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Friday, May 30, 2008

News from the new Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path)

From http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION:

English:

PERU: 'All-Out War' on Maoist Guerrillas. And once again the Maoists are never defeated but come back stronger and more determined.
LIMA, May 9 - The armed forces have launched a major offensive against the most combative remaining column of Sendero Luminoso (the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas) which is operating in the jungle valleys of the Ene and Apurimac rivers in southeastern Peru.
By order of the armed forces' Joint Command, 5,000 troops belonging to army infantry brigades No. 2 and No. 31, 200 members of Special Operations and the marines, and 200 more from the air force Defence and Special Operations unit, have been mobilised to the area. The enemy they are facing is made up of 200 combatants.
In addition to sending the large contingent of troops, the Joint Command ordered up two MI-25 and MI-17 helicopter gunships, as well as reconnaissance airplanes, and set up a river base manned by two patrols.

"Never before have so many and such highly-trained personnel been concentrated in the valleys of the Apurimac and Ene rivers (a region known by the acronym VRAE) to fight the Senderistas.
" The 'objective' is to neutralise the column of 200 heavily armed men led by 'Comrade José,' a battle-hardened Senderista with extensive knowledge of the area," sources said.
"Comrade José's" real name is Víctor Quispe, a 49-year-old Shining Path member who joined the guerrilla group when he was an anthropology student at the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga.
At that university in the capital of the southern Andean region of Ayacucho, philosophy Professor Abimael Guzmán began the armed struggle based on Maoist ideas on May 17, 1980. On Sept. 12, 1992, police in Lima captured Guzmán and nearly all the members of the Central Committee of the Peruvian Communist Party-Shining Path.
However, the leaders of the Central Regional Committee, which operates in the VRAE region, and the Huallaga Regional Committee, active in the jungle valley of the Huallaga river, did not accept the 'peace accords', and continued to wage what they call the "people's war."
Óscar Ramírez, one of the founders of Shining Path, also known as "Feliciano", commanded the Central Regional Committee.
On Jul. 14, 1999 "Feliciano" was captured in a military operation and was replaced by his right-hand man, Quispe.
Shortly afterwards Quispe proved his military expertise and in-depth knowledge of the area. On Oct. 2, he and his men ambushed an MI-17 helicopter, killing five soldiers
. In a proclamation, Quispe announced the beginning of the "third phase of the people's war," following the first phase, led by Guzmán (1980-1992) and the second, conducted by Ramírez (1992-1999). "The Senderistas ambush the armed forces and the police, and they tell the campesinos (small farmers): 'We defend your interests, we are the people's army, we aren't going to kill you.'
According to the authorities, the rebels' modus operandi is to ambush police patrols on their rounds in the area.
On Mar. 23, presumed Senderistas attacked two police vans in Quinua, close to Huamanga. One police officer died and another 13 were wounded. The attackers made off with 14 Kalashnikov assault rifles.
A report from the Interior Ministry's Directorate- General of Intelligence, which IPS saw, says that Quispe has organised a "support network" in Lima.
According to these sources, the first phase of the strategy against Shining Path has been set in motion, and by the end of the year they hope to have Quispe within their grasp. May 17 will be the 28th anniversary of PCP's People's war against the Peruvian state.

In Solidarity

John (jose657@yahoo.es)



Peru’dan Bir Haber:

Maoist gerillaalara karşı ‘toyekün savaş’. Maoistler yinede yenilemiyor. Onlar toparlanmış bir güç olarak yeniden mücadele sahnesindeler.

Lima; 9 Mayıs 2008 günü ülkenin güneydoğusundaki Ene ve Apurimac nehirlerinin kenar kıyılarında peru güvenlik güçleri askeri bir taarruz hareketi başlattılar. Bu taarruz ‘Aydınlık Yol’ gerillalarından bir bir guba yönelik olarak yürütülmekte ve ülkenin en ormanlık bölgelerinden birisinde yapılmaktadır.

Ordunun bir kaç birminlerinden oluşan ve ortak bir emirle yürütülen bu operasyonel taarruza 2 nolu ve 31 nolu Piyade Alayları’ndan yaklaşık 5000 asker katılmaktadır. Bunların içinde 200 kişilik deniz piyadelerinden ve 200 kişilik hava piyadelerinden oluşan Özel Harekat Timleri’de bulunmaktadır. Bunların karşısında düşman olarak gördükleri 200 kişilik eşitsiz bir güç sahibi küçük bir gerilla birimi vardır.
Ayrıca, bunlara ek olarak MI-17 ve MI-25 svaş helıkpterleri ve gözetleme için casus ucakları bulunmakta ve bu nehirlerin kenar kıyılarında konuşlandırılmaktadırlar.

Şimdiye kadar, ‘bu derece büyük ve deneyimli bir ekiple’ Eni ve Apurimac nehirlerin etrafında bu denli kapsamlı bir operasyon yapılmamıştı.

Bu operasyonun hedefi ‘aydınlık yol’un deneyimli ve becerili yeni komutanı ‘yolsaş Jose’ denetimindeki 200 donanımlı gerilla nötralize veya imha edilmesidir. Gerçek adı Victor Quispe olan 49 yaşındaki ‘Yoldaş Jose’ Huamanga şehrindeki Sans Cristopal Üniversitesi’nde Antropoloji öğrencisiyken gerillaya katılmış ve sonrasında dağda kaldığı dönemlerde yıllarca başarılı eylemlere imza atmıştı.

And dağlarının güney yakasındaki Ayacucho eyaletinin başkenti Huamanga kenti, felsefe profesörü olarak görev yaparken 17 Mayıs 1980 tarihinde maoist düşüncelerle silahlı mücadeleyi ve halk savaşını başlatan Abimael Guzman’ında (Gonzalo) çalıştığı üniversitenin olduğu meşhur şehirdir.

12 Eylül 1992 tarihinde Peru güvenlik birimleri başkent Lima’da Peru Komunist Partisi lideri başkan Abimael Guzman’ı ve bir çok merkez komite üyesini tutsak almıştı. Ne varki partinin bir çok bölgelsel ve merkezi yöneticilere bağlı savaş birimler sonraları basına sıydırılan ‘barış kararlarını’ tanımamış ve özellikle VRAE bölgesindeki Huallaga nehri kıyılarında konumlanarak halk savaşı yolunda ısrar etmeye devam etmişlerdi.

Örgütün kurucularından ‘yoldaş Feliciano’ lakaplı Oscar Ramirez’de bir askeri operasyon sonucu yakalanmış, merkezi ve bölgesel komitelere savaşta ısrar etmeyi salık vermişti.
14 Temmuz 1999 tarihinde Feliciano’da yakalanmış ve sonradan onun sağ kolu olan ‘yoldaş Victor Quiespe’ onun halefi olarak halk savaşına komuta etmeye başlamıştı.
Bu dönemde Quiespe halk savaşaındaki komuta kabiliyetini ve yeteneklerini bir dizi başarılı eylemlerle belgelemişti. 2 Ekim 2008 ylında MI-17 savaş helikopterini düşürmüş ve 5 özel timi pusuya düşürerek savaş dışı bırakmışlardı.


Bundan sonraki dönemde Quiespe halk savaşının üçüncü evresini ilan etmişti. Halk savaşının birinci evresine (1980-1992 arası) Abimael Guzman önderlik etmiş ikinci evresi (1992-1999) ise Oscar Ramirez denetiminde sürdürülmüştü.

‘Aydınlık Yol’ gerillaları güvenlik güçlerini pusuya düşürerek başarı sağlamayı bir gelenek haline getirmişlerdir. Onlar küçük köylülere şunları söylemektedirler: ‘Biz sizin asli çıkarlarınızı savunuyoruz. Biz Halkın gerçek ordusuyuz. Sizleri özldürmek gibi bir niyetimiz yok.’
Hükümet Yöneticilerin açıklamalarına bakılırsa onlarda gerillaları pusuya düşürmek ve böylece imha etmek istiyorlar.

23 Mart 2008 tarihinde ‘Senderista’lar Quinua kasbasında iki polis arabasını pusuya düşürerek imha etmiş ve bir polis memuru ölmüştü. Gerillalar polislere ait 14 Kaleşnikof markalı silahlara da el koyarak kendi alanlarına çekilmişlerdi.
Bilirkişi raporlarına ve içişleri bakanlığının açıklamlarına göre; Quiespe’nin Lima’da güçlü bir destekçi taban yarattığı ve bunları örgütlediği söylenmektedir.

Yine bu bilgi kaynaklarına göre, hükümet güçlerinin birinci evredeki hedefi, ‘Aydınlık Yol’
gerillalarını kıskaca almak ve yıl sonuna kadar Victor Quispe’nin yakalanmasını gerçekleştirmekten ibaretmiş. 17 Mayıs Peru Komunist Partisinin gerici Peru devletine karşı Halk Savaşı stratejisini başlatılmasının 28. yıldönümüdür.!

Dayanışmacı selamlar
Eine Nachricht Aus Peru:
'Totaler Krieg' gegen die maoistischen Guerillas. Und die Maoisten können trotzdem nicht besiegt werden. Sie kommen in bestimmter Stärke wieder zurück.

LIMA, Am 9. Mai haben die peruanischen Streitkräfte in der Nähe und Entlang der Flüsse Ene und Apurimac in südöstlichem Teil des Landes eine größere Militäroffensive begangen. Diese Offensive richtet sich gegen die kämpferischste übrige Spalter-Gruppe von Sendero Luminoso (der Leuchtende Pfad), wo die Guerilleros in den Dschungeltälern dieser Gebiete gesiedelt sind.
Die unter Gemeinschaftsbefehl stehenden Streitkräfte der Armeeinfanteriebrigaden Nr. 2 und Nr.31 stürmten mit 5000 Soldaten, darunter 200 Mitglieder von Sondereiheiten der Marine und 200 von der Luftwaffenverteidigung und spezielle Operationseinheiten mobilisiert sind.“Der Feind” dem sie gegenüber stehen, besteht nur aus 200 ungleichmäßig starken Kombattanten.

Zusätzlich wurden disees großen Kontingents von Truppen, zwei MI -25 und MI -17 sowohl Kampfhubschrauber als auch Aufklärungsflugzeuge hinaufkommandiert, und stellen eine von zwei Streifen bemannte Flussbasis auf.

"Nie zuvor ist so viel und ein solch hoch geübtes Personal konzentriert in den Tälern der Apurimac und Ene Flüsse (einer Region vom Akronym VRAE gekannt) gewesen, um die “Senderistas”zu bekämpfen"

Das 'Ziel' ist, 200 schwer bewaffnete Kämpfer von 'Genossen José', ein kampfgehärtetes Senderista führer mit umfassendem Wissen im Bereich des Guerillakrieges, zu neutralisieren, "Gefährte José", seinwirklicher Name ist Víctor Quispe, ein 49-jähriger Mitglied des leuchtenden Pfads, der sich der Guerillagruppe anschloss, als er ein Anthropologiestudent an der nationalen Universität des Sans Cristóbal in Huamanga war.

An dieser Universität in der Hauptstadt der Südandenregion von Ayacucho begann Philosophie Professor Abimael Guzmán den bewaffneten Kampf basierend auf maoistischen Ideen am 17 Mai 1980.
Am 12. September 1992 nahm die Polizei in Lima Guzmán und beinahe all die Mitglieder des Zentralkomitees von der Peruanische Kommunistische Partei (Leuchtende Pfad) gefangen. Jedoch, die führenden Politiker des Zentralen Regionalen Komitees, das in der VRAE Region arbeitet, und des im Dschungeltal des Huallaga Flusses aktiven regionalen Komitees, akzeptiertendie 'Friedensübereinstimmungen' nicht und fuhren mit der Strategie des "Volkskriegs" fort.

Óscar Ramírez, einer der Gründer, des “Leuchtenden Pfad”s , bekannt auch als "Genosse Feliciano", befahl dem Zentralen Regionalen Komitee den bewaffneten Kampf weiterzuführen.

Am 14 Juli 1999 war "Feliciano" in eine militärische Opertaion gefangen genommen und wurde später durch seinen rechten Hand, “Genosse Quispe” ersetzt.
Bald danach stellte Quispe seine militärische Sachkenntnise im Bereich der Führung des Volkskrieges unter Beweiss. Am 2. Okt 2008 überfielen er und seine Männer einen MI -17 Hubschrauber, aus dem Hinterhalt, wobei fünf speziallsoldaten getötet waren.

In einer Proklamation kündigte Quispe den Anfang der "dritten Phase des Volkskriegs" an, die der ersten Phase folgte, geführt von Guzmán (1980-1992) und die von Ramírez (1992-1999) geführte 2. Phase.
"Die Senderistas überfallen die Streitkräfte und die Polizei aus dem Hinterhalt, und sie sagen es dem campesinos (kleinen Landwirten): 'Wir verteidigen Eure Interessen, wir sind die Armee desVolkes, wir haben nicht vor, Euch zu töten'.

Laut den Verwaltungen sollen die Streifkräfte die Rebellen auf ihren Runden in diesen Regionen auch aus dem Hinterhalt überfallen.
Am 23. März 2008 griffen die Senderistas zwei Polizeiwagen in Quinua nahe bei Huamanga an. Ein Polizeibeamter starb, und noch 13 waren verletzt. Die Angreifer machten sich mit 14 Kalashnikov Angriffsgewehren davon.
Ein Bericht vom Direktoratsgeneral der Intelligenz IPS und des Innenministeriums sagten, dass Quispe ein "Unterstützungsnetz" in Lima organisiert hat.
Entsprechend diesen Quellen ist die erste Phase der Strategie von Regierungstruppen die Rebellen des leuchtenden Pfads einzukreisen, und bis Ende des Jahres hoffen sie, Quispe einzufangen. Der 17. Mai war der 28. Jahrestag des legänderen Volkskrieges von PCP gegen den peruanischen Staat.


In Solaridarität.
John (jose657@yahoo.de)

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Will there be “people war” in Bolivia?

Despite the changes in the last election will there be “people war” in Bolivia?
From the Frente Revolucionario del PuebloBolivia, Mayo de 2008:

The Bolivian people should strive to Construct the road Revolutionary Revolutionary People's Front Bolivia, May 2008 The Bolivian people, exploited and oppressed, is the urgent task of building their revolutionary project itself, free of warlords and revisionist positions that historically have diverted the emancipatory struggle of the poor. The action of the bourgeoisie and landowners buyer After the arrival of the Evo Morales government, allied to the bourgeoisie buyer landowners are entrenched in its draft with the departmental autonomies take state control and regional natural resources in those areas. The self-styled "crescent" have endeavoured to do "match", his project Regional Anti-centralism, with popular demands to seek a attention to their needs from the State, and seek shade under this conceal their reactionary plan to continue playing the ferocious exploitation landowner and capitalist. While the centralization of State has created problems for the nine departments of the country, where historically investment in infrastructure road, communication, "services" (health, education, etc.) has not arrived, the bourgeoisie and landowners buyer use this as a pretext for exacerbate the contradictions with the reformist government of MAS. The division between centralism and regions also has to do with the development of the bourgeoisie and each country is not a political plan without economic base. The buyer is a bourgeoisie class formed by bankers who are at once industrial, media owners, traders and large Landowners (Marinkovic owns more than 70 thousand hectares, a company oils and a bank), linked to external market and therefore with important ties with imperialism. Such was the bearer of D.S. 21060 or call neoliberalism. They exert a semifeudal exploitation in their areas of influence 2 which is run under different names (harvest, enable communities captive, etc., in essence servitude) and is socapada with an alleged activity "Agribusiness". They are allies of transnational capital to which defended tooth and sword, which allowed an endorsement of U.S. imperialism in its political projects. So exert control over the powerful class and conjunctural drag them succeed after his proposed "development". To defend these interests at this juncture, require full control of the No administració regional and departmental dispute that the government of its powers handling political, economic and social development. The draft statutes autonomic pointing in that direction, strengthening of regional elites in handling regional governments through a governor. The Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) with its programme bourgeois bureaucratic Faced with the people that requires the expulsion of the transnationals in the plunder natural resources and monopolize industries, the government implements its policy of MAS buy shares of these companies to take 50% plus one and sell the title lie that the state now manages the business strategy. Faced with the oppressed peoples and peasants demanding land allocation, the government of MORE respects the property of the landowners, admits to armed groups of these Gamonal, it offends (does nothing else) by the relationship of servitude (semi) that keep groups of peasants and promises distribute public land to the landless after RECONT properties State, which has suspended so as not to disturb the landowners. What it does is executed effectively mobilizing mostly peasant masses, as cannon fodder, to face their opponents and then leave them at the mercy of fascist bands that end up massacring these sectors mobilized. Opposite the village which is plagued by inflation reducing wages month after month, the MAS government imposes mitigation measures and short-term, an increase paupérrimas wage and becomes trader buying food products (flour, rice, etc.) market overseas, with the consequent disincentive to small producers. 3 Faced with the need for more than 40 thousand small farmers to secure support for produce, the government responded by giving MAS thousand bank loans to small peasants in the typical way of financial support already failed with the former Development Corporations, Banks miners, ranchers, building and so on. But in this process the rural poor (most) are bearing the brunt because they lack access to credit any and everyone on their own fight for survive in a context of fierce competition, this sector is poor peasants which ends in sewing and illegal farms in Brazil, Argentina, Spain and elsewhere undergone an atrocious and inhumane exploitation. With inflation and despite the money that enters the country through royalties and taxes, unemployed have not stopped growing in number. The government has MAS responded to this with the "novelty" of the emergency employment (plan, proposed, etc.) that ensures only temporary jobs, inadequate in number, with total job insecurity and without any social benefit for workers. That does offer as much their bonds Juancito Pinto and dignity that only measures charitable and show that the MAS government owes to the poor one consideration of begging. The experiment failed to transform the Traders used clothing in "micro" or merchants grocery is more than eloquent. So far the creation of state-owned enterprises are not concrete (Company paper, cardboard, milk, coca, Bolivian Aviation) since it has earmarked millions of dollars to buy a few shares to transnational oil and gas (dizque "nacionalizació n"). So far only the hydrocarbon sector (and lately ENTEL) has given money to State and it has paid millions to buy a transnational ridiculous number of shares (1% or 2%). The imperial capital of mining has not been not even touched a hair with these cowardly actions of the hydrocarbon sector. The struggle within the bourgeois democracy: they are political opponents, not enemies. The pulseta between the two factions of the bourgeoisie (MAS representative of bureaucratic bourgeoisie and the so-called "crescent" as operators of the bourgeoisie Purchaser and landowners) ranges from the pact and confrontation. 4 That struggle has gone through very critical moments and different scenarios, such as Constituent Assembly, Congress, the addresses of co-opted by unions and lately the two contenders to the Bill Autonomy of the bourgeoisie and landowners buyer of Santa Cruz. In 2007 there were two times when the struggle of the masses overcame control either, and threatened to extend the conflict endangering State institutions: Cochabamba and Sucre in January in November, was expressed here dealing with the ruling classes with greater acuity, but in both cases the furious masses exceeded their addresses, dared to go beyond the instructions and generated a real threat to the old Bolivian State. The last pulseta in which both factions took advantage to face again the people was the autonomic referendum Santa Cruz. The bourgeoisie Purchaser landowners and led the people to vote for a statute to them gives all the power to manage land, negotiate and sell natural resources, create a kind of parapolicía, administer justice and other powers of old State operator. On the other hand the bureaucratic faction, called for abstention measure their support and have a better position to bargain. At the end both factions are moving into the path of bourgeois elections and they will reconcile bourgeois under the sign of "national unity" which involves unity in both sectors of the ruling class. Today we are focusing on Recall Referendum, which will not solve the crisis being experienced by the people; as in the election of public officials to the Constitutional Court, Court Supreme National Electoral Court and other agencies of the old State, where end up sharing the charges. For the unity of the exploited and oppressed peoples Although the village is caught in the factional fighting-MAS and "crescent" - and is Sand contest of this struggle, increasingly honest people of the village understand the need to abandon this path of defeat and without hope for the exploited class. 5 The need to create an independent project, and itself is revolutionary imperative and urgent, even more so if every day we see the debacle of classes Dominant and the serious crisis of its sole support, mainly imperialism Yankee. "The rebellion is justified" Now more than ever, and the oppressed people should start building its own way politically, economically and socially to crush the old and rotten state and crush the two factions of the bourgeoisie parasite. Our people must stop the warlords in hopes union or politicians who are quick stop dragging by personal interests and commune with the bourgeoisie. Our people must learn to distinguish the path of failure that have always shown the revisionist (Guevarista, trotskystas, false Maoists [PCML] and all calaña of leftist electoral) that have always ended confident in the old state and its ruling class. The poor and exploited in our country and the world had nothing to lose, 've tested until tiredness that since the method of elections bourgeois until experiences guerrillas (foquistas), through visions despise the organization of the proletariat and eroding forces in isolation of the economic struggle, not serve for anything. The fight now and is always politics and the organization must be political, so that our method revolutionary, people's war, hopelessly to crush capitalism bureaucracy that persists in our countries and their allies destroce imperialists. Revolutionary People's Front Bolivia, May 2008 1 The Bolivian people should strive to Construct the road Revolutionary Revolutionary People's Front Bolivia, May 2008 The Bolivian people, exploited and oppressed, is the urgent task of building their revolutionary project itself, free of warlords and revisionist positions that historically have diverted the emancipatory struggle of the poor. The action of the bourgeoisie and landowners buyer After the arrival of the Evo Morales government, allied to the bourgeoisie buyer landowners are entrenched in its draft with the departmental autonomies take state control and regional natural resources in those areas. The self-styled "crescent" have endeavoured to do "match", his project Regional Anti-centralism, with popular demands to seek a attention to their needs from the State, and seek shade under this conceal their reactionary plan to continue playing the ferocious exploitation landowner and capitalist. While the centralization of State has created problems for the nine departments of the country, where historically investment in infrastructure road, communication, "services" (health, education, etc.) has not arrived, the bourgeoisie and landowners buyer use this as a pretext for exacerbate the contradictions with the reformist government of MAS. The division between centralism and regions also has to do with the development of the bourgeoisie and each country is not a political plan without economic base. The buyer is a bourgeoisie class formed by bankers who are at once industrial, media owners, traders and large Landowners (Marinkovic owns more than 70 thousand hectares, a company oils and a bank), linked to external market and therefore with important ties with imperialism. Such was the bearer of D.S. 21060 or call neoliberalism. They exert a semifeudal exploitation in their areas of influence 2 which is run under different names (harvest, enable communities captive, etc., in essence servitude) and is socapada with an alleged activity "Agribusiness". They are allies of transnational capital to which defended tooth and sword, which allowed an endorsement of U.S. imperialism in its political projects. So exert control over the powerful class and conjunctural drag them succeed after his proposed "development". To defend these interests at this juncture, require full control of the No administració regional and departmental dispute that the government of its powers handling political, economic and social development. The draft statutes autonomic pointing in that direction, strengthening of regional elites in handling regional governments through a governor. The Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) with its programme bourgeois bureaucratic Faced with the people that requires the expulsion of the transnationals in the plunder natural resources and monopolize industries, the government implements its policy of MAS buy shares of these companies to take 50% plus one and sell the title lie that the state now manages the business strategy. Faced with the oppressed peoples and peasants demanding land allocation, the government of MORE respects the property of the landowners, admits to armed groups of these Gamonal, it offends (does nothing else) by the relationship of servitude (semi) that keep groups of peasants and promises distribute public land to the landless after RECONT properties State, which has suspended so as not to disturb the landowners. What it does is executed effectively mobilizing mostly peasant masses, as cannon fodder, to face their opponents and then leave them at the mercy of fascist bands that end up massacring these sectors mobilized. Opposite the village which is plagued by inflation reducing wages month after month, the MAS government imposes mitigation measures and short-term, an increase paupérrimas wage and becomes trader buying food products (flour, rice, etc.) market overseas, with the consequent disincentive to small producers. 3 Faced with the need for more than 40 thousand small farmers to secure support for produce, the government responded by giving MAS thousand bank loans to small peasants in the typical way of financial support already failed with the former Development Corporations, Banks miners, ranchers, building and so on. But in this process the rural poor (most) are bearing the brunt because they lack access to credit any and everyone on their own fight for survive in a context of fierce competition, this sector is poor peasants which ends in sewing and illegal farms in Brazil, Argentina, Spain and elsewhere undergone an atrocious and inhumane exploitation. With inflation and despite the money that enters the country through royalties and taxes, unemployed have not stopped growing in number. The government has MAS responded to this with the "novelty" of the emergency employment (plan, proposed, etc.) that ensures only temporary jobs, inadequate in number, with total job insecurity and without any social benefit for workers. That does offer as much their bonds Juancito Pinto and dignity that only measures charitable and show that the MAS government owes to the poor one consideration of begging. The experiment failed to transform the Traders used clothing in "micro" or merchants grocery is more than eloquent. So far the creation of state-owned enterprises are not concrete (Company paper, cardboard, milk, coca, Bolivian Aviation) since it has earmarked millions of dollars to buy a few shares to transnational oil and gas (dizque "nacionalizació n"). So far only the hydrocarbon sector (and lately ENTEL) has given money to State and it has paid millions to buy a transnational ridiculous number of shares (1% or 2%). The imperial capital of mining has not been not even touched a hair with these cowardly actions of the hydrocarbon sector. The struggle within the bourgeois democracy: they are political opponents, not enemies. The pulseta between the two factions of the bourgeoisie (MAS representative of bureaucratic bourgeoisie and the so-called "crescent" as operators of the bourgeoisie Purchaser and landowners) ranges from the pact and confrontation. 4 That struggle has gone through very critical moments and different scenarios, such as Constituent Assembly, Congress, the addresses of co-opted by unions and lately the two contenders to the Bill Autonomy of the bourgeoisie and landowners buyer of Santa Cruz. In 2007 there were two times when the struggle of the masses overcame control either, and threatened to extend the conflict endangering State institutions: Cochabamba and Sucre in January in November, was expressed here dealing with the ruling classes with greater acuity, but in both cases the furious masses exceeded their addresses, dared to go beyond the instructions and generated a real threat to the old Bolivian State. The last pulseta in which both factions took advantage to face again the people was the autonomic referendum Santa Cruz. The bourgeoisie Purchaser landowners and led the people to vote for a statute to them gives all the power to manage land, negotiate and sell natural resources, create a kind of parapolicía, administer justice and other powers of old State operator. On the other hand the bureaucratic faction, called for abstention measure their support and have a better position to bargain. At the end both factions are moving into the path of bourgeois elections and they will reconcile bourgeois under the sign of "national unity" which involves unity in both sectors of the ruling class. Today we are focusing on Recall Referendum, which will not solve the crisis being experienced by the people; as in the election of public officials to the Constitutional Court, Court Supreme National Electoral Court and other agencies of the old State, where end up sharing the charges. For the unity of the exploited and oppressed peoples Although the village is caught in the factional fighting-MAS and "crescent" - and is Sand contest of this struggle, increasingly honest people of the village understand the need to abandon this path of defeat and without hope for the exploited class. 5 The need to create an independent project, and itself is revolutionary imperative and urgent, even more so if every day we see the debacle of classes Dominant and the serious crisis of its sole support, mainly imperialism Yankee. "The rebellion is justified" Now more than ever, and the oppressed people should start building its own way politically, economically and socially to crush the old and rotten state and crush the two factions of the bourgeoisie parasite. Our people must stop the warlords in hopes union or politicians who are quick stop dragging by personal interests and commune with the bourgeoisie. Our people must learn to distinguish the path of failure that have always shown the revisionist (Guevarista, trotskystas, false Maoists [PCML] and all calaña of leftist electoral) that have always ended confident in the old state and its ruling class. The poor and exploited in our country and the world had nothing to lose, 've tested until tiredness that since the method of elections bourgeois until experiences guerrillas (foquistas), through visions despise the organization of the proletariat and eroding forces in isolation of the economic struggle, not serve for anything. The fight now and is always politics and the organization must be political, so that our method revolutionary, people's war, hopelessly to crush capitalism bureaucracy that persists in our countries and their allies destroce imperialists. Revolutionary People's Front Bolivia, May 2008 1 The Bolivian people should strive to Construct the road Revolutionary Revolutionary People's Front Bolivia, May 2008 The Bolivian people, exploited and oppressed, is the urgent task of building their revolutionary project itself, free of warlords and revisionist positions that historically have diverted the emancipatory struggle of the poor. The action of the bourgeoisie and landowners buyer After the arrival of the Evo Morales government, allied to the bourgeoisie buyer landowners are entrenched in its draft with the departmental autonomies take state control and regional natural resources in those areas. The self-styled "crescent" have endeavoured to do "match", his project Regional Anti-centralism, with popular demands to seek a attention to their needs from the State, and seek shade under this conceal their reactionary plan to continue playing the ferocious exploitation landowner and capitalist. While the centralization of State has created problems for the nine departments of the country, where historically investment in infrastructure road, communication, "services" (health, education, etc.) has not arrived, the bourgeoisie and landowners buyer use this as a pretext for exacerbate the contradictions with the reformist government of MAS. The division between centralism and regions also has to do with the development of the bourgeoisie and each country is not a political plan without economic base. The buyer is a bourgeoisie class formed by bankers who are at once industrial, media owners, traders and large Landowners (Marinkovic owns more than 70 thousand hectares, a company oils and a bank), linked to external market and therefore with important ties with imperialism. Such was the bearer of D.S. 21060 or call neoliberalism. They exert a semifeudal exploitation in their areas of influence 2 which is run under different names (harvest, enable communities captive, etc., in essence servitude) and is socapada with an alleged activity "Agribusiness". They are allies of transnational capital to which defended tooth and sword, which allowed an endorsement of U.S. imperialism in its political projects. So exert control over the powerful class and conjunctural drag them succeed after his proposed "development". To defend these interests at this juncture, require full control of the No administració regional and departmental dispute that the government of its powers handling political, economic and social development. The draft statutes autonomic pointing in that direction, strengthening of regional elites in handling regional governments through a governor. The Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) with its programme bourgeois bureaucratic Faced with the people that requires the expulsion of the transnationals in the plunder natural resources and monopolize industries, the government implements its policy of MAS buy shares of these companies to take 50% plus one and sell the title lie that the state now manages the business strategy. Faced with the oppressed peoples and peasants demanding land allocation, the government of MORE respects the property of the landowners, admits to armed groups of these Gamonal, it offends (does nothing else) by the relationship of servitude (semi) that keep groups of peasants and promises distribute public land to the landless after RECONT properties State, which has suspended so as not to disturb the landowners. What it does is executed effectively mobilizing mostly peasant masses, as cannon fodder, to face their opponents and then leave them at the mercy of fascist bands that end up massacring these sectors mobilized. Opposite the village which is plagued by inflation reducing wages month after month, the MAS government imposes mitigation measures and short-term, an increase paupérrimas wage and becomes trader buying food products (flour, rice, etc.) market overseas, with the consequent disincentive to small producers. 3 Faced with the need for more than 40 thousand small farmers to secure support for produce, the government responded by giving MAS thousand bank loans to small peasants in the typical way of financial support already failed with the former Development Corporations, Banks miners, ranchers, building and so on. But in this process the rural poor (most) are bearing the brunt because they lack access to credit any and everyone on their own fight for survive in a context of fierce competition, this sector is poor peasants which ends in sewing and illegal farms in Brazil, Argentina, Spain and elsewhere undergone an atrocious and inhumane exploitation. With inflation and despite the money that enters the country through royalties and taxes, unemployed have not stopped growing in number. The government has MAS responded to this with the "novelty" of the emergency employment (plan, proposed, etc.) that ensures only temporary jobs, inadequate in number, with total job insecurity and without any social benefit for workers. That does offer as much their bonds Juancito Pinto and dignity that only measures charitable and show that the MAS government owes to the poor one consideration of begging. The experiment failed to transform the Traders used clothing in "micro" or merchants grocery is more than eloquent. So far the creation of state-owned enterprises are not concrete (Company paper, cardboard, milk, coca, Bolivian Aviation) since it has earmarked millions of dollars to buy a few shares to transnational oil and gas (dizque "nacionalizació n"). So far only the hydrocarbon sector (and lately ENTEL) has given money to State and it has paid millions to buy a transnational ridiculous number of shares (1% or 2%). The imperial capital of mining has not been not even touched a hair with these cowardly actions of the hydrocarbon sector. The struggle within the bourgeois democracy: they are political opponents, not enemies. The pulseta between the two factions of the bourgeoisie (MAS representative of bureaucratic bourgeoisie and the so-called "crescent" as operators of the bourgeoisie Purchaser and landowners) ranges from the pact and confrontation. 4 That struggle has gone through very critical moments and different scenarios, such as Constituent Assembly, Congress, the addresses of co-opted by unions and lately the two contenders to the Bill Autonomy of the bourgeoisie and landowners buyer of Santa Cruz. In 2007 there were two times when the struggle of the masses overcame control either, and threatened to extend the conflict endangering State institutions: Cochabamba and Sucre in January in November, was expressed here dealing with the ruling classes with greater acuity, but in both cases the furious masses exceeded their addresses, dared to go beyond the instructions and generated a real threat to the old Bolivian State. The last pulseta in which both factions took advantage to face again the people was the autonomic referendum Santa Cruz. The bourgeoisie Purchaser landowners and led the people to vote for a statute to them gives all the power to manage land, negotiate and sell natural resources, create a kind of parapolicía, administer justice and other powers of old State operator. On the other hand the bureaucratic faction, called for abstention measure their support and have a better position to bargain. At the end both factions are moving into the path of bourgeois elections and they will reconcile bourgeois under the sign of "national unity" which involves unity in both sectors of the ruling class. Today we are focusing on Recall Referendum, which will not solve the crisis being experienced by the people; as in the election of public officials to the Constitutional Court, Court Supreme National Electoral Court and other agencies of the old State, where end up sharing the charges. For the unity of the exploited and oppressed peoples Although the village is caught in the factional fighting-MAS and "crescent" - and is Sand contest of this struggle, increasingly honest people of the village understand the need to abandon this path of defeat and without hope for the exploited class.


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Translation below.

EL PUEBLO BOLIVIANO DEBE LUCHAR PARA


1EL PUEBLO BOLIVIANO DEBE LUCHAR PARACONSTRUIR EL CAMINO REVOLUCIONARIOFrente Revolucionario del PuebloBolivia, mayo de 2008El pueblo boliviano, explotado y oprimido, tiene la imperiosa tarea de construir supropio proyecto revolucionario, libre de caudillos y de posiciones revisionistas quehan desviado históricamente la lucha emancipadora de los pobres.La acción de la burguesía compradora y terratenientesLuego de la llegada de Evo Morales al gobierno, la burguesía compradora aliada alos terratenientes se atrincheró en su proyecto de autonomías departamentales con elfin de tener el control estatal regional y los recursos naturales de esas zonas. Losautodenominados “media luna” se han esforzado por hacer “coincidir”, su proyectoregional de lucha contra el centralismo, con las demandas populares de buscar unaatención a sus necesidades de parte del Estado, y bajo esta cortina pretendenencubrir su reaccionario plan de continuar reproduciendo la feroz explotaciónterrateniente y capitalista.Si bien es cierto que el centralismo del Estado ha generado problemas a los nuevedepartamentos del país, donde históricamente la inversión en infraestructuracaminera, de comunicación, en “servicios” (salud, educación, etcétera) no hallegado, la burguesía compradora y los terratenientes usan esto como pretexto paraexacerbar las contradicciones con el gobierno reformista del MAS. La división entrecentralismo y regiones, además, tiene que ver con el desarrollo de las burguesías decada país y no es un designio político sin base económica.La burguesía compradora es una clase formada por banqueros que a la vez sonindustriales, dueños de medios de comunicación, grandes comerciantes yterratenientes (Marinkovic es dueño de más de 70 mil hectáreas, una empresa deaceites y un banco), ligados al mercado exterior y por tanto con lazos importantescon el imperialismo. Esa clase fue la abanderada del D.S. 21060 o el llamadoneoliberalismo. Ellos ejercen una explotación semifeudal en sus zonas de influencia2que se ejecuta bajo diferentes nombres (zafra, habilito, comunidades cautivas,etcétera; en esencia servidumbre) y es socapada con una supuesta actividad“agroindustrial” . Son aliados del capital transnacional al cual defienden a capa yespada, hecho que les permite un espaldarazo del imperialismo yanqui en susproyectos políticos. Así ejercen un control poderoso sobre las clases oprimidas ylogran coyunturalmente arrastrarlas tras su proyecto de “desarrollo”.Para defender estos intereses en esta coyuntura, requieren del control total de laadministració n regional y departamental, que dispute al gobierno sus atribuciones demanejo político, económico y social. Los proyectos de estatutos autonómicosapuntan en esa dirección, fortalecimiento de las elites regionales en el manejo degobiernos regionales a través de un gobernador.El Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) con su programa burgués burocráticoFrente al pueblo que exige la expulsión de las transnacionales por saquear losrecursos naturales y monopolizar industrias, el gobierno del MAS ejecuta su políticade comprarles acciones para tener en esas empresas el 50% más un título y vende lamentira de que ahora el Estado maneja el negocio estratégico. Frente a loscampesinos y pueblos oprimidos que exigen dotación de tierras, el gobierno delMAS respeta la propiedad de los latifundistas, admite a los grupos armados de estosgamonales, se ofende (no hace nada más) por las relaciones de servidumbre(semifeudalidad) en las que se mantienen a grupos de campesinos y prometedistribuir tierras públicas a los sin tierra después de recontar las propiedades delEstado, hecho que ha suspendido para no molestar a los terratenientes. Lo que síejecuta con eficacia es la movilización de masas principalmente campesinas, comocarne de cañón, para enfrentar a sus opositores y luego dejarlos a merced de lasbandas fascistas que terminan masacrando a estos sectores movilizados.Frente al pueblo que es azotado por la inflación reductora de los salarios mes trasmes, el gobierno del MAS impone medidas paliativas y de corto plazo, un aumentosalarial paupérrimo y se convierte en comerciante comprando alimentos (harina,arroz, etcétera) del mercado exterior, con el consiguiente desincentivo a lospequeños productores.3Ante la necesidad de más de 40 mil pequeños campesinos de obtener apoyo paraproducir, el gobierno del MAS responde dando créditos bancarios a mil pequeñoscampesinos en el típico camino de apoyo financiero ya fracasado con las exCorporaciones de Desarrollo, Bancos mineros, ganaderos, de fomento, etcétera. Peroen este proceso los campesinos pobres (la gran mayoría) se llevan la peor parteporque no tienen acceso a ningún crédito y cada cual por su cuenta lucha parasobrevivir en un contexto de fiera competencia; este sector de campesinos pobres esel que termina en los talleres de costura y granjas ilegales de Brasil, Argentina,España y otros lugares sometidos a una explotación atroz e inhumana.Con la inflación y a pesar del dinero que ingresa al país por regalías e impuestos, losdesempleados no han dejado de crecer en número. El gobierno del MAS harespondido a esto con la “novedad” del empleo de emergencia (PLANE, PROPAÍS,etcétera) que sólo garantiza empleos temporales, insuficientes en número, con totalinseguridad laboral y sin ningún beneficio social para los obreros. Eso sí ofrececomo gran cosa sus bonos Juancito Pinto y Dignidad que sólo son medidascaritativas y demuestran que el gobierno del MAS tiene para con los pobres unaconsideración de mendicidad. El experimento fracasado de transformar a loscomerciantes de ropa usada en “microempresarios” o comerciantes de comestibleses más que elocuente. Hasta ahora la creación de empresas estatales tampoco seconcreta (Empresa de papel, de cartón, de leche, de coca, Boliviana de Aviación)pues se ha destinado millones de dólares a comprar unas cuantas acciones a lastransnacionales de petróleo y el gas (la dizque “nacionalizació n”).Por ahora sólo el sector de hidrocarburos (y últimamente ENTEL) ha dado dinero alEstado y éste ha pagado millonadas a las transnacionales por comprarles una ridículacantidad de acciones (1% o 2%). El capital imperialista de la minería no ha sidotocado ni siquiera un pelo con esas cobardes medidas del sector hidrocarburífero.La pugna dentro de la democracia burguesa: son adversarios políticos, noenemigos.La pulseta entre ambas facciones de la burguesía (el MAS representante delburguesía burocrática y la llamada “media luna” como operadores de la burguesíacompradora y los terratenientes) oscila entre el pacto y el enfrentamiento.4Esa pugna ha atravesado momentos muy críticos y diferentes escenarios, como laAsamblea Constituyente, el Congreso, las direcciones de sindicatos cooptados porambos contendientes y últimamente el referéndum para aprobar el EstatutoAutonómico de la burguesía compradora y los terratenientes de Santa Cruz. En 2007hubo dos momentos en que la lucha de las masas superó el control de uno y otro, yamenazó con extender el conflicto poniendo en peligro a la institucionalidad estatal:Cochabamba en enero y Sucre en noviembre, aquí se expresó el enfrentamiento delas clases dominantes con mayor agudeza, pero en ambos casos las masas furiosassuperaron sus direcciones, se atrevieron a ir más allá de las instrucciones ygeneraron una amenaza real al viejo Estado boliviano.La última pulseta en la que ambas facciones aprovecharon para enfrentarnuevamente al pueblo fue el referéndum autonómico de Santa Cruz. La burguesíacompradora y terratenientes llevaron a la población a votar por un Estatuto que lesda todo el poder para administrar la tierra, negociar y vender los recursos naturales,crear una especie de parapolicía, administrar la justicia y otras atribuciones del viejoEstado explotador. De otro lado la facción burocrática, llamó a la abstención paramedir su apoyo y tener mejores condiciones a la negociación.Al final ambas facciones se mueven dentro del camino de las elecciones burguesasy volverán a conciliar bajo el signo burgués de la “unidad nacional” que implica launidad de ambos sectores de la clase dominante. Hoy están centrando en elReferéndum revocatorio, que no resolverá la situación de crisis que vive el pueblo;como en la elección de funcionarios públicos para el Tribunal Constitucional, CorteSuprema, Corte Nacional Electoral y otros organismos del viejo Estado, dondeterminarán repartiéndose los cargos.Por la unidad de los explotados y pueblos oprimidosAunque el pueblo está atrapado en la lucha de facciones –MAS y “media luna”– y esarena de contienda de esta pugna, cada vez más personas honestas del pueblocomprenden la necesidad de abandonar ese camino de derrota y sin esperanzas parala clase explotada.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The Truth about Zimbabwe


I had written a statement similar to the one below, some time ago and got a nasty response from a woman who lived or had spent time in Zimbabwe. While Robert Mugabe may have overstayed his usefulness in the Zimbabwe parliament, and there has been some needless violence, he is by no means the worst dictator in Africa. The following statement re-emphasizes what I had said before. This is once again, a leader who has stepped on Western interest and so he is the object of a smear campaign to isolate and exaggerate his actions.



From the Proletarian Online
Communist Party of Great Britan (Marxist-Leninist):
Hands off Zimbabwe -
Statement issued by the CPGB-ML, 12 May 2008http://www.cpgb- ml.org/index. php?secName= statements

The CPGB-ML resolutely condemns the interference of Britain and its imperialist allies in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe.
Big business in Britain is determined to effect regime change in Zimbabwe. Its motivation is not the protection of human rights - history amply demonstrates Lenin's dictum that "capital seeks domination, not freedom" - but the protection of the right of private property.
British imperialism and its allies, including the United States and a significant section of the white minority in Zimbabwe, seek to secure unfettered access to Zimbabwe's mineral and agricultural wealth.
They seek to reverse the land reform programme, which courageously and vigorously addressed the gross inequality of land ownership in Zimbabwe. They seek to privatise all sectors of the Zimbabwean economy, leaving it open to complete domination by foreign capital. They seek to replace subsistence crops with cash crops.
Britain and its allies know that their aims cannot be achieved whilst the fiercely nationalist Zanu-PF government remains in power, and therefore every attempt is being made to unseat Zanu-PF and to promote the quisling Movement for Democratic Change.
Extensive sanctions have been applied to Zimbabwe. Ostensibly these are 'smart sanctions' targeted at a few individuals; actually they are a form of collective punishment designed to destabilise the country and shake the population's faith in Zanu-PF.
The sanctions have brought about real economic hardship in Zimbabwe, and have been accompanied by the message that the government must be removed before the sanctions are removed. This is one of the imperialist states' most favoured techniques for imposing their will, and has, sadly, succeeded in overturning Zanu-PF's majority in parliament.
Britain and its allies have made every attempt to prejudice the results of elections in Zimbabwe. Millions of pounds have been pumped into the MDC in order to help it to power. During the 2008 elections, foreign NGOs were found to be advising voters that food distribution would stop if people voted for Zanu-PF.
Meanwhile, there was an international media campaign to support the MDC and its presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai. Long before the results were announced, the media were proclaiming victory for the MDC. By claiming that the elections were not free and fair, the various imperialist governments and press organs were pre-emptively justifying any attempted coup (and western support for it) by the MDC.
It is unfortunate (but not surprising) that the malicious campaign of lies about Zimbabwe has been supported - and in some cases preceded - by the fake left in Britain.
The CPGB-ML calls for an immediate end to all imperialist meddling in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe and to the demonising of Robert Mugabe and his party, Zanu- PF.

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Peru: second in command of the Huallaga Communist Party of Peru is killed

English Translation below
Lima, 21.05.08 Una noticia de ultima hora, que publica el diario El Comercio, afirma que el ejercito dio muerte al camarada Piero, Juan Laguna Dominguez, considerado el numero dos y mando militar del Comité Regional del Huallaga del clandestino Partido Comunista del Perú.
Según el reporte militar a las 11 de la noche del pasado domingo se produjo un enfrentamiento entre efectivos del ejercito con un destacamento guerrillero que se encontraba en la zona de Zachavaca, en el Monzón. En el mismo habria resultado mortalmente alcanzado el dirigente comunista aunque su cuerpo no fue encontrado al retirarse el destacamento del EPL. Asi mismo se afirma que el destacamento habia participado en acciones de volanteo y enbanderamientos con motivo del Aniversario de la Guerra Popular en la zona del Alto Huallaga.

correovermello noticias esta para servir a las masas populares en el conocimiento de las noticias de la Revolucion Proletaria Mundial
saudos vermellos / saludos rojos

Translation by Google:
Lima, 21.05.08 A news last minute, which publishes the newspaper El Comercio, said that the army killed the comrade Piero, Juan Dominguez Lagoon, considered the number two and military commander of the Regional Committee of the Huallaga clandestine Communist Party of Peru . According to the military reporting at 11 last Sunday evening there was a clash between army troops in a guerrilla detachment that was in the area Zachavaca in Monzon. The same result would have reached the mortally communist leader though his body was found not to withdraw the detachment of the EPL. Likewise states that the detachment had been involved in actions and VOLANTE enbanderamientos to mark the anniversary of the People's War in the zone of Alto Huallaga.


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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Can Obama galvanize young voters?

Barack Obama will probably be the Democrat against the insidious Republican candidate John McCain. The best thing about Obama is that he has gotten a lot of young people out to vote for him. I haven’t seen this kind of energy and youth interest in a campaign since George McGovern ran against the sneaky lecherous crook Richard Nixon. If McCain wins again, the consequences could actually be worse than another Nixon.
The hard left has always distained our elections saying the two parties are the same and nothing will change from all of this. They may be right, but can we really sit back in good conscious and let McCain get us in a perpetual war that will never really end?
We already know that we live in a capitalist two-party democracy that caters to the wealthy aristocrats, in a system where there is no working class democracy. So fixing this system is like trying to fix a rotten apple. When maggots and flies have turned it to mush, we need a new apple.


John “Jab-it the Slut” McCain

If they young turn out for this election, they may slowly learn that in The US, we need a new apple, AKA we need a new system.


Sunday, May 18, 2008

The history of censorship - the Comstock Act

An excerpt from: Can You Pass the Acid Test?: A History of the Drug and Sex Counterculture and Its Censorship in the 20th Century


The Comstock Act
History of the Early Underground Press

By 1892 there was an estimated 900 papers dominated
by the Populist movement. Between 1912 and 1913 many socialist papers
had begun to appear. From Girard, Kansas, there was Appeal to Reason.337
Some of these papers had huge circulations. The Halletsville Texas Rebel
had a circulation of 35,000.338
As with magazines, most of the cultural opposition to America's
Puritanism came from anarchist-oriented papers such as Lucifer, the
Light-Bearer. It was a well-known newspaper published in Valley Falls,
Kansas, that advocated anarchy and free love (1880 to 1907).
The paper often had poems or editorials on its front page. Its attacks of
sexual codes were very similar to those made by the 1960s and 1970s
counterculture. An example of such writings was called "Survival of the
Fear of Sex":
"The Censor has the support of the body of the people because, third
and particularly, the fact of sex is held to be a blunder of God or nature,
one or the other, as your sexphobist's viewpoint is that of the Theist and
Christian, or the Rationalist."
The censor he talked about concerned a court case used to try and shut
the paper down and imprison its publisher, under obscenity charges. The
article appeared in the Nov. 5, 1903, edition. Other comments in the
editorial include:
"The religious belief was that this world is merely a temporary
stopping-place in which we prepare for heaven or hell. Whatever distracts
our attention from our future home, one or the other place named, is bad
for our souls. If we are happy here we are likely to forget God and go to
hell. If we are miserable here we are likely to be reminded of God and go
to heaven. The fear of sex is about the only survival of it that is doing
business amongst us. It was said that not even ambition wealth and fame
were so apt to turn men's thoughts from God and his saints and from the
devil and his never-dying worms as were sexual joy and domestic
happiness."339
Other articles typical of the paper include "Rulers Are Not
Originators," by Thomas Henry Huckle, in that same issue. He states that
political reforms or improvements have never originated from leaders.
Just as the 1960s counterculture was concerned with the war in
Indochina, Lucifer also commented on foreign wars. On the front page of
one issue (Oct. 17, 1903), was a news brief that criticized English liberals
for wanting to go to war in Turkey on behalf of Christians living in
Macedonia.
Early Censorship
Lucifer's editor, Moses Harmon, was convicted of obscenity in the
federal courts in 1904. Lucifer was repeatedly held by postal
authorities.340 Much of this was the work of the "Comstock Act," named
after a sexual moral crusader at the turn of the century.
Anthony Comstock was a Christian social activist who took it upon
himself to use censorship laws to suppress anything of a sexual nature. His
crusades caught the eye of the New York Young Men's Christian
Association (YMCA). They gave him a salaried position. He not only
campaigned against pornography and sinful behavior, he lobbied for
federal and state anti-obscenity legislation. This led to the Comstock Act,
which gave an offender up to ten years imprisonment for mailing or
receiving "obscene, lewd or lascivious" printed and graphic material.341
Then, as now, there are those who attempted to use censorship to close
down newspapers. Although the reason for censorship was sexual
material, it spilled over into political and philosophy debates, just as it did
in the later part of the 20th century. Censorship laws have always tried to
protect the culture of the status quo.
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Kirbys is opened again

I found out last night, real late before I could go. My oasis in this dung pile is back. No one's bought it yet. Steve's sister figured out she was loosing money by keeping it closed. There are a few interested in buying it, so it will be sold eventually.

Happy Days are here again.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Our Elections: The Bad, The Good, and The Ugly


While two of the three candidates oppose the Iraq war, they still don’t see the folly and lies behind the Afghanistan War.

From U S News:


McCain: The Bad/ Nasty and ETC



Clinton

Decision to go to War

"If I had known then what I know now, I never would have given President Bush the authority."

In 2002, Clinton voted to authorize U.S. military action in Iraq . Now, she says her vote was aimed at giving Bush more leverage for diplomacy.

Timetables for Troop Withdrawal

"I hope to have nearly all of them out within a year."

Despite such statements, Clinton's advisers say that she believes setting a firm withdrawal deadline would be irresponsible. She has also mentioned a range of continuing missions in Iraq.

Effect on the War in Afghanistan

"We should be putting more troops in Afghanistan, not moving troops out of Afghanistan to send them to Iraq."

Clinton supports an increased deployment to Afghanistan, but only as part of a broader, coordinated boost by NATO.

Obama

Decision to go to War

"I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars."

Obama's powerful 2002 speech opposing the war has become a central theme of his campaign. He was a state senator in Illinoisat the time and didn't arrive in Washington until 2005.

Timetables for Troop Withdrawal

"I would end this war, and I would have our troops out within 16 months."

Obama has qualified his timetable, saying he would allow military commanders to adjust the withdrawal. He envisions a limited future troop presence in Iraq.

Effect on the War in Afghanistan

"We cannot prevail until we reduce our commitment in Iraq."

Obama wants to pull troops out of Iraq in part to increase the U.S.troop presence in Afghanistan. He says he would use the extra soldiers as leverage for additional troop commitments from NATO.

McCain

Decision to go to War

"The invasion was not a mistake. The handling of the war was a terrible mistake."

McCain became a vocal critic of Bush's tactics six months into the Iraq war. But last year, he became one of the staunchest defenders of the president's current surge strategy

Timetables for Troop Withdrawal

"The fact that we've not set a date for withdrawal and a date for surrender has improved things rather dramatically."

McCain was calling for more troops in Iraq before the surge, but he would run up against the limits of a severely strained U.S. military.

Effect on the War in Afghanistan

"If we cede Iraq to al Qaeda, how long will they stay the course in Afghanistan?"

McCain has offered few specifics on whether or not more troops are needed in Afghanistan, but he has recommended an increased emphasis on development aid.


Sunday, May 11, 2008

News from the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Revolutionaries of Iraq

Translated:

Our resolve by the ghost of Revolutionary vibration obscurantist America invisible hand of terrorism in Iraq: Dear heroes, you are calamitous day of darkness and the people of darkness in the north and south of the country you CONTENDS The most notorious fascist dictatorship of a pattern of Kurdistan and Alasalamstanih pattern is both democratic dealers Oppressive oil, designed capital, yes, you militants and activists subject to the world Resisting the fascist dictatorships is possible if we are determined to confront the language of understanding And inflicting defeats on them .. Can not deny that this imperial empowers the Nazi Party or the other or Oppressive group or individuals the right to rape and violation of privacy rights and freedoms of students and students University of Basra, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, or carrying on the practice barbaric acts of murder and terrorism Ugliest colors that would proletariat rape and abuse of human freedoms and dignity Rights in accordance with laws and Field jungle setting, that form of democracy Bianchi and Bianchi clients .. Bianco and export democracies of the smell that fragrance of crime and death .. Ikhosaun advocates a solution Center to open a blank page with the authority of terror and repression or tolerance with the perpetrators of such acts Evil and aggression against the students in universities and the right proletariat and the right science and life science, The right of civil and social progress that is the picture of the practices of those cells must interested terror And terror in the hearts of innocent people in order to force them to surrender under pressure herds Nazi However, the University of Basra and Sulaymaniyah, Irbil and stood and stood and heroic courage and steadfastness destinations Even shattered their dreams and the dreams of their masters, to Atrkaa authorities in both South Darkness Aouchmal Iraq does not melt Crucible negotiation process and surrender, but the language of bullets and the barrel of guns People's War which broke out under the leadership of the proletariat and the inevitable They held their doors later The misery of determination. I wonder who is Muqtada al-Barzani and Talabani and al-Jaafari and Allawi, and Saddam Hussein and Khamenei, Or Aziz Hakim, Chalabi and Al-Rubaie and Al-Sistani and al-Zarqawi and those Reagents Given birth to the world Zionist movement, led by Yankee imperialism. Midget was also making these pygmies killers of Barzani, who created Muqtada w Talabani, who have had the upper hand to liquidate the lives of dozens of children of revolutionaries Albroolitarih Anti-imperialism which are invisible hand of the imperialist terrorism in Iraq. Unfortunately, some writers mercenaries from fanatic Islamists and Alkrdstanyen and Altharivien to conform Essential dimension of humanity, are accustomed to obliterating, dedicated service in Parings Chauvinists Relying on the debate seems obvious to evade about everything related to the truth of the above two facts Or put up against the dollar compromise on their consciences and psychologically weak dollar, which speaks here It is not strongly pens or payment of dollars scattered words of the barrel when it replaced cheap Parings Aldlar judgement ashamed of cheap pens and remunerated given the role of sole leader of the fascist leader Only chosen by America, beating the dollar when the doors of the book mercenaries immediately pigmentation Skins according to request the dollar and U.S. dollar thesis carrying Parings Balamseoulih towards innocent lives Some mercenaries wrote that Talabani and Barzani field commanders fought for the liberation of people Kurdish praise murderers and criminals thus repeating songs mercenary clashes small Talabani Barzani and the pace of Saddam finance bundles of dollars each writer glorifies them blind, that Talabani raised from childhood at the hands of the offender defunct Said Gazzaz Minister of Interior During the monarchy in the mid-fifties, Barzani is also kept by the intelligence service Iranian former (Sava), Lucy J. E., yesterday they were partners in a conspiracy fascist Baath Party February during Black coup in 1963 against Qasim Authority today become the country's top tycoons Just like the son of crooked in looting the property of the poor classes. And Muqtada was the other may become Wealthy merchants also thanks so because of the Republic of turbans and opium Iranian barbarism. Dear students, you flame of a candle today in the dark until the yoke through the dark Albroolitarih Almshoukien before the revolution and the oppressed. Glory to you the greetings and solidarity of the Movement of the Revolution, like the World Albroolitarih Marxist Alleninyin Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party and the American Revolutionary Communist Party of Nepal and Peruvian And, and .. Glory to you the greetings and solidarity of revolutionaries and revolutionary in the Himalaya Mountains in Nepal, rebels The rebellious in the mountains of whatever Kojo in Peru and insurgents and rebellious, who resisted the fascists in the mountains, who were Colombia and Ecuador. Glory to you the greetings and solidarity of students who are burdened with militant revolutionaries seized Cells and torture in the prisons of the Moroccan regime fascist. Greetings to you from a revolutionary Marxist Alleninyin Moroccan revolutionaries and all the honorable and good guys revolutionaries in the world. People's war can defeat of fascism and religious nationalism. Ataathrr of Samarra restrictions Oppressive only the barrel of guns. Long live the Intifada students Basra, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. Death to the fascists and imperialists and their masters who die coalition and alliances with them.




News from the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist- Revolutionaries of Iraq

التي تصدت بعزيمتها الثورية شبح الاهتزاز الظلامي
اميريكا يد الارهاب الخفية في العراق :
ايها الابطال انتم تقارعون اليوم الظلام والظلاميين في شمال وجنوب البـلاد انتم تقارعون
اعتى دكتاتورية فاشية من نمط الكردستانية والاسلامستانية بشقيها ومن نمط ديمقراطية تجار
النفط الظلاميين ، مصممة تصميما راسماليا ، نعم ايها المناضلون والمناضلات برهنتم للعالـم
ان مقاومة الدكتاتوريات الفاشية امر ممكن اذا عقدنا العزم على مواجهتها باللغة التي تفهـم
والحاق بها الهزائم .. لايمكن الانكار على ان الامبريالية تخول هذا الحزب النازي او ذاك او
جماعة او افراد ظلاميين حق القيام بانتهاك الحرمات واغتصاب حقوق وحريات طلاب وطالبات
جامعة البصرة واربيل والسليمانية ، او القيام بنشاطات بربرية وممارسة اعمال القتل والارهاب
بابشع الوانهـا التى من شانها اغتصاب حقوق البروليتاريا والاعتـداء على الحريات وكرامة
الانسان وفق القوانين الميدانية وشرائع الغاب ، تلك شكل ديمقراطية اليانكي وعملاء اليانكي ..
اليانكي وتصدير الديمقراطيات التي تفوح منها رائحة الجريمة والموت .. يخسؤون دعاة حل
الوسط على فتح صفحة بيضاء مع سلطة الارهاب والقمع او التسامح مع مرتكبي تلك الاعمال
الشريرة و العدوانية بحق الطلبة في الجامعات وبحق البروليتاريا و بحق العلم والعلوم والحياة
بحق المدنية والتقدم الاجتماعي تلك هي صورة لممارسات تلك الشراذم التي يهمها دب الرعب
والارهاب في قلوب الابرياء بغية ارغامهم على الاستسلام تحت ضغوطات قطعانهـا النازية
الا ان جامعة البصرة والسليمانية واربيل وقفت وقفتها البطولية وبشجاعة وصمود بوجههـم
حتى مزقت احلامهم واحلام اسيادهم ، لاتركع للسلطات الظلاميـة سواء في جنـوب اوشمال
العــراق ولا تنصهر ببودقة عملية التفاوض والاستسلام بل بلغة الرصاص وفوهة بنـادق
الحرب الشعبية التي ستندلع بقيادة البروليتاريا والتي لامحالة منهـا وهي تدق ابوابهم لاحقا
وبئس المصير .

يا ترى من هو مقتدي والطالباني والبارزاني والجعفري وعلاوي وصدام حسين وخامنئي و
عزيز اللا حكيـم والجلبي والربيعي والياور والسيستاني والزرقاوي وعلي كميــاوي هؤلاء
انجبتهم الحركة الصهيونية العالمية وعلى راسها يانكي الامبريالي .

صدر القزم ايضا صنع هؤلاء الاقزام السفاحين كل من البارزاني وwالذي صنع مقتدى
والطالباني ممن كانت لهم اليد الطولي بتصفية حياة العشرات من ابناء البروليتارية الثوريين
المناهضين للامبريالية وهما اليد الخفية للارهاب الامبريالي في العراق .

وللاسف بعض الكتاب المرتزقة من المتعصبين الاسلاميين والكردستانيين والتحريفيين لايتفقون
البعـد الجوهري للانسانية ، اعتادوا على طمسها ، يكرسون اقلامهم في خدمة شوفينيتهـم
بالاعتماد على مداولة البديهيات للتملص عن كل ما له صلة بالحقيقة لايهمهم اعلان الحقائق
او طرحها بالمام الدولار سطا على ضمائرهم ونفسياتهم الضعيفة ، هنا الدولار الذي ينطق
وليس الاقلام او بقوة دفع الدولارات تتناثر الكلمات من فوهة اقلامهم الرخيصة عندما يحـل
الدلار حكما تخجل الاقلام الرخيصة و الماجورة تعطي دور القائد الاوحد لذلك الزعيم الفاشي
الاوحد الذي تختاره اميريكا ، حينما يدق الدولار أبواب الكتاب المرتزقة على الفور يصبغون
جلودهم وفق طلب الدولار واطروحة الدولار يحملون اقلامهم بالامسؤولية تجاه حياة الابرياء
بعض المرتزقه كتبوا ان الطالباني والبارزاني قادة ميدانيين ناضلـوا من اجـل تحرير الشعب
الكردي مدح القتلة والمجرمين هكذا يرددون اناشيد الارتزاق ان الصدامان الصغيران الطالباني
والبارزاني على خطى صدام يمولون برزماة من الدولارات لكل كاتب يمجد بهما جزافا ، ان
الطالباني تربي منذ نعومة اظفارهم على يـد المجرم المقبور سعيد قزاز وزير الداخلية في
العهد الملكي ذلك في اواسط الخمسينات والبارزاني هو الاخر تربى على يد جهاز المخابرات
الايرانية السابق ( السافاك ) وسي ئاي ئي ، كانا بالامس شركاء في مؤامرة حزب البعث الفاشي
ابان انقلاب شباط الاسود عام 1963 ضد سلطة قاسم اما اليوم اصبحا من كبار اثرياء البلد
مثلهم مثل ابن عوجة في السلب والنهب لممتلكات الطبقات الفقيرة . ومقتدى هو الاخر قد اصبح
من التجار الاثرياء ايضا والفضل بذلك يعود لجمهورية العمامات والافيون البربرية الايرانية .

ايها الطلاب والطالبات انتم اليوم تشعلون شمعة في الظلام حتى تنيرون طريق المظلم
بالثورة البروليتارية امام المسحوقيين والمظلومين .

لكم تحيات المجد والتضامن من حركة الثورة البروليتارية العالميـة في طليعتهــا الماركسيين
اللينينيين الماويين الحزب الشيوعي الثوري الامريكي والحزب الشيوعي الثوري النيبالي والبيروي
و ، و .. لكم تحياة المجد والتضامن من الثوار والثائرات في جبـال هيمالايا في نيبال والثـوار
والثائرات في جبال ايا كوجو في بيرو وثوار وثائرات التي تقاوم الفاشيين في جبال واحراش
كولومبيا واكوادور . لكم تحيات المجد والتضامن من الطلاب المناضلين الثوريين وهم يرزحون قيد
الزنزانات والتعذيب في سجون النظام المغربي الفاشي . لكم تحيات ثورية من الماركسيين اللينينيين
الثوريين المغربيين ومن كل الشرفاء والاخيار الثوريين في العالم .
الحرب الشعبية كفيلة بدحر الفاشية القومية والدينية .
لاتتحرر المراءة من قيود الظلاميين الا بفوهة البنادق .
عاشت انتفاضة طلاب البصرة واربيل والسليمانية .
الموت للفاشيين واسيادهم الامبرياليين والموت لمن تحالف ويتحالف معهم .



Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Nepal –plural and communist

By 史蒂夫・奥多

I used to believe in Democratic Socialism, a multiparty state. However, It seems they always have problems and the ones in Europe or no more socialist than our own Democratic Party in the US. The Sandinista Revolution seems to have faded somewhat, first loosing elections to right-wing parties, dedicated to destroying their gains and now they have won, but what can they do to restore revolutionary change? I always felt the US has too few parties and not too many.
The two we have are pathetic and worthless. Even if Brack Obama tries to fix the countries problems, he still has the same old rotten system to deal with. There’s just so much that can be done to fix a rotten apple, and our democracy is a rotten able, rotten to the core.
The new government of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has claimed they have created a multiparty state and they will stay that way. Can revolution work that way? We will find out.
From the HOME PAGE OF YAHOO! GROUPhttp://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION:


Nepal 'boosts global communism'
By Charles Haviland
BBC News, Kathmandu
The leader of Nepal's Maoists has said that his party's recent election victory is a sign of the global resurgence of communism.
But Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, stressed his party believed in retaining multi-party competition.
Prachanda has made it clear that he wants to become the first president of a Nepalese republic.
The Maoists won twice as many seats as their nearest rivals in last month's polls for a constitutional assembly.
Investment priorities
Prachanda's comments are a reminder of the extraordinary way in which Nepal has contradicted the world's move away from communism in the past 20 years.
The leader of the former rebels told the AFP news agency that the Maoists' big poll victory signalled a wave of revolution in developing countries, which he said would spread to the developed world.
But Prachanda stressed that the Maoists did not believe in a one-party state.
He said they had concluded that "multi-partyism is a must, even in socialism" and that without competition, a vibrant society could not be created. The Maoists have said time and again that such pluralism is necessary. Another senior Maoist leader, CP Gajurel, recently told the BBC that communism had failed in other countries precisely because it did not allow competition, adding that it would be normal for the party to lose some elections, then come back to win others.
Prachanda also reiterated the Maoists' support for private investment in Nepal, both local and foreign. But he said Nepal's people and government should decide on investment priorities.
The new assembly is due to sit some time after 20 May and is set to abolish the monarchy.
Discussions are in progress on what should be the composition of the country's new government. Some in the traditionally biggest party, the Nepali Congress, say the current Congress Prime Minister GP Koirala should continue in the post. But many others ridicule this suggestion.

Monday, May 05, 2008

Afghan war just as bad as Iraq’s

Unfortunately, many Americans have either paid no attention to what is going on in Afghanistan or eve support our actions, even though they oppose the war in Iraq.
They actually believe that our troops are protecting them and not just taking part in The Project for the New American Century, a project that sets us up as the leader of most countries in the world, starting with the Middle east. The News media is shamelessly supporting all this crap. Just look at their spin:


Afghanistan Now Most Dangerous for U.S. Troops
With Violence Down in Iraq, Afghan Military Casualties Proportionally Much Higher
By JONATHAN KARL and LUIS MARTINEZNov. 30, 2007
In a stunning turnaround, Afghanistan is now a more dangerous place for U.S. troops than Iraq. The death rate for U.S. troops in Afghanistan is now nearly twice the rate for those in Iraq, according to an analysis by ABC News.
It's a good news/bad news story.
On one hand, security in Iraq has dramatically improved and as a result the number of U.S. troops killed and wounded has dropped considerably. October and November have been two of the least deadly months in Iraq since the invasion in March 2003. In fact, it's the lowest two-month total of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq in nearly three years. (Not since January-February 2004 have fewer U.S. troops died in a two-month period).”

It is just plain old imperialism and nothing else. We are not fighting terrorism, we are occupying some else’s country and there is nothing democratic, just or wise in doing that. If anything it has drawn the Arab’s wrath at the U.S. and it’s people and it serves only to encourage those who would fight and try to kill us and our soldiers.
Consider this from Shola Jawid, Voice of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan:
“15 January 2007. A World to Win News Service.
As the year 2006 was drawing to a close, a large number of angry people poured into the streets of Jalalabad, the capital of the province of Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan. In the early morning hours of 31 December, US-led soldiers had raided a home in a village south of the city, killing two people and detaining three more. The demonstrators said that that those killed were ordinary civilians. They were protesting the brutality of US-led forces and demanding the end of these atrocities
While the American military authorities refused to confirm the killings and arrests, Nangarhar province governor Gul Agha Shirazi confirmed the incident. He also told reporters, “The raid took place without consulting with us.”
This is not the first time that Jalalabad has been the scene of angry mass protests. The brutality of US-led forces has been the highest in the area. The Taleban has been active and particularly strong in that area too. The US has been unable to defeat the Taleban, and has suffered losses at the hands of these reactionaries. In retaliation, the US-led troops have targeted ordinary civilians, wreaking vengeance on them for American losses and inability to succeed in their aims.”



Saturday, May 03, 2008

My home away from home, Kirby’s is closed—Owner Steve Schroeder died

For those who do not live in Wichita, but may have seen my earlier blogs describing my city as an open sewer, a magnet for religious and political crackpots, a home of idiotic ideas and backwards thinking, today was a real loss for those who do not fall in that category..
There has always been a pin prick of a sanctuary at a small bar called Kirby's. I've gone there every Friday afternoon now for several years. Today it was closed as the owner, Steve Schroeder died last night. I knew him as all the people there did. Kirby's was no ordinary bar. The website for the bar gives the history:
"Kirby's Beer Store was established in 1972 by Jim Kirby, was established in 1972 by Jim Kirby, who set out to develop an entity that to this day has endured and evolved into one of the most collective gatherings of Musicians, Artists, Hipsters, Heads, Thinkers, Freaks, etc. Please take the time to look over some of the memories taken from within."
It is closed right now. We hope his closest living relative will be able to get the place up and running as soon as possible. Of the many head bars of the late 1970s, Kirby's is the last. While it's not a gay bar, it is gay friendly so gay couples never needed to fear harassment while they were there. Such great bands as the Futants have played there and there has often been a Disco Macob night or goth night.
Those of us who knew Steve will miss him. I've had some great conversations with him. He's not much older than I.
So long Steve and I hope we get Kirby's back.






http://www.kirbysbeerstore.com/