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Panos Garganas spoke to Socialist Worker about a Greek exit from the euro—and the tasks for the left
[Nb: Panos Garganas, editor of the Greek newspaper Workers Solidarity - member of SEK is the Socialist Workers Party—the British SWP’s sister organisation in Greece.] _____________________
What will an exit from the euro mean?
The conservative New Democracy party and the Labour-type Pasok say it will be a catastrophe.
The truth is, it will be a break with the austerity imposed by the (…)

Memorial Day is a American federal holiday observed annually in the United States on the last Monday of May and is a day of remembrance for the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. It was formerly known as Decoration Day and originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. However, by the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in all wars. [1].
On the occasion (…)

Likud MK describes Sudanese migrants as cancer; government prepares for mass deportation.
Some 1,000 protesters rallied in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood on Wednesday and called for the ousting of African asylum seekers from Israel.
Demonstrators attacked African passersby while others lit garbage cans on fire and smashed car windows.
Another group of demonstrators stopped a shuttle taxi and searched for migrant workers among the passengers, while banging on the windows.
The crowd (…)

SYRIZA or the magnificent breakthrough of a unique unifying and original experience
by Yorgos Mitralias
Translated by John Catalinotto
A nightmare for "those on top," a hope for "those on the bottom," SYRIZA made a sensational debut on the political landscape of Europe in deep crisis. After quadrupling its electoral strength on May 6, SYRIZA now aims not only to become the largest party in Greece in the June 17 elections, but to be able to form a left-wing government which will repeal (…)

An interesting insight into Western Mainstream media ownership, media bias and media censorship comes from Murdochracy and Lobbycracy Australia where Big Money buys political influence and votes. Indeed in 2010 the huge Mining Industry only had to spend $22 million to bring down a very popularly elected Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, who was removed by a pro-Zionist-led Coup in 23-24 June 2010 (for details suppressed by Neocon American and Zionist (NAZI)-beholden mainstream media (…)

Create one, two, three, many Greeces!
24 May by Sonia Mitralias
Speech in the great anti-capitalist demonstration in Frankfurt, Germany, May 19, 2012
Comrades,
I come from Greece, a country destroyed and desperate, a country in ruins but still standing tall. From this Greece that resists and has shouted a huge magnificent "No" to its torturers: the Troika and the IMF, the Brussels Commission and their Merkel and Schäuble, their Barrosos, Sarkozys and the bankers. In short, to those (…)

After the céliniens and céliniennes For which, any human transformation Is impossible, and vain Here houellebecquiens and houellebecquiennes For which, it is necessary that nihilism occurs More left, more right-hand side Its skin should simply be saved And for this reason, all is beautiful All the blows are allowed More respect, it is finished It is a question of benefitting from it well Before the flood, the brawling It is a question of throwing up well All its vindication, that is urgent (…)

Australian universities have been soiled by association with genocidal Israeli militarism and with evidently pro-Zionist censorship by the Australian taxpayer-funded, universities-backed and academic-based web magazine The Conversation.
Australian universities and Australia’s premier research body CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization) once has a fine reputation for intellectual leadership. This has now been tarnished by association of CSIRO and a number of (…)

It is rare in diplomatic circles for governments to speak bluntly, particularly in the Orient, where manners are highly prized.
The exceptions to this rule are retired military officers, who are often able to voice sentiments too impolitic for other channels.
One of the more startling pronouncements in this vein occurred last week when Song Xiaojun, a former senior officer of the People’s Liberation Army, warned that Australia cannot juggle its relationships with the United States and (…)

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