Musik zum Sonntag … Sin Dios

1936

Hoy Como Ayer

Michael Löwy zu den Themen Freiheit, Revolution und Macht

… hat tip to revolta – antikapitalistische linke … mehr zu Michael Löwy hier … sehr lesenswert sein Buch Fire alarm: reading Walter Benjamin’s On the concept of history (2005)

Eine Warnung von Organisationen aus den sozialen Bewegungen in Indien an multinationale Konzerne

Quelle: Sanhati

People’s Movements Warn Corporations and Issue Ultimatum to Quit Their Land, Rivers and Forests

NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE’S MOVEMENTS

Press Release, August 9, 2010

* Demand Immediate Repeal of Land Acquisition Act and Special Economic Zone Act

* Peoples Movements Organise Rasta Roko (Road Blockades), Dharna, Public Meetings, Human Chains, Effigy Burning, Long Marches across the country and declare “We Want Development not Destruction”.

August 9th 2010, Quit India Day : 68 years ago on this day all across India people took to street and gave final ultimatum to the British Government and sought independence from their control and resolved to establish people’s control over the resources of the country. Today in a bitter irony, the same Congress Party using the draconian and colonial law Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and SEZ Act of 2005 is handing over the land, rivers, forests, minerals to the corporations public and private (national and International) for mining, big dams, thermal, nuclear and other power projects, SEZs, highways, ports, airports etc. in complete violation of peoples’ constitutional and natural rights. LAA and SEZ Act have not only displaced people across rural and urban India, ruined fertile agricultural lands, destroyed forests and fisheries, but also destroyed adivasi-dalit lives, livelihoods and their culture around the country. How can Indian law, the executive and judiciary side with these criminal corporations and private interests in this oppression and exploitation?

Our government is guilty of crimes and bloodshed in the process of establishing numerous colonies of Tatas, Birlas, Ambanis, Mittals, POSCO, Vedanta, Nagrajunas, L&T, NTPC, ONGC, Dow, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Infosys and many other corporations. They exploit these colonies, export ores and products to their factories in India or outside at dirt cheap rates, pocket the large profit in the name of serving public interest and enslaven a large working population and displace billion in this process from their homes and fields. And our government and the elected representatives have become their agents facilitating the process of colonization and exploitation and in turn filling their own coffers at a huge price to the nation.

In continuing with the struggle against all forms of injustice, exploitation of human and natural resources by these capitalist and imperialist corporations peoples movements celebrate this day today with a nationwide call for challenging the might of the government and these corporations and launch a renewed struggle for freedom from Corporations. The call was issued on April 20th from Delhi after carrying out social audit of SEZs in states of Tamilnadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa and Northern region called for an all India action day on 9th August with the purpose of declaring ultimatum to corporations and to reclaim the rights of community over the natural resources.

In Maharashtra Jagtikikaran Virodhi Kriti Samiti (JVKS), Ghar Bahcaho Ghar Banao Andolan, Ekveera Gaon Bachao Andolan and National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) organized rasta roko (road blockades), dharna, public meetings, human chains, effigy burning, long marches at Gorai Naka (Esselworld SEZ), August Kranti Maidan Mumbai, Vashi Naka, Pen , Raigad (Maha Mumbai SEZ), Karla phata, Lonawala (Karla SEZ), Nagpur, Sinner, Aurangabad, Bhiwandi, Rajguru Nagar against numerous SEZs and other projects. More than 1000 villagers gathered in a day long demo cum public meeting and burning of draconian laws was organized by Sirappu Porulaadhara Mandalam Edirippu Iyaikam and NAPM-TN in Dharmapuri District of Tamilnadu where 3 panchayats will loose their agriculture land to SIPCOT.

In Uttar Pradesh at Mau, Devariya, Kushinagar (where 1200 people gathered to opposed the Special Religious Zone under Maitrey project) and Mehndiganj (against Coca-Cola Factory) Aashaparivar and NAPM organized protest meetings and burned the copies of the LAA and SEZ Act and an effigy of Chief Minister Mayawati. In Madhya Pradesh too at Chutkha village, Dist. Mandla (against the proposed nuclear power plant) and at Jhansighat, dist Narsinghpur (against the proposed Today Energy Homes power plant) protest meeting was organized and copy of the Acts was burned by Chutkha Parmanu Virodhi Sangharsh Samiti and Kishan Sangathan respectively.

In Mundra, Gujarat Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS), Gujarat also organized a meeting and burnt the said Acts. At Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh NAPM – AP organized a day long meeting, burnt the copies of the Acts and submitted memorandum to the District Collector opposing proposed power plants and chemical hubs in the region. In addition similar programmes have been held in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, Rajasthan and other states of the country today.

In West Bengal members of NAPM – WB and other members of the Forum for Peace and Democracy movement groups, intellectuals marched to the Lalgarh in defiance of the continued imposition of Section 144 and atrocities on their Adivasis of the Jangmahal region. There has been an ongoing repression in the region by the para-military forces in the name of combating the violence unleashed by Left-wing Extremist forces, but causing immense difficulties to the adivasis of the region.More than 10000 people assembled and appealed for peace from both sides. Medha Patkar led the march which also demanded repeal of the Land Acquisition Act.

In Delhi NAPM and Delhi Solidarity Group organised a protest and cultural evening at Jantar Mantar and also burned the copies of the Bills and in Kanjhawala villages famers under the banner of Bhoomi Bachao Andolan organized a day long protest meeting and challenged the Delhi government to acquire any further land for the DSIDC project.

An open challenge to the eminent domain of the government and authority of the corporations has been posed and with that a call and struggle for independence is launched. The movements have vowed that the struggle and sacrifice of the people in Kalinga Nagar, Kashipur, Nandigram, Singur, Narmada, Raigarh, Mundra, Sompeta and many other places will not be allowed to go waste.

The immediate demands expressed from all over the country are :

1. REPEAL Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and Special Economic Zone Act 2005.

2. NOT pass the proposed Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill in their current form in the Parliament. UPA attempted this towards the end of the 14th Lok Sabha and also on the last day of the Monsoon Session in 2009 in an extremely secretive manner without any debate and adequate prior information.

3. ENACT a National Development, Displacement and Rehabilitation Act based on the Draft National Development, Displacement, and Rehabilitation Policy passed by the National Advisory council in 2006 and incorporating the progressive elements of the Standing Committee on Rural Development (2007-08) enunciating the principle of least displacement, just rehabilitation and a decentralized development planning based on Article 243 of the Constitution, PESA 1996 and Forest Rights Act, 2006.

4. ISSUE a White Paper on all the land acquisitions, displacement caused and rehabilitation completed since independence. The White Paper must also make public the extent of land utilized, unutilized and land acquired for public purpose but remains occupied by sick and non-functional industries and other infrastructure projects.

5. MAKE PUBLIC the details of the MoUs signed by the Government of India and the state Governments with different private and public corporations, companies and others, which have land acquisition requirements and hold public dialogue – especially with affected people.

We Shall Fight ! We Shall Win ! Ladenge ! Zeetenge !

Zindabaad ! Zindabaad Zindabaad !

Medha Patkar (in Lalgarh), Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey (in Rajasthan), Ulka Mahajan, Suniti S R and Mukta Shrivastava (in Maharashtra), Usha Seetalakshmi and Ramakrishna Raju (in Andhra Pradesh), Madhumita Dutta and Gabriele Dietrich (in Tamil Nadu), Arvind Murthy (UP), Rajkumar Sinha (in MP), Prafulla Samantara (in Orissa), Bhupendera Rawat and Vijayan M J (in Delhi) and Bharat Patel (in Gujarat)

Neues aus den Archiven der radikalen (und nicht so radikalen) Linken

ältere Archiv-Updates und Hinweise zu weiteren linken Archivalien unter „Sozialistika“ und im Download-Archiv … auf ESSF ein Interview mit Jean-Jacques Boislaroussie zur Geschichte der PSU, auf syndikalismus.tk ein Artikel zu den Protesten gegen die Rekrutenvereidigung 1980 in Bremen sowie zwei weitere Nachrufe auf kürzlich verstorbene GenossInnen: Pat Longman (Workers’ Liberty, 1950-2010) und George Fontenis (Alternative Libertaire, 1920-2010, Verfasser des Manifesto of Libertarian Communism von 1953)

Common Sense – Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists:

u.a. mit Artikeln von John Holloway, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Sergio Bologna, Toni Negri, Karl-Heinz Roth, …

* Nr. 1, Mai 1987
* Nr. 2, Juli 1987
* Nr. 3, Oktober 1987
* Nr. 4, März 1988
* Nr. 5, Juli 1988
* Nr. 6, November 1988
* Nr. 7, Mai 1989
* Nr. 8, September 1989
* Nr. 9, April 1990
* Nr. 10. Mai 1991
* Nr. 11, Oktober 1991
* Nr. 12, Mai 1992
* Nr. 13, Januar 1993
* Nr. 14, Oktober 1993
* Nr. 15, April 1994
* Nr. 16, Dezember 1994
* Nr. 17, Juni 1995
* Nr. 18, Dezember 1995
* Nr. 19, Juni 1996
* Nr. 20, Dezember 1996
* Nr. 21, August 1997
* Nr. 22, Dezember 1997
* Nr. 23, Juli 1998
* Nr. 24, Dezember 1999

La Bataille Socialiste:

* La Ligue Syndicaliste (son rôle, son fonctionnement) (1927)
* Fédération Unitaire de l’Enseignement: Sauvons la CGTU (1930)
* Pierre Monatte: Le troisième acte du 30 Juin de Staline (1937)
* Benjamin Péret: Un ennemi déclaré (1939)
* The Spanish Revolution, 4. November 1936 (Auszug)
* Mansoor Hekmat: L’expérience de la révolution ouvrière en Union soviétique [2] (1986)
* Mansoor Hekmat: L’expérience de la révolution ouvrière en Union soviétique [3] (1986)
* Théo Bernard/JulianGorkin/Maurice Nadeau/Pierre Naville/Gérard Rosenthal/David Rousset/Alfred Rosmer: Pour la mise à nu complète des crimes de Staline et de ses complices (1961)
* Marceau Pivert: Exclus, pourquoi ? (1937)
* Maurice Jaquier: Le Comité du Continental Bar de Perpignan (1974)
* Ante Ciliga: Pensées en prison sur Lénine (1950)
* Rosa Luxemburg: Lettre à Louise Kautsky (1918)
* De l’usage de Marx en temps de crise (1984)

Marxists Internet Archive (MIA):

* Rebecca West: Mr Chesterton in Hysterics, A Study in Prejudice (1913)
* José Carlos Mariátegui: Ethics and Socialism (1930, Auszug aus Defense of Marxism)
* Raya Dunayevskaya: Death, Freedom and the Disintegration of Communism (1956)
* William Morris: Art and Industry in the Fourteenth Century (1887)
* Julius Martow: Die erste Epoche der russischen Revolution (1906)
* Julius Martow: Marx und der Staat (1925)
* Paul Mattick: Biografia de Otto Rühle (1960)
* La Vérité: On the Yugoslav Question (1949)
* La Vérité: On the Yugoslav Question (1945)
* Albert Mathiez: The Hebertist Program (1920)
* Sylvia Pankhurst: Thoughts on Easter Week (1916)
* Marten Buschman: Reorganisatie van het NAS in 1901 (1993)
* Marten Buschman: De scheurcirculaire (1993)
* Marten Buschman: Een desastreuze leegloop en een nieuw begin (1993)
* Marten Buschman: Epiloog (1993)
* Enrique Rivera: ¿Por qué fracasó F.O.R.J.A.? (1958)
* Cuarta Internacional: La partición de Palestina (1947)
* Chris Harman: O Que é o Marxismo? (1979)
* Worker’s England Daily News Release: Tenth Anniversary of the Internationalists Celebrated Amidst Great Revolutionary Enthusiasm in England and Ireland (1973 … Vorsicht, Realsatire)

Anarkismo:

* Front Libertaire: Spagna ’36: Le milizie rivoluzionarie (1976)
* Libero Internacional: Ôsugi Sakae en París (197?)

LibCom:

* Tico Jossifort: The Black Sea Revolt (2002)
* Tico Jossifort: The Revolt at Radomir (2002)
* Root & Branch: Old Left, New Left, What’s Left? (1970)
* Root & Branch: Point of View: Solidarity (1970)
* Root & Branch: Keep on Truckin’ (1971)
* Root & Branch: Italy: Women in the Fiat Factory (1971)
* Root & Branch: Vietnam (1973)
* Root & Branch: A Very Great Year? (1973)
* Root & Branch: A Post-Affluence Critique (1973)
* Root & Branch: Listen Marxist: A Reply (1973)
* Root & Branch: Jeremy Brecher Responds (1973)
* Root & Branch: Other Dimensions (1973)
* Root & Branch: Manifesto – Ecology Action East (1970)
* Root & Branch: Notes on the Postal Strike (1970)
* Education, Stupefication, Commodification (1998)
* A riot outside the NZ parliament in June 1968?
* Aufheben: Review of Beverley Silver’s Forces of labor (2008)
* Aufheben: Value struggle or class struggle? A review of The beginning of history by Massimo De Angelis (2008)
* Aufheben: The language of retreat: review of Virno’s A grammar of the multitude (2008)

The Cedar Lounge Revolution:

* The Workers Party (WP): Ireland and the Socialist Countries (1986)

Centro de Documentación de los Movimientos Armados (CeDeMA):

* Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR): El MIR frente a la masacre de la población „Lo Hermida“ (1972)
* Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA): Mensaje a los militantes del APRA (1988)
* Salvador Cayetano Carpio (“Comandante Marcial”): Nuestras montañas son las masas (1999, pdf-Datei)

The Irish Election Literature Blog:

* “The Birmingham Six , Remember Them This Christmas” -Christmas Card issued by The Birmingham Six Committee mid 80s

The Militant:

* 25, 50 and 75 years ago (1935/1960/1985)

Espace contre ciment:

* Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Der kurze Sommer der Anarchie (1972)
* Carl Einstein: Die Kolonne Durruti (1937)
* Einspruch gegen die Kapitulationen von 1937, vor den Libertären der Gegenwart und der Zukunft – Von einem „Unkontrollierten“ der Eisenkolonne (1937)
* Rudolf Rocker: Durruti in Berlin (19??)
* Paul Mattick: Les barricades doivent être retirées – Le fascisme de Moscou en Espagne (1937)
* Mario Tronti: Thèses sur Walter Benjamin (1998)
* Onorato Damen: Amadeo Bordiga, validité et limites d’une expérience (1971, Auszug)
* „Fidelis“: Münchner Räterepublik – Gustav Landauers Kulturprogramm (1920)
* Wildcat-Kollektiv – Interview (2006)

Archive.org:

* Vladimir Karpovich Debogori-Mokrievich: Erinnerungen eines Nihilisten (1905)
* Friedrich Engels: Principles of Communism (1847, neu übersetzt von Paul Sweezy 1952)
* Bulletin of the IV World Congress of the Communist International, Nr. 30., 11. Dezember 1922
* Bulletin of the IV World Congress of the Communist International, Nr. 31., 12. Dezember 1922
* Bulletin of the IV World Congress of the Communist International, Nr. 32., 9. Dezember 1922
* Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation (SP-SDF): Socialist Call, Frühjahr 1960
* World Socialist Party of the United States/Socialist Party of Canada (WSPUS/SPC): The Western Socialist, 4/1966
* Jean Grave: Umiraiushchee obshchestvo i anarkhiia (1917)
* Paul Eltzbacher: Anarkhizm; perevod s nemetskago (1921)

Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung:

* Ludwig Heyde (Hg.): Internationales Handwörterbuch des Gewerkschaftswesens (1931/1932)

Luxemburger Anarchist:

* Voline: Synthèse anarchiste (1934)
* Bernard Voyenne: 90 Jahre Bernard Voyenne (2004)

League for the Revolutionary Party -Communist Organization for the Fourth International (LRP-COFI):

* Walter Daum: The Life and Death of Stalinism. A Resurrection of Marxist Theory – Chapter 3. The Transition to Socialism (1990, pdf-Datei)

CPGB/Weekly Worker:

* The Call/Workers’ Dreadnought: The Allied intervention in Russia/ Hands off Russia/ The Russian Revolution in danger (1918/1919)

radicalarchives:

* Bob Avakian on SNCC, Anti-Zionism & Anti-Semitism (2005)

Agis Stinas:

* Agis Stinas: Hunger (1977)

Anarchosyndikalistische Flugschriftenreihe:

* George Orwell: Spanische Erfahrungen (1938, pdf-Datei)
* Internationale ArbeiterInnen-Assoziation (IAA): Für Freiheit und Gleichheit – Direkte Aktionen u Solidarität (2007, pdf-Datei)
* Gustav Landauer: Anarchismus – Sozialismus (1895, pdf-Datei)
* Harold the Barrel: Der lange Marsch der 68er zur nationalen Rechten (1999, pdf-Datei)
* Colin Ward: Anarchismus als Organisationstheorie (?, pdf-Datei)
* Der Syndikalist: Die Internationale Arbeiter-Assoziation im Jahre 1930/Die größte Organisation der IAA im Brennpunkt des Kampfes für die Zukunft (1930/1931, pdf-Datei)
* Der Syndikalist: Spanien, seine Revolution und der Anarchosyndikalismus – Vortrag von Carl Windhoff (1931)

Initiative communiste-ouvrière:

* Histoire des Roms de Roumanie : Sept siècles d’oppression (2002)

Mansour Osanloo zu einem weiteren Jahr Knast verurteilt

Quelle der nachfolgend dokumentierten Meldung: IASWI

Osanloo sentenced to one more year prison. Reza Shahabi still held incommunicado

August 11, 2010- Mansour Osanloo, president of the board of directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (a public transit company owned by Tehran Municipal government with about 17000 employees) has been sentenced this week to one year imprisonment by the City of Karaj Islamic Revolutionary Court for „propaganda against the system“. Mr. Osanloo has been subject to increasing harassment in recent months and was put on trial recently at Karaj Revolutionary court. Osanloo had also been charged with „connection with the opponents of the system“. He has gone through all this in recent months while he has been in prison for the past three years. According to a statement issued by Vahed Syndicate on August 10, 2010, Mr. Osanloo’s lawyers will appeal this new sentence against him within the next 20 days.

Reza Shahabi, the Vahed Syndicate’s Treasurer, was arrested on June 12, 2010 and is still imprisoned incommunicado. In a statement issued by Vahed Syndicate, serious concerns have been raised about Reza Shahabi’s health and safety. The statement says: „Reza Shahabi, a member of the board of directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed), was arrested and imprisoned on June 12, 2010, and was only allowed to speak to his wife and children by telephone three times for the first month of his detention. In the telephone conversations with the family, he indicated that he suffered from neck and back injuries. Since then nobody has gained any information about his situation. His family have approached the Public Prosecutor and the Court of First Instance several times. Also, his solicitor has contacted the Public Prosecutor’s office, but has not received any news about Reza’s circumstances. Uncertainty about his situation has made his family anxious about his well-being. The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed), which was established to defend workers’ basic rights, condemns the arrest and the denial of information about its member and demands his immediate and unconditional release. „

Numerous campaigns in recent days have been launched in Iran and abroad for the release of Reza Shahabi who is a highly respected labour activist and one of the key leaders of Vahed Syndicate for the past few years. (See below for recent campaigns in support of Reza Shahabi and other jailed workers)

Jaime Semprún (1947-2010)

Am 9. August starb der „postsituationistische“ Autor und Übersetzer Jaime Semprún, Verfasser von u.a. „Der soziale Krieg in Portugal“ und „Rive Gauche. Ein Pamphlet gegen die Meisterschwätzer„

Vermischtes

1.) Neu bei ANNO: historische deutschsprachige Zeitungen aus der Bukowina der K.u.K.-Zeit

* Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung (1904-1914, 1917-1918)
* Bukowiner Post (1893-1901)
* Bukowiner Rundschau (1883-1905)

2.) lesenswerte Texte zur „Burka-Frage“ auf Viewpoint Online:

* Sahar Saba (RAWA): Burka – The Afghan blues
* Pierre Rousset: ’Resist the ban but oppose the burka too’
* Bushra Khaliq (Women Workers Help Line): Deconstructing Burqa

„Burka we know is a tool to control women. But for Afghan woman, it is a sad reality that burka enables her to go out for education or work and offers a refuge from insults hurled by men on the streets. The blue shroud is paradoxically Afghan woman’s prison as well as an intangible liberator too. This is why out of 10 women, for example even in Kabul, one finds nine in burka. They don’t feel safe outside their homes without burkas. For activist women, particularly on the countryside and in small towns, burka has its own ‘importance’. It was and is a tool of struggle. During Taliban’s time and even now, burka offers protection as women would carry books, cameras and other documents under their blue burkas. For us in Afghanistan, wearing or not wearing a burka is not as simple a debate as in the West. Though I personally hope and wish there soon is a chance for Afghan women to be free from this head to toe bag yet I also understand how much has to be done in the fields of education, security, culture and development before we can get rid of burka.“

3.) auch lesenswert: fussball von links – ballsport und kritik

4.) Zur Lage in Kaschmir:

* Communist Internationalist: Kashmir: Amidst gun battles between Indian state and the separatists half a million workers assert their class identity (LibCom)
* Stop Killing and Insulting the Protesting People of Kashmir (CPI/ML-Liberation)

5.) klassische Verschwörungstheorien von einem pfingstlerischen Pastor in Berlin (taz):

„Gareth Lowe hatte ein Mission. Eine religiöse: „Man kann kaum überschätzen, was es bedeutet, Deutschland für Jesus Christus zu gewinnen.“ Denn erstens seien zu wenig Deutsche evangelikale Christen, zweitens sei die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ein reicher, mächtiger und strategisch günstiger Ort, um Europa zu beeinflussen. Und schließlich kontrollierten drei Deutsche unsere Welt: Einstein, Freud (!) und Marx. Mit solchen Thesen haben Lowe, seine Frau Taryn und 15 weitere junge Leute von Südafrika aus Mitstreiter gesucht. Ihr Plan: eine Kirche in Berlin gründen.“

… ob Herr Lowe auch ein Fan des Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare ist?

6.) Der Urwald von Bialowieza/Polen ist in Gefahr

7.) Im aktuellen Weekly Worker: Jack Conrad – Royalist nationalism, opposition prophets, and the impact of exile and return

8.) Musik … Prost!

Otto Neurath/Gerd Arntz: Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Bildstatistisches Elementarwerk (1930)

Dieser sehenswerte und lesenswerte, 1930 von Otto Neurath (während der ersten Münchner Räterepublik 1919 Präsident des Zentralwirtschaftsamtes) und Gerd Arntz produzierte Bildatlas kann hier (pdf-Datei, 14,5 mb) heruntergeladen werden, … hat tip to Espace contre ciment:

Pat Robertson, Naomi Campbell und Charles Taylor

Die Vernehmungen von Naomi Campbell und Mia Farrow vor dem internationalen Kriegsverbrechertribunal zur Annahme von Blutdiamanten machen derzeit weltweit Schlagzeilen in den Medien – ein Sachverhalt, welcher dem US-amerikanischen rassistische und homophobe Hass- und Fernsehprediger, Religious Right & Republican-Politiker und antisemitischen Verschwörungstheoretiker Pat Robertson nur recht sein kann, wird doch seine enge Beziehung zum liberianischen Expräsidenten Taylor in den Medien bisher kaum kritisch beleuchtet:

Ein Beitrag auf Foreign Policy vom Februar 2010 merkt an:

„Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, testifying in his own war crimes trial today, said that the American conservative evangelist Pat Robertson was awarded a Liberian gold-mining concession in 1999 and subsequently offered to lobby the Bush administration to support his government.

The revelations came in the midst of a U.N.-backed trial of Taylor at The Hague on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone’s 1990s civil war. Taylor is accused of directing a Sierra Leone rebel group, the United Revolutionary Front (RUF), in a campaign aimed at securing access to the country’s diamond mines. The rebel movement stands accused of committing mass atrocities in the late 1990s in the West African country, including the mutilation of thousands of civilians.

The international prosecutors contend that Taylor offered concessions to Western individuals in exchange for lobbying work aimed at enhancing his image in the United States. The prosecution maintains that Taylor also spent $2.6 million on lobbying firms and public relations outfits in the hopes of influencing the policies of former President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Under cross-examination, Taylor said that Robertson had volunteered to make Liberia’s case before U.S. administration officials, and had spoken directly to President Bush about Taylor. He also confirmed that Robertson’s company, Freedom Gold Limited, signed an agreement to exploit gold in southeastern Liberia, but that it never generated any profit.“

einige weitere Hinweise zu den überaus engen politischen und geschäftlichen Beziehungen zwischen dem baptistischen Laienprediger Taylor und Robertson auf atheism.about.com:

„None of this, however, sits well with Pat Robertson. In broadcasts of his 700 Club program, Robertson has criticized President Bush’s call for Taylor to step down, has praised Taylor as a „fellow Baptist,“ and has accused the State Department of being the real cause of Liberia’s problems. To quote Robertson’s own words:

So we’re undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country. And how dare the president of the United States say to the duly elected president of another country, ‘You’ve got to step down.’

So why is Pat Robertson such a big fan of Liberia’s President Charles Taylor? What you won’t hear much about on Robertson’s shows is the fact that he has a huge financial interest in Liberia. Under Taylor’s regime in 1999, Robertson negotiated an $8 million investment in a gold mining venture. A new government may or may not honor Robertson’s claims – if they don’t, he’ll be out an awful lot of cash.

Robertson’s motives probably aren’t entirely financial: he also seems to have a strong religious motivation, or at least he claims to. Charles Taylor professes to be a Christian and claims to want to lead Liberia as a Christian Nation. This, naturally enough, sits very well with Pat Robertson. He may not be able to force Christianity onto American citizens, but helping an African leader do it to his own citizens may be easier.

In addition, Robertson has repeatedly framed the civil unrest in Liberia as that between Christians like Taylor on the one side and Muslim rebels on the other. Thus, any efforts to get Taylor to step down are portrayed as a means of „handing over“ Liberia to Islam. This is what Robertson accuses the State Department of doing and why he believes that they are to blame for much of the violence. This is also the sort of thing that leads to the (justified) accusations made by Muslim leaders that many conservative and evangelical Christians are trying to influence American government policy against Islam. „

Taylors „National Patriotic Front of Liberia“ hatte u.a. auch im Zeitraum von 1991 bis 1994 tausende (mehrheitlich muslimische) Mandingo und (überwiegend animistische oder christliche) Krahn massakriert

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