Thursday, September 2, 2010
PFLP rejects and calls for action against liquidationist return to direct negotiations
Comrade Maher al-Taher, member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and leader of its branch outside Palestine, said on August 20, 2010 that the goal of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is to liquidate the Palestinian cause, not to reach a political solution, noting that it is clear from the events and actions of Israel that it is impossible to reach a political solution with an entity that demands total control of all aspects of Palestinian existence.
Said Comrade Taher, "After 40 years of slogans demanding an independent Palestinian decision, today the Palestinian Authority is a subject of the U.S. and Israel and we are a nation of prisoners. This is a great risk to the Palestinian cause." It was clear, Comrade Taher said, that the Authority would enter these direct negotiations when the Higher Arab Follow-up Commission approved of them, saying that the statement issued by the Quartet in favor of these negotiations is farcical nonsense; it is clear that nothing will come of these negotiations except for harm to the Palestinian cause and such statements exist only to provide a fig leaf to cover the return to negotiations and an excuse for a shameful betrayal.
He emphasized that by returning to these negotiations, the Authority is entering a dark tunnel through which only it will provide concessions. Comrade Taher said, "What will come of these negotiations - the occupation will withdraw from Jerusalem?? It will recognize the right of return?? Unless there is to be any real gain, these negotiations are absurd!"
Comrade Taher said further that the action of the Executive Committee of the PLO in approving these negotiations makes it clear that independent Palestinian decision-making and democracy is a farce in these institutions, as the Palestinian people have clearly expressed their rejection of negotiations. He said that our people are determined to stand fast on our own land and that the PFLP will demand an end to this farce and take action, not only issue statements. Palestinian factions at home and abroad are committed to joint action against these negotiations, he said, noting that there is widespread refusal to return to negotiations while Israel builds settlements and Judaizes Jerusalem under the presence and authority of a U.S. agenda aimed at the entire region based on liquidation of national rights.
He concluded by saying that it is clear that our national priority must be to end the division and continue the resistance, saying that the Palestinian people will resist any attempts to give up their national rights through widespread popular refusal and rejection of the return to negotiations.
Comrade Abu Ahmad Fuad, member of the Political Bureau of the PFLP, also said on August 21, 2010 that the PA's entering into direct negotiations with Israel is a stab in the back of the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the resolutions of the Central Council and the will of the Palestinian people. Comrade Fuad emphasized that PLO officials are refusing to abide by any sense of democratic regulation or the decisions of the Central Council or the National Council. Comrade Fuad emphasized that the majority of factions in the PLO have opposed direct negotiations, and that any approval of negotiations in an Executive Committee meetings where more than half of the members are absent is illegal in form and content.
The PFLP condemned the Quartet's statement in support of direct negotiations, saying that it represents a tacit acceptance of settlements and siege, and full of nothing more than empty slogans about "peace" while the rights of the Palestinian people to return, independence and self-determination are being violated daily. Furthermore, the Front said in its statement, the Quartet is attempting to waive international law and UN resolutions and replace international legitimacy with its own dubious authority, saying that the Quartet has no legitimate or legal authority over the Palestinian people and cause.
Washington Talks Unlikely To Succeed- Al -Awada Statement
The Obama administration is hosting a new round of peace talks between The Palestinian Authority and Israel tomorrow September 2, 2010. This comes in the midst of accelerated demolitions of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem and Al-Naqab (Negev) and renewed promises by top Israeli officials to accelerate settlement building on occupied Palestinian land. Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, which has members in 45 states in the U.S. and in several other countries around the world, sees the basis of these negotiations as well as the measures taken by the Israeli government as detrimental to the talks and any future peaceful settlement.
Al-Awda has taken the following position on the new talks:
■ The talks are doomed to fail if they follow earlier patterns and focus that have plagued such talks for the past 20 years.
■ The talks will only succeed and produce a real, lasting, just and secure peace if they are based on the respect and implementation of fundamental individual and collective human rights, international law, and UN resolutions which affirm such rights and laws.
■ First and foremost, the inalienable, natural, legal, historical and non-negotiable rights of 7.2 million exiled and internally displaced Palestinians to return to their homes and lands with compensation must be implemented.
■ Israel should return to its original owners all private and public Palestinian land it has occupied and confiscated since its creation in 1948.
Al-Awda believes that one democratic state over the entire land which includes present day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is the only viable and realistic solution to this conflict and to preserve the rights of all of its citizens. Israel has created a situation on the ground that makes it impossible to have two states to exist side by side.
In addition, the Palestinian population inside Israel is an integral inseparable part of the Palestinian people. They must be recognized by the international community as equal citizens in a one future state. Any future state will have to reject all forms of racism and discrimination and implement democratic values for all its citizens regardless of color, faith or race. These are the only viable basis for a just, lasting and secure peace for all.
Contacts for media interviews:
Dr. Jess Ghannam Tel. 415-726-3951 Email: jess@al-awda.org
Mr. Marwan Ahmad Tel. 602-330-6795 Email: marwan@al-awda.org
PROPAGANDA IN PIEDMONT BY ASSOCIATION FOR PROLETARIAN SOLIDARITY AGAINST OPERATION GREEN HUNT
The Association For Proletarian Solidarity intervened at the Feast of Liberazione in Susa Valley, with an important operation of propaganda against the Operation Green Hunt, exposing posters and releasing the book Walking with the Comrades, with writings of Arundathi Roy and G.N. Saibaba, vice – president of del Revolutionary Democratic Front of India.
The book was given also to Paolo Ferrero, Secretary of the Party of the Communist Refoundation, who was there. Ferrero held a meeting with about 700 people. While speaking of capitalist exploitation by capitalism in Italy and alla round the world he talked about the genocide of the peoples of India as an example of the barbarity of capitalism on the world level.
The campaign against the Operation Green Hunt goes on all around the world, and the Indian State has been obliged to take steps back. In August it blocked the project of a bauxite mine in Orissa by the British company Vedanta, conceding that such project damage human rights and the environment. Amnesty International declared that this victory is a landmark in the defence of indigenous communities’ human rights.
We thank the Association For Proletarian Solidarity and Paolo Ferrero for the important contribution they give to the campaign against the war of extermination and the environmental devastation the Indian government is carrying out against the people and the land. We invite you to continue and to extend your commitment together with our Committee and the initiatives multiplying in our country against Operation Green Hunt.
Florence, 2 September 2010
Afghanistan Time To Go - House of Commons London 8th September - 7pm
The British Parliament will debate the war in Afghanistan next week against the background of claims by the politicians and military waging war that the invading armies are "making progress".
Twenty-one US soldiers were killed over last weekend -- adding to the number killed this year, which is fast approaching the total for the whole of 2009. This exposes the reality in Afghanistan, as do the continually rising numbers of Afghan civilians being killed at a higher rate than in any previous year of the war.
Stop the War has organised a public meeting in the House of Commons the day before MPs debate the Afghan war. The title will be Afghanistan: Time To Go, and the speakers will include MPs
Caroline Lucas, Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Flynn, who will be joined by Joan Humphries, from Military Families Against the War, whose grandson was killed in Afghanistan.
The meeting is part of the campaign mobilising support for the Afghanistan: Time To Go national demonstration in London on 20 November.
PUBLIC MEETING: 08 SEPTEMBER 7.00PM
AFGHANISTAN: TIME TO GO
HOUSE OF COMMONS, LONDON
RIGHT SIDE ENTRANCE (Ask for Stop the War meeting)
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Obama be a Man ! - Lowkey
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Indian Television on Azad's cold blooded murder and Peace Negotiations
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Retaliation in Bihar says spokesperson Avinash of CPI Maoist
Patna, Aug 31 (IANS) The six-hour-long gunfight in Bihar's Lakhisarai district, in which 10 policemen were killed and 10 others were injured, was in retaliation to the staged shootout that left Maoist leader Azad and a journalist dead, guerrillas said Tuesday.
"The attack was in retailiation to the fake encounter of Azad and a journalist sympathetic to Maoist cause. It was also in retaliation to the killing of eight Maoists in Jamui district a few months ago," Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) spokesman Avinash said in a letter to the local media offices in Lakhisarai.
Avinash, who is the spokesman for Maoists of Jamui, Munger, Lakhisarai, Banka and Bhagalpur districts, described the attack on police as the rebels' answer to the government's Operation Green Hunt against them.
He also warned the Bihar government of more violent attacks if the operations against Maoists were not immediately stopped.
Ten policemen were killed in a gunfight with Maoists Sunday in the forests of Ghoghraghat Kanimoh, some 150 km from here. Seven of the 10 injured personnel were admitted to the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH).
The guerrillas looted 30 rifles from the security personnel.
Additional Director General of Police (Headquarters) P.K. Thakur said that additional security forces, including a special COBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) battalion and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers, were engaged in combing operations.
Source: South Asia Mail
http://www.southasiamail.com/news.php?id=79505
Breizhistance: The Struggle for Independence and Socialism in Brittany
One of the easiest ways to overcome any doubts or questions is to look at similar struggles being fought throughout the world. In recent years, many activists have become well informed on the struggles in Venezuela, Palestine and the Basque Country. Another, less reported struggle is that of the people of Brittany.
In this fellow Celtic country, many activists are drawing similar conclusions to those of many in Ireland – they are organising not only for independence but also for socialism.
Less than a year ago, over the weekend of October 24-25 2009, left-wing supporters of independence for Brittany met in conference. After substantial deliberations, a new organisation was formed: Breizhistance-Socialist Party of Brittany. The new organisation announced the appointment of a national directorate and that a meeting would be held in public to announce its 100 Proposals for an Alternative Brittany. At this meeting, attended by over 60 people, the new proposals were launched alongside the public launch of this new political initiative.
The proposals centred on demands for a democratic process in all of Britanny to allow for self determination, as well as on how the economy can be transformed in order to redistribute the wealth of the nation equitably.
After this presentation of its political programme, Breizhistance quickly demonstrated that it was not to be just a party of theory. On November 11 2009, around 30 activists gathered outside the French Army recruitment office in Rennes to protest against the presence of a foreign army in Brittany and in other occupied countries such as Afghanistan. November 11 in France is officially a day of remembrance for those who died in WW1 but the protestors highlighted the fact that, instead of just remembering the dead, the day was used to sanitise old imperial adventures and justify present day imperialist activities by the French state.
In the months that have passed, Breizhistance has built on these initial steps and has become central to the struggle for independence and socialism in Brittany. With a focus on popular mobilisation around the area of national rights, Breizhistance has remained consistently active
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