6 September 2010. A World to Win News Service. Following are excerpts from an article that appeared in issue 13 (1989) of A World to Win magazine. It was originally published in the Revolutionary Worker (now called Revolution), voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, 10 June 1985.


For hundreds of years, floods and droughts had been the "twin scourges" of China. A major flood or drought hit large parts of the land at a pace of almost once a year, destroying crops or making it impossible to plant and thus leading to terrible famines that took the lives of hundreds of thousands at a time.

6 September 2010. World to Win News Service.

 
The immediate loss of life due to the continuing flooding in Pakistan is tragedy enough, but the long-term impact may cause even greater disaster. 

 
The devastated fields long the Indus and other rivers, some still under water and others waterlogged and filled with mud and stones, constitute Pakistan's agricultural heartland and the foundation of its economy. This season's maize, cotton, rice and wheat, the main crops, as well as mango, banana and citrus fruits, have been lost. Worse, tens of millions of people have lost their future livelihoods, some for at least one or two seasons and others forever.

LA UPG HOMENAJEA A MONCHO REBOIRAS EN EL 35 ANIVERSARIO DE SU ASESINATO

Un año más Ferrol fue el escenario elegido por la Unión do Povo Galego para homenajear a Xosé Ramón Reboiras Noia el día 12 de agosto, cuando se cumplían 35 años de su asesinato en esa misma ciudad a manos de la policia franquista.

THE UPG PAYS TRIBUTE TO MONCHO REBOIRAS ON THE 35TH ANNIVERARY OF HIS ASSASSINATION

Once again, the Galizan People's Union (UPG) chose the town of Ferrol for its annual tribute to Xosé Ramón Reboiras Noia, better known as 'Moncho' Reboiras, where he met his death 35 years ago at the hands of Franco's police.

There is no lack of rhetoric expounded on the need to dramatically reduce unemployment. Using the most revealing government figures, nearly 17% of the US workforce is unemployed. That figure means that nearly one in five US citizens working before the economic crisis, or joining the workforce since, is, at this moment, idle or under-employed. Counting the involuntary part-time workers and discouraged workers, the total number of US workers seeking work totals nearly twenty million. Though the media and the governing cabal have shown little more than token interest in the staggering human tragedy facing these workers and their families, nearly everyone voices a determination to see unemployment reduced. And while it’s easy to procrastinate on a solution, it must be remembered that the economy needs to generate at least 150,000 jobs a month to keep up with population growth. And therein is the problem: while everyone may want full employment, few have an honest, real plan to achieve it.

The August 30/September 6, 2010 issue of The Nation magazine features a forum entitled "Debating Obama,” keynoted by Eric Alterman, with responses by six other writers. The forum reflects a sense among The Nation editors - and no doubt most of the readers of the leading liberal/progressive publication - that matters did not go quite as expected after the inauguration of the youthful, well-spoken Democratic President, Barack Obama. In fact, Alterman puts it plainly: "Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.” Alterman goes on to say: "… if one examines the gamut of legislation passed and executive orders issued that relate to the promises made by candidate Obama, one can only wince at the slightly hyperbolic joke made by late-night comedian Jimmy Fallon, who quipped that the president’s goal appeared to be to ‘finally deliver on the campaign promises made by John McCain.’”

I have read The New York Review of Books off and on for forty years. Generally, I take it to be an easy way to follow trends in US liberal thinking. It stands as a bridge between prominent academics and a self-conscious educated, elite class. For some, it is the source for the last word in cocktail party discussions. For others, it is a channel to drift arcane, scholarly controversies towards a larger audience.

EL DÍA DE LA PATRIA GALEGA 2010 SE CELEBRA CON UNA MASIVA MANIFESTACIÓN EN COMPOSTELA

Se cumplieron este 25 de julio 46 años de la fundación de la Unión do Povo Galego (UPG) y 90 años de la primera celebración del Día de la Patria Galega

Un año más fueron millares las personas que acudieron al llamamiento del Bloque Nacionalista Galego (frente patriótico del que es miembro fundador la UPG) para celebrar el 25 de julio el Día de la Patria Galega, con una gran manifestación en Santiago de Compostela en la que más de 20.000 personas, bajo el lema Haz valer tu fuerza, reivindicaron los derechos nacionales de Galicia.

HUGE DEMONSTRATION IN SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA TO MARK GALIZAN NATIONAL DAY 2010

 

This year marks the 46th Anniversary of the foundation of the Galizan People’s Union (UPG) and the 90th anniversary of the first National Day celebrations.

 

Once again, thousands of people responded to the call launched by the Galizan Nationalist Bloc (BNG) (the Patriotic Front co-founded by the UPG) to celebrate Galizan National Day on 25 July. The huge demonstration held in the capital, Santiago de Compostela, was attended by over 20,000 rallying to the cry of Fai valer a túa forza (‘Make your Strength Felt’) and calling for the recognition of Galiza’s rights as a nation.

Resolución del Comité Central de los Colectivos de Jóvenes Comunistas 


Los y las comunistas de los CJC y el PCPE llevamos meses reclamando la Huelga General a través de mítines en la calle, actos públicos, en movilizaciones y a través de la propaganda y las mesas en las calles.

Durante todo este tiempo hemos tratado de organizar -en la medida de nuestras posibilidades- la respuesta de la juventud trabajadora ante la crisis capitalista. Dentro de dos meses y medio, la clase obrera tiene su primera convocatoria de Huelga General a escala de todo el Estado Español y todos y cada una de nuestros militantes harán el mayor de los esfuerzos para convertir esa jornada en un avance de la combatividad y la capacidad de organización de los y las trabajadoras.