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Interview with Torkil Lauesen og Jan Weimann about their legal and illegal political activism from the seventies and on.

p. 82-84
Extract of V.I. Lenin: Session of the Petrograd Soviet.

p. 24-25:
"... One thing is certain, that the death-hour of old China is rapidly drawing nigh. Civil war has already divided the South from the North of the Empire, and the Rebel King seems to be as secure from the Imperialists (if not from the intrigues of his own followers) at Nanking, as the Heavenly Emperor from the rebels at Peking."

p. 31:
"What do you say to the elections in the factory districts? Once again the proletariat has discredited itself terribly."

p. 19-21:
"They destroyed it by breaking up the native communities, by uprooting the native industry, and by levelling all that was great and elevated in the native society."
"All the English bourgeoisie may be forced to do will neither emancipate nor materially mend the social condition of the mass of the people, depending not only on the development of the productive powers, but of their appropriation by the people."
"While they prated in Europe about the inviolable sanctity of the national debt, did they not confiscate in India the dividends of the rayahs who had invested their private savings in the Company's own finds?"

p. 44-45:
"Participation in the domination of the world market was and is the economic basis of the political nullity of the English workers. The tail of the bourgeoisie in the economic exploitation of this monopoly but nevertheless sharing in its advantages, they are, of course, politically the tail-of the "Great Liberal Party," which for its part pays them small attentions, recognises Trade Unions and strikes as legitimate factors, has abandoned the fight for an unlimited working-day and has given the mass of better-off workers the vote."

p. 30:
"For the moment this turn of affairs is bad for the workers' party; the intriguers among the workers, such as Odger and Potter, who want to get into the next Parliament, have now a new excuse for attaching themselves to the bourgeois Liberals.
However, this is only a penalty which England – and consequently also the English working class – is paying for the great crime it has been committing for many centuries against Ireland."

p. 40:
"... The English working-class had been gradually becoming more and more deeply demoralised by the period of corruption since 1848 and had at last got to the point when it was nothing more than the tail of the Great Liberal Party, i.e., of its oppressors, the capitalists."

Follow-up and deepening of Gotfred Appels critique of CCP media outlets information of the situation in Western Europe presented in previous letter to the Central Committee of China's Communist Party, posted at April 24, 1968.
The letter was published for the first time at snylterstaten.dk [Parasite State] in August 2013.

p. 87-91:
Extract of V.I. Lenin: The Tasks of the Third International.

In this episode I interview Torkil Lauesen, longtime anti-imperialist activist and author of two books including “The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance” and his latest “The Principal Contradiction”. We discuss Maoism, both historically and in the modern age, the election of Joe Biden, and we speak briefly about his upcoming book “Riding the Wave” 

p. 11-12:
"The almost 100.000 votes against, the some 170.000 votes in favour at the voting, and the some 270.000 votes which were not cast at all thus expressly serve to show that the working class has been split up, is without common determination, without genuine class solidarity, without genuine class consciousness.

When this is said, and in our opinion it  m u s t  be said, it must also be said and heavily stressed that this situation in the Danish working class is a temporary and transitory phenomenon. It is a phenomenon which has been caused by a certain historical, economic and ideological development, and it will change again under a new historical, economic and ideological development."

Contents:
The Development of Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century p. 31
Britain's Industrial Monopoly p. 32
The Contradiction Production – Consumption p. 32
Marx & Engels On the Potentialities of Capitalism p. 34
The New Manifestation of the Contradiction p. 39
The Development of the United States of America from Colony to Advanced Capitalist Power p. 46
Summary p. 54

Contents:
Support the Anti-Imperialist Movements in the Exploited Countries! p. 198
Support the Liberation Movements Materially! p. 200
What do We Work For? p. 201

p. 21-23:
"Ireland may be regarded as the first English colony and as one which because of its proximity is still governed exactly in the old way, and one can already notice here that the so-called liberty of English citizens is based on the oppression of the colonies."
"The country was completely ruined by the English wars of conquest from 1100 to 1850 (for in reality both the wars and the state of siege lasted as long as that)."

p. 41:
"... For a number of years past (and at the present time) the English working-class movement has been hopelessly describing a narrow circle of strikes for higher wages and shorter hours, not, however, as an expedient or means of propaganda and organisation but as the ultimate aim. The Trade Unions even bar all political action on principle and in their charters, and thereby also ban participation in any general activity of the working-class as a class."

In discussing imperialism and international solidarity, the panel is a contribution to a vital debate on the why and how of liberation struggle.

It may, on the face of it, appear strange that a political organisation in Denmark should support the publication of a periodical in Tanzania – a periodical, moreover, which addresses itself to readers in the Third World. Why do we not concentrate our efforts on political work in our own part of the world and publish a periodical aimed at the Danish Working class? Why do liberation movements and socialist forces in the Third World command the major part of our attention? This choice of priorities is the outcome of certain fundamental political considerations.

Contents:
Preface p. 9-18

I interview Torkil Lauesen about his latest book Riding The Wave: Sweden’s Integration Into The World Imperialist System. You can pick up the book from Kersplebedeb by visiting leftwingbooks.net”