Democracy and Class Struggle

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Comrade Roger Solsvik of Serve the People unlawfully detained in Bergen, Norway

Statement from Serve the People - Communist League of Norway

More Openness After 22nd July?

System critic imprisoned because the Prime Minister came to Bergen, Norway.

The sun was shining in Bergen (Norway's 2nd largest city) on 1st May.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was about to come to Bergen and the city
was to be cleaned so that Mr. Stoltenberg was not to be confronted with
uncomfortable truths.

Thus the police looked out the Serve the People spokesperson in Bergen,
Roger Solsvik, to order him to leave the city for 24 hours. Here the Prime
Minister was to hold his 1st May speech.

Solsvik of course refused to follow the police's orders. Then he was
dragged against his will by two policemen across the main square, thrown
into a police car and sent in prison where he had to spend almost four
hours.

This is unlawful detention. The police has no reason for removing Solsvik.
The only real reason for him to be neutralized is that he represents the
only really system critical organisation in Norway, Serve the People.

When other regimes remove such people from the street, the Norwegian
medias rightfully criticizes this. We mean that it is just as bad when
exactly the same thing happens in Norway.

However, police abuse did not stop Serve the People as the only
organisation pointed at the big, ugly and bad smelling elephant present,
but which none of the speakers would attack - the Norwegian imperialist
bloody adventures in Libya and Afghanistan.

Serve the People, 2nd May 2012

visit :http://tjen-folket.no/sentralt/view/11380

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Azzedine Eroussi speaks to his sister in hospital : Moroccan Patriot and Democrat Azzedine Eroussi on Hunger Strike for Freedom in Morocco

Letter to the Moroccan Ambassador in London protesting treatment of Azzedine Eroussi and calling for his immediate release

Azzedine Eroussi

H.H. Princess Lalla Joumala Alaou

Moroccan Ambassador to United Kingdom

THE EMBASSY OF THE KINGDOM OF MOROCCO

49, QUEENS GATE GARDENS LONDON SW7 5 NE

For the Attention of Moroccan Ambassador to United Kingdom,

We have been made aware of the treatment by your government of Moroccan democratic patriot Azzedine Eroussi.

We have heard from his family

"Our son has suffered all kinds of torture; they smashed his arms, fingers and feet after having undressed him... The few times we were allowed to the jail, the guards harrassed us and even prevented us to see him."

We call for the immediate release from prison of Azzedine Eroussi by your government and proper medical attention for this proud democratic fighter for the Moroccan people.

Signed

Free Mumia Abu Jamal Campaign UK

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Y Navaho - Tecwyn Ifan

Song of Solidarity with the Navaho people from the People of Wales.

If you want to study more about native movements in North America there is no better place to start than here on the Speed of Dreams site :

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Geiriau:
Mae'r tir fu i ni'n gartref
Yn nwylo'r milwyr gwyn
Machludodd haul ein pobl
I'w fedd tu hwnt i'r bryn
A heno wedi'r teithio'r pell
Hiraethwn am ein tiroedd gwell

Yng ngwersyll Bosque Redondo
Yn awr mae'r Navaho
A minnau Manuelito
Gwelais ddiwedd bro

Cerddasom dri chan milltir
Cysgasom dan y lloer
Diffoddwyd fflam ein hysbryd
Gan storm o eira oer
Nid oes ni fydd ymgeledd bryd
A chartref mwy i'r Navaho yn y byd

Yng ngwersyll Bosque Redondo
Yn awr mae'r Navaho
A minnau Manuelito
Gwelais ddiwedd bro

Yng ngwersyll Bosque Redondo
Yn awr mae'r Navaho
A minnau Manuelito
Gwelais ddiwedd bro

Lyrics/Translation:
The land that was once our home
Is in the hands of the white soldiers
The sun set on our people
To its grave beyond the hill
And tonight after the long journey
We grieve for our better land

In the camp of Bosque Redondo
Now live the Navaho
And I, Manuelito
I saw the end of an age

We walked three hundred miles
And slept under a silver moon
The flame of our spirit
Was extinguished by a storm of snow
There is no more, never will be a safe haven
Or a home for the Navaho in the world

In the camp of Bosque Redondo
Now live the Navaho
And I, Manuelito
I saw the end of an age

In the camp of Bosque Redondo
Now live the Navaho
And I, Manuelito
I saw the end of an age

See Also :
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/american-holocaust-of-native-american.html

Resolution N° 1 - Special Meeting of Parties of RIM for International Conference of mlm Parties and Organisations of the world - May first 2012

The imperialist system is going through the most severe crisis since the 1930s. The current attempts to address and overcome the crisis only serve to deepen and extend it.

The structural crisis that emerged in the field of finance has gradually extended to the field of production, bringing about a deepening recession. The crisis proceeds under the law of uneven development within the pursuit of the maximum extortion of surplus value and the contention on the world market.

The crisis has its origin in the laws of running of the capitalist system itself. It is the expression of the limits of production for profit, and the contradiction between productive forces and relations of production, including the general and global nature of the production and private appropriation. In the world scene this means an ever growing gap between the wealth of a handful of imperialist countries and the poverty of three quarters of human beings in the countries oppressed by imperialism, between the wealth in the hands of the bourgeoisie and the relative and absolute impoverishment of proletarians and masses in the imperialist countries , between the overflowing richness of a parasitic and comprador bourgeoisie and the living conditions of misery and hunger of the proletariat and broad masses in the countries oppressed by imperialism.

It is clear that a system dominated by these laws, these dynamics, can only go into crisis, and overproduction and capital surplus become factors of crisis.

The phenomena of heightened and speculative “financialization” are the tip of the iceberg of the dynamics of the system, which become point of implosion and explosion.

The “financialization” of the economy – the main immediate cause of the crisis – tends to reject any control. So the efforts of capitalism and its ruling imperialist powers to get out of crisis through regulation and control of the financial markets and use of the opportunities offered by high growth rates, even if disarticulated, of some countries such as China, India and Brazil have so far not succeeded. Although these efforts should not be underestimated, they cannot ensure more than a temporary recovery, one which opens the door to new and even more distressing crises.

The world is still faced with two possibilities: the exit from capitalism or a painful temporary recovery from this crisis by strengthening, enhancing the mechanisms of capital and thus prolonging the misery of the masses.

The imperialist bourgeoisie all over the world take advantage of the crisis to restructure imperialism on a global scale and save the interests of their class for their profits.

This leads to unloading the vicious weight of the crisis on the workers and masses. In both the oppressed countries and imperialist countries, unemployment, job insecurity and the cost of living increase, exploitation is ratcheted up to modern forms of slavery, workers' rights are reduced, social achievements won through years of struggles are erased, factories are closed with massive layoffs, peasants are ruined and driven to suicide, cuts in social expenditures and privatization of education and healthcare grow, the logic of commodification and profit is extended even to primary goods, such as water, air, sun, etc..

These policies are carried out within the contention for domination on the imperialist world market and geopolitical strategic areas, but the unitary character of the policies to unload crisis on the proletarians and the masses is emphatically clear.

The policy of imperialism accentuates and makes more and more catastrophic the effects of the system in terms of ecological and natural disasters. Imperialism transforms factors of development in thefield of science, culture and education, information technology, access to media, communication, extension of the freedom of young people and the processes of emancipation of women, into new and more refined chains. In the context of crisis this results in massive intellectual unemployment, social control and most extreme forms of barbarism, new neo medieval attacks on women's rights and the regimentation of youth.

The balance of power among the imperialists is in a flux. Though the US still remains the sole super power its capacities have been considerably weakened, by the resistance of is victims and the crisis. This gave some room for the EU grouping. However similar factors have negatively impacted on their position too. Russia had not been affected so much by the crisis. Through its axis with China and consolidating ties with erstwhile Soviet Union republics, it has gained some advantage and has stepped up contention. Overall collusion is still principal in inter-imperialist relations. But imperialism in crisis, develops within it contradictions that can become potential sources of a new world war. Imperialist powers, mainly the US, unleash and accentuate wars of aggression, invasion, and neo-colonialism in the different regions of the world where their interests are vital or threatened. In developing these wars, it continues with the arms race and gets equipped with more and more devastating military instruments, surpassing all limits enshrined in international conventions and human rights.

One or the other form of fascistic control has always been the norm in oppressed countries, even where a parliamentary system exists. In recent years, a tendency to modern fascism grows inside the imperialist countries also. This takes shape according to the characteristics of history, the reality and the culture of each country. It strives to establish once again the totalitarian, racist, securitarian and police-state forms of the rule of the bourgeoisie.

Imperialism is poverty, reaction and war. The crisis reveals that welfare, democracy and peace become more and more words that cover an opposite substance.

The devastating economic crisis of imperialism and its impact on proletarians and the broad masses have awakened worldwide a wave of struggles and revolts.

In the countries oppressed by imperialism, the protests, rebellions and liberation struggles have found in the revolts in Arab countries and in the Persian Gulf a new height and a new dawn. Young people, proletarians and the masses and, in some cases, organized sectors of workers, attacked and overthrew dictatorial regimes subservient to imperialism that seemed permanent. This has paved the way for new anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, anti-feudal, new-democratic revolutions.

False anti-imperialist regimes, such as those of Libya, Syria, Iran, and openly pro-imperialist ones such as those in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain. Yemen, Morocco, Algeria, as well as the military regimes that have replaced the reactionary tyrants in Tunisia and Egypt, unleashed massacres and repression. Hiding under the flag of democracy imperialism intervened in these struggles and maneuvered to remove unreliable regimes and replace worn out servitors with new ones. It launched a war and occupied Libya. But the wave of "Arab springtimes" continue. Globally they have achieved an important position as a new front in the battle between imperialism and the peoples. They join those existing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. In these countries, the occupation and invasions of imperialists and Zionists have faced heavy resistance. This forced them to reshape their occupation plans and prevented them in a substantial manner from realizing their aims. Apart from the Arab and West Asian countries, people in Latin America, Africa and other regions of Asia have repeatedly taken to the streets to resist the attacks on their livelihoods. The persistent and growing labor strikes and peasant struggles in China is notable.

Police Mace May Day protestors in Portland - USA

May Day in Portland began with singing, dancing, and flowers. But the ending wasn't as joly - with pepper spray, shootings, and 20 people in jail. The Portland police turned a celebration into a riot.

Red Salute to our comrades in Portland.

May Day Protests around the World

Police teargas May Day Protest in Oakland

400 protesters have been confronted by police who used tear gas, causing hundreds to scatter on May 1.

Police reportedly used Taser against at least one of them. Officers ordered protesters out of the street after firing the tear gas and "flash-bang" grenades.

Red Salute to our comrades in Oakland

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

James Connolly tells us what Socialism is - Great Unrest Group for a Welsh Socialist Republican Party

Welsh Socialist Republicans - May Day Statement from Great Unrest 2012 Group for a Welsh Socialist Republican Party

Bread or Blood - The Cry of 1831 when Red Flag first raised in Wales

Welsh Socialist Republicans - Celebrate - May Day 2012

Welsh Socialist Republicans rejects the fake "independence" of Plaid Cymru which replaces capitalist Britain with capitalist Europe,the euro with the pound.

We will not be party to utilizing Plaid Cymru's Welsh Nationalism to put a set of bureaucrat capitalists in power in Wales to better serve the Eurocrats of Brussels rather than London

Welsh Socialist Republicans reject the anti English nationalist fringe with their separatism and closet racism.

The Welsh Socialist Republicans believes the only class in Wales which is capable of leading Wales to the new democracy of autonomous self government in Wales is the working class. That is true Welsh Independence !

Our Welsh national struggle is a class struggle.

In the struggle for national and social liberation in Wales we need to enlist the support of English, Scottish and the Irish working class and other national minorities.

Organizationally we seek to strengthen ties with working class organizations throughout the British Isles to support working class power in Wales, as this will also give a base area for their class struggles against the British State.

We are Welsh Socialist Republicans with the working class spirit of the Miners Next Step of 1912 we believe in the power of our class the working class to change Wales and the world.

Long live the spirit of the Great Unrest of 1910-12 - Long Live The Great Unrest of 2012 and Wales Next Step – Welsh Socialist Republicanism.

Statement of the Great Unrest 2012 Organizing Group for A Welsh Socialist Republican Party

Contact Email greatunrest2012@gmail.com

FOR MORE STATEMENTS FROM GREAT UNREST GROUP 2012 FOR A WELSH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY VISIT HERE :

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/toward-welsh-socialist-republican-party.html