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Alison Bodine writes about the two polls that was held recently in Venezuela. One was democratic in spirit and the other counter-democratic.
Sasha Volkoff ruminates over Barcelona's grief.
Timir Basu, the Editor of the legendary Frontier magazine remembers the Naxalbari movement.
K.P Sasi's cartoon looks at corporatism, privitization of water, the environment, the commons and many more.
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A Tale of Two Elections: Democracy & Counter-Democracy in Venezuela
by Alison Bodine
On July 30, 2017 the people of Venezuela went to the polls to elect a National Constituent Assembly (ANC). The vote was Constitutional, verifiable, secret, direct and universal, and over 8 million people participated. Despite this reality, the government United States and their allies, along with mainstream capitalist media have all decried the elections as “illegitimate,” “unpopular” and a “sham.” On July 17, there was another “vote” in Venezuela. In sharp contrast to their reaction to the Constituent Assembly, imperialist governments and their capitalist media had nothing but praise for this illegal “plebiscite.” Basically, Venezuela’s right-wing opposition organized a non-binding referendum without the authority of either Venezuela’s National Electoral Council or the Constitution of Venezuela.
Barcelona’s Grief: Today And Always, The Only Solution Is Nonviolence
by Sasha Volkoff
Yesterday it was Barcelona’s turn to suffer the indiscriminate madness of a terrorist attack. The killing of people is deplorable, and it saddens me a great deal. I could say “innocent” people but I don’t want to discriminate on this point: any killing, for whatever reason, is terrible to me. And I don’t like the subsequent reactions of the powerful who strongly condemn this kind of attack and then continue their discriminatory policies and their perverse trade. Nor do I like the attitude of the mainstream media who fill their front pages with eloquent words while remaining silent about the violence that is exercised against populations all around the world every day.
Naxalbari Galvanized A Generation Ready To Sacrifice And Dismantle The System: Timir Basu
by Farooque Chowdhury
Timir Basu, editor of Frontier, the famous radical weekly from Kolkata, India, for about 40 years, was organizing the poor peasantry during the Naxalbari-days identified as the Spring Thunder Over India. As a young professional revolutionary with a political program for radical change of the entire system Timir Basu was practicing the revolutionary ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Mao’s thoughts. Timir Basu’s and his comrades’ political struggle at grassroots level following the Naxalbari-spark enlightened them with knowledge from reality of class struggle. Now, at the 50th anniversary of the Naxalbari Uprising, Timir Basu, in this interview, reflects on the unique struggle. The interview was conducted in late-July-early-August 2017.
India Now!
Cartoon by K.P Sasi
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