Ukraine and its national interest subverted by IMF, US and European Corporations

                          Ukrainian Land has always been the issue from Nazis to Neo Cons

Democracy and  Class Struggle welcomes Michael Hudson's highlighting of the Land Question in the Ukraine and recommend you visit the following video here before reading the report below :
http://youtu.be/k63kcE0ZA0I

We thought Angela Merkel was just a US stooge. Make no mistakes, she is. But there had to be other reasons behind her stubborn pro-Kiev Junta attitude. These have now begun to surface. Not in the German or Western media of course, but they are surfacing.

Here is a revealing quote from Birgit Bock-Luna, who heads the office of Niema Movassat, MP for the Left-wing opposition party Die Linke. Bock-Luna told Ria Novosti last week:

"The conflict in Ukraine is used to cover up a sale of farmlands in the interest of major corporations"

According to Global Research, “Ukraine's farmland production matches Texas in size (…), or about one-third of Europe’s arable land. Its rich dark soil is highly valued. Ideal for growing grain (…) Monsanto and other agribusiness giants intend exploiting Ukraine’s agricultural potential.”

Frau Bock-Luna is not shy of naming the protagonists of this latest land grab by the West, carried by their clients in Kiev with a cluster bombs bonanza and cannon fodder galore (what Ukrainian soldiers are, and have finally understood they are, in the eyes of their government): “German agricultural concerns – AGRARIUS AG, Germanagrar CEE GmbH, KTG Agrar SE, Agroton and Alfred C. Toepfer International (ADM) – seize land using leasing schemes and generous loans from German and global money lenders.”

How much are tens of thousands of deaths worth in financial terms? How many hectares of Ukrainian black earth do you get by shelling residential areas? 

The quotes below, also by Bock-Lula, illustrate all of this in detail:

Alfred C. Toepfer International was given a $60 million loan to buy an additional 50,000 hectares in Ukraine, alongside 50,000 it already owns (…) large areas of Ukraine's arable lands could be used to grow genetically modified crops, away from the watchful eye of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which is EU's agricultural regulator.

The Ukraine Investment Climate Advisory Services Project, Germany's agricultural center Deutsche Agrarzentrum (DAZ), and the German Advisory Group on Economic Reforms in Ukraine are some of the projects that helped to negotiate land grabs with Ukrainian government officials, lawmakers said.

And guess what, explains Bock Lula: "The previous Ukrainian administration was opposed to further relaxation of agricultural laws, but this changed after the coup, with the help of the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development".

Last summer, Counterpunch wrote: “On July 28, the California-based Oakland Institute released a report revealing that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under terms of their $17 billion loan to Ukraine, would open that country to genetically-modified (GM) crops and genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.”

Of course Euromaidan started with Yanukovych's refusal to sign the EU association agreement. Could the cuddly EU association agreement, with its focus on favoring more student exchanges, possibly have anything remotely to do with it?

Here again is Counterpunch, quoting the Oakland Institute's findings

 Whereas Ukraine does not allow the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture, Article 404 of the EU agreement, which relates to agriculture, includes a clause that has generally gone unnoticed: it indicates, among other things, that both parties will cooperate to extend the use of bio-technologies. No doubt this provision meets the expectations of the agribusiness industry.

Now, that's a change! Maybe not what naive Maidan demonstrators and their Western media cheerleaders had in mind, but quite a change nonetheless.

Wasn't Euromaidan about getting rid of the oligarchs?

Bring on the world bank, agribusiness and GMO foods—then a failed puppet state, a Nazi revival, a bloody civil war—and Bob's your uncle.

Source:http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/02/11/3337

POSTSCRIPT: MICHAEL HUDSON ON IMF AND LAND QUESTION IN UKRAINE :

Sharmini Peries at The Real News Network asks Hudson, “In a recent interview [by former State Department official James Carden] published in The National Interest magazine you said that most media covers Russia as if it is the greatest threat to Ukraine. History suggests that the IMF may be far more dangerous. What did you mean by that?”

Hudson responds, “Well, the terms on which the IMF make loans, first of all, are based on austerity. The terms require more austerity and a withdrawal of all public subsidies. Now, you have the Ukrainian population absolutely devastated. The only result of the IMF’s austerity program, the conditions that it’s laying down for making loans to Ukraine, is you have to repay the debts, but you don’t have the ability to repay the debts. So there’s only one way to do it, and that’s the way that we’ve told Greece and other countries to do. You have to begin selling off whatever you have left of your public domain. Or you have to have your leading oligarchs take on partnerships with American or European investors so that they can buy out into the monopolies in the Ukraine.

“So essentially, the IMF has a two stage, one-two punch. Punch number one is: ‘Here’s the money, now you have to repay us after cutting back public spending and causing a depression.’ The two punch is: ‘Oh, you can’t pay us? I’m sorry that all of our projections are wrong.’

“And the IMF has been wrong on Ukraine year after year. Almost as much as it’s been wrong on Ireland and on Greece. So now the real problem is: what is Ukraine going to have to sell to pay off the foreign debts that it gets for having waged a war that’s devastated an economy. Well, the main things that foreign investors want are Ukrainian farmland. Monsanto has been buying into Ukraine, but Ukraine has a law against alienating its farmland and agricultural land to foreigners. As a matter of fact, its law is very much the same as what the Financial Times reports that Australia is wanting to do today: to block Chinese and American purchases of farmlands. The IMF’s position is: ‘You have to dismantle public regulations against foreign investment and you have to dismantle consumer production and environmental production regulations.’

                                               
“In other words, what is in store for Ukraine is a neoliberal policy that’s guaranteed to actually make it even worse. And in that sense, finance is war. Finance is a new kind of warfare using finance and forced selloffs in the IMF as a new kind of battlefield. I’m not sure how all of this is going to really help Ukraine, and it promises to lead to yet another crisis down the road, very, very quickly.”


SEE ALSO: http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/ukraine-grabbing-bread-basket-of-europe.html

Ukraine’s Right Sector leader Dmitry Yarosh said his radical movement rejects the Minsk peace deal

Ukraine’s Right Sector leader Dmitry Yarosh said his radical movement rejects the Minsk peace deal and that their paramilitary units in eastern Ukraine will continue “active fighting" according to their "own plans."

The notorious ultranationalist leader published a statement on his Facebook page Friday, saying that his radical Right Sector movement doesn’t recognize the peace deal, signed by the so-called 'contact group' on Thursday and agreed upon by Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia after epic 16-hour talks.

Yarosh claimed that any agreement with the eastern militia, whom he calls “terrorists,” has no legal force.

In his statement, Yarosh claimed that that the Minsk deal is contrary to Ukraine’s constitution, so Ukrainian citizens are not obliged to abide by it. Thus if the army receives orders to cease military activity and withdraw heavy weaponry from the eastern regions, the Right Sector paramilitaries, who are also fighting there “reserve the right” to continue the war, he said.

READ MORE:Right Sector refuses to obey Ukraine’s Defense Ministry - presidential aid

The Right Sector paramilitary organization continues to deploy its combat and reserve units, to train
and logistically support personnel, while coordinating its activities with the military command of the Ukrainian army, paramilitary units of the Defense Ministry and the Interior Ministry, he said.

The breakthrough Minsk agreement was reached on Thursday following marathon overnight negotiations between Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia, and offer hope the fighting in Eastern Ukraine may come to an end. The talks were part of a Franco-German initiative. President Francois Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Kiev and Moscow before meeting the Russian and Ukrainian leaders at the negotiating table in Minsk.

Bluntly rejecting the German and French initiative, Yarosh said President Petro Poroshenko should have turned to the US or UK which “observe a consistent anti-Kremlin policy.”

READ MORE: Ukraine Right Sector threatens Poroshenko with Yanukovich’s fate

In January, Russia’s Supreme Court banned the activities of the Right Sector within the country. In July last year the Interpol put Right Sector leader Yarosh on its wanted list.

The radical movement was formed as a coalition of nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations during the Maidan protests in Kiev at the end of 2013.

While wearing Nazi insignia, Right Sector fighters used clubs, petrol bombs and firearms against Ukrainian police during the EuroMaidan protests.

Last year, Kiev organized the National Guard force comprising former and current Ukrainian troops and volunteers from EuroMaidan “self-defense” squads. The National Guard was enabled to carry out the functions of any law enforcement agency by a decree signed by then-acting President Aleksandr Turchinov.

However Yarosh denies any of his fighters joined the National Guard. He believes his own units are better organized.

A number of volunteer pro-government battalions were also organized in Kiev – among them Aidar, Azov and Donbass. Human rights group Amnesty International reported in September that Aidar members operating in the north of the Lugansk Region “have been involved in widespread abuses, including abductions, unlawful detention, ill-treatment, theft, extortion and possible executions.”

Troops from the Ukrainian Azov and Donbass battalions were reportedly seen wearing Nazi paraphernalia such as swastikas and SS badges.


 
READ MORE: Crimes of Ukrainian Aidar battalion confirmed in Amnesty Int’l report - Russia
Meanwhile, in January the US military announced it would deploy soldiers to Ukraine this spring to train the country’s National Guard.

In March 2014, the extremist Right Sector decided to become a political party, nominating Yarosh for president. The same month over 1,500 nationalists from Right Sector circled the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, threatening to storm it and capture Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.

In May 2014, Right Sector radicals reportedly descended on Odessa, where a standoff with anti-Kiev demonstrators resulted in dozens of people being shot, burned alive and even butchered with axes in the city’s Trade Unions House massacre.

READ MORE: Interpol puts Ukrainian ultranationalist Yarosh on wanted list

Despite his notoriety, Yarosh was elected to be a member of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovnaya Rada) to head the Right Sector political party.

In March 2014, Yarosh appealed to Doku Umarov, Moscow's most wanted terrorist before he was reported dead, asking him “to take a chance and win over Russia.” He also later threatened to destroy Russian pipelines on Ukrainian territory calling Moscow “an enemy.”

The Russian Investigative Committee started criminal cases against several members of the radical Ukrainian groups over charges of fighting against the Russian military in the Chechen wars of the 1990s. Right Sector’s Dmitry Yarosh also faced a separate criminal case over public calls for extremist activities. Moscow charged Yarosh in absentia, demanding his arrest.

The radical movement has refused to acknowledge the authority of the Kiev government and even threatened its top figures. In September 2014, Yarosh said he could oust Poroshenko “like Yanukovich” while Right Sector radicals staged a violent rally in front of the presidential HQ in Kiev.

In January, Poroshenko’s aide told national TV that Right Sector paramilitary units had refused to come under the command of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. Yury Biryukov said that he “personally proposed a full legal clearance scheme to Right Sector,” but they “turned down this service,” expressing a wish to remain autonomous and report to nobody.

Ukraine: Not a good sign Poroshenko rejecting the rational option of Federalisation.

Not a good sign Poroshenko rejecting the rational option of Federalisation.

“Ukraine was, is and will remain a unitary state. Federalization is not an option,” President Poroshenko wrote on his Facebook page in the immediate wake of the four-sided talks on ending the year long conflict, which wrapped up in Minsk on Thursday.

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has flatly rejected the idea of granting a broad autonomy to the eastern Donbas region, and of making Ukraine a federation.

 

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has flatly rejected the idea of granting a broad autonomy to the eastern Donbas region, and of making Ukraine a federation.
“Ukraine was, is and will remain a unitary state. Federalization is not an option,” President Poroshenko wrote on his Facebook page in the immediate wake of the four-sided talks on ending the yearlong conflict, which wrapped up in Minsk on Thursday.

The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany met for 16 hours trying to thrash out a peace roadmap that would ease tensions in Ukraine’s war-torn east.
After the talks it was announced that before this year is out Ukraine would change its constitution to include a clause on decentralization and a special status for the Donbas region.
On Wednesday President Poroshenko said the proposed decentralization program his government was working on had absolutely nothing to do with making Ukraine a federative state.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150212/1018165534.html#ixzz3RYCIeTAj

Normandy 4 and Ukraine peace deal: Ceasefire starting February 15th, removal of heavy weapons

    

                        

An agreement has been brokered in Minsk to stop hostilities in Ukraine from Sunday. The deal was reached after marathon talks between the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, and signed by the Ukrainian rebels.

“I believe we agreed on a big deal. We agreed to a ceasefire starting at 00:00 on February 15,” Russian President Vladimir Putin told the media after the talks were finished.

"The main thing achieved is that from Saturday into Sunday there should be declared - without any conditions at all - a general ceasefire," Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told journalists in a separate statement.

Pullout compromise

A compromise decision was taken over the disengagement line, which was the biggest stumbling block in the negotiation. According to the document, Kiev’s troops would pull back heavy weapons from the current frontline. The rebels would pull back from the line as it existed in September, when the previous ceasefire agreement was signed.

The security zone separating the warring parties must be at least 50km wide for artillery over 100mm caliber, 70km for regular multiple rocket launchers and 100km for heavier weapons with a longer range, such as Tochka-U ballistic missiles, the document states.

The weapons pullout must start on Sunday and be completed in no longer than 14 days. The OSCE is charged with implementing the ceasefire on the ground and will use its drone fleet and monitors to verify that both parties are sticking to the deal.

 

The ceasefire deal provides for withdrawal of all "foreign troops, heavy weapons and mercenaries" from Ukraine under an OSCE monitoring. "Illegal armed groups" would be disarmed, but local authorities in the future would be allowed to have legal militia units.

The agreement involves exchange of all prisoners, which is to be completed within 19 days. A general amnesty for the rebels would be declared by Kiev.

The national government’s control over the borders between Donetsk and Lugansk Regions would be fully restored a day after municipal elections, which would be held in the regions as part of a profound constitutional reform.

Decentralization reform

The agreement requires a political reform in Ukraine to ensure decentralization and a special status for its rebel provinces. It requires Ukraine to adopt legislation which would provide permanent privileges to the Lugansk and Donetsk Regions, currently self-declared republics, by the end of 2015
.
The legislation would include the right for language self-determination and trans-border ties with Russia, as well as the authority of the local governments to appoint local prosecutors and judges, the document states.

Humanitarian and economic issues are also mentioned in the deal. Kiev would restore economic ties and social payments, which it cut in rebel-held areas, the document says. An international monitoring mechanism may be established for these payments.

During the transition period an internationally-monitored mechanism for humanitarian aid to the regions affected by the war would be implemented, the document sates.

Direct talks needed

Putin said that Kiev’s unwillingness to hold direct talks with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics was among the reasons it took so much time to reach an agreement.
“They may be unrecognized, but we have to deal with real life here, and if everyone wants to agree and have sustainable relations, direct contacts are needed,” Putin said.

He added that the ‘Normandy Four’ expect the parties involved in the conflict to show restraint even in the days before the ceasefire takes effect.

The terms of the ceasefire are spelled out in a document signed by members of the so-called contact group, which includes representatives from the rebel forces, Kiev, Moscow and the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe, Putin said.

The members of the ‘Normandy Four’ – Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande – supported a joint declaration describing the results of their work.
The declaration was not meant to be signed by the leaders, Germany FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.

If broken, no new memorandum possible

Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Aleksandr Zakharchenko, who signed the Minsk document, said it required additional consultation and warned that “if these terms are broken, there will be no new meetings or memoranda.”

He added that he and Igor Plotnitsky, the head of Lugansk People’s Republic, agreed to sign the document “due to guarantees from the president of Russia, chancellor of Germany and president of France,” with the hope that it would allow their people to “achieve peaceful development.”

The new Minsk accord gives hope for de-escalation of the Ukrainian conflict, although it would require a major effort to build trust between the parties involved. The previous deal collapsed as neither Kiev nor the rebels implemented it fully, which means the threat of renewed hostilities in Ukraine continue to loom

Bollywood Blues : Arundhati Roy interviewed By Tariq Ali

The 1st ^sIndian film was made by Dadasaheb Phalke on May 3^rd 1913. I am compiling a list of films here which reflected the social reality of society ,irrespective of whether melodrama was used or the message was conveyed in the subtlest of manners.

To me these films even if not ideological, brilliantly portrayed the evils of feudalism and capitalism. Films like ‘Awaara ‘,’Shri 420’ and ‘Do Bhiga Zameen’ gained major acclaim by the people of  U.S.S.R and China which has significance. 

Socialist themes won over the hearts of people. Today and in the past we have had a genre of films representing the imperialist or capitalist values. The majority of acclaimed film represent the decadent values ,promoting liberalization and globalization.

This selection is a tribute to the inherent genius of the artists who had deep knowledge of the Social situation. Without the study of the broad masses these films would not 
have been made.

Harsh Thakor

VISIT HERE TO VIEW FILMS


SEE ALSO : http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/most-progressive-movies-from-bollywood.html 

Raj Kapoor

2015 -THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN BANGLADESH - COMMUNIST PARTY MARXIST-LENINIST-MAOIST BANGLADESH

Biting each other among the reactionary political parties restarted in Bangladesh as soon as the New Year 2015 started. And one month already passed when already seventy common people including women and children have been burnt to death by bomb attack on buses and trains. Many are injured. On the other side, government crossfire made significant number of killing to suppress those. The Awami League led alliance wants to sustain power anyhow be it legal or illegal and on the other side, BNP-Jamat alliance wants to come to power anyhow be it legal or illegal. There is no difference between rule-exploitation, corruption, mass torture and genocide carried by the two groupings one after another.

The only difference is that they are different bureaucratic capitalist-feudalist groupings that represent different imperialism or expansionism. By the repeated rule of both the group, peasants being overthrown from land became landless, poor peasant and worker, their produced crops did not develop their living standard; workers did not get minimum wage for sustenance, let alone getting rice, clothes, housing, education and medical treatment; rather domestic big riches have had prosperity and the foreign imperialist-expansionists’ profit increased a great extent. Country’s oil, gas, mines went under foreign imperialists-expansionists. Environment including Sundarbans is ceaselessly being destroyed. People want salvation from their domination.

Domination by Indian Expansionism

The Awami League government is backed by the Indian Expansionism. The Indian Expansionism lost its domination in 1970s because their lackeys lost their ground due to the struggle of communist revolutionaries against them. As the communists could not capture power, the US imperialists seized the opportunity to lead their lackeys to take power. India lost its control and Russia lost its share. India had to wait long days to establish full control in Bangladesh. Naturally, now she will not give others any chance. Also, they need control over the lackeys of other imperialist and expansionist groupings as much as possible. The Awami League is implementing Indian agenda. During the late 1990s, India ordered the narrow nationalists of Chittagong hill tract to surrender to Bangladesh government.

In exchange, Awami League destroyed the camps inside Bangladesh of the nationalist groups of the North East of India, arrested their numerous leaders and cadres and handed them over to India. In the meantime, the government has given transit to India. It has let them build coal based power station that destroys Sundarbans and environment. Apart from that, Indian companies are producing electricity in Bangladesh in the name of quick rental. India, by building barrage in upstream of the rivers of Bangladesh, blocks the water flow. As a consequence, Bangladesh faces drought in dry season and flood in rainy season. So, huge part of crops is damaged each year in Bangladesh.

Hence, huge section of the country is going to be desert in the long run. Bangladesh is the market of legal and illegal Indian goods. Rice, wheat, maize, sugar, salt, onion, spices, dal, Sari, cosmetics, animal food, cows and all the daily goods are coming from India to Bangladesh, most of which are low standard than the domestic ones. Bangladesh imports Indian bus, truck, CNG operated auto ricshaw, motor cycle, train, tractor, electricity, machinery from India. Indian Fencidil and Mayanmar’s Yaba is making Bangladeshi youth drug addict. Indian culture is dominating here via satellite TV. Apart from that, theaters have started showing Indian cinema. If we add legal and illegal, at least forty percent of Bangladesh’s total import is from India. Russia has re-infiltrated in Bangladesh via Bangladesh government’s huge arms buying contract with her including missile and fighter planes, Ruppur Atomic plant, establishing satellite in orbit, giving the work of drilling gas wells to Gazprom by Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh Army is composed of Russian and Chinese Tanks, while the Bangladesh Air Force is composed of Russian Migs. Russian Tractors are imported to Bangladesh. The US here has TIKFA agreement. It is expropriating most of the gas fields although Gazprom’s infiltration is not good a sign for them. The Grameen Bank is US lackey. Besides, there are many US-West European lackey NGOs acting here. United States of America and Western Europe are big markets for Bangladeshi Ready Made Garments. The US uses to provide training to the military force of Bangladesh. The US wants to establish military base in Bangladesh and full control. The cancellation of GSP opportunity of Bangladeshi Garments in US market signifies the fact that US is not getting opportunity here. China got most of the construction works here like Padma Bridge, deep sea port and many works. Bangladesh is the monopoly market of Chinese electronic materials.

Bangladesh buys arms from China. She is also buying Tanks, Submarines and war fleet from China. Trains, battery operated auto bikes, tractors, sewing machine and machinery are also imported from China. Japan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, South Korea also are investing capital here in various construction project. Machinery also come from Europe, South Korea and Taiwan to Bangladesh. The capitals of the pan Islamic groupings are also working here via Islami Bank. In the Middle Eastern countries, huge manpower of Bangladesh are working in exchange of a few money. Saudi Arabia has decided to take more two million people from Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a huge market of petroleum of Middle East.

They have been able to add religion in educational sphere. They invest a lot of money in Bangladesh in the name of Madrasha and Mosque. They enhanced religious superstition and atrocities in society. Chairman Siraj Sikder showed during the 70s that it is not possible for any other force other than India to capture power here. Only the communists can capture power here via armed struggle because they are depended on people. The possibility was to capture power by the Proletarian Party of East Bengal. But on 2 January 1975, when Chairman Siraj Sikder was martyred by the enemy, party fell in crisis. The leaders of the later periods could not build correct line and practice. Hence, party lost its direction.

So, the US lackeys seized the opportunity of power vacuum. They, by realizing that Muslim religion is a big obstacle to Indian domination here, utilized that. Geographically, Bangladesh is encircled by India from three sides, and the bay also can be controlled by her. There is no Muslim state near Bangladesh. India prepared her lackeys in long days. In the meantime, she carried endless border terror, and still she is carrying that. After the fall of the Soviet Social Imperialism, the balance among imperialist forces changed. Then, the US got monopoly of domination. Hence, armed conflict diminished among imperialist and expansionist forces in various countries. But now, as Russia restored herself as imperialist power and China became imperialist power, contradiction among various lackey groupings in various countries is taking the form of armed conflict. The thesis of comrade Siraj Sikder was correct.

Again the same situation returned. The new thing that has been added here is the presence of Maoist People’s War in India. As chairman Siraj Sikder showed, a semi feudal semi colonial society like Bangladesh is governed by the bureaucratic bourgeoisie. Here the control of India is maximum. So, she wants to reorganize the ruling system by her lackey bourgeoisie in her favor. Hence, her lackeys’ consolidation of power will consolidate domestic and foreign reactionaries’ exploitation over workers, peasants and middle classes, and confirm the prominence of a particular colonial force and fix how much share which imperialist force will get. At present Indian prominence and domination has been reestablished via Awami League. Though the US is opposing that via BNP, but they find it difficult. The Middle Eastern, Pakistan and Pan Islamic feudalist-capitalist groups are opposing via Jamat, but they find it difficult too. As Bangladeshi people’s national root is Indian Sub continental, so, Indian influence is far more here than the Chinese.

China has control up to Myanmar. US, Russia, China, Japan, Saudi-Middle Eastern-Pakistan-Pan Islamic Co., have no other way but to be satisfied with the share they get. In international field, the genocide by IS, massacring children by Taliban in Pakistan, Islamist attack in Europe and its counter anti-Muslim suppression etc. are exposing the anti-people character of the religion-ist reactionary ideology and the imperialist genocidal plan centered on that.

What can people do in face of reactionary attack and government terrorism in the way of transport

We see, all the targets of the whole attack of the reactionaries are people. It is related to the ideology of reactionaries. As their ideology is anti-people, so all of their attacks go against people. On the other side, the Crossfire terrorism government is bringing that also goes against people generally. In both cases, in immediate sense, people have to take step to protect them. They should be united and vigilant and they have to confront the enemy with whatever they find domestically. In protracted sense, people have to take preparation for revolutionary transformation of society under the leadership of MLMist communists.

Reactionary crisis, vacuum and the tasks of the communists

Communists want to establish communist trend society by overthrowing domestic and foreign exploiters via social revolution. Here only a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Party can succeed in seizing power via armed struggle because only they are able to depend solely on people and arouse people in the program of their liberation on the basis of their class interest – in the struggle of establishing ownership of workers, poor peasants, middle classes over land, factories and mines, the struggle that inevitably is a people’s war.

Besides, she must establish firm friendship with particularly people’s war of India, unite with all other people’s wars of the world and march ahead along the path of new democracy, socialism and communism. At the present power crisis, the communist could easily utilize it and step forward in fighting to seize power, but they are not prepared. They are preparing themselves ideologically and politically. Yet, the power crisis of the bourgeoisie is permanent. It will gradually be increased more and more. By utilizing such situation, a small force rapidly can transform into a big force. Hence, the revolutionary force must complete ideological, political and other preparations as early as possible and take initiative of struggle. Revolution is inevitable.

7 February 2015

COMMUNIST PARTY MARXIST-LENINIST-MAOIST BANGLADESH

True Communism Is the Foreignness of Tomorrow by Alain Badiou

Democracy and Class Struggle have a multiplicity of disagreements with Alain Badiou on Philosophy, and Political Organisation and Communist History but what we do admire is his philosophical Communist Vision and this speech delivered in Athens over year ago is an excellent example of this vision that sustains our movement.

After studying this speech I refer you to the bourgeois visions of   Francis Fukuyama, Alexander Dugin and Ivan Krastev  here : for the poverty of the full spectrum of anti communist thought that the bourgeoisie are deploying against us in the 21st Century.

         

The principle that there is a single world does not contradict the infinite play of identities and differences

 

Alain Badiou

 

I would like to thank, and to salute, all our Greek friends, and beyond that all those who are today struggling against the terrible situation inflicted on the Greek people by the financial oligarchy that today holds power in Europe, in service of globalised capitalism.

The infamous Troika, which in reality runs the Greek government today, is not only the representative of Europe. Because Europe today is but a transmission belt for globalised capitalism. What are the Greek people told, in order to justify their oppression and devastation? That you have to take your place in the world as it really is. You have to take account of the realities of the contemporary world. You have to resign yourselves to obeying the laws of the market economy and global competition.

In order to resist this propaganda, it is necessary to start out from one very simple proposition. Today, there is no real world constituted by the men and women who live on this planet.

Why do I say that there is no world of men and women? Because the world that does exist, the world of globalisation, is only a world of commodities and financial exchange. It is exactly what Marx predicted a hundred and fifty years ago: the world of the world market. In this world, there are only things – sellable objects – and signs – the abstract instruments of buying and selling, the different forms of money and credit. Yet it is not true that in this world human subjects exist freely. And, for starters, they absolutely do not have the basic right to move around and settle down where they want. For the crushing majority of men and women in the so-called world, the world of commodities and money, have not the slightest access to this world.

They are harshly walled off from it, existing outside of it, where there are very few commodities and no money at all. And I mean ‘walled off’ very concretely. Everywhere in the world, walls are being built. The wall that is intended to separate the Palestinians from the Israelis; the wall on the Mexican-US border; the electrified barrier between Africa and Spain; the mayor of one Italian town suggested building a wall between the centre and the suburbs! Always more walls, imprisoning the poor in their own homes. There are those in Europe who think we ought to build a wall between unlucky Greece and well-off Northern Europe. The pretend world of globalisation is a world of walls and imprisonment.

Solidarity with Greek People : 11th and 15th February 2015 - Calls for Defiance in more than 15 Cities in Greece and 11 Cities in 8 European Countries

No to blackmails. We do not submit. We are not afraid. We will win.

CALLS FOR SOLIDARITY WITH THE GREEK PEOPLE - WEDNESDAY 11 / SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2015 

Dear All

First of all many and wholeheartedly thanks for your solidarity and mobilizations so far. All together around Europe we have shown that hope for change in Europe is growing and that a transnational movement from below seems more tangible than few weeks ago. However the fight it won’t be easy and it is going to last as the increasing blackmails and threats against a determined Greek position show.

Last week’s rallies and protests, in Greece and in Europe, opposing the pressures by EU and government officials, as well as from rating agencies (Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greece), were only the beginning of a new phase of our social and political conflict.

Rallies of defiance have been called for the 11^th and 15^th of February in more than 15 cities in Greece and 11 cities in 8 European countries (see attachment for links). 

The first date (Wednesday 11/02) coincides with the emergency Eurogroup meeting, which will discuss the Greek case, and the second (Sunday 15/02) is the eve of the scheduled Eurogroup meeting and of Dijsselbloem’s ultimatum for Greece to comply with the current bailout program’s.

We hope that the calls and solidarity actions will grow even more on Greek and international level and we encourage you to do your best in turning the conflict over Greece in a change for all Europe and beyond.

In Solidarity for All’s facebook international page https://www.facebook.com/sol4all you can find updates about the activities of the grassroots solidarity movement in Greece and of the international solidarity groups. 

We would be happy to see your updates in the page, too.

Last but not least, we attach the latest report of Solidarity for All, concerning the effects of the crisis and the bailout memoranda in Greece the last six years, but mainly the development and reach of the grassroots solidarity movement, as a paradigm of self-organisation against the paradigm the political and economic elites in Europe wanted to make of Greece.

Feel free to disseminate widely and do not hesitate to contact us for more information. 

Solidarity for all: Building hope against fear and devastation | Αλληλεγγύη για Όλους

in solidarity

Christos Giovanopoulos 

Solidarity for All

Calls in European cities.

Cyprus: Nikosia


https://www.facebook.com/events/1569624856588095/?ref=4

UK:

London14/2/2015


https://www.facebook.com/GreeceSolidarityCampaign/photos/a.363428780381423.82309.359706897420278/827901720600791/?type=1

PORTUGAL:

Porto:
https://www.facebook.com/events/384308661739115/

Lisboa
https://www.facebook.com/events/1410336692595952/




GERMANY:

Μόναχο: https://www.facebook.com/events/438772129621655/?ref=4

Βερολίνο: https://www.facebook.com/events/733517053412517/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

Bremen:
https://www.facebook.com/events/812119458825746/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

BELGIUM

Brussels:
https://www.facebook.com/events/329913700549925/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

DENMARK

Copenhagen: https://www.facebook.com/events/1053187544696368/?ref_notif_type=like&source=1

AUSTRIA:

Wiena 9.2

https://www.facebook.com/events/603979976403672/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

The State of India - Arundhati Roy interviewed by Tariq Ali

 

 

Amnesty International Calls for release of four Maoist Sympathisers arrested in Kerala

Amnesty International India today demanded the immediate release of four maoists sympathisers, arrested in Kerala for allegedly being involved in unlawful activities after some 'pro-Maoist' materials were retrieved from their homes.

"Mere possession of certain kinds of literature cannot be a ground for arresting someone", said Shemeer Babu, Programmes Director, Amnesty International India.
...

"Authorities must respect the right to freedom of expression, which includes the right to seek and receive information of all kinds", he said in a statement

Source:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/amnesty-demands-release-of-four-maoist-sympathisers-115020501726_1.html