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Report non-emergency issues, receive alerts in your neighborhood - SeeClickFix - 0 views

www.seeclickfix.com/citizens

shared by nghrdak on 07 Dec 10 - Cached
  • nghrdak on 07 Dec 10
     
    >I have found this great website on self organization. The site >allows citizen in all communities throughout the world to post >issues that needs to be fixed in their neighborhood. Residents and >government officials can log in and see what is going on with their >neighborhood and monitor the issues that are being fixed or those >that are neglected. > >I know there are a lot of students in class addressing the issue of >self organization. I that was a neat virtual environment where >people gather to point out issues and come out in the real world to >fix them. Out of 60 000 reports of problems that have been posted >thus far, they claimed that 45% has been resolved all through self >determination and public involvement
Jocelyn Vache

Welcome to the World Savvy Monitor - 0 views

worldsavvy.org/index.php

lessons global community

shared by Jocelyn Vache on 27 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Jocelyn Vache on 27 Mar 12
     
    I just stumbled upon this and I cannot wait to use it in my classroom.  What a find!
nghrdak

The Chinese Revolution of 1949 - Part One - 0 views

www.marxist.com/hinese-revolution-1949-one.htm

shared by nghrdak on 01 Dec 10 - Cached
  • The bourgeois nationalist Chiang Kai-shek, who seized power in 1927 over the mangled bodies of the workers of Shanghai, had two decades to show what he could do.
  • The Chinese bourgeoisie, together with all the other propertied classes, was entangled with imperialism, forming a reactionary bloc opposed to change.
  • The alliance of CPC and KMT was a united front in name only.
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  • Under the terms of the Japanese unconditional surrender dictated by the United States, Japanese troops were ordered to surrender to Chiang’s troops and not to the Communists in the occupied areas of Chin
  • The Americans had the ambition of making China a US sphere of influence (in effect a semi-colony) after the War
  • But after all the sufferings of the Second World War, the American people would not have been prepared to support a new war to subjugate China
  • More importantly, the American soldiers would not have been prepared to fight such a war. The inability of US imperialism to intervene against the Chinese Revolution was therefore an important element in the equation.
  • This manoeuvre did not fool Mao for an instant. He agreed to participate in the negotiations, but continued to prepare for a renewal of hostilities
  • civil war of 1946-9
  • The United States assisted the KMT with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new surplus military supplies
  • However, any of the arms sent by Washington were later used by the Vietnamese against the US army, since, almost all this military hardware was captured by Mao’s forces.
  • US imperialism supplied the Kuomintang with bombers, fighter planes, guns, tanks, rocket-launchers, automatic rifles, gasoline bombs, gas projectiles and other weapons for this purpose. In return, the Kuomintang handed over to US imperialism China's sovereign rights over her own territory, waters and air space, allowed it to seize inland navigation rights and special commercial privileges, and seize special privileges in China's domestic and foreign affairs. The US forces were guilty of many atrocities against Chinese people: killing people, beating them up, driving cars over them and raping women, all with impunity.
  • Clausewitz made the celebrated remark that war is the continuation of politics by other means
  • Although the Americans (as always) maintained the fiction that this was a war between “communism and democracy”, in fact, their Chinese puppet Chiang Kai-shek was a brutal dictator.
  • There were mass nationwide student protests against US imperialism.
  • Nationalists still had a big advantage over the PLA
  • The demoralized and undisciplined Nationalist troops were melting away in the face of the irresistible forward march of the People's Liberation Arm
  • The transformation of the military situation was really incredible. The PLA, which for years had been outnumbered, by July-December 1948 finally gained numerical superiority over the Kuomintang forces. These are the figures given by Mao at the time:
  • There is no reason not to believe that this estimate is substantially accurate. All the bourgeois historians accept that by this stage, Chiang’s forces were retreating in disarray and that the PLA was rapidly gaining in strength
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