Appliance of Science

100 days after the murder of Brett Kebble, the lack of effort to find the killers looks like good evidence that this was a political assassination. Nobody in the police appears big enough to take it on. It seems that there is impunity within the bourgeoisie, above a certain level. The YCL National Committee declared its support for free education for all; for the communities of Khutsong, Moutse, and Matatiele; and for scrapping the Gautrain in favour of a broad-impact transport system. A “drone” is a big model aeroplane without a pilot that has cameras, transmitters and receivers on board as well as missiles. The CIA can sit in its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, USA and direct these things anywhere - to shoot a rocket into your living room if they please. On Friday one of these things rocketed a house in Pakistan, killing 18 people. The US told all sorts of stories. See two short reports linked here. In our occasional series of Revolutionary Classics, here is the first of the three parts of Frederick Engels’ 1880 “Socialism, Utopian and Scientific”, on “The Development of Utopian Socialism”. Links Kebble silence is not golden, Sunday Times Metro (515 words) Statement of YCL National Committee (1106 words) Dinner Guest Ayman al-Zawahri Escapes Death, Kurt Nimmo (731 words) Pakistan condemns US air strike that killed 18, DNA India (401 words) 1880, Engels, Socialism Utopian and Scientific 1, Development of Utopian Socialism (5105 words)