Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KRISTOF Nicholas D.
When an earthquake toppled entire neighborhoods here in January, the most striking and impressive thing for many Americans was the almost complete lack of looting.
These days, the looting has arrived — on a huge scale, but in a very orderly and Japanese way. There are no hoodlums smashing (…)
, by PERKINS Julia, SARI Dita Indah
Dita Sari, general secretary of PPBI, came to Australia on the invitation of the Perth International Women’s Day Collective and spoke at the IWD rally on March 11, where she highlighted the plight of women in the third world economically, socially and politically. She also spoke at a forum (…)
, by HEPNER Kevin, SPENCER Metta
KEVIN HEPNER: In Burma half of the population is ethnic Burman and the other half comprises about 15 ethnic groups, such as the Karen. Ethnic Burmans mainly occupy the central low-lands. All the other groups occupy their own areas around the outside of the country. For hundreds of years the (…)
, by ZINN Howard
Historian Howard Zinn’s account of the brief but disatrous invasion of a Cambodian island by a small US force which suffered massive casualties. It was in response to Cambodia holding the crew of an American cargo ship, with the intention of re-asserting US military dominance in the wake of its (…)
, by BARUCH Hirson
Gregor Benton, Interviews with Wang Fanxi on Tang Baolin’s History of Chinese Trotskyism. Leeds East Asian Papers, 1995, pp. 20
IT WAS sometime in the 1940s when Max Shachtman wrote about the interrogation he had to undergo leading to his expulsion from the Communist Party of the USA. Among (…)
, by GERSHMAN John
THIS ARTICLE IS an outsider’s view on what is a very emotional (rightly, I believe) set of debates, which are of relevance not only for the Philippines but for the left in general. There are few genuinely objective views on such issues. My sympathies, and most of my friends, are with the (…)
, by CALKINS Laura M.
The infusion of market signals into China’s economy since the mid-1970s has been accompanied by a growing realization on the part of the Chinese leadership that its strategy for accelerating the pace of economic growth will directly affect environmental quality. Beginning in the late 1980s, (…)
, by LAGMAN Filemon “Popoy”, MMRRC (CPP)
Metro Manila-Rizal Regional Committee Communist Party of the Philippines February 22, 1994
The Program for a People’s Democratic Revolution drafted by Sison in 1968 is the best proof of his abandonment or ignorance of the most basic principles of Marxism-Leninism — the class struggle and (…)
Note from ESSF: “PPW” means “Protracted People’s War”.
Metro Manila-Rizal Regional Committee Communist Party of the Philippines February 25, 1994
In the critique of PPDR , we have shown, that due to his betrayal of the proletarian class line, Sison’s “people’s revolution” is not a “new (…)
, by LAGMAN Filemon “Popoy”, MMRRC (CPP)
Metro Manila - Rizal Regional Committee Communist Party of the Philippines February 21, 1994
Philippine society, according to Sison, is semicolonial and semifeudal. But the question arises: What precisely is the prevailing mode of production in Philippine society? Is it capitalist or feudal? (…)
, by PRASERTKUN Seksan
Some stories seem to be buried stubbornly in our memory. They usually come back to haunt us on nights of loneliness, at moments when we let our mind drift with the whisper of the sea or the sighs of the breeze. They return time and time again like whirling waters and form a sad melody of life, (…)
, by BARANG Marcel
To PRESENT “THE TWENTY BEST NOVELS” OF ANY EUROPEAN COUNTRY OR even of a relatively young nation such as the United States would be preposterous. To select “the twenty best novels of Thailand” arguably is not. The novel in Thailand is a recent western import; the first truly Thai novels were (…)
, par MARIK Soma
Within a short while after the destruction of the Babri Masjid on 6th December 1992, Lal Krishna Advani boldly announced that on 6th December, a “national shame” had been abolished. The extremist fundamentalists are all agreed that by overthrowing a hundreds of years old symbol of “foreign (…)
, by McALLISTER Carol
WHEN INTRODUCING STUDENTS, at the University of Pittsburgh, to the situation of women in Malaysia, I often show them a slide that depicts a woman standing in a rice field. She is holding a handmade hoe, which she is using to repair the dikes before planting the rice crop that will supply much of (…)
, by CHATTOPADHYAY Kunal
The Roots of Reaction
A full-fledged radical bourgeois democratic revolution has historically been the exception, rather than the norm. The German revolution of 1848 and its aftermath showed a different possibility, whose wider validity is shown also by the history of class struggles in India. (…)
, by SARKAR Sumit
This article was written in early 1993, in the aftermath of the Demolition of Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
Fascism in contemporary Indian as distinct from the European historical context had appeared till the other day a mere epithet, worn out by overmuch, indiscriminate use, (…)
, by PHINTSOG Dekyi
THE POTOMAC CONFERENCE, October 5-6, 1992
SINO-TIBETAN RELATIONS: PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE
Monday, October 5, Morning Session II:
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES, RECENT RELATIONS
Recent Sino-Tibetan Dialogue / Democratization
Evolution of the Chinese Democracy Movement and the Tibetan Issue (…)
, by PITPREECHA Chiranan
The first rains in May Stream down, red Steel rains, violent Bodies-piercing, blood-flowing
Like water, flooding the streets A rank stream of blood. How many stars fell and crashed? How many hearts are broken and crushed?
The wound of our native soil When will it ever heal? What devilish (…)
Indonesia Documents 1965 Amnesty International Indonesia Dokumentasi 1965 Amnesty International
On 1 October 1965 an alleged coup attempt took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, in which a small group of military tried to seize power and 6 army generals were killed. What precisely happened and who (…)
, by Ka Barry
Document; Ka (comrade) Barry underlines the responsibility of party leader Jose Maria Sison for factionalism and purges in the CPP and warns of a growing campaign to discredit and marginalise comrades in Central Mindanao.
The very first thing that needs to be clarified about the paper (…)
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