bhim Army has been languishing in jail for over a year. These laws must be repealed; they have no place in a democracy. These raids and arrests follow on from the arbitrary arrests, a few months back, of Sudhir Dhawale, Adv Surendra Gadling, Prof Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut and Rona Wilson. These five are lawyers, journalist, human rights activists who have been implicated in totally fabricated charges of organising the violence in Bhima Koregaon at the beginning of this year. The reality of that incident is being completely overlooked, by the law enforcement authorities, and no investigation is being conducted that leads to the trail of Hindutava instigated violence against the annual peaceful demonstration by the Dalits, marking the victory scored by Marathas against the Peshawar in 1818. These most recent raids and arrests add to the continued relentless repression, by the Indian Government, on the democratic voice and aspirations of the Indian. This amounts to a very serious attack on the already crumbling state of democracy in India. This could lead to an irreversible phase of fascist rule for many years to come. We appeal to all democratic organisations across India to put aside their differences and unite in the most important endeavour, the need of the hour, that lies before them: • Condemn intimidation and arrests of human rights activists and intellectuals by the Indian State! • Defeat the Manivadi Hindutva fascist rule of the BJP & RSS! • Build unity amongst Adivasis, Dalits and religious minorities and struggles for their rights! Central Organising Committee Indian Workers Association Great Britain iwagb1938@hotmail.com
Democracy and Class Struggle says the struggle against the Russian Oligarchs and Russian Organised Crime is a fight that all revolutionary socialists or communists should support.
We are no fan of the Liberalism of the Democrat Party and Rachel Maddow's anti Russian Government hysteria but we cannot ignore the FACTS about the United States fight against the Russian Mafia undertaken by Bruce Ohr who has now become Trump and his altists number one target.
It is no accident that Bruce Ohr is in Trump's sights and that speaks volumes about Trump's problems in relation to Russia.
STRONGLY CONDEMN THE ARRESTS OF CRPP EXECUTIVE MEMBER VERNON GONSALVES, ADVOCATE SUDHA BHARADWAJ, ARUN FERREIRA, GAUTAM NAVLAKHA AND VARAVARA RAO BY THE MAHARASHTRA POLICE, AND THE RAIDS CONDUCTED AT THE HOMES OF FATHER STAN SWAMY, ANALA, KUMARANTH, ANAND TELTUMBDE AND PROF. SATYANARAYANA OTHERS. In yet another brazen act to stifle dissent, the Maharashtra Police have arrested Vernon Gonsalves, who is an Executive Member of the CRPP, and well known activists and lawyers Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Arun Ferreira, revolutionary poet Varavara Rao, and Kranti Teluka. Raids were also conducted across Goa, Jharkhand, Delhi, and Telangana in the houses of Anand Teltumbde, Father Stan Swamy, Anala, Kumaranth, Prof. Satyanarayana and many others. Right at the time when the terror plots by the rightwing Sanatan Sanstha is emerging, the bogey of assassination plot on the Prime Minister is re-invoked and these arrests and raids are carried out. More importantly, the 90 day period of judicial custody for the five activists arrested in the month of June 2018 is just about to end and the charge sheet is yet to be filed. At this time, when the police narratives are falling apart, these arrests reveal the desperation of the Maharashtra police to shut down all criticism by arrested more activists. Today’s action by the Pune police reeks not just of diversionary tactics, but also a ploy to extend the custody of Professor Shoma Sen, Advocate Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Sudhir Dhawale, and Rona Wilson. While those who unleashed violence on Dalits in Bhima Koregaon are roaming free, Dalit and adivasi intellectuals and Human Rights Activists who have stood by them are being targeted by the state. These arrests and raids are a blatant attempt at stifling dissenting voices revealing a sinister, premeditated and politically motivated effort to malign the arrested and discredit them through branding instead of evidence. It is crucial to note that this effort at using the full might of the law is revealed in the sections of the IPC and UAPA used against the arrested. These include IPC 153A – promoting enmity between different groups of people, 505 – statements conducing public mischief, 117 – abetting commission of offence, 120B – criminal conspiracy; under UAPA 13 – unlawful activities, 16 – terrorist acts, 17 – raising funds for terrorist acts, 18 – conspiracy, 18B – recruiting persons for terrorist act, 20 – member of terrorist gang or organisation, 38 – membership of terrorist organisation, 39 – support to terrorist organisation, 40 – raising funds for terrorist organisations. The intention of the police becomes amply clear when we note that each of the arrested persons are well regarded human rights activists who have publicly worked for the rights of dalits, adivasis, minority communities, women’s rights, workers’ rights and spoken and written extensively about the policies of the state. Moreover, all of the persons targeted by the state have been steadfast and resolute in their stands for decades. These charges, none of which stand up in front of slightest of scrutiny, is meant merely to incapacitate and silence these voices by sending them to custody for extended periods of time. The raid at the homes of Susan Abraham and Arun Ferreira and the eventual arrests of Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves patently reveals the effort to scuttle possibility of establishing a case for the release of the five arrested in connection with Bhima Koregaon in June. Now, with the arrests of the lawyers fighting the case, the Maharashtra police are making all efforts to ensure that all those who stand with the spirit of democracy are denied all democratic rights. The efforts being made to scuttle the High Court stay on the transit remand of Gautam Navlakha and Sudha Bharadwaj is another instance where the upholders of law are willing to do anything to blatantly abuse and disregard the law. The efforts to illegally take Sudha Bharadwaj to Pune, despite the Punjab and Haryana High Court order putting a stay on the remand, clearly indicates the maliciousness of the police force. The gherao of an unprecedented number of police personnel during the arrest of Varavara Rao and the ransacking of his home is another such instance of police brutality. The search of Anand Teltumbde’s residence during his absence is patently illegal and raising concerns about the extent to which the police will go to clamp down and spread fear among people. The extended interrogation of Father Stan Swamy in Ranchi, Jharkhand, and Prof. Satyanarayana in Hyderabad while keeping them confined to their residence since early morning and denying any legal assistance is another such instance of police highhandedness. The order for the raid and arrests, coming from Swargate Police Station in Pune, is motivated to foist false cases on democratic rights activists through fabrications and strong-arm tactics. The callous disregard for the rule of law and the fundamental rights of people by the institutions of the state reveals a stark image of a fascist Indian State. CRPP strongly condemns these raids and arrests and demands the immediate and unconditional release of all arrested in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners demands an end to all such ‘operations’ by the Maharashtra police, stands in solidarity with all such voices of democracy and is determined to fight this vicious assault on all those who dare to speak out against the violence of the state. SAR GEELANI (President) AMIT BHATTACHARYYA (Secretary General) SUJATO BHADRA (Vice President) SUKHENDU BHATTACHARJEE (Vice President) MN RAVUNNI (Vice President) P. KOYA (Vice President) MALEM (Vice President) HANYBABU MT (Media Secretary)
The United States is not willingly to move from Armistice to Peace Treaty - the peace talks are crumbling - Secret Talks between North Korea and Japan. Inter Korean Summit in September will be crtical.
Information War is being underway regards Venezuela and we have found even outlets like Press TV running CIA stories on "Fake Assassination of Maduro". The information on the two drones and the assassination of Maduro was in Venezuela Analysis but was quickly closed time to restrict access to detailed reliable information they were reporting. Some of the site closures are tests by Google and Facebook in preparation for more extensive shutdowns in event of full scale war. When they test closures of sites they have plausible deniability - saying technical problems or violation of community standards. We have also noticed how the algorithms are working against us. So we work against the algorithms.
Democracy and Class Struggle hope for the butterfly effect of these words on the people of the USA. And those opportunists in Europe who think opening the gates to racism and bigotry is they way forward to power.
Canary Mission seeks to blacklist anyone who supports Palestinian rights - there are links with the Israeli Government - learn from this US activity - expose the activity of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs and its assault of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK. Stop interference in US and UK politics by Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs.
End The Korean War - beyond Armistice to Peace Treaty - Stop the restart of the War Games. - let Koreans be Koreans and end the division of the Korean Peninsular.
Democracy and Class Struggle says the future of Peace is with Moon Jae-in and South Korea the United States cannot deliver on a Peace Treaty and is reactivating the military provocations.
"the US is still not ready to meet (North Korean) expectations in terms of taking a step forward to sign a peace treaty." The US has so far been unwilling to replace the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War with a permanent, legally binding peace treaty, which would require the approval of two-thirds of the US Senate. If a compromise cannot be reached the nascent talks crumble,
Democracy and Class Struggle has no means to verify the claim from Iran or the denial of the US Secretary of State Pompeo. However we have said Iran should not just wait to be attacked and should pre empt US moves in the Gulf. Clearly given the melt down in the White House Trump might find this a suitable time to lash out in a great distraction - however the consequences from such a lashing out will be disaster as Trump is unlikely to get support for his action from Europe or Asia, WATCH MOVEMENT OF US CARRIER BATTLE GROUPS
Iran has full control of the Gulf, and the U.S. Navy does not belong there, the head of the navy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, General Alireza Tangsiri, said on Monday, according to the Tasnim news agency. The remarks come at a time when Tehran has suggested that it could take military action in the Gulf to block oil exports of other regional countries in retaliation for U.S. sanctions intended to halt its oil sales. Washington maintains a fleet in the Gulf which protects oil shipping routes. Tangsiri said Iran had full control of both the Gulf itself and the Strait of Hormuz that leads into it. Closing off the strait would be the most direct way of blocking shipping.
Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.
United Kingdom and USA and UAE and Saudi Arabia War Crimes in Yemen. In the spirit of Nuremberg a Special Court be convened to bring these War Criminals to Justice.
STATEMENT OF CC OF CPI ML NEW DEMOCRACY In a fascist attack all across India, RSS-BJP Central Govt. has arrested a large number of civil liberties and democratic rights activists. For this nefarious anti-people attack on the democratic rights, FIR lodged after Bhima Koregaon violence has been twisted. Central Govt. and Maharashtra Govt. led by RSS-BJP has shielded those who masterminded attacks on Dalits but has launched an all out attack against progressive and democratic individuals. Police has swooped down on these intellectuals in various parts of the country on the 28th August morning, variously lodging cases under UAPA and for sedition. They were detained for hours, not allowed to meet any one. Trade Unionist Advocate Sudha Bhardwaj, lawyers in Maharashtra who are handling the cases of other intellectuals and democratic rights activists arrested under UAPA in this FIR and Gautam Navlakha, a well known human rights activists and ex-Resident Editor of EPW. In Hyderabad, Varavara Rao has been arrested. These large scale arrests of democratic rights activists and trade union activists and lawyers is part of an attempt both to frighten progressive intellectuals from any dissent against communal, casteist fascist RSS-BJP Govt. at the Centre and in many states. Those who speak against anti-people and pro-imperialist policies, against attacks on democratic rights of oppressed people, struggling and revolutionary forces, against attacks on Muslims and Dalits and other oppressed sections, are being gagged, jailed and intellectuals frightened into submission. The attack is also on working class organizations and peasant struggles. This all out attack on the right to dissent and protest must be condemned by all progressive and democratic forces and individuals. This attack to crush the voice of dissent and struggle must be opposed. CPI(ML)-New Democracy strongly condemns this fascist attack. We call upon all organizations and individuals to come out in protest against this attack. We must organize such protests at broad scale and participate with other organizations in such protest. People should be mobilized on to oppose this attack on the widest scale.
CONDEMN THE HENIOUS ARRESTS OF THE POLICE ON REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC ACTIVISTS WHICH REPRESENT FASCISM AT ITS GREATEST HEIGHT.THE INDIAN BJP GOVT HAS PROVED IT IS ONLY WEARING A GARB TO CAMOUFLAGE IT'S FASCIST CHARACTER MORALLY. BJP GOVT BREAKING THE VERY BACKBONE OF THE CONSTITUTION. Today the Indian police force carried out a series of raids and arrests in Delhi,Haryana,Maharashtra and Telengana.Virasam Leader Varavara Rao,Civil Liberties activist Gautama Navlaka,journalist Kranti Tekula ,Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj.IPAL activist Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonzalves have been imprisoned. Democrats world wide must condemn it as it marks the consolidation of the pro-Hindutva fascism where even ordinary democrats are attacked,like the lawyers defending political prisoners.In the pretext of Maoist links m ore and more civil rights crusaders are framed It also marks the polarization of repression on the dalit community where any revolutionary dalit assertion is crushed. The Bhima-Koregaon repression marks an epoch representing the conspiracy of Hindutva on the dalit community with even the judiciary becoming a major target.Arrest of Navlakha reveals that even non Maoist are being persecuted and the state finds such genuine civil libertarians as a major threat. In coming days we should witness a spate of protests nation wide to combat the fascist tyranny. Those arrested represent the very aspirations of the oppressed masses of India.It is an attempt of the state to break the very backbone of any remnants of bourgeoisie democracy left in the country
Democracy and Class Struggle says those that refuse to see the Fascism rising in India are blind - wake up world to the outrages committed daily in India and in particular to this attack on human rights activists throughout today. Raise people from their sleep - darkness is covering the beloved Land of India - Fascism is rising.
The raids occurred in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Telangana, Delhi, Haryana and Goa. Mumbai/Panaji - The Pune Police on Tuesday conducted raids on Dalit and human rights activists in Maharashtra, Telangana, Delhi, Haryana and Goa and arrested activists Vernon Gonsalves in Mumbai, Gautam Navlakha in Delhi, Sudha Bharadwaj in Haryana, and poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad. Sources said raids were also conducted at the homes of Mr. Rao’s daughter in Hyderabad, Mr. Navlakha and Ms. Bhardwaj’s homes in Delhi and Haryana respectively, and professor Anand Teltumbde’s house in Goa. Maharashtra In Mumbai, the homes of Arun Ferreira and Susan Abraham were raided. Sources said the raids began around 6 a.m. at Mr. Ferreira’s Thane residence and the Andheri homes of Mr. Gonsalves and Ms. Abraham. Mr. Gonsalves is a human rights lawyer and activist. Mr. Gonsalves and Mr. Ferreira were earlier accused of Naxalite connections, but were acquitted of related charges. Ms. Abraham is a civil liberties lawyer and is part of the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR). Delhi Activist Gautam Navlakha being arrested by the Pune police in Delhi on Tuesday. Jharkhand In Jharkhand, Father Stan Swamy’s school-cum-residential premises was raided by the Jharkhand police. The premises is inside a military cantonment in Bagaicha area in Namkum, which is one of administrative blocks in Ranchi. Father Swamy runs a school for Adivasi children and a technical training institute. Locals said he has not been taken into custody. Telangana Varavara Rao was arrested by Pune police in Hyderabad, following raids on his flat in the city in a case relating to an alleged conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read more Mr. Rao was taken to the Nampally Court in Hyderabad. Special teams of Pune police, assisted by their local Telangana counterparts, also raided the flat of a senior journalist K.V. Kurmanath and T. Kranthi, a photographer in Hyderabad. Mr. Kurmanath is Mr. Rao’s son-in-law. They both live in separate flats in Himasai apartment building in Ashoknagar. Haryana Sudha Bharadwaj has been produced in the court of Civil Judge Sakshi Saini in Faridabad. Justice Saini has asked the Investigation Officer to translate the application for Transit Remand in Hindi. JNU professor Jayati Ghosh, accompanying Ms. Bharadwaj, alleged that the Maharashtra Police seized two laptops, two mobile phones and a pen drive from the house of Ms. Bharadwaj. She was also forced to share her Gmail and other social media account passwords. A diary with several blank pages was also seized by the police, said Ms. Ghosh. She said that Ms. Bharadwaj feared tampering of the gadgets and diary to frame her. Ms. Bharadwaj told the court that she was not connected to the present case in any manner, and that her name was also not there in the FIR. She said that she was being targeted as authorities thought that she espoused a particular ideology. She said that her laptops, mobile phones and a pen drive was seized, but she was not given the copy of the data. Her counsel sought transit bail from the court so that she could approach proper forum in Maharashtra Court. Goa Sources close to Prof. Anand Teltumbde confirmed the raid at his on-campus premises at the Goa Institute of Management (GIM), located in Sanquelim in North Goa, where he is a senior professor. “He is d arrived at the campus with sanction to raid his house,” said a source at the GIM requesting anonymity.out of Goa and his house was locked. operations, project management, and business analytics” at GIM. He is also a Dalit scholar, writer and social commentator. Superintendent of Police Karthik Kashyap, head of Crime Branch of Goa police, when contacted, said that their personnel were not involved in the raid nor was the Goa police informed about the raids. Reactions The CPI (M) Politburo released a statement on the arrests, saying, “Ever since the Bhima Koregoan violence against Dalits, the Maharashtra Police along with central agencies have been targeting Dalit rights activists and lawyers who have been taking up their cases. False charges have been levelled and the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act invoked.These constitute a brazen attack on democratic rights and civil liberties. The Polit Bureau demands the withdrawal of the cases against these activists and their immediate release.” Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pune-police-raid-activists-homes-across-four-states/article24799729.ece?homepage=true
The Anti Fascist Ideals of Nuremberg Trials were soon betrayed and undermined - the forces that the Nuremberg trials outlawed are back in motion throughout Europe after going through re branding multiple times to find an acceptable way of presenting anti immigrant racism with a whole new vocabulary of euphemism and ambiguity to its people's. It is no accident that it was these trials that have always been central to fascist and and neo fascist attacks and those alt labels of many kinds.. They are succeeding in pulling up the anchor of anti Fascism established at Nuremberg and putting us on the high turbulent seas of moral indifference - euphemism and ambiguity - a prelude to acts of mass murder..
HOW TO DESTROY AND PERVERT JUSTICE AND LAW IN GERMANY THIS FILM IS RICH IN RESONANCE FOR TODAY ARE WE CAPABLE OF LEARNING THIS MESSAGE FOR TODAY ? The film's events relate principally to actions committed by the German state against its own racial, social, religious, and eugenic groupings within its borders "in the name of the law" (from the prosecution's opening statement in the film), that began with Hitler's rise to power in 1933. The plot development and thematic treatment question the legitimacy of the social, political and alleged legal foundations of these actions. The real Judges' Trial focused on 16 judges and prosecutors who served before and during the Nazi regime in Germany and who either passively, actively, or in a combination of both, embraced and enforced laws that led to judicial acts of sexual sterilization and to the imprisonment and execution of people for their religions, racial or ethnic identities, political beliefs and physical handicaps or disabilities. A key thread in the film's plot involves a "race defilement" trial known as the Feldenstein case. In this fictionalized case, based on the real life Katzenberger Trial, an elderly Jewishman had been tried for having a "relationship" (sexual acts) with an Aryan (German) 16-year-old girl, an act that had been legally defined as a crime under the Nuremberg Laws, which had been enacted by the German Reichstag. Under these laws, the man was found guilty and was put to death in 1935. Using this and other examples, the movie explores individual conscience, collective guilt, and behavior during a time of widespread societal immorality. The film is notable for its use of courtroom drama to illuminate individual perfidy and moral compromise in times of violent political upheaval; it was one of the first drama films not to shy from showing actual footage filmed by American and British soldiers after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Shown in court by prosecuting attorney Colonel Tad Lawson (Richard Widmark), the scenes of huge piles of naked corpses laid out in rows and bulldozed into large pits were considered exceptionally graphic for a mainstream film of at the time. The film bridges the gap between English-speaking and German-speaking persons within the courtroom by presenting the film in English, but implying use of the German language through headphones used by characters whose native language is the opposite of that spoken.
Burt Lancaster in film Judgement at Nuremberg A key thread in the film's plot involves a "race defilement" trial known as the Feldenstein case. In this fictionalized case, based on the real life Katzenberger Trial, an elderly Jewishman had been tried for having a "relationship" (sexual acts) with an Aryan (German) 16-year-old girl, an act that had been legally defined as a crime under the Nuremberg Laws, which had been enacted by the German Reichstag. Under these laws, the man was found guilty and was put to death in 1935. Using this and other examples, the movie explores individual conscience, collective guilt, and behavior during a time of widespread societal immorality. The Corruption of the Legal System in Nazi Germany - Lesson for Today
23 Missions over Vietnam Bombing the people of Vietnam - killing Vietnamese people in an unjust war does not make you a hero. Disgraceful, Despicable,Outrageous and low life scum was how John McCain described Medea Benjamin of Code Pink protesting against Mass Murderer Kissinger. History will judge who was on the side of Peace and who supported every War going - Red Salute to Medea Benjamin.
JIMMY DORE SAYS IT AS IT IS - NOT MANIPULATIVE CLAP TRAP
Remembering a Warmonger from bombing Vietnam to his call to bomb bomb Iran. Remember he also opened the door to Populism in the Republican Party with his Vice President Running mate Sarah Palin - that door opening led to Trump.
Democracy and Class Struggle says when you realize that when Donald Trump at his worst like Access Hollywood actually got highest net favourability on social media because of the intensity of his supporters - you should begin to realize we are in a different world.
Think ahead not behind the curve. The intensity and hatred for Trump must be organised not in a liberal way but in a militant way and revolutionary socialists and communists should lead that in a mass movement not to elect another democrat but to change the corrupt US political system from the ground up.
North Korea’s main newspaper accused the United States on Sunday of staging military drills to prepare an invasion while at the same time pursuing dialogue with a smile on its face. Rodong Sinmun, the official voice of the Workers’ Party of Korea, cited alleged U.S. troop movements in the region which it called “extremely provocative and dangerous” and said they threatened to derail the dialogue between the United States and North Korea. The editorial said that US units based in Okinawa, Japan were staging drills aimed at “infiltration into Pyongyang.” The paper was citing an unnamed South Korean media outlet. The US “is busy staging secret drills involving man-killing special units while having a dialogue with a smile on its face,”according to the paper, which added that Pyongyang cannot help but note “the double-dealing attitudes” of Washington.
Democracy and Class Struggle says bringing the Korean Peninsular to the brink of nuclear war is the mother of all distractions for Trump given his deepening domestic problems. The problem with posturing an invasion is that mistakes can be made and real war result - real invasion must sound bizarre - but Trump is bizarre.
China: Students and activists from all over the country held solidarity actions with the Shenzhen workers The worker’s struggle in Shenzhen demanding real representation and right to organize which has been going on for two months has entered a new stage following the illegal abduction of two leading comrades. Students and activists from all over the country, rallied under the banner of Marx, Lenin, and Chairman Mao, have conducted solidarity actions against the illegal activity of the reactionary state and for the immediate release of the two comrades and 14 other comrades who are still being detained. In the statement of the Solidarity Group from the Beijing Language and Culture University, the students wrote: “Chairman Mao teaches us that not to have a correct political orientation is like not having a soul. We refuse to be giant infants in the ivory tower, we refuse to be intellectuals shutting themselves away from the world, we refuse to be golems without their independent wills. We believe that more and more youths would join us and fight with us shoulder to shoulder, together forming a torrent of justice that washes away all shadows of injustice! … The BLCU Solidarity Group solemnly proclaims: we will learn from the indomitable spirit of struggle of the proletariat, dare to struggle, dare to win. We dare to commence the most thorough and resolute struggle against the dark forces of evil, and we dare to fight for the victory of the working class and all forces of justice!” Students from the University of Nanchang wrote in their statement: “We know, the police in Pingshan, Shenzhen is but a miniature of the massive, evil reactionary force behind it. Marx and Engels said in the Communist Manifesto, ‘the immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.’ Jasic workers’ demand for an union is the first step of the formation of the proletariat as a class. That’s one small step for the Jasic workers fighting for their legal rights, and one giant step for the transformation of the proletariat from the class-in-itself to the class-for-itself.” SOURCE: EPOCH PIONEER - EPOCH PIONEER IS THE PAPER OF THE FALONG GONG WHICH WORKS WITH CIA AND US IMPERIALISM IN CHINA AND IS NO FRIEND OF CHINESE WORKERS OR PEASANTS. WE HAVE VERIFIED STORY FROM OUR OWN INDEPENDENT SOURCES IN CHINA SEE ALSO:
Democracy and Class Struggle says the Israeli Embassy in London's interference in British Politics and British Political Parties is a disgrace - the continual invention or deliberate misinterpretation of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn comments in support of the rights of Palestinians in the British Media is reaching a new height in disinformation and information war even for the lying British Press. In the meantime at least 150 unarmed Palestinians have been shot dead by Israel during the Great March of Return in what can only be called border executions - why lethal weapons against unarmed protesters ? why not use tranquilizer bullets - why kill ?
These are the questions the British Media should be addressing and shamefully do not.
Democracy and Class Struggle has noticed and is in the process of exposing how white nationalists and fascists are now entering the Welsh National Movement with the active assistance of some individuals who should know better.
Democracy and Class Struggle and many Pundits have got it wrong on how long Trump has lasted. The multiple attacks should bring him down including the independent outsider Avenatti attack which has been effective. The Don and the family will be relegated to the History of the Mob - but we will not say how soon. Interesting that Trump's fake news factory the National Enquirerhas a vault full of information on Trump.
