Happy May Day

In just a few days it will be May 1, the international day of the working class. A lot has been happening this year. The Republican Part at home (US) is taking a beating for the war and recession. There has been a great victory in Nepal. Maoist parties are beginning to build in Asia and even Afghanistan and Iraq, the hart of our US empires military direction.
I can only hope the tide is finally turning on backward reactionary politics and that the left will finally make some strides and replace Islamic fundamentalism and Christian fundamentalism as the main opposition to capitalistic imperialism.
So HAPPY MAY DAY
-史蒂夫・奥多/ スティーブオットー/ s더v어오토/ សតិវ អតុ/ Стив Отто

From the
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA:
In an announcement released on the Kasama website, supporters of the "9 Letters to Our Comrades" announced that they held a recent conference in New York City and united in creating a new communist project within the U.S. (http://mikeely. wordpress. com)The "9 Letters to Our Comrades" had been first published in late 2007 as a sharp Maoist critique of the line and direction of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA. Since then the polemic had helped initiate a pole around which revolutionary and communist forces have started to "reconceive as we regroup." In this initial announcement few details about the conference or the new communist project were released. It said:"Supporters of the 9 Letters and this Kasama site gathered in New York City in April to consolidate their common new communist project. The days of meetings pressed press forward on a number of practical political plans. We will be describing the discussions and decisions reached in more detail shortly. However today we want to announce that Kasama has initiated work aimed at building broad knowledge, support and controversy around the Maoist revolutions in South Asia — especially India and Nepal. This work has a special urgency — here and now — because of the rapidly unfolding events in Nepal, because of the role of the U.S. in orchestrating counterrevolution there, and because of the intolerable silence here in the U.S. surrounding the South Asian Maoists."

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The revolutionaries regrouping around Kasama are seeking to start this important work of building political support for Maoist revolutionaries in South Asia. There is particular urgency to develop internationalist political support for the Maoist movements of South Asia -- particularly after the Nepali election of April 10 and the new reports of U.S.. intrigues to prevent revolutionary advances there. There has been considerable criticism of the existing Maoist forces, grouped around the RCP,USA, for their almost complete silence in regard to the Maoist revolutions of India and Nepal and their stark refusal to build support in the U.S. for those revolutionary struggles.This announcement on Kasama unveiled a new "Internationalist info project" -- focused for now on an online resource "Revolution in South Asia" (RevSA, http://southasiarev .wordpress. com/). The announcement ended with the following words:
"In a world where communism has been declared dead and buried — these living movements of millions, under Maoist banners, give the very question of communist revolution an exhilarating “dignity of immediate actuality” — in a way that can help awaken many more people to the possibility of real, revolutionary, liberating change.

"Join us in this internationalist informational effort!

"There are many ways you can help this effort around RevsA:
Promote this new website — link to it from your own site,s email the url to interested people, post this announcement on relevant discussion boards/lists. All people interested in radical change need to know about these important revolutionary movements.
Use this site to raise your own understanding of the issues and controversies surrounding of these Maoist “New Democratic” revolutions.
Help us uncover substantive materials to post here. The RevsA site will not be limited to cheerleading: We will post critical articles and the charges of the revolution’s enemies. We want explore the differences and debates developing among the revolutionaries — as they face difficult choices and dare to propose unexpected solutions. we hope to provide readers with an many-sided sense of these living conflicts. Please email us if you know of material we should post,
Make your own comments on the materials and controversies posted on RevSA.
Get in touch right away if you are interested in helping in an ongoing way. We need to be developing posters, flyers, teach-in materials, study guides and other online materials. We are planning public event at campuses. And we need help moderating and maintaining the new site.
"Events are moving quickly in Nepal, in unpredictable ways. There are several armed forces in the field, and the broad Nepali populations is mobilized to transform Nepali society — with very high expectations. The future is unwritten.

"The possibility of deepening revolutionary crisis and the danger of counterrevolutionar y action all demand that we act quickly and boldly."

Mayday

Kansas - LSN Announcement

A STATEWIDE CALL TO ACTION TO ALL CONCERNED KANSANS!!
Please forward this email to your networks! Join us Wednesday April 30th in Topeka to show our support for Kansas' clean energy future! PBS Frontline will be there to film the KS coal controversy.

As lawmakers return to Topeka next week for the fast-moving "veto wrap-up" session, an attempted override of the Governor's veto of SB 327 and SB 148 is expected to take place upon arrival at the Capitol. A two-thirds vote is required in both the Senate and House to do so. And while the Senate stands poised to deliver more than the votes necessary to override, proponents of both bills in the House have twice fallen short of gaining the 84 votes needed. But time and political pressuring have worn on some legislators, and facing the end of the session, some seem prepared to cast their vote in support of the bill in order to simply put the energy debate behind them.

We MUST let those lawmakers who are waffling know that this is no issue to simply "put behind them" - that energy policy isn't ONE of the pivotal issues facing Kansas, it is THE issue.**CALL TO ACTION!**JOIN TOGETHER TO ENSURE AN ENERGY FUTURE THAT BENEFITS ALL KANSANS - TODAY, TOMORROW, AND IN GENERATIONS TO COMEWHEN: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008
BEGINNING AT 9 a.m., WE WILL FILL THE HALLS OF THE CAPITOL, LETTING LEGISLATORS KNOW THAT WHILE THEY MAY BE RETURNING TO SETTLE OLD POLITICAL SCORES, WE ARE THERE TO CELEBRATE THE FIRST DAY OF A NEW ENERGY FUTURE! TOGETHER, AFTERWARDS, WE WILL ATTEND THE FULL SESSION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FOLLOWED BY THE OPPORTUNITY TO DRAFT AND SEND A LETTER TO YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER'S EDITOR. THE DAY ENDS WHEN YOU MEET WITH YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE.WHERE: KANSAS CAPITOL BUILDING 3rd floor elevator,TOPEKAWHAT: OUR DAY TO MAKE A FINAL DEMAND OF LAWMAKERS: UPHOLD THE GOVERNOR'S VETOES.

Energy policy cuts across political divides. It affects all ages, each of our communities, and those of every ideological view. We have made a powerful statement so far, but one incredible opportunity remains. Join us next Wednesday in Topeka to show lawmakers that 84 votes is no match for the voice of ONE Kansas. If you have offered your time previously, your continued support is much needed - bring someone new this time if you can. If you simply can no longer stand to sit back and watch as powerful interests seek to undermine Kansas' future prosperity - then make your first act to be a part of this historic day. There is no time to wait. Make the commitment to a new future for Kansas.
ONE DAY.

ONE KANSAS.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30th, 2008

Find your Representative at GPACE.org and commit to attending by scheduling a meeting with her/him for Wednesday

Visit Kansascleanenergy.com to find a carpool leaving from your areaand contact GPACE to learn more about the event. Email GPACE at ChrisCardinal@gpace.org
"An Independent free for all press in NE Kansas." Let the feathers fly!http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com

Earth Day

Earth Day thoughts
From the present political perspective.
If you're a conservative throw your trash out the window as you drive. If you're a religious fundamentalists you do the same, accept you add the following prayer:
"The Lord is my trashcan,
They shall trash the world,
And You Lord will cleanith it up."
If you're a US politician you say:
"There is no global warming. The ocean rises from time to time and floods the Midwest."

If you're a Kansas politician you say:
"The hell with global warming, we need that coal."

If you're a serious scientist you say:
"Which if these planets resembles our future?"

Burning hot Venus?

Dried up waisted out Mars?

By 史蒂夫・奥多

MoveOn takes on meaningless debates

MoveOn is tired of meaningless debates, where issues are left out and nothing new is added to these debates to focus on the election. Move on has made the following case:


MoveOn.org




Enough Distractions
Editor & Publisher called this week's ABC presidential debate "perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years."
Moderators George Stephanopolous and Charlie Gibson spent the first 50 minutes obsessed with distractions that only political insiders care about--gaffes, polling numbers, the stale Rev. Wright story, and the old-news Bosnia story. And, channelling Karl Rove, they directed a video question to Barack Obama asking if he loves the American flag or not. Seriously.

Enough is enough. The public needs the media to stop hurting the national dialogue in this important election year. Can you sign the petition to ABC and other media outlets and pass it on to friends who are also fed up?
Here is a compiled petition where your individual comment will be presented to ABC and other media. (Not Steve Otto? Click here.)

Workers Party welcomes Maoist electoral success in Nepal

The Workers Party (NZ) welcomes the victory of the Maoistsin theNepalese elections. Jared Phillips, a Workers Party activistwhospent four weeks in the Red Zones of Nepal in 2003, meetingwithactivists and leaders of the Maoist movement and witnessingfirst-hand the progressive reforms being implemented in the ruralareasled by the Maoists, says the election victory is “a blowagainstunder-development, poverty, and repression, and is a strideforwardfor liberation everywhere.”“Nepal has been one of the most chronicallyunder-developedcountries in the world and the only serious challenge tothis inrecent years has come from the Maoists,” said Phillips.“Bylaunching people’s war in rural areas, they began atransformationof much of the countryside, improving literacy andinfrastructure,carrying out land reforms that gave rights to the peasantryandDalits (untouchables) , and revolutionising the position ofwomen aswell as supporting the rights of ethnic minorities.”“The Maoist victory also shows that we don’t have toaccept the ideathat there is no alternative to market-dominated capitalism,inwhich the majority of people on the planet are denied basicrightsand basic living standards. There is also a lesson here forworkersin New Zealand – boldness in fighting for liberation paysoff,”concluded Phillips. The Workers Party (NZ) intends to standon theparty list this election year.The Auckland branch of the Workers Party will be holding aQ&Asession and general discussion on the peoples’ movement inNepal onSaturday April 19, 12 noon, at Trades Hall (first floorupstairs),147 Great North Road. Final vote-counting in Nepal should becompleted by this time. All interested people and media arewelcome.Jared Phillips is available for interview; Phone 0294949863or emailjared@unite. org.nz
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VICTORY FOR NEPAL!!

VICTORY FOR THE LEFT!!!!!

By 史蒂夫・奥多

Finally after all these years we will have a victory somewhere in the world. After all these years of watching shit heads and phoney saviours win control of countries, real change has a chance. The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist or 毛-ist)This is a great day for Maoist every where. As the following articles show, elections were held yesterday and the Maoist have done quite well. Also the war in the country will now come to an end. VICTORY HAS FINNALY COME TO NEPAL!!

From the New York Times

Nepal Maoists emerge as major force after historic poll
Nepal National
Friday 11th April, 2008
(IANS)

A ragged group of people who dreamt impossible dreams and dared to take on Nepal's powerful army with homemade guns and bombs, Nepal's Maoist guerrillas established themselves as a formidable force in the 90s when they prevented elections and inflicted punishing losses on the security forces.

Two years after they laid down their guns and marched back to the parliament they had derisively branded a 'meat shop', the rebels have proved to be an equally formidable political force with the historic constituent assembly elections unexpectedly showing their support.

As counting started amid tight security in 239 constituencies, the trends indicated that while the capital had voted conservatively, returning Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's Nepali Congress (NC) party in most of the 10 seats, the guerrillas were emerging as giant killers in some while sweeping the electorate in the west.

The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) , once the second largest force in the country after the NC, were routed ruthlessly, paying dearly for their failure to have reached a poll alliance with the Maoists.

However, in a country of surprises, there was still scope for unexpected results with counting yet to start in the hilly regions, considered NC strongholds, and in the east where two debutant ethnic parties are expected to challenge the supremacy of the ruling alliance.

The NC tasted the first victory when former physical planning and works minister Prakash Man Singh, a son of Ganesh Man Singh, one of Nepal's most revered freedom fighters, won with overwhelming majority in constituency one humbling current minister for physical education and sports Pradeep Nepal of the UML.

It was a heady moment for Singh, who was jailed for graft during King Gyanendra's absolute rule before being freed by Nepal's supreme court in a landmark judgement that signalled the end of the royal regime.

However, the Maoists were leading in three Kathmandu seats, including constituency two, considered a UML fortress from where UML chief and deputy PM Madhav Kumar Nepal himself was contending.

A little-known Maoist candidate Jhakku Prasad Subedi was leading convincingly, causing stunned disbelief among the ruling parties.

In Kathmandu 10, Maoist chief Prachanda, making his poll debut in a political career of three decades, was leading.

The UML was ahead only in two seats in the capital.

In neighbouring Lalitpur city, Maoists were leading in one seat and the NC in the other while counting was yet to start in the third.

It was a moment of jubilation for Maoist minister for women, children and social welfare Pampa Bhushal, striding ahead of her UML rival former minister Raghuji Pant, who had won the earlier election from Lalitpur 2.

The remote districts in western Nepal, the 'land of the disappeared' where the decade of 'People's War' led to a stunningly high number of disappearances, arbitrary arrests and extra-judicial killings by security forces, rejected the traditional parties to embrace the Maoists.

Maoists were leading on all four seats in Bardiya district and in three seats in Dang, considered a Maoist stronghold.

Among the frontrunners in Dang is Maoist minister for information and communications Krishna Bahadur Mahara.

In the tourist district of Chitwan, famed for its rhino park, Maoist strategist Ram Bahadur Thapa aka Badal was leading the race on one seat with the NC and UML leading in one seat each.

Even in Palpa district, the site of a devastating attack by the Maoists during the last days of King Gyanendra's rule, the Maoists were well ahead.

In Banke, the Maoists were leading in one seat with two others favouring the new ethnic party, the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum.

The debutant party was poised to humble in seat 3 Sushil Koirala, prime minister Koirala's cousin, and deputy chief of the NC.

The Maoists were also leading in seats in Makwanpur and Nawalparasi.

As Maoists routed communists, only a small localised left party stood its ground.

The Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP), a minor partner in the ruling alliance, held its traditional bastion Bhaktapur town in Kathmandu valley defending it stoutly against both the NC and Maoists.

NWPP chief Narayan Man Bijukchhe was winning from constituency one while his lieutenant Sunil Prajapati was leading over his nearest rival NC man Lekhnath Neupane in constituency two.

Boletín informativo do Comite Galego de Solidariedade co Nepal

Nepal Maoist Party’s new flag

Herald Tribune

Maoist leader wins seat in Nepal election as former rebels take lead in early returns

The Associated Press Published: April 12, 2008KATMANDU,Nepal: After spending a decade leading a communist insurgency in the mountains of Nepal, former top rebel Prachanda became the newest member Saturday of an assembly that will chart the Himalayan country's future. Prachanda, whose rebel nom de guerre means "the fierce one," led a powerful showing by the former Maoists rebels in early results from Thursday's elections. The vote is expected to usher in sweeping changes to the Himalayan country and likely signals the end of a 239-year-old royal dynasty.The Maoists, who are still considered a terrorist group by the United States, have so far won 20 out of the 34 constituencies where counting has been completed, the Election Commission said Saturday."This victory is a command by the Nepali people to establish lasting peace," Prachanda, 54, told reporters after the result was announced. "We are fully committed to the peace process and multiparty democracy and to rebuild this country."Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Center sent 62 observers to monitor the election, described the election as one of the "most profoundly important" ones he has witnessed. He said it marked the end of a decade of political violence and the likely transformation of Nepal from a Hindu kingdom to a democratic republic."If the Maoists do gain a substantial share of power, I hope the United States will recognize and do business with the government," Carter said at a news conference in Katmandu.

The New York Times

Polls Open in Nepal the Day After Violence Killed 8

By SOMINI SENGUPTA

Published: April 10, 2008

KATMANDU, Nepal — Violence marred the eve of a historic election intended to bolster peace in Nepal, as officials confirmed Wednesday the killings of at least eight people in three incidents in the tense western hill region.

In a turning point for a country bled by a decade-long Maoist insurgency, polls opened Thursday morning for Nepal’s 17.6 million voters to choose a special assembly that will rewrite the Constitution and govern the nation in the meantime.

Yesterday’s guerrillas are running for seats in the 601-member Constituent Assembly. Even some of their staunchest critics have said elections are the only way to bring them into a lawful parliamentary system.

On the outskirts of the Katmandu Valley on Thursday, in a district called Kavre, men and women lined up in neat rows at daybreak to cast their votes.

Navaraj Suwal, 42, a teacher, said Nepal had never had elections like this before. “This election will determine the kind of laws that will be around for the next hundred years,” he said.

So excited was he that he showed up 45 minutes before the polls opened and was the second man in line.

The transition from war to peace here has been exceptionally difficult, with the period before the elections characterized by violence and intimidation among rival parties. The Maoists have been accused in a majority of the cases, particularly their youth wing, known as the Young Communist League, which has been taken to task for bullying and beating members of other parties and preventing them from campaigning freely.

OK I don’t care much for Stalin, but that’s how the poster came.

No simple answers on Tibet

While I have been reading contradictory opinions about what is going on it Tibet, I believe this article from the newspaper Revolution is among the most honest and thoughtful that I have found so far. So I'm posting some of it.

The Protests in Tibet and the Discontent Below

by Li Onesto

Starting March 14, days of protests and rebellion broke out in Tibet against the reactionary Chinese government. It is difficult to get reliable news about these developments because most reports are from the Chinese government or unverified individual accounts. But this appears to be the biggest outbreak of anti-government protests in Tibet in 20 years.This conflict in Tibet is very complex, involving different class forces and interests and different political forces, including religious reactionary groups tied to U.S. imperialism.On the one hand this struggle is about the national oppression of the Tibetan people by a regime that calls itself “socialist” and “communist”—which it is NOT. The Chinese government is reactionary and capitalist. On the other hand, this struggle is taking place against a bigger international backdrop. The United States is aggressively setting out to extend and tighten the global dominance of U.S. imperialism. And Tibet is in a geostrategically important region of the world where there are big stakes for the U.S. in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. The U.S. has a long history of backing reactionary forces in Tibet – the CIA has worked with and directly supported the Dalai Lama. And today, sections of the U.S. ruling class are championing the Dalai Lama and using his movement to try and pressure, destabilize, and even tear China apart because they consider it a long-term strategic, economic, political, and military rival to U.S. global power. Attempts by U.S. imperialism to interfere in Tibet must be opposed.Several reports say things started when hundreds of Buddhist monks began marching from the Drepung Loseling Monastery to the city center in the capital city of Lhasa. They were stopped by the police, and 50 to 60 monks were arrested. Then a sit-down strike was joined by additional monks from Drepung.

For the rest see: http://revcom. us/a/125/tibet-protests-en. html

Once again, Kansas politicians display their stupidity

Once again the State of Kansas, USA, has show a remarkable ability to think and act like they just evolved from Apes. Republicans in the Senate voted their pocket books and gave into all those who make money burning coal. The sold their votes for short term gain, just as nearly all major scientist are finding alarming problems caused by greenhouse gasses, (C02) and the burning of fossil fuels. The decision of the Kansas Senate is obvious = “piss on the environment, we do what sells!)


This from The Wichita Eagle:
“Senate votes to override coal veto
BY DAVID KLEPPER
Kansas City Star
Senate roll call on overriding Sebelius veto on coal
Read House Substitute for Senate Bill 148
TOPEKA - Kansas lawmakers mounted new efforts to allow a western Kansas power plant expansion Thursday, a final push to resurrect the project before the legislative clock runs out.
Both the House and Senate endorsed new bills to authorize Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to build its two new coal-fired generators. The Senate also successfully voted to override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' veto of an earlier, similar bill. Both votes were 32-7.
What remains unclear, however, is whether the House can muster the two-thirds majority required to withstand a veto. The vote Thursday was five votes short.
Today may tell the tale: The House is set to hold a final vote, and House Speaker Melvin Neufeld, R-Ingalls, said he expects to have the votes to override a veto. "Unless somebody has lied to me," he said.
A majority of lawmakers hope to reverse a regulator's rejection of the expansion with legislation stripping his power. Time is running out, however. Lawmakers are expected to leave Topeka today for a three-week break before a brief wrap-up session next month.”

Just one example of research that shows the damage this contributes to is from National Geographic:


The Planet Is Heating Up—and Fast
Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.


One July morning I went up the Stubai Glacier with glaciologist Andrea Fischer and her team of students from the University of Innsbruck. They were there to give the glacier its weekly checkup, measuring how much it had melted under the various types of protective fabric—large squares of wool, hemp, plastic, and combinations of these that lay in rows across the slushy ice.
One experimental square, made of plastic, had dropped almost a foot in a week. "It's quite normal that glaciers are gaining or losing mass," Fischer said. What's not normal, say climatologists, is how fast it's happening today. Fischer and her students made note of which material had slowed the melting most effectively. Various materials, including a new white fleece, had slowed the melting to an impressive two inches.

March 26, 2008—A section of Antarctic ice seven times the size of Manhattan has broken away from a large ice shelf. Scientists say it is a sign of continued global warming.
Humans play a part:

By all accounts it has changed significantly in the past 150 years.
Walking through the various labs filled with cylinders of standardized gas mixtures, absolute manometers, and gas chromatographs, Tans offers up a short history of atmospheric monitoring. In the late 1950s a researcher named Charles Keeling began measuring CO2 in the atmosphere above Hawaii's 13,679-foot (4,169-meter) Mauna Loa. The first thing that caught Keeling's eye was how CO2 level rose and fell seasonally. That made sense since, during spring and summer, plants take in CO2 during photosynthesis and produce oxygen in the atmosphere. In the fall and winter, when plants decay, they release greater quantities of CO2 through respiration and decay. Keeling's vacillating seasonal curve became famous as a visual representation of the Earth "breathing."
Something else about the way the Earth was breathing attracted Keeling's attention. He watched as CO2 level not only fluctuated seasonally, but also rose year after year. Carbon dioxide level has climbed from about 315 parts per million from Keeling's first readings in 1958 to more than 375 ppm today. A primary source for this rise is indisputable: humans' prodigious burning of carbon-laden fossil fuels for their factories, homes, and cars.

Anything for a buck!

No stopping the greenhouse gasses.

The polar ice caps, mountain tops and glaziers are melting at an alarming rate.

Solidarity with Basque people

I received this message from the MAOIST_REVOLUTION@yahoogroups.com

So I am reposting it:

“Party of the Committees to Support Resistance – for Communism (CARC) - Italy

Via Tanaro 7, 20128, Milano

Tel. +39 0226306454

e-mail resistenza@carc.it

website www.carc.it

National Direction - International Relations Department

Association of Proletarian Solidarity (ASP)

CP 380, 80133 Napoli – Italia

e-mail: Ass-solid-prol@libero.it

28/03/2008

Solidarity with Basque people

We received and release this letter:

Dear Friends,

The repression against the Basque people conducted by the Spanish State and in less degree by the French has been constant in recent years. It is easy to trace a continuous line in the preceding decades that can show us the persistence of torture, massive and arbitrary detentions, penitentiary policy of brutal consequences, halted associations and organizations, closing of news media, illegalisation of political parties and total discrimination of a sector of the population from the participation in public life. To sum up, a situation of exception that has generated a dangerous scenario of suppression of the most basic political and civil rights, a scenario that nowadays it is shown with total harshness.

These circumstances have forced hundreds of Basque citizens to create a retaining wall, to confront repression and participate in different civic organisations, human rights organisations, and activist organisations in what has been called Movimiento Pro Amnistia. Otherwise, the lack of activation of this sector and consequently social contestation would have resulted in a total acceptance of the impunity of the structures of the Spanish State . That is why through this organisation lots of activities have been structured-conferences, demonstrations, public appeals, contacts with all kinds of political and social agents…- in order to claim a scenario of respect with basic democratic conditions, of enjoyment of basic civil and political rights. In lots of these activities we have had the chance to get to know each other, share and discuss issues.

Nevertheless, Spain and France , mentally blinded in maintaining a strategy of repression against wider sectors of the Basque population, require each time higher levels of impunity. This is why this wide movement results inconvenient and unbearable. That is why 11 of its members –spokespersons, provincial people in charge…- were during 4 years in preventive prison without having been taken to court, maximum limit by the Spanish legislature. That is why their mobilisations and demonstrations have been forbidden by court, halted administratively, and violently attacked by the Security Forces of the State. That is why time after time people who consistently point to the responsibility of the state in the repression and violation of human rights and the most fundamental freedoms, are being summoned.

That is why, to sum it up, from April 21^st , 27 members of this organisation have to face a trial in the exceptional antiterrorist trial Audiencia Nacional, under the accusation of belonging to an armed organisation, for our mere activity of solidarity with political prisoners, our mere militancy in Amnistia, our opposition against the repression and for defending human rights.

We don’t expect fairness from this tribunal. Nevertheless we expect an opportunity to explain to the Basque and to the international society who we are and what we are doing and why. I want to send this SOS of alarm and concern, but above all of solidarity: A call to double our effort, each one from our own field and framework, so that the impunity won’t break that retaining wall against repression.

Ez adiorik,

Julen Arzuaga

We express our solidarity with the representatives of the Basque movement for amnesty that will be tried on 21st April. We feel close to you and to the Basque people because the comrades of CARC Party, those of the Association for Proletarian Solidarity, those who worked for the reconstruction of a new Italian Communist Party for the latest 25 years and those who are members of it today are always been persecuted by the Italian State, always accused of “terrorism”. The true reason of the persecution, as a matter of fact, is why we have always declared and carried out solidarity with all the revolutionary prisoners and why we have always struggled for popular masses' interests and aspirations and for building socialism in our country, and we’ll keep on doing it.

The trial of 21^st April against who struggle for defending Basque people's rights is an attack against the freedom of speech and association, just as the umpteenth (this is the eighth inquiry) attack against our Party with this preliminary hearing on next 13^th May in Bologna, as the persecution against Turkish comrades accused to be members of the DHKC-P in Belgium and those accused to be members of TKP/ml in Germany, as the imprisonment in Italy of Turkish comrades Avni and Zeynep, as the persecution against Jose Maria Sison in Netherlands, as happens in many other European states that call themselves democratic and say that they “defend human rights”. All these are the same kind of attacks that are spreading all over Europe, and so happens in Turkey , in the Middle East and everywhere in the world.

The bourgeoisie persecutes and attacks us calling us "terrorists": it doesn’t' t dare to attack us for what we really are, for we struggle for popular masses' rights, it doesn't dare to openly deny us the freedom of speech and association, the democratic rights that they tell they are going to defend all around the world killing peoples as they do in ex Yugoslavia, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere. In other words, it doesn't dare to openly outlaw the popular protests and the Communism and to openly show the fascist mark of its attack. We will defeat this cover fascism as we did with the open one.

Solidarity with whom struggles for Basque people's rights!

Long live the struggle for the liberation of Basque people!

International solidarity against repression!

Of Course no one will ever charge the good ol’ USA of committing acts of terror or human rights violations. This country is a beacon of human rights in the world today:

Here we have the humane treatment of some kind of prisoners at our Gitmo

Camp. Looks like a luxurious vacation doesn’t it?

CARC Italian version

Partito dei Comitati d’Appoggio alla Resistenza – per il Comunismo (Italia)

Via Tanaro 7, 20128, Milano

Tel. +39 0226306454

e-mail resistenza@carc.it

website www.carc.it

Direzione Nazionale – Settore Relazioni Internazionali

Associazione Solidarietà Proletaria (ASP)

CP 380, 80133 Napoli – Italia

e-mail: Ass-solid-prol@libero.it

28/03/2008

Solidarietà con il popolo basco

Abbiamo ricevuto la lettera che sotto riportiamo.

Cari amici ed amiche,

La repressione contro il popolo basco da parte dello Stato spagnolo e, in diversa misura, di quello francese, è stata negli ultimi tempi una costante. È semplice tracciare una linea continua negli scorsi decenni, che ci mostri la persistenza della tortura, degli arresti di massa ed arbitrari, di una politica penitenziaria dalle conseguenze brutali, di sospensione delle attività di associazioni ed organismi, di chiusura di mezzi di comunicazione, di messa fuori legge di partiti e di discriminazione totale di un settore della popolazione dalla partecipazione alla vita pubblica, di arbitrio giudiziario, di terrorismo di Stato e brutalità poliziesca. In definitiva, una situazione d'eccezione, che ha generato un grave scenario di violazione dei fondamentali diritti civili e politici, scenario che oggi ci si mostra con assoluta crudezza.

Queste circostanze hanno obbligato centinaia di cittadini e cittadine a creare un muro di contenimento, a scontrarsi con la repressione ed a partecipare a diverse piattaforme civiche, associazioni per i diritti umani, organismi di attivisti di quello che è stato chiamato Movimento Pro Amnistia. Diversamente, la mancata attivazione di questo settore e della contestazione sociale contro la repressione, avrebbe comportato un'accettazione dell'impunità delle strutture dello Stato; è per ciò che da parte di questo movimento sono state sviluppate migliaia di attività (conferenze, manifestazioni, interpellanze, contatti con ogni tipo di soggetti politici e sociali...) volte a reclamare uno scenario di rispetto delle condizioni democratiche fondamentali, di godimento dei diritti civili e politici elementari. In molte di queste attività abbiamo avuto l'opportunità di conoscerci, condividere e discutere.

Tuttavia, gli Stati, ossessionati dal mantenimento della strategia repressiva contro settori sempre più ampi di questo popolo, necessitano di livelli maggiori d'impunità, è per ciò che questo ampio movimento, appena descritto, risulta loro scomodo ed intollerabile ed è per ciò che ha già tenuto undici dei suoi membri (portavoce e responsabili provinciali) in carcerazione preventiva, senza processo, per quattro anni, limite massimo concesso dalla legislazione spagnola. Per ciò, le sue mobilitazioni e manifestazioni sono state proibite dalla magistratura, sospese amministrativamente, violentemente attaccate dalle Forze di Sicurezza dello Stato; per ciò si aprono, uno dopo l'altro, processi contro le persone che continuano ad indicare le responsabilità dello Stato nella repressione e nella violazione di diritti umani e libertà fondamentali. È per ciò, in definitiva, che a partire dal 21 aprile 27 di noi, membri di questo movimento affronteranno un processo davanti al tribunale speciale antiterrorista della Audiencia Nacional, accusati di appartenenza ad organizzazione armata, per la loro semplice attività di solidarietà con le prigioniere ed i prigionieri politici, come militanti per l'Amnistia, per la loro opposizione alla repressione, per avere difeso i diritti umani.

Non ci attendiamo giustizia da questo tribunale; al contrario, consideriamo questa un'opportunità per spiegare alla società basca ed a quella internazionale ciò che siamo e per cosa abbiamo lottato.

È per questo che desidero lanciare un appello all'allarme ed alla preoccupazione ma, soprattutto, alla solidarietà; un appello a raddoppiare gli sforzi, ciascuno dal suo ambito e settore di lavoro, affinché l'impunità non riesca ad incrinare questo muro di contenimento contro la repressione.

Ez adiorik,

Julen Arzuaga

Esprimiamo la nostra solidarietà ai rappresentanti del movimento per l'amnistia che saranno sottoposti a processo il 21 aprile. Ci sentiamo particolarmente vicini a loro e al popolo basco, perchè i compagni e le compagne del Partito dei CARC, quelli dell’Associazione Solidarietà Proletaria, quelli che hanno lavorato in questi anni alla ricostruzione di un nuovo Partito Comunista Italiano e quelli che oggi ne fanno parte sono oggetto della persecuzione da parte dello Stato italiano da più di due decenni, accusati di 'terrorismo", colpiti, in realtà, per le dichiarazioni e la pratica di solidarietà nei confronti di tutti i rivoluzionari prigionieri e perchè abbiamo sempre combattuto a difesa degli interessi e delle aspirazioni delle masse popolari e sempre combatteremo per questo e per costruire nel nostro paese il socialismo.

L'attacco contro chi lotta a difesa dei diritti del popolo basco è attacco alla libertà di espressione e di associazione, come lo stesso attacco con cui si vuole colpire per l’ennesima volta, l’ottava, il nostro Partito con l'udienza preliminare che si terrà presso il Tribunale di Bologna il 13 maggio prossimo, come la persecuzione contro i turchi accusati di essere membri del DHKC-P in Belgio e quella contro i compagni accusati dei essere membri del TKP/ml in Germania, come l'imprigionamento in Italia dei compagni turchi Avni Er e Zeynep Kilic, che dura da quattro anni, come la persecuzione contro Jose Maria Sison in Olanda, e come tantissimi altri casi in paesi europei che si dichiarano falsamente democratici e rispettosi dei diritti umani. Tutti questi sono attacchi dello stesso segno che si vanno estendendo in tutta Europa, così come succede in Turchia, in Medio Oriente e in ogni parte del mondo.

La borghesia ci perseguita e ci attacca chiamandoci "terroristi": non ha il coraggio di attaccarci per ciò che siamo, perchè lottiamo per i diritti delle masse popolari, non ha il coraggio di negarci direttamente il diritto di parola e di associazione, quei diritti democratici scritti nella Costituzione e che dice di andare a difendere per il mondo massacrando, nei fatti, i popoli, come in Iraq, in Palestina, in Afghanistan, in Libano, ex Jugoslavia e altrove. Non ha il coraggio, in altre parole, di mettere fuori legge le proteste popolari e il comunismo e dichiarare apertamente il carattere fascista del proprio attacco. Noi sapremo sconfiggere questo fascismo mascherato come abbiamo sconfitto il vecchio fascismo, quello aperto e dichiarato.

Solidarietà a chi lotta per i diritti del popolo basco!

Viva la lotta di liberazione del popolo basco!

Solidarietà internazionale contro al repressione!