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ältere Archiv-Updates und Hinweise zu weiteren linken Archivalien unter „Sozialistika“ und im Download-Archiv, ansonsten hier noch der Hinweis auf ein Update (u.a. mit Hinweisen zur jiddischsprachigen Sammlung in Yale) bei Poumista und auf einen Artikel von Gerd Bedszent zur Geschichte der Vereinigten Linken (VL) in der DDR 1989/90 im aktuellen ak und auf den Artikel von Harjot Oberoi Ghadar Movement and Its Anarchist Genealogy (pdf-Datei) im aktuellen Economic and Political Weekly:

Big Flame 1970-1984:

* EPISODES IN BIG FLAME HISTORY: No 26. Iran and Afghanistan
** Iran 1979: Can Popular Power win? (1979, pdf-Datei)
** Khomeiny’s two front war (1979, pdf-Datei)
** Iran: the Reality is much more Complex (1980, pdf-Datei)
** Gulf War (1980, pdf-Datei)
** Clerical Fascism (1980, pdf-Datei)
** Iran: what to make of the Mojahedin? (1983, pdf-Datei)
** Soviet Troops out of Afghanistan! (1980, pdf-Datei)
* OPINIONS ABOUT BIG FLAME no 3 part 2: JOHN WALLER

La Bataille Socialiste:

* La Batalla numérisée
* Ignacio Iglesias: Les erreurs du P.O.U.M. (1974, Auszug aus Trotsky et la Révolution espagnole)
* Karl Marx: Lettre sur Proudhon (1865)
* Charles Rappoport/Adéodat Compère-Morel: La vie et l’oeuvre de Cabet (1912)
* Jules Guesde: Au congrès national des mineurs de France
* Le machinisme (1913)
* Ante Ciliga: Le « Groupe ouvrier » russe (1978)

Marxists Internet Archive (MIA) … Chris Harman Internet Archive?:

* Justice: The Fight Against Socialism. Bond or Free Love? (1907)
* Social Democratic Party (SDP): Social Democratic Manifesto on the Question of Universal Adult Suffrage (1907)
* Ernest Mandel: De economische theorie van het marxisme. Deel 1 (1960)
* Ernest Mandel: De economische theorie van het marxisme. Deel 2 (1960)
* Red Star: Guns, Sisters, Guns (1971)
* Ted Grant: Coup in Iraq (1968)
* Marcel Liebman: Het politieke testament van Togliatti (1964)
* Friedrich Adler: Het overgangstijdperk (1924)
* Karl Kautsky: Geschiedenis van de Eerste Internationale 1864-1876 (1924)
* Emile Vandervelde: Geschiedenis van de Tweede Internationale 1889-1914 (1924)
* Marcel Deneckere: Parti Wallon (1965)
* Sy Landy: Forward to the book The Life and Death of Stalinism (1960)
* Chris Harman: Venezuela’s rich play with fire (2003)
* Chris Harman: How can we stop the war? (2003)
* Chris Harman/Chris Nineham: Against a world of war and poverty (Chris Nineham2003)
* Chris Harman: Venezuela – a new defeat for the rich (2003)
* Chris Harman: Birth of a new movement (2003)
* Chris Harman: Protest shakes the warmongers (2003)
* Chris Harman: Mad system that drives us into economic chaos (2003)
* Chris Harman: They are killing to keep the oil flowing (2003)
* Chris Harman: Making the connections (2003)
* Chris Harman: This is a very political war (2003)
* Chris Harman: Not what Bush’s gang expected (2003)
* Chris Harman: Free to vote – but only if US approves (2003)
* Chris Harman: Argentina – what does the election result mean? (2003)
* Chris Harman: Diana Mosley – A dedicated follower of fascism (2002)
* Chris Harman: Message to those who say ‘reclaim Labour’ (2003)
* Chris Harman: A brief history of futility (2003)
* Chris Harman: Uprising in Bolivia – stones and clubs defeated the tanks (2003)
* Chris Harman: L’Ordine Nuovo – paper of the Italian revolution (2003)
* Chris Harman: Why the US wants to run the world (2003)
* Chris Harman: Panic over Iraq hits the White House (2003)
* Chris Harman: Georgia – Can the uprising open the way to real change? (2003)
* Chris Harman/John Rose: The day we stopped the Nazis … and the police ran amok (with John Rose)
* Chris Harman: Prescott’s broken voice (1999)
* Chris Harman: Boom hangover hits capitalists (2001)
* Chris Harman: A message to our readers (2001)
* Chris Harman: Is it propaganda? Or do we want socialists elected? (2001)
* Chris Harman: System in crisis before US disaster (2001)
* Chris Harman: Who keeps the peace? (2001)
* Chris Harman: How wars can lead to revolution (2001)
* Chris Harman: Trollope – Similar story now and then (2001)
* Chris Harman: How did we get into this mess? (2001)
* Chris Harman: The US breaks its own rules (2002)
* Chris Harman: Argentina after the revolt – what next? (2002)
* Chris Harman: Venezuela coup foiled by popular rising (2002)
* Chris Harman: A different kind of party altogether (2002)
* Chris Harman: Would socialism kill individuality? (2002)
* Chris Harman: Isn’t it true that we’re too selfish? (2002)
* Chris Harman/Judy Cox: Ten million strike against Tory who’s Blair’s ‘best friend’ (2002)
* Chris Harman: Can the police be on our side? (2002)
* Chris Harman: From the horse’s mouth (2002)
* Chris Harman: Fiddling as hopes burn (2002)
* Chris Harman: Right prepares for new coup attempt (2002)
* Chris Harman: Connecting the links in the struggle (2002)
* Chris Harman: Duncan Hallas 1925–2002 (2002)
* Chris Harman: Freedom, struggle and constraint (2002)
* Chris Harman: Challenge to Chavez (2002)
* Chris Harman: Workers organise to halt right wing coup (2002)
* Chris Harman: A new chapter in the resistance (2004)
* Chris Harman/Yuri Prasad: World Social Forum in Mumbai – many battles, one enemy (2004)
* Chris Harman: Revolt at Hutton’s Whitewash (2004)
* Chris Harman: There’s more to come, Blair (2004)
* Chris Harman: Explaining the tragedy in Haiti (2004)
* Chris Harman: Is Nader right to stand in the US? (2004)
* Chris Harman: US exploits growing crisis in Haiti (2004)
* Chris Harman: Could a battle like the miners happen again? (2004)
* Chris Harman: The roots of ETA (2004)
* Chris Harman: Behind India’s shock election result (2004)
* Chris Harman: Ronald Reagan – If only the bloody thug had died 20 years earlier (2004)
* Chris Harman: A decade the right will never forget or forgive (2004)
* Chris Harman: How crisis can lead to revolution from below (2004)
* Chris Harman: Successful revolution depends on organisation (2004)
* Chris Harman: Paul Foot 1937–2004 (2004)
* Chris Harman: A revolutionary network at the heart of every struggle (2004)
* Chris Harman: Are these uprisings genuine revolts? (2005)
* Chris Harman: The myth of Mao (book review) (2005)
* Chris Harman: A spectre of class (2005)
* Chris Harman: The personality is political (2006)
* Chris Harman: Milton Friedman’s legacy of free market madness (2006)
* Chris Harman: US troop ‘surge’ to Iraq is last, desperate gamble (2007)
* Chris Harman: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez and permanent revolution (2007)
* Chris Harman: Striking back – the return of industrial action (2007)
* Chris Harman: Pakistan on the edge of turmoil (2007)

Collectif Smolny:

* La Révolution prolétarienne: Albert Camus et la littérature prolétarienne (1960)

LibCom:

* Ruth Frow/Edmund Frow: The battle of Bexley Square: Salford unemployed workers’ demonstration – 1st October, 1931 (1994)
* Susana Pinar: Emergence of Modern Genetics in Spain and the Effects of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) on Its Development (2002)
* Joe White: Anarchist organisation … the next step (1990)
* Wildcat UK: How socialist is the Socialist Workers Party? (1985)
* Gilles Dauvé: Capitalism and communism (1972)
* Louis Adamic: „Dynamite… That’s the Stuff“ (1930)
* prole.info: Lavoro comunità politica guerra (2005)
* Paul Avrich: What is „Makhaevism“? (1965)
* An interview with workers at Fiat, 1970
* Troploin: What’s it all about? Questions and answers (2007)
* Troploin: Alice in monsterland (2001)
* Wang Shih-wei: Wild Lily (1942)
* Jeremy Brecher: The World War II and post-war strike wave (1997)
* Michael Richards: Morality and Biology in the Spanish Civil War: Psychiatrists, Revolution and Women Prisoners in Malaga (2001)
* Ting Ling: Thoughts on 8 March (Women’s Day) (1942)

The Cedar Lounge Revolution:

* Sinn Féin: The United Irishman, December 1969

Centro de Documentación de los Movimientos Armados (CeDeMA):

* Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA): Así se rompió el silencio (2001)
* Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN): Parte de guerra Nº 11 (1978)
* Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN): Comunicado de la DRU sobre la situación nacional (1980)
* Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez (FPMR): Carta de la Dirección Nacional a los militantes, simpatizantes y pueblo en general (1997)

Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF):

* Soliman Santos Jr.: Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan: some basic information (2006)

Workers’ Liberty:

* Sean Matgamna: Was the 1916 Rising a „Putsch“? Lenin, Radek, Trotsky (1978)

The Irish Election Literature Blog:

* Nicky Kelly -Independent -Wicklow 1997
* Vincent Ballyfermot Jackson -Dublin South Central 2002
* Anne Speed -Sinn Fein 1989 European Elections- Dublin
* Joe Higgins- Militant Labour- (Leaflet 2) 1996 Dublin West By-Election

The Anarchist Library:

* Rob los Ricos: Against The New World Order (2001)
* Errico Malatesta: Anarchy (1891)
* John Connor: (The) Emperor Wears No Clothes: More on Mayday, May Day! (2001)
* Craig Rosebraugh: Hit ‘Em Where it Hurts (2003)
* No Globalisation… and a good few ‘no’s when it comes to anti-globalisation too! (2001)
* Georges Bataille: (The) Solar Anus (1931)
* Cindy Milstein: Something Did Start in Quebec City: North America’s Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Movement (2003)

The Militant:

* 25, 50 and 75 years ago (1934/1959/1984)
* Leo Trotzki: The Bolshevik Revolution and women’s emancipation (1925)

Sanhati:

* Porichoy Patrika, 8-12 1963

Espace contre ciment:

* Rosa Luxemburg: Martinique (1902)
* Rosa Luxemburg: Stillstand und Fortschritt im Marxismus (1903)
* David Harvey: Le « Nouvel Impérialisme » : accumulation par expropriation (2004)
* Joseph Paul-Boncour: Le « député idéal » – Portrait (1906)
* Kurt Tucholsky: Horizontaler und vertikaler Journalismus (1925)
* Kurt Tucholsky: Tucholskys letzte Erkenntnisse – Brief an Arnold Zweig (1935)
* Gustav Landauer: Sind das Ketzergedanken? (1913)

Archive.org:

* Workers Communist League (U.S.): Is the Stalin general line correct? (1933, die einzige jemals veröffentlichte Broschüre der von der CPO um Jay Lovestone abgespaltenen Gruppe um Ben Gitlow und Lazar Becker)
* François Villegardelle: Histoire des idées sociales avant la révolution française; ou, Les socialistes modernes, dévancés et dépassés par les anciens penseurs et philosophes, avec textes à l’appui (1846)
* Ken Leech: Christians And Fascism (1977)
* John Noyes: History of American socialisms (1870)

Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung:

* Esser, Marlis : „Eine globale Organisation im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes“ : Zeitungen, Zeitschriften, Protokolle, Jahrbücher und Geschäftsberichte der Internationalen Transportarbeiter-Föderation in der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (2009, pdf-Datei)

Rustbelt Radical:

* Friedrich Engels: Engels on Darwin and “bellum omnium contra omnes” (1875)

The Commune:

* Tony Lane: Capitalism, labourism and the ‘trade union party’ (1974)

Luxemburger Anarchist:

* Fourier und Fourier, oder: Die Entwicklung der globalen Erwärmung von der Utopie zur Wissenschaft

Vier GenossInnen in Pakistan tödlich verunglückt

Quelle: Labour Party Pakistan (LPP)

Four LEF leaders died in road accident

Farooq Tariq

Najma Khanum, Rehana Kausar and Abdul Salam Salam along with their driver Wahid Baluch lost their lives in a tragic traffic incident at Omara in Baluchistan on 13 December evening. Their car trying to save a donkey turned upside down that came suddenly on the main road. Comrade Abdul Salam was seriously injured, while going to hospital, the ambulance got stuck at a place where there was a overflow of water in a stream that has blocked the road. He spent whole night at the place as there was no way out; he died in the morning at a hospital on 14 December. While, Mohammed Rafiq Baluch president National Trade Union Federation, received minor injuries during the accident is out of danger. The driver Mohammed Wahid Baluch was younger brother of Mohammed Rafiq Baluch.

All five were returning from a consultation meeting at Gwadar on the issue of organizing home based women workers. The meeting was organized by Labour Education Foundation and 31 trade unions, social activists and government labour official participated in the day long consultation on government home based workers national policy document. Earlier, the five attend two other meetings of home based workers in Pasni and Gawadar to discuss the expansion of Home Based Women Workers Association, an organization that was set up few months back in Pakistan.

Najma Khanum joined Labour Education Foundation in 2003 and was one of the senior staff members at Karachi LEF office. She was elected counselor from Gadap Town Karachi and a known social activist. She had participated actively in lawyer’s movement and was part of the rally on 12 May 2007 that came under fire from MQM goons. She narrowly escaped at the time. Najma Khanum joined Labour Party Pakistan in 2007 and took part actively in all the demonstrations and rallies of LPP in Karachi. She travelled extensively in Sind to organize the work of LEF and also the political work of LPP. Najma Khanum was part of the delegation from Pakistan which attended the People SAARC Sri Lanka in 2008.

Rehana Kausar (26), a young women activist joined LEF in 2007 and later became member of LPP as well. A fine orator, she was very active in the formation of home based women workers in the province.

Comrade Abdul Salam Salam was former secretary of Labor Party Pakistan Karachi chapter. He recently voluntarily paved the way for a younger comrade Mukhtiar Raho to be elected as secretary LPP in Karachi. Comrade Salam was member of editorial board of Weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd and was a leading trade unionist at a textile factory. He recently won his reinstatement at the factory by an order of a labour court after few years of fighting for his reinstatement. He joined LEF as a union organizer and was instrumental in helping many trade unions in training and registrations. He was running a literary website in Pashto language.

Comrade Wahid Baluch was younger brother of Rafique Baluch, the main leader of one of the radical trade union federation of Pakistan, the National Trade Union Federation. He was always there to help his elder brother by driving him around the province.

All the four dead had a dream of building a strong union for the home based women workers. They had already held a very successful convention with over 500 women at Hyderabad to start the Home Based Women Workers Association last month. They were travelling in several cities and towns to organize this most unorganized sector.

LEF and LPP lost their four of their best comrades in Sindh. The three had made LEF and LPP work in Karachi and Sindh as a main priority of their lives. The working class in Pakistan is poorer now without these four untiring crusaders of their class. They all believed in a Socialist society free of exploitation and for free education and health facilities.

They all lost their lives to safe the live of one animal, a donkey. The very poor infrastructure of the roads in Baluchistan means accidents like this very often. Comrade Salam lost his lives waiting on the road side for the whole night where his ambulance was stuck because of over flow of a stream. He was also a victim of very poor infrastructure.

I have met all of them many times. Comrade Salam was the intellectual backbone of LPP and LEF in Sindh, while Najma Khanum and Rehana Kausar were tireless activists for women and workers rights. Najma Khanum was particularly known in her community for social work and political education. She was always ready to talk politics and activities to promote politics and workers rights.

Red solute to comrades who are no more with us now.

Farooq Tariq: What to do about religious fundamentalism?

Quelle: Labour Party Pakistan (LPP)

Pakistan : What to do about religious fundamentalism ?

“Let’s deal with the ISI and the Pakistan military and let’s go recruit these mujahideen. Here is a very strong argument which is… it wasn’t a bad investment to end the Soviet Union but let’s be careful with what we sow… because we will harvest.” – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, April 23, 2009.

October 28, 2009 — Once again Pakistan has become the focus of world attention. Every day there is news of the latest suicide attack or military operation, with killings, injuries and the displacing of communities. Recently schools were ordered closed for more than a week. Even children talk about death and suicide attacks.

With more than 125 police checkpoints in Islamabad, it has become a fortress city. Lahore and other large cities are suffering the same fate : there are police road blockades everywhere. After each terrorist attack authorities issue another security high alert and set up additional barriers. How ironic that, until recently, officials and the media described these “terrorists” as Mujahideen fighting for an Islamic world.

Under immense pressure by the US administration of President Barack Obama, the Pakistan government has launched a series of military operations in various parts of the country. This has led to an unprecedented wave of killings, with hundreds of thousands more being forced to leave their homes for temporary shelter.

Pushed out of Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in the US, religious fanatics from different countries have found refuge in Pakistan. They have two aims : to make Pakistan more Islamic and to teach the government a lesson for its close relationship with US imperialism. However the price is being paid by ordinary people.

Religious fanatics are the new fascists. They believe in the physical elimination of their political opponents. Although they may appear to be anti-imperialist, they are not a progressive force. Instead they are an extreme right-wing force that wants to turn back the clock of history.

The religion of the state

Pakistan is also known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Religion is part and parcel of the state. The constitutions and the judiciary are all beleaguered with Islamic demagogy. Most of the education syllabus is also coloured with Islamic ideology ; even scientific explanations somehow manage to drag in religion. Religion has become a way of life. Every donation to charity ends up in the coffers of the religious institutions.

Although the rationale for the Pakistan state was to be a place for Muslims, it was to be a secular Muslim state. When the state was formed in 1947 the population was not fundamentalist. But as time went on Pakistan adopted an Islamic ideology that today gives these fanatics a more favourable ground for the promotion of their dream of an Islamic country.

At the end of the 1970s, with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Washington decided it needed to develop an indigenous counterforce. In order to fight “communism” in Afghanistan, Washington worked closely with Pakistan’s military dictator, General Zia ul Haq, and the Pakistani intelligence service, the Inter-Services intelligence (ISI).

There are dozens of books explaining the rise of Taliban and Mujahideen under the direct guidance of the US, but the ISI had no reason to cut off funding after the Soviet retreat in 1987. If the Americans were no longer interested in these guerillas, the ISI found these jihadis useful in its conflict with India over Kashmir.

Also, there are many religious political parties in Pakistan. Jamaati islami and Jamiat Ulmai Islam, along with other Sunni and Wahabi political parties, are all for an Islamic revolution. They also give political support to the religious fanatics of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Hillary Clinton admits US role

Even Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, acknowledged Washington’s responsibility in promoting the religious fanatics. She admitted to a US Congressional sub-committee on April 23, 2009, that the US had effectively created the current disastrous situation in Afghanistan :

“It was President Reagan in partnership with Congress led by Democrats who said, you know what, it sounds like a pretty good idea… let’s deal with the ISI [Pakistani intelligence agency] and the Pakistan military and let’s go recruit these mujahideen. Here is a very strong argument which is … it wasn’t a bad investment to end the Soviet Union but let’s be careful with what we sow… because we will harvest.”

However, it is not only the US that are harvesting what they have sown. Numerous Pakistan governments were ready to do whatever Washington wanted them to do out of sheer financial greed. Since 1978 different governments have all been a close US allies. This includes 20 years of military dictatorship under Zia (1977-1988) and General Musharaf (1999-2008). These various governments enabled religious fanatics to establish religious educational institutions that have changed the country’s religious culture.

The Madrassas’ tactics

One of the main strategies used by the fanatics to bring jihad to the youth of Pakistan was through opening religious schools (madrassas). They mushroomed under the Zia ul Haque dictatorship. At present, there are religious schools throughout Pakistan. Of the more than 15,000 registered madrassas, about half are in the Punjab. Experts estimate the numbers are higher : when the state tried to count them in 2005, a fifth of the province refused to register.

The madrassas found a place among the working people as they were marketed as offering a free education with religious teachings. In fact, the failure of the government to provide adequate resources for free public education paved the way for the progress of the madrassas. Pakistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world. The government spends less than 3 per cent of GDP on education. Only about half of Pakistanis can read and write, far below the proportion in countries with a similar per-capita income, such as Vietnam. According to UNESCO, one out of three school-age Pakistani children does not attend school ; of those who do attend, a third drop out by fifth grade. The enrollment of girls is among the lowest in the world, lagging behind Ethiopia and Yemen.

Though madrassas make up only about 7 per cent of primary schools in Pakistan, their influence is amplified by the inadequacy of public education and the innate religiosity of the countryside, where two-thirds of the population live. The madrassas are the real breeding grounds for religious fundamentalism.

More than 15,000 registered religious seminaries in the country cater to more than 1.5 million students and more than 55,000 teachers. Before 2002, according to the Religious Affairs Ministry, the number of registered madrassas in Pakistan were not more than 6000. After 9/11, the religious fanatics who left Afghanistan came to Pakistan, and with the help of the two provincial governments run by the religious alliance MMA — North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan — they were able to quickly establish more madrassas. By 2007 there were around 13,000 registered seminaries across the country. At this time General Musharaf was a partner in the so-called US-led “alliance against terrorism”. He was manipulating both the fanatics and the imperialists.

By March 2009, the number of registered madrassas in Pakistan reached 15,725.

The growth of religious fanatics

The partnership of religious fanatics with US and the Pakistan intelligence agencies went unchecked until the 9/11 attacks. Then the whole scenario shifted. The Mujahideen was labelled terrorist and Washington wanted a military solution to the growth of religious fundamentalism.

Labour Party Pakistan-Mitglied von Taliban bei Selbstmordanschlag ermordet

Quelle: Links – international journal of socialist renewal … mehr zu der von der LPP initiierten Kampagne gegen Islamismus und Imperialismus hier

Pakistan: Workers’ leader killed in suicide attack

By Farooq Tariq

October 21, 2009 — A prominent labour leader Master Khudad Khan was killed in suicide attack in Peshawar on October 15. He was on his way to a meeting and was passing by an intelligence centre when a religious fanatic blew himself up killing him and several others on the spot.

The unfortunate side of this episode is that the body of Master Khudad has not handed over to his relatives. A picture of the dead bodies printed in a local paper confirmed to the relatives on October 18 that Master Khudad was among the victims.He had been missing from home since October 15 and they had no clue of his whereabouts.

Master Khudad was the deputy general secretary of Pakistan Workers Confederation and a founding member of Bonded Labour Liberation Front. The Pakistan Workers Confederation is the main body of trade unions in Pakistan.

Master Khudad was elected provincial information secretary of Labour Party Pakistan at its founding congress held on November 21, 2004, in the North West Frontier Province. He remained a committed member of LPP until his death.

I had not had many meetings with him but when he accepted our invitation to join the LPP and took active part in mobilising the membership for the two-day founding congress of the LPP in 2004, I had a chance to have discussions with him in detail. He agreed to be part of the LPP leadership.

Master Khudad’s main contribution to the working-class movement in Pakistan has been his role in establishing Bonded Labour Liberation Front. He helped many to flee from the chains of slavery.

Farooq Ahmad, a member national executive committee LPP, in collaboration of others is launching a campaign to recover his body.

This is the second main leader of LPP who has lost his life in a suicide attack. Earlier Abdullah Qureshi, a senior leader of LPP, was killed in December 2007 in Matta.

Freiheit für Tariq Mehmood!

Quelle: Labour Party Pakistan (LPP):

Why Tariq Mehmood was arrested in Gojra?

By: Farooq Tariq

On 9th August 2009, Tariq Mehmood, a human rights activists and general secretary Labour Party Pakistan Toba Tek Singh district issued a press release to the journalists in Toba Tek Singh. He alleged that 8 Christians women were raped in the attack on village Korian in Gojra Tehsil on 28July attack by Muslim fanatics. He also alleged that 40 women are still missing and no clue is yet found about their presence. He condemned this atrocious and horrific act and demanded the government to probe the case. Over 60 houses were burnt by Muslim fanatics in the village on the accusation of blasphemy. This act led to another attack on Gojra Christian community and 9 were burnt alive.

On 10th August, an First Investigation Report (FIR) was registered by Gojra police and Tariq was invited by the police officer in Toba Tek Singh district for “talks” and as he arrived, he was arrested. Several serious charges have been labeled against him including 7 ATA (Anti Terrorist Act) and 13 MPO and so on. He was produced in the court of an Anti Terrorist judge in Faisalabad and police asked a physical remand. The judge denied the physical remand and sent him to Toba Tek Singh jail on judicial remand.

The fact that a press release issued to journalist reached the police immediately has to be investigated yet.

Who is Tariq Mehmood?

A young activist (24) from village Basti Danishmandan in district Toba Tek Singh is been active with Labour Party Pakistan for five years already. He is also an official representative of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in the district. He has been active in social and labour movement and has brought thousands of youth, brick kiln workers, and public employees on the streets of Toba Tek Singh on issue related to violation of human rights. Tariq has been helping all the cases where women have been sexually assaulted, raped, tortured or been subject to violence after choice marriages. He has publically condemned the Muslim fanatics when they attacked a village of Ahmadies. In fact, he and his comrades have been on the back of every battle involving the working class. He helped rebuilt the movement of Bhatta (brick kiln) workers and thousands have been on the streets demanding an end of bonded labour and Pershgi (advance) system. He has helped the textile, shoe makers, and public employees in their struggle for better life. A brave young man was followed by intelligence agencies and fanatics all the time. Yet he refused to stop his activities in favour of minorities and working class. Many Fanatics termed him as Christain and not as a Muslim because of his consistent voice in their favour.

The Gojra Incident

Tariq Mehmood and his comrades were first to arrive at the spot in Korian village after the incident and had the first hand information. He immediately issued press released and condemned the action of Muslim fanatics. He helped many journalist from out side the districts to cover the story. He also played an important role alongside with his party members and Christian youth leaders to blockade the train services by bringing the seven bodies in protest to demand a case registered against District Police Office and District Coordination officer on 2nd August. This was international news and the protesters blocked the railway line for over hours until the government was forced accept the demand. In a very unusual act, the police registered a case against their top police and administrative officers on failing to protect the lives of the Christians. The DCO and DPO were called back from their duties and a judge of Lahore High Court is now investigating the case.

The police and administration was looking an excuse to attack him and other LPP activists in the district. Instead of looking into the allegation of rape and disappearing of the Christian women, police arrested him on very serious charges that can lead to death sentence. The journalists are also angry with him. Most of them are saying that when Christian community leaders are not bringing these allegations of rape and disappearances, why Tariq Mehmood is doing that? In normal practice, a press release of this nature was to be investigated by the journalists. They have all the right not to print it and say that it was false charges. But instead the press release has been handed over to police who have taken very drastic actions.

Labour Party Pakistan demands an immediate release of Tariq Mehmood and call on the government to check the facts if women were raped and over 40 have disappeared. LPP will not let this incident go unnoticed. We have launched an international campaign for the release of Tariq Mehmood.

Nachfolgend ein Entwurf eines Protestschreibens:

Pakistan: Aktive Solidarität gegen Fundamentalismus

Quelle: International Viewpoint, mehr zur Kampagne der LPP gegen Fundamentalismus und Imperialismus hier, weitere Presseartikel zu dem Pogrom in Gojra/Punjab am 1. August hier und hier:

Socialists save Christians’ lives

Churches and Christians’ homes being burnt

Farooq Tariq

Shabir Ahmad, a Labour Party leader at Gojra was able to save the lives of several Christians today with the help of LPP activists when fundamentalists tried to burn the homes of Christians.

Six were burnt alive in one of the worst sectarian clashes in the region. The brave LPP activists reached the area under fire and fought the fundamentalists who were trying to burn more homes.“

Neues aus den Archiven der radikalen Linken

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

The Cedar Lounge Revolution:

* Anarchist Workers Alliance: Anarchist Worker, Oktober/November 1979

Projekt Gutenberg:

* Carl von Ossietzky: Sämtliche Schriften – Band II (1922-1924)

Big Flame 1970-1984:

* EPISODES IN BIG FLAME HISTORY: No 13. Education
* The Crisis in Education (1977, pdf-Datei)
**The Crisis in Education: front-p12
** The Crisis in Education: p13-back
* Notes on Being a Red Teacher (1980, pdf-Datei)

Marxists Internet Archive (MIA):

* Artikel aus dem Socialist Appeal, Juni 1936
** From Our Viewpoint
** Albert Glotzer: The French Elections – To Socialism or Fascism?
** Hal Draper: The Case Against Sanctions and “Neutrality Legislation” [Part II]
** Rudolph C. Olson: Convention of Socialist Party of Illinois
** Proposal for a Socialist Party Election Platform for 1936
* Artikel aus der New International, Mai 1941
** The Editor’s Comments,
** Joseph Arnold: Counter-Revolution in Mexico
** M. Wilson: Anarchism in Spain
** Hal Draper: Hook Purges Marxism
** Joseph Carter: Stalinism and the War
** T.N. Vance: Features of U.S. Imperialism
** Albert Glotzer: German Society and Capitalism – II
** Dwight Macdonald: Fascism – A New Social Order
* Ernest Mandel: Actualidade da Teoria Leninista da Organização à Luz da Experiência Histórica (1975)
* Ernest Mandel: Uitgelezen moorden. Een sociale geschiedenis van het misdaadverhaal (1987)
* Rob Lubbersen: De Vierde Internationale tot 1950 (1983)
* Louis de Brouckère: Hoe arbeiderscontrole invoeren (1924)
* Louis de Brouckère: Het Socialisme – Praktijk en theorie (193?)
* Léon Delsinne: De Belgische Werkliedenpartij van haar oorsprong tot 1894 (1952)
* Pierre Broué: Trotskisterna i Sovjetunionen (1929-1938) (1980)
* H.M. Hyndman: Irish Needs and Irish Remedies (1880)
* H.M. Hyndman: The Radicals and Socialism (1885)
* H.M. Hyndman: The English Workers as they Are (1885)
* H.M. Hyndman: Social-Democracy and Peace (1915)
* H.M. Hyndman: The Armed Nation (1915)
* H.M. Hyndman: The Awakening of Asia (1916)
* Georges Etiévant: Declaration Before the Assize Court (1897)
* Leo Trotzki: Carta a James P. Cannon (1940)
* Leo Trotzki: Carta a William F. Warde (1940)

Trend:

Mehr zu den Septemberstreiks 1969

* Eberhard Schmidt: Die Chronologie der Streiks. Der erste Tag: 2. September 1969 (1971)
* Gerhard Armanski, Boris Penth, Jörg Pohlmann: Die spontanen Streiks 1969 (1975, Auszug aus Staatsdiener im Klassenkampf)
* IG Chemie: Die hauptsächlichen Streikarten
* Urs Jaeggi: Reform oder Revolution (1973, Auszug aus Kapital und Arbeit in der Bundesrepublik)

LibCom:

* Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921)
* Eric Hobsbawm: Socialism and the Avant-Garde, 1880-1914 (1980)
* Eric Hobsbawm: Birth of a Holiday: The First of May (1994)
* Letter of América Scarfó to Emile Armand (1928)
* International Bolshevik Tendancy: Criticism of internationalist anti-war statement (2003)
* Red and Black Notes: Red and Black Notes reply to the International Bolshevik Tendancy (2003)
* Internationalist Perspectives: The Gulf War of 2003 (2003)
* Internationalist Perspectives: Don’t talk about the danger of war – unless you are prepared to speak about capitalism! (2003)
* Red and Black Notes: What’s Going On – Iraq: Two Years after the ‘End’ of the War (2005)
* International Bureau for a Revolutionary Party (IBRP): Iraq: Oil, Blood and Class (2003)
* From Bloody Sunday to Trafalgar Square (1991)
* A brief history of the Red Menace (1990)
* The Red Menace: Demolish Fortress Britain (1989)

La Presse Anarchiste:

* L’en-dehors n°196/197, 15. Dezember 1930
* weitere Texte aus Iztok n°18/19, Le déclin dela dynastie Deng, Juni 1990

Collectif Smolny:
* Friedrich Engels: Englische Ansicht über die innern Krisen (1842)
* Friedrich Engels: Stellung der politischen Parteien (1842)
* Friedrich Engels: Die innern Krisen (1842)

Centro de Documentación de los Movimientos Armados (CeDeMA):

* Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP): Juramento de los combatientes y oficiales de las Fuerzas Armadas del EGP (1983)
* Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR): Culminar dos años de solidaridad con Chile a través del aislamiento total de la Junta (1975)
* Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN): El Ejército de Liberación Nacional y el Derecho Humanitario (1995)
* Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB): Acerca da luta antiimperialista (1973)

Workers’ Liberty:

* Sean Matgamnna: Chris Bambery’s „Ireland’s Permanent Revolution“ (1987)

Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF)

* Pierre Rousset: Lean Alejandro – Disparition d’un militant (1987)
* Pierre Rousset: L’armée philippine défie ouvertement les institutions démocratiques (1987)
* Pierre Rousset: La gauche militante face au projet de Mme Aquino (1987)
* Labour Party Pakistan (LPP): Origin of Labour Party Pakistan (2000)

Sanhati:

* Porichoy Patrika, 1/1960, 2-3/1960 und 12/1960

Farooq Tariq: Facing the Musharraf Dictatorship. An activist Narrative

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Weder Taliban noch Militär

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Hilfsaufruf im Kampf gegen die Taliban und die Operationen des pakistanischen Militärs

Tariq Ali und Farooq Tariq

01.06.2009

Dies ist eine offizielle Bitte der Labor Relief Campaign¹ um Unterstützung im Kampf gegen die Taliban und die Operationen des pakistanischen Militärs. Ziel des Aufrufs ist es, sofortige Hilfe den mehr als 1,5 Mio. Flüchtlingen aus der Malakand Region, der Nordwestlichen Grenzprovinz Pakistans, zukommen zu lassen.

Mazdoor Jeddojuhd

Die Vertreibung ist das Ergebnis der Kämpfe zwischen den Taliban und der pakistanischen Regierung. Wir planen Mazdoor Jeddojuhd häufiger in Paschtu² zu veröffentlichen. Momentan erscheint die Zeitung wöchentlich in Urdu und monatlich in Paschtu. Ziel ist, sowohl dem religiösen Fanatismus als auch der staatlichen Repression entgegenzuwirken. Wir wollen die ArbeiterInnen- bzw. die sozialen Bewegungen in der Region unterstützen, indem wir ihre Aktivitäten und Anliegen veröffentlichen und ihnen eine Plattform bieten, sich auszutauschen und neue Netzwerke zu bilden.

Die Situation

Die Taliban haben die Kontrolle über einige Regionen von Pakistan erlangt. Sie drohen andere Teile ebenfalls zu besetzen. Um die Situation zu befrieden, traf die pakistanische Regierung im April mit den Taliban ein Abkommen, das den Taliban ermöglichte, das so genannte ‘Nizam Adl‘ (Rechtssystem)³ in Malakand einzuführen. In den von ihr kontrollierten Regionen führten die Taliban mittelalterliche Gesetze ein, die vor allem auf die Einschränkung der Rechte von Frauen und Minderheiten abzielen. Das Abkommen gab darüber hinaus den Taliban die Möglichkeit, in andere Gegenden vorzudringen.

Dann änderte die Regierung radikal ihre Taktik, fiel in ein anderes Extrem und startete die Militäroperation. Das Ergebnis ist ein gewaltiger Flüchtlingsstrom in andere Teile des Landes. Laut Armee sollen die religiösen Fanatiker vernichtet werden und das brauche Zeit. Aber die Extremisten halten der Militäroffensive stand und ihr Einfluss in Pakistan wächst.

Fanatismus kann nicht mittels Militäraktionen ausgelöscht werden. Im Gegenteil: Dies führt eher zu einer Verbreitung ihrer Ideen bei. Die Taliban haben nach der Besetzung Afghanistans durch die NATO 2001 die Macht verloren. Nichtsdestotrotz sind sie nach ein paar Jahren zunächst in Pakistan später in Afghanistan wieder erstarkt. Die Situation ist recht komplex.

Die Militäroperation im Swat-Tal verschleiert die Tatsache, dass das pakistanische Militär die Taliban als ein Faustpfand betrachtet und nicht gewillt ist, dieses zu opfern, um den USA zu gefallen. Während die Armee die Taliban aus dem Swat-Tal vertreibt, lässt sie die Dschihad-Infrastruktur (Trainingscamps, Schulungszentren, Zeitungen, Wohltätigkeitsstrukturen; die verschiedenen Aktivitätsbereiche der Taliban) in anderen Teilen Pakistans unangetastet.

Das Ausmaß dieses Aufstands wird durch die 1,5 Mio. Menschen verschärft, die nun in unterfinanzierten Flüchtlingslagern oder ungenügenden Notunterkünften ausharren ohne die Möglichkeit den eigenen Lebensunterhalt zu bestreiten. Diese Vertreibung erzeugt kein Vertrauen in die Fähigkeiten des pakistanischen Staates die Probleme der Flüchtlinge anzugehen.

Ein anderes zentrales Problem sind die Drohnenangriffe der USA. Seit 2006 starben über 700 Menschen bei diesen Militäraktionen, darunter 164 während den 14 Angriffen, die seit Obamas Regierungsantritt stattfanden. Diese Drohnenangriffe schüren die gegen die USA gerichteten Ressentiments. Insgesamt ist die Besatzung von Afghanistan durch die NATO und die USA eine Gefahr für die Stabilität der Nordwestlichen Grenzprovinz Pakistans.

Unsere Perspektive und Strategie

Der Kampf gegen religiösen Extremismus kann nur Erfolg haben, wenn die grundlegenden Probleme der arbeitenden Klasse in sozialer, politischer und ökonomischer Hinsicht gelöst werden. Es gilt darüber hinaus ein frei zugängliches Bildungssystem aufzubauen mit einem säkularen Lehrplan. Ziel ist es, den Feudalismus zu beenden, eine Landreform durchzuführen und die Besatzung Afghanistans durch die USA zu beenden. Unsere Strategie ist, religiöse Fanatiker mit lokalen Verteidigungskomitees zu bekämpfen.

Die Alternativen

Sowohl die Taliban als auch das pakistanische Militär handeln zerstörerisch. Weder die Taliban noch die Militäraktion dürfen von uns unterstützt werden. Unsere Position ist radikaler und geht über die bloße humanitäre Unterstützung für die Binnenflüchtlinge hinaus, obwohl diese Arbeit absolut notwendig ist. Es geht um mehr als nur eine Verurteilung der Drohnenangriffe, die zivile Opfer verursachen und die Souveränität Pakistans verletzen. Wir sind unmissverständlich gegen den Krieg, da diese Militärkampagne mit Sicherheit die Menschenrechte auf Generationen hinaus beeinträchtigt.

Ein Aufruf aus Pakistan: Help fight against Taliban and military operations!

Quelle: International Viewpoint … der beste Weg im Kampf gegen reaktionäre und faschistische Kräfte ist die Stärkung emanzipatorischer, linker revolutionärer Bewegungen:

International Finance Appeal

Help fight against Taliban and military operations

Donations urgently needed by Pakistan’s Labor Relief Campaign
Tariq Ali, Farooq Tariq

This is a formal appeal by the Labor Relief Campaign to help in the fight against Taliban and military operations. The purpose is to provide immediate help to some of the more than 1.5 million internally displaced people from the Malakand Division of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan.

This displacement has resulted from the fight between the Taliban and the Pakistani government. We also aim to publish Mazdoor Jeddojuhd in the Pushto language more frequently. At present it is published weekly in Urdu and monthly in Pushto. We want to counter the ideas both of religious fanatics and state repression. We aim to aid the labour and social movements in the province by publishing their activities and views, bringing them together to form new networks.

The Situation

The Taliban have taken over parts of Pakistan. They have threatened to occupy other parts as well. To pacify them, the government went into an accord with the Taliban this April, imposing a so-called Nizam Adl (system of justice) in Malakanad. The Taliban then imposed medieval laws in the areas under their control, targeting women and minorities. This accord also provided the Taliban with the opportunity to move into other areas.

Then the government went to another the opposite extreme and launched a military operation. This then resulted in an unprecedented influx of refugees into different part of the country. The army says that the operation is meant to wipe out religious fanatics and it will take time. But the religious fanatics are holding on and in fact are spreading all over Pakistan.

A military solution cannot eliminate the fanatics. On the contrary, it will help them to spread their ideas. The Taliban lost power in Afghanistan after NATO forces occupied in 2001. However, with a few years they re-emerged in Pakistan and later re-emerged in Afghanistan. The situation is very complex.

The military operation in Swat covers up the reality that the Pakistan military considers the Taliban an asset and is not willing to sacrifice that asset to please the USA. While army is flushing the Taliban out of Swat, the Jihadi-infrastructure (training camps, seminaries, newspapers, charities; the fronts for the Taliban) remain intact in other parts of the country.

The scale of the insurgency is exacerbated by the 1.5 million people now living and festering in underfunded refugee camps or inadequate and temporary housing, devoid of gainful employment. This displacement does not engender confidence in the capacity of the Pakistani state to solve their problems.

Another major problem is the U.S. drone attacks. Over 700 people have been killed since 2006, with 164 killed in 14 attacks under Obama’s watch. These drone attacks are further fueling anti-U.S. sentiments. The US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan is detrimental to the overall stability of the NWFP.

Our Perspective & Strategy

The fight against religious extremism can only be successful when the basic problems of the working class in social, political and economic fields are solved. In addition to developing a system of free education with a secular syllabus for all, this means an end to feudalism, implementation of land reform and an end to the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. Our strategy is to fight the fanatics with local defense committees.