Thursday, September 30, 2010

Bill Bland en Espanol

Thanks to a translation by Basque comrades, ML Review now has the beginnings of a Spanish language section (see La Vida Albanesa at ml-review.ca/bland/espanol/la-vida-albania.html). 
 
William B Bland (1916-2001) was an influential British communist, the first anti-revisionist to point out and condemn Mao's revisionism, the founder of the Albanian Society of Britain, the Stalin Society, and a leader of the Communist League and International Struggle Marxist-Leninist, and a major theoretical influence on Alliance Marxist-Leninist and its successor, ML Review, on this side of the Atlantic (see ml-review.ca/bland/biography.html).  
 
On the actions of the "Department of Justice" against the anti-war movement: One of the people questioned lives in Durham (see articles in the Herald-Sun and the News & Observer earlier in the week), so this touches very close to home.  There is a long history of US government harassment and even murder of critics of its foreign policy, but this is one of the biggest attacks in recent years.  If progressive people fail to stand in solidarity now, we have even less chance of stopping the next imperialist war than we had in 2003, and in the worst case, repression will grow if there is no resistance to the government's initial attacks on the speech of anti-war forces. 
 
Check out the International Action Center's petition at iacenter.org/stopfbi

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