[MLL] Experts: what Gaddafi’s death means to Russia
http://www.themoscownews.com./politics/20111021/189142539.html Experts: what Gaddafi’s death means to Russia by Evgeniya Chaykovskaya at 21/10/2011 15:32 On Thursday it was announced that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed in the town of Sirte after he was captured by rebels on the outskirts of the city. The Libya’s regime change will deeply affect Russian businesses in the region. Contracts will have to be renegotiated, and not always with sympathetic local companies and authorities. Russia is set to lose contracts Vice-president of International Crisis Group, Alain Deletroz, told Kommersant that “in the new Libya, Russian companies will not feel as free as during Gaddafi’s reign,” adding that the best contracts would be given to countries who supported the rebels the most. Other experts say that Russia will have to hold talks with those countries, rather than the rebels. “At best Western companies will invite Russian companies as partners,” editor in chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine Fyodor Lukyanov told Kommersant. “The British, the French, the Italians did not risk their money, reputation, etc to then share the Libyan market with companies of the countries who did not take part in the operation.” Russia a key player Georgy Mirsky, leading fellow of the World Economy and International Relations Institute, however, thinks that Russia played a big part in overthrowing Gaddafi. “In reality, Gaddafi’s regime fell a long time ago, and the colonel’s death was just its death-throes,” he told Komsomolskaya Pravda. “His death was a full stop for an absolutely artificial regime that did not fit the spirit of the times, or the 21 century in general. Gaddafi lost everything. Now an acute fight for power will start. Those, who are in the national transitional council, are unlikely to keep their positions for long.” “Speaking of Russia, Libyans should remember that namely thanks to it, Gaddafi was removed from his Olympus. If in March, Moscow did not abstain in the UN Security Council vote, then the colonel would still be in power now. Practically we gave the Western allies an opportunity to hold this operation that started with a set up of a no-fly zone over the country, and ended with a bombing of all of Libya and the rebels' win with the help of France and Great Britain. But without the fateful decision by Russia to abstain from the vote, history could have been completely different.” NATO finished Gaddafi Andrei Fedyashin, RIA Novosti’s political analyst, thinks that NATO played too big a role in the whole affair. “It is indicative that the former leader of Jamahiriya and dictator died not in a fight with the rebels, but as a result of NATO’s aviation’s latest ‘surgical strike’,” he wrote. “Thus NATO put a full stop where the bloc has no right to sign: no one gave NATO sanction to hunt Gaddafi and bomb the suburbs of Sirte under siege.” People will mourn President of FIDE and former head of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, told RIA Novosti the world would be upset by the former Libyan leader’s death. “If it is true, then his death will be seen as a misery in many countries. People understand the real undercurrents of this war, where he fought not only against the rebels, but against NATO forces too,” Ilyumzhinov said. Ilyumzhinov visited Libya as part of his tour of Africa as FIDE president and played chess with Gaddafi and his son. War in Libya will go on Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of Middle East Institute, told Komsolskaya Pravda that there is and will be a civil war, just like it goes on in Iraq even after Saddam Hussein was executed. “By the way, with Gaddafi three-quarters of the oil went to Europe, and the contracts were allocated to Western companies (plus China and a little bit to Russia), arms were bought from the West and a little bit from Russia and China. It will not go on.” ___ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
[MLL] The latest issue of the Indian ML journal Revolutionary Democracy is now available
Dear comrades and friends, The latest issue (Vol. XVII, No. 1, April, 2011) of the Indian ML journal Revolutionary Democracy is now available. Revolutionary Democracy is a half-yearly theoretical and political journal published in April and September from India. It contains materials on the problems facing the communist movement, particularly relating to Russia, China and India, the origins of modern revisionism, the restoration of capitalism in the USSR and developments in the international communist movement. The Table of Contents, prices and ordering info are below. Corporate Sector Loot and the Resistance of Farmers, Tribals and Dalits, N.K. Bhattacharyya India-EU Free Trade Agreement, Pratyush Russia and China Dump the US Dollar, Paul Craig Roberts Pakistan: Suspension of Trains, Shaukat Ali Chaudhry Arab Revolt: The Arab masses have had enough, Jan R. Steinholt ‘The Dictator has been defeated, But not yet the Dictatorship’, Hamma Hammami Communiqué of the Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia Tunisia: Left Debates After the Fall of Ben Ali, Maite Mola and Claudia Haydt Egyptian Masses Topple the Dictator, Revolutionary Organization of Labor Recollections of My Life, Mu’ummar Qaddafi No to the Imperialist Aggression Against Libya!, PC (AP) For us, it is three times ‘no’ to Imperialist War, Communist Party of the Workers of France Let us prepare for a sharpening of the class struggle, ICMLPO Europe Declarations of the ICMLPO World Conference of Women Held in Caracas from March 4 to 8 Why is the Second International Defending Trotsky?, N. Krupskaya Let us Pay Tribute to Salvador Allende, Revolutionary Cell Joseph Stalin The Closed Speech of Khrushchev on Stalin, Enver Hoxha Two Anonymous Letters to the Editorial Board of ‘Kommunist’ Against the Criticism of J.V. Stalin, 1956 Some Errors of the Chinese Communist Party, Sam Marcy New Material on S.A. Dange from the CPGB Archives History as an Ideological and Political Battlefield in Modern Russia, Yuri Yemelianov On the Murder of Niyamat Ansari in Jharkhand, Santosh Rana A Lonely Wanderer: Majaz, Arjumand Ara Poems and Ghazals of Asrar-ul Haq ‘Majâz’ The Light of Tears: The Life and Poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ali Madeeh Hashmi Four Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Tr. from the Urdu by Kuldip Salil Khrushchev Lied, Grover Furr (book advertisement) Copies are US $6.00 or £4.00 for single issue, or US $12.00 or £8.00 for a full year's subscription (2 issues). For US, Canada or Mexico, please send check, money order (payment to George Gruenthal) or cash if necessary to: George Gruenthal 192 Claremont Ave 5D New York, NY 10027 USA For elsewhere, Contact: Editor Revolutionary Democracy E-mail: editor_revdem at rediffmail.com or editor_revdem at indiatimes.com Website: http://revolutionarydemocracy.org/ ___ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
[MLL] Fw: Fwd: [NYCLAW] NYC Labor Against the War: 10.25 OWS Report: Show Down
Begin forwarded message: From: NYCLAW Date: October 25, 2011 11:34:09 PM EDT To: LaborAgainstWar laboragainst...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [NYCLAW] NYC Labor Against the War: 10.25 OWS Report: Show Down NYC Labor Against the War 10.25 Occupy Wall Street Report: Show Down Chicago —– While the Occupy actions have become national symbols of resistance, the movement has also served to underline the problem of America’s massive police state, which is used to suppress freedom of expression and assembly rather than as an instrument to safeguard those liberties. Police State Targets Occupy Movements | The Nation http://www.thenation.com/blog/164150/police-state-targets-occupy-movements —– OWS-NYC: UPDATE CWA and Occupy Wall Street storm Lower Manhattan protesting Verizon's Corporate Greed October 21, 2011. Thousands of CWA and OWS protesters rally at Verizon Wireless store. 20 Verizon workers sleep at Liberty Plaza/Zucotti Park in solidarity with the 99%. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52CDbZ2_7bYsns=fb Protest derails DOE meeting on curriculum after just minutes | GothamSchools “We want our teachers to be paid more,” yelled a 7-year-old, Anais Richard, who attends P.S. 11 in Brooklyn. “If these things are not done, then we won’t be able to be succeeded.” The people’s mic repeated her statement, complete with the misspoken final word. http://gothamschools.org/2011/10/25/protest-derails-doe-meeting-on-curriculum-after-just-minutes/ Education Panel Meeting Disrupted By Occupy Protesters The chancellor moved the official meeting to the third floor, split between three different classrooms. The protestors continued to hold their own meeting in the auditorium for almost two hours, and discussed their opposition to mayoral control of schools and education budget cuts. Many of the several hundred protesters were public school teachers. Some of them have been involved and are even organizers of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Other participants said they were just been inspired by the ongoing protest. Some of the demonstrators are planning another event in early November at DOE headquarters in Downtown Manhattan, called Occupy The DOE. www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/education/149635/education-panel-meeting-disrupted-by--occupy--protesters New York D.A. declines to drop charges against protesters Prosecutors instead offered those arrested an adjournment for six months; if the individual is not arrested during that time, the case will be dismissed and sealed. http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/New_York/News/2011/10_-_October/New_York_D_A__declines_to_drop_charges_against_protesters/ Many Occupy Protesters Won't Take Plea Deal, Lawyer Says Protestors have threatened to take their cases to trial in an effort to clog up the court system. http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/149593/many--occupy--protesters-won-t-take-plea-deal--lawyer-says The fight for OWS continues We’re calling on Mayor Bloomberg to pledge his support for the First Amendment rights of the protesters, and allow them to stay as long as they have a voice to be heard. http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4853 BEYOND OWS: U.S. Police State Targets Occupy Movements | The Nation While the Occupy actions have become national symbols of resistance, the movement has also served to underline the problem of America’s massive police state, which is used to suppress freedom of expression and assembly rather than as an instrument to safeguard those liberties. http://www.thenation.com/blog/164150/police-state-targets-occupy-movements ALBANY: Unmoved Albany protesters add Cuomo to their list of concerns A day after it was revealed that Cuomo tried -- unsuccessfully -- to get Albany officials to use police to remove protesters from the park after an 11 p. m. curfew, demonstrators wasted little time in adding the governor to their lineup of concerns. http://www.buffalonews.com/city/capital-connection/albany/article606752.ece BOSTON: Occupy the Hood comes to Boston I didn't know anything about Occupy Boston before tonight. I heard a lot of chanting in the neighborhood and decided to come out to see what was going on. I think this is a wake-up call for everybody to stand up for equality with peace and justice for all people from all walks of life. Our common enemy is injustice. http://socialistworker.org/2011/10/25/occupy-the-hood-in-boston CHICAGO: Director of National Nurses United Union Responds to Occupy Chicago Arrests Rahm Emanuel apparently believes that First Amendment rights end at 11pm in the city of Chicago. We think that Constitutional rights extend 24/7 and that people should have the right to protest and to raise their voices and to reflect the anger and suffering that are out there across the country. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/director-national-nurses-united-union-resp DETROIT: Main Street Report: Occupy
[MLL] Gadar Party Centenary-2012
Professor Chaman Lal Dated: -- 25th October, 2011 Former Chairperson Centre of Indian Languages (SLLCS) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067 Visiting Professor on Hindi Chair The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus Trinidad Tobago Prime Minister of India PM Office, New Delhi Subject: Regarding Ensuing Gadar Party centenary and Gadar memorial sites in USA-Canada Dear Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, I have recently visited Gadar memorial site in San Francisco in California State of United States of America (USA), where I was invited to deliver a lecture on Gadar party hero Kartar Singh Sarabha on 22nd May,2011, Sunday, to commemorate Sarabha birth anniversary due on 24th May. Apart from visiting this historic site, I got an opportunity to visit Sacramento Cemetery, where not only Gadar party senior activist Maulvi Barkatullah was buried, many more freedom fighters from Punjab were also buried there. I was also taken to historic Stockton Gurdwara, which was meeting place for Gadarites in 1913-1947 and which is now under the control of Khalistani elements, who have dumped the Gadar party heroes photographs in one corner neglected room of the Gurdwara and have filled common eating place-langar with the photographs of Khalistani armed fundamentalists. I could even visit Holt farm of Gadar party Vice President Jawala Singh, who used to offer scholarships top Indian students. In University of California’s Berkeley campus, I was able to look at Gadar archives documents in The Bancroft library and also contacted Centre for South Asian Studies, being looked after by Prof. Raka Ray. Prior to reaching at San Francisco, I visited Vancouver in Canada to visit Kamagatamaru sites, which again was related to Gadar movement and has its tragic happenings in year 1914. This whole journey was not only emotionally touching for me, being so deeply interested in the history of revolutionary aspects of India’s freedom struggle, it was enriching in terms of collecting some documents and having first hand feel of the locations of that historic movement fought by our ancestors for the cause of freedom of India. As you are well aware that Gadar party was launched by migrant Indians, mostly Punjabis, but was inclusive of Indians from all parts of India as Darisi Chenchiah from South, Pandurang Khankhoje from West India, Jatinder Lahiri, Taraknath Das from East India, Maulvi Barkatullah and Pandit Permanand Jhansi from Central India. It was formed in USA in early twentieth century and was announced in March 1913 meeting in St. Jones as ‘Hindi Association of Pacific Coast’ as described by its founder President Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna in his autobiography-‘Jivan Sangram’( Struggles of Life), written in Punjabi. However the name of the party became more popular as ‘Gadar Party’ as from 1st November the party launched the journal called ‘Gadar’ in Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu and in many more Indian languages from’ Yugantar Ashram’ at 5 Wood Street San Francisco, the very building, which is now named as ‘Gadar Memorial’. The party took its name ‘Gadar’, consciously to identify it with 1857-first war of Independence, which Britishers used to call ‘Gadar’ and the party wished to turn that contemptuous nomenclature to a respectable one by calling itself ‘Gadar party’! It was most advanced secular democratic movement of its time, whose tradition was upheld and appropriated by Bhagat Singh later with further addition of socialist ideology. After looking at all the places and meeting various people in relation to these, I have made some observations, which I want to share with you. These observations demand serious attention of the Government of India, as the centenary celebrations of the formation of Gadar party are beginning next year and you are also receiving lot many representations in this connection. My observations are as followed by: The condition of the building which is now called ‘Gadar Memorial’, located at 5, Wood Street, San Francisco, has lost its heritage character; even the original name of the building-‘Yugantar Ashram’ finds no reference anywhere. The name ‘Yugantar Ashram’ was again to identify the movement with early revolutionary movement in Bengal with the name ‘Yugantar’. The original name of the building was written in Urdu, Punjabi and English, now only English and Hindi language changed name is painted on the front wall with no Punjabi or Urdu version. The building was handed over to Govt. of India after the independence of the country and when Gadar party was formally dissolved. Presently it is under the administrative control of the Counselor of India. A peon or driver of some Indian official has been put up there, which has no respect or awareness about the
