The recently awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been accompanied by much chatter in popular science columns about how the work of the three awarded scientists has proven that there is no such thing as âobjective realityâ, and the world is not real. Even the Nobel Prize committee itself succeeded in misrepresenting the science. Idealist mysticism has made much headway in the sciences, and is expressed most crudely in popular science journals. Perhaps the worst specimen is the once highly regarded New Scientist magazine, as the following article from issue 37 of In Defence of Marxism magazine explains.
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For almost half a year, the chairman of the Kurier trade union (representing food delivery couriers), Kirill Ukraintsev, has been in custody. He is charged with repeated violations of the law for holding public events. But in fact, he is being persecuted for legitimate trade union activities, and for defending the rights of one of the most disadvantaged and disenfranchised groups of the working class.
The following is a model leaflet, produced by the International Marxist Tendency, to be distributed at events and demonstrations held in solidarity with the revolutionary youth movement in Iran. It presents our position on how this inspiring movement should advance. Down with the mullahs' regime! Down with imperialism! Down with capitalism!
Protester har brutit ut över hela Iran till följd av den ökÀnda moralpolisens mord pÄ den unga kurdiska kvinnan Jina Mahsa Amini. Protesterna började i de kurdiska omrÄdena i Iran och spred sig sedan till fler Àn 30 stÀder, dÀribland landets största; Teheran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Tabriz och den sÄ kallat heliga staden Qom. Vad som började som en reaktion mot polisens övervÄld har snabbt förvandlats till ilska mot hela regimen.