MortarBoardCULong CU Postings to Whatsapp, 21-22 April 2017 Click the links to connect to full text The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty Fifty years ago, it was "the left" whose most ardent cause was support for Third World national liberation struggles. The left's heroes were Ahmed Ben Bella, Sukarno, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, and Ho Chi Minh. They were fighting to liberate their countries from Western imperialism. They were fighting for independence, for the right to determine their own way of life, preserve their own customs, and decide their own future. They were fighting for national sovereignty. The left supported that struggle. But now, the left has been won over to a new imperialism under the banner of "human rights" and "antiracism".* - http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/21/the-main-issue-in-the-french-presiden tial-election-national-sovereignty/ Teachers: Stop Funds For Shack Schools Teachers urged the World Bank yesterday to stop funding a chain of private-sector tin shack schools across Africa. Unions led by global federations Education International (EI) and Public Services International marched on the bank's Washington headquarters to demand that it stop giving loans to Bridge International Academies (BIA).* *Bankrolled by the world's richest man, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, along with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and eBay's Pierre Omidyar, BIA aims to dominate education in Africa and India with its "low-fee" private schools. - http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-78be-Teachers-stop-funds-for-shack-scho ols#.WPrjMPl9600 Communists Ease Personal Attacks On Under-Fire Zuma South Africa's communists warned against focusing exclusively on President Jacob Zuma on Thursday after the ANC closed ranks. SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande told a 1,000-strong shop stewards' council in Johannesburg: "Issues around President Jacob Zuma should not be personalised." "Though we are saying it is appropriate for the president to step aside, we can't turn it into an anti-Zuma campaign." The SACP was the first ANC ally to demand Mr Zuma's resignation last month over his sacking of finance minister Pravin Gordhan. Trade union federation COSATU followed. - http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-8c75-South-Africa-Communists-ease-perso nal-attacks-on-under-fire-Zuma#.WPrjbPl9600 Western Powers 'Give Up On Diplomatic Resolution' Speaking at a press conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kazakhstan's capital Astana yesterday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said those governments had given "no explanations" for their opposition to an investigation. Mr Lavrov said: "It's obvious that false information about the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government is being used to move away from implementing [Security Council] Resolution 2254," - the 2015 UN pact which committed nations to support peace talks between the Syrian government and insurgents, who were supposed to break their alliances with Isis and al-Qaida terrorists. - http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-1ac2-Syria-Western-powers-give-up-on-di plomatic-resolution#.WPrjUPl9600 Most CU topical postings are now made to Whatsapp via the Whatsapp-style link with a caption. The above is a collection of the latest postings. Items that have already been sent by e-mail through this channel are not included. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of malware database 15298 (20170422) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002c01d2bbaa%24a9521910%24fbf64b30%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
