Opportunities and Challanges This International Workers’ Day, the Leading Light Communist Organization offers a message of unity and solidarity to all like minded individuals and parties around the world. As we have stated over the course of the last year, we are living through a historic time with unusually high stakes. The next few years …
Overturning Vulgar Third Worldism: A Practical Internationalist Approach to Revolution Medved Pobedy 23 June 2020 LLCO.org Last updated 14 August 2020 Contents IntroductionWhat Is “Vulgar” Third Worldism?The Roots of the Labor AristocracyThe Reactionary and Foolish Nature of the Labor AristocracyThe Many Contradictions of CapitalismConvergent and Divergent InterestsPrivilege, Propaganda, and False ConsciousnessThe Problems of Vulgar Third …
Left photo: 2016 video footage in the Syrian district of Aleppo, several months before liberation, of a group “moderate rebels” mocking a kidnapped 10-12 year old Palestinian boy moments before they beheaded him on camera. Right photo: members of the ultra-right Svoboda party holding a 2017 torch rally commemorating the anniversary of the Ukrainian offensive, led …
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 …
Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? Joseph Ball 21 September 2006 LLCO.org (slightly edited); Original source: Maoists.org Over the last 25 years the reputation of Mao Zedong has been seriously undermined by ever more extreme estimates of the numbers of deaths he was supposedly responsible for. In his lifetime, Mao Zedong …
Remember the life of Manik Shaha, martyred for speaking the truth LLCO.org Manik Shaha was a journalist and activist who fought for the people. He spoke out against the great injustices in our land. He wrote about the great inequalities and sufferings endured by our brothers and sisters. At age 45, his voice and life …