Entries Tagged as ‘Imperialism’

December 31, 2009

Open letter to AFL-CIO President Trumka: Boycott Israeli Apartheid

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following letter, written by Labor for Palestine to the President of the AFL-CIO, urging support for the campaign to boycott Israel.
Open Letter from U.S. Trade Unionists to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Boycott Apartheid Israel
Issued by Labor for Palestine – laborforpalestine.us@gmail.com
“Sanctions alone cannot eradicate apartheid; that task is ultimately left [...]

December 28, 2009

El Salvador: Anti-Mining Activists Assassinated

The following press release and articles are from the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES):
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 28, 2009
Contact: Alexis Stoumbelis, CISPES – (978) 394-0425
Another Protester of Pacific Rim Mining Corporation’s El Dorado Site Assassinated in El Salvador
Second community activist killed in less than a week
On December 26, [...]

December 26, 2009

Gaza stands resisting and steadfast one year after occupation massacres

The following article is from the website of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
Comrade Mizher: Gaza stands resisting and steadfast one year after occupation massacres
A rally in Ezbet Abed Rabbo, one of the most devastated areas in last year’s Zionist assault on Gaza, organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [...]

December 12, 2009

Unity and steadfastness: Over 70,000 rally in Gaza for PFLP 42nd anniversary

The following article is from the website of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist-Leninist organization that has now been waging armed struggle against Imperialism, Zionism, and Arab reaction, and for socialism and national liberation, for 42 years. They fight for a singular, secular Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine. The PFLP’s General [...]

December 11, 2009

42 years of the PFLP: Time for a new political era of resistance and national liberation

The following statement is from the website of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist-Leninist organization that has now been waging armed struggle against Imperialism, Zionism, and Arab reaction, and for socialism and national liberation, for 42 years. They fight for a singular, secular Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine. The PFLP’s General [...]

December 9, 2009

Jose Maria Sison: End Monopoly Capitalism to Arrest Climate Change

The following statement, “End Monopoly Capitalism to Arrest Climate Change” by Jose Maria Sison, Chairperson of the International League of People’s Struggle:
Human societies have created the bases of our survival, sustenance and advancement through the use of our natural resources in production with rudimentary tools and rising levels of science and technology. Yet in no [...]

December 3, 2009

PFLP: So-called “settlement freeze” is merely a deceptive cover for settlement building and war crimes

The following is from the website of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

Comrade Jamil Mizher, a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said that the so-called “settlement freeze” announced by the fascist Netanyahu regime is simply a tactic meant to deceive the world and attempt [...]

December 3, 2009

FRSO: No to the Escalation, End the Afghanistan War Now!

The following statement is from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and is being reposted here from Fight Back! News:

No to the Escalation, End the Afghanistan War Now!
Freedom Road Socialist Organization denounces the escalation of the bloody and unjust U.S. war in Afghanistan. We condemn the decision made by the White House and Pentagon to ‘surge’ [...]

November 20, 2009

Shlomo Sand: “The Invention of the Jewish People”

The following video is a discussion by Israeli professor, Shlomo Sand , about his book, The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso, 2009), which critically examines and deconstructs the idea of a Jewish nationality (“the Jewish People”) and consequently the Zionist claim for a Jewish homeland (Israel) in Palestine. The video is interesting in its exploration of the national [...]

November 18, 2009

Philippine revolutionaries say their country could become another Afghanistan

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by Spokesperson Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos of the  National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Mindanao.
Under the Obama Regime, Mindanao could become another Afghanistan
November 13, 2009
On the occasion of US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s two-day visit of to the Philippines, the National Democratic Front-Mindanao (NDF-Mindanao) reiterates the [...]

November 17, 2009

Harpal Brar on Iran

In the following video, Harpal Brar of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) talks about the correct anti-imperialist and proletarian internationalist position on Iran:

See also ”Imperialism and Iran’s Elections” from Fight Back! News, and the older statement “Hands Off Iran” by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

November 5, 2009

PFLP: U.S. is not a mediator, but an enemy of the Palestinian people

The following is from the website of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist organization in Palestine fighting for national liberation and socialism:
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on November 3, 2009 that the Palestinian Authority, and all Palestinian parties, must immediately end any and all illusions about [...]