Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement – Seattle

RAIM-Seattle forms

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A new RAIM cell has formed in Seattle. MSH sends a red salute to RAIM-S.

From the RAIM-S website:

“- What does RAIM-Seattle want?

A utopian society. We want a world free from oppression of groups by groups and people by people. A world without imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, national oppression, or youth oppression. We want a world based on egalitarianism and mutuality.

-Why is RAIM-Seattle so focused on anti-imperialism?

Because we are revolutionary humanitarians. People live off of three dollars a day, not because they are workers, women or children, but because they were born into the Third World. Everything is connected. The affluence of the First World is directly causative of the poverty in the Third World. The destruction of imperialism is the first step towards a mutualistic society.”

Third World children starve, suffer stunted growth, First World children suffer obesity

Third World children starve, suffer stunted growth, First World children suffer obesity

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According to a new UNICEF report, 200 million children under 5 in poor countries have stunted growth due to insufficient nutrition. Of the 200 million, almost 90 percent live in Asia and Africa. Almost a third of deaths in that age group are linked to undernutrition.

In Asia as a whole, the stunted growth rate is 30 percent. The situation in South Asia is especially bleak with Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan accounting for 83 million hungry children under five. In Africa, the rate is 43 percent.

The vast majority of those who suffer insufficient nutrition reside in the Third World. By contrast, children in the First World suffer problems of consuming too much food. For example, according to the Surgeon General, 12.5 million children, 17 percent , in the US suffer from obesity. These children also suffer health issues, but they are health issues related to overconsumption. In addition, First World children also have become less physically active. Physical activity has declined in the US. According to one study, 20 percent of youth from 9 to 13 years old engaged in no physical activity outside of school. Similar results have been reported in other First World countries.

Children who suffer stunted growth suffer related ailments their whole lives. Under capitalism-imperialism, 200 million children in the Third World have their futures stolen from them.  A billion go hungry every day, mostly in Third World. By contrast, children in the First World  grow overweight and inactive.

Capitalism produces for the market, not for human needs. Capitalism divides countries into the First and Third Worlds, with little in between. A few countries grow wealthy at the expense of the majority. Socialism will turn the tables. According to studies, enough food is produced so that hunger  and undernutrition could easily be wiped out with proper food distribution. Under socialism, access to adequate nutrition will be a basic human right.

Sources:

1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_nutrition_report;_ylt=AjUkpaoBeiVgjl3j5np6jT3VJRIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJvaTlpZGRkBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMTExL2V1X21lZF9udXRyaXRpb25fcmVwb3J0BGNwb3MDMwRwb3MDOARzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawN1bnNheXNodW5nZXI-

2. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/obesityprevention/index.html

3. http://www.fitness.gov/enewsletter/fall2008/featurearticle.html

4. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/8/419

5. http://monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/amerikans-first-worlders-waste-food-third-worlders-starve/

Frankly, we support our troops

First Worldism underneath the Beyonce controversy

First Worldism underneath the Beyonce controversy
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Pop diva Beyonce’s “I Am..” tour has so far made 53 million dollars, and generated controversy to boot. In giant posters that pepper the streets, Beyonce sports a revealing, flame covered outfit  in the shape of motorcycle handlebars. Tour ads are running on Egyptian and Arab satellite television.

Islamic critics are reportedly saying that her show is an “indolent sex party” and that it promotes “vice and debauchery.” A facebook campaign against her concert has gathered 10,000 supporters. The critics are right on the whole. Beyonce, like most Amerikan pop culture, is pornographic and self indulgent — “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.” Behind the controversy are assumptions about Islam, the Third World, and women’s liberation.

First Worldist feminism often portrays two paths for women: First World liberalism or Third World barbarism, Sex in the City or Sharia law. In this controversy, Beyonce’s aptly titled “I Am..” tour has come to represent the former and her Islamic critics have come to represent the latter in the bourgeois media discourse. Lacking from the controversy is materialism. Beyonce, as a cultural artifact, is ripped out of one world and dropped into another. Beyonce’s music, her image, etc. resonates one way in the liberal First World and another way in the Islamic Third World because women live very different kinds of lives across very different kinds of societies. Capitalism-imperialism has created a world divided between exploiter and exploited countries. Women’s advancement in the First World has come to be very different from women’s advancement in the Third World.

The gains made by women in First World, liberal societies are made possible by super-profits taken from the Third World. First World societies have given individuals, both men and women, a greater range of life options. People in the First World have more social and geographic mobility. They are not bound to one way of life. First World women are free to change jobs. She is free to support herself, change locations, opt out of family life, enter into non-traditional sexual relationships, etc. Super-profits have freed women from restrictive traditional roles in the domestic and work realms. Like men, women have gained greater and greater access to leisure time in the First World. The imperialist economies of the First World have blunted the sharpest edges of patriarchal oppression for women.

Women’s advancement in the First World has gone beyond just gaining independence from the worst aspects of patriarchy. In gaining independence, women have gained access to much of the man’s world. Women’s advancement has thus taken the form of women opting into, not out of, the male world. Women are entering the man’s world, not as women, and not as second-class citizens. Rather, they are entering the male world on more and more equal terms with their First World male counterparts. And, with the rise of raunch culture over the past decades, First World women, in greater numbers, no longer see themselves as women, but as “one of the guys.” Women’s “liberation” in the First World is a “liberation” that is achieved by joining the oppressor as the oppressor, not by defeating the oppressor. Thus the contradiction between First World men and First World women, such that it exists, has ceased to be antagonistic. Insofar as gender imbalances still remain between First World men and First World women, it is a small price to pay to enter the male’s world. The reward for First World women is that they gain greater privileges, including gender privileges, over Third World peoples, both men and women. First World women benefit by their participation in the global patriarchy as oppressors. There is more unity than disunity between First World men and First World women.

To advance oneself in the First World, one becomes an oppressor. By contrast, Third World women cannot enter the world of the First World oppressor. In general, she cannot enter his world as anything close to his equal. She can only enter into his social world to be oppressed, for example, as a prop for a sexual fantasy. First World women advance their interests, including their gender interests, by creating inequality on a global scale. By contrast, Third World women must seek their liberation by seeking equality for the vast majority of humanity in the Third World. Many Third World women are still bound by traditional roles, both in domestic roles and in production. They do not have the life opprotunities that First World women have. Survival within the capitalist-imperialist system greatly limits what Third World women can and cannot do. Third World women have none of the mobility that First World women have. Thus Third World women’s liberation is tied to the uprooting of feudalistic and traditional ways of life that often become even more unbearable in the context of capitalism-imperialism.

The First Worldist feminist says that it is either her way or tribal barbarism. She says that Third World women can find liberation through individualistic self discovery and self help, by throwing off the veil and putting on miniskirts, by liberating her sexuality, by joining the hedonistic free for all, by becoming “one of the guys.” However, such is a dead end for the Third World. The real way forward for Third World women is the proletarian revolution, uprooting the old mode of production. For the vast majority of women, they must find a way that breaks the chains of patriarchy, the chains of national oppression, and all other chains.

Gender contradictions in the First World follow a familiar pattern. The super-profit flow into the First World has transformed First World society such that antagonistic contradictions hardly exist, or are severely blunted. Instead, First World populations are more and more homogenous in their alignments, especially in their alignments toward the Third World. To meet this challenge, the Third World must unite to defeat the First World. Social revolution, including gender liberation, must happen within a context of the global people’s war, the struggle against imperialism, the struggle for national liberation, New Democracy, socialism and, ultimately, communism.

Sources

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/beyonce-egypt-show-called_n_347326.html

Fragging statement: MSH and Anwar al Awlaki

Fragging statement: MSH and Anwar al Awlaki

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All the facts about the Fort Hood shootings are not in yet. The facts may never be fully known. After all, the bourgeois media, the accused’s handlers, and others, will try to craft their own narratives around the events. However, it is reported that there was a mass shooting that killed 13 and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood on November 5th, 2009. The alleged shooter is Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist. According to reports, Hasan, a Muslim, is a vocal opponent of the war. He reportedly defended armed resistance to imperialism, including suicide attacks on US forces. Whether or not the shootings were a politically motivated attack against imperialism is not known yet.

The bourgeois media has condemned the horror of the shootings. However, capitalism-imperialism is the real horror. The continued existence of the US and other imperialist countries is the real horror. The US was born of the greatest genocide in human history. Amerikans exterminated a continent of Indigenous civilizations to make way for its racist empire. Millions of Blacks and Africans were killed and enslaved to make the US what it is today: the most murderous country that has ever existed. There is not a corner of the Third World that escapes the murderous grasp of US imperialism. Billions of people in the Third World barely survive, making less than 2.50 dollars a day, exploited by the US and First World. Billions live in poverty so that US and other First World populations live in luxury. Billions live under constant military threat from the imperialists. In Iraq alone there have been 100,000 to 600,000 violent deaths since 2003. In Afghanistan, there have been 12,000 to 32,000 civilian deaths since 2001.

Those who strike out against the real horrors of imperialism should be applauded, not condemned. Fragging has a long histoy. In the last century, fragging was a form of resistance practiced by Russian troops against their Czarist officers during World War 1 and the Bolshevik revolution. Fragging was also a form of protest against the genocide waged by the US against Vietnam.

Fragging is still a valid form of resistance today.  Not only does fragging hurt imperialist forces in a very direct way, fragging strikes a strong psychological blow against the enemy. Fragging demoralizes and destroys the enemy from within.

Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaki, who knew Hasan earlier in life, had this to say about the events:

“Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn’t exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a US soldier. The US is leading the war against terrorism which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.

Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal.

The heroic act of brother Nidal also shows the dilemma of the Muslim American community. Increasingly they are being cornered into taking stances that would either make them betray Islam or betray their nation. Many amongst them are choosing the former. The Muslim organizations in America came out in a pitiful chorus condemning Nidal’s operation.

The fact that fighting against the US army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can defy the clear cut proofs that Muslims today have the right -rather the duty- to fight against American tyranny. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims. The American Muslims who condemned his actions have committed treason against the Muslim Ummah and have fallen into hypocrisy.

Allah(swt) says: Give tidings to the hypocrites that there is for them a painful punishment –

Those who take disbelievers as allies instead of the believers. Do they seek with them honor [through power]? But indeed, honor belongs to Allah entirely. (al-Nisa 136-137)

The inconsistency of being a Muslim today and living in America and the West in general reveals the wisdom behind the opinions that call for migration from the West. It is becoming more and more difficult to hold on to Islam in an environment that is becoming more hostile towards Muslims.

May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience, perseverance and steadfastness and we ask Allah to accept from him his great heroic act. Ameen”

Although we do not agree that Muslims should necessarily leave the West en masse, we applaud al-Awlaki’s condemnation of the pro-Yankkkee lackeys in the Muslim community and his open endorsement of warfare against the imperialist enemy. Every human worthy of the name has a duty to fight an imperialist enemy that kills tens of millions of humans every year.

Sources

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29#Aggregation_of_estimates
3. http://www.anwar-alawlaki.com/?p=228

Floating parasitism

Floating parasitism

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Royal Caribbean International has just launched the world’s largest cruise ship. The Oasis of the Seas weighs 225,282 tonnes. The ship is 360 meters long and 72 meters high above the water line. Passenger features include luxuries such as two-story loft suites and other luxury suites measuring 150 square meters with balconies overlooking the sea or promenades. Its capacity is 5,400 passengers, 6,296 people total.

The passengers will enjoy all the luxuries of a floating resort town. The ship will be divided into neighborhoods with different themes and activities. One ship highlight is the first living park at sea with 12,000 plants and 56 trees. The ship also includes a 750-seat outdoor amphitheater, a golf course, volley ball and basket ball courts, a zipline, a casino, a handcrafted carousel, rock climbing walls, several pools, many bars, a youth science lab and a computer gaming area.

The maiden voyage of this floating, behemoth monument to decadence is scheduled for December 5th, 2009. The vessel, along with a soon to be completed sister ship, will be based out of the US port of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The ship cost 1.4 billion dollars to construct, and even more to maintain and operate. The building cost of the ship is about the same as the GNP of Eritrea in 2008. The capitalist-imperialist system has dedicated roughly the equivalent of the GNP of an African country into creating a floating playground for First Worlders.

The average ticket price will be about 1,000 dollars for 7 days. This is not out of the range of the average adult Amerikan who has an income of 32,000 dollars per year. By contrast, many people in the Third World don’t even earn 1,000 dollars in an entire year. In fact, there are more people in India whose yearly income is less than a 1,000-dollar ticket. The vast majority of the workforce make less than Rs. 20 or 0.49 dollars a day.

This is an example of what Karl Marx identified as the anarchy of production under capitalism. Capitalism produces for the market, it does not produce to meet the needs of the vast majority. Under  socialism, by contrast, the few will not be able to take a cruise on a floating utopia while others fight for their basic survival. Under socialism, the global distribution will be one that is more rational and egalitarian. The First World itself will be abolished under global socialism. Under socialism, the few will not benefit at the expense of the many.

Sources

1. http://www.cruiseshipforum.com/cruise/cr….the-world. html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Oasis_of_the_Seas
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
4. http://monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/amerikkkans-rich-indians-poor-so-called-

Third World countries protest First World countries over climate change

Third World countries protest First World countries over climate change

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50 African countries walked out of a UN working meeting on climate change in Barcelona, Spain. The African and 70 other Third World countries have been protesting U.N. climate negotiations this week. According to the African spokespeople, the wealthy countries make weak commitments to environmental protection and it is the poor countries suffer the most severe consequences.

Africa, for example, is being devastated by droughts and floods that result from climate changes. Even though the Third World accounts for only a third of greenhouse gasses, it will suffer 80 percent of the damage resulting from climate change. According to an African Union official, the state of Texas alone “with 30 million inhabitants creates as much greenhouse gases as the billion Africans taken together.”

Africans advocate that the First World countries should reduce their carbon emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020. The African demand lines up with the upper limit advocated by scientists. However, so far, the targets that have been announced, favored by First World countries, have fallen far short.

These protests set the stage for negotiations at the final Copenhagen conference. UN negotiators hope to adopt a final treaty to reduce worldwide carbon emissions. The Copenhagen deal would succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which sought to reduce gas emissions from industrial countries by 5 percent. Of all the major greenhouse gas producers, the US was the only one to reject the Kyoto accord.

Environmental issues, especially global warming, affects both First and Third World peoples. However, First World peoples are the ones who benefit the most from greenhouse economy. The greenhouse economy, the capitalist-imperialist economy, is an economy that principally serves First World consumers at the expense of Third World producers. Yet those who suffer most from climate change are peoples in the Third World. Any fair treaty to reduce carbon emissions should put the brunt of responsibility on First World countries to clean up the environmental mess that results from the world system that serves their endless consumption. In addition, any fair treaty should respect and not impede Third World development and sovereignty.

Sources

1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_climate_talks
2. http://monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/reparations-demanded-for-eco-destruction-of-africa/

Lackeys in Iran: Help! Obama! Help!

Lackeys in Iran: Help! Obama! Help!

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This week witnessed demonstrations in the streets of Tehran. According to reports, these are the first significant ones since the end of demonstrations surrounding the contested presidential elections months ago. The recent protests come at a time of increased pressure on the Islamic Republic by the imperialists over Iran’s nuclear energy program.

According to reports, some demonstrators went onto the streets to protest the legitimacy of Ahmadinejad. Others defended the Iranian state’s “hard line” toward the US. According to reports, in Haft-e-Tir Square, demonstrators clashed with police.

The anti-government protesters openly sought imperialist help. In a widely circulated youtube clip, anti-government demonstrators in Tehran chant in Farsi: “Obama, Obama, you are either with them, or with us!” Another widely chanted slogan, aimed at Ahmadinejad, was “Death to the dictator!”  The Obama administration responded by calling on an end of violence against the anti-government protesters. Press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama administration leaders “hope greatly that violence will not spread.”

By contrast, at the rally to mark the 30th year anniversary of the takeover of the US embassy where 52 Amerikans were held hostage for 444 days, thousands gathered in front of the US embassy chanting “death to Amerika!”  US flags were trampled and marched on.

The US public overwhelmingly supports imperialist action against Iran. According to a recent poll, the majority, 61 percent, of Amerikans favor the use of military force against Iran.  Also, 71 percent of Israelis favor a military attack against Iran. The Obama administration has left no doubt whose side its on in numerous public statements criticizing the Islamic regime.

Behind the scenes, the Obama administration is surely aiding those forces that have been destabilizing Iran. Others too have played their parts behind the scenes to undermine anti-interventionist sentiment in the US. For years, fake-Maoist organizations like the RCP USA and other imperialist lackeys in the so-called “left” have parroted neo-con propaganda,  attacking Iran’s nuclear program and over gender issues. And, over the summer, First World “leftists,” caught up in the media hype, found themselves cheering what the US State Department hoped would be another pro-imperialist color revolution. These “leftist” forces are hardly friends of the Iranian people.

It is in this context, that Israel claims that its commandos have seized a shipment of 3,000 Iranian-made rockets bound for Lebanon to be used by Hezebollah. Whether this event is being reported truthfully or not,  it creates yet more pretext for imperialist attack against Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu :

“The time has come for the international community to put real pressure on Iran for it to halt this despicable activity and back Israel when it defends itself against terrorists and their patrons.”

There is increased imperialist meddling and pressure being applied to Iran. Pretexts are being created for military intervention and public opinion is being shaped. Those who welcome imperialists as Iran’s saviors and those who end up in de facto alliances with imperialists as they attack Iran have no credibility among the masses. Those who oppose the imperialists are real patriots in Iran. Iran’s future should be decided by Iranians.

Sources

1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran
2. http://monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/which-side-are-you-on-61-of-amerikkkans-favor-using-force-against-iran-28-oppose/
3. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_arms_boat
4. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/wl_mideast_afp/iranpoliticsusembassyanniversary

Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo

Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo

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Ang “Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo” ay isang bidyu-dokumentaryo na gawa nuong 1996 at hango sa librong, “Lipunan at Rebolusyong Pilipino,” ni Amado Guerrero. Inilalarawan nito ang kasaysayan ng pakikibaka ng sambayanang Pilipino magmula nuong kapanahunan ng kolonyalismong Espanyol hanggang sa panahon ng imperyalismo sa pagbungad ng bagong milenyo. Tampok rito ang proletaryong pananaw sa kasaysayan, kaya nga naman binansagan itong “subersibo” at ipinagbawal pa ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno. Sa rami ng reklamo ng mga reaksyunaryo sa pelikulang ito, ni isa sa kanila ay hindi pinagusapan ang nilalaman ng pelikula ukol sa tunggalian ng uri, na batay lamang sa katotohanang nagaganap sa lipunan. Alam na alam ng mga reaksyunaryo ang batas ng tunggalian ng uri, ngunit hindi nila ito inaamin sa publiko.

Reklamo ng isa:

“Ang hanap ng lahat ay kapayapaan, kaayusan, katahimikan – mga bagay na hindi maibibigay ng pagyakap sa isang ideolohiya na di tanggap ng nakararami, na ikinokondena ng Simbahan, na di tinatangkilik ng pamahalaan.” … “Pakiramdam ko kasi’y isang pagbebrainwash… isang pagtatangka na isubo sa aking utak ang isang mapait na lason.”

Sa halip na punahin niya ang makasaysayang naratibo ng pelikula gamit ang wastong pagaargumento, nauwi siya sa paggamit ng estilong “ad homimem” at “argument from authority”. Hindi basta sinabi ng simbahan, o gubyerno ay totoo, binase lamang ng nag-iingit na kritiko ang kanyang makitid na pananaw mula sa anti-komunistang retoriko ng mga reaksyunaryo. Bukambibig niya ang salita ng mga ahenteng pang-psywar ng berdugong militar, taglay rin niya ang kababuyang lohika ng mga naghaharing uring panginoong maylupa at burgesyang kumprador. At hindi kagulat-gulat ang kanyang naging reaksyon, ang mga kaaway ay natural na kinikilabutan kapag naririnig ang mga salitang rebolusyong proletaryo, sosyalismo, komunismo: ang mga salitang ito’y nangangahulagan lamang kasi ng kanilang katapusan. Masdan na iniiwasan niya ang anumang makabuluhang pagtalakay sa mga makasaysayang kaganapang naibanggit sa dokumentaryo, alam rin nila kasi na ang kasaysayan ay hindi panig sa kanila kaya pilit nilang palabuin ito para sa sariling pakinabang.

Ito ay sumasalamin sa mga realidad ng lipunan, ang mga krimen na kinasasangkutan ng mga naghaharing uri ay hindi nabibigyan ng pansin, bagkus ay sadyang kinakalimutan. Nagagawa ng mga reaksyunaryo na baguhin ang kasaysayan gamit ang pang-estadong kapangyarihan, at palabasin na sila pa ay mapagmalasakit. Mula sa mga librong ginagamit ng mga estudyante hanggang sa anong mapanood at marinig sa telebisyon ay kontrolado ng estado. Para magbanggit ng ilan, meron pa bang balita tungkol sa masaker sa Hacienda Luisita? Naaalala pa ba ng mga tao ang Mendiola Massacre nuong 1987? Kahit ang mga lider ng mga ligal at mapayapang pagkilos para sa reporma sa lupa ay pinapatay, isang halimbawa ay yung kaso ng mga magsasaka sa Sumilao. Ang kamay ng mga naghaharing uri ay basang-basa sa dugo ng mamamayan subalit lagi na lang nagbubulag-bulagan at tikom ang bibig ng midya, maging ang simbahan.

Sa saradong mundo ng mga reaksyunaryo, wala naman talagang nangyaring mga henosidyo sa Pilipinas nuong pisikal na sinakop tayo ng mga dayuhan, masamang panaginip lang yung mga tributo na ipinataw sa sambayanan ng mga parasitikong Prayle, kolonyal na estado bilang kabuuan, imahinasyon lang yung madugong polisiyang “kill all above ten” ng U$ military nuong ipinasa tayo ng mga espanyol sa kano, at kathang-isip lang ang Bataan death march. Nililikha ng mga reaksyunaryo ang mga ganitong kabulastugan sapagkat gusto nilang kalimutan ng masa ang kasaysayan, sa ganitong paraan nais ng mga reaksyunaro na mapanatiling bulag at bingi ang kamalayan ng masa sa sanhi ng kanilang kaapihan. Gusto nilang kalimutan ng masa ang kasaysayan, ang tunggalian ng uri, at palitan ng ipinalalandakang nilang teorya ng mga produktibong pwersa. Habang atubili ang naghaharing uri sa pagpapahirap sa bayan, habang inilalako nila ang bayan sa presyong pinakamura para sa mga imperyalista, gusto nilang sabihin sa masang naghihikahos na tularan ang imperyalistang Unang Daigdig at kilalanin sila bilang tagapagligtas ng sambayanang Pilipino at ng buong sangkatauhan. Gusto nilang alisan ng pag-asa at panghinaan ng loob ang masang inaapi at pinagsasamantala. Layon ng mga reaksyunaryo na pasamain ang sosyalismo at ijustify ang walang katarungan na kaayusang panlipunan na kanilang pinakikinabangan, upang ipamukha sa anakpawis na habang buhay silang magiging alipin.

Walang tunay na “kapayapaan, kaayusan, katahimikan” sa ganitong klase ng lipunan. Ang “kapayapaan, kaayusan, katahimikan” para sa mga naghaharing uri ay sukat lang ng ayos ng pagtakbo ng kanilang mga negosyo at karera. Maingay nilang inirereklamo ang karahasan ng rebolusyonaryong armadong pakikibaka, pero mula’t sapul ay marahas naman talaga ang tunggalian ng uri. Dagdag pa rito, hindi nila magawang aminin ang pang araw-araw na karahasan na dinudulot ng pangangalaga sa naghaharing sistema, ang karahasang dinudulot ng kapitalismo-imperyalismo bilang kabuuan sa mga aping mamamayan ng Ikatlong Daigdig, na oras-oras na pinapatay at ginugutom.

Lagi na lang ipinapahiwatig ng mga reaksyunaryo na kasalanan ng mga mahihirap kung bakit sila mahirap, ang mga mahihirap daw ay dapat lang manatiling mahirap at ang mayayaman ay marapat lang magpakayaman. Dahilan naman ng mga relihiyosong orden, ito raw ay sadyang “likas” at kapasyahan ng “diyos”. Ayon naman sa mga sobonistang petiburges, kaya raw mahirap ang masa ay dahil sila ay tamad at bobo, kaya naman mayaman ang mayaman ay dahil sila ay masipag at matalino – ganito ang takbo ng mga kaisipang reaksyunaryo, hindi nila mabigyang sagot ang problema na sila rin ang lumikha tapos ibabaling nila ang sisi sa proletaryo. Hindi isinisikreto ng kasaysayan na ang simbahan at ang midya ay kinakasangkapan lamang ng mga naghaharing uri para sa kanilang iba’t-ibang agenda. Sabi narin ng obskurantistang simbahan magmula pa nuon upang pangatwiranan at gawing panghabangbuhay ang kanilang mapaniil na paghahari sa masa, mamamatay raw muna ang mga mahihirap bago nila makamit ang kasaganahan…duon sa “paraiso”.

Hindi tulad ng mga metapisikong reaksyunaryo, tayong mga rebolusyonaryo ay armado ng syensya, alam natin na ang takbo ng kasaysayan at ang kinabukasan ng sangkatauhan ay hindi umiikot sa mga antedelubyang kasulatin ng bibliya, sapagkat tao ang siyang may hawak ng kanyang kapalaran. Ating balik-aralan ang kasaysayan, makikita natin na ang masa ang siyang mapagpasya. Sa paraan ng kolektibong pagkilos ay magagawa ng mga inaapi at inaalipin na baguhin ang takbo ng kasaysayan, ang mga taong api mismo ang siyang lilikha ng makatotohanang paraiso dito sa lupa, aabutin natin ang isang lipunang walang pang-aapi’t pagsasamantala.

Kamatayan sa kapitalismo-imperyalismo!

Mabuhay ang Tagumpay ng Digmang Bayan!

The demolition of the Thälmann Memorial in Ziegenhals/Der Abriss der Thälmanngedenkstätte in Ziegenhals

The demolition of the Thälmann Memorial in Ziegenhals (in Brandenburg, Germany, near Berlin) must be prevented!

(www.mona-lisa.org)

Declaration of human rights and peace prize bearers of the Society for the Protection of Civil Right and Human Dignity (GBM), and the circle of friends “Ernst Thälmann Memorial”

Still within the 70th year, after the beginning of the Second World War, of the German raid on Poland, the important antifascist memorial in remembrance of the illegal conference at Ziegenhals of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and of its opposition to Hitler in Germany is to be torn down. The excavators are already standing by. This demolition must be prevented.

This memorial is no ordinary regional place of remembrance in an idyllic atmosphere in Krossinsee close to Berlin. It is not only a simple monument for an important leader of the German and international labour movement; an antifascist Reichstag representative for whose release from prison and concentration camp antifascists from all over the world fought for until he was murdered.

He had warned: “Who votes Hitler, votes for War!” He had, at this historic location, immediately after the fascist takeover of power – and in recognition of the KPD’s own shortcomings – called for a United Front, for the unfolding of all forms of mass resistance and mass struggle against the fascist dictatorship, against its wanton destruction, and for the overthrow of the Hitler government. He pleaded against the militarization of the country and of its youth to prevent a new imperialistic world war.

The preservation of this memorial is the duty of the Federal Republic of Germany. The German government was obliged to guarantee to the peoples of the world, who after World War II had the right to await that war would never again be started from German terrain, that war would, in fact, never be started from German soil again. This promise has been broken. See Yugoslavia or Afghanistan.

How it is possible, that a government in Germany, whose former government had started the 2nd world war and in whose regional and municipal parliaments today representatives of Neo-Nazis sit, in which radical right-wing activities and criminal offences abound and which is rife with anticommunism, can behave in such an unhistorical and irresponsible way? We demand that the Federal Republic fulfil her responsibility to preserve the memorial from this act of planned historical vandalism.

We demand that it be guaranteed that the Brandenburg Ministerial Council whose purchase of the property containing the memorial – whose give-away price can only be explained by the requirements for the preservation of sites of historic interest – fulfil their obligation under the purchase, “to further guarantee … a public use”.

The property’s owner may not put (as the Berlin Superior Court of Justice has stipulated) his self interests above the preservation of the memorial.

As human rights and peace prize bearers, we the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM), demand to preserve in honorary recollection the contribution that Thälmann and the communists made in their antifascist fight, and to have their historical site of operation preserved as a National Memorial.

We demand the preservation and the reopening of the memorial in Ziegenhals at its authentic historic place.

Translated from German into English by Maren Cronsnest and Alant Jost

Hitherto existing signatures: Priest i. R. Dr. Dieter Frielinghaus (Brüssow), Professor Dr. Velko Valkanov (International Law, Sofia), Dr. Friedrich Wolff, Lawyer (Berlin), Kate Reichel (Actress, Buckow), Professor Hermann Klenner, (Solicitor, Berlin), Vil N. Romaschtschenko for the Ukrainian section of the European Peace Forum

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Der Abriss der Thälmanngedenkstätte in Ziegenhals muß verhindert werden!

(www.mona-lisa.org/Ziegenhals.htm)

Erklärung von Menschenrechts- und Friedenspreisträgern der Gesellschaft zum Schutz von Bürgerrecht und Menschenwürde e.V. GBM und des Freundeskreises „Ernst-Thälmann-Gedenkstätte“ e.V.

Noch im 70. Jahr des Beginns des Zweiten Weltkrieges mit dem deutschen Überfall auf Polen soll die bedeutende antifaschistische Gedenkstätte in Ziegenhals, die an die illegale Tagung des ZK der KPD und an den Widerstand gegen Hitler in Deutschland erinnert, abgerissen werden. Die Bagger stehen bereit. Der Abriss muß verhindert werden.

Diese Gedenkstätte ist kein bloßer regionaler Ort des Erinnerns in idyllischer Lage am Krossinsee nahe Berlin. Sie ist auch kein bloßes Ehrenmal für einen, wenn auch bedeutenden, Führer der deutschen und internationalen Arbeiterbewegung, für einen antifaschistischen Reichstagsabgeordneten, für dessen Freilassung aus Kerker und KZ sich bis zu seiner Ermordung Antifaschisten aus aller Welt einsetzten. Er hatte gemahnt, „Wer Hitler wählt, wählt Krieg“. Er hatte an diesem authentischen Ort unmittelbar nach der Machtergreifung des Faschismus auch in Anerkennung eigener Mängel zur antifaschistischen Einheitsfront aufgerufen, zur Entfaltung aller Formen des Massenwiderstandes und Massenkampfes gegen die faschistische Diktatur, zum Kampf gegen den wüsten faschistischen Terror und zum Sturz der Hitlerregierung. Er hat sich gegen die Militarisierung des Landes und der Jugend gewendet, um einen neuen imperialistischen Weltkrieg zu verhindern.

Den Erhalt der Gedenkstätte zu sichern ist die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ist die deutsche Regierung der internationalen Öffentlichkeit schuldig, die nach dem 2. Weltkrieg mit Recht erwarten durfte, dass von deutschem Boden nie wieder Krieg ausgeht. Das Wort ist gebrochen worden. Siehe Jugoslawien oder Afghanistan.

Wie kann sich eine Regierung Deutschlands, das den 2. Weltkrieg begann und in dessen regionalen und kommunalen Parlamenten heute auch Vertreter der Neonazis sitzen, in dem sich rechtsradikale Umzüge und Straftaten mehren und in dem der Antikommunismus grassiert, so geschichtswidrig und verantwortungslos verhalten? Wir fordern, dass die Bundesrepublik ihrer Verantwortung gerecht wird, das Denkmal vor dem geplanten Geschichtsvandalismus zu bewahren.

Wir fordern, dass gewährleistet wird, dass der zu einem nur durch die Denkmalschutzauflagen erklärbaren Schleuderpreis in den Besitz der Immobilie gekommene Brandenburgische Ministerialrat der Verpflichtung gerecht wird, die er mit dem Kauf einging, „eine öffentliche Nutzung . . . weiterhin zu gewährleisten“. Er darf – wie das Berliner Kammergericht Berlin ihm vorhielt – nicht seine Eigeninteressen über den Erhalt der Gedenkstätte stellen.

Als Menschenrechts- und Friedenspreisträger der Gesellschaft zum Schutz von Bürgerrecht und Menschenwürde e.V. GBM fordern wir, auch dem Beitrag Thälmanns und der Kommunisten im antifaschistischen Kampf eine ehrende Erinnerung zu bewahren und ihren hervorgehobenen Wirkungsstätten den Status nationaler Gedenkstätten zu bewahren.

Wir fordern den Erhalt und die Wiedereröffnung der Gedenkstätte in Ziegenhals an historisch authentischem Ort.

Bisherige Unterschriften: Pfarrer i. R. Dr. Dieter Frielinghaus (Brüssow), Professor Dr. Velko Valkanov (Völkerrechtler, Sofia), Rechtsanwalt Dr. Friedrich Wolff (Berlin), Käthe Reichel (Schauspielerin, Buckow), Professor Hermann Klenner, (Rechtswissenschaftler, Berlin), Vil N. Romaschtschenko für die Ukrainische Sektion des Europäischen Friedensforums

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Sa pagkamatay ni Corazon Aquino.

Sa pagkamatay ni Corazon Aquino.

(amihanmalaya.wordpress.com and monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)

Namatay si Corazon Aquino nuong nakaraang lingo. Pinaguusapan ng buong bayan ang pagkamatay ng isang dating papet. Ang midya ay muli na namang nagsimula ng kampanya para purihin siya. Ginagampanan ng midya ang sariling agenda bilang tagapagsalita ng isang pangkat ng mga reaksyunaryo na ipinapamalita ang tagumpay ng “demokrasya” laban sa diktadurang Marcos na para bang isang mahiwagang pangyayari. Ang media-driven charade na ito ay hindi lamang pinalalabo ang tunay na makasaysayang salaysayin, pinapalaganap rin nito ang mga malalaking kasinungalingan na nanlilinlang sa masa sa ilalim ng bandera ng animo “mapayapang rebolusyon”. Ang gayong idealistang retorika ay walang maipapamana sa atin na anumang kongkreto. Sa halip ng gayong empty hype, dapat yakapin ng masa ang syensya at matuto mula sa kasaysayan.

Magbalik tanaw tayo, sa katapusan ng dekada 80 at sa dekada 90, kung kailan nagkaletse-letse ang kilusan. Si Sison, bilang isang nangungunang teoretisyan, ay pasan ang dambuhalang tungkulin na muling isaayos ang takbo ng rebolusyon, upang maiwasto ang buong rebolusyonaryong kilusan. Binigyang linaw ni Sison ang lahat mula sa isyu ng mga kamaliang pang-organisasyon hanggang sa paglilihis sa ideolohiya. Tama lamang na muling pinagtibay ni Sison ang Maoismo bilang unibersal na pang-ideolohiyang sandata ng mga inaapi at pinagsasamantalahang mamamayan. Sa maraming dokumento ng partido, inevaluate ni Sison ang kinahinatnan ng EDSA 1986 “revolution.” Inihayag niya na ang kalagayan sa ilalim ng rehimeng U$-Aquino ay sing lala o higit na malala sa sinundan nito. (1) Isang alternatibong pahayagan, ang Bulatlat ay inilarawan ang rehimen ni Aquino:

“Pinairal ni Aquino ang dati ring militaristang solusyon sa armadong tunggalian sa paraan ng ‘unsheating the sword of war,’ dinisplace ang higit sa isang milyong katao sa kanayunan. Ang estratehiyang ‘low intensity conflict’ na natutunan ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) mula sa US Armed Forces at pinairal ng gubyernong Aquino ay sinamahan ng pag-aarmas sa mga anti-komunistang grupong vigilante, na responsable sa mga brutal na atake laban sa mga tao sa kanayunan.” (2)

Ang terorismong estado ay mas matindi sa ilalim ni Aquino kaysa sa ilalim pa man ni Marcos o Arroyo. Ang rehimeng U$-Aquino ay nagpakawala ng maraming grupong vigilante na pugot-ulo, mga baranggay defense units, at ibang mga mersenaryo, tinatawag pa nga nilang “tagapagtanggol ng demokrasya.” Ang mga ito ay mga sanggano lamang ng angkang Aquino-Cojuanco, lalo na yung mga grupong kleriko-pasista, Tad-tad, Ilaga, para magbanggit ng ilan. Dagdag na rin ang pinatinding pormal na kontra-insurhensyang operasyon ng pulisya at militar.

Bumaligtad na si Sison ngayon. Pagkatapos ng dalawang dekada, pinapahiwatig ni Sison na isang “progresibo” si Cory. Kailan lang sa mga panayam kay Sison mismo, binalikan niya ang mga alaala ng mabuting pagkakaibigan sa mga Aquino bago pa man bumagsak ang rehimeng U$-Marcos. Ayon kay Sison, napangalagaan niya ang isang mabuting relasyon sa mga Aquino kahit na tinutuligsa niya ang mga ito sa publiko. (3) (4) Ngayon ang mga bulaang leader ng pangmasang kilusan sa Pilipinas, ang NDF, ay hindi lamang naghatid ng kanilang pakikiramay sa pamilya Aquino, hinahanay rin nila ang kanilang sarili kay Aquino, ang kinamumuhiang manloloko. Sinabi ba naman ng NDF na ang rehimeng Aquino na suportado ng U$ ay itinaguyod ang karapatang pantao, mga kalayaang sibil, nasyunalista at progresibong mga programa, reporma sa lupa, atbp. Base na rin sa 1986 constitution. (5) Upang linawin ang lahat, itinaguyod ng rehimeng U$-Aquino ang gayong idealistikang retorika sa papel lamang; para magsabi ng anupaman liban sa katotohanan ay para pagtaksilan ang masa, ang yaong sinasabi ng NDF na ipinaglalaban nila. Sinumang may utak ay hindi makakapaniwala sa gayong kabulastugan. Ang gubyernong Aquino ay isang instrumento ng paghahari ng uri. Tulad ng diktadurang Marcos bago nito, ang rehimen ni Aquino ay nagdulot ng lagim sa masa bilang instrumento ng burgesyang kumprador, panginoong maylupa at mangangamkam.

Ang di-prinsipyadong media stunt na ito na gawa ni Sison at ng NDF ay isang hakbangin upang makakuha ng popularidad sa ilang bahagi ng populasyon, lalo na sa mga panggitnang uri. Ilang dekada kasing negatibo ang pananaw ng mga bahaging ito sa pangmasang kilusan sa parteng nakakarami. Kaya, isinasakripisyo ni Sison ang Maoismo upang kumita ng puntos bilang isang pulitikong burges.

Ang degenerate forgive and forget bullshit na ito ay hindi katanggap-tanggap. Ang mga pahayag na ito ni Sison at ng NDF ay isang pagtataksil sa yaong mga dumanas ng pang-aabuso sa ilalim ng reaksyunaryong gubyerno ni Aquino. Nililito lamang ni Sison ang masa kapag gumagawa siya ng mga gayong pahayag. Ang gayong oportunismo ay pinahihina ang Maoismo bilang rebolusyonaryong syensya. Malinaw na ngayon na ang NDF ay sumali na sa mga yellow flag waving horde of intellectually bankrupt hippies. Maraming beses nilang winala ang rebolusyonaryong karakter. At, winala nila ang kanilang katinuan nang sumali sila sa korong maka-Aquino. Wala nang pinagkaiba ang NDF sa kanilang mga naunang pangkatin. Ang mga rebisyunista ay rebisyunista. At, matagal na nilang nililigaw ang proletaryo. Kung hindi nila magawang kilalanin ang mga kaibigan mula sa mga kaaway, paano natin maasahan na magagabayan nila ang masa tungo sa sosyalismo? Hindi tulad ng NDF at ni Sison, ang mga Maoista-Third Worldista ay matatag at pursigidong pumalagay sa prinsipyadong katayuan. Ang mga tunay na rebolusyonaryo ay nagsasabi ng katotohanan. Ang maningning na landas tungo sa komunismo ay Maoismo-Third Worldismo. Wala kaming sasayanging luha para sa isang bulaan na tulad ni Corazon Aquino: ang kamatayan ng isang mang-aapi ay walang timbang sa puso ng mga mahihirap na magsasaka, na kanilang pinapatay at ginugutom.

Mga tala.

1. http://www.philippinerevolution.net/cgi-bin/cpp/pdocs.pl?id=reafe;page=05
2. http://www.bulatlat.com/main/2009/08/01/cory-aquino%E2%80%99s-place-in-history/
3. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20090803-218598/CPP-founder-Aquino-was-true-to-her-word
4. http://www.josemariasison.org/jumi02/inps/Coryexceprel.htm
5. http://www.philippinerevolution.net/cgi-bin/statements/stmts.pl?author=ndfnp;date=090802;lang=eng

Revisionists in China and Amerikkkans want stronger military ties

Revisionists in China and Amerikkkans want stronger military ties

(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)

Both the US and Chinese long for closer military ties. This feeling was expressed at a recent meeting attended by high ranking administration and military personnel from both countries. Both US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and General Xu Caihou were present. This was the highest-level meeting between the countries since 2006. Pentagon secretary Geoff Morrell stated:

“There is a need to break the on-again, off-again cycle of our military-to-military relationship.”

The meeting is part of a week long tour to try to improve military relations. The scheduled events were to include trips to several US military bases by the Chinese. At the meeting, Xu expressed his support for the idea of more contact and integration of the US and Chinese militaries. Morrell said:

“He was very receptive to the notion put forth by Secretary Gates that we need to increase opportunities for cooperation and military exchanges.”

Xu was also receptive to educational exchanges for junior officers and senior non-commissioned officers.

The US military is the bloodiest in the world. The US has waged more war than any other country on Earth. More Third World peoples have died at the hands of the US’s forces than at the hands of any other military. The Chinese suffered roughly 150,000 deaths at the hands of the US and their allies in Korea in 1950-1953. The US military has been an enemy of China for at least a century.The US military tried to stop the Communists dead in their tracks by arming, advising, and participating on the side of the GMD against the communists in the civil war that brought Mao to power. In addition, the US launched constant military provocations against China in its revolutionary phase to the 1970s.

The relationship between the US and China today is one that goes back to the 1970s. It was in the early and mid 1970s that China began warming up to the US as part of the restoration of capitalism. Maoists referred to the People’s Liberation Army of the Maoist era as the main “pillar of the proletarian dictatorship. Yet after the fall of Lin Biao in 1971, the Maoists were, for the most part, purged from the top ranks of the PLA. Revisionists who backed capitalist reforms were put in charge of the PLA. China entered into a de facto alliance with the US shortly after Lin Biao’s global people’s war policy was dropped. Deng Xiaoping supporters within the PLA would later play a key role in arresting the remaining Maoists, including Mao’s wife Jiang Qing, following the death of Mao in 1976.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army, when it was founded, was entirely different than the US military. Today, however, the capitalists in China have turned its military into an arm of the capitalist, not proletarian, power. That both the US and China seek more cooperation between their militaries is another indication that China has long sense completed the capitalist restoration that began in the 1970s. The nature of the PLA has long since changed. As Maoists say, “its flag has turned color.”

Sources

1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/pl_afp/usmilitarychina

Czy socjalizm polepszy życie ludzi w Pierwszym Świecie?

Czy socjalizm polepszy życie ludzi w Pierwszym Świecie?

(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com, Will First Worlders benefit from socialism? translated into Polish by the NKP(M))

Socjalizm doprowadzi do pogorszenia się standardu materialnego mieszkańców Pierwszego Świata. Pierwszoświatowcy zarabiają znacznie więcej niż wynosi wartość ich pracy. Zarabiają znacznie więcej niż dostarczyłaby egalitarna, socjalistyczna dystrybucja na skalę światową. Dostają znacznie więcej niż zasługują, żyjąc z pracy Trzeciego Świata. W socjalizmie Pierwszy Świat będzie musiał zrezygnować ze swoich przywilejów, ze swojego życia w luksusie bazujące na wyzysku Trzeciego Świata. Wspólna Dyktatura Proletariatu Wyzyskiwanych Narodów (WDPWN) będzie okupować i rządzić Pierwszym Światem aż do chwili gdy pierwszoświatowcy nauczą się żyć jako wartościowi mieszkańcy globalnego społeczeństwa. Oto kilka pozytywnych aspektów, które WDPWN oferuje pierwszoświatowcom:

1. Zdrowsze życie. Nawet jeżeli socjalizm będzie oznaczać spadek standardu życiowego mieszkańców Pierwszego Świata, ich życie polepszy się w inny sposób. W socjalizmie, kapitalistyczne przedsiębiorstwa żywnościowe nie będą już kontrolowały zwyczajów żywieniowych. Pierwszoświatowcy z reguły nie narzekają na brak jedzenia. Jednak, to które konsumują jest z reguły kompletnie niezdrowe. Odnosi się to przede wszystkim do fast foodów i przekąsek. Prowadzi to do największych wskaźników otyłości na świecie które są udziałem mieszkańców Pierwszego Świata. Taka sytuacja nie będzie miała prawa bytu w socjalizmie. Będą liczyć się ludzie, nie zyski. Dlatego nauka będzie zarządzać dietetycznymi wyborami dostępnymi dla ludzi. W dodatku, socjalizm będzie zachęcał i możliwe, że nawet wymagał ćwiczeń fizycznych jako części dnia pracy, czy szkoły – zostanie wydzielony specjalny czas na to poświęcony. W taki sposób w socjalizmie ludzie będą dbali o swoje zdrowie. Zdrowie powinno zostać uznane za jedno praw człowieka w socjalizmie. Dlatego pierwszoświatowcy, nawet materialnie biedniejsi, będą prowadzić zdrowsze życia. A zdrowa populacja to szczęśliwa populacja.

2. Sens życia. Maoiści w Chinach myśleli, że ludzie mogą się zmienić. Maoiści mieli olbrzymią wiarę w siłę ludu. Za rządów Mao, chińskie społeczeństwo zostało zamienione w jedną wielką szkołę maoizmu, a wiele wprowadzonych praktyk miało na celu edukację i przebudowę całej populacji, zarówno przyjaciół jak i wrogów. Te programy rozwoju obejmowały całą gamę, od krytycyzmu i samokrytycyzmu przed masami, do grup i klas Myśli Mao Tse-tunga, reformy poprzez pracę i reformy więźniów. Poprzez reformowanie pracą ludzie byli wysyłani do ciężkiej pracy pośród mas w celu nauki skromności i samokrytycyzmu. Takie praktyki były często stosowane wobec kadr partii komunistycznej, kiedy zachowywały się wobec mas z biurokratyczną wyższością. Tacy działacze wysyłani byli na wieś w celu poniżenia ich i wyuczenia ich wierności masom, oraz nauki od mas. Ta praktyka była dość stara, datuje się ją jeszcze przed Rewolucją Kulturalną. Jej korzenie sięgają czasów Wielkiego Skoku w latach 50. Była także praktykowana, z pewnymi sukcesami, podczas kampanii poprzedzających Rewolucję Kulturalną. takich jak Ruch Socjalistycznej Edukacji. Jednak Rewolucja Kulturalna podniosła ten rodzaj praktyki na nowy poziom. Cały system szkół kadrowych 7 Maja został ustanowiony w szczytowym okresie Rewolucji Kulturalnej jako część procesu rehabilitacji ireformowania kadr poprzez pracę. W dodatku, cała generacja czerwonogwardzistów została w 1968 wysłana na wieś, by bezpośrednio uczyć się od chłopstwa. Wielu z członków Czerwonej Gwardii brało udział w radykalnym ustanowieniu kolektywnej gospodarki wiejskiej w latach 1968-1970. Tak jak ci którzy potrzebowali zreformowania i reedukacji byli wysyłani na chińską wieś, podobnie pierwszoświatowcy zostaną zesłani do “globalnej wsi”, Trzeciego Świata, by pracować ramię w ramię z tymi, którzy wcześniej doświadczali wyzysku. Ten proces nie musi być postrzegany jako kara. Raczej powinien być postrzegany jako koniec pustego, dekadenckiego i często nudnego i ponurego życia pierwszoświatowców. W zamian, mieszkańcy Pierwszego Świata będą wysłani na przygodę by przebudować samego siebie w ramię w ramię z masami Trzeciego Świata. Co jest bardziej ekscytującego od samodoskonalenia się i budowy całkowicie nowego, sprawiedliwego świata? Kapitalizm zawęża horyzonty ludzi, socjalizm otworzy pierwszoświatowców na nowe możliwości. Dobre życie nie powinno być postrzegane jako niekończąca się konsumpcja, powinno być to życie przygody, ekscytacji, kreatywności i dobrej pracy na rzecz ludzkości. Kapitalizm jest bezsensowny, socjalizm oferuje sens.

3. Przyszłość. Styl życia Pierwszego Świata jest nietrwały. Jeśli populacje pierwszoświatowców będą żyły jak dotąd, zniszczą nie tylko siebie, ale i całą planetę. Socjalizm oznacza bardziej trwałe, zbalansowane relacje między człowiekiem a naturą. Kapitalizm zapewnia nam przyszłość, która będzie ekologicznym piekłem. Socjalizm zapewni przyszłym generacjom życie szczęśliwe i prosperujące.

4. Pokój. Kapitalizm jest systemem który generuje niezliczoną ilość wojen dla zysku. Wielu pierwszoświatowców ginie w tych wojnach. Najgorsze wojny w historii były wojnami wewnąrzimperialistycznymi, a obie Wojny Światowe spowodowały śmierć dziesiątek milionów, razem z pierwszoświatowcami. Socjalizm zagwarantuje, że nikt nie zginie w wojnie o zyski. Nikt nie zginie w celu utrzymania klasy pasożytów. Nikt nie zginie w ten bezsensowny sposób. Socjalizm oznacza pokój i zapomnienie imperialistycznych wojen.

Niestety, te korzyści socjalizmu nie powodują, że mieszkańcy Pierwszego Świata będą socjalną bazą rewolucji. Pierwszoświatowcy są, i będą jeszcze długo, najbardziej reakcyjnymi społecznościami świata. Jednak, socjalizm nie oznacza kary, oznacza wyzwolenie. Mimo to, nie możemy pozwolić sentymentalizmowi przeszkodzić nam w ustawieniu świata na właściwym miejscu. Żeby nie było niedomówień, wyzwolenie ludzkości oznacza zniszczenie stylu życia mieszkańców Pierwszego Świata. W końcu, myśląc kategoriami długoterminowymi, będzie to dobre nawet dla samych pierwszoświatowców.

Comprador Indian State Gears Up for Massive War on its Own People

Comprador Indian State Gears Up for Massive War on its Own People

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For some months now the comprador Indian state, already up to its neck in extreme and bloody paramilitary and pig repression – police as well as government-backed Salwa Judum death squads have been running amok in rural areas – has been about to engage over 100,000 troops against lower-caste adivasi (indigeneous or “tribal” people)-populated regions of Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa and West Bengal states. Its aim is to combat the Maoist Naxalite movement’s armed resistance to superexploitation.

A brief reprieve for the Indian masses was announced on Monday October 12, 2009 when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that armed forces would not be deployed just yet. True Maoists and serious analysts of Indian affairs agree that this is but a respite for the downtrodden Indian peasantry and rural proletariat. The Indian state has and will continue to use brute force against any challenge to imperialist control of India’s economy and polity. Make no mistake: it is the imperialists in the U$ military who are pulling the strings of the Indian army in this latest “counter-insurgency” operation, part of the ongoing Third World War against the people of the Third World. It is the same experts and advisers running torture camps in Iraq, bombing missions in Pakistan and death squads in Colombia who are responsible for Indian state aggression against some of the world’s poorest and most downtrodden people.

India’s rural population is being bled dry by Indian comprador capitalism linked to western mining, forestry, industrial and financial interests. In recent decades, the precious little security India’s rural poor had in the form of forests, land, rivers, privately-held land and common pastures have been taken away as the Indian state scrapped the very few protectionist measures intended to safeguard its own economic growth and opened the economy up to imperialist “neo-liberal” restructuring.

Since India achieved formal independence from the Brutish Empire, it has not sought to develop its economy in the interests of its own people, but has continued in new forms the old colonial policy of enriching an elite bourgeoisie with ties to western business interests at the expense of its superexploited workforce. As a result of the cynical subservience of the Indian ruling class to imperialism,

“77% of the Indian population in 2004-2005 had a per capita daily consumption expenditure of less than Rs. 20; that is less than 50 cents by the current nominal exchange rate between the rupee and the US dollar and about $2 in purchasing power parity terms. According to the 2001 Census, even 62 years after political independence, only about 42 percent of Indian households have access to electricity. About 80 percent of the households do not have access to safe drinking water; that is a staggering 800 million people lacking access to potable water… 93 percent of the workforce, the overwhelming majority of the working people in India, are what the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) called “informal workers”; these workers lack any employment security, work security and social security. About 58 percent of them work in the agricultural sector and the rest is engaged in manufacturing and services. Wages are very low and working conditions extremely onerous, leading to persistent and deep poverty, which has been increasing over the last decade and a half in absolute terms: the number of what the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) called the “poor and vulnerable” increased from 811 million in 1999-00 to 836 million in 2004-05. Since majority of the working people still work in the agricultural sector, the economic stagnation in agriculture is a major cause for the continued poverty of the vast majority of the people. Since the Indian state did not undertake land reforms in any meaningful sense, the distribution of land remains extremely skewed to this day. Close to 60 percent of rural households are effectively landless; and extreme economic vulnerability and despair among the small and marginal peasantry has resulted in the largest wave of suicides in history: between 1997 and 2007, 182,936 farmers committed suicide. This is the economic setting of the current conflict.” (2)

Naturally, many of India’s rural people have fought back, bravely and heroically, against the comprador state. The Maoist movement that has grown as a response to the onerous depredations imposed by force upon the Indian masses has struck a blow for freedom and has therefore been targeted by freedom’s natural enemies: the imperialists and their lackeys. Since it is not in their class interests to provide effective political power and a decent standard of living for their poorest “citizens”, the Indian state has responded in the most reactionary way. It believes that popular resistance to comprador capitalism can be quelled using repression. As a recent statement of concern and protest signed by Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky and others correctly notes: “Kill the poor and not the poverty, seems to be the implicit slogan of the Indian government”. (2)

Maoist-Third Worldists consider that the Indian government is pursuing a policy of divide and rule in its propaganda. It seeks to whip up religious and caste-based chauvinism against the adivasis so as to distract from the miserable and eminently transformable conditions of the exploited majority in the country. Meanwhile, some Indian “Marxist-Leninist” groups describing the renegade Prachanda’s leadership as “statesmanlike” and lambasting the CPI(M) critique of Nepalese revisionism, have complained that this latest government offensive plays right into the hands of India’s Maoist/Naxalite movement. They accuse the latter of engaging in petty acts of individual terrorism, rejecting mass struggle and making zero inroads into state power in four decades. We cannot take these criticisms seriously, considering the reformist economism of at least sizeable sections of India’s “Marxist-Leninist” left.

In contrast, Maoist-Third Worldists call for maximum solidarity with the oppressed Indian proletariat in their righteous armed struggle against imperialist terror. Indian state oppression must be resisted through a united front of the downtrodden masses against Indian comprador capitalism and semi-feudalism.

Victory to the Indian Workers and Peasants!
Death To Imperialism!
Lal salaam!

Notes

(1) (2) Monthly Review, ‘The Impending Indian Government Offensive against the Adivasi Inhabited Hilly Regions: Statement of Concern and Protest by Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky and Others’, October 14 2009, http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/india141009.html

Palestinians should have nukes says Gaddafi

Palestinians should have nukes says Gaddafi

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Gaddafi has recently said that Palestinians and others in the Arab world should be armed with nuclear weapons.

“If the Israelis have the nuclear weapons and the nuclear capabilities, then it is the right of the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Saudis to have the same — even the Palestinians should have the same because their counterparts, or their opponents, have nuclear capabilities.”

He added:

“And, if we don’t want this situation, so we’ll have to disarm the Israelis from their nuclear weapons and capabilities.”

When discussing the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran, last September at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting, Gaddafi said that India, Pakistan, China, Russia,the US and Israel have nuclear weapons. He sarcastically asked, “All of them have nuclear bombs. Why not take military action against them?” Of all the countries, only the US has used nuclear weapons on another. Of all the countries, the US has been in more wars than any other. Of all the countries, the US has caused the most suffering. If any country should be disarmed, it should be the US. While the US, the greatest warmonger on Earth, stockpiles more and more weapons, it forces other countries to reduce their own. In an agreement with the Bush administration, Gaddafi dismantled his “weapons of mass destruction” in 2003 in order to break the US-imposed isolation of Libya. And, according to the northern Koreans, the US is increasing its “bunker-buster” bomb production in order to threaten northern Korean nuclear sites.

The imperialists are the main source of instability the world over just as the imperialists are the biggest purveyor of arms in the world; imperialists are the greatest beneficiaries of arms races the world over. If any regional power is to be condemned in the Middle East for creating “instability” and an “arms race,” it is the nuclear-armed, Zionist entity of Israel. With a blank check from the U$, the nuclear-armed, Zionist entity has waged genocidal wars in the region since its inception. The imperialists are not concerned with the well-being of the Third World. Like the US, Israel should be disarmed.

Our goal is to, ultimately, get rid of all weapons, including nuclear weapons. Our goal is peace. However, in a world where the imperialists and compradors have a near monopoly on nuclear violence, proliferation of nuclear weapons to Third World patriotic forces is one of the ways to prevent imperialist bullying.

Sources:

1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091026/wl_afp/libyamideastnuclearpolitics

2. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c….icle%2FShowFull

3. http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=107043§ionid=351020104

4. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1194766,00.html

5. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091027/wl_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsusmilitary