RKJ-GIM Hamburg: Was Tun im Betrieb – Zur IGM-Tarifbewegung (1971)

Was Tun im Betrieb – Zur IGM-Tarifbewegung (pdf-Datei, 505 kb), ein Flugblatt der Hamburger Gruppen von Gruppe Internationale Marxisten (GIM) und Revolutionär-Kommunistischer Jugend (RKJ) zur Metall-Tarifrunde im Herbst 1971 … zu jener Tarifauseinandersetzung hatte sich auch eine Aktionseinheit marxistisch-leninistischer Gruppen gebildet, welche später z.T. in den Organisationen KB, KBW und Arbeiterbund für den Wiederaufbau der KPD aufgingen.

Radical Women zu Barack Obamas Rede zur Gesundheitsreform

Quelle: http://socialism.com/whatsnew/obama_healthcare_statement.html

Obama’s healthcare speech sacrifices women and immigrants

„I am mad as hell at how President Obama is scapegoating women and immigrants in order to buy favor with rightwingers. He’s trying to appease forces who will only sabotage healthcare reform no matter what,“ says Radical Women National Organizer Anne Slater. Slater objects to Obama’s specific mention in his September 9 address that the plan he proposes will neither extend federal money to cover abortion nor insure undocumented workers.

Slater, a feminist activist from Seattle, is in New York City in the midst of a national speaking tour calling for „No More Singing Capitalism’s Blues—Sisters, It’s Time to Fight!“

„As I’ve traveled from state to state, the strong support for single-payer health coverage for all U.S. residents has become dramatically clear. There’s an all-out war going on in the Midwest over Dr. Leroy Carhart’s determination to keep providing abortions despite the murder of his colleague George Tiller. Immigrants, with papers and without, are being harassed and killed by white ‘patriots.’ President Obama’s statement is a cynical accommodation to lies that abortion is somehow immoral and that immigrants are depleting social services,“ says Slater. „His words will fan the acts of vigilantes and bigots. Within an hour of Obama’s address, National Radical Women received an anonymous email message saying, ‘Die, rotten c—nts.’ I don’t think this is just a coincidence.“

„Obama received 59% of women’s votes, yet he is undermining the crucial issue of women’s control over our own bodies. He should overturn the exclusion of federal funds for abortion, rather than defending this unjust ban. Actions like these are why Radical Women calls for women, immigrants and working people to stop relying on Democrats and to turn toward independent socialist alternatives. Why should we support a two-party system that keeps kicking us to the curb?“

Musik zum Sonntag … Tinariwen

Chet Boghassa

Cler Achel

Leseempfehlung: grundrisse Nr. 30

Die aktuelle Ausgabe der grundrisse mit dem Schwerpunkt „Türkei“, im Heft u.a.:

* Fuat Ercan und Sebnem Oguz: Anti-Neoliberale Strategien neu denken. Ein Blick auf die Türkei aus der Perspektive der Werttheorie

* Ilker Ataç: Die „Konservativ-liberale“ Politik der AKP in der Türkei im historischen Zusammenhang

* Güneş Koç:Ein Überblick über die Geschichte der Frauenbewegung in der Türkei vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart

* Hülya Osmanağaoğlu: Ohne Feminismus kein Sozialismus

* Anja Flach im Gespräch mit Minimol: „Frauen- und Volksräte versuchen, Funktionen zu übernehmen, um den Staat überflüssig zu machen“

* Pelin Tan: Istanbul: Widerstand im Stadtteil und gegenkultureller Raum

Neues aus den Archiven der radikalen Linken

ältere Archiv-Updates und Hinweise zu weiteren linken Archivalien unter Sozialistika“

The Commune:

* Harry Braverman: Labour and Monopoly Capital (1974, pdf-datei, 54,8, mb, S. 24-41)

Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF):

* Union syndicale Solidaires: Sexualité : Vivre librement son orientation sexuelle (2006)
* Union syndicale Solidaires: La lutte des femmes : un peu d’histoire (2006)
* Jesús Albarracín/Pedro Montes: L’interprétation d’Ernest Mandel du capitalisme contemporain (1996)
* Echo d’Iran n° 1, septembre 2006
* Solidarité avec les Travailleurs en Iran: La Charte de Solidarité avec les Travailleurs en Iran (STI) (2006)

La Bataille Socialiste:

* Célestin Freinet: Réalisateurs révolutionnaires (1929)
* Amadeo Bordiga: Lettre à Korsch (1926)
* Amadeo Bordiga: Lettera a Karl Korsch (1926)

Marxists Internet Archive (MIA):

* Karl Marx: Post-Ricardian Social Criticism (1863, Übersetzung Max Beer 1923)
* Karl Marx: Importance and Weakness of English Labour (1869, Übersetzung Max Beer 1923)
* Karl Marx: England and Revolution (1848, Übersetzung Max Beer 1923)
* Evelyn Roy: The Funeral Ceremony at Gaya (1923)
* Evelyn Roy: The Metamorphosis of Mr C. Das (1923)
* Henk Sneevliet: Zegepraal (1922)
* Fernand Braudel: Geography in the light of the Human Sciences (1951)
* Leo Trotzki: Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence (1940)
* Ernest Mandel: Rosa Luxemburg y la socialdemocracia alemana (1971)
* Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin: Os Ensinamentos da Comuna (1908)
* Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin: Sobre a Fome – (Carta aos Operários de Petrogrado) (1918)
* Max Beer: The Literary Remains of Lassalle (1921)
* Max Beer: The Revival of Anti-Marxism (1921)
* Max Beer: The Story of the “Communist Manifesto” (1921)
* Max Beer: An Inquiry into Dictatorship. I (1922)
* Max Beer: An Inquiry into Dictatorship. II (1922)
* Max Beer: An Inquiry into Dictatorship. III (1922)
* Max Beer: Socialisation in Germany (1922)
* Max Beer: Hodgskin and Marx (1922)
* G.D.H. Cole: A Word to Max Beer (1922)
* George Orwell: Разоткривање на шпанската тајна (1937)
* Jaap Kruithof: De grootte van het Belgische proletariaat tijdens de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw – 1 (1960)
* Jaap Kruithof: De grootte van het Belgisch proletariaat tijdens de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw – 2 (1960)

Collectif Smolny:

* Karl Marx: Pauperism and Free Trade. – The approaching commercial crisis (1852)

LibCom:

* Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz/Jack Womack, Jr: Revolution In The Air: The Historical Significance Of The Green Corn Rebellion (2008)

The Cedar Lounge Revolution:

* Sinn Féin The Workers’ Party: Tony O’Reilly’s Last Game – 1979 edition
* Sinn Féin: Addendum to United Irishman, August 1969

Centro de Documentación de los Movimientos Armados (CeDeMA):

* Irma Antognazzi: La lucha armada en la estrategia política del PRT-ERP (1965-1976) (1997, pdf-Datei)
* Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA): La violencia: El derecho del agredido (1985)
* Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN): Comunicado Nº 7. Operativo Edgar Munguia (1978)
* Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN): Ha llegado la hora de la Insurrección Popular Sandinista (1978)
* Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN): Parte de guerra Nº 1 (1978)
* Partido Socialista Revolucionario (M-L): ¿Terrorismo individual… o lucha armada de masas? (1977)

AustriaN Newspapers Online (ANNO):

* Das Wort der Frau. Unabhängiges Sonntagsblatt für die kulturellen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Interessen der Frau (1931-1933)

Workers’ Liberty:

* Leo Trotzki: On World War Two (1939)
* Leo Trotzki: Only revolution can end war (1939)
* Sean Matgamna: British workers and the Stalinist state „unions“ (1981)
* Socialist Organiser: Self-determination for the peoples of former Yugoslavia! (1992)
* Arguing for a workers’ party based on the non-racial unions in apartheid South Africa (1985/1986/1994)
* Workers’ Liberty: So why do we say vote Labour? (1997)

Mansour Osanloo benötigt dringend medizinische Behandlung

Amnesty International berichtet, dass sich der Gesundheitszustand des seit zwei Jahren inhaftierten iranischen Gewerkschafters Mansoor Osanloo (ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Gewerkschaft der Beschäftigten der Tehraner Busgesellschaft, eine der grössten unabhängigen Gewerkschaften im Iran) weiter verschlechtert hat und ruft daher zu Protesten mittels einer e-Mail-Kampagne auf:

„Prisoner of conscience Mansour Ossanlu’s health is deteriorating. A year ago he was transferred to Reja’i Shahr prison, west of Tehran, where he was placed among prisoners who have been convicted of crimes such as murder, rather than among political prisoners.

He has been denied permission to leave the prison for treatment for pre-existing medical problems, and new ones gained through the denial of access to treatment. He was denied treatment by the case judge, despite a referral by the prison doctor following his fourth medical examination.

Despite the recommendation by the Coroner, and Medical Examiner, at the end of last year that Mansour be treated outside the prison, the authorities continue to refuse to allow him to leave for treatment.“

Währenddessen sind laut Human Rights Activists in Iran die ArbeiterInnen der Zuckerfabrik Haft Tapeh in Shush/Khuzestan gestern wieder in den Streik getreten um die Auszahlung ausstehender Löhne zu erzwingen und um gegen Lohnkürzungen und andere Einschnitte seitens des Managements des Staatsbetriebes zu protestieren:

„Hundreds of workers of the Haft Tapeh Agricultural & Industrial Company went on strike today.

According to a report by the labor committee of the Human Rights Activists of Iran, workers are asking for an orderly payment of their wages. They also want the management to explain the reductions on overtime, the reduction of the wages, the non-compliance of the factory management with the job categorization bill and the management’s refusal to adjust the wages to the inflation rates.

The workers and union members have gathered in front of the management office since this morning. The gathering ended this afternoon without any answer from the management to the workers’ demands.“

Forderungen des Coordinating Committee to Form Workers’ Organization, Iran

Quelle: HOPI/News from the struggles in Iran, die Homepage des Komitess befindet sich hier:

Fundamental Demands of the Working Class of Iran

Calling on Worker-Activists for Unity to Organise the Working Class against the Capitalist System

Translated by Comite Hamahangi.

1. What has been happening in recent weeks on the streets of the cities in Iran is only the tip of the iceberg of huge protest, anger, and rebellion that have piled up from the 30 years of captivity of the tyranny and exploitation on human beings. The election and the events after that were merely a pretext for the emergence of a spring of repression and disenfranchisement. The inevitable haven for this movement under the flag of a reformist faction of capitalism does not change at all the fact that this is a flame of fire that has been lit because of a brutal dictatorship and the unrestraint of capital that has entered society into a new political stage.

2. In the context of the political crisis, the pressure on the livelihood of the workers will be much more intense than before. The current economic crisis, up to now, has shaken up the components of the reproduction of total social capital and will be more precarious in the future. The immense economic problems resulting from the recent events of this period will continue to spread the waves of crisis and will make its range of impact upon the conditions of the valorization of capitals broader and more unruly. The contradictions and the old deadlocks of capitalist state planning certainly become more critical for the continuity of the survival of the current socio-economic order. Owners of capital and the capitalist state in order to protect the immense profits inevitably attack the level of livelihood of the working masses and put more pressure on the shoulders of all working class people than before. This inevitable situation will expand the resistance and rebellion of the working class still broader – even in its unorganized, scattered and desperate situation.

3. At the level of society and within the space of life and the public view of people, the political power of capital even compared to a month ago will appear as a desperate and helpless regime that to advance its agenda has no way out but to resort to bloodshed and the reliance on the bayonet. Today workers are not the only ones who see in every moment of the existence of the capitalist state the enormous suffering of their lives. Even parts of the capitalist class and their political representatives also know that this government lacks legitimacy and considers reform of its arrangement as an inevitable condition to sustain the capitalist system. This is despite the continuing growth and accelerating increase of repression and acts of wrath; however, along with all the other factors that we said it has given the opportunity to the masses to outline their demands with more courage than before. The authority and power of the capitalist state has been split and this gap will more or less make it easier for the workers to struggle against capitalism.

4. Upon their definite failure at the current stage, the reformists will continue planning and implement new tricks in order to ride on the wave of discontent and protests of the people, and will direct the flood of anger and the protest of discontented people to the deviated path of reformism and use this powerful flux of power in the interest of strengthening their own power. It is obvious that the state will begin a new period of repression of these struggles. Reformers during the recent few days announced that they will open new fields to continue the peaceful conflict and, according to themselves, legal protest against the government, and the state with its military and security forces and police have reiterated that any protest and resistance will be suppressed with greater intensity. The inevitable battle will widen the gap between the two factions more than before, and it benefits the working class because it significantly weakens the capitalist state.

5. On the global level, the capitalist state will be increasingly under more pressure and targeted with more extortion by its rivals; as well in its exchange with other capitalist states a more unstable situation will arise. Even its close partners and friends such as China and Russia will extort them immensely. The situation of economic exchange within the global capital market will be more difficult. The flow of the cost of investment and reproduction of capital accumulation will increase significantly. The range of unbridled profits and of the rate of profit will inevitably narrow. All of these events in turn put more serious pressure on the process of the reproduction of social capital. The capitalist state will directly shift all of this pressure onto the lives of the working masses, and this situation again will provide the material basis for a spreading wave of protests and the rebellion of the working class. The occurrence of these events, at the same will force different parts of the capitalist system, its internal factions, marginalized political power, and the statesmen of the wage-slavery system into an intensified fight.

6. The above factors along with many other social and political factors show that the current storm of protest and discontent will not stop. The storm will continue to exist although on its particular path will be faced with the repression of the capitalist state. However, this storm with all its power of spontaneous destruction, unfortunately, shows no sign of being a conscious class movement of workers against capital and remains under the leadership of the reformist faction of capitalism. A big chance for the reformists is that the current protest movement is at a very low level and is helpless without any anti-capitalist workers framework. As the revolution of 1979 demonstrated, as long as this movement is under the leadership of a faction of the capitalist class, it will not lead to any result but to strengthen and stabilize the capitalist system in another form. The condition for a working class victory over the capitalist system or at least pushing it back and weakening it is the independent, self-conscious and organized presence of the workers in the current movement.

7. The working class struggles against the entire capitalist system with all its factions, wings and state power in the same way. However, the necessity of the concentration of attack in order to impose the maximum workers’ demands on the capitalist system and at the same time to safeguard the independence of the working class in the class struggle require the working movement in the current situation, on the one hand, to put the main strength of its organized and self conscious struggle against political power in its totality and, on the other hand, ruthlessly unmask the reformist capitalist faction.. As a matter of fact, the unmasking of the reformist faction as part of the capitalist class, a part that misleads workers by creating the illusion of reform within capitalism and of the establishment of democratic capitalism is an indisputable necessity of the success and progress for the worker movement in the current situation.

8. The coming together of the mass of the population of the working class to struggle against capitalism and the need for promoting its material and mental ability to struggle for the abolition of the wage-slavery system requires that this class initiate its organized and conscious struggle from its fundamental demands. We have announced these in the document, “The Charter of the Fundamental Demands of the Working Class of Iran”. However, the possibility of modifying, and correcting these demands is ongoing, as long as its anti-capitalist essence and foundation remain.

9. The realization of the workers’ fundamental demands and the imposition of them on ruling capitalist state is tied to the power of the organized working class, and such power in this current situation has no meaning other than being organized within anti-capitalist worker councils. However, the aim of worker councils and joining them nationwide in the form of “the nationwide working class councils of Iran” is not merely the realization of the fundamental demands of that class. The main condition for the success of approaches such as the takeover of factories, general strike, or any kind of struggle of the working class for the abolition of the capitalist social relationship, including seizing political power, is the existence of anti-capitalist councils of that class.

10. The tactic of the independent, active and organized participation of the workers in the current movement is in line and in connection with the continuation and elevation of the workers’ struggle in the areas which were the workers main realms of struggle prior to the current movement. These realms generally are the struggle against unemployment due to factory closures, and the struggle against various forms of the intensification of exploitation in the workplace. Our proposed tactics are taking over closed down factories or those that are on the brink of shutting down in the first realm, and strike in the second realm. We still emphasize the correctness of these tactics and, especially, stress making them widespread in the current situation.

Based on the above points, we call upon all anti-capitalist activists of the working class movement to unite around the following items for organizing the working class against capitalism:

A. Agreement on the fundamental demands of the working class of Iran, which are attached.

B. Organized effort to form anti-capitalist councils of the working class within workplaces and neighborhoods.

C. Unified planning for launching strikes in all centres of work and centres of production.

D. Organized preparation for the takeover of closed factories and those on the verge of closing down.

E. Organized participation within the current movement with the aim of forming an independent line of workers for the realization of the fundamental demands of the working class.

F. Utilizing and composing the above tactics and other mechanisms for exerting organized worker power against capital.

Workers Let’s Get Organized against Capital!

Coordinating Committee to Form Workers’ Organization

Kollateralschäden des BRD-Imperialismus

Ein wenige Monate altes Statement der Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) zu einem vergleichbaren, von US-Truppen verübten Massenmord:

Let’s rise against the war crimes of US and its fundamentalist lackeys!

RAWA Statement on Massacre of over 150 civilians in Bala Baluk of Farah Province by the U.S.

As the US occupiers continue killing our innocent and sorrowed people without regret, this time they committed yet another horrible crime in Bala Baluk village of Farah Province. On 5th May 2009, the US airstrikes targeted people’s homes, killing more than 150, mostly women and children. This is another war crime but Pentagon shamelessly includes Taliban as the perpetrators too and announces the civilian deaths being only 12!

The so-called ‘new’ strategy of Obama’s administration and the surge of troops in Afghanistan have already dragged our ill-fated people in the danger zone and his 100-day old government proved itself as much more war-mongering than Bush and his only gifts to our people is hiking killings and ever-horrifying oppression. This administration is bombarding our country and tearing our women and children into pieces and from the other side, is lending a friendly hand towards the terrorist Gulbuddinis and Taliban — the dirty, bloody enemies of our people– and holding secret negotiations and talks with such brutal groups.

While our grieved people are burying the torn bodies of their loved ones in mass graves; the traitor lackey Said Tayeb Jawad, in his comfort in the USA, tries to dim the war crimes of his masters and about the killings of civilians, shamelessly salts people’s wounds saying, “this is a price we have to pay if we want security and stability in Afghanistan, the region and the world.”!

If his or other ignoble spies like him would lose their children and dear ones like the people of Bala Baluk, would they still become so stone-hearted and remain silent in the face of US/NATO war crimes in Afghanistan?

The only way our people can escape the occupant forces and their obedient servants is to rise against them under the slogans of: “Neither the occupiers! Nor the bestial Taliban and the criminal Northern Alliance; long live a free and democratic Afghanistan!”

Bundestagswahlen 2009: Wen wählen?

Nach der „Probeabstimmung“ hier nun einige weitere Infos und Gedanken zur Wahl, was die radikale Linke in der BRD rät, die meisten nachfolgend verlinkten Aufrufe und Diskussionsbeiträge finden sich auf Trend:

* Revolutionäre Linke (RL): Stimme erheben – Wahlen boykottieren!
* Politisches Sekretariat des RSB: Regierung, Programm, Mobilisierung
* Philipp Xanthos: Piratenpartei: Diffuse politische Ausrichtung
* Peter Djordjevic: Welche Wahl hat man?
* Einige undogmatische Kommunist/innen aus Berlin: Keine Stimme den Kriegs- und Sozialabbauparteien Grüne,SPD, FDP, CDU, CSU!
* Organisation für den Aufbau einer kommunistischen Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands: Bundestagswahl 2009: Nach den Wahlen kommt das Zahlen!
* Antifas aus Fhain: Und täglich grüßt der Ströbele
* Kommando Tolerantes Bebra: Berlin: Vera Lengsfeld befreit Kreuzberg
* Aufruf der isl zur Bundestagswahl: DIE LINKE wählen und aktiv werden für eine Wende nach links
* Kampagne gegen die Bundestagswahl 2009: Wir haben keine Wahl! Für Selbstorganisation statt Stellvertreter_innenpolitik!
* DKP setzt auf außerparlamentarische Kämpfe: Eckpunkte zu den Bundestagswahlen 2009
* Stefan Engel, Vorsitzender der MLPD: Rede zum zentralen Wahlkampfauftakt der MLPD in Hamburg am 22. August 2009
* Aufruf der Partei für Soziale Gleichheit: Wählt die Partei für Soziale Gleichheit! Für eine sozialistische Antwort auf die kapitalistische Krise!
* Wahlaufruf der SAV zu den Bundestagswahlen: DIE LINKE wählen – links aktiv werden – DIE LINKE verändern!
* soziale-revolution[at]web.de – Mannheim: Unsere Wahl: Soziale Revolution!
* Jochen Weichold / Horst Dietzel: Bundestagswahl 2009 – Wahlprogramme der Parteien im Vergleich

* Der Arbeiterbund zum Wiederaufbau der DKP und von Atomkraftwerken der KPD zieht wieder einmal durch die Republik:

* Andrej Hunko: Piraten in flachen Gewässern
* Reflexion: Piraten ganz rechts
* Womblog: Gender Trouble bei den Piraten
* Antje Schrupp: Kann eine Feministin Piraten wählen?

Einige Punkte die ich wichtig finde:

- Wenn Wahlen etwas Signifikantes an der kapitalistisch-patriarchalen Verfasstheit der Gesellschaft ändern könnten wären sie verboten – dies heisst jedoch nicht, dass der Aufruf zum Nichtwählen automatisch oder in der derzeitigen Lage geeignet ist, Kämpfe voran zu treiben

- Rosa Luxemburg merkte an: „Liebknecht war es auch, der als erster und die ganze Zeit über am schärfsten die ganze Komödie des Burgfriedens im Reichstag und Landtag vereitelte, den falschen Brüdern in dem imperialistischen Lager die Maske vom Gesicht riss und die Verbrechen des Imperialismus vor aller Welt aufdeckte. Aus den „Kleinen Anfragen“ verstand er eine Waffe des Klassenkampfes zu schmieden, die im Regierungslager jedes Mal Verwirrung anrichtete und Wunden schlug. Er entlarvte die schäbige offiziöse Mache mit den „patriotischen“ Kriegsanleihen. Er zerrte ans Licht die im stillen verübten Verbrechen des deutsch-österreichischen Militarismus an schwachen Völkern und seine Justizverbrechen. Ebenso rücksichtslos zerriss er die „Befreiungs“phrasen des Militarismus in Fetzen.

Es war jedes Mal ein schwarzer Tag für die Regierung und ihre Schildknappen, wenn Liebknecht im Reichstag oder Landtag auf die Tribüne stieg. Und in alledem war ihm die Parlamentstribüne lediglich der Posten, von dem aus er durchs Fenster an die Massen des Proletariats appellierte, sie an die Pflichten der internationalen Solidarität mahnte, sie zum Kampf gegen Völkermord, gegen den Imperialismus aufrüttelte.“

Aber ist dergleichen beispielsweise von einzelnen Abgeordneten vom linken Flügel der LINKEN zu erwarten, oder verlieren jene sich in systemimmanenter Kleinarbeit, ausserparlamentarische Kämpfe, Bewegungen und das Ziel einer befreiten Gesellschaft aus den Augen verlierend? Gibt es zumindest einzelne Abgeordnete, welche wie in den 1980ern Gaby Gottwald oder in den 1990ern Ulla Jelpke und Winnie Wolf, welche durch ihre Parlamentstätigkeit Basisaktivitäten sinnvoll unterstützen konnten?

[To be continued]

El Trabajador Nr. 73 & Prensa Socialista Nr. 92

Die aktuellen Zeitungen der Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores (PST, Honduras) und der Partido Socialista de las y los Trabajadores (PST, Costa Rica); beide widmen schwerpunktmässig dem Widerstand gegen den Putsch in Honduras (zum Lesen der pdf-Dateien die Bilder anklicken), regelmässig aktualisierte Infos von der PST Honduras (in derem Umfeld sich gerade eine Jugendorganisation konstituiert hat) gibt es hier: