{"id":27432,"date":"2023-10-25T17:13:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=27432"},"modified":"2024-01-08T23:11:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T23:11:22","slug":"elsd-coverage-looking-at-the-world-through-non-campist-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/25\/elsd-coverage-looking-at-the-world-through-non-campist-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"EL&SD Coverage – Looking at the world through non-campist lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many on the Left still view the world through lenses dating from when the US was the all-dominant global power. Countering this was the USSR, which assisted many national liberation struggles (although some could abandoned if it better fitted USSR state needs). \u00a0The USSR \u00a0was viewed to be superior to the USA because of its extensive nationalised property relations, This was true \u00a0of both those from the official Communist tradition and many in the dissident Communist traditions (e.g. Maoist and Trotskyist). <\/strong><\/p>\n

However today, although still very powerful and nuclear armed, the USA is losing its dominant position, particularly in relation to rising Chinese imperialism. Other long-standing imperial \u00a0powers, e.g \u00a0the UK and France, and the Russian Federation (which retains earlier USSR and Tsarist Great Russian imperial characteristics), are trying to find space to maintain their fading imperial ambitions, and looking for international allies to help them in this. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia’s imperial war \u00a0against Ukraine and now Isreal’s US, UK, German and French supported mass ethnic cleansing, or even genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, highlight \u00a0Left futility in trying to find a camp to support. But there are now many peoples in the world subjected to oppression and repression by different \u00a0imperial powers. The Kurds would be a good example. There is a need for an internationalism from below approach. The EL&SD has publicised struggles where this has been developed. A key feature of national movements deserving our support are those which seek to unite all nationalities \u00a0living in their nation, support women’s and LBGT+ rights, asylum seekers and indigenous peoples.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mariupol after Russian bombing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Israeli bombing of Gaza suppotted by US, UK, German and French imperialism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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EL&SD COVERAGE – LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH NON-CAMPIST LENSES<\/h1>\n

Theoretical<\/h6>\n
Peoples, Nationalities, Nations, Nation States, Nationalism and Nationalists \u2013 Allan Armstrong (RCN)<\/a><\/h6>\n
Exploitation, Oppression and Alienation: Emancipation, Liberation and Self-Determination \u2013 Allan Armstrong, RCN<\/a><\/h6>\n
Ukraine<\/h6>\n
Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people, the commons<\/a><\/h6>\n

Why Ukrainians should support Palestinians \u2013 Dara Saburo<\/span>va, openDemocracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The unbearable manicheanism of the \u201canti-imperialist\u201d left -William I. Robinson, anti*capitalist resistance<\/a><\/h6>\n
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Ban cluster bombs \u2013 Ukraine is no exception – Fred Leplat, anti*capitalist resistance<\/a><\/h6>\n
Against half solidarity and false pacifism \u2013 statement of the Russian Socialist Movement on May Day – Russian Socialist Movement<\/h6>\n
Scottish TUC stands in solidarity with Ukraine –\u00a0Fred Leplat, anti*capitalist resistance<\/a><\/h6>\n
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The US is no ally of the Left \u2013 in Ukraine or anywhere – Yanis Varoufakis, openDemocracy<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n
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Why has Putin invaded Ukraine? -Allan Armstrong, RCF, RSP<\/a><\/h6>\n
On the frontier of whiteness? Expropriation, war and social reproduction in Ukraine -Olena Lubchenko, LeftEast<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n

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Kazakhstan<\/h6>\n
Solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan \u2013 Paul Murphy, TD<\/a><\/h6>\n
Belarus<\/h6>\n
Repression of migrants at the Poland-Belarus border: a humanitarian crisis created by imperialism \u2013 Frankie Levine, Left Voice (USA)<\/a><\/h6>\n
Repression In Belarus Must End Demands IndustriALL – IndustriALL Global Union and the All European Trade Union<\/a><\/h6>\n

Kurdistan<\/span><\/p>\n

Women’s delegation to Rojava<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Turkey is trying to bomb Royava out of existence, Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Life imprisonment from the age of 14 – A Turkish show trial – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Natural and unnatural disasters in Rojava, north east Syria and south west Turkey \u2013 Giacomo Sini and Alessia Manzi, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Earthquake in Turkey: the state versus the people – Srah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Ch\u00e8re Marianne, do you know why the Kurds are angry? Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Turkey is bombing Koban\u00ea – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Turkey and chemical weapons: the accusation no one wants to investigate – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
After the killing of Mahsa Amani in Iran \u2013 women, life and liberty – Maryam Alanis, Left Voice (USA), Sanaz Taji, The Canary<\/a><\/h6>\n
Remembering Jiyan Tolhildan – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Turkey makes ready to destroy Rojava – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Remember the Yazidis: survivors of ISIS genocide now under attack from the Iraqi army – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Turkey is invading the Kurdistan region of Iraq \u2013 and the world has hardly blinked – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Afghan and Kurdish women revolutionaries urge joined up global resistance – Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and the Kurdish Confederation of Women\u2019s Organisations<\/a><\/h6>\n
Defending Kobane is not a crime \u2013 an invitation to show solidarity with the Kurdish Peoples Party (HDP) – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
From Blairgowrie To The Black Sea \u2013 Strawberries And Nutella – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n
Hands off Afrin! Solidarity with the Kurds \u2013 Martin Sushanek, Neue Internationale, no 226<\/a><\/h6>\n
Cyprus<\/h6>\n
Cyprus \u2013 An occupied island, a freedom fighter, a consociational republic in the eastern Mediterranean – Andreas Andreou<\/a><\/h6>\n
Lebanon<\/h6>\n
Lebanon \u2013 the crisis in an institutionally sectarian statelet set up by imperialism \u00a0-Yassamine Mather, Weekly Worker and Socialist Democracy (Ireland)<\/a><\/h6>\n
India, and Pakistan and Myanmar<\/h6>\n
Arundhati Roy on things that can and cannot be said: The dismantling of the world as we know it – Arundhati Roy, the wire<\/a><\/h6>\n
Support farmers and farm labourers\u2019 bharat bandh (shutdown) across India – Samyukta Kisa Morcha coalition of farmers unions<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n
Mass Farmers\u2019 Strike In India \u2013 Women of Colour and Sushanta D. Roy (IMHO)<\/a><\/h6>\n
Okra Peasants struggle in Pakistan and the Awami Workers\u2019 Pary – RISE Women\u2019s Network <\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n
Burma\/Myanmar: urgent appeal for donations \u2013 Global Women\u2019s Strike<\/a><\/h6>\n
Iran<\/h6>\n
Zan, Zendigi, Azad (Women, Life and Liberty) \u2013 Pauline Bradley<\/a><\/h6>\n
After the killing of Mahsa Amani in Iran \u2013 women, life and liberty – Maryam Alanis, Left Voice (USA), Sanaz Taji, The Canary<\/a><\/h6>\n
Afghan and Kurdish women revolutionaries urge joined up global resistance – Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and the Kurdish Confederation of Women\u2019s Organisations<\/a><\/h6>\n
Hands off Iran statement on the killing of Qassem Soleimani – HOPI<\/a><\/h6>\n
Xinjiang<\/h6>\n
The Uighurs and the Palestinians<\/a><\/h6>\n
Afghanistan<\/h6>\n
Afghan and Kurdish women revolutionaries urge joined up global resistance – Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and the Kurdish Confederation of Women\u2019s Organisations<\/a><\/h6>\n
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan respond to the Taliban takeover \u2013 RAWA<\/a><\/h6>\n
Afghanistan \u2013 Imperial intervention paves way for murderous reaction \u2013 Mike Small, bella caledonia<\/a><\/h6>\n

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also see:<\/p>\n

EL&SD coverage of Palestine, Zionism and Israel since 2002<\/a><\/p>\n

EL&AS coverage ofUkraine since 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

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