Il
compagno Bahar Kimyongur è ancora detenuto a Bergamo e vi è
l'intenzione dello stato italiano di mantenerlo in attesa dell'esame
della richiesta di estradizione, sulla base di un mandato di cattura
emesso
dal regime turco.
Bahar è stato arrestatogiovedì 21 mattina dove era arrivato per partecipare a una conferenza internazionale sulla Siria.
Bahar risiede in Belgio dove è partita subito una mobilitazione per ottenerne la liberazione.
150 persone hanno partecipato il 25 davanti al consolato italiano a Bruxelles
Saturday, November 30 and Sunday, December 1st, 2013, in
Montréal
An invitation from the Proletarian & Revolutionary Feminist F
A CALL FROM THE MONTRÉAL REVOLUTIONARY & PROLETARIAN FEMINIST FRONT:
To Fight, We Need Proletarian Feminism!
On November 30 to December 1, Montréal will hold the First Conference
for a Proletarian Feminist Movement.
We are calling for a dynamic movement that unites a multitude of groups and
collectives according to common principles and objectives of struggle.
For this inaugural conference, we invite working women of all ages and of
diverse origins, indigenous women, women who are unemployed as well as poor
students, queer and trans proletarians, to discuss and vote on a draft
manifesto. This manifesto will serve as the basis of unity for the establishment
of proletarian feminist groups across Canada, whether they are organized on a
neighbourhood, city or regional basis.
We believe that there is an urgent need to consolidate and unite the women of
the proletariat and their allies in recognizing the material reality of the
class struggle, and thus the need to link the struggle for women’s liberation
with the struggle against capitalist and imperialist exploitation.
This is what we mean by proletarian feminism.
Whether or not we engage with the current debate among feminists on the
“secularism” of the Québec Charter of Values, the question of sexual
exploitation and prostitution, the recent elections in Canada, where women now
lead the 5 richest provinces in this country… while more and more women are
falling into poverty at the same time, these facts are catching up with us.
Profound differences in the material realities of women exist, and these
determine the degree to which women are willing to fight, in one way or another,
for a fundamental change in the existing order.
It is primarily this will to change the existing order that must unite us in
fighting to the bitter end for the emancipation of all women,
particularly the most exploited and oppressed among us. Currently, no real
feminist movement exists in the political arena. For the past 20 years, feminism
mainly existed in forms of services or lobbying groups, in official
institutions, in academia and among petty bourgeois currents, but seldom did
feminism exist in actual struggle. To quote the American sociologist, Barbara
Epstein: “Feminism today has become more of an idea than a movement, and one
that lacks the visionary quality it once had.”
And it is precisely because this “historical” feminism, which sought to unify
all women on the sole basis of gender without regard for any other condition,
has reached the limits of what it can offer that we are calling for the creation
of a new movement. This movement would apply to the multiple realities of women
in the imperialist world today, to the capitalist reality in a rich country like
Canada.
We are reminded of the imperialist nature of Canada:
where indigenous women more than anyone else, continue to live in
unspeakably poor conditions and are being killed every day while nobody cares
about it;
where Canada supports and participates in unjust wars of domination;
where companies flourish by exploiting women here and elsewhere, destroying
and killing them every day, forcing hundreds of millions of women to migrate,
and thus profoundly transforming their lives and those of their families;
where the global economic crisis exacerbates the vulnerability of the poor,
where women are in the vast majority: they form the majority among those earning
minimum wage, the majority of those working part-time jobs, the majority as
single parents;
where the meagre gains in social housing, education and health are
constantly under attack, where living conditions are further deteriorating,
particularly among women with disabilities, elderly women or single parents;
where prostitution, sexual exploitation and sex trafficking are being
trivialized;
where violence against women (whether verbal, physical, psychological) is
part of our daily lives;
where sexism is displayed full-page in advertising, media and TV shows;
where, in social reality, even if it becomes more complex, the class that
has everything continues to oppose the class that has nothing;
where the class that exploits us also includes women, women who are leading
political parties, governments, and financial empires such as Walmart,
Laurentian Bank, Sun Life Financial, Suncor Energy, the Federation of Chambers
of Commerce, the Desjardins Group.
Apparently nothing has changed for proletarian women, even with the
replacement of male exploiters by female exploiters…
For those among us promoting proletarian feminism, the struggle for women’s
liberation is inseparable from the general political struggle against capitalism
and for peoples’ power, that is to say, for proletarian power! These go hand in
hand. One cannot exist without the other.
Revolutionary or anti-capitalist organizations require the participation of
proletarian women in the struggle to transform society. If we want to fight for
a socialist, egalitarian society that is free of exploitation, then women are at
the forefront!
Similarly, a feminist movement, even a proletarian one, can’t transform
society without fully participating in building a revolutionary movement to
fight against capitalism.
A place for education, organization and struggle
In order for these women to participate in a revolutionary project, we need
organizations made for them, where they can not only transform themselves
through struggle, but also take effective measures to stop oppressive and sexist
behaviours around them. We need places where women can freely express
themselves, speak about their oppression or the violence they are subjected to,
where women can learn to be assertive, to discuss politics and to fight on equal
footing with men.
Women must defend their right to assert themselves, to fight and to
participate fully, to organize and develop their leadership in the struggle.
These are the goals for the kind of proletarian feminist group we are calling
for.
At this inaugural conference we call on women to unite around A MANIFESTO
FOR A PROLETARIAN FEMINIST MOVEMENT.
We want to build new proletarian feminist fronts, groups or
collectives:
that will mobilize, in an openly anti-capitalist and class-oriented
perspective, women of all diverse origins, employed or unemployed, queer
and trans women, and any women activists committed to fighting against all the
specific oppressions, including gender, sexuality, and race;
that will develop through investigation and discussion, demands that meet
the specific needs of women in their communities;
that will fight through political action (demos, calls, rallies, actions of
all kinds) against any attack on women’s rights from a class perspective;
that will lead the struggle for proletarian feminism and its program for
women’s liberation into becoming an essential part of the general program of
revolutionary organizations fighting against capitalism and imperialism;
that will initiate events and actions this coming March 8, International
Women’s Day, or to mobilize in great numbers for planned activities in order to
make proletarian feminism in action as visible as possible!!!
“Let
us fight and bleed , stay calm in front of the scaring eyes of the enemy and
remain resolute up to the ultimate win.” – Engels.
“……in
themost democratic
republics too, the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism is to decide once
every few years which members of the ruling class are
to repress and crush the people through parliament.”
-Lenin
Comrades
Keeping the slogan ahead on the 194th day of
birth of the great leader of the international working class comrade Frederich Engels, Gonomuktir Ganer Dol has organized
a discussion program and a mass cultural program on Nov 28, 2013 at 3.30pm in
front of the National Museum Gate, Shahbag, Dhaka. Advocate Zahed Karim will be
presiding over the discussion program. Join in this effort to accelerate the
fight to establish a new democratic state.
Opening Statement in Prose Poem (Proem) at the Open Source
Tribunal Nicolai Church, Utrecht, Netherlands 23 November
2013 Those Responsible for
the Unnatural Disaster Related to Supertyphoon Haiyan
By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON Founding Chairman,
Communist Party of the Philippines
The bewildering winds howled from
afar, Then came suddenly screaming into the ears Of the
people as rooftops flew like hats And walls tumbled down like
cards. The teeming huts of the poor toilers crumbled So
did the few houses of the middle class. The winds showed no respect
to the churches And shook the solitary mansions of the
powerful. The flying and falling parts of every
structure Killed and injured people in great numbers.
The sea rose like a mountain close to the
shore And surged to engulf the people and shambles. It
swept and carried them away as flotsam Killing more people than did
the monstrous winds. As if death by drowning were not
enough, The loss of food stocks and the plenitude of dirty
brine Caused maddening death by hunger and thirst As the
crucial days passed without rescue and relief From the high
bureaucrats who had promised these Before the super typhoon and
storm surge.
The highest and most corrupt of the
bureaucrats Had boasted that planes, ships and relief
goods Were ready to come to the aid of the people in
distress. But none came for a long while as hunger, thirst,
illness And death stalked 15 million people in 32
provinces. As people cried for loved ones lost amidst the
wreckage And the stench of the dead, he depicted the victims as
looters To obscure his crime of having vetoed public
funds For pre-disaster preparations and for having
pocketed Every year the calamity fund in billions of pesos.
We accuse the rulers of corruption and
incompetence, Of conniving with the military and NGO
racketeers In the diversion of public funds to their private
accounts, Making the people suffer natural and social
calamities. We demand the end of the wanton destruction of
lives Of the fishermen, peasants, workers and other
poor. We demand that justice be rendered in their
favor. We demand the end of the cruel and corrupt
regime And thus let the people prevail and take a step forward
In freeing themselves from exploiters and oppressors.
Long before Haiyan, the vulnerability of the
people To natural disasters has been predetermined By
the imperialists, the big compradors, landlords And by the corrupt
bureaucrats who chain the toilers To the system of exploitation and
unrelenting poverty Consigning them to expanses of frail homes
Of nipa and bamboo or discarded pieces of wood, Easily
destroyed by the typhoons and floods. It is the edifices of the
wealthy and powerful That have withstood the onlaughts of
Yolanda.
We accuse the rulers and their foreign
masters Of subjecting the Filipino toilers to the
violence In the daily grind of exploitation and
oppression And in the cycles of social crisis and natural
disaster. We demand the end of the system of
exploitation, That condemns the people to lives of want and
misery, Without adequate food and shelter from the
storms. We demand that the broad masses of the people
enjoy The blessings of national and social
liberation, All-round development, social justice and
peace.
Long before Haiyan, the imperialists and their
puppets Have ravaged and plundered the environment. They
have used open pit mining and excessive chemicals To extract the
natural riches of the Philippines. They have poisoned the atmosphere
with carbon emissions, Caused global warming and warmed the Pacific
Ocean To make the typhoons more often and more
devastating. There are indications that weather warfare is afoot,
With microwave pulses being manipulated to stir up A
super typhoon as ferocious as Yolanda.
We accuse the US-led imperialists of ruining
the milieu, Causing global warming and making natural
disasters More frequent, more destructive and more
deadly. It is outrageous that the puppets in the Philippines
welcome The invading military forces of the US and its allies
Under the pretext of humanitarian assistance And accept
more debts from the imperialist banks For the further benefit of the
wealthy and powerful We must rise up to fight the foreign
superprofiteers And the puppets shameless in treason and national
betrayal.
The toiling masses have lost thousands of
lives And millions of them their homes and means of
livelihood. They expect nothing from their oppressors and
exploiters But worse oppression and exploitation after every
disaster. The people can best fight for their lives and rights
And have thus rescued and lifted themselves up. Still
they need the help of compatriots at home and abroad And the
solidarity and support of the people of the world To accelerate
relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction And to prevent the
exploiters from further ruining them.
We appeal to the people of the world to help
the Filipino people Through the people's organizations and not the
corrupt regime. Like the imperialists, the corrupt bureaucrats and
military officers Are vultures hovering and gloating over the dead
and suffering. They are ever poised to feast on public funds and
foreign aid That they deem as off-budget account subject to their
greed. We are confident that the people of the world stand in
solidarity With the Filipino people not only against one unnatural
disaster But against all the disasters unleashed by the imperialists
and puppets And for the common purpose of creating a new and better
world.
By LUIS G. JALANDONI Chief International
Representative
The Filipino people in their millions, the workers, peasants, urban poor,
fisherfolk, indigenous people and other sectors, accuse President Benigno Aquino
III of criminal negligence, whereby thousands of lives were lost, millions
suffered, tens of thousands injured and more tens of thousands missing, and
homes and community buildings were destroyed when Supertyphoon Haiyan struck a
wide swathe of Philippine provinces on 8 November.
President Aquino failed to evacuate hundreds of thousands in coastal towns,
even when warnings were issued declaring that emergency evacuation was urgently
needed. The Manila Observatory issued the warning before typhoon Haiyan struck,
that “Massive evacuation of residential areas on low ground within 8 to 16
kilometers of the shoreline may be required.” Aquino's failure to carry out
urgently needed mass evacuation has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives.
In contrast, Vietnam was able to evacuate 600,000 people in two days just before
Haiyan made its landfall in Vietnam.
Aquino neglected to build infrastructures needed to save lives in times of
typhoons, floods, and earthquakes which have struck the Philippines with
increasing frequency in past few years. Strong underground and aboveground
structures should be built throughout the country to provide a safe haven to the
people. Sturdy evacuation centers should be made available. There should be
warehouses with supplies of food, drinking water, and medicines in the various
regions, provinces and districts. Funds for such needed infrastructures have
been plundered by Aquino and other corrupt bureaucrats. The bureaucratic scandal
has exposed the plunder of public funds running into the hundreds of billions of
pesos or scores of billions of dollars.
Aquino did not effectuate a prompt delivery of needed food, drinking water,
medicines and shelter. Many affected areas did not receive any relief even one
week after the disaster. Aquino did not mobilize ships and aircraft to bring
badly needed supplies. Instead he brought in thousands of military and police
personnel in am effort to quell the mass discontent.
Aquino even wanted to lower the count of casualties, falsely stating that the
death toll would only be between 2,000 and 2,500, while the United Nations early
on gave its estimate of a potential death toll of more than 10,000. The Aquino
government's reported death toll.as of November 22 was .5,209, with 1,600
missing. Other sources, however, estimate the missing at more than 15,000.
Aquino's security and military officials irresponsibly engaged in spreading
false information. They reported that a military truck supposedly carrying Red
Cross supplies in Sorsogon was ambushed by the New People's Army. They have also
circulated rumors that NPA members are involved in armed looting around Tacloban
City and indiscriminately firing weapons in several towns in Leyte. They thus
justify the setting of checkpoints and establishing outright military rule.
The Aquino regime is making use of the urgent needs of the disaster victims
in order to make the US military forces look like heroes and thus justify the
presence of the giant US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Washington, at
least six other warships, nearly 10,000 US troops and warplanes in various parts
of the Philippines. It has, allowed the US soldiers to take over airports and
other facilities.
The most adversely affected by the Supertyphoon Haiyan are the workers,
peasants, urban poor, fisherfolk and indigenous people who are already
victimized for many years by the exploitative and oppressive semi-feucal and
semi-colonial system ruled by big landlords and compradors under US imperialism.
Many years of exploitation keep them mired in worsening poverty. Their homes are
very unstable and extremely vulnerable to typhoons, earthquakes and floods.
The Supertyphoon Haiyan has exposed the criminal negligence of the Aquino
regime which has absolutely no plan to carry out a massive environmental
regeneration program to desilt the rivers and other critical water systems and
undertake massive reforestation. Instead the Aquino government is bent on
bringing in foreign mining companies to continue plundering the environment. It
continues to favor large-scale plantations and logging that destroy the
environment and render the Philippines even more vulnerable to floods, typhoons,
and earthquakes.
For the above-stated proofs of the criminal negligence, large-scale
corruption and plunder of public funds, President Aquino must be indicted by the
people and held responsible.
The outcry of the people is “Down with the criminally negligent
Aquino regime!”
“We may be enemies of the state, but we are
the friends of the people” -- Fr. Santiago Salas, NDFP Eastern
Visayas
8th Infantry Division troops are on
combat operations in the central parts of Samar island. Aside from search and
destroy missions, they are also harassing villagers suspected of supporting the
NPA.
MEDIA RELEASE Fr. SANTIAGO SALAS (Ka Sanny) Spokesperson, NDFP
Eastern Visayas Chapter 28 November 2013
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Eastern Visayas denounces
the Aquino government as utterly despicable for refusing to reciprocate the
revolutionary movement’s ceasefire in areas affected by Typhoon Yolanda
(international name: Haiyan). The revolutionary movement in the region has
declared a unilateral ceasefire up to mid-January 2014. The Aquino government’s
regional military commander, Maj. Gen. Jet Velarmino, is particularly
reprehensible for saying, “We did not make a declaration of ceasefire even after
the typhoon. They are enemies of the state.”
We may be enemies of the state, but we are the friends of the people, their
interests come first. On the other hand, what else can we call the Aquino
government and its military, except as enemies of the people for refusing a
ceasefire that would facilitate aid to the Typhoon Yolanda victims?
The Aquino government troops showed no compunction in continuing their
offensives against the New People’s Army even while the region was still reeling
from the typhoon’s aftermath. Gen. Velarmino’s troops from the 8th Infantry
Division are still on combat operations under Oplan Bayanihan in the
central parts of Samar island. Aside from search and destroy missions, they are
also harassing villagers suspected of supporting the NPA. It goes to show the
Aquino government and its military have no concern for the plight of the
people.
Tacloban City and other calamity areas are virtual garrisons. Right after the
typhoon, the Aquino government sent armored cars and armed troops to Tacloban as
a “show of force” to the hungry and desperate people, who were not receiving any
government aid and commandeering whatever they needed to survive.
Today, there are several military checkpoints at the entrances and exits to
the city, and the people are subjected to curfews, and accosted and treated like
criminals. Meanwhile, so-called bunkhouses have been hastily constructed where
homeless families are to be herded like cattle into cramped confines. This
scenario is replicated in other areas that are suffering from the typhoon’s
aftermath. All these show that the Aquino government regards the people with
contempt, showing little concern over their sufferings, and enforcing their
subservience to the armed might of the state.
Is the Aquino government refusing a reciprocal ceasefire because it is not
serious about long-term reconstruction in Eastern Visayas? At present, the
Aquino government is making a mockery of the relief and rehabilitation in
region. The typhoon victims live by the day, hoping they will have something to
eat the next day, vulnerable to starvation and disease.
There is also no long-term plan for the urban and rural poor as well as the
middle-class who lost their homes and livelihoods, while the vultures of
corruption have started circling. Without any socio-economic reforms, without
any public consultation and transparent governance, the big bureaucrats and big
businesses will surely take advantage of the people’s plight in order to profit
from corruption in the massive reconstruction effort needed.
As an added insult to the victims of Typhoon Yolanda, the US and Philippine
governments are rushing towards an agreement justifying the basing of US
military troops in the country in violation of national sovereignty. It seems
the reason why there is no ceasefire for Aquino’s troops is that they are there
to ensure that it will be business as usual in keeping the people in their state
of exploitation and oppression.
The people will hold the Aquino regime to account for refusing a reciprocal
ceasefire in order to facilitate aid to the typhoon victims. The victims of
Typhoon Yolanda and the rest of the people will surely rise from their grief to
demand for a reconstruction favoring the people, as well as socio-economic
reforms for the long term in the region and other calamity areas. If the Aquino
government cannot bring itself to call even a limited ceasefire in the name of
humanity, how much more a just and lasting peace?
Nota – La siguientes
noticiasha sido
extraídas de la web Signalfire http://www.signalfire.org/ La
traducción al español es responsabilidad de Gran Marcha Hacia el Comunismo.
Madrid, noviembre 2013.
GUERRILLEROS
MAOÍSTAS ATACAN A UN VIGILANTE FORESTAL EN NILAMBUR Nilambur – 29
de Noviembre 2013 – Según informa “The New Indian Express”, por primera vez en
la región, en la tarde del jueves un supuesto grupo de guerrilleros maoístas
abrió fuego contra un vigilante forestal en Poonthodakadavu cerca de
Pookottumpadam en la División Forestal Sur de Nilambur, quien resultó ileso. El
ataque se produjo hacia las 5 de la tarde cerca de una oficina del campamento
forestal próxima a la Zona de Vigilancia de Silent Valley. Según parece el grupo
maoísta atacante estaba integrado por tres personas y, se ha informado que, hace
un par de días, un residente de la zona se encontró con un grupo armado. Ante
este ataque, la oficina forestal ha sido abandonada momentáneamente.
CUATRO POLICIAS MUEREN EN UNA EMBOSCADA DE
LOS GUERRILLEROS MAOÍSTAS EN CHHATTISGARH
Raipur –
27 de Noviembre 2013 – El informativo “Business Standard” informa que, dentro
de su campaña por desbaratar las elecciones en Chhattisgargh, los guerrilleros
maoístas tendieron una emboscada a una partida de la Fuerza Policial de la
Reserva Central (FPCR) y mataron a 4 de ellos en el agitado distrito de Bijapur.
El grupo de la FPCR estaba integrado por 25 miembros del 168 batallón y habían
salido del puesto de Murkinaar. Cuando se encontraban cerca de Nukanpar, entre
las aldeas de Murkinar y Cheramungi, fueron atacados por los guerrilleros
maoístas que dieron muerte a 4 policías y se apoderaron de dos fusiles insas y
un AK-47.
LOS MAOÍSTAS COLOCAN CARTELES Y PANCARTAS
CONTRA LAS ELECCIONES EN EL DISTRITO DE BALAGHAT
Bhopal/GWALIOR – 26 de Noviembre
2013 – “The Times of India” informa que la policía ha encontrado pancartas y
carteles colocados por los maoístas en contra de las elecciones cerca de Lanjhi.
La policía también encontró un dispositivo explosivo con un detonador y cables.
En un lugar los maoístas colocaron un tronco de árbol atravesando la carretera
para impedir el acceso al colegio electoral.
CARTELES MAOÍSTAS EN JUNGLEMAHAL
CONMEMORAN “SEMANA DE LOS MÁRTIRES” EN EL SEGUNDO ANIVERSARIO DE LA MUERTE DEL
DIRIGENTE KISHANJI
26 de Noviembre 2013
– Según noticias aparecidas en “The Business Standard” y “TheTimes of India”
los maoístas han colocado carteles en tres distritos de Junglemahal (Midnapore
Occidental, Bankura y Purulia) en Bengala Occidental en los que se convocaba a
la “Semana de los Mártires” al cumplirse el segundo aniversario de la muerte del
dirigente del Partido Comunista de la India (Maoísta) Kishanji.
Kishanji resultó
muerto en un enfrentamiento con un combinado de fuerzas policiales el 24 de
Noviembre de 2011. Los carteles han aparecido en las zonas de Binpur, Adharia,
Goaltore, Lalgarh y Kamuri.
A
primeras horas de domingo, un grupo de maoístas enarboló una bandera roja como
tributo a Kishanji en los terrenos de Kantadih Hattola bajo la jurisdicción de
la comisaría de policía de Arsa, que se encuentra a apenas 5 km de las colinas
de Ayodha en Purulia. Algunos aldeanos vieron banderas y carteles escritos en
color rojo donde se leía, por ejemplo, “Camarada Kishenji lal selam” (Camarada
Kinshenji saludos rojos). En otro de los carteles los maoístas anunciaron que
todos los políticos y dirigentes corruptos serán juzgados por un tribunal de
masas y acusaban al PCM (Partido Comunista Marxista) y al partido Trinamool de
ser dos caras de la misma moneda. La policía retiró los carteles y banderas. Los
carteles han aparecido en las zonas de Binpur, Adharia, Goaltore, Lalgarh y
Kamuri.
LA VIOLENCIA NAXALITA: ¿ESTÁ
DESVANECIÉNDOSE EL PCI (MAOÍSTA)? UN ANÁLISIS
La página web de
análisis y noticias “Eurasia Review” www.eurasiareview publicó el pasado
24 de Noviembre un artículo titulado “La violencia naxalita: ¿Está
desvaneciéndose el PCI (Maoísta)? Un Análisis”, firmado por Deepak Kumar
Nayak , que, entre otras cosas señala:
“El PCI (Maoísta), en
su esfuerzo por aumentar su fuerza de cuadros, está ahora invitando al personal
de policía a que se una a sus cuadros. La policía de Jharkhand ha recuperado
carteles de diversos lugares en que los maoístas han llamado a la policía, en
especial a los agentes de policía, a unirse a la organización y que deserten de
la policía. En los carteles se lee: “Policías: manteneos alejados de la Cacería
Verde y tratar de ser amigos de los pobres. Policías jóvenes: no obedezcáis las
órdenes de los oficiales y, por el contrario, uníos al Ejército Popular” (The
Times of India, 10 Octubre 2013). Los maoístas han comenzado también a
distribuir panfletos y colocar carteles en el interior de los distritos con
presencia maoísta de otros Estados llamando al pueblo a unirse a la
organización.
Un informe del
Ministerio del Interior afirma que los maoístas están prestando atención a
preservar a su núcleo dirigente, el Comité Central de 13 miembros, que les
dirige. A los dirigentes del Comité Central del PCI (Maoísta) se les ha pedido
que permanezcan dentro del bosque de Dandakaranya al que los funcionarios del
Ministerio del Interior admiten está aún fuera del alcance de las fuerzas de
seguridad. Sería imprudente ver esto como un reconocimiento de la derrota de los
maoístas.
Un informe semestral
sobre el movimiento naxalita realizado por este autor indica que una progresiva
consolidación del movimiento se produjo en la primera mitad del año 2013. El
informe puso de manifiesto que los primeros seis meses de 2013 estuvieron
marcados por el resurgir maoísta a través de reclutamientos, el mantenimiento de
campos de entrenamiento, una nueva extensión geográfica y un cambio en la
táctica de su enfoque.
Las agencias de
inteligencia señalan que los maoístas se están esforzando por crear bases en
Karnataka, Kerala y Tamil Nadu. Los maoístas, que continúan siendo la mayor
amenaza para la seguridad interna de la India, han intensificado recientemente
sus operaciones en Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar y
otras zonas de Bengala Occidental, en un esfuerzo por rejuvenecer su movimiento.
Incidentes como los ocurridos en los distritos de Latehar y Dumka en Jharkhand,
el distrito Gaya de Bihar, el valle Darbha en el distrito de Sukma, Chhattisgarh
y distrito Koraput, Odisha, indican en cierto modo que las futuras
confrontaciones entre los maoístas y las fuerzas de seguridad mantendrán el
status quo."
INDIA
– NOTICIAS DE LA GUERRA POPULAR
Nota – La siguientes noticiasha sido
extraídas de la web Signalfire http://www.signalfire.org/ La
traducción al español es responsabilidad de Gran Marcha Hacia el Comunismo.
Madrid, noviembre 2013.
POR QUÉ LAS
MUJERES SE UNEN A LOS MAOÍSTAS
Servicio de
Noticias de la BBC – 20 Noviembre 2013
El periodista
Kishalay Bhattacharjee informa que son cada vez más el número de mujeres que se
unen a las actividades de los grupos rebeldes maoístas de la India.
Rebeca,
muchacha de una tribu, es la guardaespaldas de un comandante de la zona local
del grupo rebelde maoísta de la India en el Estado oriental indio de Orissa. Los
maoístas, también conocidos como “naxalitas”, han venido actuando durante más de
40 años en la India central y oriental. Exigen tierra y trabajo para los pobres,
y, en última instancia, quieren establecer una sociedad comunista derrocando la
forma de dominio “semicolonial, semifeudal”. Portando un rifle automático, la
cara de Rebecca está cubierta con una malla negra para protegerse de la malaria
en las infestadas de mosquitos junglas del distrito de Kandhamal. La hermana de
Rebecca se unió a los rebeldes en 2010.
Tras su
detención, y estando bajo custodia policial, fue presuntamente violada en grupo.
Su hermano, dice ella, fue arrestado también por las fuerzas de seguridad y
“murió misteriosamente” estando detenido. Rebecca dice que la “represión
policial” la condujo también a coger las armas y unirse a los rebeldes. “No
vivimos esta dura vida por nada. No tenía otra elección sino unirme a la
revolución. Ahora no hay vuelta atrás”, dice desafiante.
El movimiento
maoísta se inició en los años 60 con un alzamiento campesino en una pequeña
plantación de té en el Estado de Bengala occidental. Los analistas señalan que
la razón por la cual más mujeres se unen al “movimiento” se puede atribuir a las
desesperadas condiciones que prevalecen en el campo indio: desplazamiento de los
lugareños de sus tierras debido a los proyectos de las grandes empresas, la
pobreza machacante y el temor a las atrocidades de las fuerzas de seguridad y la
milicia apoyada por el Estado –como Salwa Judum- que se enfrenta a los
rebeldes.
Rahul Bhagat,
antiguo jefe de la policía en el bastión maoísta de Bastar en Chhatisgarh
afirma: “Ahora, casi la mitad de los combatientes rebeldes son mujeres. La
mayoría de los combatientes mujeres y hombres cohabitan ya sea casados o como
parejas sin casar”. La policía señala que las mujeres rebeldes, en general,
juegan un papel táctico en las operaciones. Las mujeres combatientes han
dirigido algunos de los ataques más importantes en la India. En Mayo, afirma la
policía, las mujeres combatientes se unieron a los hombres rebeldes en el frente
llevando a cabo un ataque mortal en Chhattisgarh, donde 24 personas, incluidos
varios de los máximos políticos del Estado, resultaron muertos.
LA
HUELGA CONVOCADA POR LOS MAOÍSTAS SACUDE KORAPUT
Jeypore
– 21 Noviembre 2013 – Según informa “The New Indian Express”, la actividad
diaria en Koraput quedó paralizada durante el bandh (huelga general) convocado
por el Comité Zonal Especial de Andhra Pradesh Odisha del Partido Comunista de
la India (Maoísta). Los autobuses y camiones no circularon por las carreteras de
los distritos de Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada y Nabarangpur. En los carteles y
pancartas de los maoístas que se encontraron en Lamtaput, Narayanpatna,
Bandhugaon y Ramgiri, los maoístas exigían la retirada de las fuerzas
paramilitares, el cese del asesinato de personas inocentes de las tribus por
parte de la policía además de que se ponga fin a la operación antimaoísta en la
región.
LOS
MAOÍSTAS MATAN A DOS INFORMADORES DE LA POLICÍA EN EL TRANSCURSO DE UNA HUELGA
GENERAL EN MALKANGIRI
Malkangiri – 20 Noviembre 2013 – “The New
Indian Express” informa que un grupo de guerrilleros maoístas acabaron con la
vida de dos supuestos informadores de la policía en el distrito de Malkangiri en
Odisha coincidiendo con un bandh (huelga general) convocado por el Partido
Comunista de la India (Maoísta) exigiendo la retirada de las fuerzas de
seguridad y el cese de las operaciones contra los maoístas. Según el periódico,
un grupo de maoístas fuertemente armado atacó la aldea de Bahiliguma en la
remota zona de Chitrakonda por la noche disparando contra Satirao Hantala (de 45
años) y Laxmi Khara (de 37) tras conminarles a que salieran de sus casas. Los
maoístas abandonaron el lugar inmediatamente penetrando en el bosque cercano.
Según la policía, los maoístas dieron muerte a los dos hombres por considerarles
informadores de la policía. El ataque se produjo coincidiendo con la huelga
general convocada por los maoístas en la zona fronteriza de
Andhra-Odisha.
LOS
MAOÍSTAS ATACAN UN PUESTO DE CONTROL DEL BOSQUE DE TANIKODI
Bangalore – Según una información
publicada por “The Times of India” , un grupo de guerrilleros maoístas atacó un
puesto de control en el bosque de Tanikodi, a 12 km del centro de peregrinaje de
Sringeri dañando las instalación. Según la policía, el grupo de cuatro
guerrilleros, tres de ellas mujeres, atacaron el puesto de control que se
encuentra en la carretera principal que conduce a Sringeri a las dos de la
madrugada, disparando y amenazando a los guardias forestales, originando graves
daños en la instalación, al tiempo que gritaban consignas contra el programa de
rehabilitación por parte del Gobierno para desplazados de los bosques.
Posteriormente se encontraron también hojas llamando a la resistencia contra la
expulsión de los habitantes de los bosques.
LOS
MAOÍSTAS SE RESPONSABILIZAN DE LA MUERTE DE DOS INFORMADORES EN
CHATRA
Ranchi –
18 Noviembre 2013 – Dos hombres, Shyamdev Yadav, de 35 años, y Ganesh Yadav, de
30, resultaron muertos en la aldea de Sangrampur, en Chatra, distrito situado en
el denominado “corredor rojo”, por un grupo de maoístas cuando se dirigían a un
mercado próximo, según informa “The Times of India”. Los maoístas colocaron
carteles responsabilizándose del ataque y acusándoles de ser informadores. Según
la policía Shyamdev se oponía al movimiento maoísta y solía trabajar como
informador suyo y se trataría de un acto de venganza de los maoístas dado que
Shyamdev, en el año 2010, había matado a su tío que simpatizaba con los
maoístas. Desde el año 2011 los maoístas habrían sido los responsables de unas
70 muertes en Chatra, a 150 km de Ranchi, en la parte norte del
Estado.
Press Statement 28 November 2013
The heinous incident of sexual assault on a young woman journalist of
Tehelka by its editor-in-chief, Tarun Tejpal, at the ThinkFest, an
event organized by the news magazine, in Goa and the course of events
that followed over the last three weeks have once again foregrounded the
sordid social reality of entrenched patriarchy and unequal relations
between men and women that allows and sustains the dominance and abuse
of power in our society. RDF condemns in the strongest possible terms
the sexual assault on this young journalist and demands the immediate
punishment of the guilty for justice to be done.
Sexual harassment in work places and educational institutions is one
of the many spaces wherein patriarchal dominance over women manifest in
overt and covert ways, lead to criminal acts of violence, abuse and
intimidation, affecting the lives, mobility and dignity of women. The
Vishakha Judgment of the Supreme Court recognized this in 1997 and was a
result of a long struggle on the part of the progressive and democratic
sections of society. It mandated the formation of anti-sexual
harassment committees at work places and educational institutions where
people could lodge complaints against such violations and harassments.
These committees were to be compulsory bodies in these public
institutions, headed by a woman, with at least half its members as
women. Despite this landmark judgment, bodily violence and other equally
repulsive forms of sexual harassment in these institutions have
continued unabated. In some cases, the forms of such violations have
changed and the instances continue to grow, even as these bodies hardly
function or even exist in most institutions. At places where they have
been formed, it was only a result of protracted struggles by progressive
forces, and even then, at most times, they stand sabotaged and
undermined according to the whims of the governing body of the
institution.
This incident within the Tehelka establishment, therefore, is neither
an isolated incident, nor does it come as a shock to many who have been
following the terms of the debate on the need for legislation to
protect and safeguard women in this country. The incident took place in
ThinkFest, a corporate sponsored event endorsed by some of the biggest
mining giants known for illegal mining activities across the country and
sponsored the extra-judicial vigilante group Salwa Judum like Essar and
Tata Steel, big corporations known for land-grab like the Adani group
and DLF, CocaCola, Unitech, defense equipment manufacturer Pipavav,
major corporate owned and backed media-houses, some politicians, and
well known leaders of civil society. The event itself boasted of
speaking for the poorest of the poor but closed its doors to this very
poor with its inaccessible entry charge.
Behind all the glitz and glamour of such events, what lies unveiled
is the perpetuation and accentuation of the unequal power relations
inherent in this semi-feudal Indian social reality. Moreover, these same
notorious corporations have been the motive force behind Operation
Green Hunt and other such brutal wars and counter-insurgency operations
executed by the Indian state in which hundreds of adivasi and Dalit
women have been raped and murdered. When the founders of an organization
like Tehelka openly proclaim the same values as the sponsors of an
event organized by it, it comes as no surprise that the same unequal
man-woman power relations and social inequality will be perpetuated and
defended by it.
The invoking of a self-ordained penance by Tejpal and the managing
editor Shoma Choudhury’s defense of this man and refusal to go to the
police by calling it a mere ‘untoward incident’ in light of his
‘unconditional apology’, and the act of recusing himself for six months
smacks of the feudal loyalty to the tainted and fallen institution that
has lost all journalistic credibility in its attempt to shamelessly
cover up the incident as ‘an internal matter of the Tehelka family’.
Instead of standing with the complainant in her struggle for justice,
Choudhury did the rounds of the media defending her decisions to
safeguard the interests of Tehelka. Rabid slandering, character
assassination, intimidation of the concerned woman are all common
practices in such cases of sexual harassments and a weapon with which
patriarchal forces regularly operate and vilify women who dare to stand
up against it. In this case, too, such smear campaign has aggravated the
agony of the complainant.
Citing such slander, intimidation and lack of support, the
complainant has resigned from Tehelka. Though initially he ‘accepted’
his crime and even decided to ‘recuse (him)self’ for six months to
‘atone further’ and ‘do the penance that lacerates (him)’, but in
characteristic about-turn of a wronged patriarch faced with the
possibility of answering to his crimes, Tejpal cries foul. After the
filing of the police case, he has backtracked from his original stance
and frontally attacked the woman by called her a ‘right wing agent’, ‘a
conspirator’ and a loose woman who up until now he had no qualms
employing within his organization. Swimming in turn-of-phrases and
verbose statements, today Tejpal shuttles between consensual and
non-consensual, misreading and misconduct, sexual encounter and rape. A
man who, up until now, thought he enjoyed impunity from such accusations
due to his position within the media and the corporate world, finds
himself outraged at the isolation he enjoys in his ivory tower of
paternalistic concern he extended to the journalistic fraternity.
At the same time, the sensationalization of this incident by the
corporate media with no sense of responsibility, journalistic ethics or
even sensitivity is condemnable. In a bid to raise their TRP ratings,
different media houses covered explicit details of the complaint and
other information regarding the complainant leaked to them at times
directly by the Goa police. Despite knowing that such media trials and
coverage of extremely confidential details only affect the complainant
and the case, the irresponsible coverage of news ignores cases of sexual
harassment that abound aplenty in these media houses.
Irresponsible coverage affects the complainant in this case and
dissuades women from speaking up against such harassment generally.
After the mass outrage and protests against the rape of a young
paramedic student in Delhi last year, the discourse around preventing
sexual violence, crimes against women, and gender justice has occupied
the centre stage of various debates. The month of April saw the
definition of rape being redefined to include a wider range of sexual
assaults on women. Despite that, the various forms of sexual violence
have continued unabated even as forms of violence within the household
or ‘marital rape’ remains outside the purview of the law.
Rape as a weapon continues to be used as it was during the
Muzaffarnagar riots though its coverage was atrociously lacking when
compared with the sordid stories of rapes by self appointed god-men like
Asaram Bapu. The coverage of the acquittal of the rapists and murderers
of Laxmanpur Bathe pales in comparison to the distasteful coverage of
the judgment on the Arushi-Hemraj murder in Delhi. While hundreds of
stories of custodial rape like that of Soni Sori in Chhattisgarh, rape
by armed forces in Shopian in Kashmir, Manipur; the right wing forces in
Gujarat in 2002, Kandhamal in Odisha, dominant castes in Khairlanji in
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu get lost in the pages of news as everyday
occurrences, these debates on TV channels and newspapers bring us back
to the reality of entrenched patriarchy that stares us in the face.
This violence against women reflects the inextricable alliance
between the patriarchal structure of society and the unequal
semi-feudal, semi-colonial relations that sustains it. The various wings
of the state machinery have actively served to strengthen this social
reality while thwarting and suppressing all struggles for
democratization and gender justice. This extreme inequality between men
and women is inherent to this system and all other forms of inequalities
and oppression only strengthen it. Today, it is clear that only radical
and assertive struggles that recognize patriarchal domination and all
other forms of oppression embedded in society, and organize and
challenge these structures, and unite to smash patriarchy will lead
towards a gender just world. Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF)
extends its solidarity with the complainant and all other journalists
working in Tehelka who have dared to stand up against Tarun Tejpal. RDF
pledges to be a part of the struggle to ensure justice to the concerned
woman and for the punishment of the guilty. Varavara Rao G N Saibaba
India briefs EU about violence perpetrated by Naxals
New Delhi: India on Wednesday briefed the European Union about the
violence perpetrated by Naxals and urged it to ensure that the rebels do
not get support from the organisations based in its member countries.
In a meeting, the Ministry of External Affairs sensitised EU
representatives about the violence being carried out by CPI (Maoist),
which killed more than 8,100 people since 2001. The move came after
CPI(Maoist) had recently thanked more than two dozen organisations in
Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, Italy, Norway,
Spain, Britain, Brazil, Canada and Philippines which took part the
November 24, 2012 conference in Hamburg supporting of the “people’s war
in India”.
The MEA took the initiative after the Ministry of Home Affairs
provided supporting documents about the terror being carried out by the
Naxals in nine states, which resulted in killings, maiming of people,
destruction of public and private properties, forests and natural
resources. During the meeting, the representatives of the EU and
Euro-Asia division of the MEA discussed issues concerning human rights
in the region. Following an appeal of the International Committee to
Support of the People’s War in India and the Hamburg-based League
against Imperialist Aggression, people from different parts of the world
attended the Hamburg conference to exchange views, support the
“struggle of the Indian people against imperialism, semi-feudalism and
bureaucratic capitalism”. http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/india-briefs-eu-about-violence-perpetrated-by-naxals_892841.html
Esse é o segundo dia de paralisações em
obras da capital desde a aprovação do Estado de Greve pela assembleia da
categoria em 24 de novembro.
Os trabalhadores da construção de
Belo Horizonte e Região estão em plena campanha salarial 2013/2014.
Nesse ano a campanha salarial é unificada e conta com a participação dos
sindicatos ligados à Federação dos Trabalhadores nas Indústrias da
Construção e do Mobiliário de Minas Gerais, Feticom-MG.
Desde ontem a tarde, duas obras da
construtora Direcional estão em greve próximo ao Shopping Del Rey. O dia
amanheceu com piquetes e agitação nessas obras e em outras duas dessa
mesma construtora no bairro Floramar. As obras próximas ao Shopping Del
Rey também já foram palcos de greves no mês passado contra más condições
de trabalho e baixos salários.
Uma greve do governo estadual,
empreendida pela construtora OAS, também encontra-se paralisada nesse
momento. Essa obra foi paralisada pelos operários há pouco mais de um
mês e, devido ao não cumprimento das reivindicações da greve por parte
da OAS, os operários decidiram paralisá-la novamente. Os trabalhadores
reivindicam melhores salários e melhores condições de trabalho,
alimentação no canteiro de obras (almoço e café da tarde), etc..
A obra da Cemig, empreendida pela Via
Engenharia, localizada à rua Barbacena (Lourdes) também encontra-se
paralisada desde o início da manhã. Segundo informam os diretores do
Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da Construção – STIC-MARRETA no local, a
paralisação contra com grande adesão dos trabalhadores dessa obra.
Sinduscon não comparece a reuniões de negociação
No último dia dia 24 de novembro, os trabalhadores da construção de
Belo Horizonte e Região decidiram, em assembléia, pelo Estado de Greve e
o comunicaram ao Sinduscon.
O Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da Construção de BH e Região -
STIC-MARRETA entregou, no final de setembro, a pauta de reivindicações
da categoria aprovada em assembléia ao sindicato patronal e, até o
momento, ocorreram duas reuniões que deveriam ser para tratar da pauta
de reivindicações, mas apanas o advogado do Sinduscon compareceu sem
sequer fazer referência à pauta apresentada pelos trabalhadores. Os
diretores do Sinduscon não compareceram em nenhuma dessas reuniões ou se
pronunciaram sobre as reivindicações dos trabalhadores.
A proposta apresentada pelo advogado do Sinduscon foi de 7,5% de
reajuste, o que, segundo os cálculos feitos pela diretoria do MARRETA,
equivalem a R$ 1,85 por dia (tomando como base o salário de um
servente). Essa proposta aviltante foi unanimemente rejeitada pela
categoria na assembléia do dia 24.
As principais reivindicações da categoria são
Melhores salários
Oficial: R$2.300,00
Oficial de acabamento: R$2.700,00
Meio oficial: R$2.000,00
Servente: R$1.500,00
Vigia: R$1.700,00
Mestre de obra: R$4.200,00
Encarregado: R$3.000,00
Almoxarife e apontador: R$2.700,00
Operador de betoneira: R$2.300,00
Operadores de guinchos/elevadores: R$2.700,00
- Almoço e café da tarde em todos os canteiros de obras. Chega de
levar marmita de casa ou ficar comprando almoço caro em porta de obra.
De acordo com a CLT o trabalhador tem o direito de se alimentar de 4 em 4
horas. Alimentação é um direito e as empresas têm que fornecer
refeições de qualidade.
- Fim da terceirização nos canteiros de obras.
- Melhoria das condições de trabalho, com adoção de medidas coletivas e individuais de segurança.
–> A primer written by the Revolutionary Student Movement – University of Toronto chapter
Situation of proletarian First Nations and Canadian youth
Proletarian youth make up a large fraction of the Canadian
population! Living in this country means our lives are shaped by the
capitalist state’s exploitation of people, plunder of the land, and of
resources. Capitalism exists for profit and for expansion, both outside
and inside Canada’s borders.
Today, corporations are fleeing the country to set up factories, call
centres and offices where labour is cheapest. They’re importing
temporary migrant workers from the “global south.” What does this mean
for working-class youth? It means that we experience a high unemployment
rate of 20%. That’s 1 out of 5 youth! For immigrant youth, the rate is
closer to 1 out of 3!
What prospects are left to us? Jobs that are, on whole, non-permanent
and casual. These kinds of jobs increase underemployment and subject
youth to precarious work. Nowadays, immigrant youth are competing with,
and/or working side-by-side with their parents as well as other
temporary migrant workers.
The education system in Canada is embroiled with contradictions. Out
of 10 youth, only 4 continue to post-secondary education. This rate is
even lower amongst First Nations, Black, Latino and Filipino youth.
Those who make it to post-secondary education are plunging themselves
deeper into debt as tuition fees and student loans continue to rise at a
rate faster than inflation. We work hard to stay in school and graduate
with a degree, only to join the ranks of unemployed and underemployed.
While youth in Canada and all over the world have mobilized against
worsening poverty, military occupation, and imperialist wars,
politicians are putting more money into building super-jails and funding
psychiatric mega-complexes. The ruling class deals with our
“unruliness” by throwing us in jails and into the psychiatric system;
this is especially the case with First Nations, Black, Latino and
Southeast Asian youth, who are overrepresented in the prison system.
It is in this context that the Transitional Year Programme (TYP)
exists. TYP is full-time, 8-month, access to University program for
adults who do not have formal qualifications for university. The
majority of TYP students are First Nations, Black, single mothers, and
other working-class people. A number of TYP students are also survivors
of the criminal justice and psychiatric systems.
Post-secondary education has become the minimum requirement for a
many sectors of industry in the country. While post-secondary graduates
face increasing rates of un/underemployment, not having access to a
degree puts proletarian youth at an especial disadvantage – resulting in
fewer career options and channels them to lower-paid, more precarious
jobs. It is in this context that the University of Toronto administration is threating to eliminate TYP!
The People’s History of the Transitional Year Programme (TYP)
Influenced by the militant student movement of the 60s and early 70s ,
the founders of TYP were students themselves. They saw the need to
create a specific program that will prepare working-class, Black
students to access post-secondary education, while at the same time, transforming the university to become a site of revolutionary struggle. Timeline: 1968: The Black Education Project (BEP) opened a the
Universal Negro Improvement Association building at 355 College St.;
That summer, BEP prepared Black students for admission to York
University and the University of Toronto 1970: the summer program was relocated to Innis
College at the University of Toronto and included other communities –
Native, working-class youth and women; after many negotiations with the
University, a full-time TYP was opened 1970 – 1976: TYP operates as an “equal opportunity”
program at UofT, a traditional and elitist institution; the program was
constrained by inadequate funding and constant scrutiny; institutional
support was tenuous 1976: The Crowe Report was published, citing “racial
tensions, administrative problems and Marxist content in the curriculum
as endangering the program;” the report criticized the program’s
community participation 1976-1977: University administration temporarily
suspended TYP resulting to denial of access to 50 students; Father John
Kelly of St. Michael’s College was selected by the university to carry
out another review of the program 1977: TYP was resumed after restructuring,
administration now reports directly to the Provost –new changes
sacrificed early community involvement 1982: TYP moves into its current home, 49 St. George Street 2009: UofT administration threatens to dismantle
TYP; the mobilization of the Transitional Year Program Preservation
Alliance (TYPPA), an alliance of TYP students, alumni and non-TYP
students postponed the elimination 2011: The university launches a $2-billion
fundraising campaign: Boundless, which includes “Access and Opportunity”
as one of its priorities 2012: UofT Vice-provost gives TYP two options:
amalgamate with Woodsworth Academic Bridging Program and lose autonomy,
or face complete elimination Summer of 2013: UofT administration threatens to
seize 49 St. George to make space for the construction of the Centre for
Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship; plans relocate TYP to
Woodsworth College; Provost instructs TYP administration to suspend
hiring of sessional faculty Fall of 2013: TYPPA launches “Expand the TYP” campaign; current TYP students conduct survey amongst peers and identify three main demands:
1) to stay in 49 St. George or be relocated to a space that serves their needs
2) guaranteed autonomy
3) boundless expansion
Revolutionary perspectives on the TYP and the university
For the Revolutionary Student Movement, the establishment and
existence of the Transitional Year Programme was an overt political
effort to proletarianize education in a myriad of ways: in increasing
the admission of proletarian students in campus, providing accessible
and tangible support for its students, and in designing and delivering a
progressive curriculum.
TYP students have the option of taking courses from different
streams—majority of them intended to relate to the students’ experiences
of oppression and encourage critical thought. Because of TYP’s autonomy
over curriculum development and implementation, many courses study
significant anti-colonial, anti-capitalist literature. While supporting
students to successfully complete post-secondary education, TYP itself
provides a temporary refuge from the brutal material conditions that its
students struggle with on the day-to-day.
For the Revolutionary Student Movement, the pending elimination of
the TYP is a testament to the active role played by the university in
the capitalist and imperialist system! The dismantlement of TYP means
that the university will continue to bar more working-class youth from
entering its gates, and that it has and will continue to be bought out
by its corporate donors. While threating the program’s dismantlement, it
even had administered tuition schemes to either discourage poor
students from applying or bury them into further debt!
Despite heavy student opposition, the university is moving forward
with replacing the back campus with toxic astroturf in preparation for
the PanAm games in 2015. At the same time, it has chosen to fund the
parasitical expansion of the Munk School of Global Affairs, Rotman
School of Management, and the Engineering department . It’s becoming
more obvious that this institution aims to be the centre of knowledge
production that supports & justifies military occupation, extractive
industries, and imperialist expansion.
Despite heavy opposition, UofT is replacing the Back Campus Field
with toxic astroturf. The administration has similar plans for TYP’s
current home, 49 St. George St.—demolish it to make way for the
construction of the Centre for Engineering Innovation and
Entrepreneurship.
We are not fooled by the Boundless campaign’s promises for the
community: its aim of “exploring of the University and its community for
global leadership” means nothing but dedicating the university to
reproduce the next generation of the global bourgeoisie, as well as its
defenders, functionaries and sentinels of the existing class society!
For years, the university’s top administration at least went as far
as to tokenize the TYP, referring to it as the “jewel in the crown of
the university.” Now they deem TYP too costly, and have slowly reduced
its budget so much that it compromised the success of its students. When
asked why the TYP has not seen any money raised from the Boundless
campaign, we were told that TYP should hire its own “fundraising agent!”
What seems to be hypocrisy from the university is no surprise to us,
proletarian and racialized students. We know the that TYP doesn’t fit
into the university’s renewed commitment to serve the interests of the
bourgeoisie!
What needs to be done
A closer look at the history of TYP reveals its revolutionary roots.
It was an initiative that was started by proletarian students who
recognized the colonial and capitalist ideology propagated in the
university, which at the same time, barred racialized and poor students
from accessing resources that would allow them to engage and produce
critical thought & pedagogy.
For us then, there is no better time than now to preserve and
ultimately, expand the Transitional Year Programme! It must be once
again led by its founders, the students, serve as an access program to
proletarian students, and be at the forefront of the production of
revolutionary thought and practice.
In the words of one of its founders, Horace Campbell, “the success of
the TYP should result in the removal of the need for TYP when the
school system and university at the base of the struggle for democracy.”
The particular campaign for the expansion of the TYP is in line with
RSM’s larger struggle to proletarianize the university. The role of the
Revolutionary Students Movement is to take education back into the hands
of the proletariat, by demanding:
1. University of Toronto to increase the admittance rates of
proletarian youth via programs like the TYP, free of charge and with
full state subsidy..
2. University of Toronto to respond the democratic process through
abolishing the Governing Council, an undemocratic body, and replacing it
with a democratically elected body, representative of the students,
staff and faculty, for decision-making.
3. University of Toronto to revolutionize its educational content,
so as to expose: first, the role of Canadian imperialism and capitalism
in the genocide and oppression of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis
peoples, as well as proletarians of the third world; and second, the way
by which oppressed people have gained liberation through struggle.
Ultimately, these demands cannot be achieved under capitalism. Thus,
these demands serve as a preliminary programme for educational reform
after the capture of state power and during the transition to communism.
The capitalist system cannot satisfy the needs addressed by these
points, which reflect the advanced aspirations of proletarian students,
and that conflict must ultimately come to a head.
In order to win this struggle, we urge all proletarian, progressive
and revolutionary students to join our fight in the expansion of the
Transitional Year Programme, and waging a campaign to further
proletarianize the campus. We want to lead the transformation of university into a site of revolutionary class struggle!
Dépasser la crise ? A Lyon 2 ce sont les matraques qui sont la solution !
L'université
Lyon II subit depuis un certain temps une crise interne. Face a une
politique de pouvoir personnel de la part de son président, Jean-Luc
Mayaud, plusieurs vice présidents ont démissionné, en protestation.
Appliquant
servilement les directives du ministère, le président de Lyon II
cherche à être un « bon élève » parmi les universités, cherchant à tout
prix l'équilibre budgétaire. A tout prix ? Oui, à tout prix. Quitte à
liquider des filières, des postes ..etc.
Pour « dépasser la crise », le président à donc appelé à un congrès de
l'université, lequel devant mettre à plat les désaccords au sein de
l'université, et la faire repartir d'un bon pied dans le chemin tout
tracé de la rigueur budgétaire et de l'austérité.
La presse dit « Mayaud est critiqué », mais interrogeons nous un instant
pourquoi ? Les critiques proviennent juste du fait que la mascarade de
pseudo démocratie des instances de l'université s'est effondrée et que
ces « élu-e-s » finissent par voir qu'ils n'ont d'autre pouvoir que
d'accepter les décisions.
La mobilisation au sein de l'université prenant de l'ampleur, les
étudiant-e-s mobilisés ont choisi de s'inviter à ce congrès, pour avoir
leur mot à dire. Une centaine d'étudiant-e-s se sont donc rassemblé-e-s.
Jean-Luc Mayaud ne l'entendait pas de cette oreille, et à donné ordre à
la sécurité incendie de garder les entrées.
Ayant débordé pacifiquement la sécurité, les étudiant-e-s ont pris place
au sein de l’amphithéâtre pour entendre les déclarations faites dans le
« saint des saints » .
Cela a mis fin au congrès, déporté dans le bunker/palais qu'est le
bâtiment administratif, et a entrainé l'intervention musclée de la
police.
Intervenant
très brutalement, causant des blessures aux étudiant-e-s, elle a chassé
les mobilisé-e-s hors du bâtiment, et a procédé a des arrestations. Ces
arrestations n'étaient pas anodines, mais bel et bien ciblées pour
tenter de liquider le mouvement et d'imposer la terreur par la matraque.
Ainsi,
quatre étudiant-e-s, dont trois membres du syndicat FSE-Lyon, membre de
Solidaire Etudiant-e-s, sont en garde à vue. Ils et elles sont
accusé-e-s de violence et de dégradations, l'université met tout ce
qu'elle peut en œuvre pour tenter de les écraser.
Nous
ne laisserons pas rejouer le procès du Mirail, où la fac exigeait de 7
étudiant-e-s une réparation de préjudice qu'elle estimait à plusieurs
centaines de milliers d'euros pour deux portes et quelques gâteaux.
Leur
manœuvre échouera lamentablement face à la solidarité la plus large, la
plus poussée. La présidence se démasque comme incapable d'assumer
politiquement leur politique de liquidation de l'université et ne
pouvant la défendre que par l'utilisation de la force de l'état.
Nous,
communistes, ne voulons pas de cette université au service du capital.
Nous ne fantasmons pas non plus sur un « âge d'or' » de l'université
publique. Nous savons que tout ce qui dépend de l'état n'est pas neutre,
mais sert la classe bourgeoise. C'est pourquoi nous considérons la
situation de l'université comme le reflet des interêts de la
bourgeoisie. Suite à la crise, suite aux attaques des concurrents de
l'impérialisme français, la bourgeoisie n'est plus capable de dépenser
des miettes des profits que l'exploitation génère pour entretenir une
université dont toutes les filières sont ouvertes aux classes
populaires. Aujourd'hui, il faut que les savoirs scientifiques soient
réservés aux "élites', et que l'université forme les enfants des classes
populaires en fonction des intérêts immédiats du patronat.
L'université que nous voulons émergera de la chute du capitalisme, et servira les intérêts du peuple.
Au Maroc pas une seule
année, pas un seul jour ne se passe sans la révolte des prolétaires, des
paysans, des « chômeurs diplômés », des étudiants contre l’exploitation
et la misère.
Depuis le mercredi 13 novembre 2013, les
prisonniers politiques maoïstes du groupe "Aziz Elbour" au Maroc ont
déclaré une grève de la faim illimitée.
L’OCML Voie
Prolétarienne apporte son soutien à ces militants ainsi qu’à tous les
militants progressistes et révolutionnaires au Maroc qui se battent
contre le régime réactionnaire de Mohammed VI, soutenu par
l’impérialisme français.
En janvier 2011, un camarade maoïste marocain déclarait dans notre journal Partisan : « Je vais répéter une citation de Georges Habache : « La meilleure façon d’apporter votre soutien au peuple palestinien, c’est de lutter contre vos Etats réactionnaires ». Et
moi, je dis ; la meilleure façon de soutenir les luttes du peuple
marocain, c’est de mener la lutte contre l’Etat impérialiste français
jusqu’à sa destruction totale. » C’est bien le sens de notre combat !
Contre l’impérialisme français et le régime réactionnaire marocain ! Liberté pour tous les prisonniers politiques révolutionnaires !
Nota – El Comunicado del Comité del Estado de Maharashtra del
Partido Comunista de la India (Maoísta) “¡¡Castigo a Manmohan Singh por
el uso de armas químicas contra sus propios compatriotas!!” de 21 de
Septiembre 2013, difundido recientemente en inglés, ha sido extraído de
la web Signalfire http://www.signalfire.org/
La traducción al español es una colaboración del camarada F. González
para el blog de Gran Marcha Hacia el Comunismo. Madrid, noviembre 2013.
¡¡CASTIGO A MANMOHAN SINGH POR EL USO DE ARMAS QUÍMICAS CONTRA SUS PROPIOS COMPATRIOTAS!! Norteamérica se muestra proclive y deseosa de atacar a Siria
por el uso de armas químicas. Algunos países europeos han respaldado su
propaganda global. El premier indio Manmohan Singh ofreció su apoyo a
Norteamérica sobre el tema de las armas químicas, pero se alineó con
Rusia en lo referente a un ataque. El mismo Manmohan Singh que se
manifestó contra el uso de armas químicas fue el mismo que las usó en su
propio país. Si el régimen de Assad es culpable, Manmohan Singh es
merecedor de un castigo. Las masas explotadas nunca han aceptado el
régimen corrupto del imperialismo, y han estado luchando contra él desde
su establecimiento, y numerosos movimientos de masas han continuado esa
lucha sin descanso.
Este movimiento de masas, dotado ahora de una firme estrategia con el
objetivo de establecer una nueva revolución democrática. Bajo una
intensa represión fascista, el pueblo ha entendido que para mantener
vivo el movimiento no hay otra alternativa que la lucha armada. El
pueblo indio ha adoptado esta forma de lucha, y en los últimos 44 años
esa lucha ha continuado sin descanso, como el latido de las masas. Hasta
la actualidad, el Gobierno indio ha llevado a la práctica una severa
represión antipopular, pero nunca han conseguido suprimir el movimiento
revolucionario. Por ello, el enloquecido gobierno ha comenzado a usar
armas químicas, y las pruebas estuvieron en recientes ataques
unilaterales a amplia escala contra los revolucionarios efectuados este
año por la policía de Garhchiroli, con el resultado de varios muertos.
¿Vendría ahora Obama, según la ley internacional para castigar a
Manmohan Singh y a su gobierno? Tanto los maoístas como el pueblo
Adivasi en Garhchiroli son también ciudadanos de este país.
El gobierno de Manmohan Singh, dirigido por la United Progressive
Alliance, organizó una guerra contra el pueblo indio, cuya operación
recibió el nombre de “Cacería Verde”. Sean maoístas o no lo sean, en
áreas urbanas o rurales, ya sea una lucha de masas o una lucha armada,
ya sea una huelga de hambre o una marcha con velas, ya sea unas simples
declaraciones o una publicación crítica, nada es tolerado por el
gobierno. Cualquier idea en la mente de oponerse al gobierno se
convierte en una amenaza para el país. ¿En esto consiste la mayor
democracia del mundo? ¿Qué significa “democracia” para ellos? Ellos
marcan el camino, dando eventualmente cancha a algunas muestras de
desacuerdo, simplemente como una farsa, desacuerdos que bien pueden
estar bajo su control, mostrando a estos prefabricados disidentes como
un modelo de democracia. En poco tiempo, estos oponentes pueden llegar a
ministros, o a presidente del Mahamandal, o a dirigir alguna
institución académica, o llega a figurar como un honorablemente
retribuido funcionario social. Mientras juegan este juego, utilizan la
pobreza y problemas similares a gran escala. Se puede comprobar la
abundancia de estos funcionarios sociales en el distrito de Garhchiroli.
Ante los ojos de los denominados funcionarios sociales, los Adivasis
están siendo asesinados en el distrito, pero ellos no tienen nada que
ver con esto. Sus labios están cerrados con las subvenciones
gubernamentales. La gente asesinada por la policía durante los últimos 8
meses eran todos Adivasis. Para la Operación “Cacería Verde” no son más
que basura. Al escasear las balas han comenzado a emplear armas
químicas para matarlos. Pero está claro ahora que hay una señal de
alarma de derrota para el gobierno.
El 12 de Abril, en la aldea de Sindesur del distrito Garhchiroli, en un
enfrentamiento preparado por la policía, en el que cayeron 7, 2
aldeanos y 5 organizadores populares estaban entre los muertos. De ellos
5 personas fueron muertos por balas, pero no se hallaron heridas o
daños de bala en los otros dos, un aldeano llamado Mukesh y el camarada
Champa. Sus muertes parecen ser sospechosas. Mientras los militantes del
Ejército Guerrillero de Liberación Popular (EGLP), directos
participantes en los intercambios de disparos dieron el informe completo
a su comité, nos quedamos sorprendidos escuchando su experiencia.
Mientras sucedía el tiroteo, experimentaron cansancio, vómitos, dolores
de cabeza, alergias, problemas de respiración y toses. Inicialmente
consideramos que podría haber sido a causa del polvo. Pero en un
enfrentamiento el 19 de Mayo en la aldea de Hetadkasa, del mismo
distrito, todos los miembros del EGLP sufrieron similares problemas de
cansancio, infección de la garganta y problemas de respiración. El
comandante del EGLP presente en aquel momento, que prestó una cuidadosa
atención, comprobó que la policía estaba tirando algún tipo de bombas
que explotaban en el aire, y disparando un particular tipo de balas, que
causaban este problema.
Al mismo tiempo, en otros lugares en donde no hubo enfrentamientos,
ninguno de los camaradas notó nada. Tras el incidente, ha quedado claro
que la policía está utilizando armas químicas, y revela que su uso es el
motivo exacto de las sospechosas muertes de dos personas en el
incidente de Sindesur. Los camaradas que tomaron parte tuvieron
problemas respiratorios durante varios días. Se recuperaron tras recibir
unos adecuados tratamientos médicos por partes de los médicos del EGLP.
Está claro como el día que el gobierno indio, en colaboración con el de
Maharashtra, está usando armas químicas. No es solo una vergüenza para
la humanidad, sino un enorme crimen, también. ¿Podría estar el gobierno
usando también ese tipo de armas en Kashmir, en el noreste, y contra
manifestaciones y agitadores? Solamente poniendo atención en estos
detalles podrá ser aclarado.
Apelamos a aquellos amantes de la justicia, a los intelectuales de este
país y de todo el mundo, a convocar a expertos químicos y a activistas
pro-derechos humanos para investigar y demostrar la existencia de
depósitos de armas, debiendo hacerse esa investigación en los campos
policiales de Garhchiroli para extraer la verdad. Su arsenal de armas
químicas y de destrucción masiva debiera demostrar que el gobierno
organiza una guerra contra el pueblo. El asesinato y la toma de
fotografías de los cuerpos ensangrentados, y su exposición en grandes
carteles por las aldeas para aterrorizar es un acto de ignominia contra
la humanidad. Estos actos hablan por sí solos, y muestran como el ser
humano no tiene ningún valor para este gobierno.
Para ellos, los Adivasis no son más que animales salvajes que pueden ser
cazados y enorgullecerse de ello. La gente lloraba amargamente al ver
las fotografías de las activistas martirizadas en Medri. Aun no habiendo
participado nunca en el movimiento, también lloraban. Mientras, la
policía y sus oficiales fueron vistos celebrándolo en hoteles de cinco
estrellas. El Ministro Presidente del Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan y el
Ministro del Interior R.R. Patil repartieron premios, por haber matado a
sus propios conciudadanos. El trono de estos dirigentes se levanta
sobre los cuerpos de los Adivasis muertos. Una vergüenza para la
humanidad. El superintendente de policía Suvez Haq habla abiertamente de
que dispararán contra el pueblo ¿Qué constitución les ha dado ese
derecho? Sean maoístas o de cualquier otra ideología ¿tienen derecho a
matar a sus propios ciudadanos? La muerte de sus oponentes es la
política de este gobierno.
Se está haciendo desaparecer a la oposición política mediante la
aniquilación física. No es una democracia, es un régimen medieval.
Grandes personas escribieron la Constitución para dar esperanza de
justicia a los pobres, a los despojados, a los Dalits, a los Adivasis y
otros pueblos, pero está quedando anulada en el mercado capitalista. El
colmo de la desvergüenza es el Artículo 5º de la Constitución pisoteado
por las botas militares, en nombre del desarrollo de los Adivasis. Esto
está sucediendo a lo largo de toda la India. Solamente por lo que se
refiere a los líderes maoístas, diversas fuerzas de policía y
paramilitares recibieron órdenes de llevar a cabo atrocidades contra el
pueblo de la región, desplazando a los Adivasis de la jungla, o
aterrorizándolos de tal manera que no pudieran pensar más que en salvar
su vida. No podrían pensar ni siquiera en su dignidad, en su tierra, ni
en sus bosques, ni en su agua. Este es el tipo de ataque fascista
constante desde el gobierno. ¿Esta es la mayor democracia del mundo?
Las políticas neoliberales del imperialismo, que han sido adoptadas por
los dirigentes de la burguesía compradora, llevan este país hacia
atrás. Los recursos y la soberanía se han vendido a compañías
extranjeras. La cultura consumista está siendo inoculada en las mentes,
aplastando consecuentemente valores humanos y el pensamiento social sin
ninguna vergüenza. Esto se asume como si fuera un desarrollo por una
parte de la sociedad. “Yo he progresado suficientemente”, “mi vida es
mejor que la de otros”; son un ejemplo de semillas de darwinismo social
que están siendo sembradas. Como resultado, la compasión por los
Adivasis y los Dalits se ha convertido en algo muy lejano. Se observa
como algunos bien remunerados funcionarios sociales, en el nombre de
eliminar la pobreza, han hecho un negocio de ello, consiguiendo dinero y
premios. Aquellos oficiales que maten más Adivasis e incrementen su
puntuación de muerte se convierten en héroes de esta democracia. Los
líderes burgueses, que amasan mediante la corrupción decenas de millones
de rupias son los mismos que están vendiendo las industrias del país a
las compañías extranjeras.
El agua, los bosques y la tierra se están vendiendo. Sin bosques ya no
habrá Adivasis realmente; sin el bosque de los Adivasis, diversas
especies ya no podrán ser protegidas. Para la protección de los dos,
contra el saqueo del Gobierno y contra la represión, sacrificando sus
vidas, la guerrilla maoísta ha construido la gran muralla humana de
China. Cruzar esta barrera se ha hecho imposible para el gobierno. Y de
ahí vienen los crueles ataques con armas químicas contra el pueblo.
Estos atacantes deben ser castigados. Manmohan Singh, Prithviraj Chavan,
R.R. Patil y otros dirigentes son sus principales responsables.
Manmohan Singh es un criminal, por el uso de armas químicas contra su
pueblo. Es acreedor a un castigo y no tiene ningún derecho a hablar
sobre Siria.
Deben ser castigados por sus crímenes contra la humanidad. Los Estados
Unidos, el enemigo número uno de los pueblos del mundo, llora mucho por
Siria, pero el uso de armas químicas contra los maoístas en la India es
una política típicamente norteamericana. Si pueden defender a quienes
luchan en Siria por la democracia, los maoístas en la India están
luchando por la democracia desde hace 44 años. ¿Cómo podrían ser ninguna
amenaza para la India? Obama y los dirigentes burgueses tienen
problemas mentales; son egoístas y lo único que saben es parlotear. No
disponen de ninguna honestidad; los valores humanos no tienen ningún
significado para ellos. Presentándolo como bienestar y desarrollo del
pueblo, llevan a cabo sus objetivos de pillaje y represión.
Mercantilizan el hambre, la enfermedad, el analfabetismo, y en su más
auténtico sentido, están ejecutando las teorías neoliberales de Reagan,
de Thatcher, de Manmohan y de Obama para diezmar millones de personas y
salvarse de la crisis económica. El uso de armas químicas es la esencia
de estas políticas. Su derrocamiento y su castigo es algo patriótico y
un gran trabajo en bien de la humanidad. Por ello llamamos a la
juventud, a los ciudadanos en los que pervive el humanitarismo y a toda
la gente amante del país a luchar contra esta guerra contra el pueblo, y
especialmente contra el uso de armas químicas, y a castigar a los
dirigentes en un juicio popular, por sus crímenes contra la humanidad. Secretario Camarada Sayhadri
Partido Comunista de la India (maoísta), Comité del Estado de Maharashtra
21 de Septiembre de 2013
Il
compagno Bahar Kimyongur è ancora detenuto a Bergamo e vi è
l'intenzione dello stato italiano di mantenerlo in attesa dell'esame
della richiesta di estradizione, sulla base di un mandato di cattura
emesso
By LUIS G. JALANDONI
