Wir dokumentieren diese englische Übersetzung des uns zugeschickten Berichtes:
In
line with the resistance against the G20-Meeting in Hamburg the
anti-imperialist alliance formed itself out of various organisations.
Declared goal of the alliance was “In the middle of the diverse
forms of resistance we will fight in order to send a clear
internationalist and revolutionary message to those, fighting
imperialism all over the world: We stand at your side, your struggle is
our struggle! We send this message among others to the poor peasants in
Brazil, who give their lives to unfold a great revolution; we send this
message to all, who fight the imperialist aggression in Kurdistan, Syria
and Iraq;
we send it to the comrades giving
their lives in the people’s wars in Peru, Turkey, India and on the
Philippines in order to lead the revolution to its end; we send this
message to everyone, who holds up the banner of resistance against
genocide and the draconian repression of the Erdogan regime in Turkey;
we send this message to those who hold up the flag of rebellion in the
dungeons of counter-revolutionary everywhere in the world, we send this
message to the communists and revolutionaries, who despite all
differences fight together in the imperialist countries to destroy the
imperialist beast.“
Therefore the alliance undertook various
activities that – in a moment in which other friends were occupied
mainly to solve camps, routes of demonstrations etcetera – brought the
campaign against the G20-Summit into the proletarian neighbourhoods in
Hamburg, to the deepest and broadest masses; through a certain handling
the conditions got created so we could fight the whole week where, how
and when we wanted to, meaning it was possible for us to make powerful
initiatives and serve and develop the militant attitude in the protests
against the G20. The propaganda was done for example amongst others, in
bright day in working class neighbourhoods slogans were written on walls
while leaflets were spread. The masses did not complain about „smudged
walls“, in the contrary, these actions got the support of the residents.
With an initiative of the comrades the first action of this campaign
was dedicated to the Mexican comrade Meztli Sarabia Reyna from Oaxaca,
who got killed by mercenaries of the Mexican state not long ago.
The willingness to unite with all forces that want to fight against
the meeting of the G20, like it is said in the call of the
anti-imperialist alliance, got implemented in praxis. Comrades took part
in various struggles and demonstrations within the week, to be able to
let the storms of mass struggles breeze in their faces and to be able to
be part of this gigantic storm, something that just can’t happen in a
quiet back room. Therefore a contingent of the anti-imperialist alliance
took part at the “Welcome to Hell“-demonstration, even though the
resistance of the masses was used in parts by forces that did not break
with the bourgeois state and were ready to sit on a table with him to
bargain, and forces that more than once played the games of the
defendants of the genocidal Israel, the so called “Antideutsche“, to
tear down the bridges connecting different alignments within the
revolutionary movement in the FRG.
The question has to be put, why of all things the International
Centre B5 got target of a brutal assault and a search of the police,
even though compared to e.g. the Rote Flora it was rather small, unknown
and rather little observed by the bourgeois media in context of the
protests. Here we wish all comrades of the B5, that they will be able to
use this unexpected medial presence and furthermore win new people for
their valuable cultural, internationalist and anti-imperialist work
based on solidarity against repression and violence of the bourgeois
state. To unite with many to convert this malicious attack of the enemy
into his fierce defeat!
On the mass rally on Saturday together with the Hamburg alliance
against imperialist aggression an anti-imperialist block got organised,
that appeared with a militant front block in which the red banner with
hammer and sickle waved in large numbers. It contained comrades from
various countries of Europe. The expression of the block got hold of by
the bourgeois media as well, like the deputy chief editor of the
Hamburger Abendblatt expressed: “This many Hammer-and-Sickle-Flags you did not see since the fall of the Berlin Wall.“
(see Hamburger Abendblatt, “Die Schwarzen und die Linken“, 10. July
2017) Out of the masses of the anti-imperialist block propaganda units
acted to spread leaflets, put up stickers and write the slogans of the
block on walls. In this block comrades of several and totally different
organisations stood shoulder to shoulder and defended against the
massive and prepared attack of police. This fighting spirit impressed
the police enough to compose a press release: “Sporadic disguise got
registered on participants. Out of this group more crimes were
committed, so in the area Herrengraben police units tried to separate a
group of circa 120 persons. The officers got kicked massively and
smashed with Flagstaffs. The disguised participants of the demonstration
were able to escape in all directions without detection.“ (Press
release of the Police, “Versammlungen am 08.07.2017 in Hamburg –
Ergänzung Stand 16:40 Uhr“) The bourgeois Newspapers also repeatedly
reported massive attacks on the police with (Flag-)staffs. In the mean
attack of the reactionaries, two comrades got hurt so bad, they had to
get brought to a hospital. But we also got reports that police could not
execute their ambush without paying a certain bloodshed. After the
attack the comrades of the anti-imperialist bock that have not been in
the first lines before took up the red flag with hammer and sickle in
large numbers with revolutionary spirit and reorganised the front block
to finish the demonstration militantly. We hope that comrades of other
countries that did not take the opportunity to fight with the comrades
in the block shoulder to shoulder, were able to take a good memory back
home on this day. We are also thankful for the solidarity that various
comrades expressed after the attack of the police, but we want to make
clear that we weren't defenceless victims, but all comrades were in this
fight with a clear consciousness.
After the demonstration on Saturday it was clear, that it basically
had a separation on two demonstrations. It should have a fighting
demonstration with the “Welcome to Hell“-demonstration, where everybody
should go that was ready do fight the police, but this fight should
happen isolated from the masses. The demonstration on Saturday should be
the “peaceful anti-pole”. That shows that the control of revisionism of
the protest was underrated in advance, especially the control of the
left party, which also called for the attack on the anti-imperialist
block on the mass rally, because this crossed the plan of revisionism.
This shows, that the left party are not “Friends on a wrong path”, but
close and irrevocable fused with the imperialist state machinery,
regarding the repression in Germany as well and not only regarding the
foreign affairs of the bourgeoisie. This brings us to the meaning of
Lenin's teachings, that revolutionaries have to be taught in
revolutionary violence and the ruthless fight against revisionism. For
the comrades, every hit they got was a reminder for what is revisionism
and its role.
Concluding we want to make clear, since all the opportunists and
revisionists buckle in the storm of bourgeois outrage and distance
themselves: A “German left“ that condemns, when comrades from Greece and
Spain and other countries of the EU, that are under the thumb of German
Imperialism, discharge their just class hate here on the streets, is
and stays a social patriot and therefore a sworn enemy of the working
class. Not without reason Lenin pointed out, in his insistent warnings
of those tendencies and his struggle against chauvinism in general, the
“German chauvinism” as outstandingly bad example of this kind.
We salute the young revolutionaries, daughters and sons of the class,
that stood up to the ironclad storm troops of the murderous FRG
Imperialism without fear, without doubt, without regard of their own
well-being. Some comrades survived the struggle by chance, the pigs
wanted to break their skulls, but the comrades did not complain, they
were glad, they all were happy, conscious, they stood on the right side,
on the side of the oppressed and exploited, on the side of our class on
the world, on the side of the future of humanity.
There is a lot more to analyse and we also need a little bit time.
Patience comrades, we will report again. But, something we felt, as we
stood together, as our blood and the blood of the enemy ran; we felt a
birth – like a birth normally is, bloody – a birth of something New.
Something that many thought it would never appear in this rotten state:
struggling communists, soldiers of the class, ready to pay the price. In
the end, whatever happens to us, with this an important victory and
development is achieved.
Reproduzimos a tradução da nota 'Pedras voam e vocês gritam' publicada pelo site Dem Volke Dienen
sobre a campanha de criminalização e perseguição promovida pelo
monopólio de imprensa alemão após as massivas e combativas manifestações
contra o G20 que aconteceram em Hamburgo, Alemanha.
"O povo morre e vocês fazem silêncio, as pedras voam e vocês gritam" (Foda-se o G20)
Em relação à caça às bruxas que
prevalece no momento na mídia burguesa, citamos aqui uma explicação da
Ação vermelha Colônia (Roten Aktion Köln):
"Ficaram para trás
exaustivos, violentos e intensos dias em Hamburgo e a luta ainda não
acabou. Na cúpula do G20, os representantes políticos dos países mais
poderosos do mundo se reuniram e discutiram sobre o saque e exploração
do planeta e das classes trabalhadoras. Estes dias deixaram as coisas
muito mais claras para nós: o Estado alemão, sua polícia e aparato de
inteligência não deixam dúvidas sobre eles; seu trabalho é proteger a
ordem dominante e esmagar a crítica consequente com força bruta, a
imprensa do Springer (monopólio da mídia, nota nossa) está
organizando a propaganda massiva contra a resistência, é o órgão das
autoridades de repressão e mostra de maneira prática a hipocrisia deste
sistema decadente.
Este fim de semana, as linhas da
luta de classes na Alemanha mostrou claramente - quem está no lado da
ordem estabelecida e quem está do lado dos oprimidos. Nestes dias também
ficaram demonstrados: que a resistência no coração da besta é possível,
que ela estava lá e isso foi um problema para a ordem vigente. Em um
número incrível de lugares as pessoas fizeram frente ao aparato de
violência, promovendo resistência e não deixaram-se expulsar. Chamamos a
sua atenção especialmente sobre os feridos e os prisioneiros e para
expressar-lhes todo o nosso respeito. Como revolucionários, é importante
para nós, não só organizar a resistência consequente, mas também para
colocar nossas energias para o tratamento de prisioneiros e feridos!
Claro,
irrompe no público depois de um evento deste tipo o - ocasionalmente
emergente - "debate sobre a violência." Os governantes não podem aceitar
a resistência militante e a violência dos oprimidos, eles têm que
difamar estes, achar os "culpados" e denunciar e restaurar a calma em
seu quintal. Não deixamo-nos, com estas difamações, perder esta calma,
porque só pode ser a única resposta da nossa perspectiva dos oprimidos: a
rebelião se justifica. A violência dos oprimidos contra os opressores
se justifica. Não deixemo-nos dividir e estamos solidários com as
vítimas da repressão. "
Para enfatizar este último ponto,
citamos o Presidente Mao Tsetung, a partir do "Relatório Sobre uma
Investigação Feita no Hunan a Respeito do Movimento Camponês" de março
1927.
"A Questão dos 'Excessos'
Há
outros que dizem: 'Sim, as associações camponesas são necessárias, mas
estão a cometer realmente muitos excessos'. É a opinião dos centristas.
Mas qual é, afinal, a situação real? É verdade que, em certo sentido, no
interior do país os camponeses agem um pouco 'sem regra'. Convertidas
em autoridade suprema, as associações camponesas não permitem uma
palavra aos senhores de terras, abatem-lhes o prestígio, o que é o mesmo
que atirá-los ao chão e pôr-lhes um pé em cima. Os camponeses ameaçam
('vamos inscrever-vos os nomes no 'outro' registro'), aplicam multas aos
déspotas locais e aos maus nobres, exigem-lhes contribuições e
desmantelam-lhes os palanquins. As massas irrompem pelas casas dos
déspotas locais e maus nobres opostos às associações camponesas,
abatem-lhes os porcos e tomam-lhes o arroz; inclusivamente chegam a
deitar-se uns minutos nas camas luxuosas reservadas às senhoritas e às
jovens senhoras das mansões dos déspotas locais e maus nobres. Frente às
provocações, os camponeses procedem a detenções, coroam os detidos com
altos carapuços de papel e levam-nos em desfile pelas aldeias, dizendo:
'Mau nobre, agora já ficas a saber quem somos nós!'. Fazendo o que bem
lhes apetece, revolvendo tudo, os camponeses instauraram uma espécie de
terror nas zonas rurais. É isso que alguns definem como 'excessos', como
'entortar no ato de endireitar', como 'abusos'. Aparentemente, todos
esses ditos são razoáveis, mas, na realidade, estão igualmente errados.
Em primeiro lugar, foram os déspotas locais, os maus nobres e os
senhores de terras sem lei quem forçou os camponeses a agir assim.
Geração após geração, eles vinham usando do seu poder para tiranizar os
camponeses e mantê-los de baixo da bota; essa a razão por que estes se
lhes opõem agora com tanta violência. Sem exceção, as revoltas mais
violentas e as desordens mais graves têm ocorrido nos lugares onde os
déspotas locais, os maus nobres e os senhores de terras sem lei
cometeram as piores violações. Os camponeses veem claro, sabem quem é
mau e quem não é, quem é o pior e quem não é assim tão perverso, quem
merece castigo severo e quem merece certa clemência, sabem fazer boas
contas e é muito raro que as penas excedam os crimes. Em segundo lugar,
uma revolução não é o convite para um jantar, a composição duma obra
literária, a pintura dum quadro ou a confecção dum bordado; ela não pode
ser assim tão refinada, calma e delicada, tão branda, tão afável e
cortês, comedida e generosa. Uma revolução é uma insurreição, é um ato
de violência pelo qual uma classe derruba outra. A revolução no campo é a
revolução por meio da qual a classe camponesa derruba o poder da classe
feudal dos senhores de terras. Sem empregar um máximo de força, os
camponeses não podem liquidar a autoridade dos senhores de terras,
autoridade milenar e profundamente enraizada. As regiões rurais
necessitam duma enorme onda revolucionária, já que só isso pode
despertar o povo por milhões e convertê-lo numa força poderosa. Todos os
'excessos' que mencionámos atrás são um efeito da força despertada
entre os camponeses pela enorme onda revolucionária que se desenrola no
campo. Era absolutamente necessário que tudo isso se desse no segundo
período do movimento camponês (no período da ação revolucionária). Em
tal período, impunha-se estabelecer a autoridade absoluta dos
camponeses. Era preciso proibir a crítica malévola às associações
camponesas. Impunha-se liquidar toda a autoridade dos nobres, atirá-los
ao chão e pôr-lhes, inclusivamente, um pé em cima. Há um significado
revolucionário em todos os comportamentos, 'excessos', desse período.
Para falar franco, é necessário, durante um breve período, instaurar o
terror em todas as regiões rurais, pois doutro modo será impossível
liquidar as atividades dos contrarrevolucionários no campo e derrubar a
autoridade dos nobres. Endireitar implica entortar, sem entortar não é
possível endireitar'. Os ditos dos que criticam os 'excessos' são, à
primeira vista, diferentes do 'muito mau' a que nos referimos mais
atrás, mas, na essência, partem todos dum mesmo ponto, são a teoria dos
senhores de terras, uma teoria que protege os interesses das classes
privilegiadas. Como essa teoria impede a expansão do movimento camponês,
como nas suas consequências sabota a revolução, não podemos deixar de
opor-nos firmemente a ela."
Os revolucionários na Alemanha
denunciam mais uma vez os social-patriotas nacional-alemães que são
contra excessos. Esta sujeira, mais uma vez mostra que eles não têm nada
a ver com o maoísmo. Os revolucionários proletários neste país condenam
qualquer pessoa que espalha a propaganda reacionária anti-maoista
internacionalmente.
El presente texto ha sido difundido por amigos y familiares del Dr. G.N. Saibaba y denuncia la gravedad de la enfermedad del profesor Saibaba y la sistematica y cruel violación de sus derechos por parte de las autoridades carcelarias y gubernamentales del estado indio. Es preciso fortalecer la lucha en defensa de la vida del profesor Saibaba, que junto a los otros presos politicos revolucionarios, sufre la crueldad de las prisiones del viejo estado reaccionario y cuyo unico delito es tomar posición en defensa de las amplias masas desederadas y explotadas. Es necesario lograr su puesta en libertad.
HEALTH CONDITION OF PROF. G. N. SAIBABA IN ANDA CELL
The health condition of Prof G.N. Saibaba’s whose is now in the Anda Cell of Nagpur Central Jail is in very precarious stage.
Apart from his physical disabilities, he is suffering from acute
pancreatitis and impacted gall bladder-stones. He has been advised
immediate surgery for gall bladder just one week before his conviction
by an hospital in New Delhi. He was under pre-operative treatment when
he was convicted and immediately incarcerated. Pancreatitis is a life-
threatening and acutely painful condition. Instead of providing the
necessary lifesaving treatment to Prof Saibaba, the jail staff have
refused even to let him be attended by the jail doctor. Apart from
pancreatitis, Prof. Saibaba has a serious heart condition. The Jail
authorities are not providing any medical support. In addition, a false
and dubious medical report is being under preparation. Even though his
blood pressure (BP) records abnormal, in the jail medical records it was
being reported as normal.
The previous health problems like
stones in kidneys, chest pain, breathlessness were aggravated in
addition to gall bladder and pancreatic pain. Due to Prostate problem he
is unable to pass urine. His shoulder nerves have weakened further.
His health is much deteriorated in the jail.
He was advised by
Rockland hospital for review of pancreas problem and for new course of
medicines. So far no such review was done in the Jail. As per the
doctor advises he must take two tablets daily for heart problem and
other medicine for pancreatic pain. Both these medicines are not given
to him. The medicines given by the family members and the advocates are
taken and kept with them by the Jail authorities and are not given to
Saibaba.
In the last one month, itself, he was fallen unconscious
twice in the jail. And in the latest in July month within two days he
was fallen unconscious four times. He suffered with heart palpitations,
chest pain and severe pancreatic pain. Neither the jail authorities nor
the Government of Maharashtra nor the Central Government responded
positively on his health condition. Prof. Saibaba’s vital organs are now
so severely getting damaged due to lack of proper medicines and
treatment and leading to collapse.
On first June 2017, a
representation has been submitted to the NHRC Registrar (Law) Shri Ashok
Kumar Koul by a delegation comprising Ms.Nandita Narain, President of
Delhi University Teachers Association, Kalyani Menon Sen, feminist
activist (WSS) and Secretary of the National Platform for the Rights of
the Disabled, Mr. Muralidharan and Mrs. Vasantha, Wife of Dr. G.N.
Saibaba.
Bringing all this and much more facts before the NHRC,
the delegation sought to impress upon the Registrar Mr. Ashok Kumar Koul
that the current conditions in which Prof. Saibaba is being held are
violative of his right to life, dignity, equality, protection of
torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, non-discrimination and
right to health. The memorandum also pointed out that India is a
signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(ICCPR), UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(UNCRPD) and the UN Resolution 70/175 on Standard Minimum Rules for the
Treatment of Prisoners (Also known as the Nelson Mandela Rules), all of
which reaffirm the right to life with dignity of prisoners. As Prof.
Saibaba is a person with disability, the UNCRPD, which India also
ratified, as well as the recently passed Rights of Persons with
Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPD Act), which was enacted to fulfil India’s
obligation under the afore-mentioned convention, are wholly applicable
to his case.
They therefore appealed to the NHRC to intervene to
see that Prof Saibaba be given bail on medical grounds, and immediately
shifted to a hospital where he can be operated on under the supervision
of doctors who have expertise in dealing with his severe disabilities.
His need for medical attention is imperative and most pressing and its
denial will be the ultimate violation of his right to a dignified life
and right to healthcare amongst other fundamental rights. Shri Koul has
assured to act upon the complaint.
La versión al castellano es del traductor del Google.
LAS CONDICIÓNES DE SALUD DEL PROF. G. N. SAIBABA EN ANDA CELLEl estado de salud del Prof. G.N. Saibaba, cuyo ahora está en la Célula Anda de la Cárcel Central de Nagpur, está en una etapa muy precaria.Aparte de sus discapacidades físicas, está sufriendo de pancreatitis aguda y de piedras de vesícula biliar afectadas. Se
le ha aconsejado una cirugía inmediata para la vesícula biliar una
semana antes de su condena por un hospital en Nueva Delhi. Estaba bajo tratamiento preoperatorio cuando fue condenado e inmediatamente encarcelado. La pancreatitis es un trastorno potencialmente mortal y doloroso. En
vez de proporcionar el tratamiento de salvamento necesario al Prof
Saibaba, el personal de la cárcel se ha negado incluso a permitirle ser
atendido por el médico de la cárcel. Aparte de la pancreatitis, el prof. Saibaba tiene una condición grave del corazón.Las autoridades de la cárcel no están proporcionando ningún apoyo médico. Además, se está preparando un informe médico falso y dudoso. A pesar de que su presión arterial (PA) registros anormales, en los registros médicos de la cárcel se informó como normal. Los
problemas de salud anteriores como piedras en los riñones, dolor en el
pecho, falta de aire se agravaron además de la vesícula biliar y dolor
pancreático. Debido al problema de la próstata es incapaz de orinar. Sus nervios del hombro se han debilitado aún más. Su salud está muy deteriorada en la cárcel. Fue asesorado por el hospital de Rockland para la revisión del problema del páncreas y para el nuevo curso de los medicamentos. Hasta el momento no se hizo tal revisión en la cárcel. Según
el doctor aconseja que él debe tomar dos tabletas diarias para el
problema del corazón y la otra medicina para el dolor pancreático. Ambos medicamentos no se le administran. Las medicinas dadas por los miembros de la familia y los abogados son
tomadas y guardadas con ellos por las autoridades de la cárcel y no se
dan a Saibaba. En el último mes, él mismo, estuvo inconsciente dos veces en la cárcel. Y en el último mes de julio dentro de dos días estuvo inconsciente cuatro veces. Sufrió con palpitaciones cardíacas, dolor en el pecho y dolor pancreático severo. Ni
las autoridades de la cárcel ni el Gobierno de Maharashtra ni el
Gobierno Central respondieron positivamente a su estado de salud. Los órganos vitales del Profesor Saibaba están ahora tan severamente
dañados debido a la falta de medicamentos y tratamientos adecuados y el
colapso. En
el primero de junio de 2017, se ha presentado una declaración al
Secretario de la NHRC (Ley) Shri Ashok Kumar Koul por una delegación
integrada por la Sra. Nandita Narain, Presidenta de la Asociación de
Maestros de la Universidad de Delhi, Kalyani Menon Sen, activista
feminista (WSS) y Secretaria de la Plataforma Nacional para los Derechos de los Discapacitados, Sr. Muralidharan y Sra. Vasantha, Esposa del Dr. GN Saibaba. La
delegación trató de informar al Secretario Sr. Ashok Kumar Koul de que
las actuales condiciones en que está detenido el Profesor Saibaba violan
su derecho a la vida, a la dignidad, a la igualdad, a la protección de Tortura, trato cruel, inhumano y degradante, no discriminación y derecho a la salud. El
memorando también señaló que la India es signataria del Pacto
Internacional de Derechos Civiles y Políticos (ICCPR), de la Convención
de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de las Personas con
Discapacidad (UNCRPD) y de la Resolución 70/175 de las Naciones Unidas
sobre las Reglas Mínimas para el Tratamiento del Prisioneros
(también conocidos como las Reglas de Nelson Mandela), todos los cuales
reafirman el derecho a la vida con dignidad de prisioneros. Como
el Prof. Saibaba es una persona con discapacidad, la UNCRPD, que India
también ratificó, así como la recién aprobada Ley de Derechos de
Personas con Discapacidades, 2016 (Ley RPD), promulgada para cumplir con
la obligación de la India en virtud de la mencionada convención , Son enteramente aplicables a su caso. Por
lo tanto, apelaron a la CNDH para que interviniera para que el Profesor
Saibaba recibiera fianza por razones médicas e inmediatamente se
trasladó a un hospital donde puede ser operado bajo la supervisión de
médicos que tienen experiencia en el tratamiento de sus severas
discapacidades. Su
necesidad de atención médica es imperativa y más urgente y su negación
será la violación última de su derecho a una vida digna y el derecho a
la salud entre otros derechos fundamentales. Shri Koul ha asegurado actuar sobre la queja.
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Lima, 15.07.17
Medios de prensa informan de las movilizaciones de los maestros en huelga indefinida desde hace 30 días en Cusco.
Después de un paro de 48 horas, seguido ampliamente por la población, continúan las acciones de justa protesta de los maestros por mejores condiciones salariales y de vida.
Se reporta la toma de las vías del tren a Machu Picchu, bloqueando la salida de varios vagones, así mismo, miles de manifestantes bloquearon los accesos al aeropuerto siendo atacados por las fuerzas represivas.
Para mañana los maestros del SUTEP pretenden ocupar la ciudadela inca como medida de presión frente a las autoridades ministeriales.
Los medios de la prensa reaccionaria cargan contra los maestros y les acusan de estar dirigidos por elementos subversivos.
A
group of Maoists from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka cadre have A
group of Maoists from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka cadre have been
camping in Agali in Palakkad district for almost a month, according to
reports. It is learnt that they are preparing to wage a full-fledged
fight against the government.
They have camped in more than 50
Adivasi villages (Oorus) in the region with the motive of seeking
support from the villagers. They are also trying to increase their
community strength by making more Adivasis to join them.
Maoists
activities are mainly concentrated in Kerala-Tamil Nadu border areas
like Edavani, Karuvara. Moolakombu adjoining Agali. More than ten
reports have come up from these areas reporting the presence of Maoists
last June alone.
According to intelligence reports, there are 15
fully armed Maoists in Edavani and ten in Moolakambu. Under the
leadership of 45 leaders they are grouped into three. It is known that
Manivasakam, who undertook the leadership of Maoist activities in Kerala
after the death of Kuppudevraj and Kalidasan from Tamil Nadu,
coordinate the activities in this region.
Police are of the view
that since these villages are thickly packed in these areas, it is easy
for them to communicate with the villagers. Also they have marked their
presence in the Wayanad and Nilambur areas to mislead the police force.
The
geographical peculiarities of Agali and the well-coordinated activities
of the Maoists make the task of capturing them difficult for the
police. Also after the failure of the mission in Nilambur the Maoist
leadership have taken special care in not repeating their mistak
Comunicado do Centro Internacional B5 frente as incursões policiais na “Brigittenstraße 5", em Hamburgo
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Publicamos a importante denúncia extraída do sítio Nuevo Peru.
No dia 8 de julho, um ataque bem preparado aconteceu contra o Centro
Internacional B5 e os locais que ficam no entorno sem nem pertencerem ao
Centro.
As buscas agressivas foram realizadas por uma unidade da BFE da Baixa
Saxônia, com mais de cem policiais das forças de elite e que receberam
apoio de um operativo com um veículo do esquadrão antibombas. Os
funcionários do Centro foram algemados por mais de uma hora e foi negada
a assistência de um advogado. Além disso, um médico foi proibido de
tratar os feridos existentes. Para a busca da polícia, não houve mandato
anterior, e depois de 30 minutos apareceram funcionários da LKA
(Oficina Criminal do Estado de Hamburgo) que disseram aos presentes de
uma forma geral que vinham devido a evidências dos serviços secretos de
que existiam armazéns subterrâneos com material inflamável e explosivo. A
ação aconteceu sobre a justificativa de “perigo iminente” no marco da
Cúpula do G20.
Somente após algum tempo do inicio da busca que chegaram os advogados
aos estabelecimentos afetados. O que os policiais fizeram primeiro foi
arrombar todas as portas sem que nenhuma testemunha estivesse presente, e
por isso não se sabe se algo foi roubado ainda, ou mesmo se foi forjado
algum flagrante com a colocação de “provas” falsas pela polícia.
Os vizinhos que não pertencem ao Centro, como uma cooperativa de
alimentos e o cinema vizinho, B-Movie, foram também arrombados,
danificando portas, e possivelmente também revistados. Equipamentos
caros também foram danificados.
A busca e apreensão durou um total de 2 horas nas instalações de
nosso Centro e não encontraram nem levaram nada. Os fogos de artifício
que foram mencionados nos meios de comunicação são uma mentira. É claro
que em nosso Centro se reúnem grupos antimperialistas, antifascistas e
outras organizações, cujo o objetivo político é varrer da terra eventos
como o G20 e todo os sistema imperialista mundial.
O ataque aconteceu porque um ato antimperialista contra a Cúpula do
G20 estava sendo organizado ali, e estava previsto para realizar-se no
mesmo dia. Os manifestantes foram atacados violentamente. A oposição
massiva e diversa à Cúpula do G20 tem obrigado os serviços secretos
alemães e outros órgãos de repressão a tal ação.
Expressamos nossa solidariedade com todos aqueles que são afetados pelo estado de emergência em Hamburgo.
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Zum Ende des Gipfels kam es zu
weiteren Provokationen und Angriffen durch die Polizei. Die Terrorbanden
der Bourgeoisie setzten ihren Kurs der Vortage fort und gingen weiter
brutal gegen AktivistInnen und die Hamburger Bevölkerung vor. Es wurden
verstärkt Razzien und Festnahmen vorgenommen.
Der Ermittlungsauschuss G20 schreibt in einer Pressemitteilung unter anderem folgendes:
„Im Anschluss an den Aktionstag gegen den G20-Gipfel am 7. Juli und die
polizeiliche Räumung des Schanzenviertels durchsuchte das LKA Hamburg
am 8. Juli das Internationale Zentrum B5 in der Brigittenstraße 5 in St.
Pauli. Um 10:45 Uhr stürmten Beweissicherungs- und Festnahmeeinheiten
in das Vereinslokal und stürzten sich auf die anwesenden Personen. Ohne
Nennung von Gründen wurden die Anwesenden gefesselt und die
Räumlichkeiten des Vereins sowie zwei Privatwohnungen im selben Gebäude
durchsucht. Auch die Kellerräume des angrenzenden Kinos B-Movie und der
Einkaufsgemeinschaft FoodCoop wurden durchwühlt. Bei den Durchsuchungen
wurden zwei Personen verletzt, eine Ärztin wurde nicht zu ihnen
durchgelassen. Die Razzia wurde vom Landeskriminalamt Hamburg nach
Hinweisen des Landesamtes für Verfassungsschutz durchgeführt. Angeblich
sollten sich Molotowcocktails in den Räumen befinden, was sich als
haltlose Diffamierung erwies.“
„Gegen 15 Personen wurden nach
Kenntnis des G20 EA Haftbefehle erlassen, 28 befinden sich in
Unterbindungsgewahrsam. Ein Teil der Gefangenen wurde in die JVA
Billwerder und die JVA Hanöversand verlegt.“ Die Zahl der Gefangenen stieg angeblich auf über 100 an. Rechtlicher Beistand wird weitgehend verweigert.
Heute Nachmittag, am 9. Juli startete in
Hamburg eine Demonstration in Solidarität mit den von Repression
Betroffenen. Über 1000 Leute beteiligten sich daran und zogen vor die
Gefangenensammelstelle Harburg, um für die Freilassung der Inhaftierten
zu protestieren.
Wie schon die Tage zuvor kam es zu Provokationen und Übergriffen von Seiten der Polizei!
Die Kämpfe der vergangenen Tage sind
noch nicht vorbei! Zeigt euch solidarisch, beteiligt euch bei Aktionen
und lasst die Spaltungsversuche der Bourgeoisie nicht zu!
La cumbre de Hamburgo comenzó sus sesiones acosada por cientos de manifestantes que, divididos en grupos y repartidos por toda la ciudad, trataron de bloquear e impedir el acceso de las distintas delegaciones al lugar de la reunión con sentadas y barricadas.
Aunque las protestas se desarrollaron mayoritariamente de manera
pacífica, los disturbios protagonizados la noche anterior por activistas
del llamado «bloque negro» de ultraizquierda rebrotaron al comenzar la
jornada.
Docenas de automóviles fueron incendiados en torno al
perímetro de seguridad que rodea el recinto ferial y los hoteles donde
se hospedan los invitados. Solo en la noble Hamburger Strasse
un grupo de encapuchados prendió fuego a cerca de 30 automóviles.
También en el barrio de clase alta de Blankenese ardieron varios
vehículos durante la mañana. En Altona unos 60 encapuchados
vestidos de negro se enfrentaron con palos y piedras a agentes
antidisturbios y causaron daños en tres coches policiales. La
Policía reprimió con cañones de agua varias conatos de violencia de
activistas que trataron de superar el perímetro de seguridad para cortar
calles y cruces con el objetivo de paralizar el movimiento de las
delegaciones.
Ante los fuertes brotes de violencia, las fuerzas de seguridad de Hamburgo pidieron refuerzos a otros Estados federados.
El presidente de la policía local, Ralf Meyer, cifró en 21.000 el
número de agentes que cubren la seguridad y criticó «la violencia
radical y sin sentido» de algunos manifestantes. «Lo que nos ha
sorprendido es que se ha practicado violencia extrema contra todo tipo
de objetivos, ya sean vehículos o ventanas, en barrios residenciales»
alejados del lugar de la cumbre, dijo Meyer.
Las protestas obligaron a la canciller a retrasar la
ceremonia de bienvenida a sus invitados y retuvieron durante un tiempo
algunas caravanas oficiales, como la del presidente de la Comisión, Jean-Claude Juncker, que llegó tarde a una rueda de prensa. Los cortes de calles y cruces hicieron que la primera dama de EE.UU., Melania Trump, no pudiera sumarse al programa para los consortes con el esposo de Merkel, el científico Joachim Sauer, como anfitrión. Melania Trump estuvo horas retenida por los servicios de seguridad de la Casa Blanca, mientras Sauer presidía un minicrucero por el puerto de Hamburgo y comía con sus invitados en un restaurante típico de pescado.
Un equipo de un centenar de abogados voluntarios que
atiende a los participantes en las manifestaciones informó de que hasta
anoche habían sido detenidas unas 120 personas, aunque en la mayoría de
los casos no se permitió a los letrados acceder a los arrestados. «No sabemos dónde son retenidos desde hace horas», dijo el portavoz, Matthias Wisbar.
La Policía, por su parte, hizo balance a última hora de la tarde y
señaló que unos 160 agentes habían resultado heridos hasta entonces en
los disturbios y cifró en 70 los detenidos. En 24 horas, los bomberos
realizaron 156 salidas de emergencia y sofocaron 61 pequeños y grandes
incendios provocados por manifestantes violentos.
Die
Demonstration „Welcome to Hell“, die am 6. Juli im Rahmen der Proteste
gegen G20 den bisherigen Höhepunkt bildete, wurde durch die
Polizeikräfte massiver Gewalt ausgesetzt. Das Vermummungsverbot wurde
als Anlass gewählt, um mit Wasserwefern, Tränengas und massivem
Schlagstockeinsatz die bis dahin diszipliniert und friedlich ablaufende
Demonstration aufzulösen oder zumindest zu zersprengen. Die Polizei
spricht dabei immer wieder von „etwas mehr als 1000 Vermummten“ bzw.
TeilnehmerInnen des „Schwarzen Blocks“. In der Tat bestätigen jedoch
verschiedene Journalistinnen und Journalisten unabhängig voneinander
(NDR, ND,...), dass diese Zahl viel zu hoch gegriffen ist und sie
selbst, in verschiedenen Zählungen, diese Menge nicht bestätigen
konnten.
Die
Demonstration wurde aufgehalten und die Gewaltorgie der Polizei begann
an einem taktisch präzise ausgewählten Punkt, wo ein wichtiger Teil der
DemonstrantInnen bei einer Brückenunterführung in einer Schneisenstrasse
(wo also ein Ausweichen nach den Seiten hin nicht, oder nur sehr schwer
möglich ist) stand. Selbst bürgerliche Medien berichten, dass vor den
Angriffen durch die Repressionsorgane von der Demonstration keine Gewalt
ausging. Doch im Rausch des Gefechtes war den uniformierten
Terrorbanden alles egal, selbst vor den „eigenen Leuten“ machten sie
nicht halt, weshalb auch einige „Parlamentarische Beobachter“ (großteils
Abgeordnete der Partei Die Linke) die Gewalt zu spüren bekommen haben.
Dies ist ein weiteres Glied in jener Kette, in welcher sich die Polizei
den gesamten G20 Einsatz lang schon über Gerichtsurteile stellt und sich
selbst zur Gesetzgebenden, -beschließenden und -vollziehenden Kraft
erklärt. Die herrschende Klasse hat die angebliche und viel beschworene
„Gewaltentrennung“ (die Heilige Kuh der bürgerlichen Staatslehre)
vorerst für die Zeit von G20 offenbar für obsolet erklärt.
Die
Fakten zeigen wohin das Schiff fährt: Die hier geschaffenen Tatsachen
werden sich nicht auf die Woche von G20 beschränken. Es sollen auch
nicht einfach „nur“ Proteste verhindert werden, sondern ein Dammbruch
soll her: ein Vorstoß dafür, dass das in Zukunft „Normalzustand“ wird,
dass es auch über solche Vorgehensweisen der Herrschenden keine
Aufregung mehr gibt. Die Massen sollen mit G20 an ein neues Maß innerer
Repression gewöhnt werden. Ausgetragen wird dieser Plan zuerst auf dem
Rücken jener, die sich derzeit in Hamburg mutig und entschlossen den
wichtigsten Vertretern des Imperialismus, den größten Verbrechern der
Welt, entgegenstellen. Wenn es die Herrschenden hier schaffen damit
durchzukommen, schaffen sie damit neue Tatsachen. Daher ist die
Unterstützung der Proteste, welcher Form auch immer sie sich bedienen,
jetzt notwendiger denn je! Alle fortschrittlichen Kräfte lassen sich
nicht auf die spaltenden Lügen von „guten und bösen Demonstranten“ ein,
sondern zeigen Solidarität und nehmen die Aggression des bürgerlichen
Staates gegen die gerechtfertigte Rebellion als Ausgangspunkt, um
weitere Leute zu mobilisieren. In der Tat wird jeder Knüppelschlag, jede
Reizgaspatrone und jeder leergeschossene Wassertank derer sich die
Polizei gegenüber den Massen am 6. Juli 2017 bedient hat, in Form einer
Verdoppelung und Vervielfachung von AktivistInnen zurückkommen. Wer noch
Argumente gesucht hat warum es gerechtfertigt und notwendig ist, gegen
den Imperialismus und seine Lakaien aufzustehen und zu rebellieren:
Hamburg ist das letzte Argument!
Violentos enfrentamientos se han producido al impedir las fuerzas represivas las diversas acciones de protesta. diversas fuentes hablan de 2000 manifestantes heridos, 45 detenidos y 150 policias heridos. Asi mismo existe el rumor que unidades del ejercito participan en el despliege represivo.
Hamburgo espera el G20 envuelta en una
atmósfera de protesta: más de 170 agrupaciones habían llamado a elevar
la voz contra el evento capitalista. Durante varias jornadas las calles
de la urbe estarán repletas de personas disconformes con este mundo que
nos quieren vender.
Anoche la policía ha desmantelado varios de los campamentos en los
que pretendían dormir los manifestantes.
Hoy viernes los activistas
planean cortar los accesos a la cumbre e interrumpir el tráfico
portuario de uno de los centros de comercio marítimo más importante de
Europa.
Multitudinarias manifestaciones han
tenido lugar en las calles de Hamburgo, que durante todo el jueves
estuvo fortificada, coronada con alambre de espino y repleta de
barricadas populares.
Las últimas informaciones indican que la noche de protestas se saldó
con más de 100 activistas heridos, 2.000 identificados y al menos 45
detenidos hasta la mañana del viernes. Según las estimaciones de las
autoridades citadas por 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung', cerca de
10.000 personas pertenecientes a diferentes grupos prolongaron las
protestas hasta altas horas de la noche.
Un reporte de ultima hora recogido en la Haine informa en unos minutos se producirá un nuevo
intento de bloquear el centro de Hamburgo, donde se reúnen las
delegaciones del G20, con uno de los puntos de encuentro frente al
estadio de fútbol St. Pauli, tradicionalmente conocido por sus
aficionados izquierdistas. El estadio sigue siendo un lugar para dormir y
centro de prensa para los manifestantes contra el G20, y con eso
muestran su solidaridad con los manifestantes anticapitalistas.
Mientras tanto, pequeños enfrentamientos, bloqueos y manifestaciones
continúan estallando por toda la ciudad. La policía pierde nuevamente el
control sobre algunas calles. Hace dos horas pidieron refuerzos y
policías de toda Alemania se dirigen a Hamburgo.
Después de un día de enfrentamientos callejeros con la policía, con
barricada e incendios, las expresiones de unidad son inspiradoras. La
policía continúa circulando noticias falsas a medida que la bronca
aumenta. Está claro que su único intento es asegurarse de que la menor
cantidad posible de manifestantes salga a las calles de Hamburgo en
estos dos días, ya que los represores claramente perdieron el control en
las últimas 24 horas.
Today, as the dominant global power, the US roles out its brand of
unfettered capitalism across the world. US citizens constitute just five
percent of the world’s population but consume 24
percent of global energy. Consider the consequences of a US-style model
of ‘development’ if it were to be aspired to and copied throughout the
world (which it is in places like India and China). The model is unsustainable and based on the premise of endless GDP growth and endless supplies of (finite) fossil fuels to fuel it. Empire and oil
The US derives its prosperity from oil. It is able to consume goods
and resources at such a high level because the dollar serves as the
world reserve currency. Demand for it is guaranteed as most
international trade (especially oil) is carried out using the dollar. US
global hegemony depends on Washington maintaining the dollar’s leading
role.
The international monetary system that emerged near the end of the
Second World War was based on the US being the dominant economic power
(after it watched and let its rivals destroy one another and become
indebted as a result of their war efforts) and the main creditor nation,
with institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
eventually being created to primarily serve its interests.
By the 1960s, countries like Germany, France and Japan had become
industrial competitors and the Vietnam War was bankrupting the US. Not
having enough gold to support the dollar, rather than devalue the
currency, Henry Kissinger’s ‘diplomacy’ engineered an ‘oil crisis’ to
boost the price of oil and Washington since then has been able to run up
a huge balance of payments deficit by using the paper dollar as
security in itself and engaging in petro-dollar recycling and treasury-bond super-imperialism.
If the transformation of the US into a global superpower was fuelled
by its access to oil, the continuation of US global supremacy in the
1970s and beyond has been achieved on the back of oil.
More generally, with its control and manipulation of the
World Bank, IMF and WTO, the US has been able to lever the trade and
the financial system to its advantage by various means (for example,
see this analysis
of Saudi Arabia’s oil money in relation to African debt). Washington
will not allow its global hegemony and the role of the dollar to be
challenged. The end of the age of oil
Unfortunately for humanity and all life on the planet, Washington
deems it necessary to attempt to prolong the age of oil, which is not
too surprising given what has just been outlined. This is despite the
fact that the decline in oil production will break economies.
In the article ‘And you thought Greece had a problem’
by Norman Pagett, the importance of oil to the modern era is stressed
along with some of the consequences of the ‘end of oil’. Its main thrust
is that countries like Greece are experiencing energy bankruptcy (not
financial bankruptcy), which manifests as financial indebtedness, and
that oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia are living on borrowed time.
In the timespan of human existence, the article notes that the
ascendance of modern industrialised man, thanks to oil, has been a short
flash of light that has briefly lifted us out of the mire of the middle
ages. But the trappings of civilisation have not altered the one rule
of existence: if you don’t produce food from the earth on a personal
basis, your life depends on someone converting sunlight into food on
your behalf.
Destroy agriculture, or the resources to produce food sustainably
(water resources, seeds, soil fertility, etc.), which is what we are
doing (see this analysis of
India and the Green Revolution), and, according to Pagett, most people
would starve. What we call modern civilisation in the age of oil is
fragile. Pagett argues the only reason we became so wealthy in the last
100 years or so is because of the consumption of oil and the consumer
products derived from it.
However, oil is running out and becoming more expensive.
In the coming years, we will thus need to place greater emphasis on
reconnecting with nature, as we did previously, to produce our own food
again and engage in meaningful production and social relations rooted in
our connections with the land, seeds, the seasons, harvests and so on
(see ‘Monsanto’s Violence in India: The Sacred and the Profane’ to
appreciate how these relations have been fractured or destroyed to suit
the bottom line of corporate profit).
Pagett notes that for the millions of homeless people living on the
streets in our ‘civilized’ cities, civilization is over. With declining
oil and higher oil prices, for them there is little hope of a return to
prosperity. He also argues that Arabia’s gleaming cities in the desert
are built on its oil. It sells oil for food. When the oil is gone, its
increasing population will starve as it will no longer be able to buy in
essential needs.
On the other hand, Greece is bankrupt. It can’t afford oil imports
(like so many other countries whose debt is spiralling as a result). But
it has arable land and water. It could have a future beyond oil.
Then there is the UK, which has to import 40 percent of its food, and
much of the rest depends on oil to produce it, which also has to be
imported. Pagett says it is the end of the UK’s oil age, but few admit
to it being the end of a food age as well. It has been argued that the
UK has only 100 harvests left because of the degradation of its soils due to intensive industrial farming.
Pagett also looks at China’s cities, the emptying of the countryside
and its unsustainable GDP growth, largely based on a real estate boom to
build its ghost cities. The more real estate that is built, the higher
the GDP figures, the greater the mirage of ‘growth’. It has become a
self-sustaining illusion.
What happens when oil runs out or becomes unbearably scarce and
expensive? What happens when you have placed all your eggs in oil-based
consumerism and productive activities and have destroyed the very basis
of traditional agrarian production, as is happening in India, which
sustains life and is the genuine generator of employment? What will
become India’s 1.2 billion people with no prospects of making a living
(see ‘India’s New Rulers Are the World Bank, IMF, WTO and Monsanto‘)?
Without oil, we could survive – but not by continuing to pursue the
‘growth’ model China or India are pursuing or the US has pursued.
Without sustainable agriculture, however, we will not survive. And
unsustainable agriculture based on chemical-intensive, oil-based inputs goes hand in hand with the ‘age of oil’ model of ‘development’ we see in India and China.
If the film ‘How Big Oil Conquered the World‘
shows how a handful of powerful oil interests uprooted traditional
beliefs, practices and societies to recast the modern world in their own
image – as profound as those changes were – the end of oil could have
even greater repercussions that humanity may not recover from.
What is required is a different way of thinking from what we currently have:
“The root problem is the fact that our economic system demands
ever-increasing levels of extraction, production and consumption. Our
politicians tell us that we need to keep the global economy growing at
more than 3% each year – the minimum necessary for large firms to make aggregate profits. That means every 20 years we need to doublethe
size of the global economy – double the cars, double the fishing,
double the mining, double the McFlurries and double the iPads. And then
double them again over the next 20 years from their already doubled
state.” – Jason Hickel, writing in The Guardian. US Strategic Objectives and Agribusiness
How can we try to avoid these potential catastrophic consequences, not to mention what appears to be an increasingly likely nuclear conflict with competing imperial powers such as Russia (or China)?
We must move away from militarism and resource-gabbing conflicts by
reorganising economies so that nations live within their environmental
means. As Jason Hickel advocates, we must maximise human well-being
while actively shrinking out consumption levels and ecological
footprint. Indeed, Gandhi foresaw this need
and described modern societies as being based on a ‘nine-day wonder’
that could not be sustained given the rate of resource depletion.
Key to this involves recognising the key role of agriculture: but not
the kind of agriculture being imposed by transnational agribusiness
corporations. We need a major shift away from the chemical-intensive
industrial model of agriculture and food production, not only because
ultimately we will have no choice, but because it has led to bad food, poor health and environmental degradation. The model is unsustainable and
has been underpinned by a resource-grabbing, food-deficit producing US
foreign policy agenda for many decades, assisted by the WTO, World Bank,
IMF and ‘aid’. For instance, see ‘Sowing the Seeds of Famine in Ethiopia‘ by Michel Chossudovsky and ‘Destroying African Agriculture‘ by Walden Bello.
US agribusiness is a tentacle of Washington’s geopolitical objectives
and is essential for colonising indigenous agriculture. The Green
Revolution was exported courtesy of the oil-rich interests,
and poorer nations adopted agribusiness’s chemical-dependent
agriculture that required loans for inputs and infrastructure
development. It entailed trapping nations into a globalised system of
debt bondage, rigged trade relations and the hollowing out and
destruction of national and local economies.
Whether it is Bill Gates facilitating the plunder of African agriculture for corporate interests, the World Economic Forum ‘Grow’ strategy or the World Bank ‘Enabling the Business of Agriculture’ strategy, the aim is to further restructure agriculture across the globe to serve the needs of Western agribusiness companies.
What we see is the capturing of markets and global supply chains for the benefit of transnational corporations involved in food production. We see the destruction of natural habitat in Indonesia to produce palm oil. We see the use of cynical lies to corrupt India’s food system with genetically modified seeds. We witness the devastating impact on farmers and rural communities. We see the degradation of soils, health and water resources. And we also see the transnational corporate commercialisation and displacement of localised productive systems.
The current economic system and model of globalisation and
development serves the interests of Western oil companies and financial
institutions, global agribusiness and the major arms companies. These
interlocking, self-serving interests have managed to institute a
globalized system of war, poverty and food insecurityand have acted to devastate economies. How many more Syrias?
Instead of rebuilding highly productive rural
infrastructures based on small farms at the local level, the drive is
to destroy indigenous agriculture and local economies and accelerate the
treadmill towards disaster. We must contend not only with the lies and
deceit of companies like Monsanto who claim to be serving humanity’s
interests, but we are also bombarded with the more wide-ranging
propaganda that fuels the system of ‘globalisation’ which companies like
Monsanto are tied to and fuel.
Monsanto’s whole business model is based on conquest (epitomising
the ethos of capitalism). It captures markets and key institutions,
destroys competition and relies on the US government to maintain its
profits and access to regions of the world. It, like ‘corporate America’
in general, relies on the US state to keep the neoliberal agenda on
track by facilitating corporate imperialism (aka globalisation) and
Washington’s hegemony.
We now have the situation in Syria where deception once again trumps reality as the US seeks to gain support for broadening its military campaign to balkanise Syria and redraw the map of the Middle East. Unfounded claims about Assad using chemical weapons are front page news, mirroring similar baseless claims that
occurred a few years back and mirroring the lie of WMD in Iraq.
Millions are dead in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan as the US and
its allies play out a continuation of a modern-day ‘Great Game’.
We have Western politicians and the media parroting unfounded claims
about the Assad government using chemical weapons and lying to the
public about it as well as ‘Russian aggression’.
All for what? Pipelines, oil and gas. The ‘war on terror’ is a war for
resources. It is a war for the benefit of Western capital. It is a war
to prolong a dying age of oil, advanced capitalism and easy profits. And
these wars and conflicts and the lies to justify them will only get
worse as demand across the world for resources grows against a backdrop
of depletion.
Whether it is the US, India or China, the need of the hour is to
recognise the bankruptcy of imperial endeavours to fuel a moribund
system. It has already led to two major world wars. There will be no
recovering from a third.
The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land,
economies and ecosystems. It is being waged by organised, institutional
criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, food and violence across
the globe. From farmer suicides and failed Bt cotton in India and the impacts of glyphosate in Argentina to war in Syria and beyond, theirs is a neoliberal doctrine of death and destruction. Colin Todhunter is an independent writer
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New Delhi, 04.07.17
Según fuentes de la prensa india, la camarada Kakarala Padma, que se encontraba en la clandestinidad desde 2012, fue detenida por agentes represivos de la Oficina Estatal de Inteligencia de Andhra Pradesh (SIB) cerca de Sennimalai en el distrito de Erode. Su marido el también preso político camaradaVivek, a calificado de ilegal su detención y manifestado su temor a que sea sometida a tortura incluso que sea asesinada en un falso encuentro reclamando que sea presentada ante un tribunal aunque fuentes represivas se han negado a confirma su detención. Así mismo el escritor y poeta revolucionario, Varavara Rao, presidente del Frente Revolucionario
Democrático, denunció que la camarada Padma fue arrestada por el personal de la SIB
Andhra y los Greyhounds en Erode Junction, mientras regresaba de Ernakulam
en el Chennai Express."Hay una amenaza para su vida. Debe ser presentada ante un tribunal de justicia inmediatamente ", afirmo Rao.
Bajrang Dal activists killed my husband: Widow of man lynched in Jharkhand
The
wife of the man who was lynched in Jharkhandʹs Ramgarh district on
suspicion of carrying beef has alleged that the mob that beat her
husband to death mostly included Bajrang Dal activists. ʹThey were
rogues owing allegiance to the Bajrang Dal,ʹ Mariam Khatoon told
Hindustan Times on Friday.
Other reports also claimed that members of the Bajrang Dal Gau Raksha Samiti had stopped his vehicle and lynched him.
A
group of people on Thursday had lynched Asgar Ansari near Bajartan
village and set his van on fire. He was taken to a hospital by the
police, where he died during treatment. The police have imposed
prohibitory orders under Section 144 in Ramgarh district.
ʹNot a beef traderʹ Mariam Khatoon has denied claims that her husband traded in beef. ʹHe was into coal trading,ʹ she told Hindustan Times.
The
manʹs sister-in-law Abida Khatoon also blamed the police for
patronising and protecting Bajrang Dal members. ʹThey are targeting and
killing Muslims, while the police are deliberately looking the other
way.ʹ
Ansari, who is survived by his wife and six children, was the only breadwinner.
Bajrang Dal denies involvement While
Bajrang Dalʹs Ramgarh chief Chhotu Verma has been absconding since
Thursday night, the groupʹs Jharkhand chief Devendra Gupta has denied
any responsibility.
ʹIt is unfortunate that the two organisations [Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad] have
