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The “Forconi movement” – meaning pitchfork waving protesters – that has been paralysing Italian cities for days has taken almost everyone by surprise. But their non-partisan protests against austerity and elites hide echoes of the start of Mussolini’s authoritarianism.
Aristocrats who roll up in Jaguars, and peasants. Bosses, and unemployed workers. Truckers in the crosshairs of Equitalia [Italy’s tax collection agency], new ideologues of fascism, and young people from left-leaning social (…)

his is the right time for any country or secret military forces to invade America thru its business system, not thru direct combat. Americans now are so busy worrying about themselves and hating others that they could care less about an overthrow of their system of living.They shop now at various China Marts to get their goods and services, they have no idea who is who in America other than celebrities, and Macy’s sales. Americans hate Mexicans but need them every day to clean and cook in (…)

On Sunday, December 15, Chileans will go to the polls to decide who will represent them as president for
the next four years. The favorite, Michelle Bachelet, had served as president from 2006 to 2010 and now
has a significant lead over her competitor Evelyn Matthei. Bachelet, representing the Socialist Party, says
that she intends to increase corporate taxes and spend more in improving Chile’s education system and
infrastructure development. Matthei has said she would increase the (…)

I, like probably millions of other people, had hoped to have the opportunity to meet Mr. Mandela.
While this never happened he was always part of the American social justice movement, of which I have been
a part all of my adult life. In 1980, when I was 20, I was a freshman at Northwestern College, a small christian
school in Orange City, Iowa, when 0n March 24 Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated. I had a classmate
respond that it was OK because he was a communist. Reagan was (…)

It would make a tremendous difference nationally and internationally to have a real activist, progressive, populist, and democrat as mayor of our nation’s capital. Imagine a leading opponent of war as mayor of the world center of war making. Imagine major public initiatives to address the massive poverty and racial disparity in the headquarters of the greatest wealth machine on the planet. Imagine the model set in Washington for school systems elsewhere based on public community schools (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was scheduled to start his ninth trip of shuttle diplomacy between Palestinian and Israeli leaders on this December 11. However, the bridging “security arrangements,” which he proposed less than a week earlier on his last trip, have backfired and are now snowballing into a major crisis with Palestinian negotiators who view Kerry’s “ideas” as a coup turning the US top diplomat from a mediator into an antagonist.
Kerry’s “ideas” had (…)

Pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey Australia is spying on the whole world for the benefit of the UK state terrorism, US state terrorism and Apartheid Israeli state terrorism.
Australia and its close neighbors Indonesia and Timor Leste have been rocked by revelations that Australian spies hacked into the phones of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and his colleagues, spied on the Timor Leste Cabinet to give a huge commercial advantage to Australian fossil fuel company (…)

“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
Last night, the millions of the people of South Africa, majority of whom the working class and poor, and the billions of the rest of the people the world over, lost a true revolutionary, President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Tata Madiba.
The South African Communist Party joins the people of South Africa and the world in expressing its most sincere condolences to Ms. Graca Machel and the entire Mandela family on the loss of what (…)

December 8, 2013 THE REAL LESSONS FROM THE DEATH OF NELSON MANDELA
John Chuckman
The press has echoed for days with admiration for Nelson Mandela and his genuinely heroic fight against the apartheid government of South Africa. There have been many recollections of the brutal quality of that government, all perhaps carrying an unstated sense of how could people live that way?
As I listened on the radio, I couldn’t help thinking of the common human frailty which sees us caught up in (…)

The man who called himself “Mo” had dark hair, a foreign accent and — if the pictures he e-mailed to federal investigators could be believed — an Iranian military uniform. When he made a series of threats to detonate bombs at universities and airports across a wide swath of the United States last year, police had to scramble every time.
Mo remained elusive for months, communicating via ­e-mail, video chat and an ­Internet-based phone service without revealing his true identity or location, (…)