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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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