The Global Hegemony of the U.S. Dollar, a Brief History Janelle VelinaLLCO.org Since the United States entered into the Second World War considerably late, it did not suffer as much damage or casualties as other countries had. It also helped that its geographical location kept its cities from suffering the infrastructural damage seen across cities …
International Law and its Place in ‘Late-Stage’ Capitalism Janelle VelinaLLCO.org Toronto-based international criminal lawyer and long-time critic of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Christopher Black, recently published a paper titled, “Marx and International Law – A Perspective,” which is now available online on his blog. The paper provides insights on global capital, discussing how international law …
The Leading Light on African Liberation Day 2018 Jacob Brown, edited by Kwame Twumasi LLCO.org LLCO Ghana at the African Liberation Day program on May 25, 2018: Look at this World Map detailing the Human Development index in 2018 (1): See where are the lowest development indicators? Africa and the Indian subcontinent! This is what …
A Qualitatively Higher Level: The Leading Light Communist Organization, Unique Among the Crowd -Comrade Patrick (llco.org) February, 2017 Leading Light Communism is a great wave arising to save humanity. It is a wave that brings a new Earth in which there is no discrimination between people. It is at once the great revolutionary wave, and …
First Worldist “Left” hacks US presidential election for Donald J. Trump by Jacob Brown (llco.org) How the First Worldist “left” united with Obama-Clinton regime to bring Trump to power: With the current “#J20” US Inauguration Day protests against Donald J. Trump, a First Worldist pseudo-feminism is presenting itself as the protests’ main ideological engine, and …
Corrupt Politicians, and the need for Youth Leadership –statement from Leading Light comrades in West Africa, to the Youth of the Third World (llco.org) Politicians in a neocolonialist false “democracy” are voted to power as a result of the promises they make to the electorate. Most promise to help develop their communities so that their …
Oxfam’s lie that richest 85 people as “wealthy” as the bottom 3.5 billion LLCO.org We have all heard it or read it in some version or another. We have all seen some version of the sensationalist statistic that 85 people at the top own the same amount of wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion. The …
A letter from a reader: Do all Americans live like Bill Gates? 28 June 2012 LLCO.org We received the following letter: “I do not agree with the positions of Leading Light At the time of Marx sub continent was a colony of British Imperialism. Many other Asian countries along with Afrcian and Latin American countries …
What is fascism? from MIM (2002) (llco.org) Here MIM culls some of the defining characteristics of fascism from classic texts of the Third International: Dimitrov’s report to the 7th world congress of the COMINTERN (1) and Dutt’s “Fascism and Social Revolution.”(2) Applying these principles today, we can say that even though the imperialists have not …
Understanding the Islamic State, ISIS, Al Qaeda in Iraq LLCO.org The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (Al Qaeda in Iraq, Islamic State in Iraq, ISIS or ISIL, the Islamic State) has gone through numerous incarnations. In the past, it was known as “Al Qaeda in Iraq.” And today, its leader, previously known as “Abu Bakr …