Geopolitical Outlook

By Vladimir Lenin At the Pirogov Doctors’ Congress much interest was aroused and a long debate was held on the question of abortions. The report was made by Lichkus, who quoted figures on the exceedingly widespread practice of destroying the foetus in present-day so-called civilised states. In New York, 80,000 abortions were performed in one year and there are 36,000 every month in France. In St. Petersburg the percentage of abortions has more than doubled in five years. The Pirogov Doctors’ Congress adopted a resolution saying that there should never be any criminal prosecution of a mother for performing an artificial abortion and that doctors should only be prosecuted if the operation is performed for “purposes of gain”. In the discussion the majority agreed that abortions should not be punishable, and the question of the so-called neomalthusianism (the use of contraceptives) was naturally touched upon, as was also the social side of the matter. Mr. Vigdorchik, for inst...

Left photo: 2016 video footage in the Syrian district of Aleppo, several months before liberation, of a group “moderate rebels” mocking a kidnapped 10-12 year old  Palestinian boy  moments before they beheaded him on camera. Right photo: members of the ultra-right Svoboda party holding a 2017 torch rally commemorating the anniversary of the Ukrainian offensive, led by the Nazi-allied organization of Stepan Bandera against the Red Army. Below is an excerpt from an article I had written that was published on LLCO.org on August 24, 2019.  In a recent video called,  “The New YouTube Purge,”  Jason Unruhe raises a key point which contradicts a popular American right-wing narrative that there is a “leftist bias” in Western mainstream media and on social media, with the implication that there is a “left-wing threat”. However, as pointed out by Unruhe, there is no credible threat to the system coming from the Western left whose vigor significantly decreased by t...

Much of the anti-scientific thinking of liberal ideology will tell us that being a man is wrong and that it is inherently evil, and that all men are responsible for all the social ills in the world. This line of thinking implies that all men benefit in the same way from the subjugation of women, which is not actually the case because class is a far more significant factor in determining who actually benefits from gendered oppression. It also conveniently forgets that the social relations between the sexes are rooted in the base superstructure of capitalism. Therefore, 'male power' or 'masculinity' are not the cause of wars or environmental destruction since patriarchy is not the principle basis of oppression as both [Western] liberal and radical feminists would like us to believe. Now, this is not to say that men are oppressed by women. However, you cannot get rid of inequalities such as sexism and racism under capitalism, a system that is predicated on inequality;...

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, they did the same to Nagasaki. The atomic bombings marked the first and, thus far, the only time that nuclear weapons have been used in armed conflict. Between 129 000 and 226 000 people were killed, most of whom were civilians. It is commonly believed that these bombings forced Japan to surrender, with some proponents of this oft-repeated narrative (which contains many inaccuracies and myths) going as far as to claim that it was necessary. Contrary to that commonly held belief, it was most likely the very real possibility of a Soviet offensive taking place on the Japanese mainland, which would mean a direct confrontation with Soviet forces, that pushed Japanese leaders to surrender. And so, it was really the military genius of Stalin that helped stopped Imperial Japan -- not the atomic bombs. "..."[Y]ou can’t analyze Japan’s decision to surrender objectively ...

Stephen Corry recently had his article, " Too Many Africans? ", published; it details how environmental destruction, poverty, and economic crises are rooted in the imperialist nations’ problems of overconsumption and unequal wealth distribution, not "overpopulation". The neo-Malthusian narrative about “useless eaters” and that the world has an “overpopulation” problem is beneficial to the capitalist class because when all focus and blame is shifted away from the contradictions of capitalism and onto such distractions, their profits are protected. While commercial exploitation of poorer countries’ water, food, labour, and resources is the real problem — as opposed to “overpopulation" — the capitalist class will always turn around and pin the blame on the people of those countries, and claim that they are starving because they “ breed like rabbits ” (to borrow an infamous phrase, regarding the 1943 Bengal famine, from Winston Churchill). As for independent n...

The Soviet Operation Bagration which began on June 22, 1944 was one of the largest offenses in scale and one of the most decisive operations in all of World War II. It dwarfed the D-Day landings in terms of scale and the significant amount of damage it inflicted upon the Wehrmacht, which helped pave the way for the Red Army’s victory in the Battle of Berlin a year later. World War II historical revisionism by the imperialist nations, but especially by the United States, has long been a staple since the Cold War era. It always manifests itself in diminishing the major contributions, achievements, and immense sacrifices of the Soviet Union — while attempting to portray the U.S. as the “heroes” who carried the full weight of the war, often exaggerating its role despite being the latecomers and having made  business deals with the Nazis  prior to joining the Allies in battle. Efforts to erase the leading role that the Soviet Union played still continue today. Whether it be the ...

Watch the above video by Jason Unruhe on Maoist Rebel News where he comments on how identity politics divides the left.