PROLETARIAN HISTORY: Founding of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
By Mike Talavera
On September 21, 2004, somewhere deep within the forests of India, the official merger of the Maoist Communist Centre of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)[People’s War] was declared, and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) was founded. Fifteen years later in 2019, at the Andhra-Odisha border, an announcement was made at a meeting celebrating this anniversary that the name of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) would soon be changed to People’s Guerrilla Army (PGA), signifying the expansion of the People’s War throughout the entire country.
In a press statement released shortly after the 2004 founding, signed by the two general secretaries of the merging parties Kishan and Ganapathy, the CPI (Maoist) stated that its formation was a historical milestone. “The new Communist Party of India (Maoist) will continue to act as a consolidated political vanguard of the Indian proletariat,” the statement reads. “Marxism-Leninism-Maoism will be the ideological basis guiding its thinking in all the spheres of its activities. It will continue its struggle against right and left deviations, particularly against revisionism, by taking this as the main danger for the communist movement as a whole.” “The immediate aim and programme of the Maoist party is to carry on and complete the already ongoing and advancing New Democratic Revolution in India as a part of the world proletarian revolution by overthrowing the semi-colonial, semifeudal system under the neo-colonial form of indirect rule, exploitation and control,” the statement continues.
Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com
#India
LOS ANGELES: Liberal Advocate’s “Drug Den” Claims Third Overdose Victim
By Ulrike Salazar
Millionaire Democratic Party donor Ed Buck was charged last Wednesday with three counts of felony battery, maintaining a drug house, and distributing methamphetamine leading to death.
Buck was arrested Tuesday night for injecting a 37-year-old man with methamphetamine, leading to an overdose on September 11. The victim, who has not been named, survived after being hospitalized. At the time, Buck tried to prevent him from calling 911 after realizing he had overdosed. Buck’s two previous victims died from their overdoses.
The community has maintained that Buck is a sexual predator, preying specifically on gay Black men for years. Gemmel Moore, who died in 2017, and Timothy Michael Dean who died in January of this year, were lured into his home and manipulated and incapacitated with drugs. So far 10 men have come forward, saying that they were paid to dress in revealing clothes and use drugs for Buck’s pleasure. The Sheriff’s Department found hundreds of photos of men in “compromising positions” when searching Buck’s apartment.
Reports indicate that Buck had gotten people addicted to meth who had never used it before. Moore’s family posted a page from his journal where he pleaded for help and named Buck as responsible for his drug addiction.
In some cases, Buck would give his victims medication in drinks that would cause them to pass out, awaking to find Buck injecting them with drugs. He is even known as “Dr. Kevorkian” among the homeless population in West LA’s Plummer Park, demonstrating the community’s widespread knowledge of his abusive activities.
Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com
#edbuck #losangeles #lgbt #drugs #democrat
AUSTIN: City Council Declares ‘Andrew Dobbs Day’ for Local Revisionist
By Ed Dalton
On Thursday Austin City Council Member Leslie Pool presented Andrew Dobbs with a distinguished service award and the proclamation of ‘Andrew Dobbs Day’. Dobbs is a notorious local revisionist and a former leader of the Austin Socialist Collective (ASC), which he was instrumental in rebranding as the Austin Revolutionary Organizing Collective (AROC), but which folded just last month. Dobbs attended the proclamation ceremony at City Hall to accept the award himself and give a speech.
While the Austin City Council mobilizes the police to arrest dozens of genuine revolutionary anti-gentrification activists, essentially eliminating their democratic rights to free speech and assembly, they feel it appropriate to award revisionists like Dobbs. Worst of all is that Dobbs sees no issue with accepting the award from such bourgeois cretins, he remained silent on the fact that the City Council was bribed by developers in spite of his posturing opposition to gentrification.
Instead, he told the council, “I charge you Mr. Mayor, and Leslie, and all the other council members…to please stay the course on representing the public interest, please listen to the community advocates like Texas Campaign for the Environment.” Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com
#Austin #gentrification
CHARLOTTE: Distribution Plant Workers Join National Strike
By Gabriel Roshan
At midnight on September 15, a group of auto workers began a picket outside of the General Motors (GM) Service Parts Operations in Charlotte on Westinghouse Blvd. The day before, the contract expired between GM and United Automobile Workers’ (UAW) after 96% of workers authorized a strike demanding a pay increase among other items.
The plant in Charlotte includes 121 workers that are represented by Local 2404. On Monday morning at the height of the picket, there were 35 workers and retirees outside the Westinghouse plant.
Throughout the night it was quiet, with mostly workers talking to each other in groups and the local president Mark McQuillen giving two speeches about the plans for the strike. McQuillen stated, “This is a marathon, not a sprint, so far our leaders in Detroit are saying they are not close.” One worker named Chris raised his hand to ask, “How long are we going to be out here for?” McQuillen responded, “No idea, but they are estimating anywhere between a few days and two weeks.” “It’s their right to bring in replacement workers,” McQuillen said, referring to scabs, “but by law after the strike is over they are required to hire us back and we are not allowed to touch the replacement workers but we can impede their path.” This was met with audible sighs.
Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com
#charlotte #uawstrike
AUSTIN: Banner Drop Against Domain on Riverside
By Jakob Stein
This morning, a banner was dropped on Riverside Dr. over Interstate-35 highway in Austin during heavy traffic. The banner reads, “No Domain on Riverside, Combat and Resist Gentrification.” Community members are rallying today at 6:30pm at Austin City Hall, as City Council takes its final vote on the luxury project known as the “Domain on Riverside.” The project has the potential to displace thousands of workers and students, and has been struggled against for the past year and a half by residents of the Riverside area.
Read more stories @ incendiarynews.com
#Austin #NoDomainOnRiverside #gentrification
AUSTIN: Tenants Protest Against Displacement at Council Member’s House
By David Martinez
On Wednesday night, tenants, students, and workers, alongside revolutionary organization Defend Our Hoodz-Defiende El Barrio (DOH), held an action outside of the home of District 3 Council member Sabino “Pio” Renteria to protest his support for the “Domain On Riverside,” a massive luxury project that developers are trying to build in the last working-class neighborhood in central Austin.
Renteria arrived home on his bike to a crowd of tenants and activists agitating and chanting outside his home in the East Austin barrio next to Martin Middle School. He was taken completely by surprise and was visibly nervous at the sight of the protesters, stumbling as he tried to get his bike through his back gate.
As protesters approached him, Renteria gave a thumbs up and grinned at the activists, telling them, “It’s going to happen,” in reference to the project passing. The council will take the final vote on the rezoning applications for the project at today’s council meeting. If built, the project will demolish 1,400 low-rent housing units and displace thousands of workers and students.
Renteria hurled accusations that the protesters were “racist” and demanded that DOH take their “white friends out of here.” The Chicano protesters in attendance laughed Renteria off, telling him that he didn’t represent them, and mocked his past membership as a Brown Beret, which he opportunistically uses to claim radical credibility.
The activists chanted, “Renteria, you’re a sham, we fight back when you steal our land!” and, “Pio, Pio, Pinche Vendido” (Pio, Pio, Goddamn Sellout). They held banners that read, “Workers of Riverside, Unite! Combat and Resist Gentrification,” and, “Developers, Council, Cops, Enemies of the People!” One sign parodied the popular Mexican loteria bingo game, showing a laughing head of Renteria hovering over a bag of money, labeled as “El Vendido.” Read the full story @ incendiarynews.com
#Austin #NoDomainOnRiverside
