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Nando replied to a series of questions about the RCP’s newly published Constitution. Because of their length and substance, we are reposting them here. Nando uses the remarks by a poster called “Questions” as a jumping off point.
On the Why the RCP Discarded the Term “Marxism-Leninism-Maoism” in this Document
“Questions” writes:
…if, as you claim, the RCP [...]

 By Eddy Laing
“Investors said, ‘I don’t want to be in equities anymore and I’m not getting any return in my bond positions,’” said William T. Winters, co-chief executive of JPMorgan’s investment bank … “Two things happened. They took more and more leverage, and they reached for riskier asset classes [i.e. derivatives]. Give me yield, give [...]

This commentary was developed by Iris.

The McCain’s campaign has been actively unleashing the lynch mob currents in American politics. TV ads now portray Obama as hiding terrorist ties, and being somehow fishy and unknowable.
When this produces audiences screaming “terrorist” and “traitor,”  McCain himself tries to pose as respectful.
Meanwhile Sarah Palin tries to hammer “questions” about Obama’s “ties” to Prof. [...]

Here’s what I was told:
“They were playing MIA’s song at the “Funk the War” demo in Washington. When they were playing the song i just sent you, there was a line of cops and a group of about 200 kids around the PA in the middle of the street. Whenever the “gunshot” sounds would go [...]

Recently in the discussion of “Existing Left Parties: what’s Wrong, What’s Needed,” Dave started describing the problem of spliting and obscure polemics that he associates with “Trotskyites.” The language and political assumptions of this were challenged, first by Zerohour and then by Nando.
Important issues of revolutioinary politics are being debated in the “Existing Left” thread [...]

Yesterday, on the Leher News Hour, the questions was posed: Is capitalism dead?
New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman replied:
“…the engine is mostly fine, but there’s one part that’s malfunctioning. And that’s what’s happening now. It’s not that capitalism is dead. It’s not that the whole American system is dead, but this financial thing that we’ve [...]

After years of Bush’s open-ended war
on working people at home and abroad, many on the “left” in the
United States and beyond are desperate for an alternative. For many,
that alternative is Barack Obama. Obama, has been careful to portray
himself as a “sensible progressive”. However, far from being a
“progressive” alternative, Obama is at his core a typical
representative of the bosses’ political parties.

We posted an article called “‘Fierce one’ ousts king to become new power in Nepal.” A fellow blogger named Auswatch wrote a pretty blunt reply:
“Fucking propaganda - I don’t see why there’s a need to repeat such slanders.”
(That’s the entire comment).
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On the Kasama sites, we don’t spoonfeed folks what to think whenever [...]

This interview mentions the “party’s tag” — by which they mean the word Maoist, that has always been part of the name of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The issue of the Party’s name is now part of a larger struggle over which road the CPN(M) will not take.
The interview was originally published by [...]