{"id":5037,"date":"2008-12-19T19:24:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T18:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2008-12-19T19:24:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T18:24:57","slug":"proletarian-december-08january-2009-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/proletarian-december-08january-2009-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Proletarian: December 08\/January 2009 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuba special: 50 years of revolution
\n<\/strong>New Year’s Day 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the triumphant day on which the Cuban people ousted the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, so ridding themselves of the shackles of capitalism and setting out on the road toward socialism.<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=456<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Economic crisis: no escape under capitalism<\/strong>
\nBourgeois economic science offers little by way of solutions to the current crisis, not because bourgeois economists are unintelligent, but because their outlook is hemmed in by their belief in the immortality of the capitalist system of production.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=457<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Obama’s victory and its significance<\/strong>
\nObama’s victory provides a fertile terrain for the realisation to grow amongst the most oppressed sections of American society that their oppression is primarily class oppression, not just race oppression.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=458<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

:: WORLD :: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Editorial: Mumbai terror attacks<\/strong>
\nThe main thing that gives the Pakistani army the power that it has hitherto exercised is confrontation with India. Any improvement of relations between India and Pakistan spells death for the army’s pre-eminent role in Pakistan.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=459<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Thieves fall out: crisis exacerbates inter-imperialist contradictions<\/strong>
\nThe world financial crisis is putting ever greater strain upon relations between the major imperialist powers. It seems that the louder they talk about coordinating their efforts to stem the flow of fresh disasters, the more poisoned their relations become.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=464<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Congo: still struggling for independence<\/strong>
\nGenocidal war has raged in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the 1998 US-backed invasion by the forces of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. At the last estimate, the war has claimed a staggering 5.4 million lives.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=469<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

:: BRITAIN :: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Industry matters: chickens home to roost <\/strong>
\nDefending the rights of migrant workers is central to defending the working class as a whole. For unions still to be turning over their members’ subs to Labour, which abroad is conducting genocidal wars and at home is inciting hatred against ‘foreign’ workers, dishonours and debilitates the whole working class.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=460<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Education update<\/strong>
\nBoost for segregated schools and SATs scrapped for 14-year-olds.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=461<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

:: HISTORY :: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Uphold the banner of October!<\/strong>
\nThe CPGB-ML celebrated the 91st anniversary of the October Revolution in Southall on Saturday 8 November with a packed meeting and inspiring speeches, supplemented by many solidarity messages from representatives of socialist countries in Britain. Watch speeches on video or read the highlights.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=462<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Celebrating the 100th birthday of Enver Hoxha<\/strong>
\nArchitect of socialist Albania, anti-revisionist fighter, and one of the great Marxist-Leninist heroes of the 20th century. <\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=465<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

:: CULTURE :: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Book: Strange Liberators<\/em> <\/strong>
\nThe world addressed by Gregory Elich in one in which the ‘liberal’ imperialists ‘liberate’ the long-suffering people of the world from the tyrannies of independence, nationalised economy, employment, education, food security and, not infrequently, life itself..<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=467<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

:: THEORY :: <\/strong><\/p>\n

The dictatorship of the proletariat <\/strong>
\nWhat kind of state will the workers need after the socialist revolution? <\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=466<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

:: REPORTS AND LETTERS :: <\/strong><\/p>\n

CPGB-ML meets Vietnamese Party delegation<\/strong>
\nComrade Tran, of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s Central Committee, explained the changes that have been taking place in Vietnam and the challenges still to be overcome.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=463<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Letter: Fight for communism <\/strong>
\nAcross the world, people are resisting the tyranny of capitalism and making a stand for their human rights: the right to a job, a home, education, health care and culture; the right to be heard.<\/em>
\n<\/span>www.cpgb-ml.org\/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=468<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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