Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Nepal Turmoil "The Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep anguish over the loss of 20 precious young lives during the GenZ protests in Nepal. These protests reflect the widespread anger stemming from the growing grievances of the people, particularly the youth, against the repeated failures of successive governments to resolve their genuine problems and meet their aspirations.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/09/communist-party-of-india-marxist-on-nepal-turmoil.htmlDoha strike shows that no peace can be achieved by recognising IsraelEvery time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tries to kill Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, it ends in humiliation for Israel. The first time was back in 1997. Mossad agents acting on orders from the Israeli prime minister entered Jordan, posing as Canadian tourists. Two of them waited at the entrance to Meshaal’s office in Amman, and when their target walked in, one held a device to his left ear that transmitted a fast-acting poison. Meshaal’s bodyguards chased the two agents down, and others in the team fled to the newly installed Israeli embassy for refuge. At first, it was thought that the attack had failed. Meshaal described the attack as a “loud noise in my ear” and “an electric shock”. But as the poison began to take effect, his condition deteriorated. Meshaal was a Jordanian citizen at the time, and King Hussein was angry. He demanded that Israel turn over the antidote, and threatened both to put the Mossad agents on trial and pull out of the historic peace agreement he had signed three years earlier in Wadi Araba, recognising Israel. Former US President Bill Clinton forced Netanyahu to comply. Humiliatingly, Danny Yatom, then the head of Mossad, flew to Amman with the antidote. Meshaal, who was by then in a coma, survived. Not only that, but Hussein had only released the two Mossad agents that Hamas bodyguards had caught. Six other members of the team were holed up in the Israeli embassy, and the king would only let them go if Israel released from prison Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, along with a large number of other Palestinian prisoners. The whole affair proved a big blow to Israel. The sheikh began a victory tour of the region. Meshaal’s career in Hamas was launched. He had been relatively junior in the organisation before the attack, and Hamas itself gained in prestige as a movement that could stand up to a bully. Whether the same scenario will play out today is another matter, but the elements of a major humiliation for Israel already exist.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/doha-strike-shows-no-peace-can-be-achieved-recognising-israelLabor’s Crisis Is Not a PR ProblemOn both the Left and Right, there is a prominent tendency to frame organized labor’s problems as most fundamentally about its perception (or non-perception) in public consciousness. For the new pro-worker right, figures like Sohrab Ahmari, “the mainstream of the labor movement must detach itself from goofy progressive gender politics and open borders. Now. Today.” In their view, labor is suffering from its attachment to an ideology that is anathema to the majority of working people in the United States. For the Left, meanwhile, labor is time and again “forgotten” by the Democrats, dropped from public consciousness when its cause should in fact be a rallying cry, as that of the January 6ers was for the MAGA base. What these views share is the idea that if only labor could be represented to the public in a good light, it would throw off its shackles and start to make some real gains. It’s important to note first that there is truth in both of these positions. Many union leaders are often out of line with working-class attitudes on political issues, partly because they share an associational world with activist nonprofit leaders who have no social base and garner their opinions from other urban professionals. And the Democrats should indeed be making an issue of, for instance, Amazon’s union-busting as a way of winning back working-class voters. But both positions gloss over the simple fact that unions are more popular than they have been for some time. Ahmari’s idea that “goofy gender politics” lies at the root of labor’s woes is absurd on its face given that a supermajority of Americans approve of labor unions. Whoever the goofiness is alienating, it’s a small minority. But the Left’s idea that the union cause has been forgotten because it has not been made an issue by the party with an absurdly low favorability rating also doesn’t make sense of this fact either. People are well aware that Amazon is a union buster and that the JFK8 workers got screwed; they just don’t know what to do about it.
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/labor-movement-crisis-pr-strategyMike Gonzalez: The left and the coup in Chile 1984More than ten years ago, on September 11th, 1973, a military coup overthrew the Chilean government; there followed repression of extraordinary savagery which left 30,000 workers dead and countless others tortured, maimed, without work and hungry. For five years, the working class movement was dismembered and destroyed – which had been the prime objective of the coup. As the military government approached its tenth anniversary, however, the picture changed. In April 1983 [1], a miners’ conference decided to call a series of national strikes on the 11th of each month, starting in May. Although the original strike call was attenuated [2] into a National Day of Peaceful Protest, there were confrontations between workers and the army and police in the working class districts, leaving one person dead. But the barricades had reappeared in Chile’s streets, and on the 11th of the months that followed strikes and massive protest demonstrations occurred throughout the country. The military coup of September 11th represented the victory of the political line of the right known as the ‘hard’ or ‘black’ coup. [3] The politics of reform had been attempted first under Frei (1964–70), then under Allende (1970–73); in both cases what was involved were ‘orthodox Keynesian techniques for turning a recession into a boom … But both left intact the capitalist structure of the economy and did not even bite into the massive incomes of the rich’. [4] It was not Allende’s economic policies which moved the bourgeoisie to act decisively in 1973, but the rising level of class struggle that occurred during his 3-year government. But to explain these events we must first look at the background to the rise to power of Allende.
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