I have not read the Morning Star for a few years now – but I was checking its coverage of the Rucky Jones (Labour Councillor)
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I have not read the Morning Star for a few years now – but I was checking its coverage of the Rucky Jones (Labour Councillor)
The workers definitely need effective Unions – but what the workers do not need is duplicitous Trotskyism – the aim of which is the destruction of all legitimate Marxist-Leninist movements! Marxist-Leninism – and Maoism – is the ideology that possesses the power to organise the workers (mind and body) so that the means of production are well and truly “seized” and taken control off by the Proletariat. Of course, none of the so-called Candidates above come anywhere near this genuine objective. Instead, an acceptable level of oppression and racism will be allowed throughout society and tinkered with around the edges.
D’Alema was one of many speakers who expressed concerns about money politics. Anthony Carty, an Irish professor of international law, told Xinhua that widespread “financial plutocrats” across Europe and North America have corrupted media and politics to serve their interests, leading to distrust between the public and the political sector.
Inequality poses another major threat to Western democracy. Citing a survey from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Georgios Katrougkalos, former Greek foreign minister, said that today majorities in all Western countries believe that their governments are not acting to promote the general interest but to “promote the interests of the wealthy and the powerful.”
Average Americans have no say in government policies and actions, he said in a video speech Wednesday at the third International Forum on Democracy: The Shared Human Values, citing a 2014 Princeton study, which found that public opinion had “near-zero” impact on U.S. law.
Alexander Dynkin, president of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said trust and mutual understanding between the two leaders facilitate mutual support on the most important security and development issues between China and Russia.
“Russia-China relations have become a factor of global stability and a true example of a relationship between two major countries. Russia and China are not allies, but they trust each other more than average participants of Western formal alliances,” Dynkin said.
The overseeing mission of the Commonwealth of Independent States made up of 194 people will observe Russia’s presidential election, the mission’s head Ilkhom Nematov said.
The election came as Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine enters its third year.
“I support Putin and, of course, I will vote for him,” Lyudmila Petrova, 46, who was shopping for sneakers at one of Russia’s largest wholesale markets in southern Moscow, said.
“Putin raised Russia up from its knees. And Russia will defeat the West and Ukraine. You cannot defeat Russia — ever. Have you in the West gone completely mad? What is Ukraine to do with you?”