John Molyneux wrote two blog postings, providing brief historical background on the rise and fall of the Third Communist International.
Click below to read the first posting…

[Above: Panel of Diego Rivera's mural at Unity House, depicting the labor movement and labor radicalism. Addressing the struggle between labor and capital, the mural includes images of Karl Marx, [...]

From Socialist Worker…
The German authorities mounted the biggest security operation since the Second World War for the G8 at Heilingandamm near the north German town of Rostock.
They sent 16,000 riot police to the area, destroyers packed with marines up the Wranow Estuary and a fleet of fighter planes to patrol the skies.
Despite this much [...]

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From Al-Jazeera…
Clashes have left at least 150 police officers injured after thousands of people marched through the northern German port city of Rostock on Saturday to protest against the forthcoming Group of Eight meeting of industrialised powers.
The summit will be hosted by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, in Heiligendamm, 25km west of Rostock.
Some covered [...]

From AP…
A suicide attacker detonated himself next to German soldiers shopping in a crowded market in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 10 people and wounding 16, officials said.
Three Germans were killed and two wounded in the attack in the city of Kunduz, said Gen. Noor Mohammad Omarkhail, the deputy police chief for Kunduz province. [...]

Habib el-Adly has moved to Germany, according my sources in the Brown House…
Police in northern Germany have raided 40 sites linked to opponents of the G8 club of rich nations ahead of the group’s summit next month, the federal prosecutor’s office said.
Government officials said on Wednesday they were searching for 18 activists believed to belong [...]

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This is very interesting…
New allegations are coming up regarding Germany being part of the US-run global gulag in the current “war on terror,” where Islamist suspects are flown around the world, held, interrogated and tortured in secret detention centers.

In an interview I conducted last May with Islamist lawyer Montasser al-Zayat, he said Egyptian cleric Abu [...]