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White man at The Guardian says British atrocities benefited Asians

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

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

socialismartnature:

End cruelty to animals? Yes. Compare whales at Sea World to millions of African slaves? No.

Peta, WTF is wrong with you?

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

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!

classe: e qui ci vado, diofesta.

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so-treu:

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.

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selucha:

4 Israeli Defense Force soldiers “detaining” a Palestinian girl, while posing for a picture with their rifles pointed at her head. Fucking outrage.

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'Zero Tolerance' on the Streets of London

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

LONDON, August 14 - British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that his government will have “zero tolerance” for violence on the streets, where more than 2,800 people, mostly minors, have been arrested in the riots in London and other major cities, Reuters reported.

Cameron, who suggested that the initial police response was too timid, has called in the former chief of police in New York, Los Angeles and Boston, William Bratton, as a consultant for Scotland Yard, a decision that received immediate criticism from senior police officials and even of his coalition government, added DPA.

THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED THIS PHOTO SHOWING A POLICEMAN TARGETING THE HEAD OF A 15 YEAR OLD PROTESTER IN MANCHESTER.

CPGB-ML: Rage against capitalism

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Statement by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist):

Until now the British working class had been relatively quiescent in the face of increasing police repression and worsening living conditions and social provision, but the events of the past few days have changed all that and shown once more the fighting spirit of the British proletariat. Young working-class people in particular have shown that they are not prepared to lie down indefinitely while they are kicked like a dog by the lickspittles of the British ruling class.

Whilst the shooting of Mark Duggan provoked the initial protests in Tottenham, the subsequent riots reflect the hatred felt towards the police in black, working-class and poor communities throughout London and up and down the country, as well as the anger and despair engendered by grinding poverty. 

They are a spontaneous protest against deaths at the hands of the police, stop and search, which is running at record levels, poor educational and health provision, poor and overcrowded housing, lack of amenities (in the borough of Haringey where Tottenham is located, eight out of a total of 13 youth clubs were closed just last week) and unemployment (Haringey has one vacancy for every 54 jobseekers).

Predictably, much is made of the acts of looting that are an inevitable feature of such spontaneous outbursts. However, they should not be allowed to detract from the main character of the events, namely a justified revolt against police killings and repression, racism and poverty. 

Meanwhile, some ‘looters’ have been reported as making off with such essentials as toilet rolls and disposable nappies. Others have kept their focus clearly on symbols of state repression. …

Communists support and defend the oppressed when they rise up, but we have seen massive uprisings before, generally in the same communities as current events, for example in 1981 and 1985. But so long as capitalism remains in place, it continues inexorably to impoverish the working class; and overthrowing capitalism is impossible without conscious organisation for that purpose, for which trustworthy proletarian leadership is required. So long as capitalism remains in place, the real gains of workers’ struggles, however magnificent, are transient and reversible – precisely why the events of previous years are being repeated today.