Protesting against the decision by the German government to accept the peace treaty of Versailles, a group of soldiers under Wolfgang Kapp took control of Berlin on March 13, 1920. The trade unions called a general strike, which, after some doubt, was supported by the Ebert government. The strike paralyzed life in Berlin and contributed to the failure of the […]
According to the website 'Anecdotes on Kim Il Sung' (http://north-korea.narod.ru/anecdotes.htm) the North Korean leader visited a department store on March 13, 1958. Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) bought a pair of socks of inferior quality so that he would not stand out among the people.
John Heartfield (1891–1968) gehört zu den innovativsten und bedeutendsten Künstlern, die sich mit ihrem Werk politisch engagiert und dem Faschismus entgegengestellt haben. Seine Plakate, Buchumschläge für den Malik-Verlag und Zeitschriftencover für die Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ) sind ein wesentlicher Teil der politischen Ikonographie der Weimarer Re […]
[Deadline: Jul 1, 2017] Das geplante Heft möchte sich der Grundvoraussetzung des Gegenstands der Zeitschrift widmen: der Frage, was der Expressionismus ist bzw. welche Relevanz und welcher Wert dem Begriff zukommen. Darüber hat man im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts immer wieder diskutiert. Dabei ist nicht nur an den Positionsaustausch linker Schriftsteller im Ex […]
A l’occasion de la sortie de son livre Insurrección. Las sangrientas jornadas del 3 al 7 de Mayo de 1937 (Ed. Descontrol, 2017), notre ami Agustín Guillamón (revue Balance) a été interviewé sur la radio Onda Expansiva de Burgos. L’émission (en espagnol) est téléchargeable ci-dessous: https://ia801500.us.archive.org/20/items/Mayo37/Mayo%2037.mp3 […]
Ce 26 juin, l’agence HRANA informe du décès par crise cardiaque du militant ouvrier Afshin Osanloo. Afshin Osanloo, frère de Mansour Osanloo, fondateur du syndicat des travailleurs de la compagnie de bus de Téhéran et Banlieue, était militant syndical dans ce même syndicat. Il avait été condamné à cinq ans de prison pour « assemblée et […]
Vous êtes des milliers à suivre ce blog. 450000 visites en 2015, une prévision de 600000 en 2016. Ce 15 septembre, votre site d’infos change d’adresse web et de formule. Découvrez le message de la Rédaction ci-dessous. Si vous voulez … Lire la suite →
Press Statement Professor Anand Teltumbde, an IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus, IIT Professor, Executive Director of BPCL, Ex-MD & CEO of Petronet India, Senior Professor and Chair, Big Data Analytics in GIM, author of 26 books, columnist in EPW, writer of innumerable articles, a noted scholar of caste-class and public policy issues, leading public intellectual and […]
Dear Comrade, It’s been a year since Bastar Solidarity Network (Kolkata Chapter) organized the People’s Literary Festival in March, 2018. Three of our participating writers, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Varavara Rao have since been arrested in cue with a staged plot by Maharashtra police, which can be likened to the Reichstag Fire Trial. This […] […]
000_ts-del6249273.si_.jpg The past two weeks have seen mass walkouts and wildcat strikes by thousands of garment workers. After five years the industry’s minimum wage structure has been adjusted but workers have rejected the proposed new wage levels. The protests began after the first announcement by the government Wage Board of the new wage levels in Septem […]
Screenshot (69).png A short history of the unofficial strike at Courtauld's Red Scar Mill in Preston, 1965, the first of what would become a long list of significant 'migrant strikes' (such as Mansfield Hosiery in 1972, Standard Telephones and Cables in 1973, Imperial Typewriters in 1974 and, of course, Grunwick in 1976). read more […]
by Ayanda Kota, Pambazuka The Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) was formed in August 2009 to respond to the crisis of unemployment and the commoditization of essential services in a society dominated by corruption and greed. As Steve Biko said, we blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that we should […]
18 July 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement The Victory in the Kennedy 12 Trial is a Victory for all the Poor in South Africa The Kennedy 12 have been acquitted of all the charges bought against them after the attack on our movement in September 2009. It is a great day for the 12, their […]
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Solidarity with the Struggle of the People of Turkey
Statement of the Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece (OKDE-Spartakos), Greek section of the Fourth International.
The Organization of Communists Internationalists of Greece / OKDE-Spartakos expresses its solidarity with the struggle of the working class, the youth and the people of Turkey against the Erdogan government.
A struggle that, although it began as a mobilization against the commercialization of Gezi Park, has quickly acquired the features of a political struggle against the antipopular and authoritarian Erdogan government, which, after consolidating its position against the Kemalists has launched a policy of Islamic neo-conservatism that violates elementary social rights and democratic freedoms provoking the indignation of the vast majority of the democratic people of Turkey.
The uprising in Turkey reveals the real situation in the country. Behind the economic growth rates, the prosperity of numbers and the capitalists, lays the reality of poverty and oppression of the working class and the poor social strata.
For us it is clear that the uprising is deeply social and that it is part of the chain of revolts that started in the French suburbs back in 2005 and continued with December 2008 in Greece, the Arab Spring, the workers’ struggles against austerity in a series of European countries and the uprising of the British urban proletariat in 2011.
Erdogan’s propaganda against the uprising, has found many allies in the Greek mass media as well as in the Greek nationalist cycles and the Nazi gang of Golden Dawn. This development is not accidental. Last week, the Turkish militant Bulut Yayla was kidnapped in the streets of Athens and was handed in the Turkish police. This fact also, reveals the relations between the two governments and their apparatuses.
As the working people in both countries are severely hit by the offensive of the capital, solidarity between the two people is more necessary than ever. We stand by the side of the Turkish people in revolt and by the side of our comrades of the revolutionary left who wage the battle of barricades and ideas. We denounce the murderous police attacks against the protesters in the cities around the country.
The Turkish “spring” shows that our days bear the possibility for a social and political overthrow, away from the barbarism of capitalism, based on the power and self-organization of the oppressed.
– Victory to the revolt of the Turkish people
– Solidarity with the protesters in the streets
– Down with the Erdogan government. No trust to the Kemalists.
– Immediate release of the militant Bulut Yayla
– Long live the unity of the working class in Greece and Turkey
Proletarians of the world unite!
OKDE-Spartakos, Greek section of the Fourth International
„It is a fatal mistake for the Left to praise the national dignity and the determination of the Cypriot government and of the parliament. The only language they know, is the language of the capital and the money. The workers in northern and southern Cyprus, like their colleagues in other countries, have nothing to expect from the so-called anti-imperialist bourgeois parties and international allies. They do not need any common struggle neither with Anastassiades, big depositors and Putin, nor with the EU and with Samaras. Whatever workers are to win, they will only win it with their own independent action.“
The report highlights a sharp increase in arrests for “blasphemy” on social media this year. The previous three years saw just three such cases, but in 2012 more than a dozen people in ten countries have been prosecuted for “blasphemy” on Facebook or Twitter, including:
* In Indonesia, Alexander Aan was jailed for two-and-a-half years for Facebook posts on atheism. *In Tunisia, two young atheists, Jabeur Mejri and Ghazi Beji, were sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for Facebook postings that were judged blasphemous. *In Turkey, pianist and atheist Fazil Say faces jail for “blasphemous” tweets. *In Greece, Phillipos Loizos created a Facebook page that poked fun at Greeks‘ belief in miracles and is now charged with insulting religion. *In Egypt, 17-year-old Gamal Abdou Massoud was sentenced to three years in jail, and Bishoy Kamel was imprisoned for six years, both for posting “blasphemous” cartoons on Facebook. *The founder of Egypt’s Facebook Atheists, Alber Saber, faces jail time (he will be sentenced on 12 December).
gefunden auf der Webseite von Workers‘ Liberty: Cyprus bows to the Troika. What will the Greek left learn? von Theodora Polenta, offenbar scheint die derzeit die Regierung stellende „kommunistische“ AKEL nicht gerade in der Lage zu sein, sich den Forderungen der Troika zu wiedersetzen, ein Auszug:
„In a sense, the election of Christofias was historic. For the first time a president in Cyprus spoke in the name of communism and the left, in the name of the working class. But it was always clear that AKEL’s victory would not open the way for socialism in Cyprus.
Dimitris Christofias repeated several times that AKEL’s „ideology is Cyprus“. Before the election, he had repeated contacts with industrialists and bankers to reassure them that a government of AKEL would pose no threat to their class interests.
Since 2010, AKEL has been implementing memorandum austerity policies in Cyprus with the threat that otherwise Cyprus would be placed under a Memorandum
AKEL has reduced the wages of public sector workers by 10%; frozen the inflation-protection of wages for two years; increased VAT from 15 to 17%; reduced welfare spending by 10%; and planned to make redundant 5000 public sector workers.
Earlier in 2012, police entered the camp set up in Cyprus by the Occupy movement and violently broke it up, arresting 29 and injuring seven. The Occupy movement included both Greek and Turkish Cypriots and had as a slogan „One united Cyprus“. According to AKEL, reunification of Cyprus cannot take place via occupations but only from diplomatic action.
It all shows that if a left government does not take control of the economy through expropriation and workers‘ control, it will be at the mercy of the capitalists.“
ein Befreiungskomitee Kreta hat es vermutlich – der Friesischen Befreiungsfront (FBF) vergleichbar – nie gegeben, wer also (und aus welchem Grund) jenen Kalender (pdf-Datei, 230 kb) produzierte, bleibt ein Rätsel:
Le mercredi 14 novembre 2012, des grèves interprofessionnelles auront lieu en Grèce, au Portugal, en Espagne, en Italie, à Chypre, à Malte. Des grèves sectorielles seront organisées en Belgique, en France, … Des manifestations sont prévues dans tous ces pays, mais aussi en Slovénie, en République tchèque…
Nous n’en sommes pas à une grève européenne, ni même à une journée de manifestations dans toute l’Europe. Mais l’initiative est importante car elle marque une nouvelle étape dans la construction d’un rapport de forces au niveau européen, permettant de s’opposer aux politiques d’austérité que patronat et gouvernements infligent aux salarié-es, uniquement pour garantir les profits d’une petite minorité.
La « crise » n’est pas un phénomène extranaturel ; c’est simplement l’état actuel du système capitaliste. Pour maintenir leurs marges bénéficiaires, pour continuer à s’en mettre plein les poches, actionnaires, banquiers et autres profiteurs ont besoin d’attaquer très fortement tous les droits sociaux que nous avons acquis lors des luttes sociales passées. Nous ne devons pas nous laisser faire !
Les institutions européennes, les traités européens, ne nous protègent pas ; au contraire, ils ont été créés pour soutenir celles et ceux qui nous exploitent. Chômage, précarité, pauvreté, flexibilité, racisme, voilà l’avenir que nous proposent celles et ceux qui gouvernent.
Au contraire, nous voulons construire un autre avenir, basé sur la satisfaction des besoins de tous, possible avec à une redistribution différente des richesses que nous produisons dans le monde.
Les grèves et les manifestations qui auront lieu le 14 novembre sont une étape. Les syndicats alternatifs et de base travaillent à l’organisation d’une grève européenne depuis longtemps ; nous avons déjà organisé des mouvements unitaires internationaux dans plusieurs secteurs professionnels ; une action interprofessionnelle est nécessaire. Voilà pourquoi nous participons à l’action européenne du 14 novembre !
Confederacion General del Trabajo CGT – Etat espagnol
Confederacion Intersindical Etat espagnol
Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya IAC – Catalogne
„In this new series on health, nutrition, and how it all fits into the project of revolutionary transformation, we’ll begin by hearing from Dr. Calvo on what (de)colonization has to do with what we eat, why the Standard American Diet (SAD) is the “standard,” and about the organizing that is happening around the intersections of self-determination, food security, and radical social change.“
In Spanien haben die anarchosyndikalistischen Föderation CGT und CNT ebenfalls für den 14. November aufgerufen, in Italien die Basisgewerkschaft COBAS – näheres dazu auch in den jeweiligen Ländern Spanien und Italien
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