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.
[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 […]
Die Zeitschrift Bauhaus (Nr. 8) nimmt die „Bewegung“ als Konstante der Moderne in den Fokus. Das neue Heft erscheint am 4. Dezember 2016. In vier Kapiteln nimmt die neue Ausgabe der Zeitschrift die bewegte Gesellschaft in den Blick und führt den Leser über die 1920er Jahre zu den heutigen Stätten des Aufbruchs. Anzutreffen sind Paul […]
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 […]
Originally posted on Sans Compromis: En Iran, le port du voile est obligatoire pour les femmes. Sortir sans porter le hidjab c’est risquer une peine de 60 jours de prison et de 70 coups de fouet. Plus qu’un simple signe religieux, le voile est devenu le symbole de l’apartheid sexiste instauré par le régime islamique.…
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 […]
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The following text is the speech delivered by Dr Maya John at a program organized on 30th September 2016 by North East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS). The program was organized to commemorate the 120th birth anniversary of the freedom fighter, peasant leader, trade unionist and social activist, Hijam Irabot (1896 – 1951). The meeting […]
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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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Sara Lovera*En 2017, de los más de 2 mil 400 municipios en el país, 349 son encabezados por mujeres: 13.2%. En 2014 el porcentaje era de 7%. Hace algunos años los porcentajes de representación en el Congreso crecían de uno a 2 puntos cada 3 años y hubo un momento que se estancaron.De todos modos el ritmo es lento.¿Vale la pena llegar a los puestos de represe […]
Amidst so much to read and digest about events in Charlottesville and Trump’s response to them, and what seems (but is not) a new, highly violent emergence of neo-Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacist organizations, this blog by Adam Shatz on the website of the London Review of Books seems to me one of the more eloquent, insightful analyses. blog_front: fro […]
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The last several years have seen cracks in the hegemony of bourgeois electoral politics unlike anything we've seen since the beginning of the neoliberal era in the late 1970s. Tens of thousands of radicalizing young people have been mobilized the campaigns of Bernie Sanders in the US, Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, and others around the world, and have swelle […]
African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent. - IV511 - August 2017 / Women, Africa
auf Grund einer grossen sozialistischen Verschwörungeiner Korruptionsaffäre musste Liam Fox als Verteidigungsminister im Oktober 2011 seinen Posten verlassen … offenbar haben sich seitdem bei ihm die sozio-ökonomischen Wahrnehmungsstörungen verstärkt:
„The great socialist coup of the last decade was making wealth an embarrassment. It is not. It is the prize for aspiration and hard work, and its side effects are higher tax revenues, more jobs and more investment.“
Wahrscheinlich freut Fox sich auch auf das Remake von Die Rote Flut und hält das Ganze für einen Dokumentarfilm:
„Say what you will about John Milius’s 1980s rightwing cold war flag-waver Red Dawn, at least it had the courage of its convictions. The new remake – released three years after completion, thanks to the MGM bankruptcy restructuring – can’t even decide who its real enemies are. When it wrapped, the invading superpower was still Red China; in the interim, some wise suit remembered the billion-plus Chinese moviegoing market and decreed that the enemy should henceforth be North Korea, a black hole for Hollywood releases. Cue some retroactive digital adjustments – commie signage, uniforms, etc – a new opening voiceover, a couple of reshoots and, voila! – a new enemy. The late Kim Jong-il, a budding auteur himself, would have been charmed by the attention.
He might also have wondered, just as I did, what the hell was going on. After the sky fills with paratroopers one bright morning, we never really learn why this one Pacific north-west town is under siege. Is there a wider zone of occupation? Do the Koreans have allies? Or is Spokane, Washington, really all they can manage?“
Summary and links to news stories of workers‘ struggles around East Asia during November 2012 and related resources. The most important stories appear on my Twitter feed as soon as I find them: http://twitter.com/spartacusnews.
This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Among the significant events is Singapore’s first strike in 25 years, carried out by Chinese bus drivers – it’s probably too early to suggest this is a sign of China exporting workers militancy, but it’s nice to be hopeful now and then!
A peace activists’ statement to stop chauvinist-nationalist offensive in Japan
Japanese civic movements held a press conference and released a statement on territorial conflicts between Japan, China, and Korea on Friday, September 28 [1].
This statement was initiated by a small number of activists of peace movement, intelligentsia, media people, and lawyers. In times of political and social-economic crisis, very dangerous anti China, anti-Korea chauvinist sentiments are growing in Japan, favored by the problem of territorial conflicts over several islands.
All the institutional political parties of Japan, including Japanese Communist Party, support the government’s claims on issues of Japanese sovereignty over these islands. Numbers of people who signed the statement are about 1500, mainly independent peace activists
The aim of this statement is to stop chauvinist-nationalist offensive against China and Korea and to find a solution through joint effort of people’s movements throughout East Asia region. Political contents of the statement are modest, but it deserves to be supported and broaden to fight back nationalist-chauvinist offensive.
Quelle des nachfolgend dokumentierten Aufrufes: Webseite der GenossInnen der Gruppe Internationaler SozialistInnen (GIS):
Dringender Appell:8 ArbeiteraktivistInnen aus Südkorea sind von 5 bis 7 Jahren Knast bedroht
Am 3. Dezember 2010 hat die Staatsanwaltschaft in Seoul Haftstrafen zwischen 5 und 7 Jahren für Oh Sei-chull und weitere Mitglieder (Yang Hyo-seok, Yang Joon-seok, Choi Young-ik, Park Joon-seon, Jeong Won-hyung und Oh Min-gyu) der revolutionär-sozialistischen Gruppe Socialist Workers‘ Alliance of Korea (SWLK) gefordert. Diese AktivistInnen der koreanischen Arbeiterbewegung sind nach Südkoreas berüchtigtem Gesetz für Nationale Sicherheit angeklagt (das Gesetz wurde 1948 eingeführt und sieht theoretisch immer noch die Todesstrafe für „pro-nördliche“ Aktivitäten vor). Den acht Militanten aus der SWLK, die sich als InternationalistInnen für eine Arbeiterrevolution in beiden koreanischen Staaten einsetzen, wird außer der Tatsache, dass sie SozialistInnen sind, kein spezielles Verbrechen vorgeworfen. Tatsächlich aber richtet sich die Anklage gegen ihre Interventionen in mehreren Streiks und Bewegungen seit 2007. Dies ist seit vielen Jahren der erste Fall einer derartig krassen Repression nach dem Gesetz für Nationale Sicherheit. Der Fall muss im Zusammenhang mit der scharfen Rechtswende (wie der Zerschlagung des Streiks bei Ssangyong Motor Co. 2009) der südkoreanischen Regierung seit dem Amtsantritt von Präsident Lee Myong Bak 2008 gesehen werden. (Tatsächlich dienten während des Ssangyong-Streiks verteilte SWLK-Flugblätter im Prozess als wichtige Beweisstücke.)
Die Staatsanwälte haben seit 2008 schon mehrmals versucht, Mitglieder der SWLK vor Gericht zu stellen. Bis zum letzten Dezember lehnten die Gerichte die Eröffnung des Hauptverfahrens immer wieder ab. Es ist durchaus möglich, dass eine Flut von Protest-Mails an Richter Hyung Doo Kim vom zentralen Bezirksgericht Seoul (Seoul Central District Court) dazu beiträgt, dass bei der Urteilsverkündung am 27. Januar niedrigere oder gar keine Strafen verhängt werden.
Schreibt Richter Kim in euren eigenen Worten, was ihr von solchen Repressionen gegen „Gedankenverbrechen“ handelt, und schickt dies an
swlk@jinbo.net
Die Mails müssen bis Montag, 17.01.2011 6:00 Uhr (Seouler Zeit) ankommen, damit der Anwalt der SWLK sie vor der Urteilsverkündigung an Richter Kim weiterleiten kann.
Bitte verbreitet diesen Appell so breit wie möglich. Ihr könnt gerne auch in anderen Sprachen als Englisch schreiben.
* Tagblatt (1919-1938, sozialdemokratische Tageszeitung aus Linz, welche nach dem Februar 1934 vom austrofaschistischen Ständestaat weitergeführt wurde)
ältere Archiv-Updates und Hinweise zu weiteren linken Archivalien unter „Sozialistika“ und im Download-Archiv auf Kritische Geschichte zwei Beiträge zum Geschichtsverständnis von Die Linke (1, 2), in der aktuellen Avanti Artikel zum 100. Geburtstag von Heinz Epe/Walter Held und zum 250. Geburtstag von Gracchus Babeuf:
Folgende Einschätzung von der Webseite Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle scheint (unabhängig von der Frage, wer zuerst geschossen hat) Hand und Fuss zu haben, wenn wer Statements aus der Linken in Südkorea hat, bitte melden und als Kommentar verlinken!
Based on our present knowledge, the latest armed clash between North and South Korea is based on this sequence of events: Large numbers of South Korean forces were conducting military exercises near the border with North Korea; North Korea warned South Korea to call off its military maneuvers; and then an exchange of artillery fire took place. Just the same, the US and Western imperialist press immediately charged that this was an „unprovoked attack“ by North Korea. Obama immediately ordered the George Washington aircraft carrier to sail to South Korea to conduct „joint exercises“ in a show of solidarity with the South Korean government. As the article posted below points out, the dispatch of this aircraft carrier to the North China Sea is also meant to send a message to the Chinese imperialists to place more pressure on North Korea to back off militarily. The US imperialists are well aware that China is the only country with any leverage over North Korea, since it supplies most of North Korea’s energy and food. China does this not out of „socialist solidarity“ (neither of them are socialist), but to keep North Korea from collapsing, generating a flood of refugees into China. Even more importantly, a disintegrating North Korea could lead to a unified Korea, with a US military presence on China’s border.
The South Korean government claimed that it was the victim of North Korean „aggression,“ and threatened to launch air strikes on North Korean artillery bases. It also received assistance from the bourgeois media in ensuring that its responsibility for the armed clash would not be subject to public scrutiny. This response points to the „carrot and stick“ approach of the South Korean government and the US imperialists to the North Korean government. The „stick“ has consisted of tight economic sanctions and constant military pressure (including initiating some of these armed clashes) that forces the North Korean government to match South Korean military spending. The „carrot“ is the offer of substantial economic aid and investments (in export processing zones) if North Korea agrees to discontinue its nuclear weapons program.
There are two reasons underlying North Korea’s policy of engaging South Korean forces in „lightning“ military actions (see the history of armed actions from 1999 to the present below): First, these continual armed clashes maintain political legitimacy and stability for a weak North Korean regime by raising the level of nationalism and reinforcing the official line that North Korea is under perpetual siege from the US and South Korea. Second, the hereditary „communist“ dynasty that has ruled North Korea for decades is in a desperate economic situation, and is having great difficulty maintaining its huge military forces. To handle this situation, the North Korean government has been expanding its nuclear weapons program and engaging the South Korean military in small actions as bargaining chips for extracting the largest amount of economic aid as possible from South Korea and the US. This is a high-stakes gamble. The recent actions of the North Korean government will more likely lead to tighter Western sanctions and increased US pressure on China to force North Korea to back off from its military/nuclear ambitions–and come to terms with South Korea and US imperialism.-
Offenbar haben Generelle und die „P“FJ nun auch eine Schwesterorganisation in Britannien, die RNCPGB(ML), die die Freundschaft DDR-KDVR abfeiert und die (leider reale) CPGB-ML von Harpal Brar (die an nordkoreanische Satelliten glaubt) mit beissender Kritik überzieht:
„The RNCPGBML has come under fire recently from unlikely sources, ranging from the ultra-revisionist CPB to the now fully Trotskyite embracing ‘CPGB-ML’ for its shoulder to shoulder solidarity with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It seems there are some, labelling themselves ‘communist’, who seem embarrassed by the appointment of the Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong-un to the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.
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Whatever the criticisms these microscopic Chernenkite-Wałęsaist maggots have of the government of the DPRK, forever on their ‘blogs’ and ‘websites’, we ask these so called ‘communists’ to respect democracy. The Korean people have spoken and we must respect that right.“
* Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India (BLPI): Revolutionary Perspective for India (1942, Auszug aus Draft Programme of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India)
