Sunday, April 28, 2024

From Ang Bayan: US Pours $17 billion In Funds For Israel To Continue The Genocide In Gaza



The US Congress on April 20 approved a bill that would grant the Zionist regime in Israel more than $17 billion in funding to continue its genocidal war in Gaza and expand its war across West Asia at the behest of the US. Apart from the genocidal campaign, the US will bear the cost of enabling the Zionist regime’s missile defense system amid the expansion of armed conflict throughout West Asia.

It has also earmarked $9 billion for supposed “humanitarian aid to Gaza” which is mostly done through food drops. The US has openly banned aid to UNRWA, which it accuses of being involved in the October 7 attack despite having no evidence.

“This support, which is against international law, is a license and a green light for the Zionist extremist government to continue its brutal aggression against our people,” Hamas condemned. “We consider this step as confirmation of official US complicity and partnership in the war of extermination waged by the fascist occupation army against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”

This measure (Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act) is one of the three measures passed by the US congress related to its distribution of aid for its imperialist wars in different parts of the world. After a more than a year delay, it also passed a bill providing $60 billion in military aid for Ukraine and $8.1 billion for US “allies” in the Indo-Pacific, mainly Taiwan. These bills must have counterparts in the US Senate to be passed.

The Marcos regime was among the recipients of military aid, as the US’ main puppet in Asia against China. It will receive $500 million to finance the arms and military equipment it will buy from the US under the guise of “modernizing” the AFP, as well as the construction and renovation of US military bases or “EDCA sites, ” and launching war games on Philippine land, air and sea.

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Waves of Campus Protests Against the U.S.-Backed Israeli War of Genocide Continue… and Spread



Several hundred students and pro-Palestinian supporters rally at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, April 22, 2024.

 

Several hundred students and pro-Palestinian supporters rally at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, April 22, 2024.  

Since we reported at the start of this week on the wave of protests at campuses across the country against the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Gaza, sparked by the student encampment at Columbia University in New York City, encampments, walkouts, rallies and other actions have not only continued but spread. This is a very good and important development, inspiring and challenging millions more throughout society. Here are some of these continuing and spreading campus protests—in the face of police and threats from campus administrators—in the past three days.

At Columbia University, president Minouche Shafik had called in the NYPD riot pigs last week against the protest encampment, and more than 100 protesters were arrested. When the protests continued after this vicious assault, Shafik set a deadline for Tuesday night for the encampment to disband, and then extended the deadline for another 48 hours. On Wednesday, MAGA Republi-fascist House Speaker Johnson landed on the campus to publicly call for Shafik’s resignation for not shutting down the protests immediately—and raised the possibility that the National Guard should be called in if the student encampment continues. Students met Johnson with boos and shouts of “stop the genocide” and “free Palestine.”

At other campuses in New York City, hundreds of protesters at New York University (NYU) defied threats from campus officials and set up tents at Gould Plaza. Monday night, the NYPD moved in to take down tents, push students out, and arrest dozens. At New School, students set up protest tents inside a school lobby and others formed picket lines. Asked how long they would continue, a first-year student said, “We’re demanding something. So if it doesn’t happen, we’re going to have to keep going.”

New York: Students at NYU have been protesting genocide in Palestine.  April 22, 2024, the NYPD moved in to take down tents, push students out, and arrest dozens.

 

New York: Students at NYU have been protesting genocide in Palestine.  April 22, 2024, the NYPD moved in to take down tents, push students out, and arrest dozens.    Photo: AP

At Yale University, an Ivy League school in New Haven, CT, police moved in against campus protesters Monday, on the third night of their encampment demanding the university divest from weapons manufacturers. They arrested 47. Defying the pigs, students had locked arms and circled around the flagpole at Beinecke Plaza. Protests have continued on the campus.

At another Ivy League school, Brown University in Providence, RI, students began an encampment Wednesday morning with “more than two dozen tents pitched on the main green and roughly 75 students participating.”

American University, Washington, DC: Hundreds of students marched to the university president’s office on Tuesday to demand that the school divest from Israel.

University of Texas, Austin: On Wednesday, according to a Guardian report, “Hundreds of students walked out of class to protest against the conflict in Gaza and demand the university divest from companies that manufacture machinery used in Israel’s war efforts, carrying signs and chanting. Dozens of local and state police—including some on horseback and holding batons—formed a line to stop protesters from marching through campus. Officers pushed them off the campus lawn and at one point sent people tumbling into the street.” At least 20 were arrested, including a photojournalist.

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH: Campus administrators called on the police to forcibly kick out dozens of protesters who had occupied a campus building to call out the school’s “complicity in Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid and the climate crisis.” They arrested two protesters, from Students for Justice in Palestine and Ohio Youth for Climate Justice.

University of Pittsburgh: There was a sit-in in support of the Palestinian people, and students and faculty members set up tents on the campus. 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: According to the Michigan Daily, “About 40 pro-Palestine University of Michigan student protesters set up an encampment on the Diag Monday morning…”

University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles: Students began an “occupation” of Alumni Park on the campus in support of people of Palestine and demanded ending university investments in Israel. Protesters faced off against campus cops who moved in to try to dismantle tents and remove signs. As we post this Wednesday night, the LAPD with batons and helmets have begun to arrest protesters who are refusing to leave the park. According to a New York Times report, “A few dozen protesters are standing in a circle, linking arms in the middle of the park. About 200 other protesters have moved to the edges of the park, chanting, ‘Divulge, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.’”

California Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Northern California: Hundreds of protesters occupied Siemens Hall Tuesday night. 

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian students and protesters rally in front of Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley, April 22, 2024.

 

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian students and protesters rally in front of Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley, April 22, 2024.    Photo: AP

University of California, Berkeley: On Monday night, protesters “camped out overnight in Sproul Plaza following a demonstration to demand an end to the war in Gaza and the university's divestment from companies with ties to Israel. Students occupied the steps in front of Sproul Hall and pitched tents in front of the building, calling the action a ‘solidarity encampment.’ The encampment began as a rally in solidarity with the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University...”

Among other campuses around the country where students are protesting: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA; Boston University and Emerson College, Boston, MA; Tufts University, Medford, MA; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Rice, University of Houston, Texas A&M, UT-Dallas, all in Texas; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 


Italy - state's repression in naples against unemployeds in struggle -

info slaicobas/italy (PCm Italy)

Movimento di Lotta – Disoccupati “7 Novembre”

CHIEDIAMO LAVORO CI DANNO FETENZIA

MEGA PROCESSO CONTRO CHI LOTTA A NAPOLI : 43 INDAGATI

E’ di questa mattina [23 aprile] la notifica della Procura di conclusione di indagini preliminari ed inizio del processo che vede ben 43 indagati tra disoccupati/e organizzati con il Movimento 7 Novembre, Cantiere 167 Scampia e compagni/e del Si Cobas e di Iskra solidali.

Un mega-processo che mette sotto accusa la lotta per il lavoro ed il salario in città, in particolar modo i mesi di Dicembre 2022 e Marzo 2023, quando le istituzioni nazionali e locali facevano saltare i tavoli di trattativa di questa vertenza storica sottraendosi al rispetto degli impegni assunti su formazione ed inserimento al lavoro.

Da quanto emerge dalle carte è evidente il tentativo di costruire un castello giudiziario finalizzato a narrare di un disegno criminoso, trasformando la lotta dei disoccupati in un problema di ordine pubblico e non politico/sociale.

La storia di questo movimento, come tutta la tradizione del movimento operaio, insegna che solo la lotta paga.

Ci impegneremo nelle prossime ore a convocare una conferenza stampa e ad articolare un comunicato più complessivo che chiederà a tutte le forze di esprimersi e rompere l’isolamento di questa lotta, scendendo in piazza insieme al movimento di lotta.

Iniziando da domattina e dal 1° Maggio, h 10:00 a Piazza del Gesù.

23 aprile,

Movimento di Lotta – Disoccupati “7 Novembre”

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Italie: Mega-procès contre les militants des luttes des chômeurs à Naples

 

Un méga-procès qui dirigé contre la lutte pour l’emploi et les salaires dans la ville de Naples (l’une des villes italiennes où le taux de chômage est le plus élevé, avec 40 %), en particulier pour les mois de décembre 2022 et du 23 mars, à l’époque où les institutions nationales et locales avaient refusé les négociations sociales et s’étaient dérobées à leurs engagements en matière de formation et d’insertion professionnelle. 43 camarades issus de différentes réalités syndicales et politiques de la gauche de classe à Naples sont procès, notamment des militants du Mouvement des chômeurs du 7 novembre, de Cantiere 167 Scampia, des Si-Cobas et de l’Iskra.


Honrar a Nuestros Mártires - NDFP


Honrar a Nuestros Mártires

Del 17 al 24 de abril, el Frente Democrático Nacional de Filipinas (NDFP, por sus siglas en inglés) celebra la Semana para Recordar y Honrar a los Héroes y Mártires del Pueblo Filipino.

Turquie: Makbule Özer, 81 ans, incarcérée à nouveau


Makbule Özer a de nouveau été incarcérée lundi à Van après avoir été déclarée apte à l’emprisonnement par l’autorité médico-légale turque. Cette Kurde de 81 ans, originaire de la région de Van, avait été arrêtée l’année dernière avec son mari Hadi Özer pour “soutien au terrorisme”. Le couple avait été condamné à plus de deux ans de prison. Après quatre mois de détention, l’exécution de la peine de Makbule Özer avait été suspendue en septembre 2022 compte tenu des multiples problèmes de santé dont elle souffre. La dernière évaluation médico-légale, publiée vendredi, a annulé une décision antérieure qui avait reporté sa peine, entraînant sa réincarcération à Van. Makbule Özer a commenté cette décision: “Je ne peux plus marcher, mais on me ramène en prison. Je ne peux pas utiliser mes mains et mes pieds et j’ai beaucoup de maladies. Comme j’ai du mal à respirer, on me branche parfois sur un appareil à oxygène. Quand j’étais en prison, les autres femmes se sont occupées de moi. Sans ces amies, je n’aurais pas pu survivre là-bas”.

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En Guerrero: así se vivió la reunión organizativa del Encuentro de las Resistencias


 


Este pasado 21 de abril nos dimos cita diferentes organizaciones sociales, sindicales, estudiantiles, campesinas, obreras y populares de todo el país; la sede fue el edificio de la Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores de la Educación de Guerrero (CETEG-CNTE). Los trabajos se desarrollaron en un ambiente de respeto y fraternidad.


Se inició presentando la mesa de debates y pasando lista de los representantes, uno a uno fueron exponiendo su trayectoria, como han llevado sus luchas, como han respaldado la lucha del magisterio democrático y de los padres y madres de los estudiantes desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa, dejando en claro una cosa: que la CNTE ha sido ejemplo de lucha popular y que no hay duda del respaldo que goza entre las distintas organizaciones del pueblo quienes saludamos la ruta de movilización hacia la huelga nacional magisterial. También se resaltó que tenemos una lucha en común, después de un largo debate se tomó un pequeño receso donde compartimos comida tradicional guerrerense, al reanudar la reunión se terminaron de presentar algunos otros compañeros y al final se tomaron los siguientes acuerdos:

  1. Coberturar y apoyar la lucha de los padres y madres de los 43 estudiantes normalistas de Ayotzinapa en su jornada de lucha del 26 al 30 de abril en la CDMx.
  2. Coberturar los saludos fraternos en el Sexto Congreso Nacional Extraordinario de la CNTE a celebrarse los días 26, 27 y 28 de abril del presente año en la CDMx.
  3. La necesidad de desarrollar una jornada proletaria a nivel nacional de carácter unitario e internacionalista este 1° de Mayo, día internacional de la clase trabajadora.
  4. Respaldar el plan de acción que emerja del Sexto Congreso Nacional Extraordinario de la CNTE empujando la huelga nacional magisterial.
  5. Apoyar cada acción de la Asamblea Nacional Popular y el llamado al boicot contra la farsa electoral burguesa.

 

De la reunión se han desprendido algunas tareas, destacándose en este momento la elaboración de un manifiesto unitario y un solo cartel para el 1° de Mayo; continuar las reuniones de las resistencias a convocatoria de la CNTE; y construir una plataforma nacional que respalde las luchas y los planes de acción de las diversas formaciones populares.

Nuestra organización democrática ha decidido sumarse a este proceso como parte de la ruta nacional que hemos acordado agitando la campaña ¡Frenar la guerra contra el pueblo! ¡No votar, organizarse y luchar! atendiendo correctamente los problemas de la unidad, la cual debe basarse en unidad con principios traducida en unidad en la acción. 



Durante los trabajos de este encuentro, activistas revolucionarios distribuyeron propaganda llamando al boicot electoral, y colocaron banderas de Palestina en apoyo a la Resistencia Nacional, sumándose a la exigencia de libertad para el camarada Georges Abdallah.

 


¡Frenar la guerra contra el pueblo!

¡No votar, organizarse y luchar!

¡Gobierne quien gobierne los derechos del pueblo se defienden!

CP-Sol Rojo

 

Turkey: Ünal Yiğit, Imprisoned Partisan, sentenced to 35 years in prison

 


Featured image: Ünal Yiğit. Source: Yeni Demokrasi

Yeni Demokrasi reports that Imprisoned Partisan Ünal Yiğit was sentenced to 35 years in prison for seven allegations, including “being a member of an illegal organization”. His lawyer has objected the ruling by the Istanbul 29th High Criminal Court to the Court of Appeal.

It is also denounced that his right to defense was denied by forcing him to participate through a video call while he was held in Marmara Prison, in the Silivri district of Istanbul. Ünal Yiğit argued that he could not make a proper defense through the video call, but the judge disregarded his plea saying that he could “sit down and receive his sentence”, admitting that the verdict was already set before his defense was made.

It was reported that Ünal Yiğit was offered individual transportation to the court house, which he did not accept. We have previously reported on prisoners being tortured by the old Turkish State while being transported between different prisons.


MÉXICO: LUIS ENRIQUE LÓPEZ LÓPEZ ¡PRESENTE!

 

MÉXICO: LUIS ENRIQUE LÓPEZ LÓPEZ ¡PRESENTE!


... "Canta canta compañero, que tu voz sea disparo/ 

que con las manos del pueblo no habrá canto desarmado"

Alí Primera

 

El pasado lunes 22 de abril falleció nuestro compañero Luis Enrique López López luego de una agotadora batalla contra la leucemia que le arrebató la vida.

Luis Enrique era integrante de la Corriente del Pueblo Sol Rojo, y a su corta edad de 32 años tenía en su haber destacados méritos.

Siendo apenas estudiante de telesecundaria se unió a la lucha organizada de su comunidad natal, Cerro Grande, San Francisco Ixhuatán. Una pequeña población rural de larga tradición SolRojista. Junto a su familia se sumó a la huelga de pagos contra las altas tarifas de CFE y apoyó la lucha de resistencia contra la imposición del megaproyecto minero Cerro Grande II.

Luis formó filas en las columnas de campesinos pobres y pescadores que luchaban bajo el mando de Luis Armando Fuentes Aquino, el querido Comandante Gato. Ahí aprendió a combatir con disciplina participando en vigorosas acciones y movilizaciones de masas contra el latifundio y el paramilitarismo en la Zona Oriente del Istmo.

Siguiendo a Luis Armando, el compañero Luis Enrique participó en la lucha contra la imposición del megaproyecto eólico de Mareña Renovables, apoyando a los pueblos de San Dionisio del Mar y Álvaro Obregón para la defensa de la Barra Santa Teresa y la zona lagunar. Una ejemplar lucha que culminó con el triunfo de los pueblos Ikoots y Binniza´ derrotando al imperialismo español.

Después de unos años Luis pidió permiso a su familia para seguir estudiando y llegó a la Ciudad de Oaxaca donde se adhirió al Movimiento Estudiantil Popular (MEP-Mx) ingresando a la facultad de Bellas Artes. A Luis le apasionaba el arte popular y la música; colaboró con algunos proyectos culturales haciendo stencil y grabado, realizando pintas de protesta por la ciudad. Participó en campamentos juveniles presentando aportaciones culturales, cantando y sonriendo siempre.

Como muchos otros jóvenes revolucionarios, tomó posición por el maoísmo en el momento de la ruptura contra el revisionismo hoxhaista y su filia electorera, y se enlistó como combatiente popular en la toma de tierras siendo activo en la autodefensa comunitaria aplicando las enseñanzas del Comandante Gato.

Luis fue parte del mar de masas que fundó la comunidad Francisco Villa, y fue precursor en la construcción de las Brigadas Juveniles del Pueblo (BJP) en dicho lugar.

Luis Enrique fue preso político durante el sexenio de Peña Nieto, acusado de terrorismo y portación de explosivos de uso reservado del ejército mexicano, estuvo recluido en las cárceles federales de Tepic, Nayarit y Mengolí, Oaxaca; además en la cárcel estatal de Etla, Oaxaca.

El compañero Luis Enrique servía al pueblo de todo corazón, y cuando las comunidades del Istmo se vieron afectadas con el terremoto del 2017 formó parte de las brigadas de rescatistas que acudieron en apoyo bajo la jefatura de Javier López Martínez, el destacado Comandante Rojo. Luis no escatimó el trabajo y los esfuerzos en dicha labor.

Su última participación la hizo los días 9, 10 y 11 de junio de 2023 en el Encuentro Nacional de Colectividades por la Nueva Democracia, cuya sede fue la comunidad Francisco Villa. Junto a sus compañeros musicales tocó cumbias de protesta alegrando el evento, llamando jocoso y enérgico a “sostener la lucha contra los tiranos y no perdonarle nada a quienes traicionan la revolución”.

La vida de Luis estuvo marcada por su organización de principio a fin. Nació en una comunidad SolRojista en el Istmo de Tehuantepec y falleció en otra comunidad SolRojista en los Valles Centrales.

En ambas comunidades sus compañeros le han despedido con honores. Una bandera roja y el cariño de las masas le acompañaron en su viaje final al Istmo, donde fue sepultado junto a su madre.

Hoy su nombre se inscribe en el muro de honor de los héroes del pueblo, erigidos en mártires de la revolución proletaria.

LUIS ENRIQUE LÓPEZ LÓPEZ…

¡PRESENTE, PRESENTE, EN LA LUCHA COMBATIENTE!

Interview with TKP-ML Central Committee Political Bureau Member - for debate



"OUR PARTY WILL CONTINUE ITS WAR AGAINST FASCISM WITH DETERMINATION IN ITS 53RD YEAR OF STRUGGLE"


"We attach importance to the masses organizing their own politics independent of the politics of the ruling classes and moreover emerging as a power. In this sense, we find the call of the working class, laborers, women and the youth of the people to the Fields on May 1st valuable and meaningful, especially in the Taksim Square on May 1st in Istanbul."


- First of all, could you introduce yourself?

- My name is Özgür Aren. I am a member of the TKP-ML CC, Political Bureau.

- Founded on April 24, 1972, your party is leaving behind its 52nd year of struggle. On this occasion, we would like to interview you on behalf of your party. Before moving on to my questions, what would you like to say about this first?

- Yes, it is easy to say that we have left behind half a century of struggle. Although this is a short period of time in terms of the struggle of societies and classes, it is also a very long period of time. We respectfully bow to the lives and memories of all our comrades, especially İbrahim Kaypakkaya, the founding leader of our party, Ali Haydar Yıldız, the first immortal of our people's army, and Meral Yakar, the first immortal of our communist women's organization, who became stars in these 52 years. I would also like to express our feelings of gratitude for the efforts of hundreds and thousands of our comrades who have been veterans, imprisoned and tortured in this costly struggle of more than half a century.

We salute the militants of our party, our people's army, our communist women's organization and our komsomol who are currently in struggle, especially in the geography of Turkey, who are imprisoned in prisons and resist against the torture of isolation and torture, and who are in all areas of struggle in the Middle East and Western Europe, and we celebrate their 53rd year of struggle.

And we thank you for giving us this opportunity.

- We thank you. Your party had held its 1st Congress in 2019. What would you like to say about your work in general since then?

- Yes, our party held its Congress after a long period of time. It must be stated that our 1st Congress is of historical importance in terms of our party history. The current meaning of this -as we expressed on various occasions during that period- was the reorganization of our party by defending the party rule and the principles of the proletariat against the attacks of the enemy on the party from the outside and the putschist liquidationism from within. However, in addition to this current importance, another important point was that it created our party program, which had always been postponed in the history of half a century of struggle. This program was created by analyzing and synthesizing the programmatic views of our founding leader Ibrahim Kaypakkaya and the current situation of Turkish society and class struggle. This was a historically important development in terms of our party history.

In connection with this, what was also important for our party was that it analyzed the situation of Turkish society at present and stated that new contradictions were added to the main contradictions. The congress emphasized that the national question, ecological struggle, patriarchy, etc. had become the main contradictions in Turkish society.

Desatar la iniciativa de las masas para conmemorar un Primero de Mayo internacionalista y revolucionario


Se aproxima el Primero de Mayo, día internacional de la clase obrera. Mientras la burguesía busca deformar su carácter proletario y de lucha revolucionaria e internacionalista para convertirlo en un día festivo; mientras la pequeña burguesía reformista llama a confiar en la democracia burguesa y a centrar las esperanzas del pueblo en lo que Petro pueda hacer desde la presidencia y en el establo parlamentario en el que la mafia le pone zancadillas a sus reformas… los revolucionarios llamamos a organizar Comités Pro-Primero de Mayo que organicen Bloques Internacionalistas y Revolucionarios, que levanten las banderas de la lucha directa de las masas beligerantes contra el capital, a levantar las banderas del internacionalismo proletario y en concreto, a solidarizarse con la justa lucha del pueblo palestino.

Las tareas para preparar el Primero de Mayo de forma revolucionaria son muchas. Por ejemplo, se pueden conformar Brigadas de propaganda para imprimir y pegar el cartel por los muros de ciudades y pueblos de Colombia, incluso de otros países. Llamamos a organizar Brigadas de distribución del periódico impreso Revolución Obrera y del nuevo folleto que editó este Portal sobre el Primero de Mayo. Estos días se pueden aprovechar para hacer pintas con las consignas revolucionarias, para hacer las pancartas que van a nutrir los Bloques, para colgar telas en los puentes con los llamados a conmemorar este Primero de Mayo. Donde sea posible, se pueden hacer conferencias públicas presenciales y virtuales. Los medios digitales también deben usarse para difundir los puntos de partida y recorridos de los Bloques en las diferentes ciudades; para compartir los documentos que dan cuenta del carácter político y combativo de este Primero de Mayo; para organizar grupos de discusión, Brigadas que usen la internet para hacerle propaganda a este importante día de la clase obrera.

Volanteo, pega de calcomanías y agitación en las fábricas, en las estaciones de transporte masivo, en los barrios, en las universidades y colegios, en todos los sitios donde sea posible hacerlo para convencer con la práctica a más obreros de engrosar las filas de los Bloques Internacionalistas y Revolucionarios. Reuniones entre los activistas de sindicatos y organizaciones políticas para comprometerse con el cumplimiento de las tareas que exige organizar todos los detalles de esta histórica cita, como las pancartas, el sonido, los volantes, las consignas, etc.

Estas son apenas algunas ideas que les proponemos para desarrollarlas en estos días que faltan para el 1M. Sin embargo, las masas tienen una infinita capacidad creadora, una gran iniciativa que debe ser concretada en experiencias para racionalizarlas por los revolucionarios, emularlas y generalizarlas por todos los medios posibles. Por lo tanto, los invitamos a que nos hagan llegar sus ideas de acciones a realizar y los reportes gráficos de lo que vayan haciendo. Esperamos que este Primero de Mayo sea una oportunidad de organizar lo susceptible de ser organizado y de canalizar las energías dispersas de las masas hacia el justo propósito de organizar un Primero de Mayo Internacionalista y Revolucionario

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Italy - 25th avril - anniversary of the victory of Italian Antifascist Resistance - national poster


 

France: Poursuite de la criminalisation des militants pro-palestiniens

 

France: Poursuite de la criminalisation des militants pro-palestiniens

Le soutien à la Palestine reste la cible de l’État français. Ces derniers mois, les tentatives de réduire et de priver d’espace démocratique et social les groupes et les collectifs de soutien à la Palestine se sont succédés. L’attaque répressive touche en outre les forces politiques et sociales qui solidarisent avec la Palestine en France. Jean-Paul Delescaut (photo), Secrétaire général de l’Union Départementale CGT du Nord, a été condamné ce jour à une peine d’un an d’emprisonnement avec sursis par le tribunal correctionnel de Lille pour « apologie du terrorisme » (mais relaxé pour « provocation à la haine raciale »). Jean-Paul Delescaut, qui a fait appel, était poursuivi pour un tract diffusé par le syndicat le 10 octobre 2023, trois jours après l’offensive de la résistance palestinienne contre Israël.

 

USA: 130 manifestants pro-palestiniens arrêtés à New York

 


Plus de 130 personnes ont été arrêtées dans la nuit à New York, devant des locaux de la prestigieuse université NYU, après des manifestations étudiantes pro-palestiniennes. Ces 133 personnes, qui depuis ont été relâchées, ont été arrêtée dans une intervention de la police de New-York (NYPD) à la demande de l’université. Plusieurs campus américains sont touchés  par le génocide à Gaza, des étudiants organisant des manifestations et des sit-in pour réclamer la fin de la guerre menée par Israël à Gaza. Une centaine d’étudiants pro-palestiniens avaient déjà été interpellés la semaine dernière à l’université Columbia, également à New York. Là encore, la présidente de l’établissement avait demandé à la police d’intervenir (notre article).

 

52th anniversary statement TKP/ML - for debate


TURKEY: TKP/ML-CC/PB – OUR PARTY TKP/ML IS 52 YEARS OLD!


OUR STRUGGLE FOR REVOLUTION AND COMMUNISM CONTINUES AND WILL UNINTERRUPTED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION!

Our party TKP/ML celebrates the 52nd anniversary of its foundation on April 24th. We greet the members, fighters, militants, supporters of our party with the enthusiasm of the year of its foundation. We declare that our party, which has the revolutionary program of the liberation struggle of our working people of Turkish, Kurdish and various nationalities, is more determined and determined to fulfill this task with 52 years of experience. Our party TKP/ML has been able to continue its struggle for revolution and communism continuously and uninterruptedly for 52 years by firmly clinging to its communist program, meticulously preserving its claim to revolution, following the footsteps of our founding leader Comrade İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA.

Parallel to its foundation, our Party has the audacity and move to launch the People’s War, the strategy of the country’s revolution. For 52 years, we ensured continuity with hundreds of immortal comrades who sealed the battlefields with communist audacity. By giving thousands of prisoners, we proved that we will never refrain from paying the price in the cause of revolution and communism and created a consciousness. Tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of workers and laborers became conscious and shaped by the line of Ibrahim KAYPAKKAYA and continued the 52-year march by contributing to the progress of our party, giving it heart and support. Our party TKP/ML is the carrier communist subject of continuous struggle as a great accumulation, experience and the sum of this. Despite all recession, defeats and the weakness of the process we are going through, this basic feature has never darkened or erased. With this feature, our Party is in the battle to lead the class struggle with its independent program and action, which is the most fundamental need of the proletariat and the people.

Our party TKP/ML announced its establishment on April 24, 1972, in conditions when the fascist dictatorship suppressed all social sectors and revolutionary-progressive pioneers. Under the leadership of Comrade İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA, our party declared its foundation by drawing a clear line from the communist perspective against all pacifist, reformist wobbles and of course all adventurous currents. In his short revolutionary life, Comrade İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA laid the foundation of our party with a strong theoretical approach and a daring revolutionary move. Comrade Ibrahim, while establishing a line of struggle against revisionist currents, adopted an approach that concentrated on determining the social structure of the country, the political nature of the enemy, the program that would lead the people to liberation, and the general political line. What gives direction to this approach is that it is based on the science of history and society and its class approach to all problems. For this therefore , from the party’s nomenclature to its program, from the strategy of revolution to the mass line, from class alliances to the definition of enemy classes, from the analysis of the multinational structure to the nature of the political regime, it has managed to put forward the fundamental problems of the revolution with a strong theoretical struggle. Today still, the classism and clarity in its approach to Kemalism and the Kurdish National Question is an antidote to social-chauvinism and class collaborationist approaches. Again, in semi-feudal semi-colonial countries like ours, the position taken by the communist party that it can only preserve and strengthen its communist qualities through the People’s War strategy is an indestructible barricade against all kinds of liquidationism.

Our Party was built under the staff of Communist Leader İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA and has been trying to carry out its leadership role in the class struggle on these foundations for 52 years. The process we are going through is under the siege of liquidationist currents against the fundamental problems and principles of the revolution, against the armed struggle and the overthrow of the system, which involves the liberation of the people. In addition to this ideological attack, there is a large-scale and intense attack by imperialism and fascism to destroy and intimidate the revolutionary struggle. Our party is in a very difficult process socially and politically, just as it declared its establishment. It meets this process by persistently and decisively focusing on the problems and needs of the revolution, by clinging tightly to the main course of the people’s liberation struggle. While determining policy and forming tactics, it does not compromise on approaches that take into account the problems and main needs of the revolution and that will nourish and strengthen it. It takes an ideological and political position against all kinds of attitudes that allow the people to be backed up by fascist cliques and hinder their independent action. It does not refrain from drawing thick lines between itself and constitutionalist, systemic, election-indexed approaches and persistently and decisively seeking and turning towards a revolutionary orientation.

Undoubtedly, we have a very backward level in terms of turning the anger and reaction of the Turkish, Kurdish and people of various nationalities against fascism into an organized force and equipping them with the consciousness of revolution. This is a fact. A revolutionary process in accordance with the sharpness of social contradictions has not yet been organized and the masses have not been mobilized on this axis. Our Party is aware that this task is of vital importance and that this will only happen with a positioning and concentration according to the real needs of the revolution. In such periods, the main thing is not to break away from the interests and tendency of the masses. The following advice of Comrade Lenin is an approach that our party firmly embraces and dominates its line: “The idea of building communist society exclusively with the hands of the Communists is childish, absolutely childish. We communists are but a drop in the ocean, a drop in the ocean of the people. They will succeed in having the people follow their road only if they correctly define this road.” Our Party, with its cadres, members, militants and supporters, is aware that it is a drop in the sea of the people. The masses shape history and they are the real power. Our Party has never been content with determining the direction of history correctly. It has been in the struggle and determination to draw the masses towards the direction of history. Today, it sees fulfilling this task as its main and fundamental problem and is taking shape.

52th Anniversary - Statement of TKP-ML - for debate

 



With Persistence and Perseverance for a "Tighter, Stronger, More Determined War"!

TKP-ML, 52 YEARS OLD!

Our Party TKP-ML, born as a result of the class struggle in our geography, within the world-shaking storms of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution led by Comrade Mao Zedong, is 52 years old!

The flag, which was opened on April 24, 1972, has been waving for 52 years under the leadership of Comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, against all kinds of reformist and revisionist leadership: "We are the heirs of Comrade Mustafa Suphi and the TKP under his leadership", "Now we are raising a flag high in front of everyone's eyes".

While our Party has been waving the flag of communism for 52 years as the vanguard and leading force of the international proletariat in our geography, four general secretaries, tens of leading cadres, hundreds of fighters, militants and supporters, especially its founding leader, were immortalized. Thousands of our comrades were wounded. Thousands were imprisoned in the prisons of fascism. In its 52 years of struggle, our Party responded to all kinds of attacks by our class enemies with resistance. It won victories and took defeats against fascism. The Party paid the price and made them pay. It continued to wave the flag of communism opened under the leadership of Comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya. And as we enter our 52nd year of struggle, our Party especially our immortal comrades, injured, imprisoned and subjected to the torture of fascism, through our comrades' lives, blood, resistance and labor, has managed to create a tradition in the revolutionary and communist movement in Turkey.

For 52 years, the secret of the flag of communism that has been waved with perseverance is that our Party brings together Marxism-Leninism-Maoism with the aspirations and demands of our people of Turkish, Kurdish nations, various nationalities and beliefs, for liberation from exploitation, for freedom and independence. The foundation of our Party was laid in the most advanced actions of the working class and popular masses, by a limited number of cadres, especially our leading comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, by equipping the class struggle in our geography with MLM science. The secret of our Party's 52nd year of struggle is the MLM science and the struggle of the masses. As long as our Party and the struggle of the working class and the masses of the people exist, the flag of communism will continue to fly high in these lands.

Our Party has gained positions and victories to the extent that it has been able to combine MLM science with the struggle of the masses. To the extent that it distanced itself from the struggle of the masses, it suffered defeats and lost positions. This is the concrete lesson that our 52-year history of struggle has taught us.

In the half-century since the founding of our Party, the struggle of the international proletariat and oppressed peoples has witnessed great upheavals. Most importantly, the working class and oppressed peoples lost the positions they gained through revolutions one by one. Our class enemies declared that "the class struggle is over" and "ideologies are dead". However, in a short time, the footsteps of the Imperialist Sharing War, which is inherent in imperialist capitalism, became more audible.

In the conditions where the 3rd Imperialist Sharing War is being discussed in the international arena and each camp of the imperialist bourgeoisie is making preparations accordingly, our geography comes to the fore as one of the centers of this war of sharing. After Iraq and Syria, the reactionary mullah regime of Iran is becoming more and more evident as the new target of the imperialists.

Zionist Israel, established as an outpost of imperialism in the Middle East, continues to be a threat to the peoples of the region, especially through genocidal attacks against the Palestinian nation.

The Turkish state, whose justification for existence is cooperation with imperialist capital and hostility to the people; It is preparing for new attacks against our people of Turkish, Kurdish nations, various nationalities and beliefs. As a useful member of NATO, the military organization of imperialism, it aims to increase the invasion and massacre attacks against the peoples of the region, especially the Kurdish nation, not only inside but also outside the borders. It is preparing for new massacres in order to use the increasing contradictions between imperialists for its own benefit.

At the current stage, Turkish fascism has condemned millions of workers and laborers to a wage below the hunger limit called minimum wage. The starvation wage has become the average wage. Millions of people are condemned to live at the limit of hunger and poverty and are worried about the future, while a handful of minorities who hold power live in luxury and splendor. The broad masses of the people are reacting to the situation they have been forced into. However, as can be seen in the last local elections, this reaction is wanted to be backed behind the opposition clique of the ruling classes. The aim is to keep the opposition of the masses within the order, to prevent new uprisings like Gezi and Kobane, and more importantly to prevent the armed struggle from reaching the masses.

In its 52nd year of struggle, our Party calls on workers, peasants and intellectuals, youth and women who are devoted to the cause of communism but whose beliefs and energies have been channeled in the wrong way due to revisionist and reformist leaderships, to organize, to grow the unshakable belief in the fire of "revolution" and "communism" that they carry subjectively in their heads and hearts through organized revolutionary struggle.


Long Live the 52nd Anniversary of the Founding of our Party!

Long live Marxism Leninism Maoism!

Long live TKP-ML, TIKKO, TMLGB and KKB!


TKP-ML Central Committee

April 2024



Monday, April 22, 2024

May Day 2024 - in the next days - Joint Declaration 2024 and all national and international statements that we support

Palestine: Combats à Gaza et en Cisjordanie - info


Les soldats des forces d’occupation israéliennes des ont échangé des coups de feu avec des combattants palestiniens en Cisjordanie occupée samedi, , tandis qu’à Gaza, les combats se poursuivaient. Les forces israéliennes ont lancé vendredi un raid sur la camp de Nour Shams, près de la ville palestinienne de Tulkarm, mais ils ont été confronté à la résistance armée de combattants des Brigades Tulkarm. Dix Palestiniens ont été tués et huit autres arrêtés, et quatre soldats israéliens ont blessés dans les affrontements. Les Brigades Tulkarm, composées de combattants de plusieurs factions palestiniennes, ont déclaré que leurs hommes étaient toujours aux prises avec l’armée israélienne samedi. Le ministère palestinien de la Santé a confirmé la mort de deux personnes depuis vendredi à Nours Shams, région qui abrite des réfugiés de la guerre de 1948 et leurs descendants. Les deux victimes sont un combattant et un adolescent de 16 ans, selon les responsables palestiniens. À Gaza, les autorités locales ont fait état de frappes contre la ville de Rafah, dans le sud de l’enclave, où plus d’un million de Palestiniens ont trouvé refuge et à Jabalia (nord). L’armée israélienne mène également des raids dans le centre de la bande de Gaza. Rafah est la dernière zone de Gaza où les forces terrestres israéliennes ne sont pas encore entrées depuis le début du conflit.

Dossier(s): Monde arabe et Iran Tags:

italian classist trade union Slai Cobas - guided from PCm Italy - supports call of PGFTU

E’ un vizio consolidato dare un giudizio sulle forze in campo come gruppi nazionali omogenei: così ci sono gli israeliani, gli uomini di Hamas, gli arabi sunniti e sciiti ma pochi o nessuno indaga sulle condizioni degli operai di queste terre eppure la loro sollevazione collettiva contro il governo israeliano sarebbe l’unica possibilità reale di fermare il genocidio di Gaza.

We are writing to alert you to a call from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) - Gaza for global days of action on May Day (1/5) and Nakba Day (15/5) 2024.

You can read the full call in English, Arabic, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek and German here: www.workersinpalestine.org/news/strike-for-palestine Other languages will be made available soon. 



PCm italy for Iran

 

pc 19 aprile - Attacco di Israele all'Iran - mentre prepara il massacro genocida dei palestinesi a Rafah, appoggiato dall'imperialismo USA/NATO - Italia compresa

Noi siamo dalla parte dell'IRAN, noi siamo dalla parte dei ribelli Houthi, noi siamo dalla parte della resistenza palestinese e delle masse arabe/ contro imperialismo, sionismo e regimi ad essi asserviti.

La guerra imperialista si può fermare solo se avanza la guerra popolare!

proletari comunisti/PCm Italia

Official CPP Statement On Iran’s Retaliatory Strikes Against Israel


 

Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer | Communist Party Of The Philippines

April 14, 2024

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and Filipino revolutionary forces consider the missile and drone attacks of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Zionist regime’s military bases as a just and measured response to Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1, which killed 18 officers and men of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Iran’s attacks penetrated the much-vaunted Iron Dome defense system and punctured a big hole on the arrogance of the Zionist regime. It has emboldened and inspired millions of people around the world, especially the Palestinian people. They see Iran’s attacks as just retribution for the relentless and genocidal US-backed war being waged by Israel in Gaza, which have killed more than 33,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

Iran’s retaliation comes after decades of restraint over continued attacks by the Zionist regime. In years prior, the Zionist Israel carried out at least six assassinations against Iranian nuclear scientists, killing five. It also worked hand-in-hand with US military forces which carried out the 2020 drone assassination against Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq.

After carrying out her retaliation, Iran declared that “the matter can be deemed concluded.” We join in condemning threats of further escalation coming from Israel and the US government which has publicly declared “ironclad support” to Israel.

We express our solidarity with the Palestinian people as they continue to intensify their resistance, armed and otherwise, to push back against US-supported Israel from Gaza and regain the rest of their homeland.

We urge the Filipino people and peoples around the world to continue rallying support for the Palestinian people and demand that the US government, Benjamin Netanyahu and his officers be held accountable and punished for the countless war crimes committed by the Zionist Israel.


Saturday, April 20, 2024

maoistroad for boykott UE/Elections - a joint declaration - info for debate

 

Abstention aux élections européennes

L'UE est l'édifice des impérialistes
C'est un instrument d'exploitation, d'occupation et d'oppression des travailleurs et des peuples.
C'est un bastion du racisme et de la guerre.
Sortir du Parlement européen, s'opposer à l'UE, c'est la voie des travailleurs et des peuples!
Abstention aux élections européennes!

Les élections pour le Parlement européen en mai‐juin auront lieu dans une période d'attaques multiples contre les droits des peuples d'Europe et dans une période de guerre et de conflits sanglants sur le continent européen.

Au cours des années précédentes, les puissances impérialistes dominantes de l'Union européenne ont consolidé l'exploitation et le pillage des peuples et des travailleurs des pays européens. Des politiques d'austérité extrêmes ont été mises en œuvre, les pauvres et les classes moyennes ont été écrasés par des réductions de salaire et l'attaque de leurs droits du travail, et les paysans ont vu les attaques de la politique de la PAC qui les visent. Les jeunes ont continué à être au centre de l'attaque, les politiques européennes s'attaquant aux études et aux droits du travail ; en outre, non seulement les politiques de Bologne n'ont pas apporté de jours meilleurs aux jeunes qui étudient, mais elles ont aggravé les conditions d'étude et ont même contraint de nombreux étudiants à abandonner leurs études. Les jeunes travailleurs, les jeunes de la classe ouvrière pauvre, ceux qui vivent en marge de la pauvreté, les migrants et les "citoyens de seconde zone", comme on les appelle, ont été durement touchés. D'une part, ils ont été les premiers à accepter les mesures de réduction et d'austérité ; d'autre part, ils ont vu leurs droits démocratiques bafoués.

Durant tous les développements de ces dernières années, l'UE apparaît une fois de plus comme une force qui soutient et participe à des guerres injustes, une force responsable du massacre des peuples. La guerre injuste en Ukraine, outre la marque des impérialistes russes et américains, porte également la marque de l'intervention de l'UE et de son soutien aux groupes fascistes et d'extrême droite. Le peuple ukrainien a le droit de résister contre toute invasion et de combattre pour l’indépendance et son droit à la souveraineté. Mais cela ne peut pas être réalisé par le gouvernement réactionnaire de Zélenski et la classe dirigeante ukrainienne, ni, encore moins, par les impérialistes US-OTAN et européens.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

17 de abril día del prisionero palestino: ¡recordar y luchar por la libertad de los presos por luchar!

 

17 de abril día del prisionero palestino: ¡recordar y luchar por la libertad de los presos por luchar!

17 de abril día del prisionero palestino: ¡recordar y luchar por la libertad de los presos por luchar! 1
Familiares de presos palestinos marchan en Ramala por su liberación inmediata en medio de la conmemoración del Día del Prisionero Palestino -17 de abril 2024

Como cada año, se conmemora el Día del Prisionero Palestino, en conmemoración de la liberación el 17 de abril de 1974 del primer palestino llamado Mahmoud Bakr Hijazi, como producto del primer intercambio de prisioneros entre palestinos y la entidad sionista de Israel. Es una fecha que resalta la lucha y la resistencia de los prisioneros palestinos que han sido detenidos por Israel en cárceles y centros de tortura. Este día no solo honra a aquellos que han sacrificado su libertad en la búsqueda de la libertad de su tierra y su pueblo, sino que también sirve como un recordatorio de las difíciles condiciones que enfrentan estos prisioneros y sus familias.

17 de abril día del prisionero palestino: ¡recordar y luchar por la libertad de los presos por luchar! 2
Embajada del Estado de Palestina, Argentina

Los 9600 prisioneros políticos palestinos son símbolos vivientes de la lucha por la autodeterminación y la justicia en Palestina. De ese total, 3800 son detenidos sin juicio ni cargos y a menudo enfrentan tortura, malos tratos y condiciones inhumanas durante su detención. Las familias de los prisioneros también sufren, ya que a menudo se les niega el acceso a sus seres queridos o se les prohíbe visitarlos en las cárceles israelíes.

El Día del Prisionero Palestino es una ocasión para solidarizarse con los prisioneros y sus familias, así como para destacar que todos los llamados Derechos Humanos, tan defendidos en palabras por los sionistas y sus patrocinadores imperialistas, son violados sistemáticamente cuando se examina la situación de los palestinos que están privados de su libertad. Es un llamado al pueblo, a las fuerzas democráticas, a los revolucionarios del mundo para que actúen en contra de la ocupación israelí y exijan el respeto de los derechos de los prisioneros palestinos de acuerdo con el derecho internacional.

En Palestina y en todo el mundo, este día se conmemora con manifestaciones, marchas, conferencias y actividades culturales que resaltan la resistencia y la determinación del pueblo palestino. Ayer en Ramala, situada en la Cisjordania ocupada, se reunieron más de cien palestinos con pancartas y fotos de sus familiares y amigos presos, para conmemorar, en medio de la brutal arremetida del enemigo sionista, el Día del Prisionero Palestino, exigiendo su liberación inmediata y el fin del asedio que se recrudeció desde el 7 de octubre de 2023.

Llamamos a las masas populares a que levanten el puño con acciones de protesta contundentes, por los palestinos detenidos injustamente por la entidad sionista de Israel. Desde Colombia, mantendremos la bandera Palestina en alto y viva la esperanza de que más temprano que tarde los ya casi 10 mil presos políticos palestinos, verán de nuevo la luz de la libertad junto a sus familias y camaradas de lucha