The second session of the Mahalla 49 trial has been postponed to 6 September (instead of 1 September), according to the defense lawyers…
‘The road to Paris and London lies via the towns of Afghanistan, the Punjab and Bengal’
Esme Choonara, A Rebel’s Guide to Trotsky, London: Bookmarks, 2007, Page 30:
Trotsky and Lenin believed that revolution in the West – in one of the key centers of capitalism – was necessary to secure the future of the international revolution. But they both also understood the importance of the revolts by those oppressed by colonialism and imperialism.
As Trotsky put it in 1919, while on the frontline with the Red Army, “The road to Paris and London lies via the towns of Afghanistan, the Punjab and Bengal”
… and Cairo, Gaza, Beirut and Baghdad.
8 NATO occupation troops dead in 24 hours
From AFP:
Eight international troops including three Poles and three Canadians have been killed in Afghanistan over the last 24 hours, a military source said Thursday.
News of the latest casualties came as French President Nicolas Sarkozy conducted a tribute ceremony in Paris for 10 French troops killed in an ambush near Kabul three days before.
