India - Release Professor Saibaba Now ! Call from Jalandhar says Harsh Thakor

SALUTE RALLY IN JALANDHAR ON NOVEMBER 1ST CONDEMNING THE FASCIST ARREST OF PROFESSOR G.N.SAIBABA WHOSE VOICE REPRESENTS THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE MILLIONS OF TOILING PEOPLE OF THE ENTIRE NATION.MAY ITS MESSAGE SPREAD LIKE A RED TORCH SHIMMERING EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF THE NATION IN RESISTING THE BARBARITY OF FASCISM SAYS HARSH THAKOR
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On November 1st around 450 people staged a march from company bagh to Ghadr memorial hall raising slogans demanding the release of professor Saibaba.

The main speakers were Darshan Singh Khatkar of C.P.I.(M.L.) New Democracy,Kanwaljeet Khanna of Inquilabi Kendra,Balwant Makhu of Lok Sangram Manch,representative from journal Lok Kafla of Revolutionary Peoples Front, spokesman from C.P.I.(M.L.)Liberation and Ankat ,an advocate representing the democratic front against operation green hunt.Students and youth participated in abundance.

The protest was qualitatively a success playing a very important role in the building of revolutionary democratic political consciousness against the fascist political trends prevailing today in India.Such protsets shoulkd develop from a spark into a priarie fire.Professor Saibaba's voice is that of the opressed millions of the entire nation and thus the movement for his release is morally the protest against fascist repression on people's movements and on political prisoners as a whole.It is of great regret that inspite of the professor on the brink of virtually dying the state has been  so cuel displaying sheer apathy

.It reflects on how professor Saibaba was a thorn in the flesh to the ruling classes and their pro-coprporate policy stooges.In the history of post-independence arguably no intellectual has so courageously and forthrightly defended revolutionary democracy or maoist movement.His life sentence is a perfect reflection of the nature of fascism within third world countries even if formally bourgeois democracies.It is progressive that so many trends are uniting to combat this barbaric act which is worse than  sentences to political prisoners  in even the colonial British era considering the era when concept of human rights has developed and the fact that the victim is polio affected.

It has also reflected how the state has sharpened it's fascist fangs like never before bowing to the dictates of pro corporate international policies.In areas of Jharkhand,Chattisgarh and Chandrapur virtual fascism is perpetrating the judicial system.Never have their been such infringements in the bourgeois democratic constitution of India.Professor Saibaba is  a hero in the eyes of the opressed Adivasis and all other struggling sections .

"WE DEMAND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF PROF G.N.SAIBABA"

The South Korean public is highly critical of Trump says Choi Eun-a

The South Korean public is highly critical of Trump—for denouncing Obama’s policy of strategic patience as a failure but still continuing the same policy of sanctions and military pressure; openly making threats of war and dismissing the gravity of its consequences as something “over there”; demanding that South Korea pay for the cost of hosting the THAAD missile system and US troops; and demanding the renegotiation of the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement. The general mood here about Trump’s upcoming visit is one of anger.

We are working with other progressive forces and peace organizations to organize coordinated and joint actions under the banner of “No Trump.”

Beginning with a press conference today, we will carry out a series of actions until the last day of Trump’s visit on November 8. Leading up to his visit, our aim is to generate an anti-Trump consensus among the broader public. To this end, we will hang large banners that say, “War-threatening, weapons salesman Trump unwelcome,” “No war No Trump,” “No THAAD, no war threats, no sanctions” all across the country, post pamphlets at every bus station, hold simultaneous one-person relay protests across the country, and get organizations representing various sectors of the progressive movement to release statements denouncing Trump. On Saturday, November 4, we will hold a mass demonstration, then during his visit on November 7 and 8, we will organize j

Throughout this year, we have been organizing to demand an end to sanctions and the US-ROK war games that only intensify military tensions, and the realization of a Peace Treaty. If there are no talks between the United States and North Korea in the coming months, then we believe tensions will further escalate before Key Resolve Foal Eagle, the next massive US-ROK joint war games, scheduled for March 2018.

In February 2018, South Korea hosts the Winter Olympics. It is the desire of the Moon Jae-in government to use the Olympics as an opportunity for symbolic North-South reconciliation. A flare-up of tensions before the mass war games will frustrate this plan. So we plan to intensify our call for an end to the military exercises and the pursuit of a Peace Treaty. To this end, we are planning a mass peace mobilization on Feb 3 before the Olympics and the Key Resolve exercises, then a series of actions across the country until late March to denounce the military exercises.

South Korea says NO to Trump

History of DPRK - The Flower of 5000 Years of Korean History

5000 YEARS OF KOREAN HISTORY

https://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/a-brief-history-of-5000-years-of-korea.html

Six Catalan Ministers sent to Prison by Spanish Government Today - The Ghost of Fascist Franco Rules in Spain Again

The Balfour Declaration: How 67 Words Shaped the Middle East

Democracy and Class Struggle agree's  that some of the motivation for supporters of the Balfour Declaration was anti semitism - see our study of Lloyd George .

https://greatunrest2012.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/david-lloyd-george-liberal-imperialist.html

Divest from the Merchants of Death by Larry Wilkerson

Historic Struggles by China's Working People Against Confucius by Tien Kai

Democracy and Class Struggle continues its investigation into the anti Confucius Campaign in China in 1970's and its relevance to China Today especially in view of 19th Congress of Communist Party of China.

The ad hominem attacks against Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) as well as Mao continue but both their understanding and deep critique of Confucianism is part of their immortal contributions to the liberation of mankind.


"I take it no other people in the world know Confucius as well as the so-called ignorant mob in China do," said Lu Hsun.'


Indeed, while the reactionary ruling classes exalted Confucius to incredible heights by honouring him with the awe-inspiring title of "the sage" and calling Confucianism "the Way of the sage," the labouring people did quite the opposite - they called Confucius (whose given name was Chiu and family name Kung) "Chiu the Robber" and branded the Confucian canons as "demon books." These two different attitudes vividly reflect the fundamental "Confucius in Modern China." antagonism in ideology between the toiling masses and the reactionary ruling classes.

As a thinker who stubbornly upheld the slave system, Confucius in his words and deeds ran directly counter to the great historical current of the liberation of the slaves. No sooner had he appeared on the political stage and started his counter-revolutionary career than the slaves of his time waged a tit-for-tat struggle against him.

This situation shows through in the Analects, a collection of Confucius' words and deeds. Further more,"Chih the Robber," a chapter in the work Chuang Tzu, vividly describes a face-to-face struggle against Confucius by Chih, leader of the insurgent slaves.

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                        Tang dynasty Zhuangzi manuscript preserved in Japan (1930s replica)

Chih "had 9,000 followers assailing and doing violence to the nobles everywhere which struck terror into the hearts of the slave-owning aristocrats so that "wherever they (the insurgent slaves) passed through the country, in the larger states the city walls were guarded and in the smaller the strongholds they were manned.,, Using his ideas of "benevolence" and "morality,, as a tool, Confucius tried to dissuade Chih from raising revolts and offending the upper orders.

But Chih completely refuted him in debate, leaving him tongue-tied. Then, says the account, Confucius went out at the door and mounted his carriage. Thrice he missed the reins as he tried to take hold of them. His eyes were dazed, and he could not see"; his face was ashen and he made off in dire confusion'

The Analects records a dialogue between Tzu Lu,a disciple of Confucius, and an old man carrying a bamboo rake. "Tzu Lu said to him, 'Have you seen my master, Sir?'

The old man replied, 'Your four limbs do not toil and you people do not know the difference between the five grains - what kind of master is he anyway?'"

Hitting the nail squarely on the head, this critical remark exemplified the utter contempt of toilers for Confucius as an exploiter and parasite.

Since then it has come into China's common parlance to describe the exploiting classes and their intellectuals

The chapter "Chih the Robber" tells how, when Confucius sought a personal audience with Chih, the insurgent leader was filled with loathing at the very sight of such a creature, and, slamming the door, denounced him as a parasite who "gets his food without farming and his clothing without weaving."

To appropriate without working was in the very nature of Confucius and the slave-owning class he represented - and the existence of this non-labouring exploiter class was the root cause of the slaves' untold suffering.

Himself an exploiter who neither farmed nor wove, Yet wanted to eat and dress finely, Confucius concocted a whole series of reactionary arguments to justify exploitation and heap contempt upon manual labour. His ideal, was for the exploiters to do nothing and get everything while the labourers did everything and got nothing

He said: ,,If the ruler loves propriety, the common people will not dare to be irreverent. If he loves righteousness, they will not dare to disobey.

If he loves sincerity, they will not dare to hide what is in their minds. if he does all this, the common peopie will flock to him from all quarters, carrying their children on their backs.

What need has he to know farming ?

In the opinion of Confucius, no slave-owner need perform "menial" tasks such as farming because the people would submissively allow themselves to be exploited and oppressed provided that the slave    owners used "propriety,,, ,,righteousness,, and ,,sincerity" to preserve their own rule and social order.

The slaves, however, readily saw through this kind .of statecraft designed by Confucius for the exploiters. They countered it by projecting their own ideal society in which people farm to feed themselves, weave to clothe themselves and do not harm each other." Essentially, the slaves, opposition to Confucius was a reflection of their class demand: struggle against exploitation and oppression to win freedom and liberation.

Confucius' reactionary political stand - for restoration of the old order and retrogression to the past - also came under bitter attack by the slaves'

In his day, the collapse of the slave system was already the overpowering trend. Yet he ran everywhere, trying to save the slave system from ruin under the slogan: "Revive states that are extinct, restore families that have lost their positions, and call to office those who have fallen into obscurity'"

This attempt at retrogression by Confucius aroused strong dissatisfaction and indignation among the working people. A doorkeeper of the time castigated him as a diehard ignorant of the times,"who knows that the trend cannot be turned back and still wants to do so." He was also mocked by two farmers, Chang Chu and Chieh Ni. When his disciple Tzu Lu asked them, as they tilled the land, about where a river could be forded, they replied:" The flood is everywhere under the sun. Who can go against it?"

In other words, the collapse of the slave system was like a great flood, no one could change this tide of history and Confucius, in his vain effort to do so, was really overreaching himself.

Chih, the slave leader, was even more explicit when he angrily denounced Confucius for bragging about King Wen and King Wu, and pointed out that Confucius praised the past only for the reactionary purpose of condemning the present. In attempting to turn history backward and obstinately defend the evil slave system, Chih declared, Confucius was committing a heinous crime.

The slaves rejected the Confucian school of thought which had his concept of "benevolence" as
its core. Chih announced without hesitation:

"What Chiu says is what I mean to reject." Confucius saw filial piety and brotherly duty as the fundamentals of "benevolence," because if everybody held to them there could be no insubordination or rebellion.


And it was precisely for this that Chih criticized Confucius' idea of "benevolence"Relaying facts to demonstrate the many crimes of the ruling slave-owner aristocracy, he exposed Confucius' talk about filial piety and brotherly duty as sheer deception of the people.

Basing himself on the interests of the slave class, Chih presented his own view of morality, diametrically opposed to Confucius'. He maintained that the slave-owners' appropriation of things without work was utterly immoral, whereas the rebellion of the slaves against the slave-owners to seize back these ill-gotten gains was the height of morality.

While engaging in this just fight, he said: "It is brave to go in first, righteousness to withdraw last, wisdom to know the appropriate time, benevolence to be fair in distribution."

Thus Chih gave his own, new interpretations of the moral qualities of courage, righteousness, wisdom and benevolence. From the words and deeds of Confucius, the slaves clearly saw that his political character was completely despicable and they fully exposed and criticized it. Confucius kept mouthing "benevolence," "righteousness" and "morality" all the time, bragged that "Heaven has endowed me with virtue (to govern the world)" and had the impudence to consider himself "the sage." But in the view of the slaves, he was merely an "artful deceiver," mean and shameless.

Chih denounced Confucius as a reactionary politician "wagging his tongue to create trouble," "using lies and pretence to bewitch the rulers in order to seize wealth and position," a "crafty hypocrite" who "habitually praises people to their faces" and "also habitually abuses them behind their backs." These succinct words graphically portray his hideous true face' Confucius, indeed, left no fine words unsaid while stopping at no evil deed.

He talked abundantly about "love for man" and preached: a Lu Shih Chun Chiu (3rd century B.C.).

"What good is it to resort to killing in running a government?" But only three months after coming into office, he executed Shaocheng Mao, a minister of the State of Lu who advocated reform.

As for Chih, Confucius labelled him behind his back as a "scourge in the world." But to his face, Confucius said that Chih possessed the "three sterling qualities" of mankind (a taII handsome
figure, ability to understand the world and bravery

Lu Xun : Mao Zedong defined him as the "chief commander of China's Cultural Revolution,"

The Full text of story of Ah Q in English is here
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lu-xun/1921/12/ah-q/

WATCH THE Ah Q FILM IN CHINESE ABOVE 




Democracy and Class Struggle says Lu Xun is needed more than ever in China to root out the hypocritical Confucianism of the Chinese "Communist" elite and the appalling self deception in contemporary China




Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren. Lu is widely regarded as one of modern China’s most prominent and influential writers. His work promoted radical change through criticism of antiquated cultural values and repressive social customs.

Zhou was born into a poor family. His father was unable to provide for the family and he died during Zhou’s teenage years. Zhou’s mother was well-educated and she encouraged in his studies. Zhou demonstrated a keen intellect early in life. He studied at the Jiangnan Naval Academy, the School of Railways and Mines in Nanjing and the Medical College at Sendai in Japan. During the course of his studies, he became acquainted with social movements aimed at reforming and reshaping Chinese society.

Lu writing

During the course of Zhou’s political and intellectual development, he concluded that a “literary movement” was needed to build awareness and incite action amongst the oppressed. As early as 1906, he decided to publish a literary magazine, but his early attempts at organizing such an endeavor were unsuccessful. In 1908, he joined the anti-Qing revolutionary party, Guang Fu Hui, and he remained involved with this group up to the Revolution of 1911 which resulted in the removal of the Qing Dynasty. Zhou was ultimately disenchanted with the results of the Revolution, for although the Qing Dynasty was unseated, the people of China languished amidst imperialist intervention and oppressive semi-colonial conditions.

Zhou Shuren struggled with uncertainty as to how he could best utilize his political awareness while he immersed himself in the study of Chinese culture. He adopted the pen name of “Lu Xun,” partially in tribute to his mother, whose surname was Lu. With some encouragement from peers, Lu ultimately wrote and published his first story, “A Madman’s Diary,” in 1918. The story was published in the May Fourth movement’s magazine “New Youth” Lu’s work was well received and he followed up with a number of other short stories, including his celebrated tale of the Revolution of 1911, “The True Story of Ah-Q.” In 1923, Lu published “A Call to Arms,” which was an anthology of his most acclaimed works.

Lu writing

Lu Xun quickly gained notoriety as a stirring, insightful, and prolific writer. In addition to writing, Lu worked as an editor, professor and dean of studies. He began studying Marxism-Leninism in 1928 and shortly thereafter, he undertook the translation of works concerning Marxist literary theory. Although Lu never joined the Chinese Communist Party, he was widely regarded as a Marxist in the later years of his life and he worked closely with communists in many anti-imperialist and anti-fascist campaigns. Lu advocated a united front by the CCP and the Kuomintang against the forces of Japanese imperialism. While afflicted with tuberculosis, Lu continued to write passionately about the struggle against Japanese aggression until his death in 1936.

Xi Jinping: China's 'Chairman of Everything' by Prof. Jeff Wasserstrom of UC Irvine

Democracy and Class Struggle in our study Marxism Against Market Socialism in 2010  affirmed the capitalist social character of China post Mao Zedong and facts daily confirm evermore that reality

China’s wealth gap has widened for the first time in five years, a fact Beijing chose not to mention in this year’s economic report.

The Gini coefficient, a gauge ranging between zero and one that measures income equality, increased slightly to 0.465 last year, from 0.462 in 2015, according to data released by the National bbBureau of Statistics (NBS) this week.

A reading of zero would mean everyone’s income was equal, while a reading of one would indicate that all the income was going to one person.

The United Nations considers a Gini coefficient higher than 0.4 a sign of severe income inequality.

The most recent figure for the US was 0.479. In term of cities, Hong Kong recorded an all-time high of 0.539 last year, behind only New York at 0.551. But it is difficult to gauge the exact coefficient for the mainland, as income estimates are based on household surveys.

Beijing did not mention the Gini figure for 2016 in January when it delivered its annual report on the past year’s economic performance, breaking a long-standing tradition.

Beijing has set a goal of doubling incomes by 2020. 

In January, NBS director Ning Jizhe said ­inequality worsened last year due to the slow growth in pension income for poor urban ­families.

Last year, urban residents had an average per capita income of 33,616 yuan (HK$38,658) – 2.72 times higher than that of people in rural areas. They had an average annual income of 12,363 yuan, according to official data.

Nationwide, the average per capita income was 23,821 yuan, an increase of 62.6 per cent from 2010, when Beijing set a goal of doubling incomes by 2020.

As China grows, equal opportunity and social mobility are fast becoming a cruel lie

“Over the next four years, as long as residents’ incomes increase at an annual rate above 5.3 per cent, we can achieve the goal of doubled incomes,” the National Bureau of Statistics said in its report.

A study from Peking University last year found that the poorest 25 per cent of mainland households owned just 1 per cent of the country’s aggregate wealth, while the richest 1 per cent owned a third of the wealth.

“It’s apparent that the wealth is increasingly being accumulated by the rich, who are taking fat gains from capital markets,” Lin ­Caiyi, the chief economist for Guotai Junan Securities, said.

SOURCE
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2101775/chinas-rich-grabbing-bigger-slice-pie-ever

SEE ALSO
https://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/19th-congress-of-communist-party-of.html

https://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-19th-chinese-communist-party.html