Tuesday, January 31, 2017

In Boston-Legal Community Against Fascism-Build The Resistance-

B Evans
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WHAT:

Legal Community Rally in Support of the Resistance

WHEN:

Monday, 02/06/17

1:00pm

WHERE: 2 locations

Boston

1 Pemberton Sq

(btwn Park St T & Govt Center T)

Springfield

64 State Street

(btwn Juvenile Court & the Hall of Justice)

WHY:

#Resist

On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 1:00pm lawyers, legal workers, law students,
paralegals, court interpreters, investigators, social service advocates,
and others who work in the courts will gather in Boston in front of the
SJC, One Pemberton Square, Boston (between Park Street T and Govt Center
T), and in Springfield in front of the Hall of Justice, 64 State Street.

​

This is an opportunity for the legal community to express our solidarity
with the growing movements against the new regime and its white supremacist
agenda. We plan to stand in support of the hard won constitutional
protections for human rights, freedom of speech, the rule of law, etc.

We are hoping to highlight the perspectives of frontline communities, and
those of people who have been primary targets for the fascists, so far.
Speakers will include former political prisoner Kazi Toure.

For those in the Springfield area see
https://www.facebook.com/events/1169975686452228/

We hope that attorneys in Massachusetts will be able to make one or the
other of these events.

And if you can make it, bring signs!

yours in solidarity,

Benjamin Evans

National Lawyers Guild

http://www.nlgmass.org/

northeastrvp@nlg.org
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From Veterans For Peace-Continue the Momentum!-Build The Resistance!

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In Massachusetts Get Money Out Of Politics-Yeah- A Tough Dollar!

In Massachusetts Get Money Out Of Politics-Yeah- A

Tough Dollar!     





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Honor The 3Ls-The Heritage of Lenin

Honor The 3Ls-The Heritage of Lenin



Workers Vanguard No. 1081
15 January 2016

TROTSKY

LENIN
The Heritage of Lenin
(Quote of the Week)
In January of each year, communists honor the Three L’s: Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg. German Spartacist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were assassinated in January 1919 by the reactionary Freikorps, acting at the behest of the Social Democratic Party, as part of the crushing of a workers uprising. Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin died in January 1924. Keeping with early communist tradition, in 1945 the then-revolutionary Socialist Workers Party published a special “Lenin Memorial Number” of its theoretical journal devoted to the supreme architect of the proletarian revolution.
At a time when the whole Socialist movement consisted of loose, sprawling, easy-going parties, with an accommodating attitude toward every perversion of the Marxist program; in the period when the whole of Social Democracy was beginning to fall victim to opportunism; when party work was designed primarily for the winning of electoral successes and conducting loyal oppositions in the various bourgeois parliaments and legislative assemblies, Lenin came forward and pioneered an entirely new type of revolutionary Marxist party, never before seen in history. Lenin’s party was tight-knit, compact, bound by an iron discipline, based upon unyielding adherence to Marxism—the science of the proletarian revolution. Lenin’s party was built for revolutionary combat. It was designed specifically to launch the revolutionary offensive against the citadel of capitalism. How eloquent are Zinoviev’s words in his speech on Lenin [30 August 1918] and how much they tell us of the real Lenin when he says: Lenin never permitted anybody to insult Marx. No! How could he? Lenin was no dabbler, no dilettante. Lenin was deadly serious about the proletarian revolution. How could he therefore tolerate any lightmindedness or playfulness toward the theory of scientific socialism?
Lenin was not the only left-winger in the Second International. The Socialist movement had many other great revolutionary leaders. Some like Rosa Luxemburg had a masterful understanding of Marxism and possessed superb talents. But they did not comprehend the indispensability of a Leninist-type party. Only Lenin fully understood, fully grasped what kind of party the proletariat needed in order to triumph. And he had the iron will to drive through despite all opposition and calumny and create that kind of a revolutionary party. Just as the Paris Commune revealed to the working class the form of its rule, the form under which the Dictatorship of the Proletariat would be exercised, so Lenin’s Bolshevik Party showed in practice the type of organization the proletariat must have in order to make the revolution and secure its victory.
The German proletariat paid dearly for this lack, for the absence of a Leninist party. In 1918, the revolution rose in Germany and the whole country was covered with a network of Soviets. But the revolutionary vanguard, the Spartacists, were unprepared. They had not yet forged a genuine revolutionary party, closely tied to the working class and capable of leading it in action. The revolution inevitably rolled over their heads and the Social Democratic traitors were able to deflect and abort the revolution. It was different in Russia. A year before in 1917, when revolutionary conditions ripened, Lenin was ready. The Bolsheviks under Lenin seized the favorable opportunity and led the greatest revolution in the history of mankind. Marxism found its highest historical expression and vindication in Bolshevism.
—“The Heritage of Lenin,” Fourth International, January 1945
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In Boston-rally for immigrant and muslim rights tomorrow at 12pm Build The Resistance

Victor Yang
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hi everyone,

we're expecting upwards of 1,500 people tomorrow to rally for immigrants
tomorrow. we wnat to make sure that in MA, undocumented folks and muslims
are not at the brunt of the heightened racism and xenophobia today. join us
in the common if you can at 12pm.

https://www.facebook.com/events/309962759400480/

victor
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From Esquire-This Is a Gut Check for Our Nation -Build The Resistance!

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The Enemy is Us: The Perils of Nuclear Arms

The Enemy is Us: The Perils of Nuclear Arms

Please see the press release below.

Place: Saint Michaels Catholic Church
196 Main Street North Andover, MA
Time: 7:30 pm

Both the Smedleys and Samanthas have endorsed this program.
It would be nice to have a few members attend.
Hope to see you there.
Pat


Press release: Merrimack Valley People for Peace (MVPP) Subject: January 31, 2017 Event
Submitted by: MVPP Pres. Brian Quirk Tel: (978)685-1389
For Immediate Release:

"The Enemy is Us: The Perils of Nuclear Arms"

Nuclear Weapons, our “elephant in the living room,” hardly mentioned during the Presidential election campaign will be front and center in North Andover on January 31st at 7:30 p.m. in St. Michael Parish Hall, (196 Main St. North Andover). Three people with varied experiences will speak about the perils of nuclear arms.

The Merrimack Valley People for Peace, Inc. (MVPP) whose goals include education for peace and justice and the abolition of nuclear weapons, has invited Sr. Megan Rice, SHCJ to speak. Sr. Megan is an 85-year-old Roman Catholic nun who, after teaching abroad for 33 years, became an avid anti-nuke activist. Sr. Megan was arrested approximately 40 times, and imprisoned for several years in her quest to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Washington Post Journalist Dan Zak, author of Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age, will share his understanding of our situation. Zak skillfully uses the dramatic story of three Plowshares affiliates to examine the 100 yr. history of what has become our nuclear weapons nightmare. It is the story of Sr. Megan Rice along with her two anti-nuclear cohorts Greg Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli, who in 2012 managed to breach the security perimeter at our nation’s largest storage facility of uranium, the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., exposing its insecurity.

Also invited is Harvard Professor Elaine Scarry, author of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom. As Professor Scarry notes: “Most people know there is a risk of a nuclear weapons accident. Most people know there is a risk that a terrorist or a hacker will gain control of a nuclear weapon. But not enough people recognize the large source of risk: the
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nuclear nations themselves.”
A Question and Answer period and book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
Note: Directions to St. Michael Parish: http://www.saint-michael.org/ContactUs/Directions.html Contact MVPP Pres. Brian Quirk (978) 685-1389 btquirk@verizon.net 

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