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Guns blaze as election looms in Israel
by our Arab Affairs correspondent
The roar of missiles over the Persian Gulf as Gaza burns and Iran fires warning shots at vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. Yes, the shaky Middle East cease-fire was again on the brink of collapse last week following American air strikes on drone and missile bases near the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas and the inevitable Iranian retaliation against the US base from which the attack was launched. But the redoubled efforts of the Pakistani and Turkish mediation teams have kept both sides talking, with the Americans considering a 60-day extension to the truce to buy time to finalise a framework agreement aimed at establishing de-escalation arrangements and ending the conflict.
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Guns blaze as election looms in Israel
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat: what does it mean?
by John Maryon
The qualitative transfer of society from obsolete capitalism to progressive social ism is the historical mission of the working class. Karl Marx, Frederick Engels and Vladimir Lenin developed an essential and powerful ideological theory to achieve scientific communism. A cornerstone of Marxism-Leninism is the need for a revolutionary change to bring about the dictatorship of the proletariat. Those opposed to Marxism-Leninism are at pains to deny this essential process and foster an illusion of gradual transformation using the bourgeois state apparatus. In effect tinkering with a collapsing system and incorrectly assuming that the working class will grow in terms of knowledge and understanding. In practice the power of the bourgeoisie needs to be challenged by the united efforts of all sections of the working class.
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The Dictatorship of the Proletariat: what does it mean?
