Dhaka
The
Islamic fundamentalist attack in Dhaka has spotlighted what really
happens in Bangladesh. Since long time, Bangladesh has become one of
the centers of exploitation of the workers by the big textile MNCs.
The
horrible Rana massacre occurred on April 2013 in Dhaka, where an
eight-storeys building collapsed and nearly 400 workers died, while
working without of the most basic conditions of security and
producing goods for multinational companies, Benetton included, had
already shown what is hidden behind the large textile industry in
Bangladesh. After the Rana massacre, workers sought to organize and
develop a struggle to improve their working and living conditions,
getting as compensation even more repression and massive arrests that
involved any kind of political opposition activists.
Those
killed by the attack of July 1st,
major or lesser pawns they were, were part of the horrible world that
produces this condition. Italian Imperialism, through the
spokespersons of the government, does not say a word about all this
and transforms those people, entrepreneurs, etc. in "martyrs."
But
martyrs are very different. The real terrorism in the world is always
imperialism, including Italian.
Clearly,
something else happensin Dhaka. It happens that the international
crisis and the inner disputes within the ruling class have brought a
mixture of ungovernability and brutal dictatorship; behind both the
super-exploitation of workers and child laborers and the overall
situation in Bangladesh there is the spread of misery and poverty in
one of the most populous countries in the world, in a central area of
South Asia, where Indian hegemonism, India-US alliance with the
ruling classes of Bangladesh at their service increase.
A
mixture that fosters hatred and rebellion in this area, that the most
structured Islamic fundamentalist forces have channeled and whose
outcome is also a strategy of indiscriminate attacks.
But, once again, imperialism, the ruling classes, the
international press bury their heads in the sand.
Recently,
the Government of Bangladesh has carried out 11,000 arrests, at least
equally indiscriminate as the attacks, and nobody in the world has
raised problems of state terror and human rights.
As
the same time, the press reported that the attackers made reasonable
requests, during the action. And the answer was the raid, with
silence of media and not a witness. No one can reasonably say that
the dead were not caused by the raid. At the same time, in a
mysterious way, Italian government and Italian ambassador, embedded
in the reactionary armed forces of Bangladesh, say things that have
no actual confirmation.
It
is useful to recall here that, about the killings in Orlando, several
international blogs, often well-informed by governmental sources, had
already said that no dead occurred before the raid, and it is
physically impossible that a single gunman causes such a high number
of dead and injured.
It
is clear that imperialism, its governments and lackey regimes, choose
the option of massacre without witnesses and, then, it is still and
always the imperialism that must be placed on trial.
But
how does Italian Government respond? On the one hand nothing is said
about what actually happened, not a word about the particular
character of Italian presence in Bangladesh, with pompous statements
about Italy that “is not intimidated”, and meanwhile secret
agents are sent to support the repressive forces of that regime. On
the other hand, it is now two days that General Bertolini, until
yesterday commander of the COI (operational command of armed forces),
coordinates missions from our country to abroad, fills the
newspapers with statements which calls for more funds for defense,
more military interventions, more participation in the wars: "the
military instrument per
se
must be adequately enhanced. We can no longer live in ‘peace and
love’. Defense is a strategic asset, but the resources constantly
reduced. We must acknowledge that the international situation has
changed and it is time to change direction. "
We
are on the road traced by US imperialism Obama style who, extolling
the raids with drones that have recently caused 116 civilian deaths,
speaks about “inevitable consequences”.
In
the case of Bangladesh, nobody is given the right to ignore what is
the true nature of the "Dhaka factory", as the Italian
newspaper
Corriere
della Sera calls
the country; nor to ignore analyses that with sufficient
accuracy describe
how among the peasant population in Bangladesh two basic trends
consolidate: that of the people's war and that of a different nature
represented by the organized Islamic fundamentalism.
Therefore,
there is not an international IS network, which is a tool of
imperialist propaganda, behind the actual situation.
Simone
Pieranni on newspaper Manifesto writes about the Asian peculiarity:
"While in other parts of the world this kind of "fundamentalism"
is successful because of the disintegration of the State and cultural
identities, as result of the devastating Western wars (it should be
said always imperialist, Pieranni - ed); in Bangladesh it is not
directly the war but rather the social violence, exploitation by
manufacturing multinationals, the repeated inner political struggles
that create a problem of despair."
Pieranni,
like others of the Western left, uses the category of "despair",
while it is clearly that what we face is instead a rebellion, now
right, now misguided; now in the big relocated factories, theatre of
massive strikes, now in the countryside.
In
Italy there is a large community of Bangladeshi immigrants. It is
important, on the one hand, to defend them from the usual and obvious
racist hysteria of Salvini and his associates, and also, on the other
hand, to help them to bring in our country the actual reality of
Bangladesh and how imperialist exploitation and terror "come
back home".
PCm Italy
july 2016
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