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Ernesto “Che” Guevara reunites with his parents at José Martí International Airport in Havana. January 29, 1959.
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World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times overJanuary 20, 2013
The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is further enriching the super-rich.
“The richest 1 percent has increased its income by 60 percent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process,” while the income of the top 0.01 percent has seen even greater growth, a new Oxfam report said.
For example, the luxury goods market has seen double-digit growth every year since the crisis hit, the report stated. And while the world’s 100 richest people earned $240 billion last year, people in “extreme poverty” lived on less than $1.25 a day.
Oxfam is a leading international philanthropy organization. Its new report, ‘The Cost of Inequality: How Wealth and Income Extremes Hurt us All,’ argues that the extreme concentration of wealth actually hinders the world’s ability to reduce poverty.
The report was published before the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, and calls on world leaders to “end extreme wealth by 2025, and reverse the rapid increase in inequality seen in the majority of countries in the last 20 years.”
Oxfam’s report argues that extreme wealth is unethical, economically inefficient, politically corrosive, socially divisive and environmentally destructive.
The problem is a global one, Oxfam said: “In the UK inequality is rapidly returning to levels not seen since the time of Charles Dickens. In China the top 10 percent now take home nearly 60 percent of the income. Chinese inequality levels are now similar to those in South Africa, which is now the most unequal country on Earth and significantly more [inequality] than at the end of apartheid.”
In the US, the richest 1 percent’s share of income has doubled since 1980 from 10 to 20 percent, according to the report. For the top 0.01 percent, their share of national income quadrupled, reaching levels never seen before.
“We can no longer pretend that the creation of wealth for a few will inevitably benefit the many – too often the reverse is true,” Executive Director of Oxfam International Jeremy Hobbs said.
Hobbs explained that concentration of wealth in the hands of the top few minimizes economic activity, making it harder for others to participate: “From tax havens to weak employment laws, the richest benefit from a global economic system which is rigged in their favor.”
The report highlights that even politics has become controlled by the super-wealthy, which leads to policies “benefitting the richest few and not the poor majority, even in democracies.”
The report proposes a new global deal to world leaders to curb extreme poverty to 1990s levels by:
- closing tax havens, yielding $189bn in additional tax revenues
- reversing regressive forms of taxation
- introducing a global minimum corporation tax rate
- boosting wages proportional to capital returns
- increasing investment in free public services
“It is time our leaders reformed the system so that it works in the interests of the whole of humanity rather than a global elite,” the report said.
The four-day World Economic Forum will be held in Davos starting next Wednesday. World financial leaders will gather for an annual meeting that will focus on reviving the global economy, the eurozone crisis and the conflicts in Syria and Mali.
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World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over
January 20, 2013The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is further enriching the super-rich.
“The richest 1 percent has increased its income by 60 percent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process,” while the income of the top 0.01 percent has seen even greater growth, a new Oxfam report said.
For example, the luxury goods market has seen double-digit growth every year since the crisis hit, the report stated. And while the world’s 100 richest people earned $240 billion last year, people in “extreme poverty” lived on less than $1.25 a day.
Oxfam is a leading international philanthropy organization. Its new report, ‘The Cost of Inequality: How Wealth and Income Extremes Hurt us All,’ argues that the extreme concentration of wealth actually hinders the world’s ability to reduce poverty.
The report was published before the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, and calls on world leaders to “end extreme wealth by 2025, and reverse the rapid increase in inequality seen in the majority of countries in the last 20 years.”
Oxfam’s report argues that extreme wealth is unethical, economically inefficient, politically corrosive, socially divisive and environmentally destructive.
The problem is a global one, Oxfam said: “In the UK inequality is rapidly returning to levels not seen since the time of Charles Dickens. In China the top 10 percent now take home nearly 60 percent of the income. Chinese inequality levels are now similar to those in South Africa, which is now the most unequal country on Earth and significantly more [inequality] than at the end of apartheid.”
In the US, the richest 1 percent’s share of income has doubled since 1980 from 10 to 20 percent, according to the report. For the top 0.01 percent, their share of national income quadrupled, reaching levels never seen before.
“We can no longer pretend that the creation of wealth for a few will inevitably benefit the many – too often the reverse is true,” Executive Director of Oxfam International Jeremy Hobbs said.
Hobbs explained that concentration of wealth in the hands of the top few minimizes economic activity, making it harder for others to participate: “From tax havens to weak employment laws, the richest benefit from a global economic system which is rigged in their favor.”
The report highlights that even politics has become controlled by the super-wealthy, which leads to policies “benefitting the richest few and not the poor majority, even in democracies.”
The report proposes a new global deal to world leaders to curb extreme poverty to 1990s levels by:
- closing tax havens, yielding $189bn in additional tax revenues
- reversing regressive forms of taxation
- introducing a global minimum corporation tax rate
- boosting wages proportional to capital returns
- increasing investment in free public services
“It is time our leaders reformed the system so that it works in the interests of the whole of humanity rather than a global elite,” the report said.
The four-day World Economic Forum will be held in Davos starting next Wednesday. World financial leaders will gather for an annual meeting that will focus on reviving the global economy, the eurozone crisis and the conflicts in Syria and Mali.
Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un attending a military exercise
the revolutionary tradition will be continued from generation to generation!
Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK)
most stuff in the DPRK
down to the signs in museums
are handpainted
it’s so DIY and punk rock
DPRK is the most hardcore place in the fucking world
though, now they’ve started to print things
Jindallae Saphariny, Head of Delegation for Establishment of Jindallae Children′s Foundation, Interviewed
Jindallae is the daughter of a former Palestinian ambassador to People’s Korea and was born in Pyongyang. Known as the “Flower of Korea,” she is a living symbol of the solidarity between the Korean and Palestinian people.
Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) — Jindallae Saphariny, head of the delegation for the establishment of Jindallae Children’s Foundation on a visit to the DPRK, was interviewed by KCNA at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel on Friday.
Saying that she earnestly wants to let leader Kim Jong Il know about the establishment of the foundation, she said that the fatherly General took every possible measure for her birth and named her Jindallae when she was born.
She made preparations with one thought to give the fatherly General pleasure through the establishment of Jindallae Children’s Foundation, she said, adding:
In December 2011 she heard the sad news that General Kim Jong Il passed away all of a sudden. She could hardly repress sorrow.
It was thanks to Marshal Kim Jong Un that she could stand up again.
Thanks to the meticulous care of Marshal Kim Jong Un and the cooperation rendered by men in the DPRK the foundation could be established.
She extended high respects and warm thanks to the fatherly General and the dear respected Marshal, reflecting the unanimous mind of the members of Jindallae Children’s Foundation.
The foundation plans to provide health services at medical services bases in the DPRK including Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, she said, stressing that the foundation will make positive contribution to the work for children in the DPRK.
I would much prefer to work for JCF than what I currently do
Elderly in North Korea practicing Tai-chi
Here’s the first part of our critics of capitlalism image series we’re uploading onto our Facebook featuring activists, historic figures, writers, artists, and movement leaders from various backgrounds and time periods idealogically united against capitalism. We’ll do another set tomorrow. In the mean time, like and share our photos on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter (@ThePeoplesRec) & everywhere else! :D
Al-Mukalla, Yemen: Tens of thousands of people organized by the Southern Movement marched to commemorate the 45th anniversary of South Yemen’s independence from British colonialism and the establishment of the socialist People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY). They were demanding recognition of their struggle for independence from the U.S.-backed regime in north Yemen. November 30, 2012
Photos: South News Network
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
“What the banks did to Poland” by Sam Marcy, WW Publishers, 1988
View or download pamphlet here
“Inside this pamphlet … A strike wave shook Poland in April 1988. But the fundamental cause of the social unrest remains. Sam Marcy, who has written about Poland for over three decades, analyses the situation from a revolutionary Marxist viewpoint.
“This pamphlet explores:
- How Western banks gained ‘decisive influence’ over the Polish economy.
- How the ‘economic reform’ program of these bankers is alienating Polish workers and undermining socialism.
- The role of the Catholic church and ‘Solidarity’ in Poland.
- The political and social character of the Jaruzelski government.
- How the events in Poland will affect perestroika in the Soviet Union.”
NYC: “Red Dawn” is War Propaganda, Korea Wants Peace!
Nov. 21, 5:00 PM, Times Square, Manhattan
ON NOV. 21st the film “Red Dawn” will be released in theaters throughout the United States. This film is vile, racist, war propaganda and must be opposed by all progressive minded people.
THE FILM IS A REMAKE of another piece of the same name, made to justify U.S. murder in Latin America. While the U.S. funded death squads in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and elsewhere, this Hollywood fantasy portrayed the U.S. as being in danger of invasion by Cuba and the Soviet Union. The original film was the favorite of fascists like Timothy McVeigh and David Duke.
THIS NEW VERSION of the film has chosen the Democratic People’s Republic Korea as a target. It portrays the Koreans are brutal invaders of the U.S., and people in the U.S. fighting them. The exact opposite is the reality.
DURING THE KOREAN WAR, 6 million Korean people were murdered by U.S. imperialism. Every building above one story in height was bombed. The U.S. military committed horrific atrocities, burning people alive, as well as raping and slaughtering civilians. The U.S. even threatened to drop five atomic bombs on China because they dared come to the aid of the Korean people.
FOR DECADES THE U.S. supported the brutal dictatorships of Syngman Rhee and Park Chunghee in south Korea who murdered their people in mass, backed up by U.S. troops and millions of dollars in foreign aid. U.S. troops still occupy South Korea. There have been mass protests against the U.S. military bases, but still they remain. Labor unions in South Korea are violently suppressed.
ManyThere areinsouth Koreansarein prison simply for advocating peace with their northern countryfolk.THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTHERN HALF of the Korean Peninsula has no desire to invade the United States. They are seeking to re-unite their country and remove the foreign invaders. The Workers Party of Korea
, a Marxist-Leninist organization,* leads the country, and it has ensured housing and jobs for all the people. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, its major trading partner, it had a booming socialist economy with a higher standard of living than most Asian countries. Kim Il Sung is admired because he was one of most heroic anti-Japanese fighters. His descendants’ role in the current government makes clear that his revolutionary tradition continues. (<- this statement is a logical fallacy)FILMS SUCH AS RED DAWN are designed to justify U.S. military spending. While schools, food stamps, financial aid, and other programs people depend on are being cut, the U.S. has the largest military budget of any country on earth. Military corporations make trillions of dollars from manufacturing the tanks, fighter planes, and drones used to threaten and murder people around the world.
Join us in making clear: “RED DAWN IS WAR PROPAGANDA! KOREA WANTS PEACE!”
*you all know damn well that the WPK is not a Marxist-Leninist organization
they don’t claim to be, and you shouldn’t claim they are either
most changes and corrections are minor, just to reflect the reality of situations without stretching the truth.
overall, a well-done poster
good luck with that
The organizing committee for the preparation and celebration of the 95th anniversary of the October Revolution invites labor organizations - trade unions, political parties and movements, the goals and tasks of the struggle for democracy and socialism, workers, laborers, workers and young students to take part in a rally on Lenin Square (metro station area Lenin, the Finland Station).
Start meeting - 18-00, 17-00 with the area will sound recording of the workers and revolutionary songs. Presentations of companies, workers and other workers’ organizations are welcome. Proposals will be accepted.
Contact the Organizing Committee (EIF, ROT FRONT, “Aurora”), please call 274-80-73, 274-28-18
Photo from news conference announcing the rally: RKRP
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November 2-5, 2012
Vancouver & Kamloops, BC, CANADA
Featuring:DR. ALEIDA GUEVARA - Havana, Cuba
Cuban revolutionary leader, a pediatrician, prominent writer, author of the book, “Chavez, Venezuela and the New Latin America” and daughter of the legendary Ernesto Che Guevara.4 DAY FREE CONFERENCE:
((1)) FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2DAY 1 Special Evening for the 5 Cuban Heroes7pmMT. PLEASANT NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE
800 East Broadway Ave
(1 block east of Fraser St. & Broadway Ave)
Vancouver, BC, Canada((2)) SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3 & SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4DAY 2 & DAY 3 Two Full Days of Workshops10am-6pmRUSSIAN HALL
600 Campbell Ave.
Vancouver, BC, Canada((3)) MONDAY NOVEMBER 5DAY 4 of the Conference5pm-9pmTHOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY900 McGill Road
Kamloops, BC, Canada
Register now, it’s free!
http://vancouverinternationalcheconference.blogspot.ca/2011/10/register-now.html
well, if I’m not in the DPRK, at least I’ll have something to do next weekend