Day: Sep 3, 2026

Mao Zedong - Literature

China: Cultural Relic Protection Unit – 1950s “Mao Zedong Calligraphy”! (3.9.2026)

There is something aesthetically pleasing about this calligraphy. Although “Revolutionary” in nature (and dialectically cutting through material reality) there is something timeless and deeply traditional. With a consummate ease – Mao Zedong issues edicts from Beijing which are relayed to Korea and turned into material actions on the ground. The “thought” and the “action” are like “mirror” and “reflection”. This is how the Chinese people regained their greatness after a hundred years of imperial subjugation at the hands of the West. Mao once wrote, “There will always be monsters that fire poisonous arrows – and there will always be people who dare to stand-up and catch them!” The anti-Socialist US re-deployed its army that had defeated the Imperial Japanese and Nazi Germans (behind the British and Soviets) – but it failed miserably in the face of a united China whose troops were motivated by Marxist-Leninism!

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American communists Claudia Jones and Harry Winston in Yalta with a group of vacationers, 1962. Photo. Photographer Evgeny Khaldei.

US: Claudia Jones Deported to the UK [in 1955] for Being a “Communist”! (3.9.2026)

This is typical of the bourgeois academic community – and perhaps to be expected of someone who has infiltrated and made his own way (successfully) in the White world (there are realities of “race” and “racism” that require navigating to avoid exclusion and ostracization). Indeed, even on the far-left, people like Claudia Jones are omitted from the general history and this stems from as yet un recognised and untreated disease of racism that exists on the left. The left lives in a world where it feels it occupies the moral high-ground because the USSR conquered racism. This “conquering” did not spread outside the USSR and the left in the West has no right to associate itself with it. Furthermore, from 1956 onwards, the USSR pursued a subtle but distinct “White” (Russian nationalistic) approach to the spread of Communism – as non-White China was demonised for daring to support Stalin against the lies perpetuated by Khrushchev. Although Claudia Jones did receive medical care in the USSR – and met Mao Zedong in 1964 (twice) – as part of an anti-racist and anti-colonial delegation (despite my extensive personal [family] and professional contacts with Chinese academia on the Mainland – I have not been able to locate any photographs of these meetings).

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In the course recently concluded in Cuba, 735 young people from 62 countries graduated. Photo: Dunia Álvarez Palacios

Cuba: An International School for Health & Hope! (3.9.2026)

At the end of this academic year, Cuban universities delivered 30,185 new professionals to the country and the world. Engineers, architects, pedagogues, scientists, nurses, technologists… Young people who have sweated in the classrooms, who have studied with just the right resources, who have overcome fatigue and adversity to become what this country needs to move forward.

Among those 30,185 there are 735 young people from 62 countries. Students who came from all continents – Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe – who shared desks with Cubans, who learned our language, our medicine, our solidarity, our way of understanding life as service. Who return to their lands with a degree and, also, with a way of seeing the world that is not taught in any manual.

And among them, two figures should make the blindest pause: 23 new Palestinian doctors.

Young people who will return to their land – a land that burns under bombs and rubble – not with weapons in their hands, but with stethoscopes around their necks. With the knowledge to save lives in the place in the world where it is most needed. With the ethics that Cuban medicine instills: first the human being, then everything else.

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Zia Yusuf has recently launched several attacks on blue-chip firms

UK: “Vodafone” & “Deliveroo” Back Reform UK as Yusuf Threatens Prison! (3.9.2026)

Taking a page out of Trump II’s play-book – acting like an absolute monarch is the way ahead. Democracy is short-circuited by the deployment of “rage” and “revenge” as an expression of an empowered “will” in high office. Procedures, checks and balances mean “nothing” – when an individual is politically empowered to arbitrarily express their will so that power is immediately deployed (oppressively) downward and is felt from above. Apparently, Vodafone and Deliveroo are “running scared” due to the threat of their bosses being arrested, charged, and imprisoned for daring to offer cheap or free help (including jobs) to vulnerable members of society (which may – or may not – involve migrants [illegal or otherwise]). What this is really about is the management of bourgeois narratives. The chain of evidence is US, EU, and UK. The US demands that the UK’s economy becomes a mirror of the US – with no unions, no meaningful jobs, no jobs for life, no proper wages, and no Welfare State, no housing, or medical care for the workers. This requires the continuous importing of an impoverished (cheap) labour force and the encouragement of ethnic strife between the competing ethnic groups – so as to prevent the underlying unity (amongst ethnic groups) that permits the building of Socialism. As the bourgeoisie will not stand-up to the US and EU – the result is the dramatic rise of the far-right.

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