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.
Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung; Prof. Dr. Meike Sophia Baader, Hildesheim; Prof. Dr. Alfons Kenkmann, Leipzig Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung, Jugendburg Ludwigstein, 37214 Witzenhausen Deadline: 15.03.2019 Nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs fand die Zwangsgemeinschaft der Hitlergegner ihr schnelles Ende. Die folgende Konfrontation der politischen […]
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 […]
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 […]
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NIA raids on Andhra Pradesh: A brief background (Gutta Rohith) In November, 2020, Andhra Pradesh Police filed two cases – one in Munchingput PS, Vishakapatnam and one in Piduguralla PS, Guntur – against dozens of people under various sections of UAPA, IPC, Arms Act. The bottom line of the FIRs is that these people are […]
On Sunday, 26 September 2021 a large majority (56%) voted in favour of the socialization of big real estate groups in Germany's capital, Berlin, in a popular initiative referendum. This referendum followed a democratic self-organised campaign that has already been going on for several years (“Deutsche Wohnen und Co enteignen”). It concerns real estate g […]
Dimanche 26 septembre à Berlin, capitale allemande, une large majorité (56%) a voté, lors d'un référendum d'initiative populaire, en faveur de la socialisation des grands groupes immobiliers. Ce référendum faisait suite à une campagne démocratique et auto-organisée qui dure déjà depuis plusieurs années (« Deutsche Wohnen und Co enteignen »). Il con […]
Amazon SI Cobas.jpg Monday 11th October saw a general strike called by several base unions in Italy, which was marked by a mass blockade against an Amazon warehouse and a violent attack against picketers. Content warning for violence and graphic videos. read more […]
sciopero-11-ottobre.jpg Base and grassroots unions in Italy have called a general strike in October, which has now been moved forward to October 11th. This article was previously published by the International Confederation of Labour. We continue the build-up, in every workplace and everywhere, to the nation-wide general strike called jointly by grassroot un […]
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 […]
L'opéraïsme italien au crible du temps suivi de Opéraïsme et communisme d'Oreste Scalzone Fiche technique Éditeur : À plus d'un titre Lieu d'édition : La Bauche Date de parution : octobre 2021 Nombre de pages : 258 p. Dimensions : 17,0 cm × 22,0 cm Présentation : Broché ISBN : 978-2-917486-76-4 EAN : 9782917486764 Commandes pour particuli […]
Le négationnisme face à la COVID-19, aux mesures sanitaires et aux vaccins est identique à l'attitude des écologistes face aux avancées scientifiques et aux expériences de laboratoire. - Textes de Joao Bernardo
Podiumsdiskussionen, Gespräche, Straßenparade, Spoken Word, Musik Download: Flyer und Poster Gedenken an die Opfer der Festung Europa, von Polizeibrutalität und institutionellem Rassismus Als Geflüchtete haben wir miterlebt, wie unsere Freund*innen und Familienmitglieder verhungert, ertrunken und gestorben sind. Einige von uns wurden vergewaltigt, einige wur […]
Please find below the sppech of the CARAVAN for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants at the demonstration on 25.06.2021 in Düsseldorf and in German via the shared link https://no-lager.eu/lager-gehoeren-seit-jeher-zum-kolonialen-system-der-... Isolation camps in the Federal Republic of Germany were first set up after the Second World War for the "guest w […]
[…] Il s’appelait Khomsi el-Yerfeni, il était chômeur, et selon plusieurs témoins, il serait mort après avoir été percuté intentionnellement par une voiture de police. Cette version est démentie par le ministère de l’Intérieur tunisien, qui parle lui dans un … Continuer la lecture →
Communiqué de soutien de médias libres, ouvert à signature. Après la publication d’un communiqué revendiquant l’incendie d’un garage de la gendarmerie de Grenoble dans la nuit du 20 au 21 septembre, Indymedia Grenoble et Indymedia Nantes ont été menacés par … Continuer la lecture →
Sembrando tiranía en Estado UnidosElizabeth Maier*El fascismo y el antifascismo se intimaron en las historias de mi vida familiar. Mis padres, europeos, inmigraron a Estados Unidos desde países y contextos étnicos-religiosos y de clase también contrastantes. Mi padre pasó sus primeros dieciséis años en su pueblo natal en los Alpes de Austria, frontera con I […]
Desde 1997, en las páginas de nuestra revista se alertaba sobre las amenazas de la narcopolítica y la militarización. Años después, en la guerra que inició Felipe Calderón en 2007 contra el narcotráfico, recurrió a los militares para labores de seguridad detonando una crisis humanitaria y de derechos humanos sin precedente en el país. Los saldos de esa guerr […]
The national day of strikes and demonstrations organized in France on 5 October, called by the unions CGT, FO, FSU and Solidaires, will not go down in history; it was not a failure, but the mobilization was average in terms of demonstrations and weak in terms of strikes. Read more › The post France’s Union: Between Dead Ends and Renewal appeared first on New […]
A constellation of events has thrown left wing memes into the mainstream, leading to a confirmation of the late Mark Fisher's thesis that countercultural trends tend to be co-opted by capitalist media. Read more › The post It’s Easier to Imagine a Mark Fisher Meme than the End of Platform Capitalism appeared first on New Politics.
“In the meantime every day lost is a day in which the profits of Big Pharma are costing countless lives especially in the Global South, as this video from the International Transport Workers Federation shows. And in that context the likelihood for more variants of concern to develop and spread reminds us that no one is safe until everyone is safe.” - IV561 - […]
“If we want to have an independent, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan in which men and women have equal rights based on democracy, people need strong solidarity to be free from fundamentalists and any foreign interventions.” - IV561 - October 2021 / Women, Afghanistan
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)
