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Editorial of n°60 Revolution   Part 1   The first round of the French presidential election has turned out as Macron had hoped, and as he had prepared for a long time. In 2017, Macron won 66% of the vote against Le Pen in the second round. Millions of voters who had voted for Mélenchon or Hamon at that time in the first round, mobilised to “block the far right” in the second round. For five years, the Head of State has been aiming for the repetition of this scenario.   Now he can say to himself, “So far so good.” For two weeks, he will strive to embody the role of the moderate, tolerant, humanist etc. candidate – in the face of the reactionary, racist and nationalist demagoguery of Marine Le Pen. Macron will be helped in this task by the vast concert of ‘left’ leaders who – having soaped the rope for Mélenchon – now fly to the aid of the Republic, solemnly calling for a vote to “beat Le Pen”.   It is possible that this will work, but it is not at all certain. In fact, the polls have

Edito du n°60 Révolution Partie 1 Le résultat du premier tour de l’élection présidentielle est conforme à ce que la Macronie souhaitait et préparait de longue date. En 2017, Macron recueillait 66 % des voix face à Le Pen, au deuxième tour. Des millions d’électeurs ayant voté Mélenchon ou Hamon, au premier tour, s’étaient mobilisés au deuxième pour « faire barrage à l’extrême droite ». Depuis cinq ans, le chef de l’Etat vise la répétition de ce scénario. Ce soir, il peut se dire : « jusqu’ici tout va bien ». Et pendant deux semaines, il va s’efforcer d’incarner le rôle du candidat modéré, tolérant, humaniste, etc. – face à la démagogie réactionnaire, raciste et nationaliste de Marine Le Pen. Dans cette tâche, Macron sera aidé par le vaste concert des dirigeants « de gauche » qui, après avoir savonné la planche de Mélenchon, volent au secours de la République en appelant solennellement à « battre Le Pen ». Il est possible que cela fonctionne, mais ce n’est pas du tout certain. Les sonda

Imran Khan has thanked his supporters for their participation in rallies held across Pakistan and abroad to protest against his ouster as prime minister and the formation of a "US-backed regime" in Islamabad.   Protest rallies were held in different Pakistani cities after 9 pm on Sunday and continued for several hours on the call of Khan. " Thank you to all Pakistanis for their amazing outpouring of support & emotions to protest against US-backed regime change abetted by local Mir Jafars to bring into power a coterie of pliable crooks all out on bail. Shows Pakistanis at home & abroad have emphatically rejected this, " Khan tweeted on Sunday.  Earlier on Sunday, ousted prime minister Khan tweeted that " today marked the beginning of a freedom struggle " against what he said was a "foreign conspiracy of regime change" in Pakistan.   The charged PTI supporters, including women and children, showed their solidarity with Khan during the ral

failed evolution   On 11 April 2019, the Ecuadorian government of traitor Lenin Moreno, invited the Metropolitan Police into the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and they arrested Julian Assange . Since then, Assange is kept in Belmarsh high security prison in London, without actual charges.   The real reason world's number one political prisoner is still kept in this high security prison, is because he exposed horrendous war crimes carried out by the US imperialists and their allies.   The ruthless Western imperialist regime wants to punish the No1 real journalist in the world and make him an example for any Whistleblower or real journalist who will attempt to expose its big crimes in the future.   That Assange, who is in precarious physical and psychological health and who suffered a stroke during court video proceedings, has been condemned to death should not come as a surprise. The ten years he has been detained, seven in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and three in the

globinfo freexchange   We thought that we had seen the worst with Mitsotakis regime in Greece. Yet, one of the worst Greek governments ever, did the unthinkable inside the Greek parliament. The MPs of the opposition parties caught by surprise when, in his speech, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky included a video message from two (allegedly Greek-ethnic) fighters from the neo-nazi Azov battalion.   The Speaker of the Parliament, Konstantinos Tasoulas, member of Mitsotakis' New Democracy right-wing party, explained that they learned about the videotaped appearance of the fighters a few minutes before the speech of the Ukrainian President, but without knowing the content of their intervention. He described as “unnecessary and misplaced” the appearance of the two fighters, but stressed that we must stay in the big picture, which is the appearance of Zelensky.  Even if we are to believe Tasoulas' ridiculous excuses, how is it possible for a president of a parliament to l

During their coverage of the escalating tension in Ukraine, Western media have exposed their racism, white supremacy, and hypocrisy  by Ahmad Karakira Part 6 - Media and double standards   On this matter, Gretchen King, assistant professor of communication and multimedia journalism at the Lebanese American University, described what we're seeing these days with the so-called free social media as " a lockdown of censorship that fulfills a western agenda for Western allies. " King said, " We see the amplification of the Ukrainian point of view, and that will continue as long as our social media spaces and as long as Western media continue to follow the agendas of Western governments because their media are not free. " She made it clear that people should be " mindful of the social media spaces and recognize that these platforms are not free platforms and are full of censorship ." Moreover, she indicated that social media companies tend to selectively deg

MintPressNews   Independent journalist Michael Tracey just returned from a trip to Poland where he reported on a massive US military buildup in Poland, the largest since WWII. Mnar & Michael will discuss the war in Ukraine, media propaganda and where the conflict is headed. 

globinfo freexchange   Θα μπορούσε να φανταστεί κανείς ότι μετά από τόσες παταγώδεις αποτυχίες, σε όλους τους τομείς και σκάνδαλα διαφθοράς, το Μητσοτακικό καθεστώς θα κατάφερνε να τα κάνει ακόμα χειρότερα; Κι'όμως: τα κατάφερε!   Εκεί που νομίζαμε ότι ο Κούλης και το τσίρκο των αρίστων το τερμάτισαν με την αποστολή όπλων στην Ουκρανία, χθες κατάφεραν μέσα στη βουλή να γράψουν μια από τις πιο μαύρες σελίδες στην ιστορία του Ελληνικού κοινοβουλίου.  Φαίνεται ότι ο Ζελένσκι τους έπιασε στον ύπνο και προβλήθηκε βίντεο από δύο ομογενείς (όπως ισχυρίστηκαν) που είναι μέλη του ναζιστικού τάγματος Αζόφ! Δηλαδή, ο Ζελένσκι βρήκε την ευκαιρία να κάνει κάτι που (απ'οσο γνωρίζουμε) δεν έκανε με κανένα άλλο κοινοβούλιο. Με λίγα λόγια, χρησιμοποίησε το Ελληνικό κοινοβούλιο, με απόλυτη ευθύνη του Μητσοτακικού καθεστώτος, για να ξεπλύνει το ναζιστικό τάγμα του Αζόφ και να διαγραφούν όλες οι θηριωδίες των ναζί, πριν και κατά τη διάρκεια της Ρωσικής εισβολής. Μιλάμε για τον απόλυτο εξευτελισμ

It is hard to destroy your own cause and feel righteous while doing so, yet the American left has done it. After more than two centuries at the vanguard of the struggle for freedom, the American left, broadly defined, executed a volte face and embraced anti-working-class policies marketed as purely technical public health measures.   by Christian Parenti   Part 1   For two years the left has championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and radically unaccountable censorship by large media and technology corporations. For the entire pandemic, leftists and liberals – call them the Lockdown Left – cheered on unprecedented levels of repression aimed primarily at the working class – those who could not afford private schools and could not comfortably telecommute from second homes.  Almost the entire left intelligentsia has remained psychically stuck in March 2020. Its members have app

Last week’s election in Colombia saw the best result for the Left in decades and confirmed Gustavo Petro as favorite to become the country’s first socialist president. It’s a major shift in a country that has long been dominated by US-backed right-wing leaders.   by Carlos Cruz Mosquera    Part 3 - A New Colombia? For many decades, Colombia’s left has envisioned a Nueva Colombia, a Colombia that has finally overcome the surviving colonial legacies and the violent capitalist exploitation of the masses. Pacto Historico, with all its historical importance, cannot yet birth this ideal. What it can do is ready the ground. It is the only hope Colombians have for a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict. And the coalition itself — made up of communists, socialists, social democrats, liberals, and black and indigenous activists—is a breathing example of the new Colombia. The liberal democratic ideal on which many pinned their hopes in earlier decades, culminating in the 1991 constitution, h