The question has now become not what we can do, but what we must do; not what we are comfortable with, but what we are fully capable of; not what is convenient, but what is completely necessary to stop the destruction of our home.

John Chuckman

A recent article called “Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It” by Flynt and Hillary Leverett is not the only source with serious credentials offering reasonable, non-sensational explanations for events around Iran’s presidential election.

For more than a week, Iran has been convulsed by mass demonstrations denouncing election fraud. Hundreds of thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce the government, which is now threatening, and beginning to carry out, a bloody crackdown. This time around, imperialist intervention is veiled: the White House feigns neutrality, the Western media go all out for the opposition, while in the background various agencies provide vital technical aid. In reality, all candidates in the presidential vote swear allegiance to the Islamic Republic, and the supposed moderate reformers are no less butchers and enemies of poor and working people than the conservative "populist" government. The situation cries out for revolutionary leadership independent of all factions of the theocracy, to wage a struggle for workers revolution against imperialism and clerical reaction.

The blog brings to you some of what we are reading in persian on the internet in news sites, Facebook, Twitter…*

What is hapenning right now in Iran? Why?

25 June 2009

PHILIPPINES. It is quite common these days to read from the newspapers violence being perpetrated by the communist New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) that most Filipinos no longer care as long they are not the poor victims.

To know what is socialism is to know what is capitalism, it is the dialectical negation, it is anti-capitalism.

Many Indian nationals had their marriages in India and domicile in the United States. They travel back to India for the purpose of obtaining divorce judgments according to the Hindu law. The issue of jurisdiction becomes important factor for the recognition of their foreign divorce judgments in the United States. This article analyzes this issue.

July Delegation to Venezuela: Human Rights, Food Sovereignty & Social Change

The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY invites you to join us in July for a 10-day trip to Venezuela examining advances in food sovereignty and other initiatives for social change.

Can you define Indian politics in seven words?
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I know you can’t. Even I cannot do it……

But yes, there’s one man who says a big YES to it. Guess who……..

The one and only Mr. Irfan Khan, more preferably we may call him “Cartoonist Irfan Khan”

Spain’s longest serving prisoner is now a step closer to being granted a pardon.
Manuel Pinteño, a 51 year old man from Elda, Elche, has been in prison for a total of 32 years after being found guilty of theft and several attempts to escape justice. He has been serving time since the age of 19.

Since the beginning of the crisis, usual opinion makers (politicians, journalists or economists serving the ruling class) have been repeating over and over that the current times are only a bad moment to get through and we can expect to be “back to prosperity” within a few weeks, months or... years (!?). Of course, they don’t clearly say whose prosperity they’re talking about, but we kind of suspect it.

As Wall Street witnesses: In spite of depression, Business is Business, and as the United States guarantee: Big Business is Good War, and Big War is Good Business.

To the Jurors of the Court of Public Opinion I present the following: the task of measuring Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's actions and views against a general definition of Nazism so as to decide if Lieberman, decidedly a fascist, is also a Nazi. Evidently, one must first judge the legitimacy of the proposed general definition of Nazism before deciding if Lieberman fits within the framework of that definition. What draws attention to Lieberman as a candidate for such a denunciation is his call for the 'transfer' of Israeli Arabs out of Israel proper.

What are you doing tonight?