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From: A German War PrimerBy Bertolt Brecht

THOSE WHO TAKE THE MEAT FROM THE TABLETeach contentment.Those for whom the contribution is destinedDemand sacri fice.Those who eat their fill speak to the hungryOf wonderful times to come.Those who lead the country into the abyssCall ruling too diffi cultFor ordinary men.

WHEN THE LEADERS SPEAK OF PEACEThe common folk knowThat war is coming.

When the leaders curse warThe mobilization order is already written out.

THOSE AT THE TOP SAY: PEACEAND WARAre of di fferent subs tance.But their peace and their war

Are like wind and storm.

War grows from their peaceLike son from his mother

He bearsHer frightful features.

Their war kil lsWhatever their peaceHas left over.

ON THE WALL WAS CHALKED:They want war.The man who wrote itHas already fallen.

THOSE AT THE TOP SAY:This way to glory.Those down below say:This way to the grave.

THE WAR WHICH IS COMINGIs not the first one. There were


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Other wars before it.When the last one came to an endThere were conquerors and conquered.

Among the conquered the common peopleStarved. Among the conquerors

The common people starved too.

THOSE AT THE TOP SAY COMRADESHIPReigns in the army.The truth of this is seenIn the cookhouse.In their hearts should beThe selfsame courage. ButOn their plates

Are two k inds of rations.

WHEN IT COMES TO MARCHING MANY DO NOTKNOWThat their enemy is marching at their head.The voice which gives them their ordersIs their enemys voice andThe man who speaks of the enemyIs the enemy himself.

IT IS NIGHTThe married couplesLie in their beds. The young womenWill bear orphans.

GENERAL, YOUR TANK IS A POWERFUL VEHICLEIt smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men.But it has one defect:It needs a driver.

General, your bomber is powerful.It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant.But it has one defect:It needs a mechanic.

General, man is very useful.He can fly and he can kil l.But he has one defect:He can think.


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AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Foreign Soldier Killed By Attack OnShinwar Base:

Nationality Not Announced1.4.14 AFP

Six Taliban attackers launched an assault on a joint Afghan-U.S. base in the east ofAfghanistan on Saturday, killing one soldier during a prolonged firefight, officials said.


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One attacker in an explosives-packed vehicle blew himself up at the entrance of thebase in Nangarhar province, and five other insurgents were shot as they tried to stormthe facility.

Afghan and Western officials said the attack took place in Shinwar district, a volatile areaon the main highway from Kabul to neighbouring Pakistan, where many Taliban

insurgents seek shelter.

In an emailed statement to the media, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimedresponsibility for the attack.

Soldier With St. Louis Ties Among SixKil led In Helicopter Crash In Afghanistan

Joshua B. Silverman (Photo courtesy of the St. Louis Jewish Light)

December 20, 2013 Stltoday

ST. LOUIS A soldier with ties to St. Louis was among six men killed Tuesday in ahelicopter crash in Afghanistan, officials say.

Joshua B. Silverman, 35, an Army chief warrant officer who had attended ParkwayCentral High School, died from his injuries. The Black Hawk UH-60 helicopter went downduring a mission in the countrys Zabul Province. The crash is still being investigated.

Silverman was based at Fort Riley, Kan., but lived in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was a 1990graduate of the former Solomon Schechter Day School, friends said at a prayer serviceFriday morning.


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Scott Lefton, 36, went to junior high and high school with Silverman. When Silvermansparents moved to Scottsdale, Silverman wanted to stay in St. Louis and finish out theyear at Parkway Central. So he moved in with Leftons family.

It was like I had a brother, Lefton said. We were best friends.

Lefton said Silverman had been well-liked and unique.

He had a thousand hobbies, he was always on the move, Lefton said. He was amagician, he ate fire. He played the guitar and loved music. He was in the Civil AirPatrol.

How many 16-year-old kids say, Sign me up for the civil air patrol? Josh lovedaviation.

Silvermans parents are Barry and Susie Silverman, who now live in Aurora, Colo. Theyhad lived in Chesterfield before moving to Arizona when Josh was in high school.

The Silvermans had a daughter too, but she died of cancer at the age of 15, said CarolRubin, director of Jewish Life at the Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School in Townand Country. The school was formed when the Schechter Day School merged with theSaul Mirowitz Day School-Reform Jewish Academy.

Rubin spoke at a prayer service Friday morning. It was attended by about 70 people andended in front of the Jewish community school on North Mason Road where they put the

American flag at half staff.

Remind us that we honor Josh by remembering the gifts of his life and incorporating intoour lives his passions of country, family and faith, she said.

Including Silverman, five of the soldiers killed in the helicopter crash were based at FortRiley. The others were:Chief Warrant Officer 2 Randy L. Billings, 34, of Heavener, Okla.Sgt. Peter C. Bohler, 29, of Willow Spring, N.C.Sgt. 1st Class Omar W. Forde, 28, of Marietta, Ga.Spc. Terry K.D. Gordon, 22, of Shubuta, Miss.The sixth soldier, based in Vilseck, Germany, was identified as Staff Sgt. Jesse L.Williams, 30, of Elkhart, Ind.

Fort Riley confirmed that a seventh soldier was injured in the crash, although officialsthere said they could not release a name because of privacy reasons.

Military officials said that the crash was under investigation and that they didnt know ifthe helicopter had a mechanical failure or was shot down.

The deaths make it one of the bloodiest casualty incidents in either the Iraq orAfghanistan wars. In 2011, six soldiers from a Fort Riley artillery battalion were killed inBaghdad. Five combat engineers were killed in 2004 when a bomb exploded beneaththeir armored personnel carrier in Malahma, in Iraqs Sunni Triangle.


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Helmand province, in the countrys south, was once a major focus of American troops,an area thick with insurgents and the opium poppies that finance them.

Helmand province looks to be a critical testing ground for how well that transition couldproceed in the rest of Afghanistan.

Masses of Taliban foot soldiers attacked this spring and summer in a bid to take overSangin district; government forces turned them back. Mohammad Rasoul Barakzai, theacting Sangin district governor, describes the year-end situation as calm, with onlyintermittent Taliban attacks.

But the reality in Helmand also shows the limits of government control.

Insurgent fighters move freely in many parts of the province. They continue to mountheadline-grabbing attacks, contributing to perceptions of instability.

The Afghan military still struggles with some basic elements of warfare, includingevacuation of casualties and resupply of vital materiel, U.S. and Afghan military officials

say. In one incident, Afghan units desperate for truck batteries received steering wheelsfrom Kabul instead, a U.S. military official says.

Afghan Army Maj. Gen. Afzal Aman, the chief of operations at Afghanistans defenseministry, acknowledges the Afghan dependence on the 49-nation coalition for logisticsand intelligence support.

And some junior Afghan military officers in Sangin were recently relieved of commandfor striking local nonaggression pacts with their insurgent enemies, district officials andresidents say.

Few places in Afghanistan illustrate the perils and potential for Afghan security as well

as Sangin districtand the town of the same namewhich sits astride the HelmandRiver and farm fields that feed off its waters.

The district, of roughly 50,000 people, has long been a center of opium-poppyprocessing, and the conflict between the government and insurgents here has beenenmeshed with a complex web of rival tribes and drug gangs.

There are plenty of caveats in Helmand. Militant attacks continue in some areas, saysone official in the province. The situation is pretty bad, the official says. The insurgentsare assassinating people inside government-held territory. The insurgents are movingopenly in the bazaars.

Mr. Barakzai, the Sangin distric t governor who calls the situation calm,acknowledges a recent setback: low-ranking Afghan army officers cutting dealswith the Taliban, negotiating with insurgent commanders not to shoot atcheckpoints.

In one instance, Mr. Barakzai says, Taliban commanders even accompanied armyforces on a patrol in the main bazaar in Sangin.


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This was a mistake committed by two (Afghan army) commanders on the platoon level,he says. The two officers, Mr. Barakzai says, were relieved of command and are underinvestigation.

U.S. officers with long experience in Sangin know that amid such uncertainty, militarygains can prove fragile.

Sangin is still violent, says one Marine special-operations captain with three Helmandtours under his belt. It will always be a violent place. But its nowhere near what it usedto be.

Resistance Action

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Jan 04 2014 Khaama Press

An attack was repor ted in eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan on Saturdayafternoon, leaving an Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander dead.

Local residents and eyewitnesses in the area said that the blast took place in Ghaznicity, after a bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives.

In the meantime, deputy provincial governor, Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, said the bomberattacked the vehicle of an Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander, Shaheen who wasinvolved in public uprising against the Taliban militants in Andar district.

Mr. Ahmadi further added that the ALP commander was critically injured along with oneof his bodyguard in the blast, who later succumbed to his injuries.

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No casualties were following two separate explos ion rocked capital Kabul lateSaturday evening.

The first blast took place in Kart-e-Naw area of Kabul city, following a roadside bombexplosion.

An interior ministry official said no casualties were reported in the first blast which tookplace near the 8th district police.


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The second explosion place in Zanbaq square of Kabul city, close to a coalition forcesmilitary base, around 7:45 pm local time.

The nature of the explosion is not clear so far. In the meantime, a security official incapital Kabul who requested not to be named said, the blast took place as a result of amagnetic bomb, and a convoy of the coalition forces was targeted.

The source further added that no casualties were reported following the blast.

Eyewitnesses in the area said the blast took place as a result o f a magnetic bombnear the entrance gate of the coalition security forces mil itary base.

IF YOU DONT LIKE THE RESISTANCESTOP THE OCCUPATION

Seduced And Abandoned:U.S. Government Turning Back On

Afghan Collaborators; A Special Review Committee At The

U.S. Embassy In Kabul Has Been

Denying Visa Applications On TheDubious Grounds That The Applicants

Face No Serious Threat

Dec 30, 2013 By the Editors, Bloomberg [Excerpts]

As the U.S. plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in 2014, no man or womanshould be left behind. This includes the Afghan interpreters who have guided Westernforces through hostile terrain for the last 12 years and now feel their lives are in

jeopardy.

Unfortunately, the State Department is rejecting or sit ting on a grow ing number oftheir visa applications.

Officials who arbitrarily decide that these allies face no undue risk should take a hardlook beyond the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. The visa process needs to bestreamlined.


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Interpreters are essential guides for U.S. commanders, especially in Afghanistan, a footsoldiers war in a deviously opaque and complex tribal society. It is virtually impossiblefor them to remain anonymous: Even if they wear disguises and adopt phony Americannames, they are often working in their home villages or regions, where close familial andtribal ties betray anonymity.

Reprisals are inevitable: By 2010, more than 360 Iraqi and Afghan interpreters hadalready died while working as translators for U.S. and allied forces, according to an 18-month investigation by ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times.

This death toll exceeded the military losses in either war of any nation other than theU.S.

The Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, a legal advocacy group that assists Iraqi andAfghan refugees, recently created a page on Facebook offering legal representation toAfghan interpreters seeking visas; in one week, it received more than 100 desperatereplies.

This problem should not exist: Since passing the Afghan Allies Protection Act in 2009,Congress has allocated more than 8,700 special immigrant visas and outlined expeditedprocedures for granting them in cases where lives are threatened.

Yet as of November, the government had approved fewer than 1,700 of them, leaving abacklog of some 5,000. (The State Department refuses to verify exact numbers, and theDefense Department cant even say how many interpreters it has used because almostall were hired by civilian contractors who have not maintained reliable databases.)

What is causing the bottleneck? A special review committee at the U.S. Embassy inKabul has been denying visa applications on the dubious grounds that the applicantsface no serious threat.

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MILITARY NEWS

Insurgents Blow Up Gas Pipelines Near

Damascus International Airport CuttingElectricity Supplies Around The Capital

And In Mediterranean Provinces

Smoke rises after explosions at gas pipelines near Damascus international airport, inErbeen, Damascus January 3, 2014. Explosions hit two large Syrian gas pipelines onFriday near Damascus and the central city of Homs, cutting electricity supplies aroundthe capital and in Mediterranean provinces, officials and activists said. Picture takenJanuary 3, 2014. REUTERS/Diaa Al-Din

Iraq War Vet Makes Colorados First

Pot Purchase:He Has Publicly Lobbied For

Legalization And Says Pot Helps Mitigate


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Problems Stemming From His Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome

Sean Azzariti, a former Marine who served in the Iraq war and has post-traumatic stressdisorder, shakes hands and thanks store owner Toni Fox, after Azzariti was the first tobuy retail marijuana at 3D Cannabis Center, which opened Wednesday as a legalrecreational retail outlet in Denver. (Brennan Linsley / AP)

Jan. 2, 2014 By John Bacon, USA Today [Excerpts]

The new year got a little happier for pot smokers in Colorado on Wednesday as thenations first retail outlets for recreational marijuana opened their doors.

Marijuana does not have to be a burden to our communities, said Betty Aldworth,deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association. Today in Colorado weshift marijuana from the underground into a regulated market.

The first sale, orchestrated as a media photo opportunity, was made to Sean Azzariti, anIraq War veteran who has publicly lobbied for legalization and says pot helps mitigateproblems stemming from his post-traumatic stress syndrome. Azzariti, who served sixyears in the Marine Corps and two tours in Iraq, doled out about $60 at 3D Cannabis

Center for an eighth of an ounce of Bubba Kush and a pot-laden truffle.

Thanks so much, he said to the cashier.

Aldworth said pot sales in the state are expected to reach $400 million this year.

More than $40 million is targeted for public schools. Dozens of shops are opened or willopen soon. She spoke of jobs, tax dollars and peace of mind for marijuana smokers.


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But for many, the new law is all about fun.

Honestly, I thought Id never see the day, said a giddy Errin Reaume of Denver, whoshared hits of concentrated marijuana at a 1920s-themed Prohibition Is Over party indowntown Denver.

There are, of course, limits. Sales are legal in only seven of the states 64 counties, andnine municipalities including Denver. And Amendment 64, the state ballot issue thatlegalized pot, does not allow public pot smoking. Buyers -- and users -- must be at least21 years old, and purchases are limited to an ounce at a time for state residents, aquarter of an ounce for out-of-state buyers.

Driving while smoking pot is illegal, as is driving under the influence of it. The limit: 5nanograms or more of THC per milliliter of blood.

Washington state will begin allowing retail sale of recreational marijuana this spring.Other states are considering it.

Pot activists hope the marijuana experiment will prove that legalization is a betteralternative than the costly U.S.-led drug war. Skeptics worry the industry will make thedrug more widely available to teens, even though legal sales are limited to adults over21. [Oh right.. Everybody knows that weed is certainty not now widely availableto teens. Like alcohol and cigarettes are also not widely available but muchhealthier for teens. T]

Colorado set up an elaborate plant-tracking system to try to keep the drug away from theblack market, and regulators set up packaging, labeling and testing requirements, alongwith potency limits for edible pot.

Aldworth said legal marijuana industries are expected to generate $2.34 bil lion in

revenues, tens of thousands of jobs, and hundreds of mil lions in new tax revenuein 2014.

Pot remains illegal under federal law, and the U.S. Justice Department is payingattention. The department has outlined an eight-point slate of priorities for pot regulation,requiring states to keep the drug away from minors, criminal cartels, federal property andother states in order to avoid a federal crackdown.

Denver International Airport placed signs on doors warning fliers they cant take the drughome in their suitcases.

We understand that Colorado is under a microscope, said Jack Finlaw, lawyer to Gov.

John Hickenlooper and overseer of a major task force to chart new pot laws.

Marijuana activists were hoping Colorados grand experiment wouldnt be that noticeableafter an initial rush of shopping.

Adults have been buying marijuana around this country for years, said MasonTvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project.


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The only difference is that in Colorado they will now buy it from legitimatebusinesses instead of the underground market.

FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the abili ty, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

For it is not ligh t that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whir lwind, and the earthquake.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom theyoppose.

Frederick Douglass, 1852

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time totime that their people preserve the spiri t of resistance? Let them take arms.-- Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787

How To Stop A War:


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On April 27 [1968] A Group Of FortyActive-Duty People Marched At The

Head Of An Anti-War DemonstrationIn San Francisco, The First Time GIsLed A Civil ian Peace Rally

On February 16, 1969, The AllianceSponsored A Peace Rally In DowntownSeattle, With Two Hundred Active- Duty

People Leading A Crowd Of SeveralThousand

[No, they didn t go to DC begging the Imperial Congress to stop the war. Theywerent fools. They knew that when the army rebelled, the war would end. Theydid, and it did. T]

Excerpts from: SOLDIERS IN REVOLT: DAVID CORTRIGHT, Anchor Press/Doubleday,Garden City, New York, 1975. [Reprint available from Haymarket Books]

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The young people forced into the ranks by the Vietnam build-up expressed asometimes articulate, sometimes desperate, opposition to an unwanted mission.


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The GI movement imbued the military with the voice of a troubled citizenry, providing ameasure of democratic restraint on though otherwise unresponsive and imperiousinstitutions of war.

The appearance of coffeehouses and a burgeoning GI press, in an atmosphere of

mounting disillusionment over stalemate in Vietnam, set the stage for the first significantGI action.

The Armys huge armored training center at Fort Hood experienced a particularly rapiddeterioration of troop morale, especially among combat returnees, and throughout theVietnam period witnessed extensive unrest and drug use (the bases copious marijuanasupplies earned it the sobriquet Fort Head).

The civilians who opened the Oleo Strut in the summer of 1968 thus met with anenthusiastic response; with the founding of Fatigue Press, a long history of successful GIactivism began.

The first political gathering of Fort Hood soldiers occurred in Killeen on July 5, 1968.

A Love-ln and countercultural festival was held in Condor Park, featuring rock musicand anti-war speeches; approximately two hundred soldiers attended, most of themwhite.

The atmosphere at the base grew considerably tenser in the following weeks, however,as thousands of troops were prepared for possible use against civilian demonstrators atthe Democratic National Convention in Chicago culminating in a dramatic andimportant act of political defiance among black troops.

On the evening of August 23, over one hundred black soldiers from the 1st Armored

Cavalry Division gathered on base to discuss their opposition to Army racism and theuse of troops against civilians.

After a lengthy, all-night assembly, which included a visit from commanding generalPowell, forty-three of the blacks were arrested for refusal to follow orders.

The action of the blacks was spontaneous and unrelated to the work of the whitesoldiers (reflecting a common pattern of parallel but separate development of dissentamong blacks and whites), but the Oleo Strut GIs supported the brothers and helpedwith their legal defense.

Because of widespread support for the resisters, especially among blacks, the Armys

treatment of the Fort Hood 43 was not as harsh as it might have been; most receivedonly light jail sentences.

The San Francisco Bay Area has been in the vanguard of most of the radicalmovements in the United States during the past decade, and the GI movement was noexception.

With the support of two local GI newspapers, The Ally and Task Force, areaservicepeople were among the first to speak out in 1968.


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On April 27 a group of forty active-duty people marched at the head of an anti-wardemonstration in San Francisco, the first time GIs led a civil ian peace rally.

Two months later, also in San Francisco, nine AWOL enlisted men (five soldiers, twosailors, one airman, and one Marine) publicly took sanctuary at Howard Presbyterian

Church in moral opposition to the war. After a forty-eight-hour service of celebrationand communion, they were arrested by MPs on July 17.

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In the fall, the growing network of GI activists in the area laid plans for the largestservicemens peace action to date an active-duty contingent for the scheduledOctober is anti-war rally in downtown San Francisco.

Among the ef forts to mobil ize area sold iers and dis tr ibute li terature about themarch was Navy nurse Susan Schnalls daring feat of dropping leaflets from anairplane onto f ive area mili tary bases (for which she was later cour t-martialed).

As the demonstrat ion date approached, mi li tary author it ies became nervous that alarge number of GIs might become involved, and, in a manner that becamestandard whenever protests were planned, sought to prevent servicemen fromattending.

A communication from the Military Airlift Command in Washington, later anonymouslyreleased to The Ally, depicted the militarys attitude toward even lawful dissent: it urgedthat this demonstration be quashed if possible because of possible severe impact onmilitary discipline throughout the services.

On the Saturday of the actual march, sold iers at the nearby Presidio were detained

for mandatory company formations, while special maneuvers and other diversionswere held at several West Coast bases.

Despite such obstruction, two hundred active-duty GIs and some one hundredreservists marched at the head of the demonstration, in what was the largestgathering yet of the expanding GI movement.

Two days later, in an incident partly inspired by the show of antiwar strength on October12, twenty-seven inmates of the Presidio stockade held a sit-down strike to protest theshooting death a few days earlier of fellow prisoner Richard Bunch and to call attentionto unbearable living conditionswhat became known later as the Presidio mutiny. (Fora sensitive and penetrating account of the Presidio incident see Fred Gardners Unlawful

Concert.)

As the GI movement emerged, civilian radical organizations played an important role inhelping to sustain rank-and-file dissent. One of the first agencies to recognize thechanges taking place within the Army was the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC)and its closely allied counterpart, the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA).

One of the first examples of this co-operation was the Gl-Civilian Alliance for Peace (Gl-CAP) and the newspaper Counterpoint at Fort Lewis.


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Aided by SMC activ ists, Gl-CAP developed in to one of the most successful ear lyGl-movement groups, with as many as fifty servicemen at regular weeklymeetings.

On February 16, 1969, the All iance sponsored a peace rally in downtown Seattle,

with two hundred active- duty people leading a crowd o f several thousand.

A few months later, the servicemen formed their own organization apart from thecivilians and continued their work as an all GI group.

MORE:

FREE TO ACTIVE DUTY:A Vietnam Soldier Wrote The Book All

About How An Armed Forces RebellionStopped An Imperial War

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Hidden History In Photographs:

The Wounded Knee Massacre SouthDakota1890;

The American Indian Movement ArmedRebellion At Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge,

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The Objective Meaning Of

Revolution Is The Struggle ForState Power For The Purpose Of

Reconstructing Antiquated SocialRelations

The State Is The Greatest Means Of

Organising, Disorganizing, And Re-Organizing Social Relations Democracy, As The Party Of TheProletariat, Naturally Seeks The
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Political Supremacy Of The WorkingClass

Excerpts from Foreword to Karl Marx, Parizhskaya Kommunaby Leon Trotsky(December 1905)

The State And The Struggle For Power

A revolution is an open contest of social forces in the struggle for power.

The popular masses rise up, driven by vital elementary motives and interests, andfrequently have no awareness of the movements goals or the paths it will take: oneparty inscribes right and justice on its banner, another order; the heroes of therevolution are either impelled by a sense of duty or carried away by ambition; thearmys behaviour is determined by unquestioning discipline, by a fear that consumesdiscipline, or else by revolutionary insight that overcomes both discipline and fear.

Enthusiasm, self-interest, habit, bold flights of thought, superstition and self-sacrifice thousands of different feelings, ideas, attitudes, talents, and passions are swept into andswallowed up by a mighty whirlpool in which they either perish or rise to new heights.

But the objective meaning of revolution is the struggle for state power for the purpose ofreconstructing antiquated social relations.

The state is no end in itself.

It is only a working machine in the hands of the ruling social forces.

Like any machine, the state has its motive power, its mechanisms of transmission, andits working parts.

The motive power is class interest; its mechanisms are agitation, the press, thepropaganda of churches and schools, parties, street meetings, petitions and uprisings.

Finally, the executive mechanism is the administration together with the police, courtsand prisons, and the army.

The state is no end in itself.

It is, however, the greatest means of organising, disorganizing, and re-organizing social

relations.

Depending upon whose hands control it, it can be either a lever for profoundtransformation or an instrument of organised stagnation.

Democracy, as the party of the proletariat, naturally seeks the political supremacy of theworking class.


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The proletariat grows and becomes strong together with the growth of capitalism.

In this sense, growth of capitalism is also the development of the proletariat in thedirection of its own dictatorship.

However, the day and the hour when power will pass into the hands of the working class

do not directly depend upon the level of the productive forces, but rather upon therelations of class struggle, the international situation, and finally, upon a number ofsubjective factors that include tradition, initiative, and readiness for the fight.

OCCUPATION PALESTINE

Zionist Occupation Forces Kill Another

Palestinian Kid, As UsualJanuary 03, 2014 IMEMC & Agencies

Palestinian Medical sources have reported that a Palestinian teen has died of woundssuffered Thursday, after Israeli soldiers opened fire at an area in northern Gaza.

The sources said that Adnan Abu Khater, 17 years of age, was seriously injured east ofJabalia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and was moved to the Ash-ShifaMedical Center, west of Gaza City.

Abu Khater was then moved to surgery, and remained in very serious condition until hepassed away on Friday morning.

Furthermore, the Israeli army fired several shells at an area east of Al-Boreij refugeecamp, in Central Gaza, causing excessive damage but no injuries.

The Israeli Air Force also carried out several air strikes targeting various areas in theGaza Strip, mainly agricultural lands east of Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, in addition tofiring missiles into lands east of Gaza City and Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.

Eyewitnesses stated that Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border east of Gaza City,fired dozens of rounds of live ammunition into Palestinian farmlands.

Israeli navy boats also fired rounds of live ammunition at several Palestinian fishingboats in Palestinian territorial waters, causing damage but no injuries.

[To check out what life is like under a murderous mil itary occupation commandedby foreign terrorists, go to: www.rafahtoday.org The occupied nation is Palestine.The foreign terrorists call themselves Israeli. ]
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CLASS WAR REPORTS

We Cannot Let ThisArmy Enter Our Cities

They Are Militias, Not ANational Army, And They Are

Loyal To Maliki, Not To The IraqiPeople


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Today, We Defeated The ArmyAnd If Another Force Will Be Sent,

We Are Ready For Them Snipers Had So Far Kept The ArmyTroops Away And Forced Them To

Retreat Eyewitnesses Said Fighters Had

Formed A New Group Known As The

Tribal RevolutionariesWe are looking to prevent the government from using excessive power againstus by us ing the excuse of al Qaedas presence, a senior Anbar tribal leader whois familiar with the negotiations told Reuters by phone.

Jan 2, 2014 By Suadad al-Salhy, Reuters [Excerpts]. Additional reporting by KamalNamaa in Falluja; Writing by Suadad al-Salhy; Editing by Rania El Gamal and MarkTrevelyan. Also Jan 1, 2014 By Kamal Namaa, Reuters & AFP

Sunni fighters clashed on Thursday with Iraqi troops trying to regain control of two

western cities, in a serious escalation of their confrontation with the Shiite-ledgovernment of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

In a separate attack, at least four policemen were killed and 12 more wounded wheninsurgents attacked a police headquarters in the mainly town of Tarmiya, north ofBaghdad, police reported.

Tension has been running high in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar since Iraqipolice broke up a protest camp on Monday, leaving at least 13 people dead.

On Jan. 1, insurgents attacked the main police station in Fallujah and ordered its staff toleave, before raiding its armoury and freeing 101 prisoners from its cells, police said.

Other police stations in the city were torched by militants as most police abandoned theirposts.

Gunmen in large numbers surrounded the three police stations in Falluja andforced all poli cemen to leave without their weapons if they wanted to spare theirlives. All of us left, we didnt want to die for nothing, a policeman stationed at oneof the three stations to ld Reuters.


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A worker carrying a metal rod after military police attacked a protest by striking garmentworkers in Phnom Penh January 3, 2014. At least three were killed on Friday whenCambodian military police opened fire to try to quell a protest by garment factoryworkers, two witnesses said. Two human rights workers who witnessed the chaos saidthree or four protesters had been killed as security forces armed with assault rifles andpistols shot at strikers. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

Garment workers prepare petrol bombs during fighting with security forces in PhnomPenh January 3, 2014. Cambodian military police opened fire with assault rifles onFriday to stop a protest by garment factory workers demanding higher pay in acrackdown a human rights group said killed four people. REUTERS/Samrang Pring


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January 4, 2014 Green Left Weekly [Excerpts]

At least three strikers were killed on January 3 when police in Cambodia opened fire tobreak up a protest by garment workers. Human rights campaign Adhoc observer ChanSaveth said his group had tallied three dead and 10 hurt -- seven apparently withgunshot wounds.

Workers at most of the countrys almost 800 garment factories are on strike, demandingan increase in the minimum wage to $177 a month, double the current rate.

The workers represent a potent political force because the garment industry isCambodias biggest export earner, employing about 500,000 people in garment andshoe factories.

The Garment Manufacturers Association locked out the workers last week, claiming itfeared sabotage by protesters.

The government is close to factory owners, but their association asked on January 2 that

their members be allowed to export equipment to other countries because they wereunable to operate in Cambodia.

Growing violence could drive the workers into a tighter alliance with the opposition,providing a vast pool of people for their increasingly confident street demonstrations.

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