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2011 December: International active resistance for the Immediate Shutdown of All Nuclear Power Plants

MLPD – Member of ICOR! The nuclear catastrophe was completely foreseeable On 11 March 2011 at 2.46 p.m., Japan witnessed the worst earthquake in its history. The epicenter of the earthquake was near the coast and caused a tsunami tidal wave. A few minutes later, it hit the Japanese coast up to 10 meters high. While in Europe (6.46 a.m. Central European Time) many people are still sleeping, more than 27,000 people in Japan lose their lives. 400,000 persons become homeless, under partly catastrophic conditions. A few hours later, news about damages at the Japanese nuclear power plants is spreading rapidly over the newslines. Damages to the supposedly safest nuclear power plants in the world? While billions of people are still rubbing their eyes in astonishment, things are developing rapidly. ... Read More…

January 2012: MLPD Germany Interview with Stefan Engel: The Turbulences of the Imperialist World System Are Preparing the Ground for a Revolutionary World Crisis

Rote Fahne interview with Stefan Engel, Chairman of the MLPD, 4 January 2012 In September 2008 a worldwide economic and financial crisis broke out with the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers. Its course clearly differs compared with other world economic crises after World War II. What is the reason for that? We already made the forecast at the end of 2008 that regarding extent, intensity and effect we will be concerned with the deepest world economic and financial crisis experienced by capitalism until now. At first it seemed to turn out differently. A unique joint international imperialist crisis management succeeded in preventing an uncontrolled collapse of the world financial system and slowing down the slump of the world economy. Above all, for the time being those in power could dampen the political upheavals which usually accompany such economic crises. Read More…

Literature

Literaturtipp For the title of this book, author Stefan Engel employs an allegory from German mythology: in the götterdämmerung, the "twilight of the gods", the end of the world engulfs the worn-out gods of an antiquated age, and out of the world conflagration grows an admirable new world of peace an full, joyous live. The parallel with the decline of the present ruling stratum of world society and the preparation of a new future well worth living is intended! The book wrests this vision from the realm of mythology and places it on a scientific foundation.

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