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Anti-Communist myths debunked
“In today’s world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.”
This document exists as a guide to help Communists cut through the propaganda spread by the ruling class in their ongoing attempt to shut down debate and provide legitimacy to capitalism by demonising the only viable alternative.
This resource was created for the purpose of helping Leftists educate people about all of the misinformation, lies and propaganda spread about Communists, and past experiments with Socialism and Communism. Its other main use is in helping Leftists themselves understand some of the controversies in the Communist movement, so that we are all better able to avoid the genuine mistakes and errors that have occurred. After all, how are we supposed to learn from the past if it is buried under a mountain of lies?
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Famines & food-related myths
Holodomor / “Famine in Ukraine”
Books and academic works
Articles
YouTube videos
Misc
China food myths
USSR food myths
DPRK food myths
The Food Situation In North Korea (and other dprk myths)
Other
The USSR and Stalin
General
Jews in the USSR
Purges, Moscow Trials etc
Stalin
General
Cult of personality
Unelected & unpopular “dictator”
Gulags
Mass deportations
Dissidents
GDR – German Democratic Republic
General
Berlin Wall
Stasi
Other Socialist/Communist countries
Vietnam
Laos
Cuba
General
Cuba’s economic reforms
LGBTQ+
Did Cuba censor musicians, writers etc?
Che Guevara myths
The Cuban Blockade
DPRK – Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
PRC – People’s Republic of China
General
Ghost cities?
Isn’t Hong-Kong better?
Social Credit System
Inequality
Anti-Corruption drive
Xi Jingping
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics?
State Enterprises, Communist party
China infrastructure & economy
Chinese foreign relations
China-DPRK-RoK relations
South China Sea (etc)
Billionaires, private companies (etc)
China in Africa, international development
Workers rights, Society (etc)
Pollution & the environment
Tibet
Tiananmen Square
Great Leap Forward / Cultural revolution
Venezuela
Democracy: Communism and Capitalism
Cuba
USSR
Eastern Bloc
China
DPRK
Venezuela
General
Capitalist democracy
Quality of life under capitalism
Drug addiction
Mental health
Healthcare
Crime and Prisons
Other
Socialism doesn’t work, and other common myths
The USA has no history of Socialism/Communism & “it will never work here”
Capitalism and poverty-reduction?
Socialism doesn’t provide a decent quality of life / doesn’t work / is inefficient / hasn’t achieved anything / etc
General
China
USSR
Cuba
“Human Rights”
“human nature” ?
Not real capitalism?
“Communism killed millions of people”
Lazy because of Socialism/Communism? Capitalism rewards hard work? (and related arguments)
“The worker agreed to it”
Free Market Myths + critiques of Capitalism
Socialism isn’t innovative
Life under communism was/is boring/dull/grey/repressive (etc)
Non-violence??
Communism = White people?
Socialism = big government?
Cultural Marxism?
“Communism is dead” (etc)
Social-Democracy better?
Collapse of Communism in the 20th Century
General
The USSR
The Eastern Bloc
Yugoslavia
“Why don’t you ask people who lived under communism?” and “people aren’t happy under socialist systems”
Opinion polls in former socialist/communist states
Communist military interventions
Communism, feminism, racism and LGBTQ+
General / “IdPol”
Feminism
Theory
History
Anti-racism, anti-colonialism etc
Theory etc
History
LGBTQ+
Communism and religion
Communist theory towards religion
How religion was/is treated in communist countries
Capitalism’s crimes
World history of Imperialism, anti-Communism (etc)
General
EU
Cuba
DPRK
USSR (historical)
Latin America
Chile
China
Eastern Bloc (historical)
Middle East & Afghanistan
Syria
Libya
Palestine/Israel
Iran
Iraq
Southeast Asia
Africa
Imperialist and anti-communist propaganda explained
The Cold War
Anti-communist propaganda (general)
Imperialist propaganda
Black book of communism
CIA and other intelligence agencies, mass surveillance etc
Academia, publishing and media
Fascism explained
World War 2
General
The atomic bombing of Japan
Finland
Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact
Katyn Massacre
Misc
Khmer Rouge
Recommended YouTube talks
Other reading guides
To-do list
General formatting etc;
Addition of large number of YouTube videos on various subjects
Leftist documentary/movie archive
Tidy up and subdivide Venezuela section
Sub-divide capitalism democracy section
General reorganization of the “Socialism doesn’t work, and other myths” section
Inclusion of a number of academic papers on Human Rights (etc) in DPRK
Addition of general material, analyses, commentary on Human Rights generally
Add material on the “human nature”, “not real capitalism” and “the worker agreed to it” myths
Add lots of material on the “free market myths” (monopolies, competition etc) section
Expand the “communist military interventions” section
Expand Communist feminism, anti-racism and anti-colonialism section with YT videos, books etc.
re/work and expand the “Aggression…etc towards Communist…etc section”
Large re-work and expansion of the Imperialist/Anti-Communist propaganda section
Add a glossary of commonly used terms / concepts etc.
Expand DPRK food myths section with academic papers, UN/Worldbank data etc.
Information about Chile under Allende
Famines & food-related myths
Holodomor / “Famine in Ukraine”
Books and academic works
Fraud, Famine and Fascism by Doug Tottle
http://rationalrevolution.net/special/library/tottlefraud.pdf
The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 by Mark Tauger
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpQllPVzQ2UFd3aWM/view?usp=sharing
Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1933 by Mark Tauger
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpNExnSEVhMjBLRlE/view?usp=sharing
The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933 by Davies and Wheatcroft
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=32DAA2871728468189A57E0233492A3A
Lies concerning the History of the Soviet Union by Mario Sousa
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm
The Soviet famine of 1932-1933 reconsidered
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668130801999912
Archive of writings of Professor Mark Tauger on the famine scourges of the early years of the Soviet Union
https://www.newcoldwar.org/archive-of-writings-of-professor-mark-tauger-on-the-famine-scourges-of-the-early-years-of-the-soviet-union/
Chapter 1 of Blood Lies by Grover Furr
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/furr_bloodliesch1.pdf
Pages 95-111 of Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens – Collectivization and the ‘Ukrainian Holocaust’
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
J Arch Getty reviews “Harvest of Sorrow”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v09/n02/j-arch-getty/starving-the-ukraine
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Did Stalin or the Authorities stop starving peasants from leaving Ukraine? (see below pages of Bloodlies)
Articles
Mark Tauger reviews The Years of Hunger by Davies and Wheatcroft
https://eh.net/book_reviews/the-years-of-hunger-soviet-agriculture-1931-1933/
Stop spreading Nazi propaganda: on Holodomor
https://socialistmlmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/stop-spreading-nazi-propaganda/
The Holodomor Hoax: Joseph Stalin’s crime that never took place
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/10/the-holodomor-hoax-joseph-stalins-crime-that-never-took-place/
Real Stalin series: famine of 1932
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/famine-of-1932/
In search of a Soviet Holocaust: A 55 year old famine feeds the Right
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/vv.html
The Ukrainian famine: only evidence can disclose the truth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/31/the-ukrainian-famine-only-evidence-can-disclose-the-truth/
The “Holodomor” and the film “Bitter Harvest” are Fascist lies
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/
Holodomor Hoax: the anatomy of a lie invented by West’s propaganda machine
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201510191028730561-holodomor-hoax-invented-hitler-west
The famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine the eyes of historians, the language of documents
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Famine/Publicat/Fam-Pyrig-1932.php
How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
Evidence that Stalin was unaware of conditions in the Ukraine and tried to relieve the situation when he was informed
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/10/03/fighting-the-holodomor-myth-archival-evidence-that-stalin-was-unaware-of-conditions-in-the-ukraine-and-tried-to-relieve-the-situation-when-he-was-informed/
YouTube videos
Why the Holodomor narrative is wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUEi7v2TMpQ
Holodomor series – part 1 – fraudulent photos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzXFXdOz_8Q
Food shortages and problems in the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUO7_SiJCpw
Did Stalin continue to export grain as Ukraine starved?
https://youtu.be/SMBJ_nQ4sTA
Misc
“Recent evidence has indicated that part of the cause of the famine was an exceptionally low harvest in 1932, much lower than incorrect Soviet methods of calculation had suggested. The documents included here or published elsewhere do not yet support the claim that the famine was deliberately produced by confiscating the harvest, or that it was directed especially against the peasants of the Ukraine.”
Koenker and Bachman, Eds. Revelations from the Russian Archives. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997, p. 401
“In view of the importance of grain stocks to understanding the famine, we have searched Russian archives for evidence of Soviet planned and actual grain stocks in the early 1930s. Our main sources were the Politburo protocols, including the (“special files,” the highest secrecy level), and the papers of the agricultural collections committee Komzag, of the committee on commodity funds, and of Sovnarkom. The Sovnarkom records include telegrams and correspondence of Kuibyshev, who was head of Gosplan, head of Komzag and the committee on reserves, and one of the deputy chairs of Komzag at that time.
We have not obtained access to the Politburo working papers in the Presidential Archive, to the files of the committee on reserves or to the relevant files in military archives. But we have found enough information to be confident that this very a high figure for grain stocks is wrong and that Stalin did not have under his control huge amounts of grain, which could easily have been used to eliminate the famine.”
Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933 by R. W. Davies, M. B. Tauger, S.G. Wheatcroft.Slavic Review, Volume 54, Issue 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 642-657.
The Political Bureau believes that shortage of seed grain in Ukraine is many times worse than what was described in comrade Kosior’s telegram; therefore, the Political Bureau recommends the Central Committee of the Communist party of Ukraine to take all measures within its reach to prevent the threat of failing to sow [field crops] in Ukraine.
Signed: Secretary of the Central Committee – J. STALIN
From the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation. Fond 3, Record Series 40, File 80, Page 58.
It is a matter of some significance that Cardinal Innitzer’s allegations of famine-genocide were widely promoted throughout the 1930s, not only by Hitler’s chief propagandist Goebbels, but also by American Fascists as well.
It will be recalled that Hearst kicked off his famine campaign with a radio broadcast based mainly on material from Cardinal Innitzer’s “aid committee.” In Organized Anti-Semitism in America, the 1941 book exposing Nazi groups and activities in the pre-war United States, Donald Strong notes that American fascist leader Father Coughlin used Nazi propaganda material extensively. This included Nazi charges of “atrocities by Jew Communists” and verbatim portions of a Goebbels speech referring to Innitzer’s “appeal of July 1934, that millions of people were dying of hunger throughout the Soviet Union.”
Tottle, Douglas. Fraud, Famine, and Fascism. Toronto: Progress Books,1987, p. 49-51
QUESTION: Is it true that during 1932-33 several million people were allowed to starve to death in the Ukraine and North Caucasus because they were politically hostile to the Soviets?
ANSWER: Not true. I visited several places in those regions during that period. There was a serious grain shortage in the 1932 harvest due chiefly to inefficiencies of the organizational period of the new large-scale mechanized farming among peasants unaccustomed to machines. To this was added sabotage by dispossessed kulaks, the leaving of the farms by 11 million workers who went to new industries, the cumulative effect of the world crisis in depressing the value of Soviet farm exports, and a drought in five basic grain regions in 1931.
The harvest of 1932 was better than that of 1931 but was not all gathered; on account of overoptimistic promises from rural districts, Moscow discovered the actual situation only in December when a considerable amount of grain was under snow.
Strong, Anna Louise. Searching Out the Soviets. New Republic: August 7, 1935, p. 356
“The conquest of bread was achieved that summer, a victory snatched from a great disaster. The 1933 harvest surpassed that of 1930, which till then had held the record. This time, the new record was made not by a burst of half-organized enthusiasm, but by growing efficiency and permanent organization … This nationwide cooperation beat the 1934 drought, securing a total crop for the USSR equal to the all-time high of 1933.”
Strong, Anna Louise. The Stalin Era. New York: Mainstream, 1956, p. 44-45
in 1920 when the NEP was implemented and the Soviet Union moved from War-Communism, to a temporary stage where a free market existed, the much feared consequences of the market became evident. Despite the previous land reform nearly 3 million peasants, were quickly once again without land, because the kulaks had driven them bankrupt and then bought their land cheaply. This resulted in 10 or 11 percent of the population (kulaks) owning so much land and also horses and machinery compared to the rest of the peasant population that they produced 56 percent of the marketed food. The kulaks largely would decide if the towns would get food or not. Kulak speculation on the food market caused a shortage already in 1927 when the marketed share of grain was only one third of the pre-war years although production had exceeded pre-war figures. This ineffectiveness was what initiated the idea of collectivization, with Lenin writing down the basic idea before his death and Stalin putting down the plans and implementing it. Among the many actions of the collectivization program was the confiscation of farm land and the machinery and livestock that was on it (private property, NOT personal property). However there were some problems;
“Collectivization was not an orderly process following bureaucratic rules. It consisted of actions by the poor peasants, encouraged by the Party. The poor peasants were eager to expropriate the “kulaks,” but less eager to organize a cooperative economy. By 1930 the Party and already sent out cadres to stem and correct excesses… After having exercised restraint in 1930, the Party put on a drive again in 1932. As a result, in that year the kulak economy ceased to produce, and the new collective economy did not yet produce fully.”
Blumenfeld, Hans. Life Begins at 65. Montreal, Canada: Harvest House, c1987, p. 152
“During the 1932 harvest season Soviet agriculture experienced a crisis. Natural disasters, especially plant diseases spread and intensified by wet weather in mid-1932, drastically reduced crop yields. OGPU reports, anecdotal as they are, indicate widespread peasant opposition to the kolkhoz system. These documents contain numerous reports of kolkhozniki, faced with starvation, mismanagement and abuse by kolkhoz officials and others, and desperate conditions: dying horses, idle tractors, infested crops, and incitement by itinerant people. Peasants’ responses varied: some applied to withdraw from their farms, some left for paid work outside, some worked sloppily, intentionally leaving grain on the fields while harvesting to glean later for themselves.”
Tauger, Mark. “Soviet Peasants and Collectivization, 1930-39: Resistance and Adaptation.” In Rural Adaptation in Russia by Stephen Wegren, Routledge, New York, NY, 2005, Chapter 3, p. 81.
Some of the Kulaks, angered and resentful, rather than integrate into society as an average worker (who frankly lived in conditions 10x better than under Tsarist times), decided to take action.
They burnt crops and slaughtered livestock, those with machinery broke it if they could. In addition to their vandalism and arson they murdered government officials and peasants siding with them, there are even some (unconfirmed) accounts of them poisoning water supplies.
“Almost all the collective farms established in 1931 and 1932 were shockingly mismanaged. What else could be expected when every village in Russia had been the scene of bitter internal strife, when animals had been slaughtered or allowed to die through incompetence, and grain had been buried, and barns and houses burned? It has been estimated that livestock dropped by 50% during those tragic years and there were large areas, as I saw with my own eyes in the North Caucasus in 1933, where miles of weeds and desolation replaced the former grainfields…”
Duranty, Walter. Stalin & Co. New York: W. Sloane Associates, 1949, p. 77[10]
During the thirties, the far-right, linked with the Hitlerites, had already fully exploited the propaganda theme of `deliberately provoked famine to exterminate the Ukrainian people’. But after the Second World War, this propaganda was `adjusted’ with the main goal of covering up the barbaric crimes committed by German and Ukrainian Nazis, to protect fascism and to mobilise Western forces against Communism.”
Martens, Ludo. Another View of Stalin. Antwerp, Belgium: EPO, Lange Pastoorstraat 25-27 2600, p. 113 (Pg 96 on the internet pdf) [11]
“This destruction of the productive forces had, of course, disastrous consequences: in 1932, there was a great famine, caused in part by the sabotage and destruction done by the kulaks. But anti-Communists blame Stalin and the `forced collectivization’ for the deaths caused by the criminal actions of the kulaks.”
Martens, Ludo. Another View of Stalin. Antwerp, Belgium: EPO, Lange Pastoorstraat 25-27 2600, p. 79 [p. 66 on the pdf]
*Famines are always because of Communism*
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China food myths
Did Mao really kill millions during the Great Leap Forward?
https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
Did Mao really kill millions in the Great Leap Forward? (YTube video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e8CXWEAf-w&t=3s
Mao reconsidered
https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/
See section on Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward
USSR food myths
Food shortages and problems in the USSR by Endymion
https://youtu.be/NUO7_SiJCpw
Soviet Agriculture, 1977 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SovietAgricultureMorozov
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DPRK food myths
Nutrition and Health in North Korea: What’s New, What’s Changed and Why It Matters
https://www.academia.edu/25554321/Nutrition_and_Health_in_North_Korea_Whats_New_Whats_Changed_and_Why_It_Matters
North Korea as the Wicked Witch of the East: Social Science as Fairy Tale
https://www.academia.edu/6130295/North_Korea_as_the_Wicked_Witch_of_the_East_Social_Science_as_Fairy_Tale
World Food Programme webpage for the DPRK
http://www1.wfp.org/countries/democratic-peoples-republic-korea
Mission East page on DPRK
http://www.miseast.org/en/nkorea/food-insecurity-north-korea
Korea’s food situation: stable and improving (From the Council on Foreign Relations!)
https://www.cfr.org/blog/north-koreas-food-situation-stable-and-improving
The Food Situation In North Korea (and other dprk myths)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3fdp00DgfI
Real DPRK economic data by Jason Unruhe
https://youtu.be/AM0faLccYuQ
The Problematic Evidence Base of the UN Human Rights Council (excellent paper)
http://criticalasianstudies.org/issues/vol46/no1/crimes-against-humanity.html
“The problem is that the claims about food rights violations in the 2013 UNHCR report are not congruent with the statistical indicators given by UN agencies that have the most experience of working in North Korea. Despite emanating from within the UN system in which access to data on the DPRK is straightforward, the UNHRC reporting on food violations demonstrates a problematic securitization of evidence and analysis though a heavy reliance on prior assumptions and a filtering of information through those securitized assumptions. The UNHRC reporting, of which the February 2013 report is representative, is self-referential, factually inaccurate, and seems unaware of the reports from the UN agencies that have worked in the DPRK for many years. This is somewhat surprising, especially as the weight of the UN agency reporting contradicts the UNHCR claims on food violations.
The 2013 UNHRC report is self-referential in that it draws almost entirely from previous UNHCR reports and resolutions on North Korea and often uses the same wording, that is, the 2013 report cuts and pastes from previous UNHCR reports.26 The practice of extracting from older reports is standard in governmental or international organization reports, but this practice can be misleading when, as in the 2013 UNHCR report, claims are made with a sense of irrefutable certainty despite the absence of conventional substantiation. What is most striking about the UNHCR reporting on the DPRK is the almost complete absence of reference to relevant data from other UN agencies, donor governments, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), to the extent that the UNHRC reporting seems unaware of the existence of reports on the DPRK from within the UN system itself. 27 The 2013 UNHRC report references only one report from the specialist UN agencies: a March 2011 FAO/WFP/UNICEF report
on food insecurity in the DPRK. Unfortunately, the citations are third-hand and the material quoted in the UNHCR report is taken so much out of context that it distorts the findings of the original report and misleads the reader.
The 2011 FAO/WFP/UNICEF report does not argue for the exceptional severity of a food and health crisis in the DPRK. It does not argue that there are famine-like conditions prevailing in the population. It does not argue that the government is solely responsible for food insecurity in the country. It does not mention or argue that international protection (i.e., human rights) mandates are being abjured by the DPRK government. This last point is important as UN agencies have an obligation under their protection of human rights mandates to report potential crimes against humanity. The UNHCR reporting does not mention that UN specialist agencies have never identified DPRK government food and health policy in these terms.
The 2013 report to the Human Rights Council referred to “the severity of the food situation” in support of the report’s claims that the government should be considered as violating the right to food. These claims contrast with those of the humanitarian agencies that reported in 2011—in the same and only report from the humanitarian agencies that the 2013 UNHCR report appears to cherry-pick quotes from—that the “nutrition situation…appears to be relatively stable.”28 In 2012 WFP and UNICEF concurred with an assessment that improvements in acute malnutrition show that the “situation is not critical and does not suggest emergency operations” and that the “Global Chronic Malnutrition or Stunting… is considered as of ‘medium’ public health significance according to WHO
Standards.” “
Other
The paradox of Cuban agriculture
https://monthlyreview.org/2012/01/01/the-paradox-of-cuban-agriculture/
The USSR and Stalin
General
Seven myths about the USSR by Stephen Gowans
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/seven-myths-about-the-ussr/
Empire Files: What the Russian Revolution proved possible
https://youtu.be/mAK9G8f87fw
The revolution will not be televised – section on stalin
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-nor-will-it-be-brought-to-you-by-russell-brand-oliver-stone-or-noam-chomsky/
Achievements of socialism in the Soviet Union (by Finnish Bolshevik)
https://youtu.be/s5axVunzQSA
Reconstructing JV Stalin – exposing the myths, lies & fraud
https://thesanghakommune.org/2017/07/12/reconstructing-jv-stalin-exposing-the-myths-lies-fraud/amp/
Blackshirts & Reds by Michael Parenti
https://cartiparenti.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf
Reflection on the overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVes44hcJg
Socialism betrayed by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny
https://athens.indymedia.org/media/upload/2015/04/25/Roger_Keeran_Thomas_Kenny-Socialism_Betrayed__Behind_the_Collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union-International_Publishers_2004_nmzzdl4.pdf
Socialism betrayed – talk by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUC41PuR_10
Was the USSR socialist? By Comrade Hakim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKggZ22izDs
Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm
Authoritarianism in Socialist countries by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/6gtUaGV6mNI
The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union
https://adiotos.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/the-fight-against-bureaucracy-in-the-soviet-union/
Kotkin talking about Stalin and collectivization
https://www.facebook.com/TankistaLeninista/posts/1845758695663269
Account of a woman from the USSR currently living in New Zealand (very good)
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/photos/a.1922050888117037.1073741828.1921706061484853/1936840316638094/?type=3&theater
How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
Human Rights in the Soviet Union (excellent book rich in facts about the USSR, highly recommended)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin: When the White House fixed a Russian election
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/14/yelt-j14.html
Legacy of the world’s first Communist state
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Fall-of-the-USSR-20160905-0023.html#
The great October Socialist revolution marked a new era for Humanity
http://en.cubadebate.cu/news/2017/11/09/great-october-socialist-revolution-marked-new-era-for-humanity/
We Can Be Friends: Origins of the Cold War by Carl Marzani (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/WeCanBeFriends
The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War against Soviet Russia
http://www.shunpiking.org/books/GC/
History of the USSR: The Era of Socialism 1974 (scanned book)
https://ia801201.us.archive.org/28/items/HistoryUSSREraSocialism/History%20USSR%20Era%20Socialism.pdf
The Soviet Union Through The Eyes of an American. 1976 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SovietUnionEyesAmerican
The nature of the Soviet Union – state capitalism?
https://youtu.be/kQoEqBx70ts
Revisiting the October Revolution of 1917
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201710261058554269-october-revolution-1917/
Jews in the USSR
Chapter 3: The European Nationalities of the USSR of Human Rights in the Soviet Union (excellent resource)
https://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1923951144593678 (easy reading link)
Russia helped 1,750,000 Jews to escape Nazis
https://www.jta.org/1943/07/02/archive/russia-helped-1750000-jews-to-escape-nazis-says-james-n-rosenberg
Lenin’s speech on anti-Jewish Pogroms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ljxQsgUM4
Text of Lenin speech
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/mar/x10.htm
Stalin’s “Anti-Semitism” debunked
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2015/04/04/stalins-anti-semitism/
The Formation of the Soviet Jewish Homeland – Birobidzhan
https://espressostalinist.com/2014/08/19/the-formation-of-the-soviet-jewish-homeland-birobidzhan/
Purges, Moscow Trials etc
The notion that Stalin was a monster who killed everyone – Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/yQkTcmfy2QM
Moscow Trials part 1 (investigation) by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/TBY_aDd5knE
Moscow Trials part 2 (court proceedings) by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/NHl5nU5WYn8
Moscow Trials part 3 (the great purge) by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrrDMyAz1SU
The purges and repressions in the USSR by Endymion
https://youtu.be/RbEmfzJeY48
Yehzov vs. Stalin: the causes of the mass repressions of 1937-1938
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/furr_yezhov_jls17.pdf
Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm
“Excesses are not permitted”: Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s by Getty
http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/cshs522/GettyMassRepressions.pdf
The Moscow Trials
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/moscow-trials/
How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
The “Bloc” of the Oppositions against Stalin in the USSR in 1932
https://www.marxists.org/archive/broue/1980/01/bloc.html
On the existence and character of the united bloc of rights, zinoviev-ites and trotsky-ites.
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/on-the-existence-and-character-of-the-united-bloc-of-rights-zinoviev-ites-and-trotsky-ites/
Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Chapter 1,7,8,9)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
Triumph of Evil, Chapter 1
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
Stalin’s Great Terror: an interview with Prof J Arch Getty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsLPtEN62Fg
The Kirov Murder
https://espressostalinist.com/2013/10/23/marxist-leninist-research-bureau-the-kirov-murder/
The Ryutin Case
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/03/14/marxist-leninist-research-bureau-the-ryutin-case-1930-37/
The Syrtsov/Lominadze affair
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/03/15/marxist-leninist-research-bureau-the-syrtsovlominadze-affair/
Interrogations of Nikolai Ezhov, former People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs.
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/ezhovinterrogs.html
The man removed was Yezhov, who was found out to be a Nazi agent whose acts of sabotage led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens and the imprisonment of many hundreds of thousands more
The proper name for the ‘red terror’ is literally the ‘Yezhovshchina’
As he admitted, he was being blackmailed over his wife, who was a British agent unbeknownst to him. (His wife had conveniently fled to Britain beforehand) The british admitted she was one of their agents in the 90’s[a][b]
Stalin
General
The positive achievements of Stalin and his regime
https://barbradozier.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/the-positive-achievements-of-stalin-and-his-regime
The Essential Stalin (book length)
http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/trotskyism/the%20essential%20Stalin.htm
Another View of Stalin (book length)
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
The Real Stalin series by Dennis McKinsey (book length)
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/
The Truth About Stalin by Wilf Dixon
http://www.oneparty.co.uk/index.html?http%3A//www.oneparty.co.uk/html/wilftas.html
Stalin’s place in history – Mao
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-7/mswv7_467.htm
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/index.htm
Stalin and the USSR – Myth and Reality
https://youtu.be/v6GO_GxdtZQ
Stalin and the myth of the “Old Bolsheviks”
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/stalin-the-myth-of-the-old-bolsheviks/
Socialism in one country – what it really means
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/socialism-in-one-country-what-it-really-means/
On The Question of Stalin (By Mao Tse-tung)
https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/polemic/qstalin.htm
Che Guevara: “I came to Communism because of Stalin
”http://houstoncommunistparty.com/che-guevara-i-came-to-communism-because-of-stalin/
Remorse of a dissident: Alexander Zinoviev on Stalin and the dissolution of the USSR
https://communismgr.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/the-remorse-of-dissident-alexander.html
Bill Bland: Stalin – the myth and the reality
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/06/20/bill-bland-stalin-the-myth-and-reality/
On Stalin by W.E.B. Du Bois
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/biographies/1953/03/16.htm
Review: Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War 1939-1953
https://mltoday.com/article/51-review-stalins-wars-from-world-war-to-cold-war-19391953/29-books-arts-and-literature
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor: a piece of Nazi war propaganda
http://neodemocracy.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/stalingrad-by-antony-beevor-piece-of.html
Cult of personality
Stalin’s cult of personality? By Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/W-OnFpWSv_g
On Stalin’s cult of personality by Comrade Hakim
https://youtu.be/UFKE1wtKYu0
Stalin on the “Cult of Personality”
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/stalin-on-the-cult-of-personality/
Anti-Stalinism and the legacy of “state socialism”
https://web.archive.org/web/20150801083826/http://marxism-third-worldism.tumblr.com/post/82610306586/anti-stalinism-and-the-legacy-of-state-socialism
Bill Bland – the
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/02/15/bill-bland-the-cult-of-the-individual-1934-52/
Unelected & unpopular “dictator”
Stalin attempted to resign, was denied.
https://socialistmlmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/stalins-four-attempts-at-resignation/
Stalin tries to resign – unpublished speech
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2016/04/05/stalin-tries-to-resign-unpublished-speech-by-stalin-at-the-plenum-of-the-central-committee-of-the-cpsu-1952/
The British Fabians Sidney and Beatrice Webb (Sidney Webb, British economist (1859-1947); Beatrice Webb, British economist and sociologist (1858-1943), in their monumental work “Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation,” emphatically reject the notion that Stalin exercised dictatorial power:
“Sometimes it is asserted that the whole state is governed by the will of a single person, Josef Stalin . . First let it be noted that, unlike Mussolini, Hitler and other modern dictators, Stalin is not invested by law with any authority over his fellow-citizens. He has not even the extensive power . . . . .which the American Constitution entrusts for four years to every successive president. . . . .Stalin is not, and never has been, . . . . the President of the USSR. . . . .He is not even a People’s Commissar, or member of the Cabinet.
He is . . . the General Secretary of the Party.
We do not think that the Party is governed by the will of a single person, or that Stalin is the sort of person to claim or desire such a position. He has himself very explicitly denied any such personal dictatorship in terms which certainly accord with our own impression of the facts.
The Communist Party in the USSR has adopted for its own organisation the pattern which we have described. . . . . . In this pattern individual dictatorship has no place. Personal decisions are distrusted, and elaborately guarded against. In order to avoid the mistakes due to bias, anger, jealousy, vanity and other distempers . . . . it is desirable that the individual will should always be controlled by the necessity of gaining the assent of colleagues of equal grade, who have candidly discussed the matter and who have to make themselves jointly responsible for the decision. . . . .Stalin . . . . has . . . . frequently pointed out that he does no more than carry out the decisions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. . . The plain truth is that, surveying the administration of the USSR during the past decade under the alleged dictatorship of Stalin, principal decisions have manifested neither the promptitude nor the timeliness, nor yet the fearless obstinacy that have often been claimed as the merits of a dictatorship. On the contrary, the action of the Party has frequently been taken after consideration-so prolonged, and as the outcome of discussion sometimes so heated and embittered, as to bear upon their formulation the marks of hesitancy and lack of assurance. . . .These policies have borne . . . . the stigmata of committee control.”
(S. & B. Webb: ‘Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation’; London; p.. 431, 432, 433, 435).
“I have never met a man more candid, fair and honest, and to these qualities it is, and to nothing occult and sinister, that he owes his tremendous undisputed ascendency in Russia. I had thought before I saw him that he might be where he was because men were afraid of him, but I realize that he owes his position to the fact that no one is afraid of him and everybody trusts him.”
~H.G. Wells on Stalin
Gulags
“Like the myths of millions of executions, the fairy tales that Stalin had tens of millions of people arrested and permanently thrown into prison or labor camps to die in the 1930-1953 interval (Conquest, 1990) appear to be untrue. In particular, the Soviet archives indicate that the number of people in Soviet prisons, gulags, and labor camps in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s averaged about 2 million, of whom 20-40% were released each year, (Getty, Rittersporn, and Zemskov, 1993). This average, which includes desperate World War II years, is similar to the number imprisoned in the USA in the 1990s (Catalinotto, 1998a) and is only slightly higher as a percentage of the population. It should also be noted that the annual death rate for the Soviet interned population was about 4%, which incorporates the effect of prisoner executions (Getty, Rittersporn, and Zemskov, 1993). Excluding the desperate World War II years, the death rate in the Soviet prisons, gulags, and labor camps was only 2.5% (Getty, Ritterspom, and Zemskov, 1993), which is even below that of the average “free” citizen in capitalist Russia under the czar in peacetime in 1913 (Wheatcroft, 1993). This finding is not very surprising, given that about 1/3 of the confined people were not even required to work (Bacon, 1994), and given that the maximum work week was 84 hours in even the harshest Soviet labor camps during the most desperate wartime years (Rummel, 1990). The latter maximum (and unusual) work week actually compares favorably to the 100-hour work weeks that existed even for “free” 6-year old children during peacetime in the capitalist industrial revolution (Marx and Engels, 1988b), although it may seem high compared to the 7-hour day worked by the typical Soviet citizen under Stalin (Davies, 1997). In addition, it should also be mentioned that most of the arrests under Stalin were motivated by an attempt to stamp out civil crimes such as banditry, theft, misuse of public office for personal gain, smuggling, and swindles, with less than 10% of the arrests during Stalin’s rule being for political reasons or secret police matters (Getty, Ritterspom, and Zemskov, 1993). The Soviet archives reveal a great deal more political dissent permitted in Stalin’s Soviet Union (including a widespread amount of criticism of individual government policies and local leaders) than is normally perceived in the West (Davies, 1997). Given that the regular police, the political or secret police, prison guards, some national guard troops, and firefighters (who were in the same ministry as the police) comprised scarcely 0.2% of the Soviet population under Stalin (Thurston, 1996), severe repression would have been impossible even if the Soviet Union had wanted to exercise it. In comparison, the USA today has many times more police as a percentage of the population (about 1%, not to mention prison guards, national guard troops, and firefighters included in the numbers used to compute the far smaller 0.2% ratio for the Soviet Union).
Triumph of Evil, Chapter 1, pp. 77-78
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
Another View of Stalin (section on the Gulag)
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
The Soviet Union had a progressive penal system
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/gulag/
Re-education?
http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2012/03/re-education.html
Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm
The gulag argument by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/BexkpaK_j5Q
The Gulag archipelago shouldn’t be taken seriously
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/the-gulag-archipelago-shouldnt-be-taken-seriously/
Original documents on the death rate of prisoners in the Gulag system 1930-1956
http://www.alexanderyakovlev.org/fond/issues-doc/1009320
Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-War Years : a first approach on the basis of archival evidence (by J. Arch Getty, Gábor T. Rittersporn, Viktor N. Zemskov)
http://www.cercec.fr/materiaux/doc_membres/Gabor%20RITTERSPORN/Victims%20of%20the%20Gulag.pdf
What were the chances to be sent to the Gulag?
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0901/gulag.htm
(From Leftbook) Let us start with the question of the nature of the Soviet penal system. After 1930 the Soviet penal system included prisons, labour camps, the labour colonies of the gulag, special open zones and obligation to pay fines. Whoever was remanded into custody was generally sent to a normal prison while investigations took place to establish whether he might be innocent, and could thus be set free, or whether he should go on trial. An accused person on trial could either be found innocent (and set free) or guilty. If found guilty he could be sentenced to pay a fine, to a term of imprisonment or, more unusually, to face execution. A fine could be a given percentage of his wages for a given period of time. Those sentenced to prison terms could be put in different kinds of prison depending on the type of offence involved.
To the gulag labour camps were sent those who had committed serious offences (homicide, robbery, rape,
economic crimes, etc.) as well as a large proportion of those convicted of counterrevolutionary activities. Other criminals sentenced to terms longer than 3 years could also be sent to labour camps. After spending some time in a labour camp, a prisoner might be moved to a labour colony or to a special open zone.
The labour camps were very large areas where the prisoners lived and worked under close supervision. For them to work and not to be a burden on society was obviously necessary. No healthy person got by without working. It is possible that these days people may think this was a terrible thing, but this is the way it was. The number of labour camps in existence in 1940 was 53.
There were 425 gulag labour colonies. These were much smaller units than the labour camps, with a freer regime and less supervision. To these were sent prisoners with shorter prison terms – people who had committed less serious criminal or political offences. They worked in freedom in factories or on the land and formed part of civil society. In most cases the whole of the wages he earned from his labour belonged to the prisoner, who in this respect was treated the same as any other worker.
The special open zones were generally agricultural areas for those who had been exiled, such as the kulaks who had been expropriated during collectivisation. Other people found guilty of minor criminal or political offences might also serve their terms in these areas.
Mass deportations
Georgian times interviews Grover Furr
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/deportations_GT1110_eng.pdf
The Crimean Tatars – collaboration and deportation
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/10/16/the-crimean-tatars-collaboration-and-deportation/
Dissidents
Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Chapter 1, 7,8,9)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
Remorse of a dissident: Alexander Zinoviev on Stalin and the dissolution of the USSR
https://communismgr.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/the-remorse-of-dissident-alexander.html
Triumph of Evil, Chapter 1
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
GDR – German Democratic Republic
General
Chapters 1,2,3,4 of The Triumph of Evil:: The Reality of the USA’s Cold War Victory
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
Another view of East Germany by Left Economics (based on Triumph of Evil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1hvwPyEJ9k
German reunification: 25 years on: how different are East and West really?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/german-reunification-25-years-on-how-different-are-east-and-west-really
The German Democratic Republic – scanned 1986 book
https://ia800805.us.archive.org/13/items/GDR1986/GDR%201986.pdf
GDR – Historical outline (scanned book)
https://ia600801.us.archive.org/18/items/GDRHistoricalOutline/GDR%20Historical%20Outline.pdf
Encounters in Democracy – a US journalist’s view of the GDR, 1981 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/PittmanGDR
Behind the Scenes in Two Worlds, 1978 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/BehindtheScenesTwoWorlds
Former East Germans compare socialist youth with life under capitalism
http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ossies-former-east-germans-compare-socialist-youth-with-life-under-capitalism/
Berlin Wall
Democracy, East Germany and the Berlin Wall
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/
The Berlin Wall – another Cold War myth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/22/the-berlin-wall-another-cold-war-myth/
Pamphlet by the GDR government explaining the Berlin Wall
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/wall.htm
Stasi
Chapters 2,3 of The Triumph of Evil:: The Reality of the USA’s Cold War Victory
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
Are Germany’s intelligence agencies and the Stasi totally different?
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/are-germanys-intelligence-agencies-and-the-stasi-totally-different/
Crossing the River – An American defector’s Cold War odyssey (mentions the Stasi in places)
http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/crossing-river
Other Socialist/Communist countries/governments
Class struggle in Socialist Poland: With Comparisons to Yugoslavia (1984 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/ClassStruggleInSocialistPoland
Albania Defiant, 1976 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/AlbaniaDefiant
Pickaxe and Rifle: The Story of the Albanian People, 1974 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/PickaxeRifle
Insights into Socialist Albania from Pickaxe and Rifle
http://revolutionaryspiritapl.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/insights-into-socialist-albania-from.html?m=1
People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, 1988 (scanned pamphlet)
https://archive.org/details/PeoplesSocialistRepublicOfAlbania
Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1979 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/HungarianSovietRepublic
Modern Bulgaria: Problems and Task in Building an Advanced Socialist Society
https://archive.org/details/ModernBulgariaZhivkov
The History of the Party of Labour of Albania 2nd ed. (scanned book)
http://ciml.250x.com/archive/pla/english/history_of_the_party_of_labour_of_albania_second_edition_eng.pdf
Vietnam
Vietnam world bank overview page
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/vietnam/overview
Vietnam police arrest ex-Politburo member over misconduct
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-security/vietnam-police-arrest-ex-politburo-member-over-misconduct-idUSKBN1E21FU?il=0
Vietnam court sentences to death PetroVietnam ex-chairman in mass trial
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-security/vietnam-court-sentences-to-death-petrovietnam-ex-chairman-in-mass-trial-idUSKCN1C40KW
Actually Existing Socialism in Vietnam (read critically)
https://return2source.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/actually-existing-socialism-in-vietnam/
40 years on: How Communist victory gave way to Capitalist corruption (read critically with above piece)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/22/vietnam-40-years-on-how-communist-victory-gave-way-to-capitalist-corruption
US Seeks to Transform Vietnam into Weapon Against China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzFDkrrRg8
Vietnamese banker sentenced to death for fraud – saga exposed deeply rooted corruption in financial system
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2113431/vietnamese-banker-sentenced-death-fraud-saga-exposed-deeply
New law stipulates 3 years imprisonment for illegal firing of workers
http://vietnamnet.vn/vn/kinh-doanh/thi-truong/tu-1-1-2018-phat-tu-den-3-nam-neu-sa-thai-lao-dong-trai-phap-luat-406708.html
Laos
Afghanistan (DRA- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan)
Cuba
General
As the world burns, Cuba is number 1 for sustainable development – WWF
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/As-World-Burns-Cuba-Number-1-For-Sustainable-Development-WWF-20161027-0018.html
20 reasons to support Cuba
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/07/20-reasons-to-support-cuba/
Obama’s Cuba visit illustrates US arrogance
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/24/obamas-cuba-visit-illustrates-us-arrogance/
Cuba’s low level of internet use:; not a policy of restricting the flow of information
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/cubas-low-level-of-internet-use-not-a-policy-of-restricting-the-flow-of-information/
Cuba expands internet service
http://www.granma.cu/cuba/2017-09-28/etecsa-expande-servicio-nauta-hogar-a-otras-provincias-de-cuba-28-09-2017-00-09-26
Cuba gets fibre-optic link to Venezuela
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-cable/cuba-gets-fiber-optic-cable-link-to-venezuela-idUSTRE7193DP20110210
Cuba will expand internet to all households in the country by end of year
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3147347/0/cuba-internet-todos-hogares-diciembre/
A failed system’s failed promises
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/a-failed-systems-failed-promises/
Cuba and the real battle for democracy
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/cuba-and-the-real-battle-for-democracy/
Over 300,000 Cubans pay tribute to Fidel
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Over-250000-Cubans-Join-Procession-to-Pay-Tribute-to-Fidel-20171204-0019.html
Before the Hurricane – Cuba’s response to hurricanes
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/hurricane-harvey-cuba-disaster-plan
Michael Parenti on the Cuban Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npkeecCErQc
Lessons from Cuba’s incarceration model
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
The truth about unions in Cuba
https://www.workers.org/2015/01/22/truth-unions-cuba/#.WFk3ufArJdh
Cuba before the Revolution
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/cuban-revolution-fidel-castro-casinos-batista/
Cuba begins clinical trials to delay progress of Alzheimers
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Begins-Clinical-Trials-to-Delay-Progress-of-Alzheimers-20170515-0013.html
Cuba develops new skin cancer medicine
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Develops-New-Skin-Cancer-Medicine-20160909-0007.html
Cuba’s internationalist solidarity recognized once again – doctors awarded the Dr. Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health from WHO
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Internationalist-Solidarity-Recognized-Once-Again-Doctors-Awarded-by-WHO-20170524-0024.html
Cuba’s agricultural revolution: Vanguard for global food system
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Agricultural-Revolution-Vanguard-for-Global-Food-System-20161129-0010.html
Cuba’s sustainable agro-ecological model could save the world
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Cubas-Sustainable-Agro-Ecological-Model-Could-Save-the-World-20161013-0023.html
Cuba’s Socialist biotechnology sector a global leader
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Socialist-Biotechnology-Sector-a-Global-Leader-20160517-0041.html
CIA motto: proudly overthrowing the Cuban government since 1959
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/15/cia-motto-proudly-overthrowing-the-cuban-government-since-1959/
The Claim Game: Cuba and the United States
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/21/cuba-and-the-united-states-the-claims-game/
Cuba: reflections on life and death
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/cuba-reflections-on-life-and-death/
Cuba one year later: what has changed?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/18/cuba-one-year-later-what-has-changed/
Cuba: 55 years of ideas and truth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/10/cuba-55-years-of-ideas-and-truth/
Human rights hypocrisy: US criticizes Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/human-rights-hypocrisy-us-criticizes-cuba/
Cuba – showing how to defeat racism
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cuba-showing-how-defeat-racism
Cuba’s Green Revolution
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cubas-green-revolution-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94-achieving-sustainability
The Latin American school of Medicine today: ELAM
https://monthlyreview.org/2011/03/01/the-latin-american-school-of-medicine-today/
Cuba pushes its “Medical Diplomacy”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8059287.stm
Community Drills Part of Cuba’s Top-Notch Disaster Response System
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/05/community-drills-part-of-cubas-top-notch-disaster-response-system/
Cuba’s cancer vaccine CIMAvax is finally coming to US
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cubas-lung-cancer-vaccine/505778/
The Cuban Revolution: defying Imperialism from its backyard
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/09/the-cuban-revolution-defying-imperialism-from-its-backyard/
Castro speech at May Day rally in Revolution Square, Havana, May 1 2003
https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/2003/05/01.htm
Cuba’s economic reforms
Cuba and the future: a great debate has just begun
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/25/cuba-and-the-future-a-great-debate-has-just-begun/
Redefining Socialism in Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/18/redefining-socialism-in-cuba/
LGBTQ+
See section on LGBTQ+ near bottom of document
Did Cuba censor musicians, writers etc?
The cultural policy of Cuba, without dogma or sectarianism
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/02/26/index.php?section=cultura&article=a10e1cul
Music, Space and Place: Popular Music and Cultural Identity (book) :
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Che Guevara myths
Debunking the “Che Guevara was a racist” lie
https://anti-imperialism.org/2014/02/05/debunking-the-che-guevara-was-racist-lie/
Che Guevara myths: The truth about the racist, homophobic, murderer
https://www.inquisitr.com/opinion/4289617/che-guevara-myths-the-truth-about-the-racist-homophobic-murderer/amp/
In defense of Chua Guevara: analyzing his life and answering his critics (excellent podcast)
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/in-defense-of-che-guevara-analyzing-his-life-and-answering-his-critics
The Cuban Blockade
Twitter storm launched against US blockade of Cuba
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Twitter-Storm-Launched-Against-US-Blockade-of-Cuba-20171031-0015.html
US, Israel, only states to vote against lifting blockade on Cuba (excellent infographic included)
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Israel-Only-States-to-Vote-Against-Lifting-Blockade-on-Cuba-20171101-0005.html
The necessity of ending the economic blockade against Cuba – speech
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/08/the-necessity-of-ending-the-economic-commercial-and-financial-blockade-against-cuba/
Using fear to strike at Cuban tourism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/06/using-fear-to-strike-at-cuban-tourism/
US political class looks away as Cuba details impact of U.S. blockade
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/27/u-s-political-class-looks-away-as-cuba-details-impact-of-u-s-blockade/
The unrelenting economic war on Cuba (Excellent article)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/28/the-unrelenting-economic-war-on-cuba/
US-Cuba relations: what would constitute normal?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/15/us-cuba-relations-what-would-constitute-normal/
DPRK – Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Comprehensive reading guide on the DPRK compiled by this author
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1we5OEdteZFfAh11v0s_RVh3LWAkVICGrFnvksVynGxw/edit?usp=sharing
PRC – People’s Republic of China
General
Progress in China
Progress in China video
Mao reconsidered
https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/
Highlights of proposals for China’s 13th Five-Year Plan
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015cpcplenarysession/2015-11/03/content_22361998.htm
For the defense of China against Counterrevolution, Imperialist intervention and dismemberment
http://liberationschool.org/for-the-defense-of-china-against-counterrevolution-imperialist-intervention-and-dismemberment/
China has new standards on Marxist schools for ideological understanding
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1068750.shtml
Western media is wrong. China will continue to rise (view in Incognito to beat the Paywall)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2017/10/24/china-congress-western-media/?utm_term=.2fd1b3c93614
Counterpoint: debunking myths about China
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/opinion/19iht-edli19.html
China pushes forward Marxist training on campus, attracts 1 million students
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/988795.shtml
How did Mao and the Communists change China?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvRzvUHXWF8
Did Mao do more good than harm? By DemocraticSocialist01
https://youtu.be/Rh-4gsDjAKg
Monster or liberator? On the legacy of Mao Zedong
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/12/monster-liberator-legacy-mao-zedong/
Quora: what are Mao Zedongs achievements?
https://www.quora.com/What-were-Mao-Zedongs-achievements
Ending poverty in China: what explains great poverty reduction and simultaneous increase in equality in rural areas?
http://blogs.worldbank.org/eastasiapacific/ending-poverty-in-china-what-explains-great-poverty-reduction-and-a-simultaneous-increase-in-inequality-in-rural-areas
Embracing China’s new normal
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2015-04-20/embracing-chinas-new-normal
The world’s top economy: the US vs China in five charts
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-world-s-top-economy-the-us-vs-china-in-five-charts/
China’s Global 500 companies are bigger than ever, and mostly state owned
http://fortune.com/2015/07/22/china-global-500-government-owned/
Years of Trial, Turmoil and Triumph: China from 1949 to 1988, 1989 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/YearsOfTrialTurmoilTriumph
Quality of life: India vs. China
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/05/12/quality-life-india-vs-china/
China and India – 13 charts that show how the countries compare
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/16/china-and-india-13-charts-that-show-how-the-countries-compare
The surprising rise of China as IP powerhouse
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/the-surprising-rise-of-china-as-ip-powerhouse/
China sends its top actors and directors back to Socialism school
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/01/china-sends-its-top-actors-and-directors-sent-back-to-socialism-school/?utm_term=.37db6f345c52
Who has the world’s No.1 economy? Not the U.S.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-18/who-has-the-world-s-no-1-economy-not-the-u-s
China upgrades reforms and opening up in new era
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3551544f33677a6333566d54/share_p.html
China reading list
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16iw83noTdWvDiECaITX83rGhP_lros8QdBTrNnCoe6c/edit?usp=sharing
Ghost cities?
China’s most famous “Ghost City” is rising from the desert
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/06/30/ordos-chinas-most-infamous-ex-ghost-city-continues-rising/#3f5852046877
Chinese Ghost Town’s explained by Jeff J brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FzuCjt8xYw
Isn’t Hong-Kong better?
The horror of Hong Kong’s coffin homes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/hong-kong-coffin-homes-horror-my-week
Hong Kong: 20% of residents live in poverty
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/20/hong-kong-20-of-residents-live-in-poverty
Poverty in Hong Kong hits record high
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/2120366/poverty-hong-kong-hits-7-year-high-one-five-people
What does it mean to be poor?
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/2114946/explain-what-does-it-mean-be-poor-hong-kong-and-how-many
Social Credit System
The People’s Republic of China is refining a new method for auto-regulation of capitalist companies through Social Credit scoring.
While still under debate and an issue of controversy; this system is denounced in the West as an “orwellian machination” also because it is planned to be implemented foremost for capitalist companies.
This form of regulation of labour practices could reveal itself as dangerous as useful for the interests of the owners’ class; rewarding good behavior by companies and their representatives all while punishing misconduct and unruliness.
This system of control is intended to provide important incentives for companies to respect the law and their employees, all while preventing corruption and mismanagement in SOEs
Inequality
Bourgeois sources often tell us that the People’s Republic of China is a capitalist polity and economy. As main driver for the explanation, they tend to show us that inequality in the PRC is very high.
While both of these things (a partially capitalist economy and high inequality) might be partially true; it is important to note that the explanation provided is not good enough to demonstrate what is supposed to demonstrate.
A decomposition of the inequality drivers in the PRC shows clearly that, most importantly, the egregious increase in inequality is fundamentally due to *geographic*, inter-regional economic inequality, based upon divergent and chronologically ordered development strategies and hence different development levels at a given time.
Indeed, the PRC is a highly inegalitarian country if analysed overall, in economic terms. But this mainly across regions.
Intra-regional inequality is – if compared to western countries – relatively very low.
Furthermore, the main explanation for the total inter-regional inequality and inequality between Urban and Rural areas; is mainly due to the following reasons:
The People’s Republic of China has followed, since the first implementation of Deng’s reforms in the 1970s; a multiple developmental strategy axed around different economic regions.
First, there was the Coastal Development Strategy, a direct consequence of the Open Door Policy in the 1970s, that accelerated and focused reform and economic growth in the regional, coastal provinces.
Second, the Rise of Central China plan announced by Wen Jiabao in 2004 focuses in the development of the central inland provinces such as Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi.
Third, the North East Area Revitalization Plan also began in the 2000s, under the direction of Wen Jiabao. It focuses on the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, as much as five eastern prefectures of Inner Mongolia.
Fourth, the Great Western Development Strategy had been conceptualized already in the 1970s but is starting to be implemented in the 2010s; and includes the development of all the remaining western provinces (Gansu, Guizhou, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan) and prefectures and autonomous regions (Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet and Xinjiang) and Chongqing.
China’s GINI coefficient peaked in 2008, dropping since
http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/0206/c90000-9424307.html
Anti-Corruption drive
China State-Owned Enterprises’ chiefs face 50% salary cuts as Xi Jingping launches reform
http://www.ibtimes.com/china-state-owned-enterprises-chiefs-face-50-salary-cuts-xi-jinping-launches-reform-1664810
Senior officials role ‘crucial’ – Xi
http://www.ecns.cn/2018/01-06/287205.shtml
Xi Jinping
Behind Xi Jinpings’ call for a return to Marxism
https://www.workers.org/2013/07/20/behind-xi-jinpings-call-for-a-return-to-marxism/
Xi calls for profound understanding of Marxism
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/29/c_136649342.htm
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics?
Marxist Orientalism
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/12/06/marxist-orientalism/
USA says China’s embrace of free market is going into reverse (This article makes for satisfying reading)
https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/2017/11/30/u-s-says-china-s-embrace-of-free-market-is-going-into-reverse
India and China – rivals or potential partners for liberation?
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/India-and-China-Rivals-or-Potential-Partners-in-Liberation-20170831-0015.html
What do Socialists defend in China today?
http://liberationschool.org/what-do-socialists-defend-in-china-today/
Socialist Market Economy
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/06/20/socialist-market-economy/
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/20/the-myth-of-chinese-capitalism-2/
China & Market Socialism – a question of state and revolution
https://return2source.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/china-market-socialism-a-question-of-state-revolution/
Marxism and the social character of China
http://www.workers.org/2013/06/13/marxism-and-the-social-character-of-china/#.WMUXFm_yhhF
Xi Jinping to Chinas private sector: go home, the Belt and Road is not for you
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/07/25/xi-jinping-to-chinas-private-sector-go-home-the-belt-and-road-is-not-for-you/#269d309617fb
China: capitalist or socialist?
https://mltoday.com/article/956-china-capitalist-or-socialist/22
Why China is a socialist country
http://www.learningfromchina.net/blog/why-china-is-a-socialist-country-chinas-theory-is-in-line-with-marx-but-not-stalin
Chinese Revolution: evaluating the 60 years | Communist Party of India (2009)
http://www.cpim.org/content/chinese-revolution-evaluating-60-years?fref=gc
China is most promising hope for Third World – Fidel Castro
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/China-Is-Most-Promising-Hope-for-Third-World-Fidel-20171128-0017.html
China: A Revolutionary Present
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/China-A-Revolutionary-Present-20171004-0015.html
A theory of China’s miracle
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/01/01/a-theory-of-chinas-miracle/
Discovering Chinese Socialism – a personal account
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/11/17/discovering-chinese-socialism-a-personal-account/
Chinese growth’s contribution to poverty reduction challenges World Bank and IMF neoliberal policies
http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2017/12/chinese-growths-contribution-poverty-reduction-challenges-world-bank-imf-neoliberal-policies/
“Market Economy and Socialist Road” by Duan Zhongqiao (Professor at the Renmin University) Speech given at “III Conferencia Internacional La Obra de Carlos Marx y los desafíos del Siglo XXI”
https://www.webcitation.org/69nfeZa23?url=http://www.nodo50.org/cubasigloXXI/congreso06/conf3_zhonquiao.pdf
Marx and lenin understood the state as the dominance of one class over the other. The contradictions between classes are antagonist and there cannot be a state that serves as an alliance of both classes. So if China doesn’t have a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, does this mean it has a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie?
Where does the idea that a party is ever composed of one element, with the same unchanging interests rather than contradictory aspects come from? As marxists we should look at which element is dominant in the CCP and how this dominance is expressed.
If it is a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie how do we account for the social gains being made, is there extraordinary class struggle being undertaken by the working class and peasantry to force these? Why hasn’t there been any move to overthrow the socialised elements of the state to allow private ownership such as was seen in the USSR?
“In a country as big and as poor as ours, if we don’t try to increase production, how can we survive? How is socialism superior, when our people have so many difficulties in their lives? The Gang of Four clamoured for “poor socialism” and “poor communism”, declaring that communism was mainly a spiritual thing. That is sheer nonsense! We say that socialism is the first stage of communism. When a backward country is trying to build socialism, it is natural that during the long initial period its productive forces will not be up to the level of those in developed capitalist countries and that it will not be able to eliminate poverty completely. Accordingly, in building socialism we must do all we can to develop the productive forces and gradually eliminate poverty, constantly raising the people’s living standards. Otherwise, how will socialism be able to triumph over capitalism? In the second stage, or the advanced stage of communism, when the economy is highly developed and there is overwhelming material abundance, we shall be able to apply the principle of from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. If we don’t do everything possible to increase production, how can we expand the economy? How can we demonstrate the superiority of socialism and communism? We have been making revolution for several decades and have been building socialism for more than three. Nevertheless, by 1978 the average monthly salary for our workers was still only 45 yuan, and most of our rural areas were still mired in poverty. Can this be called the superiority of socialism? That is why I insisted that the focus of our work should be rapidly shifted to economic development. A decision to this effect was made at the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, and it represented an important turning point. Our practice since then has shown that this line is correct, as the whole country has taken on an entirely new look.” – Deng Xiaoping
State/Private Enterprises, Communist party
How Communist Party controls China’s state owned industrial titans
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2098755/how-communist-party-controls-chinas-state-owned-industrial-titans
Martin Jacques on China: how will the CPC continue to innovate?
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3363444f34637a6333566d54/share_p.html
Chinese enterprises write Communist Party’s role into charters
https://asia.nikkei.com/print/article/287096
China infrastructure, economy & poverty
Progress in China (very good video)
Progress in China video
Road-building rage to leave U.S. in the dust
https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/18/road-building-rage-to-leave-us-in-dust/
China says it created a France-sized pile of new jobs since 2012
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-29/china-says-it-created-a-france-sized-pile-of-new-jobs-since-2012
China’s future megaprojects (2016-2050’s) (ignore the painful anti-communist tropes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNE7VPtvfbI
Can China eliminate poverty by 2020?
https://www.facebook.com/ChinaGlobalTVNetwork/videos/2148619665178842/
Chinese foreign relations
Duterte wishes for stronger bond between Filipinos, Chinese
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/15/c_136978017.htm
U.S. intelligence warns of Pakistan modernizing nuclear arsenal, growing closer to China
http://militarywatchmagazine.com/read.php?my_data=70367
China: we oppose attempts to divide Syria
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-We-Oppose-Attempts-to-Divide-Syria-20170930-0005.html
China Backs Ally Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Process
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Backs-Ally-Venezuelas-Constituent-Assembly-Process-20170802-0050.html
China and Cuba Reaffirm Solidarity as First Shipment of Aid Arrives After Irma
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-and-Cuba-Reaffirm-Solidarity-as-First-Shipment-of-Aid-Arrives-After-Irma-20170923-0003.html
US Seeks to Transform Vietnam into Weapon Against China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzFDkrrRg8
China Rallies Support for Four-point Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.804541
Chinese President Calls for East Jerusalem as Capital of Palestinian State
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.698833
Putin says Russia, China to remain strategic partners
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/60/224/178/1513304213922.html
U.S war with Russia and China more likely as world power shifts from West to East, NATO says
http://www.newsweek.com/us-war-russia-china-more-likely-world-power-shift-west-east-nato-715160
Venezuela and China boost bilateral ties; chide US sanctions
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-and-China-Boost-Bilateral-Ties-Chide-US-Sanctions-20171220-0019.html
China to improve people-to-people exchanges with foreign countries
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/21/c_136843349.htm
Phillipines, China, agree to strengthen defense ties
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/10/26/1752613/philippines-china-agree-strengthen-defense-ties
Chinese Communist Party says it has disowned local rebels [in Philippines]
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/21671/chinese-communist-party-says-it-has-disowned-local-rebels
De-dollarization continues: China, Iran to eliminate greenback from bilateral trade
http://www.mintpressnews.com/de-dollarization-continues-china-iran-to-eliminate-greenback-from-bilateral-trade/235339/
China holds meeting to broken peace in Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-26/china-holds-meeting-to-broker-peace-in-afghan-pakistan-conflict
China has ‘overwhelming advantage’ in bringing Taiwan to heel, official says
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan/china-has-overwhelming-advantage-in-bringing-taiwan-to-heel-official-says-idUSKBN1EJ052
Why China’s first overseas military base in Djibouti is ‘only the beginning’
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201707131055515150-china-military-overseas/
China to build second naval base in Pakistan
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201801051060541891-china-second-foreign-base-pakistan/
China-DPRK-RoK relations
Restarting talks crucial for solving Korean nuclear issue: Chinese diplomat
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/18/c_136982796.htm
Inter-Korea talks score gold at Olympics
https://www.mintpressnews.com/inter-korea-talks-score-gold-olympics-us-autopilot-diplomacy-wipes/237776/
Why China and Russia continue to pass UN sanctions resolutions against North Korea
https://www.facebook.com/ImperialMilitaryWatch.Analysis/posts/1897112317275463
China-North Korea trade increases
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/world/asia/china-north-korea-trade-coal-nuclear.html
China says it will defend North Korea in event of US invasion
http://theduran.com/china-says-will-defend-north-korea-in-event-of-us-invasion/
Xi: China, ROK to enhance communication on promoting peace
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/52/116/171/1513263969724.html
China expresses support for Moscow’s position on NK crisis settlement
https://sputniknews.com/world/201710231058474028-china-russia-north-korea/
China should stop regime change in North Korea: state media
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Should-Stop-Regime-Change-in-North-Korea-State-Media-20170811-0005.html
China’s Communist Party says it is still talking to North Korean side
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/21/asia-pacific/chinas-communist-party-says-still-talking-north-korean-side/#.Wf5QAFu0OUl
Russia and China join forces in anti-missile defense drill
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-and-china-join-forces-anti-missile-defense-drill-beijing-750711
China and Russia train for war with U.S. if Trump invades North Korea
http://www.newsweek.com/china-could-fight-us-war-north-korea-breaks-out-751779
China should stop regime change in North Korea: state media
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Should-Stop-Regime-Change-in-North-Korea-State-Media-20170811-0005.html
South Korea president suggests joint drills with US could be suspended
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/20/south-korea-president-suggests-joint-drills-with-us-could-be-suspended
Washington should switch from threats to dialogue on North Korea – Chinese envoy to US
https://www.rt.com/news/403522-china-us-threats-pyongyang/
South China Sea (etc)
In the South China Sea, Vietnam has 25 installations, the Philippines 10, Malaysia 7, Taiwan 2 – a total of 44 versus China’s eight! (Image by scmp.com)
Quid Pro Quo: Operation Pacific Eagle-Phillipines in exchange for support for Duterte’s corrupt regime
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/1/27/quid-pro-quo-operation-pacific-eagle-philippines-exchange-support-duterte-s-corrupt-and-cr
Does the South China Sea mean world war 3?
http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2015/11/10/does-the-south-china-sea-mean-world-war-3-jeff-j-brown-on-the-shadow-of-truth-44-days-radio-sinoland/
South China Sea brouhaha: down and dirty on Radio Sinoland
https://soundcloud.com/44-days/south-china-sea-brouhaha-down-and-dirty-on-radio-sinoland-201562
America has lost the South China Sea
https://soundcloud.com/44-days/america-has-already-lost-the-south-china-sea-to-its-namesake-china-rising-radio-sinoland-press-tv
Billionaires, private companies (etc)
China sends its billionaires a chilling message
https://www.ft.com/content/4335d364-e7d4-11e6-893c-082c54a7f539
Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/why-do-chinese-billionaires-keep-ending-up-in-prison/272633/
China economy – Grey Rhino’s
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/23/business/china-economy-gray-rhinos.html
Exile Billionaire Guo Wengui wants regime change in Beijing
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-billionaire-guo-wengui-wants-regime-change-in-beijing
China in Africa, international development
China and Russia are not Imperialist
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/06/russia-and-china-are-not-imperialist/
Challenging the myth of Chinese land grabs in Africa
https://soundcloud.com/chinatalkingpoints/challenging-the-myth-of-chinese-land-grabs-in-africa
5 myths about Chinese investment in Africa
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/04/5-myths-about-chinese-investment-in-africa/
China’s “One Belt, One Road” looks to take construction binge offshore
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-economy-silkroad-idUKKCN0R60X820150906
Why anti-Chinese sentiment in Africa is on the rise
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1076/why-anti-chinese-sentiment-africa-rise
Does Chinese Employment Benefit Africans? Investigating Chinese Enterprises and their Operations in Africa
http://sites.clas.ufl.edu/africa-asq/files/v16a8.Tang_.HD_.pdf
China cancels 150 mature debts of 32 African countries
http://www.focac.org/eng/ltda/dscbzjhy/FA32009/t623384.htm
China announces debt cancellation at African summit
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/12/04/china-announces-debt-cancellation-african-summit
China cancels $1bn of African debt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/966645.stm
NYT sees Chinese investment in Greece through Western centric lens
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1064219.shtml
China codifies crackdown on “irrational” outbound investment
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-18/china-further-limits-overseas-investment-in-push-to-reduce-risk
Work begins soon to bring Haiti into Silk Road after China invests $30bn
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Work-Begins-Soon-to-Bring-Haiti-into-Silk-Road-After-China-Invests-US30-billion-to-Develop-Infrastructure-20170901-0003.html
China may be a lot of things in Africa, but it’s not a colonizer
https://soundcloud.com/chinatalkingpoints/china-africa-colonialism-hannah-ryder
Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa
https://monthlyreview.org/2015/07/01/imperialism-and-anti-imperialism-in-africa/
China in Africa: ‘Imperial power’ or ‘altruist’?
https://www.pambazuka.org/global-south/china-africa-’imperial-power’-or-’altruist’
China not neocolonialist
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2010-11/16/content_11554152.htm
Here’s what Africans think about China’s influence in their countries
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/28/heres-what-africans-think-about-chinas-influence-in-their-countries/
China colonizing Africa? MOFA urges EU parliament chief to ‘learn basic facts’
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d45544f33497a4d/share_p.html
5 Myths About Chinese Investment in Africa – Deborah Brautigam
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/04/5-myths-about-chinese-investment-in-africa/
China will not take path of “Western colonists” in Africa – foreign minister
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-not-path-western-colonists-africa-foreign-minister-062432467.html?ref=gs
Abayomi Azikiwe: China and its foreign policy in relation to the African Continent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBo1wJ2ys8A
The real story behind China’s alleged conquest of African farmland
https://qz.com/527570/the-real-story-behind-chinas-alleged-conquest-for-african-farmland/
Demonising China: pundits get its role in Africa wrong
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10054&page=0
Chinese investment in Africa is more diverse and welcome than you think
https://qz.com/488589/chinese-investment-in-africa-is-more-diverse-and-welcomed-than-we-give-it-credit/
China by far the largest investor in African infrastructure
https://www.ft.com/content/716545c0-9529-11e5-ac15-0f7f7945adba
China’s direct investment in Africa: Reality versus myth
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2015/09/03/chinas-direct-investment-in-africa-reality-versus-myth/
China to expand skills programme to Africa
http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1418574/china-expand-skills-programme-200-africans
Chinese train producer makes Africa’s fastest trains
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0915/c90000-9269696.html
China’s growing health aid to Africa encouraged
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1062245.shtml
China is training Africa’s next generation of transport and aviation experts
https://qz.com/1030978/china-is-training-africas-next-generation-of-aviation-and-transport-officials/
China has overtaken the US and UK as the top destination for anglophone African students
https://qz.com/1017926/china-has-overtaken-the-us-and-uk-as-the-top-destination-for-anglophone-african-students/
China offers support package to Ghana’s renewable energy program
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/01/c_136408065.htm
China pledges billions in development aid, debt forgiveness
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/china-pledges-billions-development-aid-debt-forgiveness
How China is building the post-Western world
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-china-is-building-the-post-western-world/
China hopes to get past obstacles in Nepal economic ties
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1078483.shtml
China is cancelling the debt of the worlds most impoverished nations
http://thehigherlearning.com/2015/09/29/china-is-canceling-the-debt-of-the-worlds-most-impoverished-nations/
China builds new type of globalization
https://www.workers.org/2017/05/28/china-builds-new-type-of-globalization/#.WXPNi9PytsM
China’s B&R initiative leading a resurgence of Asia
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1057805.shtml
China pledges $60bn to develop Africa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35005048
Workers rights, Society (etc)
Chinese skilled manufacturing labour
https://www.facebook.com/FortuneMagazine/videos/10155596353037949/
Friend or foe? The true role of criticism in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXNn-USB1To
White paper hails China’s ‘remarkable progress’ in rights
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/0/201/241/1513334832914.html
Full text: New Progress in the Legal Protection of Human Rights in China
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/165/9/61/1513330628857.html
China, rising wages and worker militancy
https://www.workers.org/2015/07/21/china-rising-wages-and-worker-militancy/#.WWwfFdQrJdg
New labor contract law changes employment landscape
http://en.people.cn/90001/90776/90785/6330594.html
Labor rights in China (very good article)
http://fpif.org/labor_rights_in_china/
Chinese state steelworkers beat private firm boss to death
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/26/china-steel-workers-riot
Housing should be for living in, not speculation, says Xi
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/xi-renews-call-housing-should-be-for-living-in-not-speculation
Chinese textbook finally teaching proper Sex Ed, but some parents are having none of it
https://qz.com/925037/a-chinese-textbook-is-finally-teaching-proper-sex-ed-but-some-parents-are-having-none-of-it/
China’s first law against domestic violence: It’s no longer a private matter
https://asiafoundation.org/2016/01/20/chinas-first-law-against-domestic-violence-its-no-longer-a-private-matter/
China bans use of Anti-Islam words online
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-bans-use-of-anti-islam-words-on-social-media-1753377?fb
Planning outline for the construction of a social credit system
https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/planning-outline-for-the-construction-of-a-social-credit-system-2014-2020/
The big layoff in China (China supporting industrial workers after factory closures)
https://www.axios.com/the-big-layoff-in-china-2511630146.html
Rising Chinese wages will only strengthen Asia’s hold on manufacturing
https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21646180-rising-chinese-wages-will-only-strengthen-asias-hold-manufacturing-tightening-grip
China issues white paper on health
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/29/c_136647997.htm
Quality of life: India vs China
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/05/12/quality-life-india-vs-china/
Test gives prisoners medical insurance (good article, compare/contrast with USA etc)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/26/WS5a418804a31008cf16da35df.html
Pollution & the environment
Chinese government to plan 6.6 million hectares of forest
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Chinese-Government-to-Plant-6.6-Hectares-of-Forest–20180107-0006.html
China to plant forest the size of Ireland in bid to become world leader in conservation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/05/china-plant-forest-size-ireland-bid-become-world-leader-conservation/
China’s sponge cities are turning streets green to combat flooding
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/28/chinas-sponge-cities-are-turning-streets-green-to-combat-flooding?CMP=share_btn_fb
High speed rail presents major opportunities for decarbonisation of transport
https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2017/december/high-speed-rail-presents-major-opportunities-for-decarbonisation-of-transport.html
Hainan to evaluate officials on green vision
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/29/WS5a4593e0a31008cf16da41db.html
Over 18,000 penalized for failing to rein in pollution
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/29/WS5a459336a31008cf16da41d5.html
How China beats the U.S. at clean air progress
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-20/how-china-beats-the-u-s-at-clean-air-progress
European smog could be 27 times more toxic than air pollution in China
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/european-smog-27-times-more-toxic-chinese-air-pollution-china-quality-a7572051.html
China is winning environmental clean up race, minister says
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/02/19/china-is-winning-environmental-clean-up-race-minister-says/
‘Hawaii of China’ dumps GDP targets to save its tropical beaches
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2125732/hawaii-china-dumps-gdp-targets-save-its-tropical-beaches
China shows global leadership in environmental governance
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/137/63/161/1512532083441.html
China’s forest cover to reach 23% by 2020: UN
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/nation/2016-05/27/content_15440055.html
UNEP: China sets example in sustainable development
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/225/88/23/1512899319276.html
China well on track with air quality goals
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/28/228/37/1512959669806.html
International group praises green revival
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/227/83/243/1513054553361.html
Good news – China’s dropping coal consumption putting brakes on global carbon
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/barbara-finamore/good-news-chinas-dropping-coal-consumption-putting-brakes-global-carbon
Greenpeace says China city air pollution drops by 10%
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/greenpeace-says-china-city-air-pollution-drops-by-10-percent/
Vice-premier: China strives to enhance environmental protection
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/148/134/227/1513005689100.html
Greenhouse pollution in China, India drops thanks to low-tech fixes
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060719-energy.html
China cementing global dominance of renewable energy and technology
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/06/china-cementing-global-dominance-of-renewable-energy-and-technology
China could have a meltdown-proof nuclear reactor next year
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600757/china-could-have-a-meltdown-proof-nuclear-reactor-next-year/
Following damage caused by economic rise, China tackles ambitious conservation experiment
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2017/0820/Following-damage-caused-by-economic-rise-China-tackles-ambitious-conservation-experiment
“My job is to clean up the environment. China really wants to do that!”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/10/my-job-is-to-clean-up-the-environment-china-really-wants-to-do-that
China shuts down tens of thousands of factories in pollution crackdown
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/23/559009961/china-shuts-down-tens-of-thousands-of-factories-in-unprecedented-pollution-crack
China sees 4% drop in carbon intensity in first 3 quarters of 2017
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1130/c90000-9299020.html
Beijing air pollution notably reduced in winter: environment minister – China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-12/03/content_35178784.htm
China tops the world in renewable energy production – report
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/10/c_136432582.htm
China plans to quintuple sea water desalination capacity
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/241/204/43/1513150249999.html
China’s envoy: climate goals boost green finance
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/225/9/136/1513147735609.html
China aims to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions through trading scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/19/china-aims-to-drastically-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions-through-trading-scheme
Donald Trump success helps China emerge as global climate leader
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/donald-trump-success-helps-china-emerge-as-global-climate-leader
Chinese greenhouse gas emissions may peak by 2025, says study
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/08/chinese-greenhouse-gas-emissions-may-peak-by-2025-says-study
China is building solar roadways
https://electrek.co/2017/12/21/china-solar-roadways-transparent-concrete-solar-cells-charge-cars/amp/
Tibet
Friendly Feudalism – the Tibet myth
http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
Tibet (with map) by Arthur Clegg, Labour Monthly, 1950
http://www.unz.org/Pub/LabourMonthly-1950feb-00086
China, Tibet, and U.S.-sponsored counter revolution
https://www.liberationnews.org/08-04-01-china-tibet-ussponsored-coun-html/
Tibet now amongst fastest-growing Chinese regions
http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-04/26/content_24919867.htm
CIA Tibetan program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program
Dalai Lama group says it got money from the CIA
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/world-news-briefs-dalai-lama-group-says-it-got-money-from-cia.html
Secret Files: Untold story of CIA covert operations in Tibet
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612131048516027-china-cia-tibet/
Some thoughts on Tibet
http://www.dontow.com/2008/04/some-thoughts-on-tibet/
Economic patterns of the Tibet Autonomous Region (from 1995, somewhat dated but interesting)
https://case.edu/affil/tibet/moreTibetInfo/documents/TibetEconomy2.pdf
Tibet’s GDP increased by 281 times in 50 years
http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-09/06/content_21797818.htm
The Imperialist Dalai Lama: ‘Too many refugees entering Europe’
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/DalaiLamaRefugee-20160601-0014.html
When serfs stood up in Tibet – Anna Louise Strong , 1959
http://www.marxistsfr.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1959/tibet/index.htm
Tibet’s race riots of 2008
https://gwydionwilliams.com/42-china/tibet/the-tibetan-race-riots-of-2008/
Tibet and International Law (very good blog post)
https://gwydionwilliams.com/42-china/tibet/tibet-and-international-law/
The Dalai Lama wants to return home (contemporary article)
https://thewire.in/201726/dalai-lama-india-china-tibet/
Tibet: religious freedom comes with Chinese characteristics
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2021650/tibet-religious-freedom-comes-chinese-characteristics
Tibetans invite US lawmakers to region
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/151/27/192/1512628335251.html
Tiananmen Square
The myth of Tiananmen
http://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php
What really happened at Tiananmen?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/06/03/commentary/world-commentary/really-happened-tiananmen/#.WkLsPVVl-Ul
Tiananmen Square massacre is a myth: British “black information operation”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-1990-tiananmen-square-massacre-is-a-myth-british-black-information-operation/5454063
West hypes false Tiananmen death toll
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1081851.shtml#.WkEUa6pPD8U.facebook
The original fake news: Tiananmen Square massacre
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/12/25/the-original-fake-news-tiananmen-square-massacre/
The defeat of counter-revolution in China
http://www.frso.org/about/statements/2009/looking-back-at-tiananmen-square.htm
What really happened in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-really-happened-in-tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/5385528
WikiLeaks – LATIN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF JUNE 3-4 EVENTS ON TIANANMEN SQUARE (1989)
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html
Richard Roth – There Was No “Tiananmen Square Massacre” (2009)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/
Yenica Cortes – Tiananmen Square and the threat of counterrevolution (2009)
https://www.liberationnews.org/09-06-04-tiananmen-square-threat-counterr-html/
Tiananmen – the massacre that wasn’t
https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt/
There was no Tiananmen Square massacre
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/
No, 10,000 were not killed in China’s 1989 Tiananmen Crackdown (anti-Chinese source, but still!)
http://supchina.com/2017/12/25/no-10000-not-killed-in-tiananmen-crackdown/
What really happened in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago
http://www.globalresearch.ca/what-really-happened-in-tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/5385528
Gregory Clark – Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth, All We’re ‘Remembering’ are British Lies (2014)
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tiananmen-square-massacre-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies-1451053
Deirdre Griswold – Tiananmen Square ‘massacre’ was a myth (2011)
http://www.workers.org/2011/world/tiananmen_0707/
Important Excerpt: Two cables dated July 7, 1989 — more than a month after the fighting — related the following:
“A Chilean diplomat provides an eye-witness account of the soldiers entering Tiananmen Square: He watched the military enter the square and did not observe any mass firing of weapons into the crowds, although sporadic gunfire was heard.
He said that most of the troops which entered the square were actually armed only with anti-riot gear — truncheons and wooden clubs; they were backed up by armed soldiers.”
A following cable stated: “A Chilean diplomat provides an eye-witness account of the soldiers entering Tiananmen Square: Although gunfire could be heard, he said that apart from some beating of students, there was no mass firing into the crowd of students at the monument.”
Malcolm Moore – Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim (2011)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html
The Telegraph – Wikileaks Tiananmen cables (2011)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/8555896/Wikileaks-Tiananmen-cables.html
An excerpt from a review of the book “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China” by Ezra F. Vogel,
“First, stability and unity were paramount in Deng’s plans, according to Vogel. He knew that the economic transformation China must go through would be wrenching and tumultuous, and he believed that only the Communist Party, with its discipline and order, could effectively manage the change…In 1978, Deng formulated the Four Cardinal Principles, essentially four red lines that could not be crossed in China (socialist path; dictatorship of the proletariat; leadership of the Communist Party; Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought), and he never wavered from them. In fact…the military crackdown at Tiananmen Square in 1989…was taken precisely because the protests were openly challenging the Four Cardinal Principles.”
Great Leap Forward / Cultural revolution
Did Mao really kill millions during the Great Leap Forward?
https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
The Battle for China’s Past – a book about the Mao era
https://espressostalinist.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/battle-for-chinas-past.pdf
On the cultural revolution by Jason Unruhe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v52f86H_yZI
Chinese Socialism and the legacy of Maoism
https://lonelyhourreflections.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/chinese-socialism-and-the-legacy-of-maoism/
Revisiting alleged 30 million famine deaths during China’s Great Leap
https://mronline.org/2011/06/26/revisiting-alleged-30-million-famine-deaths-during-chinas-great-leap/
Mao reconsidered
https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/
Venezuela
Comprehensive reading guide on Venezuela
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LvHlf5LfND7zzipltzuifwR_7J2ilFCMJEvAA3wluGE/edit
There is no humanitarian crisis in Venezuela says UN expert
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/There-Is-No-Humanitarian-Crisis-in-Venezuela-Says-UN-Expert-20180220-0041.html
Venezuela opposition leader abandons dialogue with government after being ‘censured’ by opposition
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-Opposition-Leader-Abandons-Dialogue-After-Being-Censured-By-MUD-Coalition-20180107-0010.html
Venezuela’s Maduro defies odds, comes out stronger in 2017
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Venezuelas-Maduro-Defies-Odds-Comes-Out-Stronger-in-2017-20171229-0016.html
Washington Posts’ one sided cheerleading for coup and intervention in Venezuela
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/12/08/wapos-one-sided-cheerleading-for-coup-and-intervention-in-venezuela/
No humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, says UN expert, condemning international sanctions
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/No-Humanitarian-Crisis-in-Venezuela-says-UN-Expert-Condemning-International-Sanctions-20171205-0032.html
Crisis in Venezuela – an excellent overview of recent history in Venezuela by Tariq Ali – highly recommended
https://youtu.be/0-O0CUR-NTI
Venezuelan Socialism
http://writetorebel.com/2017/04/09/venezuelan-socialism/
The reality about Venezuela: five myths
https://communismgr.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-reality-about-venezuela-five-myths.html
“Socialism is terrible, just look at Venezuela” by BadMouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le86H7Xfjrc
US-led Economic War, not Socialism, is tearing Venezuela apart
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-led-economic-war-not-socialism-tearing-venezuela-apart/218335/
Differences between Venezuela fighting corruption and the U.S.A
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Differences-Between-Venezuela-Fighting-Corruption-and-the-US-20171104-0009.html
Why the PSUV winning Miranda is important (details opposition links to criminal gangs, paramilitaries etc)
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Why-the-PSUV-Winning-Miranda-Is-Important-20171105-0016.html
Venezuela’s Defence Minister responds to criticism and Trump threats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z_imOLycqg
Inside Venezuela’s markets: propaganda vs reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHc7yegaCmc
Abby Martin meets the Venezuelan Opposition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtu1DwHo1Zg
Don’t believe the hype – why the US left should support the Venezuelan revolution
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Dont-Believe-the-Hype-Why-the-US-Left-Should-Support-Venezuelas-Revolution-20170807-0009.html
Viva Venezuela: fighting for socialism (full documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJZl1bO8JQY&list=PLbnLysSug0vSKl_q8gwc2fD7m5peRxY0D
Venezuela rehabilitates over 490,000 working class homes
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-Rehabilitates-Over-490000-Working-Class-Homes-20170902-0013.html
A review of US media coverage on Venezuela
https://mronline.org/2017/08/25/a-review-of-u-s-media-coverage-on-venezuela/
Venezuela’s fragile revolution
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/10/01/venezuelas-fragile-revolution/
Latest opposition coup attempt against Maduro linked to DEA, CIA
http://www.mintpressnews.com/latest-venezuelan-opposition-coup-attempt-maduro-linked-dea-cia/229289/
US Congress asks Pentagon to prepare to intervene in Venezuela
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/US-Congress-Asks-Pentagon-to-Prepare-to-Intervene-in-Venezuela-20171003-0021.html
The campaign against the economic war, corruption in Venezuela
https://mronline.org/2017/10/20/the-campaign-against-the-economic-war-and-corruption-in-venezuela/
Clinton emails reveal direct US sabotage of Venezuela
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Clinton-Emails-Reveal-Direct-US-Sabotage-of-Venezuela-20160726-0041.html
Venezuela cash reserves reach new low amidst US-led sabotage
http://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuela-cash-reserves-reach-new-low-amid-u-s-led-sabotage/225641/
Is Venezuelan socialism a disaster?
http://writetorebel.com/2017/04/09/venezuelan-socialism/
The other battle to consolidate Commandante Chavez’s dream
https://mronline.org/2017/11/07/the-other-battle-to-consolidate-commandante-chavezs-dream/
Back from the brink: Chavismo reloaded? (article with excellent facts about the October 2017 Venezuelan election)
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13476
Russia and Venezuela agree to $3bn debt restructing
https://www.ft.com/content/5f3084c6-ca03-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e
Venezuela and China boost bilateral ties; chide US sanctions
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-and-China-Boost-Bilateral-Ties-Chide-US-Sanctions-20171220-0019.html
Note: For links on the democratic process in Venezuela and recent news see Venezuelan Democracy
Democracy: Communism and Capitalism
Cuba
Democracy in Cuba and at home
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/09/democracy-in-cuba-and-at-home/
This is how Cubans run, campaign and vote in elections
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/This-is-How-Cubans-Run-Campaign-and-Vote-in-Elections-20171116-0017.html
Cuba – human rights and self-determination
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/cuba-human-rights-and-self-determination/
Obama’s Cuba visit illustrates US arrogance
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/24/obamas-cuba-visit-illustrates-us-arrogance/
The truth about unions in Cuba
https://www.workers.org/2015/01/22/truth-unions-cuba/#.WFk3ufArJdh
All in this together : Cuba’s participatory democracy
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi/article/187/all-in-this-together-cubarsquos-participatory-democracy
People’s Power: Cuba’s experience with representative government
http://b-ok.org/book/2482948/67174c
Cuban Constitution
http://www.walterlippmann.com/cubanconstitution.html
Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba by Linda O Fuller
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=fdfc7aee98499baaae696d5b1e04c065
Cuba and its neighbours – democracy in motion by Arnold August
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=79273783e814b6a8747ea24710d15f0c
The elected delegate and the dissident in Cuba’s municipal elections – Dissident Voice
https://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/the-elected-delegate-and-the-dissident-in-cuba%E2%80%99s-municipal-elections/
Cuba and the real battle for democracy
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/cuba-and-the-real-battle-for-democracy/
Do the Cuban people have the right to choose their leaders?
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Do-the-Cuban-People-Have-the-Right-to-Choose-Their-Leaders-20160317-0056.html
Cuban Democracy: the power of the community
http://www.ratb.org.uk/130-news/ratb-writes/253-cubademocracy-community
USSR
The USSR: Democratic or Totalitarian? By Endymion
https://youtu.be/Okz2YMW1AwY
Talks on Soviet Democracy by M.A. Krutogolov
https://archive.org/details/TalksOnSovietDemocracy
Soviet Government and electoral system by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/9PoYzPfguJc
Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan (scanned book)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1ZP6ZurgOg-R1pjc2NVQkQxYmM/edit
The undemocratic dissolution of the USSR by Comrade Hakim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFTgCf67Bw
USSR – the democracy you didn’t know about
http://londonprogressivejournal.com/article/view/2185/the-ussr-the-democracy-you-didnt-know-about
On the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/11/25.htm
Joseph Stalin’s struggle for democracy by Grover Furr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkSuyrUdzs
Is The Red Flag Flying? Chapter 5 – Political processes
https://ia800504.us.archive.org/35/items/IsTheRedFlagFlying/Is%20the%20Red%20Flag%20Flying.pdf
Anti-Stalinism and the legacy of “State Socialism”
https://web.archive.org/web/20150801083826/http://marxism-third-worldism.tumblr.com/post/82610306586/anti-stalinism-and-the-legacy-of-state-socialism
Reassessing the History of Soviet Workers – Opportunities to Criticize and Participate in Decision-Making by Robert Thurston
https://www.docdroid.net/t9gG4jQ/thurston-robert-reassessing-the-history-of-soviet-workers-opportunities-to-criticize-and-participate-in-decision-making.pdf#page=4
Human Rights in the Soviet Union (read the entire book)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin: When the White House fixed a Russian election
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/14/yelt-j14.html
People’s Control in Socialist Society, 1973 (scanned book)
https://ia601301.us.archive.org/7/items/PeoplesControlInSocialistSociety/Peoples%20Control%20in%20Socialist%20Society.pdf
Eastern Bloc
Bulgaria, 1990, Albania, 1991: teaching communists what democracy is all about
https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/bulgaria-albania
The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (read the entire book) – democracy in the GDR
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
The German Democratic Republic – scanned 1986 book – see Chapter 2
https://ia800805.us.archive.org/13/items/GDR1986/GDR%201986.pdf
An outline history of Poland, 1986 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/TopolskiPoland1986
Encounters in Democracy – a US journalist’s view of the GDR, 1981 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/PittmanGDR
Behind the Scenes in Two Worlds, 1978 (scanned book) – Chapter 14, GDR
https://archive.org/details/BehindtheScenesTwoWorlds
China
Eric X Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_systems
Does China’s system of government lead to corruption?
“No one, not least the party itself, disputes that corruption is a significant problem in China. But does authoritarian rule have anything to do with it?
According to Transparency International, the top 20 cleanest (least corrupt) places worldwide include only four non-Western governments: Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar and Japan — three of the four are authoritarian regimes; the same three are the only ones that belong to the developing world. By Transparency International’s account, China (78) ranks higher than India (87), Philippines (134), Indonesia (110), Argentina (105) and many more, and tied with Greece (78), barely below Italy (67) — all electoral democracies. Apparently, China’s one-party system is less corrupt than many democratic countries.”
Is China’s political system elitist?
“The Communist Party’s Politburo, the highest ruling body, consists of 25 members. Currently, only seven of them come from any background of wealth or power, the so-called princelings. The rest of them, including the president and the prime minister, come from ordinary backgrounds with no special advantages. They worked and competed all the way to the top. In the larger Central Committee, those with privileged backgrounds are even scarcer.
A visit to any top university campus in China would make it obvious to anyone that the Communist Party continues to attract the best and the brightest of the country’s youth. In fact, China’s Communist Party may be one of the most meritocratic and upwardly mobile major political organizations in the world — far more meritocratic than the ruling elites of most Western countries and the vast majority of developing countries. What is wrong with self-perpetuation through merits?”
If China does not hold Western style elections, is it democratic?
“According to the Pew Research Center, the Chinese government enjoys popular support that is among the highest in the world. The Chinese people’s satisfaction with the direction of their country was at 87 percent in 2010 and has been consistently above 80 percent in recent years. Sixty-six percent perceive progress in their lives in the last five years. A whopping 74 percent are optimistic about the next five years.
We need to ask: How do most governments produced by elections compare with these numbers? Are elections the only viable way to validate consent and the legitimacy it brings?”
What is democracy in China?
https://youtu.be/ArvnEpIKmAs
China most confident and optimistic country in the world – IPSOS survey
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/08/09/china-most-confident-and-optimistic-country-in-world-ipsos-survey/
DPRK
Socialism and democracy in the DPRK
http://writetorebel.com/2017/03/28/socialism-and-democracy-in-the-dprk/
A model of democratic and participatory socialism
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/2kwid3/a_model_of_democratic_and_participatory_socialist/
Socialism and Democracy in the DPRK
http://writetorebel.com/2017/03/28/socialism-and-democracy-in-the-dprk/
Elections in the “socialist motherland”: democracy in the DPRK
https://leftistcritic.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/elections-in-the-socialist-motherland-democracy-in-the-dprk/
The Democratic Structure of the DPRK
http://www.lalkar.org/article/2654/the-democratic-structure-of-the-dprk
Constitution of the DPRK
https://www.kfausa.org/dprk-constitution/
North Korean report on 2014 elections in English (short)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4P0dMEH4RQ
The parliamentary system of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
http://web.archive.org/web/20120303054935/http://www.asgp.info/Resources/Data/Documents/CJOZSZTEPVVOCWJVUPPZVWPAPUOFGF.pdf
Venezuela
Why the US demonises Venezuela’s democracy – Here is what Jimmy Carter said about Venezuela’s “dictatorship” a few weeks ago: “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/why-us-dcemonises-venezuelas-democracy
Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly – Dictatorship or Democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEcW6UgDRrw
Back from the brink: Chavismo reloaded? (article with excellent facts about the October 2017 Venezuelan election)
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13476
Why Socialism keeps winning in Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lldKsHpPpBI
Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly – Dictatorship or Democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEcW6UgDRrw
Over 1,300 observers monitor Venezuelan election
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Over-1300-Observers-Monitor-Venezuela-Election-20171015-0006.html
In Venezuela’s upcoming election US seeks observers it can influence
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-weisbrot/venezuela-election-us_b_8554750.html
BBC: Venezuelan opposition banned from 2018 elections after boycotting previous election
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-42304594?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
Chavismo triumphant in Municipal elections: 15 key factors
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Chavismo-Triumphant-in-Municipal-Elections-15-Key-Factors-20171211-0016.html
Chavismo virtually wipes US-backed opposition from municipal map
https://mronline.org/2017/12/13/chavismo-virtually-wipes-u-s-backed-opposition-from-municipal-map/
General
The myth of “totalitarianism”
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2009/09/10/the-myth-of-totalitarianism/
Working versus Talking Democracy
https://ia801302.us.archive.org/4/items/WorkingVersusTalkingDemocracy/Working%20Versus%20Talking%20Democracy.pdf
Capitalist democracy
The U.S. isn’t a democracy. It never was
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/13/the-u-s-is-not-a-democracy-it-never-was/
Global Empire – Capitalism and Democracy
https://youtu.be/c2DiEBXByJ0
Empire Files: The Hidden Purging of Millions of Voters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSTTkhiZUI
How the GOP uses “Voter Fraud” to steal votes
https://youtu.be/i6EdwjmYXRU
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/div-classtitletesting-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizensdiv/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
British MP’s went on 53 foreign trips paid for by despotic regimes last year
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/register-of-interests-mps-brutal-regimes-unfree-freedom-house-arms-trade-saudi-qatar-gifts-a7561801.html
Donna Brazile says Clinton campaign took over the DNC
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donna-brazile-dnc-clinton-campaign_us_59fb1a5ce4b0b0c7fa3866ea
A Constitutional Revolution
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/constitution-trump-democracy-electoral-college-senate/
Myths of the Founding Fathers by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDA-Q4zOEs
How bosses are (literally) like dictators
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/17/15973478/bosses-dictators-workplace-rights-free-markets-unions
‘The Economist’ just downgraded the U.S. from a ‘full democracy’ to a ‘flawed democracy’
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-economist-just-downgraded-the-us-from-a-full-democracy-to-a-flawed-democracy/
US congress is not representative of the people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/01/05/the-new-congress-is-80-percent-white-80-percent-male-and-92-percent-christian/?utm_term=.f9bc15555486
Vox’s CIA-backed “Democracy Standard” is okay with slavery and women not voting
http://fair.org/home/voxs-cia-backed-democracy-standard-is-ok-with-slavery-and-women-not-voting/
75% of Americans think wealthy elite have too much power
http://www.mintpressnews.com/poll-75-americans-think-wealthy-elite-have-too-much-power/229769/
Post-Soviet Russia: America’s “Colony” to #1 enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Aajppo5Zk
Noam Chomsky & Abby Martin: The Empire’s Election Extravaganza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUc8ukdVtMs
Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on rigged corporate elections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4Ii_qyNng
Propaganda & engineering consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HmFH-Wo1s
How much money is behind each campaign? (USA)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/campaign-finance/
Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy – BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
DNC shatters the illusion of American Democracy
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/dnc-shatters-the-illusion-of-american-democracy-in-order-to-keep-peoples-27-bucks-eaccc01ad3bd
Over 70% of millenials want a third party – poll
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1130/c90000-9298991.html
Century of the national security state – a new subversives list
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/29/century-of-the-national-security-state-a-new-subversives-list/
Economic update: Capitalism’s self-destruction by Richard Wolff
https://youtu.be/Vch4-l24Puw?t=29m45s
How corporate giants are using private security firms to spy on protesters
http://www.mintpressnews.com/corporate-giants-are-using-private-security-firms-to-spy-on-protesters/235516/
Quality of life under capitalism
Drug addiction
Drugs don’t kill people – Neoliberalism kills people
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Drugs-Dont-Kill-People-Neoliberalism-Kills-People–20171122-0007.html
Economic Update: Addiction, Capitalism and 12 Steps
https://youtu.be/FX2sg1fo3jM?t=30m13s
Empire Files: Death and Biostitutes – the US Opiod Crisis
https://youtu.be/iJjIewjgD1A
Mental health
Economic Update: Economy, Psychology, Mental Health
https://youtu.be/cQpaZip0ueQ?t=28m6s
Capitalism and Mental Health: how the market makes us sick by Libertarian Socialist Rants (ignore the Anarchist rubbish, otherwise it’s a great video)
https://youtu.be/AVQ4LIp39Xo
The vicious cycle of poverty and mental health
https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-vicious-cycle-of-poverty-and-mental-health/
Healthcare
Socialism, Capitalism and Healthcare
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/11/29/socialism-capitalism-and-health-care/
This old drug was free. Now it’s $109,500 a year
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-drug-price-20171218-story.html
Crime and Prisons
Prison Quotas Push Lawmakers To Fill Beds, Derail Reform
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html
Other
Homelessness in America
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/8/11173304/homeless-in-america
Economic Update: Unfinished Revolution: Women’s Paid Labor
https://youtu.be/1HaapH65x1k?t=30m17s
Worldwide, only 13% of employees feel engaged at work
http://news.gallup.com/poll/165269/worldwide-employees-engaged-work.aspx
Economic Update: Profits, Families & Sex
https://youtu.be/3IbN87mS2Ng?t=28m10s
Economic Update: Corporate Capitalism in Decline (listen in from 31:00)
http://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_corporate_capitalism_decline
The height of racial resentment: white cops
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/15/the-height-of-racial-resentment-white-cops/
UK: MP’s condemn abject failure of homelessness policy
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/20/mps-condemn-abject-failure-of-homelessness-policy
Poll: US concern over “pervasive” high-level corruption surging under Trump
http://www.mintpressnews.com/poll-us-concern-pervasive-high-level-corruption-surging-trump/235530/
(UK) Special report: increased numbers of children going to school hungry
http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2017-12-12/special-report-increased-numbers-of-children-going-to-school-hungry/
Socialism doesn’t work, and other common myths
The USA has no history of Socialism/Communism & “it will never work here”
Socialism in America – Abby Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvBokz2-XNc
Millennials aren’t satisfied with capitalism — and might prefer a socialist country, studies find
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article182765121.html
COINTELPRO
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Labor Management Relations Act of 1947
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Management_Relations_Act_of_1947
History of May Day
https://jacobinmag.com/2016/05/may-day-history-iww-haymarket-american-labor-movement
Marxist works on US history
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=202462.0
The Era of McCarthyism (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/EraMcCarthyism
The Palmer Raids, 1948 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/ThePalmerRaids
Marxism in the United States before the Russian Revolution
https://archive.org/details/MarxismUSHistoryBeforeRussianRev
The Workingmen’s Party of the United States: A History of the First Marxist Party in the Americas
https://archive.org/details/HistoryWorkingmensPartyUS
Before October: the unbearable romanticism of Western Marxism
https://mronline.org/2011/10/08/before-october-the-unbearable-romanticism-of-western-marxism/
Wealth inequality in USA most severe since ancient Egypt – Jimmy Dore interviews Richard Wolff (pt. 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZIVrwOS7Y
Establishment politics failing worldwide – Jimmy Dore interviews Richard Wolff (pt. 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3_rPX97FiU
Solution for capitalisms’ brutalities easier than you might think – Jimmy Dore interviews Richard Wolff (pt 3)
https://youtu.be/-45IV5QV_9Y
Leftist Economist “Trump Best Organizer I Can Ever Have!” Jimmy Dore interviews Richard Wolff (pt 4)
https://youtu.be/D402PxiXUmc
Verso books – Marxism in the United States – a history of the American Left
https://www.versobooks.com/books/1192-marxism-in-the-united-states
When the US government destroyed a political party by Richard Wolff
https://youtu.be/9Pj2JDbb-yk?t=28m27s
Economic Update: US Labor Unions: Past, Present, Future by Richard Wolff
Https://youtu.be/d1v8prxZFU8?t=30m12s
Capitalism and poverty-reduction?
‘American Dream’ quickly becoming an ‘illusion’, says UN human rights expert
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=58300#.WjwmL1Vl-Ul
Working class with no Living Wage: the absurd math of US income (very good article)
https://extranewsfeed.com/working-class-w-no-living-wage-the-absurd-math-of-us-income-18a6dffe25bb
Why the UN is investigating extreme poverty…in America, the world’s richest nation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/un-extreme-poverty-america-special-rapporteur?CMP=twt_gu
Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economic-inequality/524610/?utm_source=atlfb
Study: poor kids who believe in Meritocracy suffer
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/07/internalizing-the-myth-of-meritocracy/535035/?utm_source=twb
How not to count the poor
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=893159
Marxism 101: how capitalism is killing itself with Dr. Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P97r9Ci5Kg
Why are people in Japan literally working themselves to death?
https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/1658190384271079/?hc_ref=ARTn6WmEYQ8SJjcgOd617YvWMTl1nuilIqTrHA1zVVjOv3HXStaMr42sjGBmacI_ywg
Capitalism HASN’T lifted millions from poverty by Comrade Hakim
https://youtu.be/A6VqV1T4uYs
The 1% pathology and the myth of capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1g2Ww0XtY
How the business community screwed the working class – By Richard Wolff
https://youtu.be/dHKFoqnc3Hg
The world’s 3.6 billion poorest people are getting poorer
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/global-poverty-oxfam-world-economic-forum
More than half of Londoners in poverty are in working families
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/09/more-than-half-of-londoners-in-poverty-are-in-working-families
The high cost of poverty: why the poor pay more
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051702053.html
The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (read the entire book)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
World Bank claims ‘sovereign immunity’ to escape liability for its crimes against humanity
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2988785/world_bank_claims_sovereign_immunity_to_escape_liability_for_its_crimes_against_humanity.html
The empire has no clothes
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/27/the-empire-has-no-clothes/
UN report says 1 billion suffer extreme poverty
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/07/unpo-j28.html
Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich countries
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jan/14/aid-in-reverse-how-poor-countries-develop-rich-countries?CMP=share_btn_fb
World’s eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/worlds-eight-richest-people-have-same-wealth-as-poorest-50
The South has already repaid its external debt to the North: but the North denies its debt to the South
https://monthlyreview.org/2007/06/01/the-south-has-already-repaid-its-external-debt-to-the-north-but-the-north-denies-its-debt-to-the-south/
Super rich hold $32 trillion in offshore havens
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-offshore-wealth/super-rich-hold-32-trillion-in-offshore-havens-idUSBRE86L03U20120722
Ecuador’s Correa: It’s neoliberalism not socialism that has failed
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/08/ecuadors-correa-its-neoliberalism-not-socialism-has-failed
US has regressed to developing nation status, MIT economist warns
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-developing-nation-regressing-economy-poverty-donald-trump-mit-economist-peter-temin-a7694726.html
The myth of capitalism by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/NA8mBCl7Y2U
Why people who need redistribution hate it: the free market and you by Mexie
https://youtu.be/Dm_JGXjCH5g
The American savings crisis, explained
https://mronline.org/2017/12/14/the-american-savings-crisis-explained/
Socialism doesn’t provide a decent quality of life / doesn’t work / is inefficient / hasn’t achieved anything / etc
General
See “Socialism isn’t innovative” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gxwhh-vdeB–47HM-20cEVRC9eAMhrapbNf0Sk8VSOs/edit#heading=h.pq9z4uekf5hy
– Michael Parenti
(from Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy)
Communism did work for millions of people – Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tmi7JN3LkA&feature=youtu.be
Do publicly owned, planned economies work?
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/
Socialism’s agenda time
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/socialism%E2%80%99s-agenda-time/
Historical legacy of Socialism by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/Q50uidrIW4w
Socialism vs capitalism: why the values of society assume socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06GphFrcP7M
Socialism gives a better quality of life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3LA_VkDTYo
Cuban-Venezuelan ‘Operation Miracle’ program returns eyesight of 688,000 Bolivians
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuban-Venezuelan-Operation-Miracle-Program-Returns-Eyesight-of-688000-Bolivians-20171013-0024.html
A tale of two islands: Cuba and Puerto Rico’s response to hurricane season contrasted
http://www.frontline.in/world-affairs/a-tale-of-two-islands/article9892265.ece?homepage=true#test
Socialism, not neoliberalism, creates stability: Bolivia’s Evo
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Socialism-Not-Neoliberalism-Creates-Stability-Bolivias-Evo-20170315-0038.html
The social and economic achievements of North Korea
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-social-and-economic-achievements-of-north-korea/5594234
Thomas Sankara: An African hero
http://www.globalblackhistory.com/2017/10/thomas-sankara-african-hero.html
Before the Hurricane – Cuba’s response to Hurricanes
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/hurricane-harvey-cuba-disaster-plan
In 28 of 30 comparisons between countries at similar levels of economic development, socialist countries showed more favorable PQL (physical quality of life) outcomes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1646771/pdf/amjph00269-0055.pdf
The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (Chapters 1, 2, 4)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
Communism did work for millions of people by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tmi7JN3LkA
Brazil: sharp decline in inequality under Worker’s Party
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-Sharp-Decline-in-Inequality-Under-Workers-Party-20171128-0025.html
Real DPRK economic data by Jason Unruhe
https://youtu.be/AM0faLccYuQ
Venezuela rehabilitates over 490,000 working class homes
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-Rehabilitates-Over-490000-Working-Class-Homes-20170902-0013.html
The italian place where Co-ops drive the economy and most people are members
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-italian-place-where-co-ops-drive-the-economy-and-most-people-are-members-20160705
Real problems of Socialism and some answers – Paul Cockshott
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/real-problems-of-socialism-and-some-answers/
UN’s Human Development Index. It calculates ‘human development’ based on three factors: Life Expectancy, Education (adult literacy and gross enrollment), and GDP. Figures from late 80’s:
130 countries ranked, with the 130th the most developed (in this case Japan with 0.996). An index of 1 would be perfect.
The GDR ranks 110th with 0.953
Czechoslovakia ranks 106th with 0.931
The USSR is 105th with 0.920
Bulgaria is 104th with 0.918
Hungary is 101st with 0.915
Yugoslavia is 100th with 0.913
Poland is 98th with 0.910
Romania is 90th with 0.863
For some comparison:
Canada is 126th with 0.983
The Federal Republic of Germany is 119th with 0.967
The USA is ranked 112th, with 0.961
Cuba is 92nd with 0.877
China
China’s poverty alleviation miracle: how tea is transforming Guizhou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zivSw1p9gLc&feature=youtu.be
Chinese growth’s contribution to poverty reduction challenges World Bank and IMF neoliberal policies
http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2017/12/chinese-growths-contribution-poverty-reduction-challenges-world-bank-imf-neoliberal-policies/
After Bringing 800 Million out of Poverty, China Aims to Eradicate it Completely by 2020
China’s growth in life expectancy between 1950 and 1980 ranks as among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331212/
The big layoff in China (China supporting industrial workers after factory closures)
https://www.axios.com/the-big-layoff-in-china-2511630146.html
Economist Richard Wolff discussing the Russian Revolution and China (excellent talk)
https://youtu.be/zPv8gpZSpqI?t=58m57s
What China achieving ‘moderate prosperity’ means for itself and the world
http://www.learningfromchina.net/what-china-achieving-moderate-prosperity-means-for-itself–the-world.html
Full text: China’s Progress in Poverty Reduction and Human Rights
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2016-10/17/c_135760210_2.htm
China’s achievement is literally the greatest in world economic history
http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2012/02/chinas-achievement.html
Last two decades see rising life expectancy in every province of China
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151026092918.htm
Urbanization in China prevents 450,000 premature deaths since 1980: study
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1057205.shtml
Chinese graduate volunteers go west
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/22/c_136464306.htm
China to strengthen social support in poverty alleviation
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/18/c_136537233.htm
Xi Jinping’s targeted war on poverty
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/05/c_136659741.htm
China fights for final victory over poverty
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/13/c_136522861.htm
Chinese wages now higher than in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico
https://www.ft.com/content/f4a260e6-f75a-11e6-bd4e-68d53499ed71
China’s income inequality improving
https://qz.com/937137/chinas-extreme-income-inequality-appears-to-be-improving-after-decades-of-deterioration/
Recent changes in China’s income inequality
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002459/245943e.pdf
U.S. vs. China: Whose income inequality is worse?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usa-china-income-inequality-economic-research/
Full text: China’s Progress in Poverty Reduction and Human Rights
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2016-10/17/c_135760210_2.htm
China’s achievement is literally the greatest in world economic history
http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2012/02/chinas-achievement.html
Quality of life: India vs. China
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/05/12/quality-life-india-vs-china/
China and India – 13 charts that show how the countries compare
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/16/china-and-india-13-charts-that-show-how-the-countries-compare
World Bank: Poverty and Equity – India
http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/IND
World Bank: Poverty and Equity – China
http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/CHN
China’s socialist model outperforms capitalism
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1002098.shtml
Data shows China’s ‘socialist development model’ outperformed capitalist development strategies
http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2016/08/data-shows-chinas-socialist-development-model-outperformed-capitalist-development-strategies.html
Why did China, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia grow so fast?
http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2016/09/why-did-china-grow-so-fast.html
China is leaving Donald Trump’s America behind
https://www.ft.com/content/1ac0337c-9470-11e7-83ab-f4624cccbabe
China spends more on infrastructure than U.S. and Europe combined
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-15/china-spends-more-on-infrastructure-than-the-u-s-and-europe-combined
World Bank China overview
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview
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USSR
Seven myths about the USSR
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/seven-myths-about-the-ussr/
“Communism doesn’t work” by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjx0P3WzPUs
Five-Year plans: Soviet Industrial Revolution by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/e4YDkWzQZAw
Results of the 1st and 2nd Soviet Five-Year plans
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/the-results-of-the-1st-2nd-soviet-five-year-plans-soviet-industrial-revolution/
Socialism Betrayed – talk about the book by Roger Keeran & Thomas Kenny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUC41PuR_10
Socialism Betrayed – by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny
https://athens.indymedia.org/media/upload/2015/04/25/Roger_Keeran_Thomas_Kenny-Socialism_Betrayed__Behind_the_Collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union-International_Publishers_2004_nmzzdl4.pdf
Achievements of Socialism in the Soviet Union by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5axVunzQSA
Farm to Factory: the Soviet Industrial Revolution by Jason Unruhe
https://youtu.be/Mrw54F4Vu78
Farm to Factory: the Soviet Industrial Revolution (text)
https://maoistrebelnews.com/2017/01/11/farm-to-factory-the-soviet-industrial-revolution/
Why we continue to defend the Soviet Union
http://liberationschool.org/10-11-30-why-we-continue-to-defend-soviet-html/
Educational achievements in the Soviet Union (short)
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=47941
In defence of Communism: why Socialism is superior to capitalism
https://communismgr.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/why-socialism-is-superior-to-capitalism.html
A Reassessment of the Soviet Industrial Revolution by Robert C. Allen, FRSC, FBA2, Professor of Economic History, Oxford University
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.507.8966&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Public Education in the U.S.S.R. – Education at all levels was free
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm
Anglo-Soviet Youth Alliance – Public Education in the U.S.S.R. – http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm
Higher education in the USSR: educational studies and documents , 1961
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf
USSR Health Service – free and high quality
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/~/media/cafa342c2e65452085e510ab3d4f0f15.pdf
Free health service with highest doctors per capita in the world
https://www.marxists.org/archive/newsholme/1933/red-medicine/index.htm
Emergency medical care in the USSR
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0735675784900482
We Lived Better Then – the USSR eliminated poverty
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/
Economist Richard Wolff discussing the Russian Revolution (very good talk)
https://youtu.be/zPv8gpZSpqI?t=58m57s
How the USSR radically reduced inequality – even amongst its adversaries
http://www.socialisteconomist.com/2017/10/how-ussr-radically-reduced-income.html?m=1
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Cuba
Has Cuban Socialism been a success?
https://soapboxie.com/economy/Has-Cuban-Socialism-Been-A-Success
Cuba hits record low mortality rate
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/1/3/socialist-cuba-hits-record-lows-infant-mortality-rate
The US has a lot to learn from Cuba about sustainable agriculture
https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-15/us-has-lot-learn-cuba-about-sustainable-agriculture
Lessons from Cuba’s incarceration model
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
Selected moments of the 20th Century – UNESCO report ranks Cuban students first in international math and reading tests – 1998
http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1998cuba.html
The world must learn from Cuba
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-World-Must-Learn-From-Cuba-20161203-0019.html
Cuba says no to Transphobia and Homophobia
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Says-No-to-Transphobia-and-Homophobia-20170503-0030.html
Cuba before the Revolution
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/cuban-revolution-fidel-castro-casinos-batista/
Redefining Socialism in Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/18/redefining-socialism-in-cuba/
Solidarity from Cuba, courtesy of the revolution
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/02/solidarity-from-cuba-courtesy-of-the-revolution/
The unrelenting economic war on Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/28/the-unrelenting-economic-war-on-cuba/
Latin Lessons: what we can learn from the world’s’ most ambitious literacy campaign (Cuba)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/latin-lessons-what-can-we-learn-from-the-worldrsquos-most-ambitious-literacy-campaign-2124433.html
Over 150,000 Haitians benefit from Cuban literacy program
http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Over-150,000-Haitians-benefit-from-Cuban-literacy-program-12522.html
Australia: Cuba’s ‘Yes, we can’ literacy campaign success in outback
http://links.org.au/node/3422
Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame (excellent article)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cuban-medics-in-haiti-put-the-world-to-shame-2169415.html
Cuba’s Green Revolution
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cubas-green-revolution-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94-achieving-sustainability
Homelessness in Cuba? Not likely
https://fresnoalliance.com/homeless-in-cuba-not-likely/
The Latin American school of Medicine today: ELAM
https://monthlyreview.org/2011/03/01/the-latin-american-school-of-medicine-today/
Community Drills Part of Cuba’s Top-Notch Disaster Response System
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/05/community-drills-part-of-cubas-top-notch-disaster-response-system/
Michael Parenti on the Cuban Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npkeecCErQc&feature=youtu.be
“Human Rights”
Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights*
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=E
Is China becoming a world leader on Human Rights?
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/12/16/is-china-becoming-a-world-leader-on-human-rights/
Beijing declaration on Human Rights
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/12/09/beijing-declaration-on-human-rights/
Full text: New Progress in the Legal Protection of Human Rights in China
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/165/9/61/1513330628857.html
Chinese theory and practise of Human Rights
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2016/11/29/chinese-theory-and-practice-of-human-rights/
Amnesty International and the Human Rights Industry
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/08/amnesty-international-and-the-human-rights-industry/
Imperialists for “Human Rights”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/imperialists-for-human-rights/
Human Rights in the Soviet Union (read the entire book)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
Crimes against humanity? Unpacking the North Korean Human Rights Debate by Prof. Hazel Smith
https://www.academia.edu/6296645/Crimes_against_humanity_Unpacking_the_North_Korean_Human_Rights_Debate
Liu’s Nobel Prize for Capitalism
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/liu%E2%80%99s-nobel-prize-for-capitalism/
Whose Rights? – the myth that respect for civil and political liberties is more highly advanced in the United States and other capitalist countries
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/whose-rights/
Is France’s Human Rights record really better than Cuba’s?
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Is-Frances-Human-Rights-Record-Really-Better-Than-Cubas-20161204-0021.html
Do Human Rights actually exist?
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Do-Human-Rights-Really-Actually-Exist-20161210-0021.html
UN report on North Korea could be about the United States or South Korea
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/un-report-on-north-korea-could-be-about-the-united-states-or-south-korea/
Cuba, Human Rights and self-determination
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/cuba-human-rights-and-self-determination/
Raqqa offensive highlights U.S. Human Rights hypocrisy
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Raqqa-Offensive-Highlights-US-Human-Rights-Hypocrisy-20171021-0003.html
China encourages civilians to film police to curb abuses
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Encourages-Civilians-to-Film-Police-to-Curb-Abuses-20160829-0009.html
China issues report on US human rights
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1036861.shtml
The bias of Human Rights Watch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/14/the-bias-of-human-rights-watch/
Is Human Rights Watch too closely aligned with US foreign policy?
https://www.thenation.com/article/is-human-rights-watch-too-closely-aligned-with-us-foreign-policy/
Human Rights Watch rated among least transparent think tanks in US
http://www.mintpressnews.com/human-rights-watch-rated-among-least-transparent-think-tanks-us/218205/
Human rights hypocrisy – Colombia vs Venezuela
https://youtu.be/fWAP8a7R5Uo
Venezuelan opposition awarded EU human rights prize amidst controversy
https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuelan-opposition-awarded-eu-human-rights-prize-amid-controversy/235715/
Authoritarianism in Socialist countries – Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/6gtUaGV6mNI
A socialist approach to Human Rights
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2016/12/15/more-on-a-socialist-approach-to-human-rights/
The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (Chapter 1)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
Lessons from Cuba’s incarceration model
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
How Human Rights were used to hurt the USSR and blunt the Left
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/How-Human-Rights-Were-Used-to-Hurt-the-USSR-and-Blunt-the-Left-20160908-0001.html
Amnesty International’s kangaroo report on Syria
http://theduran.com/amnesty-international-saydnaya-prison-report/
Amnesty claims mass executions in Syria, provides zero proof
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/02/amnesty-report-hearsay.html#more
Human rights hypocrisy: US criticizes Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/human-rights-hypocrisy-us-criticizes-cuba/
Short essay by SocialistMusings on the topic of Human Rights:
Is health care a “human right”? Well, what are “human rights “and what is their historical origin?
When the medieval serfs or the slaves of the ancient republics revolted, they didn’t wage their revolts based on any conceptions of “human rights.” Their struggles were based on concepts of equality and fairness, not universal rights. Human rights are relatively new developments in human history, corresponding, unsurprisingly, to the rise of the bourgeoisie as a class. As the Enlightenment thinkers subjected every prejudice, tradition, government, and religion to the ultimate test of Reason, more and more feudal conceptions started falling apart and everything that was developed by bourgeois philosophers was declared as the ultimate form of government and morality. We know now that these ultimate truths were nothing but the truths corresponding to the class interests of the bourgeoisie. That equality and justice found themselves realized as bourgeois conceptions of equality and justice. The right to property was therefore declared as one of the natural rights of Man and the government of Reason could only come into existence as a bourgeois democratic republic and nothing more.
Moral theories or conceptions of rights have always been the products of the economic developments of society at the time and as society has always moved in class antagonisms, these theories have been the products of the dominant class in each era. Class morality is nothing more than the justifications given for the existence of the dominant class and its subjugation of the oppressed classes. This was true of the ancient Greek Republics, it was true of the feudal kingdoms, and it is true of the bourgeois states.
We now find ourselves at a time when bourgeois morality finds itself challenged by proletarian morality and by extension, proletarian conceptions of human rights. The demands to include “positive freedoms” such as the right to food, shelter, health care are nothing but the class interests of the proletariat expressed as “ultimate” rights. These are in contradictions with bourgeois conceptions of rights and in direct contradiction with the ultimate right bourgeois morality grants humanity: the right to property. This is why the reformist liberals cannot justify how health care can be a human right when it violates the right to property. They’re trying to resolve a contradiction that can only be resolved by the introduction of a socialist system, by openly proclaiming that these demands for equality and “positive rights” are nothing but the demands of the proletariat’s class interests and if the right to property is in contradiction to them, that is because it has outlived its time and finds itself against a society that nurtures a revolution in its womb for a more developed society. But liberals being interested not in class struggle but in class unity where unity can’t be found, are hostile to any outright declarations of class interests. They therefore try to give these proletarian demands a universal character in bourgeois societies and find themselves stuck in the maze of bourgeois conceptions of rights.
As socialists with a historical and materialist understanding of rights, we understand that rights are nothing but the formalized class interests of the dominant class in society and demands for health care, housing, food are human rights insofar as they are the class interests of the proletariat — not derived from Nature or some universal truths but from the material needs of the proletariat as a class. And finally, that these rights could be fully realized only in a socialist society due to their proletarian character (as evidenced by the existence of these as human rights in the Soviet Union, Cuba etc.) but we must still struggle for them in bourgeois societies for better living conditions for the proletariat.
Stalin, Foundations of Leninism, on Rights:
The dictatorship of the proletariat cannot be “complete” democracy, democracy for all, for the rich as well as for the poor; the dictatorship of the proletariat “must be a state that is democratic in a new way (for the proletarians and the non-propertied in general) and dictatorial in a new way (against the bourgeoisie).” The talk about universal equality, about “pure” democracy, about “perfect” democracy, and the like, is a bourgeois disguise of the indubitable fact that equality between the exploited and exploiters is impossible. The theory of “pure” democracy is the theory of the upper stratum of the working class, which has been broken in and is being fed by the imperialist robbers. It was brought into being for the purpose of concealing the ulcers of capitalism, of embellishing imperialism and lending it moral strength in the struggle against the exploited masses. Under capitalism there are no real “liberties” for the exploited, nor can there be, if for no other reason than that the premises, printing plants, paper supplies, etc., indispensable for the enjoyment of “liberties” are the privilege of the exploiters. Under capitalism the exploited masses do not, nor can they ever, really participate in governing the country, if for no other reason than that, even under the most democratic regime, under conditions of capitalism, governments are not set up by the people but by the Gates, Rothschilds and Stinneses, the Rockefellers and Morgans, etc, etc. Democracy under capitalism is capitalist democracy, the democracy of the exploiting minority, based on the restriction of the rights of the exploited majority and directed against this majority. Only under the proletarian dictatorship are real liberties for the exploited and real participation of the proletarians and peasants in governing the country possible. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, democracy is proletarian democracy, the democracy of the exploited majority, based on the restriction of the rights of the exploiting minority and directed against this minority.
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“human nature” ?
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“Mankind is mankind, and no matter what system you have, socialism or capitalism, mankind is flawed, and there are people who wanna steal and take advantage and get ahead.”
Parenti: “It is because people are imperfect that you don’t build a system that feeds their imperfections and harms their perfections. People who want to help… often get punished, whereas the people who pursue money in the most treacherous and amoral ways, they get benefitted. And you’re telling me about them; you’re saying, ‘We can’t do without them!’ You’ve got it in your brain that we can’t do without people who steal and deceive and plunder… You need a government that is going to help parse out things fair and square.”
Debunking the “human nature” argument by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqYcpeQwtL4
Does Human Nature make socialism impossible? By Verso Books
https://youtu.be/hhE5-zBlmcw23244345_10155661982215499_7449543372373358278_n.jpg23231269_10155661987225499_7248535655325545848_n.jpg
Not real capitalism?
Not real Capitalism? By Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/HLTLxmhHRPs
Monopoly vs. Competition by Mexie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWrHrgih0pg
Master-Slave dialectic in Capitalism and what to do about it – Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjsmn6ZLvHo
The absurd contradictions of Capitalism
https://hateandanger.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/absurd-contradictions-capitalism.png
Capitalism, not corporatism by Comrade Hakim
https://youtu.be/luB9VUsXRs8
“Crony capitalism” or just plain capitalism?
http://socialistappeal.org/history-theory/102-theory/1326-qcrony-capitalismq-or-just-plain-capitalism.html
The myth of Crony Capitalism
http://socialistreview.org.uk/366/myth-crony-capitalism
Vivek Chibber on non-Western “not real capitalism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moRwHSsjf3c
International Focus – A History of Austerity (Start at 8:51)
https://youtu.be/a-8ySh6nUsA?t=8m51s
“Communism killed millions of people”
Stalin’s millions
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/04/24/stalins-millions/
The revolution will not be televised – article by S. Gowans about communist leaders and societies
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-nor-will-it-be-brought-to-you-by-russell-brand-oliver-stone-or-noam-chomsky/
“Stalin killed 60 million people” – graphic
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1f348b6dbdb7bff1ed27ef1b4ce65982-c
Monster or liberator? The legacy of Mao Zedong
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/12/monster-liberator-legacy-mao-zedong/
Revisiting alleged 30 million famine deaths during China’s Great Leap
https://mronline.org/2011/06/26/revisiting-alleged-30-million-famine-deaths-during-chinas-great-leap/
On the number of deaths in Stalin’s USSR
https://albertvalente.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/on-the-number-of-deaths-in-stalins-ussr/
Authoritarianism in Socialist countries by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/6gtUaGV6mNI
How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
Triumph of Evil – Introduction, Chapter 1
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
China’s growth in life expectancy between 1950 and 1980 ranks as among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331212/
See section on “Holodomor”, “Great Leap Forward / Cultural Revolution” “USSR / Stalin”, “Gulags”, “Purges”
Lazy because of Socialism/Communism? Capitalism rewards hard work? (and related arguments)
The capitalist “Self-made man” argument by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bstNmYvxdXg
Does capitalism reward hard work?
https://youtu.be/xoCvQFIr14M
The myth of meritocracy – first half of this video (second half is Social-democratic rubbish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MDhMuHH7eA
How the US tax system favours the rich – Richard Wolff
https://youtu.be/oVJ_U9UR-x8
If we care about inequality we must confront capital
http://peoplespolicyproject.org/2017/08/05/if-we-care-about-inequality-we-must-confront-capital/
Wealth inequality in America – Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZsmyfpoILw
The wealth gap in the US is worse than in Kenya
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/07/the-wealth-gap-in-the-us-is-worse-than-in-kenya.html
Chapters 1-2 of The Triumph of Evil:: The Reality of the USA’s Cold War Victory
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
“Equality of opportunity” is a scam! By Mexie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEFLlEZW6Lc
“The worker agreed to it”
The Master-Slave dialectic in Capitalism and what to do about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjsmn6ZLvHo&feature=youtu.be
Free Market Myths + critiques of Capitalism
What’s wrong with Capitalism (part 1) – contrapoints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJW4-cOZt8A
Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economic-inequality/524610/?utm_source=atlfb
Economic decision making: can we vote with our wallets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsjIjn2pcaQ
Don’t listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone
https://theconversation.com/dont-listen-to-the-rich-inequality-is-bad-for-everyone-81952
Capitalism is great! By Comrade Hakim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4AegesdCsY&feature=youtu.be
How capitalism exploits us, and what to do about it by Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYqrjPNh20U
The tragedy of the “commons” by Mexie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwXME-PNuE
Why people who need redistribution hate it: the free market and you by Mexie
https://youtu.be/Dm_JGXjCH5g
The Neo-liberal survival game (very good article)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/04/the-neoliberal-survival-game/
Global Empire – Capitalism and Democracy – “The state is an essential part of capitalism”
https://youtu.be/c2DiEBXByJ0?t=5m43s
Economic Update: Corporate Capitalism in Decline (listen in from 31:00)
http://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_corporate_capitalism_decline
Debunking the tragedy of the commons
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2008/08/25/debunking-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/
Interview with J.W. Mason: The Disruptors
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/finance-capital-shareholders-profit-market
Socialism isn’t innovative
Progress in China
Progress in China video
Space advancement in the USSR
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1934792833509509
Physics achievements of the USSR
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1949126525409473
How China is taking on the world in space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYS5gaEIQ4A
China is building solar roadways
https://electrek.co/2017/12/21/china-solar-roadways-transparent-concrete-solar-cells-charge-cars/amp/
China’s stealth fighter is operational
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a28436/chinas-stealth-fighter-is-operational/
Get ready for China’s laser-weapons arsenal
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/get-ready-chinas-laser-weapons-arsenal-20138
Innovation makes poor land green: China’s saline/alkaline resistant rice hybrids
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/5/98/219/1512715331552.html
‘No innovation under socialism’ by Comrade Hakim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uylnpj6zLWw
Technology, innovation, growth and capitalism
http://www.marxist.com/technology-innovation-growtn-and-capitalism.htm
What innovations have communist societies developed? (Reddit)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/5k5y51/what_innovations_or_inventions_have_communist/
Solidarity from Cuba, courtesy of the revolution (discusses health care, education etc)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/02/solidarity-from-cuba-courtesy-of-the-revolution/
The Chinese haven’t invented anything in the last 600 years, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8g1Sb3g6lI
The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (pp. 82-85)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
Cuba begins clinical trials to delay progress of Alzheimers
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Begins-Clinical-Trials-to-Delay-Progress-of-Alzheimers-20170515-0013.html
Cuba develops new skin cancer medicine
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Develops-New-Skin-Cancer-Medicine-20160909-0007.html
Cuba’s internationalist solidarity recognized once again – doctors awarded the Dr. Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health from WHO
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Internationalist-Solidarity-Recognized-Once-Again-Doctors-Awarded-by-WHO-20170524-0024.html
Cuba’s agricultural revolution: Vanguard for global food system
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Agricultural-Revolution-Vanguard-for-Global-Food-System-20161129-0010.html
Cuba’s sustainable agro-ecological model could save the world
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Cubas-Sustainable-Agro-Ecological-Model-Could-Save-the-World-20161013-0023.html
Cuba’s Socialist biotechnology sector a global leader
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Socialist-Biotechnology-Sector-a-Global-Leader-20160517-0041.html
Cuba’s innovative biotechnology attracts global attention
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubas-Innovative-Biotechnology-Attracts-Global-Attention-20151103-0018.html
Sputnik marked the beginning of space research
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Sputnik-Marked-the-Beginning-of-Space-Reasearch–20141004-0011.html
Redefining Socialism in Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/18/redefining-socialism-in-cuba/
Cuba: reflections on life and death (talks about ecology etc)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/cuba-reflections-on-life-and-death/
Latin Lessons: what we can learn from the world’s’ most ambitious literacy campaign (Cuba)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/latin-lessons-what-can-we-learn-from-the-worldrsquos-most-ambitious-literacy-campaign-2124433.html
Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame (excellent article)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cuban-medics-in-haiti-put-the-world-to-shame-2169415.html
Cuba’s Green Revolution
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cubas-green-revolution-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94-achieving-sustainability
Cuba’s overlooked developments in science
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=73510
Cuba creates four anti-cancer vaccines, media ignores it
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cuba-creates-four-anti-cancer-vaccines-media-ignores-it
Cuba launches the first vaccine against lung cancer
https://actualidad.rt.com/ciencias/view/32388-Cuba-lanza-primera-vacuna-contra-cancer-de-pulm%C3%B3n
Science: accomplishments and lessons of Cuba after 50 years of US blockade
http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2010/05/04/reportaje-revista-science-sobre-impacto-bloqueo-medicina/#.WgUc2lu0OUk
Vaccines from Cuba and Brazil save thousands of lives in Africa
http://www.cubainformacion.tv/index.php/lecciones-de-manipulacion/47621-vacunas-de-cuba-y-brasil-salvan-miles-de-vidas-en-africa-pero-los-medios-solo-hablan-de-las-de-bill-gates
They recognize advances in Cuban biotechnology
http://www.opciones.cu/cuba/2012-03-09/reconocen-avances-de-la-biotecnologia-cubana/
Director General of UNESCO notes achievements of Cuban biotechnology
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2012-11-29/directora-general-de-la-unesco-constata-logros-de-la-biotecnologia-cubana
Cuba vaccine deal breaks embargo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/406780.stm
Soviet Russia had a better record of training women in STEM than America does today
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-russia-had-a-better-record-of-training-women-in-stem-than-america-does-today-180948141/
China launches ambitious bid to dominate space exploration
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/China-Launches-Ambitious-Bid-to-Dominate-Space-Exploration–20171117-0020.html
Chinese satellite detects mysterious signal in search for Dark Matter
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1130/c90000-9298618.html
Trial planting of China’s japonica hybrid rice succeeds in Cambodia
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1129/c90000-9298591.html
Cuba’s cancer vaccine CIMAvax is finally coming to US
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cubas-lung-cancer-vaccine/505778/
Why is China tech smoking the West? Because they have socialist vision!
https://soundcloud.com/44-days/why-is-china-tech-smoking-the-west-because-they-have-socialist-vision-china-rising-radio-sinoland-170831
China’s FAST identifies three new pulsars
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/articles/180/200/206/1513075342491.html
China is the most plugged in big economy in the world
http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/08/26/china-is-the-most-plugged-in-big-economy-in-the-world-china-rising-radio-sinoland-170824/
The surprising rise of China as IP powerhouse
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/the-surprising-rise-of-china-as-ip-powerhouse/
China’s Nio takes on Tesla with a car half the price of model X
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/17/chinas-nio-takes-on-tesla-with-a-car-half-the-price-of-model-x.html
Some of the most successful IPO’s of Internet companies on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have been Chinese startups. Chinese businesses are well on their way to dominating the global alternative-energy industries. Breakthroughs in public policy have taken private home ownership from near zero in 1990 to at least 80 percent today — among the world’s highest, in this relatively still poor country.
The Royal Society in London reports that China’s share of scientific research papers published in recognized international journals went from 4.4 percent in the period between 1999-2003 to 10.2 percent in the period between 2004-2008, now just behind the United States. In 2008, China overtook France as the world’s number three in contemporary art auction revenues. Fifteen out of 35 living artists worldwide who command seven-digit sales for their work are Chinese. If these facts do not demonstrate innovation, what does?
Life under communism was/is boring/dull/grey/repressive (etc)
Pictures of Soviet life from “Ogonyok” magazine
https://cccp.temadnya.com/1252749450857679377/kartiny-sovetskoj-zhizni-iz-zhurnala-ogonek/
Do Communists have better sex? (Documentary about sex attitudes in East Germany)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x222wl0
Album of photography from the DPRK
https://imgur.com/gallery/WU4Mb
Soviet Lithuania in 1972 (with Jazz!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsRhPzRCwIU
Video about the DPRK
https://www.facebook.com/154377811744930/videos/275659842950059/
Solidarity from Cuba, courtesy of the revolution
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/02/solidarity-from-cuba-courtesy-of-the-revolution/
Havana, Cuba: a spirited city in transition
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/17/havana-cuba-a-spirited-city-in-transition/
Sports in Cuba: another achievement of the Revolution
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=90054
Art education in Cuba
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=82102
A Berklee professor dives into Cuba’s vast music scene
http://legacy.wbur.org/2013/01/16/a-berklee-professor-dives-into-cubas-vast-music-scene
Hip Hop & the Cuban Revolution
https://www.workers.org/2007/world/hip-hop-1011/
Non-violence??
Gandhi was wrong – nonviolence doesn’t work
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2009/10/18/gandhi-was-wrong-nonviolence-doesnt-work/
Pacifism as Pathology – Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America
https://takku.net/mediagallery/mediaobjects/orig/f/f_ward_churchill_-_pacifism_as_pathology.pdf
How Nonviolence protects the State
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state
9 MLK quotes the mainstream media won’t cite
https://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/riot-language-unheard-9-mlk-quotes-mainstream-media-wont-cite
Does America have a gun problem, or a white supremacy capitalist empire problem?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/07/does-america-have-a-gun-problem-or-a-white-supremacy-capitalist-empire-problem/
More reflections on pacifism
http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/more-reflections-on-pacificism.html
Communism = White people?
Most of these were marxist-leninists and upholders of what is called “authoritarian communism” (forgetting that all class society is authoritarian to the extent it needs to be to secure its continued reproduction, forgetting that the authority of the working class is a good thing)
The ones who weren’t (like Malcolm) worked closely with leninists and supported a strong and principled anti-imperialist line as well as national liberation, and recognized the progressive character of the national bourgeoisie against the imperialist bourgeoisie. Lines which get us called “tankie” like it’s an insult.
These were/are all inspiring, amazing revolutionaries who have helped educate hundreds of millions of workers throughout the globe.
To deny the success of marxism-leninism is to deny the success of hundreds of millions of colonized workers in achieving their own liberation and building socialism as best they could under their given material conditions.
Is socialist just a western, eurocentric concept? Video by Verso Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2i583cJs9M
Narratives of betrayal: a Western Marxist trope
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2017/11/13/narratives-of-betrayal-a-western-marxist-trope/
Socialism = big government?
Socialism is when the government does stuff? Video by Verso Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmntzb7jtw
Cultural Marxism?
Ending the Cultural Marxism meme by Xexizy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhhGmwxZ5I
Is Jordan Peterson the stupid man’s smart person?
http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/is-jordan-peterson-the-stupid-mans-smart-person/
“Communism is dead” (etc)
Communism is not dead – by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/mlFHPljOQxs
The war continues – lesser known active armed communist groups by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/09qTJBiwjy8
India’s Red Tide
https://youtu.be/E4dPlPU8058
Naxalbari – its relevance for today and for tomorrow
http://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/india/naxalbari-its-relevance-for-today-and-for-tomorrow/
Dismantling neo-liberal education: a lesson from the Zapatistas
https://roarmag.org/essays/neoliberal-education-zapatista-pedagogy/
Kerala Communism still alive
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/bloggers/Kerala-Communism-Still-Alive-20150203-0001.html
Social-Democracy better?
Social democracy, soviet socialism and the bottom 99 percent
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/social-democracy-soviet-socialism-and-the-bottom-99-percent/
Social Democracy can’t fix capitalism by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odYUSTtHfGc
“It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin” – interview
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/04/h-g-wells-it-seems-me-i-am-more-left-you-mr-stalin
Scandinavia’s covert role in Western Imperialism
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Scandinavias-Covert-Role-in-Western-Imperialism-20170320-0022.html
Social democracy is not enough – a critique of the Nordic model
https://hecticdialectics.com/2015/08/03/social-democracy-is-not-enough-a-critique-of-the-nordic-model/
As long as there is Capitalism reforms will be undone by Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq1rTZArsBU&feature=youtu.be
Why efforts to reduce inequality will fail by Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4i_Vg87htc
Social Democracy in crisis
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/social-democracy-in-crisis-1.3062558
The Howard-Stalin interview
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/03/01.htm
Welfare capitalism is not socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1xmIpg0jH8&index=79&list=WL
The myth of Scandinavian socialism – Institute of Economic Affairs (very mixed video from a capitalist point of view which is ignorant of actual socialism, but accurately describes Scandinavian economies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MerkGUx-2V4
Collapse of Communism in the 20th Century
General
A failed system’s failed promises
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/a-failed-systems-failed-promises/
Reflection on the overthrow of communism – excellent talk by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVes44hcJg
Study looks at mortality in Post-Soviet era
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/world/europe/16europe.html
Mass privatisation and the post-communist mortality crisis: a cross-national analysis. Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(09)60005-2.pdf
According to the UN Human Development Index—which measures levels of life expectancy, education, adult literacy and income in the poorest nations—twenty-one states have experienced a decline. These included 14 African countries as well as Russia and six former Soviet Republics.
Commenting on the situation in the former Soviet Union after capitalist restoration, Fabre stated, “We have catastrophic falls in several countries, which often are republics of the former Soviet Union, where poverty is actually increasing. In fact poverty has tripled in the whole region.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/07/unpo-j28.html
Global rollback – After Communism by Michael Parenti
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Parenti/Global_Rollback_Parenti.html
“The boys of Capital, they also chortle in their martinis about the death of socialism. The word has been banned from polite conversation. And they hope no one will notice that every socialist experiment of any significance in the twentieth century — without exception — was either overthrown, invaded, corrupted, perverted, subverted, destabilized, or otherwise had life made impossible for it, by the United States and its allies. Not one socialist government or movement — from the Russian Revolution to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, from Communist China to the FMLN in El Salvador — not one was permitted to rise or fall solely on its own merits; not one was left secure enough to drop its guard against the all-powerful enemy abroad and freely and fully relax control at home. It’s as if the Wright brothers’ first experiments with flying machines all failed because the automobile interests sabotaged each test flight. And then the good and god-fearing folk of the world looked upon these catastrophes, nodded their heads wisely, and intoned solemnly: Humankind shall never fly.”
— William Blum, “Killing Hope: US Military And CIA Interventions Since World War II.”
The USSR
USSR: The biggest sell-off in history by teleSUR
https://www.facebook.com/telesurenglish/videos/988869624589773/
Number of Russians who regret collapse of USSR hits 10-year high
https://www.rt.com/politics/414254-share-of-russians-who-regret/
Nato expansion: what Gorbachev heard (discussion of the NATO creep eastwards after German reunification)
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
Why doesn’t the Soviet Union exist anymore? Part 1: Introduction
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2017/11/why-doesnt-the-soviet-union-exist-any-more-part-1-introduction/
Why doesn’t the Soviet Union exist anymore? Part 2: Economic stagnation
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2017/12/why-doesnt-the-soviet-union-exist-any-more-part-2-economic-stagnation/
Why doesn’t the Soviet Union exist anymore? Part 3: Ideological deterioration and decaying confidence
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2017/12/why-doesnt-the-soviet-union-exist-any-more-part-3-ideological-deterioration-and-
The Demise of the Soviet Union: The Secret War that Helped Destroy Soviet Socialism, 1981-1991
http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/RR-PAUL-SECRETWAR.pdf
The collapse of the Soviet Union reconsidered
https://mltoday.com/article/1920-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union-reconsidered/22
Sean Gervasi: How the US caused the breakup of the USSR (very good talk from 1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_aYcpxClA
Post-Soviet Russia: America’s “colony” to #1 Enemy (excellent video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Aajppo5Zk
Empire Files: Post-Soviet Russia, made in the U.S.A. (very good video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HwvFyMg7A
Life after the USSR: Buying the dream, living the nightmare – teleSUR
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Life-After-the-USSR-Buying-the-Dream-Living-the-Nightmare-20160712-0009.html
A case-study of capitalism – Ukraine by Comrade Hakim
https://youtu.be/CmH9oNtXzF8
The collapse of the Soviet Union by Matt Florence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWXc3ttPYxU
An epidemic of street kids overwhelms Russian cities
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/an-epidemic-of-street-kids-overwhelms-russian-cities/article4141933/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
Ukraine Junta bans Communism, honors Fascism
https://www.newcoldwar.org/ukraine-junta-bans-communism-honors-fascism/
Catastroika has not only been a disaster for Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/16/russia.comment
Death surge linked with mass privatisation
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2009-01-death-surge-linked-mass-privatisation.html
Thousands still living in Russia’s Soviet-era past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CteL4t_NNds
Nostalgic Russian photos set right after the collapse of Communism
https://www.slavorum.org/nostalgic-russian-photos-set-right-after-the-collapse-of-communism/
Why Russians still don’t hate Communism
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/why-russians-still-dont-hate-communism-9294
The fall of the USSR and capitalist restoration by M-L Theory
https://youtu.be/5KpS2eAay_8
Switch to capitalism causes rise in drug-resistant Tuberculosis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62453/
Russian men losing years to vodka – study
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/31/russian-men-losing-years-to-vodka
How the Soviet collapse enriched a few and destroyed millions
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/How-the-Soviet-Collapse-Enriched-a-Few-and-Destroyed-Millions-20160905-0009.html
Gorbachev, Yeltsin and the demise of the USSR
https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-09-26/gorbachev-yeltsin-and-demise-ussr
Russia rejects Ukraine ban of communist symbols
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Russia-Rejects-Ukraine-Ban-of-Communist-Symbols-20150411-0010.html
New migration data shows every 4th prostitute in Europe is a citizen of Ukraine
http://theduran.com/new-migration-data-shows-every-fourth-prostitute-europe-citizen-ukraine/
How the USSR reduced income inequality (shows drastic rise in inequality after capitalism restored)
http://www.socialisteconomist.com/2017/10/how-ussr-radically-reduced-income.html?m=1
Inequality in Russia, 1905-2015
http://wid.world/news-article/new-paper-inequality-series-russia/
BBC: the town that disappeared
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_town_that_disappeared
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The Eastern Bloc
The rule of the market in East-Central Europe is absolute
https://mronline.org/2017/08/29/the-rule-of-the-market-in-east-central-europe-is-absolute/
Cold, angry, and surrounded by chicken – post-Communist Czech Republic’s “economic success”
https://mronline.org/2017/10/28/cold-angry-and-surrounded-by-chicken/
The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy (read the entire book)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
German reunification: 25 years on: how different are East and West really?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/german-reunification-25-years-on-how-different-are-east-and-west-really
Happiness and freedom: East German version
http://www.ianwelsh.net/happiness-and-freedom-east-german-version/
Pragmatism trumps ideology as Germany finds west isn’t always best
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/03/thuringia-socialist-east-germany-influence-in-unified-germany
Bulgaria, 1990, Albania, 1991: teaching communists what democracy is all about
https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/bulgaria-albania
Eastern Europe has the largest population loss in modern history
https://www.ft.com/content/70813826-0c64-33d3-8a0c-72059ae1b5e3
Eastern_bloc_economies_GDP_1990.jpg
GDP of Eastern Bloc countries 1950-2002
Yugoslavia
The rational destruction of Yugoslavia – Michael Parenti
http://www.michaelparenti.org/yugoslavia.html
US-NATO jets bomb Serb auto plant
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/04/balk-a10.html?view=article_mobile
The US war on Yugoslavia – by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/GEzOgpMWnVs
Sean Gervasi exposing US, German role in Balkans
https://youtu.be/ePw0Wp7lsxA
Yugoslavia – the avoidable war
https://youtu.be/u04IL4Od8Qo
Croatia – neoliberalism and corruption
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/croatia-karamarko-neoliberalism-corruption-bridge/
The Weight of Chains (full movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw49iL6zGyQ&feature=youtu.be
Srebrenica’s legacy should be one of peace, not war
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/273142-srebrenica-massacre-anniversary-balkans/
Harpal Brar – NATO’s predatory war on Yugoslavia (book)
http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secName=books&subName=display&bookId=15
Socialism is the transitional society from capitalism to communism characterised by the dictatorship of the proletariat and socialisation of the economy, and a step backwards or a stall in this process doesn’t necessarily mean that socialism has been overthrown.
The example of Yugoslavia is the most compelling evidence of this retrograde tendency on the left. It is also living proof of what is at stake. During the last four decades of the existence of the Soviet Union, U.S. imperialism acted in a more or less friendly way toward Yugoslavia. Although it was led by a Communist Party, Yugoslavia maintained “neutrality” in the U.S.-Soviet conflict. Yugoslavia’s leadership introduced market reforms, largely abandoned the monopoly of foreign trade, integrated the country into the world capitalist economy, became heavily indebted to western banks, allowed large-scale unemployment to develop in accordance with the principle of the “market” and its need for a flexible labor pool, and began following the dictates of the International Monetary Fund. By the late 1980s, Yugoslavia was characterized by most of the left as a “capitalist country” with the clear implication that there was nothing remaining for the left to defend.
But because the League of Communists continued to hold onto power in Yugoslavia, it emerged as a force of resistance when German imperialism initiated a full-scale effort to dismember the country in 1990 and 1991. The overthrow of the East German socialist government in 1989 and its reincorporation into West Germany triggered an intense drive by German imperialism to enlarge its sphere of influence. It financed and secretly organized the secession of Slovenia and Croatia, the westernmost republics within multinational Yugoslavia. This in turn set off a predictable and classic imperialist scramble between Germany, France, England and finally the United States to carve up Yugoslavia into spheres of influence for neo-colonial penetration.
In the face of this imperialist-inspired counterrevolutionary campaign, the League of Communists, led by Slobodan Milosevic, abruptly changed course. Privatization of industry was slowed and in some cases reversed. Cooperation with the IMF was slowed or halted. Imperialism demonized the Yugoslav leadership, imposed economic sanctions and set on a course of regime change. Yugoslavia fought back against the forces of disintegration. It had to rely more on its working-class base. This would have been an impossible turn by a fully capitalist regime, a regime that did not have its roots in social revolution and socialized property.
The only way for imperialism to succeed in Yugoslavia was to wage an all-out bombing war. From March 24 to June 4, 1999, NATO’s collective imperialist air force dropped 23,000 bombs and missiles on Serbia until the Yugoslav government decided to let Kosovo go into the arms of the imperialists. Without pause, imperialist pressure intensified after the conclusion of the 1999 war to carry out the final counterrevolutionary ouster of the Yugoslav government and its replacement by a servile, proxy force.
59) Having long abandoned a political defense of Yugoslavia on the basis that there was nothing remaining, in the social and economic sense, from the initial Yugoslav revolution, big sections of the international left remained on the sidelines in 1999 watching the carnage. Others actually supported NATO’s war or gave support to some variant form of imperialist-sponsored dismemberment, mouthing vulgarized proclamations about “self-determination” for Kosovo. Real self-determination, under those circumstances, meant only one thing: militantly defending the Yugoslav government as it resisted the imperialist aggression and the counterrevolution.
The Yugoslav example proves that there is an organic connection between imperialism and counterrevolution in all the societies with governments created by a socialist overturn.
Despite the emergence of conservative and non-revolutionary leaderships in the socialist-oriented governments, there has never been a long-term, stable partnership between any of these regimes and imperialism or any single imperialist government.
The very existence of a communist party as a ruling party—which is based on the interests of the working class—means that the relationship with imperialism is inherently unstable. The reason for the instability is that the mere hold on power by the communist parties constitutes an obstacle to the full and complete takeover and neo-colonial re-enslavement of the country by imperialism.
In its systematic and inherent quest for super profits, imperialism is driven towards counterrevolution with the principal objective of overthrowing the political rule of the communist party. The thrust toward counterrevolution is in the very nature of the beast.
While Yugoslavia is one example of this counterrevolutionary phenomenon, one can look at recent Chinese history to observe a nearly identical process, most notably the events leading to the suppression of the Tiananmen Square counterrevolutionary movement in 1989. It was the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and in particular the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, who took steps to suppress a mass movement that occupied Tiananmen Square for seven weeks in 1989, the same year that most of the socialist bloc governments in Eastern Europe were overthrown.
“Why don’t you ask people who lived under communism?” and “people aren’t happy under socialist systems”
We lived better then
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/
Opinion poll conducted in China, compared to the USA:
85% satisfied with direction of country (31% satisfied in U.S.)
88% think current economic situation is good (33% in U.S.)
82% say children will be better off than parents (33% in U.S.)
http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/05/23/chapter-1-national-and-economic-conditions/
The undemocratic dissolution of the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFTgCf67Bw
How Russians really feel about their Soviet past and Communism (Sochi 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNGs5Ep7Xas
Joseph Stalin statues go up in Russia as U.S. Civil War statues fall
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/08/16/soviet-union-terror-josef-stalin-popularity/556625001/
Pragmatism trumps ideology as Germany finds west isn’t always best
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/03/thuringia-socialist-east-germany-influence-in-unified-germany
Majority in former Soviet states believe breakup was harmful mistake – poll
https://www.rt.com/news/ussr-collapse-mistake-poll-585/
East Berlin woman interviewed
https://www.facebook.com/dw.stories/photos/a.196618090449937.36404.183239561787790/1384520398326361/?type=3
Why don’t you ask people who lived under communism
https://youtu.be/_1d3Kxx36gY
Account of a woman from the USSR currently living in New Zealand (very good)
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/photos/a.1922050888117037.1073741828.1921706061484853/1936840316638094/?type=3&theater
Opinion polls in former socialist/communist states
Struggling Romanians yearn for Communism
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/30/struggling-romanians-yearn-for-communism/
Romanian opinion poll
http://www.ires.com.ro/uploads/articole/romanii_si_nostalgia_comunismului.pdf
Number of Russians who regret collapse of USSR hits 10-year high
https://www.rt.com/politics/414254-share-of-russians-who-regret/
Polls show a spectre is haunting Europe… and much of the rest of the world
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/polls-show-a-spectre-is-haunting-europe%E2%80%A6and-much-of-the-rest-of-the-world/
Former Soviet countries see more harm from breakup
http://news.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx
Most Russians prefer return of Soviet Union and Socialism: poll
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Most-Russians-Prefer-Return-of-Soviet-Union-and-Socialism-Poll-20160420-0051.html
Serbia poll: life was better under Tito
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/for-simon-poll-serbians-unsure-who-runs-their-country
Romanian opinion polls show nostalgia for Communism
http://www.balkanalysis.com/romania/2011/12/27/in-romania-opinion-polls-show-nostalgia-for-communism/
Hungary: better off under Communism?
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/04/28/hungary-better-off-under-communism/
Majority of Eastern Germans feel life better under Communism
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-feel-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html
Majority in former Soviet states believe breakup was harmful mistake – poll
https://www.rt.com/news/ussr-collapse-mistake-poll-585/
Nostalgia for Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe
https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/nostalgia-for-communism-in-russia-and-eastern-europe/
Majority of Russians think “it is a great misfortune that the Soviet Union no longer exists”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/soviet-empire-poll_n_5288261.html
Why nearly 60% of Russians ‘deeply regret’ the USSR’s demise
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/1223/Why-nearly-60-percent-of-Russians-deeply-regret-the-USSR-s-demise
Stalin popularity among Russians reaches a 16 year high
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/feb/17/stalin-popularity-among-russians-reaches-a-16-year/
Russian support for Vladimir Lenin peaks ahead of Bolshevik Revolution centennial
http://www.newsweek.com/lenin-support-peaks-russian-revolution-bolshevik-centennial-586201
Why Russians still don’t hate Communism
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/why-russians-still-dont-hate-communism-9294
Why more than half of Russians miss the Soviet Union
https://www.rbth.com/politics_and_society/2016/11/04/why-more-than-half-of-russians-miss-the-soviet-union_643655
Most Russians regret USSR collapse, dream of its return – poll
https://www.rt.com/politics/340158-most-russians-regret-ussr-has/
Happiness and freedom: East German version
http://www.ianwelsh.net/happiness-and-freedom-east-german-version/
Russians name Stalin, Lenin, as most outstanding world figures
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Russians-Name-Stalin-Lenin-as-Most-Outstanding-World-Figures-20170627-0019.html
Communist military interventions
Czechoslovakia and Counter-Revolution – why the Socialist countries intervened (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/ApthekerCzechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia at the Crossroads (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/GusHallCzechoslovakia
Military interventions – progressive vs imperialist
https://gowans.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/military-interventions-progressive-vs-imperialist6.pdf
A revolution betrayed (Afghanistan)
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/asia/afghanistan/714-a-revolution-betrayed-frfi-166-apr-may-2002
Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Chapter 2, short section on Afghanistan)
https://ia800300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
The Triumph of Evil – Chapter 1 (Soviet intervention in Afghanistan)
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
The Kruschevites: Hoxha discusses Hungary
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1976/khruschevites/10.htm
The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism (1957 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/Hungary1956Kallai
The Hungarian Soviet Republic (1979 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/HungarianSovietRepublic
Hungarian counterrevolution of 1956
http://ciml.250x.com/archive/events/english/1956_hungary/1956_counterrevolution_in_hungary.html
The Truth About Hungary (1957 scanned book)
https://espressostalinist.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/the-truth-about-hungary.pdf
The Fascist Hungarian Counter-Revolution of 1956
https://espressostalinist.com/2011/11/29/the-fascist-hungarian-counterrevolution-of-1956/
Communism, feminism, racism and LGBTQ+
General / “IdPol”
The world’s’ first affirmative action constitution
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2014/10/09/the-worlds-first-affirmative-action-constitution/
What we talk about when we talk about class
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/07/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-class/
Some thoughts on Identity Politics by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9PyFR3Dr8I
I am a woman and a human: a Marxist feminist critique of intersectionality theory – Eve Mitchell
https://libcom.org/library/i-am-woman-human-marxist-feminist-critique-intersectionality-theory-eve-mitchel
Let them eat diversity
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/01/let-them-eat-diversity/
The imposition of class – Manifold identities and socialist class politics
https://mronline.org/2017/10/30/the-imposition-of-class/
Limitations of identity based politics
https://medium.com/@pravdamedia/limitations-of-identity-based-politics-d05b71c9ad
Feminism
Theory
The making of capitalist Patriarchy: interview with Silvia Federici
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11947
What is Proletarian Feminism?
https://maosoleum.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/what-is-proletarian-feminism/
Male terrorism and the political economy of gender oppression by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/xUv_dtVLNPg
Marx on gender and the family – a summary
https://monthlyreview.org/2014/06/01/marx-on-gender-and-the-family-a-summary/
Clara Zetkin: The Profoundly Relevant Marxist Feminist
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Clara-Zetkin-The-Profoundly-Relevant-Marxist-Feminist-20170704-0048.html
How does Socialism solve Racism, Sexism and other oppressions?
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/how-does-socialism-solve-racism-sexism-other-oppression/
Lise Vogel – Marxism and the Oppression of Women (full book)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxD_FnW_o-X8dXJrUzk3dmNHeGs/view
Women’s equality vs patriarchy
http://sfr-21.org/women.html
Mao on Women
http://sfr-21.org/mao-women.html
Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung – Women
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch31.htm
International Working Women’s Day – V.I. Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/mar/04.htm
Women and the Struggle for Socialism
http://www.marxist.com/marxism-feminism-class-struggle-emancipation-women.htm
African American Equality and Racism (section on Women)
http://www.cpusa.org/party_info/excerpts-from-the-classics-african-american-equality-and-racism/
Marx on Gender and the Family
http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/marx-gender-family.pdf
Women, Race and Class
https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/davis-angela/housework.htm
History
Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Chapter 4: Women in the USSR)
https://ia600300.us.archive.org/6/items/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion/Human%20Rights%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1940991216223004 – easy reading link (part one)
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/photos/a.1922050888117037.1073741828.1921706061484853/1940991676222958/?type=3&theater easy reading link – (part two)
Why women had better sex under socialism
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism.html
Women’s rights in Afghanistan
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/women%E2%80%99s-rights-in-afghanistan/
Communism & Women’s rights by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYeIleea3FA
Women in the Russian Revolution
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/socialism/4930-wr100817
Soviet women remember Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933jsB5ChlA
Soviet Power and the Status of Women – Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm
Venezuela creates day of Socialist feminism
https://mronline.org/2017/10/03/venezuela-creates-day-of-socialist-feminism/
Constitution of the USSR guaranteed full equality between men and women and went a long way to eliminating sexism and patriarchy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1977,_Unamended)#Chapter_6._Citizenship_of_the_USSR_.2F_Equality_of_Citizens.27_Rights
October Revolution – Women’s liberation by Proletarian TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXvqFPH4k8Y
The image of a woman in Soviet propaganda
http://russiatrek.org/blog/art/the-image-of-a-woman-in-soviet-propaganda/
The Bolshevik Revolutions’ pioneering gains for women
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/The-Bolshevik-Revolutions-Pioneering-Gains-for-Women-20171101-0045.html
Cuban Parliament: 43% Women
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=19854
Cuba in the top 10 world rankings for number of women parliamentarians
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2015-03-09/cuba-in-the-top-10-world-rankings-for-number-of-women-parliamentarians
Soviet Russia had a better record of training women in STEM than America does today
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-russia-had-a-better-record-of-training-women-in-stem-than-america-does-today-180948141/
The Soviet Woman – a Full and Equal Citizen of Her Country
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1946/full.htm
Womens participation in politics in the USSR (from The Soviet Woman — a Full and Equal Citizen of Her Country)
Quotes from “Pickaxe and Rifle” on the rights of women in Albania:
In 1938 there were 668 women workers in all Albania, mostly girls of 14 or 16 working a ten hour day for appallingly low wages. By 1967 over 248,000 women, which is 42% of rural and urban workers, were engaged in production work on exactly the same terms as men”
Regarding the 1965 “new family code”:
Marriage is contracted with the free will of husband and wife and rests on solid feelings of love, equality and mutual respect. Only monogamous marriages are recognized.
Partners in marriage can choose as their surname that of husband or wife or each may keep his or her original name or add them together.
A wife can choose her work or profession without her husband’s permission and the handling of the family income is managed by mutual agreement.
Personal property held by either before marriage remains his or hers and anything acquired afterwards is joint property. All children regardless of sex are entitled to equal shares in the inheritance of joint personal property and the wife is the heir of first rank.
Divorce is allowed when a marriage has lost all meaning and cohabitation has become intolerable. Causes for divorce are continuous quarrels, maltreatment, breach of conjugal faith, permanent mental illness or punishment for serious crimes. There is no distinction between husband or wife in the right to sue for divorce and the rearing of children is confided to that parent who in the court’s opinion is better qualified to bring them up.
All parental rights belong to both parents equally and disagreements are settled by tutelage committees or by the courts.
Single mothers enjoy all due respect and the state guarantees their economic security and protection. Children born outside marriage are equal in every way to those born within.
Abortions are allowed after consultation with a committee of doctors. Birth control is a matter of personal choice. There is no family planning in the sense of national campaigns to limit births because Albania is an underpopulated country in which all births are welcomed”
Anti-racism, anti-colonialism etc
Theory etc
It’s not racism vs antiracism, it’s capitalist vs socialism
http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/its-not-racism-vs-antiracism-its-capitalism-vs-socialism/
“Where are the people of color?”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/left-diversity-people-color-white-identitarian-solidarity-difference/
Women, Race and Class
https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/davis-angela/housework.htm
Colonialism is doomed! Poster art from the USSR
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/multimedia/Colonialism-is-Doomed-Poster-Art-from-the-USSR-20170419-0040.html
History
History of the Asian nationalities of the USSR
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1926775650977894 (Part one)
https://www.facebook.com/JLeftistArchive/posts/1926776104311182 (part two)
Soviet Affirmative Action – the Harvard Interview Project of 1950-51
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2015/05/15/soviet-affirmative-action-the-harvard-interview-project-of-1950-51/
The lost world of communist Africa
https://theanonymousrevolutionary.com/2015/05/02/the-lost-world-of-communist-africa/
The Russian Revolution, Africa and the Diaspora
http://www.aaihs.org/the-russian-revolution-africa-and-the-diaspora/
Anti-racism in early Soviet visual culture
http://www.aaihs.org/anti-racism-in-early-soviet-visual-culture/
Marxism and the Caste question
http://peoplesdemocracy.in/2016/0403_pd/marxism-and-caste-question
29 astounding Soviet propaganda images promoting racial equality
https://www.buzzfeed.com/marcjaysonc/29-astounding-soviet-propaganda-images-promoting-r-ffhg?utm_term=.lnqMMMkax#.ad6PPPaQ8
Racial harmony in a Marxist utopia: how the Soviet Union capitalised on US discrimination
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2016/jan/24/racial-harmony-in-a-marxist-utopia-how-the-soviet-union-capitalised-on-us-discrimination-in-pictures#img-6
The Bolshevik Revolution: unacknowledged inspiration of liberation movements everywhere
http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-bolshevik-revolution-unacknowledged-inspiration-of-liberation-movements-everywhere/
How does Socialism solve Racism, Sexism and other oppressions?
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/how-does-socialism-solve-racism-sexism-other-oppression/
In Russia, early African-American migrants found the good life
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-c1-black-russian-americans-20141119-story.html
Paul Robeson on the Soviet Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU_-0qKhNeg
Soviet But Not Russian: The “Other” Peoples of the Soviet Union
https://archive.org/details/SovietButNotRussian
African American Equality and Racism
http://www.cpusa.org/party_info/excerpts-from-the-classics-african-american-equality-and-racism/
Resurrecting Thomas Sankara
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/thomas-sankara-burkina-faso-assassination/
The Bolshevik Revolution and the legacy of Anti-Imperialism
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Bolshevik-Revolution-and-the-Legacy-of-Anti-Imperialism-20171102-0012.html
Black Marxism by Cedric J Robinson
https://libcom.org/files/Black%20Marxism-Cedric%20J.%20Robinson.pdf
Graphic detailing some of the different ethnic groups in the USSR
https://img3.goodfon.com/original/4879×3021/1/ab/sssr-karta-nacionalnosti.jpg
Black Bolsheviks and White Lies: Reflections on the Black Radical Tradition
http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/black-bolsheviks-and-white-lies.html#.WgJidY9-rcv
How the Russian Revolution inspired and assisted National Liberation struggles
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/How-the-Russian-Revolution-Inspired-and-Assisted-National-Liberation-Struggles-20171023-0012.html
Soviet influences in Latin America
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Soviet-Influences-in-Latin-America-That-You-May-Not-Know-20171023-0008.html
Black and Red – Communists in the early Civil Rights fight
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Black-and-Red-Communists-in-the-Early-Civil-Rights-Fight-20160905-0021.html
Cuba – showing how to defeat racism
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cuba-showing-how-defeat-racism
50 years on the frontline: the revolutionary contributions of Ho Chi Minh
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2015/05/fifty-years-on-the-frontline-the-revolutionary-contributions-of-ho-chi-minh/
Patrice Lumumba: The Truth About a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/LumumbaTruth
Patrice Lumumba: Fighter for Africa’s Freedom (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/LumumbaFighter
National Liberation Movement in West Africa, 1956 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/NatLibWestAfrica
Africa Wins Freedom, 1965 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/AfricaWinsFreedom
A Short History of the National-liberation Movement in East Africa
https://archive.org/details/NatLibEastAfrica
Diplomatic Battles Before World War II
https://archive.org/details/DiplomaticBattlesBeforeWWII
LGBTQ+
Lavender & Red – Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
https://www.workers.org/lavender-red/
Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba
https://www.workers.org/lavender-red/LavenderRed_Cubabook.pdf
Cuba enjoys new benefit of free sex-change operation
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/01/cuba.sex.change/index.html
Homosexuality in Cuba: revolution within the revolution
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43b/172.html
How does Socialism solve Racism, Sexism and other oppressions?
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/how-does-socialism-solve-racism-sexism-other-oppression/
Cuba says no to Transphobia and Homophobia
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuba-Says-No-to-Transphobia-and-Homophobia-20170503-0030.html
Fillipino Maoist army conducts first same-sex marriage in Phillipines
http://www.wheninmanila.com/lovewins-npa-weds-gay-couple-in-the-philippines/
How Fidel Castro’s niece Mariela led a LGBTQ revolution in Cuba
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/11/26/how_fidel_castro_s_niece_mariela_led_a_lgbtq_revolution_in_cuba.html
Looking at Cuba’s LGBTQ revolution through an objective lens
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Looking-at-Cubas-LGBTQ-Revolution-Through-an-Objective-Lens-20161204-0018.html
Che Guevara myths: The truth about the racist, homophobic, murderer
https://www.inquisitr.com/opinion/4289617/che-guevara-myths-the-truth-about-the-racist-homophobic-murderer/amp/
Cuba: from Machistas Lenninistas to educating homophobes
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/30/cuba-from-machistas-leninistas-to-educating-homophobes/
Homosexuality in the USSR
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/04/08/homosexuality-in-the-ussr/
Is Cuba taking the lead on LGBTQ equality in Latin America?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-duran/is-cuba-taking-the-lead-on-lgbt-equality-in-latin-america_b_2411729.html
Cuba’s CENESEX led the way on sexual rights
https://www.workers.org/2007/world/lavender-red-107/
Communism and religion
Communist theory towards religion
What has Marxism to do with Religion? By Roland Boer (excellent video, highly recommended)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOmT5nRSCeE
Congress of the Peoples of Daghestan (Speech by Stalin)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1920/11/13.htm
Attitude of the Workers’ Party towards Religion (by Lenin)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm
A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (by Marx)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm
The Program of the Blanquist Fugitives from the Paris Commune
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1874/06/26.htm
Third Meeting of Hoxha with Stalin
November 1949
“You should never put the struggle against the clergy, who carry out espionage and disruptive activities, on the religious plane,” Stalin said, “but always on the political plane. The clergy must obey the laws of the state, because these laws express the will of the working class and the working people. You must make the people quite clear about these laws and the hostility of the reactionary clergymen so that even that part of the population which believes in religion will clearly see that, under the guise of religion, the clergymen carry out activities hostile to the Homeland and the people themselves. Hence the people, convinced through facts and arguments, together with the Government, should struggle against the hostile clergy.
You should isolate and condemn only those clergymen who do not obey the Government and commit grave crimes against the state. But, I insist, the people must be convinced about the crimes of these clergymen, and should also be convinced about the futility of the religious ideology and the evils that result from it.”
Hoxha, Enver. With Stalin: Memoirs. Tirana: 8 N‘ntori Pub. House, 1979.
How religion was/is treated in communist countries
Article 68 of the DPRK Constitution: “Citizens have freedom of religious belief. This right is granted through the approval of the construction of religious buildings and the holding of religious ceremonies. Religion must not be used as a pretext for drawing in foreign forces or for harming the State or social order.”
https://www.kfausa.org/chapter-v-fundamental-rights-and-duties-of-citizens/
Religion in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
https://stalinsmoustache.org/2015/06/16/religion-in-the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea/
pp.61-63 (Islam), pp.88-98 (Judaism) Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Al Szymanski
https://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion
Tibet: religious freedom comes with Chinese Characteristics
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2021650/tibet-religious-freedom-comes-chinese-characteristics
Capitalism’s crimes
Was Nazi Germany made in America?
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/227396/was-nazi-germany-made-in-america
Calculating Capitalism’s death toll by BadMouse
https://youtu.be/QnIsdVaCnUE
1.6 billion killed by Capitalism – Jason Unruhe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmYSNDr84M4
2 billion + murdered by capitalism
https://www.facebook.com/Laborwave/photos/a.591029367773569.1073741828.591028524440320/686665281543310/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
U.S. has killed more than 20 million people in 37 victim nations since World War 2
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051
How many US deaths are caused by poverty, lack of education and other social factors?
https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/how-many-us-deaths-are-caused-poverty-lack-education-and-other-social-factors
New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/
Britons suffer ‘historical amnesia’ over atrocities of their former empire, says author
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/shashi-tharoor-britain-india-suffer-historical-amnesia-over-atrocities-of-their-former-empire-says-a7612086.html
The US Government tortures children
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-government-tortures-children/5539253
CIA ‘accidentally’ destroyed 6,700 page torture report
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-accidentally-destroyed-6700-page-torture-report-snowden-calls-bullshit/5526710
21,000 children die around the world every day
http://www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-21000-children-died-around-the-world
Post with long list of sources for capitalist crimes
https://www.facebook.com/Laborwave/posts/686665368209968
Killing hope by William Blum
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-q0ULBH2DJICRS3Vg
Promoting Plutocracy: U.S-Led Regime Change Operations and the Assault on Democracy
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/promoting-plutocracy-u-s-led-regime-change-operations-and-the-assault-on-democracy/
CIA motto: proudly overthrowing the Cuban government since 1959
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/15/cia-motto-proudly-overthrowing-the-cuban-government-since-1959/
State of fear: how history’s deadliest bombing campaign created todays crisis in Korea
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/08/state-of-fear-how-historys-deadliest-bombing-campaign-created-todays-crisis-in-korea/
World history of Imperialism, anti-Communism (etc)
General
List of countries that the U.S.A. has troops in
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/1068442999963873/
Military spending already bankrupting America
https://www.mintpressnews.com/military-spending-already-bankrupting-america/237593/
Overkill: the US military in Hawaii
http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/12/overkill-the-us-military-in-hawaii/
Abby Martin exposes untold history of U.S. Empire (with Jimmy Dore)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qKrPPv2ErY
Abby Martin discussing journalism, fake news etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDo0AUtW_Bo
Black Book of Imperialism: US/CIA Military interventions since WW2 (very good resource)
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2002823756710213&id=2002075330118389
Poll: US the greatest threat to peace in the world today
http://www.mintpressnews.com/polls-us-greatest-threat-peace-world-today/230660/
5 reasons why NATO is a destabilizing global force
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/5-Reasons-Why-NATO-Is-a-Destabilizing-Global-Force-20160404-0034.html
Imperialism: draining trillions of Dollars out of oppressed nations
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/capitalist-crisis/4764-id050417
The Empire Files: the rise of history’s biggest Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZLLpgsK_pg
CIA in the Dock: Soviet Journalists on International Terrorism
https://archive.org/details/CIAInTheDock
International Criminal Court makes request to investigate US for war crimes
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ICC-Makes-Request-to-Investigate-US-for-War-Crimes-20171122-0005.html
Monetary Imperialism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/29/monetary-imperialism/
The Hunger Games: how modern Imperialism creates famine around the world
http://www.mintpressnews.com/modern-imperialism-creates-famine-world/229346/
EU
Trials of Andreas Georgiou and the fraud that drove Greece into austerity
http://www.mintpressnews.com/trials-andreas-georgiou-fraud-drove-greece-austerity/235102/
Global Empire – Capitalism and Democracy (2nd half discusses the EU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2DiEBXByJ0
Cuba
CIA motto: proudly overthrowing the Cuban government since 1959
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/15/cia-motto-proudly-overthrowing-the-cuban-government-since-1959/
The unrelenting economic war on Cuba
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/28/the-unrelenting-economic-war-on-cuba/
DPRK
Empire Files: War with North Korea – propaganda vs reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDJlNQlRbIA
Donald Trumps threat to destroy North Korea is totally illegal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5TQ5E5T9Mo
What war with North Korea looked like in the 1950s and why it matters now
http://www.newsweek.com/us-forget-korean-war-led-crisis-north-592630
Americans have forgotten what we did to North Korea – Vox
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089913/north-korea-us-war-crime
Crimes, Concealment and South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
https://web.archive.org/web/20081007071649/http://www.japanfocus.org/_______Khiem___Kim_Sung_soo-Crimes__Concealment_and_South_Korea___s_Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission
People’s Armies: how small states under threat manage to maintain large military forces
https://www.facebook.com/ImperialMilitaryWatch.Analysis/posts/1847834395536589
National liberation and the DPRK
http://writetorebel.com/2017/03/29/national-liberation-and-the-dprk/
Review of book detailing US germ warfare in Korea
https://shadowproof.com/2015/03/30/book-review-this-must-be-the-place-how-the-u-s-waged-germ-warfare-in-korean-war-denied-it-ever-since/
A lost document from the Cold War: the International Scientific Commission report on bacterial warfare during the Korean War
https://valtinsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/a-lost-document-from-cold-war.html#.WdzNrFtSyUk
CIA document suggests US lied about biological, chemical weapons use in the Korean War
https://shadowproof.com/2013/12/10/cia-document-suggests-u-s-lied-about-biological-chemical-weapon-use-in-the-korean-war/
No Gun Ri massacre
https://www.facebook.com/telesurenglish/videos/1079553265521408/?hc_location=ufi
Expert exposes US biological warfare during Korean War
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Expert-Exposes-US-Biological-Warfare-During-Korean-War-20171005-0006.html
Suppressed report on 1952 US Korean War Anthrax attack
https://valtinsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/revealed-suppressed-report-on-1952-us.html#.WelhWVWnGUk
South Korea owns up to brutal past
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/south-korea-owns-up-to-brutal-past/2008/11/14/1226318928410.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Truth Commission reveals history of Korean War: U.S.-South Korea carried out massacres of civillians
http://iacenter.org/korea/skorea070608/
America’s big lie about bioweapon crimes in Korea by Jeff. J Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kRUY8wcTDk
Imperialism’s drive to war in Korea
https://redyouth.org/2017/04/21/imperialisms-drive-to-war-in-korea/
John McCain threatens North Korea with “extinction”
http://www.mintpressnews.com/john-mccain-threatens-north-korea-with-extinction/231943/
What is the US military’s presence near North Korea?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/09/what-is-the-us-militarys-presence-in-south-east-asia
Tillerson talks of pre-emptive strikes on NKorea citing weapons of mass destruction
http://www.mintpressnews.com/tillerson-talks-of-pre-emptive-stikes-on-nkorea-citing-weapons-of-mass-destruction/226009/
U.S. aggression heightens tensions in Korea as Park government overthrown
https://www.liberationnews.org/u-s-aggression-heightens-tensions-in-korea-as-park-government-overthrown/
North Korea threatens ‘final doom’ after US deploys strategic bombers
http://www.mintpressnews.com/north-korea-threatens-final-doom-after-us-deploys-strategic-bombers/227435/
Prelude to war: defend People’s Korea!
https://anti-imperialism.org/2017/04/14/crisis-on-the-peninsula-defend-peoples-korea/
UN asserts link between North Korea and Syrian chemical weapons
http://www.mintpressnews.com/un-asserts-link-north-korea-syria-chemical-weapons-program/231262/
When the piper pays you: following the dangerous tune of the South Korean regime
https://anti-imperialism.org/2015/09/02/when-the-piper-pays-you-following-the-dangerous-tune-of-the-south-korean-regime/
Reviewing the evidence of DPRK culpability for the Cheonan Warship incident
https://www.globalresearch.ca/reviewing-the-evidence-of-dprk-culpability-for-the-cheonan-warship-incident/22133
War crimes investigation of North Korea ludicrous beyond words
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/war-crimes-investigation-of-north-korea-ludicrous-beyond-words/
North Korea’s “Hate America Month?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu3nasgUk6A
Pentagon leads over 300,000 troops in a rehersal for an invasion one week after the white house announces its considering military action against North Korea
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/pentagon-leads-over-300000-troops-in-a-rehearsal-for-an-invasion-one-week-after-the-white-house-announces-its-considering-military-action-against-north-korea/
Washington considers military action against North Korea to force regime change
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/washingtons-considers-military-action-against-north-korea-to-force-regime-change/
Beating the drum for a ‘good’ nuclear war with North Korea
http://www.mintpressnews.com/beating-the-drum-for-a-good-nuclear-war-with-north-korea/231710/
South Korea’s plan to assassinate Kim Jong-Un
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/23/asia/south-korea-plan-to-assassinate-kim-jong-un/
Colin Powell says U.S. should destroy North Korean regime if it uses Nuclear Weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7g_8mxaLvQ
US and North Korea: nuclear threat returns
http://revolutionarycommunist.org/americas/united-states/4985-uan021117
Pentagon: only ground invasion can destroy North Korean nuclear program
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/05/pentagon-ground-invasion-north-korean-nuclear-program
“Better a million dead Koreans” – Ex US army official
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Better-a-Million-Dead-North-Koreans-Ex-US-Army-Official-20170905-0019.html
Biological warfare in the Korean War: Allegations and Cover-up: Socialism and Democracy Vol 31, no. 1.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2016.1265859
Report of the International Scientific Commission For The Investigation of Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China
https://cryptome.org/2015/01/isc-biowar-kr-cn.pdf
North Korea: The Struggle Against American Power by Tim Beal – (Excellent book)
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=94A5D82DAE9E30CD65FAF8C0E7EE5A9B
US-DPRK: The Second Phase of the Nuclear Crisis, or “Who Started What
https://journal-neo.org/2017/11/26/us-dprk-the-second-phase-of-the-nuclear-crisis-or-who-started-what/
“Serious concern” about sanctions’ impact on North Korea aid work: UN DPRK rep
https://www.nknews.org/2017/12/serious-concern-about-sanctions-impact-on-north-korea-aid-work-un-dprk-rep/?c=1512654806814
Tokyo & Washington to limit North Korean access to oil
https://www.rt.com/business/401457-us-japan-north-korea-oil/
DPRK doctor states that sanctions are putting childrens’ lives at risk
https://www.facebook.com/PRESSTV/videos/1732744936767286/?hc_ref=ARQodwscBdMGd6gXmH8BvMVXHUExtsMHLKxbf3BJ54yyKv24ypUAUtQSp36-kBU0CwI
Report: North Korea faces fertilizer shortage due to China coal sanctions
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/05/05/Report-North-Korea-faces-fertilizer-shortage-due-to-China-coal-sanctions/3391493997741/
The economy of the DPRK: myth and reality
http://writetorebel.com/2017/03/28/the-economy-of-the-dprk-myth-and-reality/
Genocide by sanctions: UN double standards pertaining to sanctions and their devastating impacts
https://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-un-double-standards-pertaining-to-sanctions-and-their-devastating-social-impacts/5364484
US sanctions against the DPRK – a North Korean perspective
https://www.nknews.org/2017/08/new-u-s-sanctions-against-the-dprk-a-north-korean-perspective/
US representatives pass harshest sanctions ever against North Korea
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Reps-Pass-Harshest-Sanctions-Ever-Against-North-Korea-20171025-0006.html
Is the United states credible as a guarantor of international peace and security?
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/is-the-united-states-credible-as-a-guarantor-of-international-peace-and-security/
Why UN sanctions against North Korea are wrong
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/why-un-sanctions-against-north-korea-are-wrong/
It’s just a sanction, bro!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stT-yhxFinA
The Bombing of North Korea – death toll
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bombing_of_North_Korea_1950-1953#Death_Toll
State of fear: how history’s deadliest bombing campaign created todays crisis in Korea
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/08/state-of-fear-how-historys-deadliest-bombing-campaign-created-todays-crisis-in-korea/
Hunger in North Korea is devastating. And it’s our fault.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/opinion/weapons-north-korea-hunger.html?mtrref=www.facebook.com&assetType=opinion
USSR (historical)
Empire Files: Post-Soviet Russia, made in the U.S.A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HwvFyMg7A
We Can Be Friends: Origins of the Cold War by Carl Marzani
https://archive.org/details/WeCanBeFriends
(This book was published in 1952 during the Korean War and was written while the author was in prison for concealing his Communist Party membership when he was a part of the OSS during World War II. The author shows through quotes from conservatives, such as Stimson, Summer Welles, and Herbert Hoover as well as liberals such as Eleanor Roosevelt and FDR’s son Elliott that contrary, to popular belief, it was the U.S., not the Soviet Union, which started the Cold War.
Truman abandoned FDR’s policy of maintaining big three unity in order to prevent war and adopted the “get tough with Russia” policies of conservatives such as Arthur Vandenburg, and Forrestal who had opposed FDR’s foreign policy ideas.
The U.S. used the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to attempt to soften up the Soviets and get them to give into U.S. demands. Secretary of War Stimson proposed that the U.S. propose to the Soviet Union a nuclear disarmament proposal, but Truman rejected that approach and the U.S. proposed through the Baruch Plan, a U.S. dominated Commission that would control all fissionable materials and prevent any nation, especially the Soviet Union from breaking the U.S. nuclear monopoly.
Marzani, argues that the the hawks wanted a Cold War with the Soviet Union so that they could use the massive military budget resulting from the Cold War to shore up the economy and prevent another Depression as well as to attack radicals who want major reforms in the U.S. economy such as the proposals FDR made in his Second Bill of Rights Speech, made in 1944 calling for Universal Health Care, Full Employment, and an education and housing.)
The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War against Soviet Russia
http://www.shunpiking.org/books/GC/
American Policy Toward Russia Since 1917: A Study of Diplomatic History, International Law & Public Opinion, 1928 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/AmerPolicySovRussiaSince1917
Reagan approved plan to sabotage Soviets
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/reagan-approved-plan-to-sabotage-soviets/a9184eff-47fd-402e-beb2-63970851e130/?utm_term=.4cf1bcd33e6f
Latin America
Bolivia’s president declares total independence from World Bank, IMF
https://www.mintpressnews.com/bolivias-president-declares-total-independence-world-bank-imf/230062/
War on Democracy (film) by John Pilger – history of US ‘interventions’ in Latin America
http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy
Cuba evokes the history of American imperialism in Latin America
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/23/cuba-evokes-the-history-of-american-imperialism-in-latin-america/
Banana land: Blood, Bullets and Poison – history of the banana trade in Central America
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/banana-land-blood-bullets-poison/
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – story of the US-backed opposition coup against Chavez
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363510/
US-Led economic war, not Socialism, is tearing Venezuela apart
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-led-economic-war-not-socialism-tearing-venezuela-apart/218335/
Differences between Venezuela fighting corruption and the USA
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Differences-Between-Venezuela-Fighting-Corruption-and-the-US-20171104-0009.html
Colombia is safe for business, but not for people
https://mronline.org/2017/12/06/colombia-is-safe-for-business-but-not-for-people/
Civic strike paralyses Columbia’s principle pacific port
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/civic-strike-paralyses-colombias-principle-pacific-port/
CIA in the Dock: Soviet Journalists on International Terrorism (Chile,
https://archive.org/details/CIAInTheDock
Proving Ground for US Neocolonialism: An Historical Outline of the Infiltration of Latin America by Monopoly Capital
https://archive.org/details/ProvingGroundsForUSNeocolonialism
The U.S. role in the Honduras coup and subsequent violence
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-us-role-in-the-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence_us_5766c7ebe4b0092652d7a138
Honduras elections turning the tide of US backed violence and neoliberalism
https://www.mintpressnews.com/honduras-elections-turning-the-tide-of-us-backed-violence-and-neoliberalism/234932/
Honduras elites blamed for violence against environmental activists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/honduras-environmental-activists-global-witness-violence-berta-caceres
The World Today: Obama’s coup in Honduras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Fk0Y8zJRs
Honduras in Flames
https://mronline.org/2017/12/12/honduras-in-flames/
Chile
Chile – the anatomy of an “economic miracle”
https://libcom.org/library/chile-anatomy-of-an-economic-miracle
Chile – lessons of the coup
http://revolutionarycommunist.org/americas/latin-america/664-chile-lessons-of-the-coup-frfi-144-aug-sep-1998
Patricio Guzman interview
https://newint.org/features/2015/11/01/patricio-guzman-interview
China
The Coming War on China by John Pilger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsdOw2_LGsk
China, Tibet, and U.S.-sponsored counter revolution
https://www.liberationnews.org/08-04-01-china-tibet-ussponsored-coun-html/
CIA Tibetan program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program
Dalai Lama group says it got money from the CIA
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/world-news-briefs-dalai-lama-group-says-it-got-money-from-cia.html
Secret Files: Untold story of CIA covert operations in Tibet
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612131048516027-china-cia-tibet/
See sections on Tibet and Tiananmen Square under “PRC” – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gxwhh-vdeB–47HM-20cEVRC9eAMhrapbNf0Sk8VSOs/edit#heading=h.q9uo3dbxv5qc
Eastern Bloc (historical)
Bulgaria, 1990, Albania, 1991: teaching communists what democracy is all about
https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/bulgaria-albania
Middle East & Afghanistan
Afghanis submit 1.17 million complaints of crimes against humanity
http://theantimedia.org/afghanis-submit-million-war-crimes/
Kissinger’s occupation of Iraq destroys agriculture
http://www.mintpressnews.com/kissingers-occupation-iraq-destroys-agriculture/226407/
U.S. destabilizes Venezuela, Syria to retain hegemony in global oil and gas markets
http://www.mintpressnews.com/u-s-destabilizes-venezuela-syria-to-retain-hegemony-in-global-oil-gas-markets/227831/
James Le Mesurier: The former British mercenary who founded the White Helmets
http://www.mintpressnews.com/james-le-mesurier-british-ex-military-mercenary-founded-white-helmets/230320/
Pentagon report predicted Wests’ support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/05/22/pentagon-report-predicted-wests-support-for-islamist-rebels-would-create-isis/
RT: Yemen, the neglected war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lreEMTQfTA
When Washington cheered Jihadists
http://www.mintpressnews.com/washington-cheered-jihadists/235430/
Yemen: a western-sponsored genocide
http://www.thedawn-news.org/2017/12/19/yemen-a-western-sponsored-genocide/
U.S. to extract minerals from Afghanistan to defray cost of US assistance
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-to-extract-minerals-from-afghanistan-to-defray-cost-of-us-assistance/232333/
Riyadh’s bloody ‘vietnam’ in Yemen not going as planned
https://sputniknews.com/military/201712241060291223-riyadh-yemen-war-like-vietnam/
A total horror show: the new plan for Yemen
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/22/a-total-horror-show-the-new-plan-for-yemen/
Yemen: 5 children dying per day
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/16/yemen-war-children-dead-injured-malnourished
The UAE overthrew the Yemeni Government
http://theantimedia.org/uae-overthrew-yemen-government/
Syria
Western howls over the Ghouta siege ring hollow
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ghouta-siege-syria-death-toll-civilians-armed-attack-rebel-aleppo-latest-a8221086.html
Syrian War for dummies: three versions
https://www.sott.net/article/377588-Syrian-War-for-Dummies-Three-Versions
Sudden surge of media coverage on the CIA’s arming of ISIS
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-surge-of-media-coverage-on-the-cias-arming-of-isis/235587/
Excellent analysis of media reporting on Syria
https://markdoran.wordpress.com/2018/02/10/syriana/
How the Western media ignores their role in the conflict
https://twitter.com/markcurtis30/status/962712345003864066
ISIS morphs from deadly enemy in Syria to useful weapon in Abu Kamal (excellent article)
https://www.mintpressnews.com/isis-morphs-from-deadly-enemy-in-syria-to-useful-weapon-in-abu-kamal/237896/
The pundits were wrong about Assad and the Islamic State.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-abrahms-glaser-isis-assad-20171210-story.html
Study shows Islamic State’s primary opponent is Syrian Government
http://news.ihsmarkit.com/press-release/aerospace-defense-security/study-shows-islamic-states-primary-opponent-syria-governmen
Media blacks out Pentagon report exposing US role in ISIS creation
http://www.mintpressnews.com/media-blacks-out-pentagon-report-exposing-u-s-role-in-isis-creation/206187/
Homage to Syria
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/08/31/homage-to-syria/
The last days of Jobar mark the end of the proxy war in Syria
http://www.mintpressnews.com/the-last-days-of-jobar-mark-the-end-of-the-proxy-war-in-syria/235453/
Julian Assange: US, Israel, planned to overthrow Assad in 2006
http://www.mintpressnews.com/julian-assange-us-israel-planned-to-overthrow-assad-in-2006/209493/
US confronting Iran inside Syria: spoiling for an unlawful fight
http://www.mintpressnews.com/u-s-confronting-iran-inside-syria-spoiling-for-an-unlawful-fight/235771/
Why the conflict in Syria was always Israel’s war
http://www.mintpressnews.com/why-conflict-syria-was-always-israels-war/231532/
U.S. will lose Syria to Iran and abandon Kurdish allies, former ambassador says
http://www.newsweek.com/us-military-kurds-lose-iran-syria-former-ambassador-627395?utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=right&utm_medium=related2
Ex-Marine’s analysis of US intervention in Syria (from 2013)
https://www.facebook.com/MintpressNewsMPN/videos/1422559624454235/
The CIA origins of ISIS
http://theantimedia.org/someone-finally-explained-isis-created-will-make-question-everything/
Libya
Hillary Clinton and the truth about Libya
https://youtu.be/NvSi6CsjVDo
Libya without Gaddafi: 5 years of turmoil (Special Report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHCh_eCzzws
Michael Parenti on Libya and Gadaffi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZqSJgtve5A
Timeline of events in Libya
Libya events timeline
Palestine/Israel
Former Israeli soldier: I helped entrench the occupation
https://www.mintpressnews.com/watch-former-israeli-soldier-i-helped-entrench-the-occupation/237799/
United states and Israel: re-evaluating a toxic relationship
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/United-States-and-Israel-Re-evaluating-a-Toxic-Relationship-20171224-0013.html
Jewish Voice for Peace video about the BDS movement
https://www.facebook.com/JewishVoiceforPeace/videos/10156917331149992/
The contemporary Jewish dilemma: adopt or reject Zionism and White Supremacy
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Contemporary-Jewish-Dilemma-Adopt-or-Reject-Zionism-and-White-Supremacy-20171207-0010.html
52% of Israeli Jews agree: African migrants are ‘a cancer’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/most-israeli-jews-agree-africans-are-a-cancer/
Israel orders African refugees to leave country within three months or face prison
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-refugees-africa-order-leave-country-prison-threat-a8138961.html
Netanyahu openly boasts of Israel’s war against Africans
https://electronicintifada.net/content/netanyahu-openly-boasts-israels-war-africans/19051
Asa Winstanley reviews James Horrox’s account of anarchism in the Zionist kibbutzim, which, in its marginalisation of the Palestinians, suffers from the same blindness and moral lacunae as the kibbutz ideologues it attempts to study.
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_receiving_end_of_our_dreams
Zionism from the standpoint of its victims by Edward Said
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Edward-Said-Excerpt.pdf
Israel tortures Palestinian children, keeps them in outdoor cages in winter – human rights group
http://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-tortures-palestinian-children-keeps-them-in-outdoor-cages-in-winter-rights-group/212808/
Everyday Israeli’s express support for Genocide to Abby Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFoxL3sOAio
Abby Martin discusses Palestine (among other topics) – very good (and disturbing) talk
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/needs-title
What does the BDS movement mean for Palestine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAxYkenR48w
Israeli Palestinian conflict explained: an animated introduction to Israel and Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y58njT2oXfE
No Man’s Land – the history of the Israeli Black Panthers’ struggle against racist state violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uSQA1TMbw
Mental health in Palestine among world’s worst
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2017/5/12/mental-health-in-palestine-among-worlds-worst
Global Empire – The Israeli State and its Rogue Allies
https://youtu.be/55BXncWCcoM
Global Empire – Eyal Weizman: Excavating Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQbwDemd3jY
The World Today – the tragedy of Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kofa7w71nlM
Empire Files: Home Demolitions for Illegal Settlements Surging
https://youtu.be/-sGSRLrE-is
Five Broken Cameras – A documentary on a Palestinian farmer’s chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125423/
John Pilger: Palestine is still the issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYF0td7Ykus
In Search of Palestine – Edward Said’s Return Home BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09FjpTf_3Q
Empire Files: Touring Palestine’s Besieged Refugee Camps
https://youtu.be/f3RypMScEMQ
Thank God it’s Friday
https://vimeo.com/226575842
Exposing Israel’s Ultra-Nationalist Settler Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xatIsNxa1mw
Occupation 101 – full documentary
https://youtu.be/CDK6IfZK0a0
Homeland Insecurity: Palestine’s refusal to die haunts Israeli colonial celebrations
http://www.mintpressnews.com/homeland-insecurity-palestines-refusal-to-die-haunts-israeli-colonial-celebrations/235033/
Myth: the Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3212-myth-the-palestinians-voluntarily-left-their-homeland-in-1948
Israeli soldiers: Army deliberately targeted civilians in Gaza
http://www.mintpressnews.com/israeli-soldiers-army-deliberately-targeted-civilians-in-gaza/205287/
42 times the US has vetoed UN resolutions against Israel
http://www.mintpressnews.com/42-times-the-us-has-vetoed-un-resolutions-against-israel/235700/
China Rallies Support for Four-point Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.804541
Chinese President Calls for East Jerusalem as Capital of Palestinian State
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.698833
From the River to the Sea: PFLP’s 50 years of struggle
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/From-the-River-to-the-Sea-PFLPs-50-Years-of-Struggle-20171211-0017.html
Jeremy Hardy vs the Israeli Army (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gw6j9DaSY4
Promises and Betrayals: Britain and the Holy Land
https://youtu.be/7VBlBekw3Uk
TRUMP UNSUCCESSFULLY BULLIES UN MEMBERS TO VOTE AGAINST SHARED AND PEACEFUL JERUSALEM
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/trump-bullies-un-members-vote-shared-peaceful-jerusalem/
“As far as the history of religion in the Middle East, I think one thing that is really instructive is to look at the destruction of the ancient temples in Palmyra by Daesh. These temples were destroyed, supposedly, because Islam required them to be destroyed, and this is the reputation of Islam today, that it would destroy such temples.
But of course Syria has been ruled by Muslims since the 7th century when it was conquered by Caliph Abubakr, who was the father-in-law and close friend of Mohamed. Neither Abubakr nor any of the possibly hundreds of Muslim rulers — including of course Bashar al Assad — who controlled Palmyra between the 600s and Daesh’s conquest in, like, 2013, felt it necessary to destroy the temples.
Similarly, the Yazidis were nearly wiped out by Daesh, and this, also is taken as demonstrative of Muslim attitudes toward minority religions. Yet, of course, Iraq has been Muslim since the 600s as well, and none of the previous Muslim rulers wiped out the Yazidis.
It would be inaccurate and idealistic to say that there was no interreligious conflict in Muslim countries prior to the 20th century. But it is absolutely the case that on the whole a number of religions were able to coexist in those areas, despite the conflict — which at times could be bloody.
This business of wiping people out, of demanding purification, and etc., is basically a 20th century thing. And that is true whether we are talking about the Turkish genocide of the Armenians (and just as there are still Palestinians in spite of genocide there are also still Armenians) as well as Assyrians and Greeks in Turkey.
And it is true also of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Prior to the 20th century, the majority religion in Palestine was Sunni Islam but there were also Christians, Jews and Shia. Yes, there was conflict, but they all managed to survive. Only today, under the Zionist state, do we have this situation where one religious group is seeking to wipe out all the others.
And I do not think that any of the Palestinian resistance groups seek to do to the Jews what the Zionists are seeking to do to the Palestinians, which is to say force them all to die or leave.” (From facebook)
Iran
For 40 years, Iran’s been preparing for the war the US has been threatening
http://www.mintpressnews.com/for-40-years-irans-been-preparing-for-the-war-the-us-has-been-threatening/224677/
US defense secretary Mattis rejects war on Iran
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-defense-secretary-mattis-rejects-war-on-iran/235706/
We need to talk about the Iran protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gz7o20p7rI
Iraq
Remember when the media sold us the Iraq WMD lies? It’s happening again
http://theantimedia.org/media-iraq-lie-peddling-russia-war/
Suddan Hussein’s CIA interrogator: He tried to warn us, we didn’t listen
http://theantimedia.org/saddam-hussein-cia-interrogator-warn-us/
Southeast Asia
No, the US didn’t ‘stand by’ Indonesian genocide – it actively participated
https://mronline.org/2017/10/20/no-u-s-didnt-stand-by-indonesian-genocide-it-actively-participated/
Vietnam 40 years on: how Communist victory gave way to capitalist corruption (good summary of some of the brutality of the Vietnam War and the subsequent economic warfare against Vietnam, read critically)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/22/vietnam-40-years-on-how-communist-victory-gave-way-to-capitalist-corruption
Africa
US Neocolonialism in Africa (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/USNeocolonialismAfrica
Looking out for Western business and investor rights, the invasion of Libya
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/looking-out-for-western-business-and-investor-rights-why-the-west-approves-military-interventions-to-topple-one-arab-government-and-prop-up-another/
Patrice Lumumba: The Truth About a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/LumumbaTruth
Patrice Lumumba: Fighter for Africa’s Freedom (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/LumumbaFighter
Libya in 2017 is home to the slave trade
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201711211059291956-libya-slave-trade-intervention/
Shadow armies: the unseen but real US war in Africa
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Shadow-Armies-The-Unseen-But-Real-US-War-in-Africa-20180107-0013.html
Shell ruling is bad for democracy and the planet – Shell involvement in Nigeria
https://mronline.org/2018/02/18/shell-ruling-is-bad-for-democracy-and-the-planet/
Imperialist and anti-communist propaganda explained
Note: this entire section will be re-worked at some point
The Cold War
Nato expansion: what Gorbachev heard (discussion of the NATO creep eastwards after German reunification)
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
To summarize Michael Parenti: The media and government has portrayed anticommunist and anti-Soviet policies as understandable defensive responses to Soviet aggrandizement. According to the standard narrative, The Cold War started in 1947 when Russia proved itself to be an expansionist and menacing power. In response to that aggrandizement, the US alerted the public to the Soviet menace. We reacted to this threat with the NATO shield, armaments, interventions in various countries, and so on. The Truman Doctrine was established, which reoriented foreign policy to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion.
However, in the eighties, the American Historical Association published a set of documents that they got from the State department under the Freedom of Information Act. These documents reveal that the State department *never* believed that the Soviets had any intention, interest, or capability of invading Western Europe in the late 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s. This is of course mind-blowing for those who were raised in that post-war era and heard constant reports about the Soviet menace in Europe. Just ask your parents. Their generation made to believe that what we needed, above all else, was a NATO shield.
“… the capitalists, although they clamour, for ‘propaganda’ purposes, about the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union, do not themselves believe that it is aggressive, because they are aware of the Soviet Union’s peaceful policy and know that it will not itself attack capitalist countries.” — Stalin, 1951
Anti-communist propaganda (general)
Left Anti-Communist: the Unkindest Cut
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/
The great myths about the Soviet Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3vecJDKTBg
Nikita Khrushchev’s secret speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqIU9_zKg4
Robert Conquest – lies about Socialism, Stalin and the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vcHuTskBz4
Talk by Grover Furr on Tim Snyder’s Bloodlands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxYdGSIP0d0
Top 10 lies about the Bolshevik Revolution (part 1)
https://www.bolshevik.info/top-10-lies-about-the-bolshevik-revolution-part-one.htm
Reflection on the overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVes44hcJg
Anti-Sovietism in the media by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/FUWrgLpazwE
America’s unofficial religion – the war on an idea by Abby Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hznlp-DwgSw
Russia rejects Ukraine ban of communist symbols
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Russia-Rejects-Ukraine-Ban-of-Communist-Symbols-20150411-0010.html
Inside The Myth: Orwell, Views From The Left, 1984 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/OrwellViewsFromTheLeft
Imperialist propaganda
Mueller, Russia and Oil politics
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/19/mueller-russia-and-oil-politics/
Imperialist propaganda on “responsibility to protect” chauvinism
https://www.facebook.com/100010891506889/videos/531340873905625/
On Russia, today’s liberals take their cues from Fascists
https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/on-russia-todays-liberals/
The United States and the Russian devil: 1917-2017
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/08/the-united-states-and-the-russian-devil-1917-2017/
Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/03/unspeakable-the-black-book-of-imperial-terrorism/
New York Times laments forever wars its editorials helped create
https://mronline.org/2017/10/24/nyt-laments-forever-wars-its-editorials-helped-create/
Amnesty International’s kangaroo report on Syria
http://theduran.com/amnesty-international-saydnaya-prison-report/
Amnesty claims mass executions in Syria, provides zero proof
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/02/amnesty-report-hearsay.html#more
COINTELPRO
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
In defence of the Hammer & Sickle
http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/in-defense-of-the-hammer-and-sickle.html#.WgERP4-0Pcv
The contradictory treatment of “Dictatorships” by the US government
In the NOW video
Citizens’ Comission to Investigate the FBI:1971 (COINTELPRO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVcS4yGcSY
Seeing Red: It’s time to quit shying away from a positive communist politics. Turning away from the past only gives our opponents ammunition.
https://medium.com/@pravdamedia/seeing-red-b6234d9d91a3
Fake news isn’t new: dissecting two decades of war propaganda
http://www.mintpressnews.com/fake-news-isnt-new-dissecting-two-decades-of-war-propaganda/224022/
10 conspiracy theories that turned out to be true
http://theantimedia.org/10-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/
Black book of communism
Communism did not kill millions of people by Benji Whiskettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQc5f2JYP-A&t=2s
Criticism of Black Book of Communism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism#Criticism
The black book of Communism debunked
https://maoistrebelnews.com/2011/08/10/the-black-book-of-communism-debunked/
The Black Book of Communism is Bullshit
https://twitter.com/i/moments/923349474390528000
Increasing state repression in Western countries
Conservative led anti-protest legislation already doubled since last year
https://mronline.org/2018/02/18/conservative-led-anti-protest-legislation-already-doubled-since-last-year/
CIA and other intelligence agencies, mass surveillance etc
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
Wikileaks reveals Marble: proof CIA disguises hacks as Russian, Chinese, Arabic
https://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-reveals-marble-proof-cia-disguises-hacks-russian-chinese-arabic/226475/
The CIA and the Cultural Cold War revisited
https://monthlyreview.org/1999/11/01/the-cia-and-the-cultural-cold-war-revisited/
Historical, structural reasons for skepticism of CIA claims
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/12/historical-structural-reasons-for-skepticism-of-cia-claims-remaining-agnostic-on-claims-of-russian-hackers/
The surveillance that never sleeps
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/14/surveillance-that-never-sleeps/
The unthinkable consequences of outsourcing U.S. intelligence
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-unthinkable-consequences-of-outsourcing-u-s-intelligence/237793/
FBI whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar’s campaign to neuter Wikileaks
https://www.mintpressnews.com/fbi-whistleblower-on-pierre-omidyar-campaign-to-neuter-wikileaks/236414/
Academia, publishing and media
The CIA’s 60-year history of Fake News
http://www.mintpressnews.com/cias-60-year-history-fake-news-deep-state-corrupted-many-american-writers/236042/
Washington Post publishes fake history of Soviet Union
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201710111058145604-washington-post-fake-history-USSR/
Methods of media manipulation by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/v6LJEhYnfCY
Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/9-SK8bUsshQ
The Culture Struggle by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYCMjoM5vY
A review of US media coverage on Venezuela
https://mronline.org/2017/08/25/a-review-of-u-s-media-coverage-on-venezuela/
Why does the Pseudo-Left hate Grover Furr?
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2017/11/19/why-does-the-pseudo-left-hate-grover-furr/
Silencing Dissent In Academia – Richard Wolff & John Summa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuPfM1JYqPI&index=88&list=WL
Demonization of the leader – by Michael Parenti
https://youtu.be/HHE7rPJoUtQ
The collapse of the media and what you can do about it
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/01/the-collapse-of-media-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
Vera Shlakman, professor fired during Red Scare, dies at 108
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/obituaries/vera-shlakman-professor-fired-during-red-scare-dies-at-108.html
John Pilger: the BBC is and has been the most refined propaganda service in the world
https://www.facebook.com/RTUKnews/videos/1868032526819955/
Fascism explained
Was Nazi Germany made in America?
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/227396/was-nazi-germany-made-in-america
“Fascism in a pinstripe suit” from Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti
https://books.google.com/books?id=XGBrLo4WbJ8C&pg=PA32&dq=fascism+in+a+pinstriped+suit&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIzseTjfHUAhUBUGMKHaQYCWMQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
What is Fascism? By Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmfvJEgTWy4
Again about Fascism by Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7JIvmsrROs
Is Anti-Fascism the same as Fascism? By Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM8bzm7-kIQ
Socialism = Fascism? By Finnish Bolshevik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6ZDXkbaxE
Communism vs Fascism: busting the myths
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Communism-vs.-Fascism-Busting-the-Myths-20171023-0019.html
The Supermanagerial Reich – the political economy of Nazism
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich
Fascism’s ties to capitalism: Dr. Michael Parenti interviewed by Dave Emory (1993)
https://youtu.be/KQYTY2oZhwg
21st Century Fascism
http://rallycomrades.lrna.org/2016/01/21st-century-fascism/
Fascism in a pinstripe suit by Michael Parenti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu6QTSnJbFs
The role of property in Nazi Germany: The case of industry
http://www.piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capitalisback/CountryData/Germany/Other/Pre1950Series/RefsHistoricalGermanAccounts/BuchheimScherner06.pdf
The class character of Fascism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm#s2
Empire Files: Chris Hedges & Abby Martin – Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP5gjrh-3Ew
14 characteristics of Fascism (not enough emphasis on the Capitalist aspects, otherwise good)
http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm
Abby Martin interviews Chris Hedges on Trump, Fascism and the Christian Right (very good interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP5gjrh-3Ew
The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States
http://b-ok.org/book/695088/112435
The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism – by Georgi Dimitrov
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm
Donald Trump and the rise of American neo-fascism
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2016/03/26/donald-trump-and-the-rise-of-american-neo-fascism/
Is Fascism making a comeback? Part 1
https://mronline.org/2017/12/06/is-fascism-making-a-comeback-part-1/
World War 2
General
December 1941 – turning point of World War 2
https://www.globalresearch.ca/70-years-ago-december-1941-turning-point-of-world-war-ii/28059
Proving Nazi Germany was capitalist…again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLpX3t6g0AA&index=64&list=WL
Stalin ‘planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed pact’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3223834/Stalin-planned-to-send-a-million-troops-to-stop-Hitler-if-Britain-and-France-agreed-pact.html
Michael Parenti – the real causes of WW2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Lievywdoo (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDmovEja_f0 (part 2)
Don’t forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/08/dont-forget-how-the-soviet-union-saved-the-world-from-hitler/?utm_term=.bc09cc50810e
How the Russians took Berlin single-handedly
https://www.rbth.com/arts/history/2017/04/25/how-the-russians-took-berlin-single-handedly_749878
Lend Lease Act explained
https://www.globalresearch.ca/roosevelts-world-war-ii-lend-lease-act-americas-war-economy-us-military-aid-to-the-soviet-union/5449160
WW2 Lend Lease – was the US aid that helpful? (plus, US collaboration with the Nazi’s)
http://orientalreview.org/2015/05/13/wwii-lend-lease-was-the-us-aid-that-helpful-ii/
Another View of Stalin – “Stalin and the Anti-Fascist War”
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
70 years on – the real story behind the defeat of the Nazi’s
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/70-Years-On-The-Real-Story-Behind-the-Defeat-of-the-Nazis-20150506-0038.html
The Origin of World War 2 and the Prewar European political crisis of 1939 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/NikonovOriginWWII
Why the War was not Prevented – A Documentary Review of the Soviet-British-French Talks in Moscow, 1939
https://archive.org/details/SovBritFrenchTalks
The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War against Soviet Russia
http://www.shunpiking.org/books/GC/
The Lesson of Germany: A Guide to her History
https://archive.org/details/TheLessonOfGermanyGuideHistory
The Soviets Expected It, 1942 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SovietsExpectedIt
Soviet-U.S. Relations, 1933-1942, 1989 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/SovUSRelations33to42
Diplomatic Battles Before World War II, 1982 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/DiplomaticBattlesBeforeWWII
Secrets of the Second World War
https://archive.org/details/SecretsofWWII
The Road to Great Victory: Soviet Diplomacy, 1941-1945, 1985 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/RoadtoGreatVictory
The State Department and the Cold War: A commentary on its publication, “Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941”, 1948 (scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/StateDepartmentColdWar
Declassified documents reveal vast Soviet assistance to Poland during WW2
https://www.rt.com/news/410121-poland-ussr-help-ww2/
How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
Cars and Nazis – Hitler’s biggest allies were Ford and General Motors
https://dogandlemon.com/sites/default/files/cars_nazis.pdf
How America inspired the Third Reich
http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/35581/how-america-inspired-third-reich
Stalin had 1M ready to fight Hitler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc8TNURC2CY&index=66&list=WL
The Soviets spent the 1930s trying to contain Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. They called for collective security between the USSR, UK and France, called for genuine non-intervention in Spain (which would have ensured the defeat of Franco’s rebellion; instead the German and Italian fascists sent assistance to the Francoists while the UK and France looked the other way), called for embargoing Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia, etc.
The goal of the British and French bourgeoisie was to make Hitler march east and embroil Germany into a war with the USSR in which both sides would be badly weakened. The Soviets knew this. For instance, this is how a Soviet diplomat privately reacted in her diary when hearing of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact:
“Yesterday, August 23, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression pact in Moscow….
I did not drop the paper in dismay, and indeed, the news did not surprise me particularly. It is a most correct step on our part, a logical conclusion drawn from the situation in the world today… We are in the presence of a double game of the imperialist powers. A scheme conceived by them long ago is ready for realisation. The impact of a German attack would have to be sustained in full measure by the Soviet Union, with the imperialists’ kindly connivance. Britain and France would merely look on, the former from its isles and the latter from behind the trenches of the Maginot Line. This is how they had calculated it. The treaty with Germany has upset these imperialist plans, and even if it fails to eliminate the threat of German attack, it will at least gain us time.”
(Kollontai, Alexandra. “The ‘Seven Shots’ in the Winter of 1939.” International Affairs (January 1990). p. 184.)
The Nazis had already agreed among themselves to invade Poland whether the pact existed or not. The Polish regime had spurned Soviet offers of protection against foreign invasion, and its government fled when the Nazis invaded. The Soviets did not expect Poland’s government to flee. It having fled gave the Nazis a pretext to occupy the entire country. For this reason, the Soviets marched into eastern Poland. This area was annexed to the Polish regime as a result of its war with Soviet Russia in the early 20s. It was inhabited by Ukrainians, Byelorussians and Jews who were oppressed by the chauvinistic Polish regime. As a result the Soviets were welcomed as liberators.
works on Soviet diplomacy in the 1930s up to 1941:
* https://archive.org/details/TheMunichConspiracy
* https://archive.org/details/WhoHelpedHitler
* https://archive.org/details/LightOnMoscow
* https://archive.org/details/MustTheWarSpread
* https://archive.org/details/SovBritFrenchTalks
* https://archive.org/details/BeforeTheNaziInvasion
Imperialism in South-East Asia:
..Immediately after the end of the war, the US, British, Dutch and French took control of the remaining Japanese armies in China, Korea, Indochina, Malaysia and Indonesia, re-armed them, and used them to reimpose their own authority in those countries. US-directed Japanese troops fought against the Chinese Red Army in the late 1940s, Dutch-directed Japanese troops fought against the Indonesian national liberation forces in the late 1940s, and French-directed Japanese troops fought against the Viet Minh in the late 1940s
The atomic bombing of Japan
The decision to bomb Hiroshima
https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/05/the-decision-to-bomb-hiroshima/
Rethinking nuclear weapons in light of Hiroshima
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/winning-weapon-rethinking-nuclear-weapons-light-hiroshima
The bomb didn’t beat Japan… Stalin did
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/amp/
The war was won before Hiroshima – and the generals who dropped the bomb knew it
https://www.thenation.com/article/why-the-us-really-bombed-hiroshima/
Finland
Soviet-Finnish wars and “Soviet Imperialism” by Finnish Bolshevik
https://youtu.be/9_DQ3IhNH9o
Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: untold story
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201508231026098760-molotov-ribbentrop-pact-untold-story/
The USSR and Germany Never had a common plan to split Poland (by Finnish Bolshevik)
https://youtu.be/kp5CU3OB2UU
Grover Furr – did the Soviet Union invade Poland in September 1939?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9z_PlnAf5s
Did the Soviet Union invade Poland in September 1939?
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/mlg09/did_ussr_invade_poland.html
Another View of Stalin – “Stalin and the Anti-Fascist War – the German-Soviet Pact”
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
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Katyn Massacre
Evidence that the Katyn Massacre was committed by the Germans
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/katyn/
Falsification about Nazi aims, then and now
http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmlw2013/W43034.HTM
Yeltsin’s regime falsified Katyn documents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TgqDVrkREw&app=desktop
The real story of the Katyn Massacre – exposing an anti-communist fabrication
http://houstoncommunistparty.com/the-real-story-of-the-katyn-massacre-exposing-an-anti-communist-fabrication/
The truth about Katyn – report of Special Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the Circumstances of the Shooting of Polish Officer Prisoners by the German-Fascist Invaders in the Katyn Forest
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/katyn.htm
The “Official” version of the Katyn Massacre disproven?
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/furr_katyn_preprint_0813.pdf
An interview with Prof. Grover Furr on the Katyn Massacre
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/05/07/an-interview-with-prof-grover-furr-on-the-katyn-massacre/
The Katyn Massacre – by Ella Rule
https://espressostalinist.com/2015/03/10/stalin-society-the-katyn-massacre/
More documents on the Katyn Forgeries
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/04/20/more-documents-on-the-katyn-forgeries/
Katyn Forgeries revealed
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/04/20/katyn-forgeries-revealed/
Misc
Khmer Rouge
Who is and was really responsible for genocide in Cambodia?
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html
Who supported the Khmer Rouge?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/16/who-supported-the-khmer-rouge/
The US is even more guilty than Pol Pot
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/polpotmontclarion0498.html
Butcher of Cambodia to expose Thatcher’s role
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/09/cambodia
Nixon and the Cambodian genocide
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/khmer-rouge-cambodian-genocide-united-states/
Kampuchea – the Revolution Rescued (1986 scanned book)
https://ia802600.us.archive.org/17/items/KampucheaTheRevolutionRescued/Kampuchea%20The%20Revolution%20Rescued.pdf
Cambodia 1975-1982 by Michael Vickery (1999 scanned book)
http://michaelvickery.org/vickery1999cambodia.pdf
Truth about Pol Pot and Maoism
https://youtu.be/n1HG9G54szg
Chomsky and Pol Pot’s genocidal regime
https://libcom.org/history/chomsky-pol-pots-genocidal-regime-cambodia
The China Cambodia Vietnam Triangle by Wilfred Burchett (1981 scanned book)
https://archive.org/details/ChinaCambodiaVietnamTriangle
What went wrong with the Pol Pot regime? 1999 article
http://www.bannedthought.net/International/RIM/AWTW/1999-25/PolPot_eng25.htm
Recommended YouTube talks
Michael Parenti: Marxism and the Crisis in Eastern Europe (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQfibsxYg8E
Crisis and openings: introduction to Marxism – Richard Wolff
https://youtu.be/T9Whccunka4
The Empire Files: understanding Marxism and Socialism with Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yEiv1fIhyE
Other reading guides
Comprehensive reading guide on Socialism in Asia
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KMAZopkLyjP74vOssz6XAdPxvMh-1rJRptFnFD54bPg/edit?usp=sharing
Comprehensive reading guide on China
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16iw83noTdWvDiECaITX83rGhP_lros8QdBTrNnCoe6c/edit?usp=sharing
Comprehensive reading guide on the DPRK compiled by this author
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1we5OEdteZFfAh11v0s_RVh3LWAkVICGrFnvksVynGxw/edit?usp=sharing
Comprehensive reading guide on Venezuela
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LvHlf5LfND7zzipltzuifwR_7J2ilFCMJEvAA3wluGE/edit?usp=sharing
Comprehensive reading guide on the Syria conflict
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c5KNtwuqBSs3wbZQt7UsOrmFHPD-ajbHTmqnanUjne8/mobilebasic
