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White man at The Guardian says British atrocities benefited Asians

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By Sukant Chandan, Sons of Malcolm

April 19 - Many secret papers exposing the atrocities of the british empire have come to light, papers which should have been in the public realm in the 1980s. Nothing especially new has come out of these papers, but it is another reminder of the white supremacist massive violent nature of the british empire.

michael white, a sour-faced stupid white man at the Guardian, who happens to be its associate editor, decides these atrocities were to the benefit of Asian peoples when he writes:

”But just because it is easy with hindsight to condemn or mock the excesses of the time doesn’t mean our parents and grandparents weren’t right to be nervous – or even that the often-brutal suppression of the Malayan insurgency didn’t do modern Malaysia, conspicuously prosperous and relatively open, a historic favour. Just think about neighbouring Burma.”

Another indicator that the britain is desperate to white-wash its colonial crimes in a pathetic attempt to resuscitate the british empire just as when we are living through a historical period when the british state and its international reach is disappearing into oblivion.

This futile attempt to bring the british empire back from the dead also has some dangerous elements to it:

1, the whole western imperialism system is in existentialist crisis, and in this crisis will go to desperate lengths to maintain its position in relation to the emerging anti-imperialist process of the Global South. Regime-change, sanctions, organising coups and outright war are the physical methods by which empire tries to maintain and bolster itself.

2, there is a campaign of lies and manipulation in the media, with empire trying to make people think white supremacy has gone, and that subjugation is actually freedom and liberation. So the nato blitz of Libya and regime-change there was actually freeing the Libyan people, and the rule of scores of murdering militias there is actually democracy.

This is also done cultural level with the white power structure managing to succeed in convincing many of our young people that they not need be concerned with the freedom struggle of the African/Afrikan people especially, but all the while using black cultural forms to divide young people from anti-imperialist concerns.

a british soldier doing us Asians ‘a favour’ in Malaya

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January 26: Down with “Australia Day” (equivalent to U.S. “Thanksgiving”) and its celebration of the genocide of Indigenous peoples! Long live the Aboriginal resistance!

Libyan Central Bank ready to accept IMF 'aid' to rebuild what NATO destroyed

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Huey Freeman: ‘So after Gaddafi set up an african development bank to prevent other african countries from having to beg the IMF or World Bank for “aid money“ (which comes along with high interest rates, structural adjustment programs, privatizations etc) the self appointed new libyan government is now ready to accept a so called IMF roadmap. There were unconfirmed reports about the western powers wanting Libya to pay the bills for the destruction of their country. If true or not, this is now another clear indication that this war on Libya has been planned a long time ago, way before the so called “arab spring“ started. The following article says that “the groundwork had already been laid by IMF and World Bank over the previous 2-3 years“.’

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cesaire:

(Protesters are arrested by police on the day of the massacre. Photograph: Fernand Parizot/AFP)

Politicians, historians and protesters gathered in Paris to mark the 50th anniversary of a police crackdown on Algerian anti-war demonstrators that has become one of the most shameful episodes of modern French history.

The events of 17 October 1961 are considered a massacre by many Algerians, who claim up to 300 members of their community died at the hands of the Paris police.

Many are angry that the French government has never officially apologised for the bloody attack – which does not appear in school history books – and that the authorities still dispute the death toll.

According to officials, less than a handful of protesters died, while historians say the number of Algerians killed – some of them beaten and thrown into the river Seine – was between 50 and 120.

On Monday, François Hollande chose to mark the tragedy as his first official engagement as the newly elected Socialist party presidential candidate.

Hollande, named as the Socialists’ choice to take on Nicolas Sarkozy in next year’s presidential elections barely 12 hours earlier, on Monday threw a single red rose into the Seine from the bridge at Clichy, the suburb where many of the victims lived.

Afterwards he unveiled a plaque engraved with: “From this bridge and other bridges in the Paris region, Algerian demonstrators were thrown into the Seine on the 17 October 1961, victims of a blind repression. In their memory.”

seriously, in what context are police not an organized terrorist unit?

classe: sono arrivato tardi (qui su tumblr) ma vi assicuro ieri ho letto un articolo sul Morning Star e sono andato ad informarmi su ciò che accadde quel 17 ottobre del 1961, quando la Senna si tinse di rosso.

(via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)