Mario Benedetti (1920-2009)

Der uruguayanische Schriftsteller, Publizist und politischer Aktivist Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia starb am gestrigen Tag in Montevideo im Alter von 88 Jahren. Benedetti war 1945 bis zum Militärputsch 1973 Redaktionsmitglied der legendären linken Wochenzeitung Marcha und 1971 Mitbegründer der legalen linksradikalen Organisation Movimiento de Independientes 26 de Marzo, welche sich mit den politischen Grundsätzen der Tupamaros solidarisierte. Mit der Erzählung Mozart hören gelang ihm ein meisterhaftes Porträt eines folternden Offizieres und kunstsinnigen Familienvaters, welche die Entmenschlichung des Täters und die „Banalität des Bösen“ eindrucksvoll dokumentierte.

¡Mario presente!

Arbeiternews Mai 2009 (Nr. 37)

Die neue Arbeiternews (Mai 2009, pdf-Datei, 438) des Komitee der Solidarität mit den iranischen ArbeiterInnen – Hamburg, dieses Mal mit dem Schwerpunkt „1. Mai“:

Musik (und Ballett) zum Sonntag – Igor Strawinski: Le sacre du printemps

Le sacre du printemps. Tableaux de la Russie païenne en deux parties:

Antifaschistische Selbsthilfe

Einige der sozialdemokratischen Partei Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (SLD) angehörende Senioren in Warszawa zeigen, dass sich entschlossenes Handeln gegen Faschos – in diesem Falle von der Organisation Falanga – auszahlt (Hat-tip to red star commando für den Hinweis):

Neues aus den Archiven der radikalen Linken

Hier nach einiger Zeit wieder einmal ein Update, ältere Archiv-Updates und Hinweise zu weiteren linken Archivalien unter „Sozialistika“ … in der Zwischenzeit hat Poumista ein wenig geholfen, einen herzlichen Dank dafür:

Class against Class:

* Franklin Rosemont: Karl Marx and the Iroquois (?)
* Karl Korsch: Economics and Politics in Revolutionary Spain (1938)
* Karl Korsch: The Spanish Revolution (1931)
* Karl Korsch: Theses toward a Critique of the Fascist Conception of the State (1932)
* Karl Korsch: State and Counter-revolution (1939)
* Karl Korsch: The Fascist Counter-revolution (1938)
* Karl Korsch: The Workers’ Fight against Fascism (1941)
* Sam Dolgoff: On The Miasnikov Memorandum (1977)
* Luisa Passerini: Work Ideology and Working Class Attitudes to Fascism (1979)
* Dan Georgakas: Young Detroit Radicals 1955-1965 (1981)
* James Goldwasser: Ret Marut: The Early B. Traven (1993)
* Claude Lefort: What Is Bureaucracy? (1960)
* Cornelius Castoriadis: The Fate of Marxism (1964-1965)
* Karl-Heinz Roth: Death Rules Over Germany (1990)
* Elisabeth Behrens: Workers’ Struggles And The Capitalist Counter-Offensive Under National Socialism (1974)

La Presse Anarchiste:

* Informations Correspondance Ouvrières (ICO): Information et Correspondance Ouvrières (1960-1961)
* Informations Correspondance Ouvrières (ICO): Information et Correspondance Ouvrières. Deuxième série (1961-1973)
* Informations Correspondance Ouvrières (ICO): Liaisons (1970-1972)
* Informations Correspondance Ouvrières (ICO): Documents ILO (1959-1960)
* Rupture n°1, Februar 1975
* La Revue Anarchiste n°1, Januar 1922
* L’Autonomie Individuelle n°5, September/Oktober 1887

La Bataille Socialiste:

* Benjamin Péret: Revolución o contrarrevolución en España (1937)
* Solidarity: Ce que nous sommes, ce que nous voulons (1967)
* Le Figaro: Conversation avec F. Engels (1893)
* Gaston Davoust (Henry Chazé): Le crime des bagnes nazis : le peuple allemand est-il coresponsable? (1945)
* Ein neues Update mit Links auf weitere Texte:
** Anton Pannekoek: 1912 Darwinisme et marxisme (1912)
** August Thalheimer: 1931-02 Antifaschistisches Kampfprogramm (1931)
** Andreu Nin: 1931-12 La situación política, el peligro fascista y la necesidad del Frente Único del Proletariado [Nin] (1931)
** Andreu Nin: 1932 Les soviets (extrait) (1932, pdf-Datei)
** Daniel Guérin: 1939-06 A propos de la “motion préalable” (1939)
** 1962-09 Alarma (pdf-Datei)
** Cornelius Castoriadis: 1965-05 La crise de la société moderne (1965, pdf-Datei)
** Solidarity: 1971-04 Third Worldism or Socialism []
** Henri Simon: 1998 Kommunism i Frankrike: Socialisme ou Barbarie, ICO &Echanges (1998, pdf-Datei)

Rassembler, diffuser les archives des révolutionnaires (RaDAR) ehemals Association pour la sauvegarde de la mémoire de la section française de la IVe internationale (ASMSFQI):

* Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR): Les Cahiers de la taupe, Januar 1978
* Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR): Luttes antinucléaires partout comme à Plogoff (1981)
* Parti communiste internationaliste (PCI): IVe internationale, Oktober/November 1946
* Parti communiste internationaliste (PCI): Bulletin intérieur, 1946
* Parti communiste internationaliste (PCI): Bulletin intérieur „La Vérité“, 15. Juni 1950
* Ligue communiste (LC): A l’appel des grévistes pour la victoire. Marche sur Besançon

Marxists Internet Archive (MIA):

* Paul Lafargue: Socialism in France 1874-1896 (1897)
* Paul Lafargue: La propriété – Origine et évolution (1890)
* Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre: To Our Readers (Presentation of the Annales) (1929)
* How to Gather Ancient Prices (1931)
* Jay Lovestone: America Facing Europe (1927)
* Elmar Altvater: Notes on Some Problems of State Interventionism (1972)
* David Yaffe: Value and Price in Marx’s Capital (1974)
* Tom Mann: The Development of the Labour Movement (1890)
* Eleanor Marx: Nota a la carta de Karl Marx a su padre (1897)
* Jenny von Westphalen: Carta a Joseph Weydemeyer (1850)
* Ber Borochov: El nacionalismo del proletariado judío (1906)
* Rosa Luxemburg: A Jornada de Oito Horas no Congresso do Partido (1902)
* Rosa Luxemburg: Na Tempestade (1904)
* Rosa Luxemburg: Ao Conselho Nacional do Partido dos Trabalhadores Francês (1901)
* Rosa Luxemburg: Em Marcha com a Idéia do Dia dos Trabalhadores (1913)
* Rosa Luxemburg: Quais São as Origens do Dia dos Trabalhadores? (1894)
* Leo Trotzki: A Vodka, a Igreja e o Cinema (1923)
* Leo Trotzki: Para construir o modo de vida é preciso conhecê-lo (1923)
* Leo Trotzki: A atenção deve incidir sobre os detalhes (1923)
* Leo Trotzki: Strejkernas roll i en revolution (1931)
* Leo Trotzki: Mitt liv (1930)
* Leo Trotzki: Carta a James P. Cannon (1939)
* Leo Trotzki: Carta a Max Shachtman (1939)
* Leo Trotzki: Deras moral och vår (1938)
* Leo Trotzki: Moralister och inställsamma smickrare av marxismen (1939)
* Ernest Mandel: Oktober 1917: statskupp eller social revolution? Den ryska revolutionens legitimitet (1992)
* Ernest Mandel: Een nieuwe arbeidersklasse? (1964)
* Ernest Mandel: Twintig jaar na Hiroshima (1965)
* Ernest Mandel: Verdedig de Vietnamese revolutie (1966)
* Louis de Visser: Colijn Verdwijn! (1933)
* Louis de Visser: Rede uitgesproken in de Tweede Kamer (1933)
* Roestam Effendi: Waarom Indonesiërs in de Kamer? (1933)
* Roestam Effendi: Rede van Roestam Effendi, uitgesproken in de Tweede Kamer (1933)
* Roestam Effendi: Van Moskou naar Tiflis (1937)
* Kurt Aspelin: Oktobers förvandlingar (1967)
* Rudi Dutschke: Konsten att ärva (1977)
* Charles Darwin: El origen de las especies (1859)
* Max Beer: Algemene geschiedenis van het socialisme (1922)
* Alfred Defuisseaux: Volkscatechismus (1886)
* Edward Bellamy: Cent ans après (1886)
* Henry Hyndman: Cavour (1877)
* Henry Hyndman: Lights and Shades of American Politics (1881)
* Henry Hyndman: Wealth and Ability; Reply to Mr Mallock: rejoinder (1887)
* Henry Hyndman: Bankruptcy of India I (1878)
* Henry Hyndman: Bankruptcy of India II (1879)
* Henry Hyndman: Dawn of a Revolutionary Epoch (1881)
* Henry Hyndman: Something Better than Emigration – A Reply (1884)
* J. Winternitz: The Marxist Theory of Crisis (1949)
* Ted Grant: What Causes War! (1961)
* Ted Grant: Revolution Begins in South Korea (1960)
* Ted Grant: Lessons of the Belgian strike (1961)
* Ted Grant: Problems of Entrism (1959)
* Ted Grant: Will There be a Slump? (1960)
* Ted Grant: The Colonial Revolution and the Sino-Soviet Dispute (1964)
* Ted Grant: Programme of the International (1970)
* Ted Grant: Some fundamental questions on the policies of Lenin and Trotsky (1974)
* Ted Grant: The Iranian Revolution (1979)
* Ted Grant: Appeal against Expulsion, Labour Party Conference (1983)
* Artikel aus dem International Socialist Review, 1958
** The Balance Sheet (1958)
** Sign of the Times (1958)
** “Could Happen Anywhere” (1958)
** “Wouldn’t Take Much” (1958)
** Cold War At Bargain Rates (1958)
** As Advertised in Life (1958)
** Who’s Getting It? (1958)
** Like Trapped Animals (1958)
** New Conquest for American Science (1958)
** Ross Dowson: Canadian Stalinism in Shambles (1958)
** Trent Hutter: Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution (1958)
** Lois Saunders: “The Deep South Says Never” (1958)
** A Growing Trend (1958)
** For a United Socialist Ticket (1958)
** 50-50 Chance (1958)
** Psychiatric Report (1958)
** An Ancient Custom (1958)
** Watch that Language (1958)
** Stalinist “Vigilance” (1958)
** Memo to Dulles (1958)
** Bourbon Blood Bank (1958)
** Harry Ring: The Struggle in the Communist Party (1958)
** M. Bernz: The Politics of Soviet Music (1958)
** A Testimonial (1958)
** To Our Readers (1958)
** The Meaning of De Gaulle (1958)
** Opportunity Knocks for Borrowers (1958)
** BRAVO (1958)
** Monopolized Cushion (1958)
** Let’s Pray (1958)
** Road to Where? (1958)
** No Recession Yet (1958)
** Cruel Dilemma (1958)
** No Discrimination? (1958)
** Theodore Edwards: “Fuera Nixon!” (1958)
** Really Beat? by Evelyn Sell (1958)
** Albert Phillips: The Deep Roots of Inflation, by (1958)
** The Wall Bulletins Speak (1958)
** Hilde Macleod: The Challenge of Soviet Education (1958)
** F.J. Wells: Dubinsky as Hero (1958)
** Robert Chester: Has the Machine Outstripped Us? (book review) (1958)
** Lois Saunders: Rise of the Africans (1958)
** A Milestone (1958)
** Which Road to Peace? (1958)
** Deserved Praise (1958)
** Pep, Piffle and Fizzle (1958)
** Sign of the Times (1958)
** You Gotta Buy More (1958)
** You Can Say That Again (1958)
** Congressmen at Work (1958)
** Forgotten 5,000,000 (1958)
** Don’t Wantta Buy Now (1958)
** Common Sewer (1958)
** George Lavan: Daumier – Political Artist (1958)
** Soviet Music – Two Views (1958)
** Trent Hutter: Sometimes They Elude the Ukases (1958)
** M. Bernz: The Big Stick Is Decisive (1958)
** The Deep Roots of Inflation (1958)
** Robert Chester: Biography of a Young Soviet Official (1958)
** Milton Alvin: Early Soviet Labor Policy (1958)
** Theodore Edwards: Inside Report on Hungary (1958)
** Lois Saunders: One Path? (1958)
** Another Step Ahead (1958)

Materialien zur Analyse von Opposition (MAO):

Auswertung von Materialien zu folgenden Orten/Betrieben/Gruppen/Themen/Personen:

* Die Polemik zwischen dem „Initiativausschuss zur Gründung einer Sozialistischen Partei“ und der Gruppe „Roter Morgen“
* Landkreis Erding und Landkreis Freising
* 1. Mai in Duisburg
* 1. Mai in Hamburg
* Die Erschießung von Philipp Müller am 11. Mai 1952
* 8. Mai 1945 – Kapitulation der Naziwehrmacht
* 1. Mai in Berlin
* Berlin-Spandau: Siemens-Schaltwerk, Nonnendammallee 104
* 1. Mai in Münster
* Die „Spartacus-Briefe“ 1966-1967
* 1. Mai in München
* 1. Mai in Kiel
* 1. Mai in Düsseldorf
* 1. Mai in Frankfurt am Main
* 1. Mai in Hannover

LibCom

* Zengakuren: Japan’s Revolutionary Students (1970)
* Adam Buick: The Role of the Soviets in Russia’s Bourgeois Revolution – The Point of View of Julius Martov (1977)

Luxemburger Anarchist:

* Gustav Landauer: Anarchische Gedanken über Anarchismus (1901, Auszug)

Centro de Documentación de los Movimientos Armados (CeDeMA):

* Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR): Construir y consolidar la retaguardia de la resistencia popular (1976)
* Movimiento Revolucionario 26 de Julio (M-26-7): Carta de Frank País sobre la organización del Movimiento 26 de Julio (1957)
* Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN): La Guardia Nacional hacia la crisis final (1978)
* Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN): El Frente Amplio, el pueblo a la cabeza (1978)
* Partido de la Revolución Venezolana – Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (PRV-FALN): Cinco años de combate por la liberación y el socialismo (1971)
* Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA): Comunicado de apoyo de los presos del MRTA a los presos chilenos en Perú (2001)

Collectif Smolny:

* BILAN: Projet de résolution sur le problème des liaisons internationales (1935)
* BILAN: L’échec des premières discussions avec le groupe « Communist Class Struggle » (1936)

The Cedar Lounge Revolution:

* Nicky Kelly News (vermutlich 1983)
* Workers’ Revolutionary Party (WRP): Politics from the Prisons and other Articles about Ireland (1988)

Collective Action Notes:

* CICA: “What is the International Circle of Antiboshevik Communists?” Trans. from Spanish (200?)
* CICA: “Manifesto of the International Circle of Antibolshevik Communists” Trans. from Spanish (200?)
* Enric Mompo: Spontaneity in the Spanish Revolution (2001)
* Grupo de Comunistas de Conselhos de Galiza: The Councilist Movement in Germany: A History of the AAUD-E Tendency (2003-2004)
* Philippe Bourrinet: Victor Serge: Totalitarianism and State Capitalism (Socialist Deconstruction and Collectivist Humanism) (2001)

Workers’ Liberty:

* Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels: Texts on Materialism (1859/1890, pdf-Datei)

Projekt Gutenberg:

* Ferdinand Freiligrath: Übersetztes. Neueres und Neuestes (?)
* Ferdinand Freiligrath: Ein Glaubensbekenntnis (1844)
* Ferdinand Freiligrath: Neuere politische und soziale Gedichte (1849-1851)
* Ferdinand Freiligrath: Ça ira! (1846)
* Peter Hille: Kinderliebe (Erzählung) (1894)

Walgesang:

* Workers Vanguard: An Exchange on Nestor Makhno — Peasant „Anarchism,“ Pogroms and the Russian Revolution (1996, pdf-Datei, aus dem Hause Spartakist & Co., Diskussion dazu hier)

Europe solidaire sans frontières (ESSF):

* Soma Marik: Class Struggle and the Revolutionary Party: A Reappraisal of Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory and Practice of Party Building (1999)
* Catherine Samary: Europe: The EU’s eastward expansion (1997)
* Catherine Samary: Serbia: Milosevic’s Manoeuvres (1997)
* Catherine Samary: Ten days that shook Serbia (2000)

AustriaN Newspapers Online (ANNO)

* Arbeiterkammer Wien: Berichte der AK Wien (1924)

„Erlebnispädagogischer Wikingermarkt“

Klingt eigentlich eher wie eine Drohung, oder?

Urlaub – Holidays – Vacances

Auf Grund von ferienbedingter An- und Abwesenheit wird diese Seite in den nächsten 10 Tagen nicht regelmässig aktualisiert werden, daher bitte nicht weinen, wenn ein Kommentar nicht sofort freigeschaltet wird:

Augusto Boal (1931-2009)

Am 2. Mai starb im Alter von 78 Jahren in Rio de Janeiro Augusto Boal, der Vater des Theater der Unterdrückten:

„Schluss mit einem Theater, das die Realität nur interpretiert; es ist an der Zeit, sie zu verändern!“

„Teatro do Oprimido é o teatro no sentido mais arcaico do termo. Todos os seres humanos são atores – porque atuam – e espectadores – porque observam. Somos todos ‘espect-atores’.“

Radical Women: Immigrant rights are a feminist fight!

Quelle: Radical Women, eine spanische Version des Aufrufes gibt es hier:

Immigrant rights are a feminist fight!

by Christina López, Radical Women National Executive Committee

Around the world, May Day is a working peoples’ holiday. For decades, the United States has tried to ignore it. But massive May Day marches in 2006 demanding justice for immigrants sparked a resurgence of this day of action. And those huge mobilizations made a difference.

They led to the utter defeat of the racist Sensenbrenner bill in the U.S. Congress. And they fueled successful opposition to all the „reforms“ lawmakers have come up with since then. Most of these unacceptable proposals included temporary worker programs, forced detentions, militarized borders, and exorbitant fines for undocumented workers. However, ICE raids and deportations are still a brutal reality. And now the world has plunged into a financial crisis.

Hard times. Everyone is disgusted as bankers and automakers are handed bailouts, while working people get lower wages and layoffs. CEOs deposit million-dollar bonuses while public schools close and social services disappear. Meanwhile, far-right politicians and radio jocks blame immigrants for the suffering caused by capitalists! Actually, immigrants are severe victims of the depression. For the first time in decades, their unemployment rate is higher than native-born workers.

1. Mai 2009 im Iran

Einige Hinweise auf die Maidemonstrationen welche in Tehran und Sanandaj stattfanden … es kann gar nicht häufig genug gesagt werden, dass der Mut und die Entschlossenheit der iranischen KollegInnen und GenossInnen unsere volle Bewunderung und Unterstützung verdient:

* aus May Day in Sanandaj auf IWSN:

At 5pm on May 1 2009 workers and their families gathered in Sanandaj’s Amiriyeh Park to commemorate International Labour Day. The May Day celebration was disrupted after 15 minutes when police and plain-clothes security officers attacked those gathered, beating them and arresting 12 people.

Mansour Karimi, Ms Shiva Sohani, Ms Leila Khalili and Kourosh Bakhshandeh are among those arrested. To break up the gathering the security forces used tear gas, pepper spray, and even beat women and children.
Sanandaj, in Kudistan, is one of the main centres of workers’ struggles in Iran.

* aus dem Statement No. 1 by the First of May Organizing Committee auf IASWI:

„Many women and men from various age range have been arrested and are now in prison

On the occasion of 1st of May, the International Workers’ Day, and in response to the call by the independent Iranian labour and activist organizations at 5pm on Friday 1 May, a large group of Iranian workers, labour activists and their families gathered at Laleh Park in Tehran to celebrate the May Day and promote their demands.

The security forces who from days prior to the occasion, had taken measures, such as following the activists and making constant threatening telephone calls, to prevent the gathering, appeared in police uniform on the day, and along with several plain clothes police had taken up positions in the Park, hours before the official celebration.

Security forces based in several key companies and factories, including the Vahed Bus Company of Tehran, had also been brought to the gathering to identify the labour activists employed by these companies and pass on the information to the mainstream security present in the park. Filming and taking photos of the participants by security police had been carried out extensively throughout the day.

The presence of a very large number of participants, despite the initial efforts to prevent this, angered the intelligence forces. Immediately after the start of the gathering, and whilst the slogans of “long live workers’ movement” and “Workers, Unite” began to fill the park, the security forces embarked on an aggressive and unrestrained attack. Many of the participants were hit by police buttons and subjected to electrical shocks. Some were surrounded by police and whilst thrown to the ground as a result of button charges, were hit in a savage manner by several police individuals. Police also used a type of coughing and eye-burning gas to disperse the crowd.

Some of the participants began defending themselves against the waves of attacks and police’s attempts to arrest them. A large number of workers and activists, some with faces covered in blood, were arrested by the police. After this show of force, the security police began arresting people outside the park and in the surrounding streets.

In the course of this, more than 150 women and men from various age range, have been arrested and are now in prison.

The 1st of May Organising Committee whilst congratulating the Iranian working class movement for this extraordinary success to hold a common May Day celebration by various labour and activists organizations, and identifying it as a turning point in Iran’s workers’ struggle, and whilst announcing the ruling class’s attempt to quell this unified action as a defeat, hereby condemn this inhuman and savage attempt to suppress the gathering and demand for the unconditional freedom of all those arrested in the course of this incident.“