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On the day of and in the week leading up to Jackson's elections, reactionary hysteria is being whipped up about candidate Chokwe Lumumba, a leading member of the revolutionary New Afrikan People's Organization (NAPO/MXGM), who is running for mayor of Jackson as a part of the Jackson Kush Plan, a plan attempting to use a combination of mass movement of the people and radical left participation in elections to spark a Black liberation movement in the South of the United…Read More +
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Kasama is pleased to share news of a new international pubilcation being produced by the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist called People's Voice. The following is an introduction article to this new magazine. Kasama will be sharing articles from the magazine over the next few days. A PDF version of the magazine is also available. Towards New Revolution International Department of Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist has decided to bring out regular informative online service, which can fulfill the demand of our…Read More +
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The fact is that this election is being conducted not for drafting of the new constitution. Instead the election is to goad the country towards party less system and also is being held or will be held at the cost of national sovereignty. That is why I would say that the entire process of the election is nothing more than a drama. This election will not be held. We will not allow it to happen. For months now, the coup…Read More +
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Sanitation " the proper treatment and/or disposal of urine and excrement" could be considered "the most important medical milestone" in modern history according to the British Medical Journal. Yet for at least 2.5 billion people, more than a third of the world's people, this most basic human need is unmet. Most cases of diarrhea are caused by water and food contaminated by faeces, and this disease kills 1,800 children every day. "If 90 school buses filled with kindergardeners were to crash…Read More +
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by Nat Winn Maoist dialectics assert that all that exists is contradiction. Where every thing that exists contains within it both unity and struggle, it is struggle that is the driving force of dialectics and that lays the basis for transformation. Dialectics is not a drive to some final unified process (the unity of subject and object for example). On Life Activity as essence of being humanI've thought a lot about a recent comment by Eve Mitchell where she says:Read More +
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Last year, Fire on the Mountain called on the grayer heads to revisit the days when Ohio National Guardsmen shot dead four of us on Kent State campus. Here is my small piece of that much larger picture. By Mike Ely (Kasama Project) May 1970. Forty years have passed. It is history now in the eyes of the world. But for me, and many others, it is raw and alive. It always will be. I won’t tell the well known…Read More +
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Today the Obama administration's FBI added black liberation fighter Assata Shakur to its list of "Most Wanted Terrorists." They doubled the million-dollar price on her head; and she becomes the first woman on the list. Fortunately Assata Shakur is living free in Cuba after being liberated from a federal penitentiary in 1979, but it's clear her life is in mortal danger. Labeling Shakur a "terrorist" is a declaration of war against all dissenters and revolutionaries, and sets her up for…Read More +
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Reports are beginning to come in from May 1 in Nepal. Kasama will share more as the develop. Special thanks to Bikkil Sthapit for sharing photos and reports. Thousands of workers marched through Kathmandu in rallies organized by the All Nepal Revolutionary Trade Union Federation, chanting demands for 8 hours for work, 8 hours for recreation, and 8 hours for rest. The workers delivered a 25 point demand list, chanting "implement it without change." The crowd was led by Biplab,…Read More +
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May Day! May Day! ¡1° de mayo—Día Internacional de los Trabajadores! May 1st is a day celebrated and cherished around the World. It is part of the people’s legacy and the people have claimed May Day as their own. It’s a day for reflection, of solidarity and an important part of our future. In many countries, May Day is a national holiday—ironically not so in the U.S. where its opening salvo began. But many in the U.S. are and have…Read More +
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There photos come to Kasama from Halkin Gunlugu, a radical newspaper sympathetic to the Maoist Communist Party of Turkey (MKP). Kasama will be translating reports from Turkey when possible. "With 80 countries around the world marking May 1 as a public holiday, Istanbul's Taksim Square was in lockdown on Wednesday, after the Turkish government banned May Day protests there.The square is the site of a 1977 May Day massacre in which dozens of people died under disputed circumstances. Hashem Ahelbarra,…Read More +
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May First in Brooklyn: High school students walk out
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We received the following report and photos from participants in Kasama's project. Click for full pictures. Photo credit: Nicolette Attente.
By Nat Winn
As the high school students began to climb the hill in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, I could hear militant chanting. I could see their signs and banners, but not quite make out the words. These were dozens of young students, overwhelmingly Black and Latino. They were joined by a few of their teachers and supporters from Occupy the Hood and Occupy Wall Street.
As they reached the tall Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, their chant suddenly became clear:
“We make history everyday! By what we do and what we say!”
Some students had marched several miles to this park from Paul Robeson High School on May First – after walking out of school. Their school is scheduled to be phased out when the current freshman class graduates -- ultimately paving the way for private charter schools that will go into the already swollen pockets of Mayor Bloomberg’s powerful friends.
The grievances of Paul Robeson students appeared in a YouTube video that went viral – calling out the city-wide school closing and bitterly criticizing their own treatment at the hands of school guards and police. They are speaking about what is happening to youth widely. And they pointed out that this disrespect is part of the same racist social programming that led to death of Trayvon Martin.
I saw them join together in this rally with about 30 students from Brooklyn Tech High School – which is right across the street from Fort Greene park. Brooklyn Tech students decided to march in solidarity with Paul Robeson.
Many of the kids from Brooklyn Tech had their own painful issue to raise: One of their close friends had been murdered by police.
Nicolette Attente: Photos from May First New York City
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These photos were taken by Nicolette Attente. Click for the full image.
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