Hasta La Victoria Siempre (original) (raw)

| | Monday, August 29th, 2005 8:43 pm - Open Source and Socialism Thursday, May 26th, 2005 8:12 pm - Why the 'original ones' protest in Bolivia casadetodd This is a battle between the haves and the have-nots, between the downtrodden and desperately poor Indian and mestizo majority against the political and economic elites -- a fight some analysts say could be contagious across Latin America.Bolivia, on the advice of Harvard-trained economist Jeffrey Sachs, activated some of the most radical free-market reforms anywhere in Latin America in the 1980s.And as I look at the wooden sticks and dynamite fuses of demonstrators on one side and the riot shields and helmets of police on the other, it is clear this is the frontline of the fight back.http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/26/penhaul.bolivia/index.html (comment on this) Monday, May 16th, 2005 9:11 pm - "NO SUBSTITUTE FOR WORKERS POWER" - By Paul D’Amato pravdavitezi When the First International Workingman’s Association was formed in the mid-1860s, Karl Marx inscribed on its banner: "The emancipation of the working class must conquered by the working classes themselves." The exploited and oppressed must free themselves--that was Marx’s starting point.They cannot be freed by "philanthropic bourgeois" reformers. They cannot be freed by a heroic guerrilla force. They cannot be freed by a small band of terrorists with dynamite. And they cannot be freed by a party that stands above or outside their own struggles.( Read more...Collapse )http://socialistworker.org/2003-2/461/461_09_Substitution.shtml (comment on this) Saturday, May 14th, 2005 12:53 am pravdavitezi International Socialist Review Issue 13, August-September 2000Marxists and electionsBy PAUL D'AMATO"WHAT ATTITUDE do Marxists take to elections and representative government? In the history of the socialist movement there have developed or coexisted two principal and, in the end, quite different and opposing views of the question. One, reformism, argues that modern representative government affords the working class the opportunity to achieve socialism by electing a socialist majority into office. This view emphasizes the peaceful, gradual transition to socialism, and sees campaigns around elections and the work of socialist elected officials as the most important aspect of socialists’ activity. The other trend, first outlined by Marx and Engels, and then elaborated by Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin, argues for a revolutionary overthrow of the state, based upon the mass struggle of the working class, and its replacement by new organs of workers’ power."http://www.isreview.org/issues/13/marxists_elections.shtml (comment on this) Saturday, May 7th, 2005 11:36 pm casadetodd Communism starts at home. Your sister has two pair of sandals and can only wear one at a time so she shares. Next thing you know, you let your neighbor watch your TV. It's the beginning. Soon, everyone will share what they have, sales will drop on new DVD players and cars that people don't need and the economy will flop. Damn Communists. gakked from http://www.nicaliving.com/node/view/1084 (comment on this) Sunday, April 24th, 2005 10:59 am pravdavitezi "It’s class war from above that’s allowed America’s rulers to accumulate their vast power--and it will require class war from below for workers to make any significant gains."http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/540/540_05_ClassWar.shtmlThe one-sided class warApril 22, 2005 | Page 5LEE SUSTAR reports on the decline in real wages for U.S. workers--and its significance for the economy.THREE YEARS into an economic recovery, workers are losing ground--so much so that the mainstream media are finally having to take notice.Once inflation is taken into account, compensation for nonsupervisory workers in the private sector--about 80 percent of the workforce--dropped 0.4 percent in 2004. Analyses in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times blamed the usual suspects: globalization and the outsourcing of jobs overseas, a slack labor market and weak unionization rates.( Read more...Collapse ) (comment on this) Friday, March 4th, 2005 11:39 am shednoblood National Public Radio is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has placed electronic monitoring bracelets on the ankles of 1,700 immigrants as part of an experimental programs that allows the government to track them 24 hours a day. The bracelets have been placed on a group of immigrants who have never been accused of a crime but whose immigration status is being challenged by the government. In one case, an immigrant from Belize has been ordered to stay in his house from 6 at night to 6 in the morning. If he tries to sneak out of his Minneapolis home, his ankle bracelet sounds an alarm at a national computer center in Indiana. The experimental program is expected to last six more months. After that the Department of Homeland Security will decide whether it will order all non-citizens applying to stay here to wear the electronic monitoring device. star of david on the shirt, ankle bracelet on immigrants... seems to be the same nationalist and racist concept (2 comments | comment on this) Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005 4:05 pm stasja I've been searching the net for the lyrics of the song "Viva la Revolucion" , but I seem to have failed. It is a Chilean song in Spanish.Can anybody help me out? (3 comments | comment on this) Tuesday, February 1st, 2005 1:07 am pravdavitezi 15 minutes agoBy BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, Associated Press WriterKATMANDU, Nepal - King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal's government on Tuesday and declared a state of emergency, taking control of the Himalayan kingdom for the second time in three years.He denied his takeover was a coup, although soldiers surrounded the houses of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and other government leaders.Armored military vehicles with mounted machine guns were patrolling the streets of Katmandu, the capital, and phone lines in the city had been cut.In an announcement on state-run television, the king accused the government of failing to conduct parliamentary elections and being unable restore peace in the country, which is beset by rebel violence."A new Cabinet will be formed under my leadership," he said, accusing political parties of plunging the country into crisis. "This will restore peace and effective democracy in this country within the next three years."Later, state-run television reported that a state of emergency had been declared.Gyanendra's late father, King Mahendra, established a rubber-stamp government and parliament but retained absolute power and outlawed political parties. The absolute monarchy ended when street demonstrations forced the king to give way to a multiparty government in 1990.On Tuesday, Gyanendra, who is also the supreme commander of the 78,000-member Royal Nepalese Army, said security forces would be given more power to maintain law and order. But he insisted human rights would be respected.Deuba also was fired as prime minister in October 2002, sparking mass street protests demanding the restoration of a democratically elected government.The king reinstated Deuba last year with the task of holding parliamentary elections by March 2005 and conducting peace talks with the Maoist rebels.Nepal has been in turmoil since Gyanendra, 55, suddenly assumed the crown in 2001 after his brother, King Birendra, was gunned down in a palace massacre apparently committed by Birendra's son, the crown prince, who also died. Ten members of the royal family were killed.Riots shook Katmandu after the killings. Soon after, fighting intensified between government forces and the rebels, who control large parts of Nepal's countryside.The rebels, who draw inspiration from the late Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been trying since 1996 to overthrow the government and establish a socialist state. They have refused the government's invitation to come into the mainstream of Nepalese politics and end the violence. More than 10,500 people have died since the fighting began. (2 comments | comment on this) Monday, January 10th, 2005 11:54 am shednoblood I have created a community that is more of an active organization. its a think tank for organization and we take our thoughts and ideas and use them for action. its a place where all socially conscious, and political causes can unite and lend each other a helping hand in a time of need.humanmajority (comment on this) Thursday, December 23rd, 2004 9:36 pm - If you love communism, you'll LOVE this new community!! metal_immortal comunist_antics is the new community that everybody's talking about. If you think communism is really fucking funny, or you had sex qwith Lenin once, or you bleed red, then come! It's like a party where everybody has an equal amount of fun, or else!!! WHOOO! comunist_antics (3 comments | comment on this) Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 9:46 am - question alirose I generally consider myself a realistic socialist and an idealistic communist. But lately I have been working on a paper about the Great Leap Forward in China and I am having a hard time not loosing all faith in the Party. How do you reconcile the dark moments in the Party's history without loosing faith in the promise of communism and knowing what's right for the good of the People? Please help, I am having an ethical crisis.current mood: distressed (5 comments | comment on this) Sunday, December 12th, 2004 1:22 pm Saturday, December 11th, 2004 11:15 pm - Rage Against The Machine: No minibar on the tour bus 1:44 pm Friday, December 10th, 2004 2:15 pm - Sorry! iownasheep I hate to be nitpicky but in the userinfo bio it says:"For those people who are fustrated with our current goverenment; The Bourgeois."In the Communist Manifesto the bourgeoisie are defined to be those who the communists -or proletariat- are fighting. (11 comments | comment on this) Tuesday, November 30th, 2004 7:56 pm Saturday, November 20th, 2004 7:57 pm mittensmeow Hey, just looked up your community and i had a thought...My friend and i started an anti bush community (actagainstbush) however it has become dominated by.. by, well, loyal PC democrats who just spit the party line but you do not think for themselves. Die hard Kerry fans, despite the fact that Kerry most certainly does not represent their interests anymore than bush does, so, i would certainly be most thrilled if a few of you started commenting there. Spice things up a bit, nothing mean, just to get them thinking, and so i dont look like a lunatic.ActAgainstBush (comment on this) Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 9:01 am - Good news from the south... casadetodd No, not the southern U.S., I mean south of the border. The Sandinista front pretty much swept the latest elections in Nicaragua, taking the Managua mayoral seat again, and winning in most other municipalities. "The Sandinistas...appeared to be headed for victory in at least 15 of Nicaragua's 17 provincial capitals and in 91 towns, election officials said. The party held 11 of those provincial capitals going into Sunday's elections." -- L.A. TimesMuch of "Latin" America is moving to the left. In Uruguay a left-wing coalition was just elected. There's also Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and of course Venezuela. By the time the Bushites look away from their Crusade in the Middle East and peer south, they're likely to see a forest of middle fingers pointed their way! (comment on this) Monday, October 25th, 2004 7:52 pm vivechaos What happened to the days when we had selfless brave passionate leaders and revolutionaries like in the days of Che geuvara.....long live fidel castro....How and When did the leaders of this world today become to cowardly??? what happened to usare we doomed?LONG LIVE CHE AND LONG LIVE CHAOS (4 comments | comment on this) | | 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