[LAAMN] Neruda to be exhumed today
http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/04/neruda-to-be-exhumed-tomorrow.html Neruda to be exhumed tomorrowApril 7, 2013 Sabina Becker [image: neruda-grave] The grave of Pablo Neruda, overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Isla Negra, Chile. After nearly 40 years, it is about to give up its biggest secret: How did the great poet, a Nobel-winning national icon before his death and a legend thereafter, die?http://www.aporrea.org/internacionales/n226358.html *Preparatory work for the exhumation of the body of Pablo Neruda began on Sunday, so that his remains can be removed on Monday from his grave on Isla Negra to be analyzed, to determine whether he died of cancer or was assassinated by the Pinochet dictatorship on September 23, 1973, just days after the military coup.* * The earth-moving operation took place today on Isla Negra, about 100 kilometres west of Santiago, where the Nobel literary prizewinner lies buried alongside his third wife, Matilde Urrutia. Their graves overlook the Pacific Ocean, in the garden of their home, now a museum which receives thousands of visitors every year, and which closed its doors on Sunday afternoon. For the exhumation, a tent will be installed and special protective gear will be worn in case of any toxic substances. The task will be completed by a multidisciplinary team of Chilean and foreign forensic scientists: five from the Chilean state medico-legal service, four experts from the University of Chile, and four international experts. Among them will be the US toxicologist Ruth Winecker and three Spaniards: toxicologist Guillermo Repetto, surgeon Aurelio Luna, and forensic doctor Francisco Etxeberría, who also participated in the 2011 exhumation of Chilean president Salvador Allende. There will also be three international observers, and the president of the Chilean Communist Party, Guillermo Teillier; the party attorney, Eduardo Contreras; a nephew of the poet, Rodolfo Reyes; and Nerudas former chauffeur, Manuel Araya. It was Araya who, in 2011, suggested the possibility during an interview that Neruda could have been assassinated. He took this to the Communist Party, to which Neruda belonged, in order to present in May of that year a lawsuit that touched off the judicial investigation. Judge Mario Carroza, of the Court of Appeals in Santiago, decided in February that it would be necessary to disinter the remains of the author of Twenty Poems of Love and One Song of Despair, to clarify the causes of his death. According to the official version, Neruda died in a private clinic in Santiago on September 23, 1973, twelve days after the coup détat by Augusto Pinochet (who ruled from 1973 to 1990), due to cancer of the prostate gland, which he had suffered from for years. However, Manuel Araya maintains that Nerudas death was due to an injection he received that same day, on the eve of a trip that would have taken him to exile in Mexico, where he could have become a thorn in the side of the military government. Neruda was a very dangerous figure for Pinochet, due to the international prestige he had, said Araya, who now lives in the coastal town of San Antonio, a few kilometres from Isla Negra. The chauffeur asserts that the poet had accepted the refuge that Mexico offered after the coup, and that he was ready to travel there in order to actively involve himself in the political fight against the Pinochet régime. Manuel Araya has criticized the forensic team chosen to participate in the exhumation, although others involved in the process discounted his observations. Araya contends that Judge Carroza vetoed the team of experts proposed by the family of Pablo Neruda, represented by his nephew Rodolfo Reyes, and by the Communist Party, represented by Eduardo Contreras. However, Contreras indicated that he does not agree with this assertion, and that the Party will rely on the expert Gloria Ramírez during the exhumation, and on the neurologist and psychiatrist Luis Fornazzari, and the geneticist, Cristián Orrego during the examinations to come. The lawyer did, however, agree with Manuel Araya that the judge should have accepted, as per the Neruda familys request, the presence of medical examiner Luis Ravanal, who became famous in 2008 for publishing an article on the 1973 death of Salvador Allende. Before Neruda, other cadavers from the recent history of Chile have also been exhumed in the last two years to clarify the causes of their deaths. In the case of Allende, in 2011, it was established that the president did indeed shoot himself during the bombing of the Moneda palace by the putschists. On the other hand, in the case of his former minister José Tohá, in 2012, analyses revealed that he did not commit suicide, but that he died at the hands of a third party, by strangling or hanging, when he was interned in the Military Hospital in Santiago in 1974. But the situation that most resembles that of Neruda is that of former president Eduardo Frei Montalva, who died in
[LAAMN] Videos, Rally at US embassy-Brussels Venezuela After Chavez
*Chávez vive, la lucha sigue*; *Chávez no murió, se multiplicó*;*Oye majunche, ven pa que vea, aquí está el pueblo que te va dar la pelea* This is a video from Saturdays concert in Caracas Ska-P interpreta El Libertador en concierto en Caracas dedicado a Hugo Chávez y la Revolución https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=easS0w5ktc4 https://www.facebook.com/hands.off.venezuela?ref=stream Hands Off Venezuela!https://www.facebook.com/hands.off.venezuela?ref=stream and Manos Fuera de Venezuelahttps://www.facebook.com/ManosFueradeVenezuela?ref=stream shared a linkhttp://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDSyDNGTWlMAh=6AQHxTPYJs=1 . ** https://www.facebook.com/ *Intifada. Vamos. Baquiné pal Comandante.* www.youtube.com Un tema que Intifada de Puerto Rico le escribe y le canta al pueblo venezolano y bolivariano. Sobre la vida y la muerte del comandante Chávez. Grabado en el ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSyDNGTWlMA [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @*HOVcampaign*https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign 1h https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/321189730282770433 Catalan band At Versaris support Bolivarian revolution Volen (Catalan with Spanish subtitles) http://youtu.be/9wkDFffaodY http://t.co/wfAcHZFP1w [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @*HOVcampaign*https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign 1h https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/321193877006589952 rally at US embassy, Brussels, April 13 https://www. facebook.com/events/137454649774694/ https://t.co/Lwsq5cppbH === *Chávez vive, la lucha sigue*; *Chávez no murió, se multiplicó*;*Oye majunche, ven pa que vea, aquí está el pueblo que te va dar la pelea* = Venezuela After Chavez BY EWAN ROBERTSON https://www.indypendent.org/authors/ewan-robertson APRIL 4, 2013 ISSUE # 185 https://www.indypendent.org/issue/185 MÉRIDA, Venezuela When Hugo Chavezs death was announced late in the afternoon on March 5, a collective sadness gripped his supporters across the nation. Shoppers stopped their tasks in the street and rushed to the nearest television. People hugged those next to them as tears ran down their faces. The grief displayed may have come as a surprise to those unfamiliar with the bond the Venezuelan president had built with the poor majority in his country. Yet as estimates of the numbers flocking to Caracas for his funeral stretched into the millions, no one could deny the popular support enjoyed by Chavez and his project, the Bolivarian Revolution. In his 14 years as Venezuelan president, Chavez led a transformative period in the South American nation, rejecting neoliberalism and spearheading a process of nationalizations, social programs and participatory democratic practices that came to be known as 21st-century socialism. Meanwhile, he made international headlines opposing the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, while advocating Latin American integration and a multipolar world order. Yet after his death, what are the prospects for Venezuelas Bolivarian Revolution? Will the Chavista movement fall apart without its historic leader? And if the Revolution does continue, what are the challenges facing Venezuela beyond the next presidential election? CHOOSING A SUCCESSOR In the whirlwind of emotion created by their charismatic presidents passing, Venezuelans are preparing to choose Chavezs replacement in a snap election. On April 14, they will decide whether to press ahead with the Revolution or to take a rightward turn and opt for the countrys conservative opposition. It seems very likely that the majority of Venezuelans will choose the former option and elect Nicolas Maduro, Chavezs designated successor and former vice president. Less than six months have passed since Chavez was re-elected with 55 percent of the vote, and those who supported him will almost certainly turn out again to continue his project. Venezuelans have not forgotten Chavezs final address to the nation on Dec. 8 before he left for Cuba to undergo cancer surgery. Hands slightly trembling, he said, I want to say something, although it sounds hard if something should happen [to me] it is my firm, absolute, and irrevocable opinion that you elect Nicolas Maduro as president. I ask you this from my heart. After Chavezs death, his supporters have taken on this wish, chanting Chavez, te juro, mi voto por Maduro (Chavez, I swear to you, my vote is for Maduro) at his funeral and at rallies around the country. Maduro, a burly former bus driver and fierce Chavez loyalist, has made clear that his mandate will be to maintain the former presidents legacy, submitting Chavezs previous campaign platform as his own. We are here to guarantee peace and that the Bolivarian Revolution continues its socialist course; were fulfilling the orders of the Comandante [Chavez], he said upon registering his presidential
[LAAMN] Thatcher is dead - the struggle against Capitalism continues!
http://www.marxist.com/thatcher-is-dead-struggle-against-capitalism-continues.htm Thatcher is dead - the struggle against Capitalism continues!http://www.marxist.com/thatcher-is-dead-struggle-against-capitalism-continues.htm Written by Socialist Appeal (Britain)Monday, 08 April 2013 [image: Print]http://www.marxist.com/thatcher-is-dead-struggle-against-capitalism-continues/print.htm[image: E-mail]http://www.marxist.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,b69418b0dd780518d59531761eba022bfcaa41dd/tmpl,component/ Margaret Thatcher, the former Tory Prime Minister and one of the most hated figures in the history of the labour movement, died today at the age of 87. Thatcher, more than anyone, personified the brutal attacks on the working class during the 1980s - attacks that the Tory-led Coalition are continuing today. We publish here a short piece on Thatcher's death, with more in depth analysis of her legacy to follow soon. Thatcher is dead. No doubt in the next few days Westminster politicians and the Tory press will be spouting on and on about what a great person she was, how she saved Britain ,The Iron Lady etc., etc. We say good riddance. This person personified the Tory counter-reaction of the 1980s, the privatisations, the attacks on union rights, the closure of the mines, the de-industrialisation of many parts of the country, cuts in public services, selling off of council houses, shutting hospitals, mass youth unemployment and so on. In many ways she set the tone for the attacks being launched by this current government. Although she lacked the upper class roots of previous Tory leaders she gained the leadership of the Tory Party by plotting to remove Edward Heath she was very much a creature of finance capital, a strand that has come to dominate Conservatism. Together with Ronald Reagan she became the symbol of the worldwide capitalist counter-revolution against the gains of the post-war period. Although she won three elections (1979, 1983 and 1987), she came undone over the Poll Tax. Such was the mood against this hated tax that the Tories lost their nerve (fearing electoral defeat at the next election) and booted her out of office after a Westminster plot. John Major took over and narrowly won the 1992 election after another botched campaign by the labour leadership. However, they could not defer their fate for long and in 1997 went down to a landslide defeat. We do not mourn her passing. The actions of her government and the system she defended destroyed the lives of millions of working class people. The task then (as now) was to resist. The magnificent fight of the miners, of Liverpool Council and of the Anti-Poll Tax campaign showed that she could be stood up to. We should not forget this in fighting her vicious legacy today. Thatcher may be gone but her rotten system remains we must finish that off as quickly as possible. -- http://www.marxist.com/the-real-iron-ladies.htm The real Iron Ladies http://www.marxist.com/the-real-iron-ladies.htm Written by John Dunn and Richard VivianMonday, 27 February 2012 [image: Print] http://www.marxist.com/the-real-iron-ladies/print.htm[image: E-mail]http://www.marxist.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,6348849228a934689abaccff3393d3f9ba64ac03/tmpl,component/ With all the hype surrounding the Hollywood version of Margaret Thatcher as the Iron Lady who (supposedly) brought the miners and trade unions to their knees, there now comes the real story of the Miners Strike of 1984 from Betty Cook and Ann Scargill, two women who not only played their part during the strike but who now say that the events of that historic year changed their lives forever. *Socialist Appealhttp://www.marxist.com/weblinks/europe/socialist-appeal-britain.htm * put some questions to the women on the subject of their feelings about the film and the Miners Strike of 1984 and the lessons to be learned. *[image: Real iron ladies: Betty Cook and Ann Scargill]http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/britain/anne__betty_real_iron_ladies.jpgBetty Cook and Ann Scargill - Real Iron LadiesSocialist Appeal: With the screening of The Iron Lady, played by Meryl Streep, the 1984 strike has once again come back into focus and is being discussed widely in the labour movement. Why do think it is important to keep the memory of that great strike alive?* *Anne:* Before I answer that, I just want to comment on the film The Iron Lady. I watched Meryl Streep on Breakfast Television recently and I could hardly believe what I heard. Streep said that Thatcher was a lovely woman who had done a lot of good work. I just thought, Meryl Streep, you ought to visit our area here in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire and see for yourself the scars that remain in our communities, caused by her policies. She ruined our communities. There are many people, not just miners, who lost their jobs and cannot now find work and never will return to employment. The effect of that time is still being
[LAAMN] Video - I'll Dance On Your Grave Mrs Thatcher
Iron Lady is dead now. A gift from the British working class to Thatcher. *John McCullagh - I'll Dance On Your Grave Mrs Thatcher* https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=1bJbeeKBPCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=1bJbeeKBPCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=1bJbeeKBPCU www.youtube.com John McCullagh I'll Dance On Your Grave Mrs Thatcher Taken from his brilliant Debut EP which is available to buy exclusively at www.shamrocksuperstore.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=1bJbeeKBPCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=1bJbeeKBPCUhttps://www.facebook.com/InternationalMarxistTendency?ref=stream International Marxist Tendency (IMT)https://www.facebook.com/InternationalMarxistTendency?ref=stream shared Timur Dautov https://www.facebook.com/timur.dautov's eventhttps://www.facebook.com/events/365761666875922/ . London - Rob Sewell will be giving a talk on Thatcher's legacy on the next UCLU Marxist Society's meeting on Thursday 11 April, which will be followed by a social with drinks available for sale. 19:00 to 23:00 in Wilkins Old Refectory. https://www.facebook.com/events/365761666875922/?ref=3 *Thatcher's Legacy https://www.facebook.com/events/365761666875922/?ref=3* April 11 https://www.facebook.com/events/calendar/2013/April/11 at 7:00pm in UTC+01 UCL, Wilkins building, Old Refectory room https://www.facebook.com/InternationalMarxistTendency?ref=stream International Marxist Tendency (IMT)https://www.facebook.com/InternationalMarxistTendency?ref=stream London - Rob Sewell will be giving a talk on Thatcher's legacy on the next UCLU Marxist Society's meeting on Thursday 11 April, which will be followed by a social with drinks available for sale. 19:00 to 23:00 in Wilkins Old Refectory. https://www.facebook.com/events/365761666875922/?ref=3 *Thatcher's Legacy https://www.facebook.com/events/365761666875922/?ref=3* April 11 https://www.facebook.com/events/calendar/2013/April/11 at 7:00pm in UTC+01 UCL, Wilkins building, Old Refectory room [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] [Vídeo] English/Spanish- Vía Campesina endorses Maduro, Brazil Homage more
LUCHA DE CLASES @*_luchadeclases* https://twitter.com/_luchadeclases [Vídeo] Presidente de Vía Campesina expresa su apoyo a @*NicolasMaduro*https://twitter.com/NicolasMaduro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN--oUvnCpEfeature=youtube_gdata_player http://t.co/SPra2TeF9M [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @*HOVcampaign*https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign 57m https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/321228139172880384 Paris, April 9, homage to Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution http://www. embavenez-paris.fr/noticias/noticia_detalles.php?id=2379 http://t.co/AfGLiXbuCp pic.twitter.com/IxV0r9wUlx http://t.co/IxV0r9wUlx https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tirem-as-M%C3%A3os-da-Venezuela/631602180198818?ref=stream Tirem as Mãos da Venezuelahttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Tirem-as-M%C3%A3os-da-Venezuela/631602180198818?ref=stream 20 hours agohttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=633277156697987set=a.631607390198297.1073741828.631602180198818type=1 **https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tirem-as-M%C3%A3os-da-Venezuela/631602180198818# Nessa Sexta-Feira (05/04) em São Paulo, no Plenário do Sindicato dos Engenheiros, com a participação de mais de 40 entidades e mais de 300 pessoas, foi realizado um ato em homenagem a Chávez por ocasião de um mês de sua morte e declarado o apoio dos movimentos sociais e organizações políticas da esquerda brasileira à eleição do candidato do PSUV à presidência da Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. Em nome do Comitê Brasileiro da Campanha Internacional Tirem as Mãos da Venezuela o companheiro Caio Dezorzi afirmou que todos nós, venezuelanos, brasileiros e trabalhadores e jovens do mundo todo temos uma dívida com o companheiro Chávez: terminar o que ele não pôde; realizar o socialismo na Venezuela, na América Latina e em todo o mundo! This Friday (05/04) in São Paulo, in the plenary of the Union of engineers, with the participation of more than 40 entities and more than 300 people, was an act in honor of Chavez during a month of his death and declared the support of social movements and political organizations of Brazilian left to the election of the candidate for the Presidency of Venezuela PSUV, Nicolás Maduro. On behalf of the Brazilian Committee of the international campaign Take the Hands of Venezuela Caio Dezorzi mate stated that we all, Venezuelans, Brazilians and workers and young people from around the world have a debt with Chávez: finish what he could not; realize the socialism in Venezuela, Latin America and around the world! (Translated by Binghttp://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbing.com%2Ftranslatorh=jAQGWPoOrs=1 ) [image: Photo: Nessa Sexta-Feira (05/04) em São Paulo, no Plenário do Sindicato dos Engenheiros, com a participação de mais de 40 entidades e mais de 300 pessoas, foi realizado um ato em homenagem a Chávez por ocasião de um mês de sua morte e declarado o apoio dos movimentos sociais e organizações políticas da esquerda brasileira à eleição do candidato do PSUV à presidência da Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. Em nome do Comitê Brasileiro da Campanha Internacional Tirem as Mãos da Venezuela o companheiro Caio Dezorzi afirmou que todos nós, venezuelanos, brasileiros e trabalhadores e jovens do mundo todo temos uma dívida com o companheiro Chávez: terminar o que ele não pôde; realizar o socialismo na Venezuela, na América Latina e em todo o mundo!] https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=633277156697987set=a.631607390198297.1073741828.631602180198818type=1relevant_count=1 ** https://www.facebook.com/shares/view?id=633277156697987Likehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Tirem-as-M%C3%A3os-da-Venezuela/631602180198818# · · Sharehttps://www.facebook.com/ajax/sharer/?s=2appid=2305272732p%5B0%5D=631602180198818p%5B1%5D=2527316 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ *
[LAAMN] Falklands/Malvinas war hatred of Thatcher
http://www.marxist.com/marxism-falklands-malvinas-war140607.htm Marxism and the Falklands/Malvinas warhttp://www.marxist.com/marxism-falklands-malvinas-war140607.htm Written by In Defence of MarxismThursday, 14 June 2007 [image: Print]http://www.marxist.com/marxism-falklands-malvinas-war140607/print.htm[image: E-mail]http://www.marxist.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,8ce9e57f888e344a1cc1ec905ed9d7211ad82d3c/tmpl,component/ As the media remind us of the war that took place 25 years ago, we remind our readers of our analysis of the question: The Falklands Crisis - A Socialist Answerhttp://www.marxist.com/britain-falklands-crisis020402-10.htm by Ted Grant in 1982, The Falklands War - 20 years laterhttp://www.marxist.com/britain-falklands-war-20yrs-later020402-9.htm by Phil Mitchinson in 2002, Reply to Luis Oviedo - Part Three - The Malvinas: Marxism and Warhttp://www.marxist.com/luis-oviedo-malvinas-war170204-7.htm and Reply to Luis Oviedo - Part Five - For a class policyhttp://www.marxist.com/luis-oviedo-class-policy190204-7.htm by Alan Woods in 2004. http://www.marxist.com/thatcher-thirty-years-on.htm Thatcher: Thirty Years Onhttp://www.marxist.com/thatcher-thirty-years-on.htm Written by Terry McPartlanTuesday, 09 June 2009 [image: Print] http://www.marxist.com/thatcher-thirty-years-on/print.htm[image: E-mail]http://www.marxist.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,30be644c7c7381b5b3fcc44621c89ef6b8bb69fe/tmpl,component/ Where there is discord may we bring harmony... said Margaret Thatcher 30 years ago this May when she was elected as British Prime Minister in 1979. Some politicians are remembered for their achievements, in Aneurin Bevan's case the founding of the NHS; others like Tony Blair will be remembered as warmongers and traitors to the ideals of the Labour movement. Meanwhile John Major will be remembered, if at all, for his ineffectual personality and his blandness. But very few will have been hated by working people with such intensity as Margaret Thatcher. Destruction of Industry [image: Thatcher remains one of the most hated British politicians. Photo of street art by unusualimage.]http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/britain/unusualimage-thatcher_street_art.jpgThatcher remains one of the most hated British politicians. Photo of street art by unusualimage.Margaret Thatcher presided over the destruction of more industry in Britain than that destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the Second World War. She plotted to smash the National Union of Mineworkers and to dismantle the welfare state and all the reforms that had been fought for over decades by the working class. She slashed welfare payments, attacked the old and the sick and basically co-ordinated a one sided civil war against the British (and Irish) working class. There were many people in Britain whose lives were cut short by unemployment, by sickness and poverty as a result of the politics of Thatcherism, many families that fell apart, many children who went hungry. Yet, she was admired by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who wants her to have a state funeral, the sort of event normally reserved for royalty. But how did Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham, come to power in the first place and how did she get away with so much for so long? Thatcher's rise to power in the Tory party reflected two different processes. On the one hand the power of the Tory grandees, the big landowners and the industrial bourgeoisie, was on the wane by the early 1970s. Britain's long slow industrial decline which Trotsky alluded to in 'Where is Britain Going' written in 1925 was only accelerated by the War and the dominance of US imperialism, the development of the colonial revolution in the Post War period and the rise of smaller regional powers in the likes of Latin America and the Middle East. Relative Decline On the other hand this relative decline was superimposed on the definitive end of the Post War boom and the beginning of a period of general political and economic crisis in the entire capitalist world. The balance of power within the British bourgeoisie and internationally had tipped towards the financial bourgeoisie. In addition the British bourgeoisie were in a state by the mid seventies. The waves of industrial struggle, including the two national miners' strikes, one of which resulted in Ted Heath being dumped from power in 1974, had radicalised the working class and society was becoming increasingly polarised. On the one hand many workers were beginning to draw revolutionary conclusions, while on the other hand sections of the Tory Party were drifting to the right. Revolution and counter revolution develop side by side after all. That is because of the class nature of society was as close to revolution as it has been at any time since the General Strike of 1926 in the 1970s as Thatcher was clawing her way to leadership of the Tory party. The selection of
[LAAMN] APRIL 11 A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO SUPPORT THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
APRIL 11 A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO SUPPORT THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION No U.S. Intervention in Venezuela Elections TELL WASHINGTON THE VENEZUELAN ELITE: NO TO DESTABILIZATION EFFORTS IN VENEZUELA, A day of Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution: Thursday APRIL 11, 2013 After the tragic death of our beloved president Chavez, the imperialist nations of the world are preparing to attack the Bolivarian Revolution. Venezuela is getting prepared for a new presidential election and the imperialists are intent to intervene and sabotage the election. President Nicolas Maduro has claimed that elements of the U.S. State Department are hiring mercenaries to attack Venezuela in the days of the presidential election. The United States wants to create chaos in Venezuela to justify a military intervention. Let them know that we are here to denounce them. NO US INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA ELECTION The solidarity movement in the United States right now faces a critical challenge with regards to Venezuela as well as the revolutionary process in Latin America. The tragic death of our comrade President Hugo Chavez has many believing that the important process for progress in Venezuela, Latin America and the world, has been dealt a crippling blow but we know that the Venezuelan people and the region will never go backward. And our solidarity will continue as they move forward in their struggles for self-determination, sovereignty, integration and social justice. The people of Venezuela will honor the last will of President Chavez by overwhelmingly voting this coming April 14 for Nicolas Maduro for President. The Venezuelan people clearly remain committed to the process of fundamental change in their country, no matter what. We are confident that the roots of the Bolivarian Revolution will remain strong and grow. But the death of our dear President Hugo Chavez will be used by US imperialism and the elite oligarchy in Venezuela to carry out aggressive plans to destabilize the revolutionary process in Venezuela. We must send a strong message to Washington right away: we are organizing our voices of solidarity with the Venezuelan people and demand no intervention during this coming election in Venezuela. Why April 11? The Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 was a failed coup d'état on 11 April 2002, that saw late President Hugo Chavez ousted from office for 47 hours, being restored by a combination of military loyalists and massive public support for his government. Chavez was initially detained by members of the military and of pro-business elites represented by Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce (Fedecámaras) president Pedro Carmona, who was declared as the interim president. Carmona's brief rule saw the Venezuelan National Assembly and the Supreme Court both dissolved, and the country's 1999 Constitution declared void. In New York City, we will gather at Times Square @ 4PM to express our love and solidarity with the legacy of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and then we will march to the U.S. Mission to tell President Barack Obama: We do not want U.S. intervention in Venezuela. If you are in a city where no action is taking place, call, fax, email the White House and voice your opposition to intervention. Or better yet, organize a local action! Please contact us and let us know how your organization can support this national day for the Bolivarian Revolution. cbalbertolov...@gmail.com, 718-510-5523 or 347-251-6301 or 646-533-6081. Partial list of endorsers: Answer Coalition, Pastor For Peace, IFCO, International Action Center, MAY1 Coalition, International Concerned Family and Frieds of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy Socialism (CCDS), FMLN NYC, Cuba Solidarity NY, National Lawyers Guild International Committe,Occupy Harlem, Haiti Liberte, Peña del Bronx, Alianza Pais (Ecuador), Hands off Venezuela, Existence is Resistance, Sisa Pakari Centro Laboral, Bayan USA, Frente Amplio DR, Latinos Unidos Committe, Alliance for Global Justice, Pro Libertad, Socialist Party USA, Universal Zulu Nation. Chavez Vive,La Lucha Sigue! Chavez por siempre, Maduro Presidente [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn
[LAAMN] Compare media contempt for Chavez vs Thatcher, dead – we remember her crimes against our class
[image: Pablo Navarrete]*Pablo Navarrete* @*pablonav1*https://twitter.com/pablonav1 3h https://twitter.com/pablonav1/status/321260274239803392 MT @*medialens* https://twitter.com/medialens Compare our alert on #*media * https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mediasrc=hash contempt for #*Chavez*https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Chavezsrc=hash http://tinyurl.com/cqpsyvs http://t.co/tgmkVWVvSb with TV/press on #* Thatcher* https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Thatchersrc=hash's death. ** Retweeted by *InsidetheRev Film https://twitter.com/VenRevFilm* http://www.marxist.com/thatcher-dead-we-remember-her-crimes-against-our-class.htm Thatcher dead we remember her crimes against our classhttp://www.marxist.com/thatcher-dead-we-remember-her-crimes-against-our-class.htm Written by Rob SewellMonday, 08 April 2013 [image: Print]http://www.marxist.com/thatcher-dead-we-remember-her-crimes-against-our-class/print.htm[image: E-mail]http://www.marxist.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,5e5e434d8a7a8094b3e7182c4a9a3dfa8e6f7024/tmpl,component/ The TV is full of the sycophantic outpourings of right-wing commentators and politicians about the sudden death of Margaret Thatcher. The Establishment has rallied to praise her. The Queen has sent a personal message of condolence to the Thatcher family. The news is full of tributes, portraying Thatcher as some kind of champion of freedom and liberty. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. She was a champion a champion of capitalism, the ruling class, and all it represents. Her death is now being used to rehabilitate her, to paint her as a heroine. Of course, Margaret Thatcher is very much admired by representatives of her class, the ladies and gentlemen of the ruling class, as a fervent defender of capitalism, the existing social order, and their class interests. For us, Thatcher represented and epitomised privilege, wealth and the inequality of class society. [image: Margaret Thatcher 1983]http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/britain/Margaret_Thatcher_1983.jpgWhile Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990, she epitomised capitalism in the raw. She set about attempting to destroy the power of the trade unions and plunder the state through privatisation, all in a vain attempt to restore the position of British capitalism. She attempted to drive the working class back to Victorian times by attacking all those who resisted, especially the miners, as the enemies within. Whole swathes of anti-trade union legislation were brought onto the statute book. The right to strike was all but removed. Gone was the image of One Nation Toryism. The Tory Grandees were pushed aside by the Tory rabble, who bestowed the leadership of the Tory party on Thatcher. She represented a new breed of Tory: the narrow, parvenue outlook of a shopkeepers daughter. It reflected the degeneration of British capitalism, which has been in a process of long-term decline. Her policies, based upon the economic doctrines of monetarism - which simply represented a return to the pre-war balanced budgets - resulted in the destruction of 20% of manufacturing industry between 1979 and 1981. It caused a greater destruction of industry than the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. This drove up levels of unemployment to over 3 million; meanwhile Norman Tebbit, the Chingford Skinhead, lectured the unemployed to get on their bike to seek work. [image: unusualimage-thatcher street art]http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/britain/unusualimage-thatcher_street_art.jpgPicture by: Unusualimage-thatcherIn 1984-85, she set about attempting to destroy the National Union of Mineworkers and smash the mining industry. Everything was done to starve the miners back to work. Thatcher was hoping for a quick victory, her industrial Falklands, but the miners held out for another 12 months. Ultimately, it was only the sabotage of the TUC and Labour leaders that sealed the miners fate and handed victory to Thatcher. As with the memories of 1926, the experience of the 1984-5 strike was burned into the consciousness of the working class. They will never forget and never forgive. The creed of monetarism (of Thatcherism) elevates greed and egotism to a principle. Its philosophy is that everyone must grab as much as they can, despite the consequences. They should climb the social ladder at the expense of the rest of us. The richest elite are praised to the skies, while the poor are condemned as lazy and indolent. They represent the undeserving poor, as the Victorians described them, the welfare scroungers as they are described by the Tory press today, who should find non-existent work or be deprived of their benefits. This is the law of the jungle, the law of capitalism, which Thatcher espoused. She denied society and promoted individual selfishness, which epitomised the outlook of the bourgeoisie in this epoch of decline. The market has its high priests, and Thatcher represented one of these apologists. Together
[LAAMN] D'Aubuisson/Brownfiel death squads again...-Venezuelan Government Denounces the Presence of Opposition “Mercenaries”
[image: teleSUR TV]*teleSUR TV* @*teleSURtv*https://twitter.com/teleSURtv 52m https://twitter.com/teleSURtv/status/321316933238669312 Video: Dip. D'Aubuisson estaría implicado en plan desestabilizador http:// tlsur.net/Zw1pS9 http://t.co/C0EtFn6M0P Choicest excerpts from wikileak of US plan to undermine Venezuela...' OTI expects the atmosphere for our work to... http://fb.me/1YdWOvv3n http://t.co/goy6UodwDD A little history on Brownfield, from Cort Greenehttp://quotha.net/node/2460Fri, 03/29/2013 - 19:21 AP (Note date) John Negroponte, William Brownfield and Death Squads Inc.http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/john_negroponte_william_brownfield_and_death_squads_inc.htm By Cort Greene Friday, 04 March 2005 - AP's blog http://quotha.net/blog/1 - - Read more http://quotha.net/node/2460 More on death squads and other shameful uses of US tax dollarshttp://quotha.net/node/2459Fri, 03/29/2013 - 09:16 AP William Brownfield gave a speech in which he stated that the U.S. will support the Honduran police but ignore its commanderhttp://www.eluniversal.com/internacional/130328/estados-unidos-apoyara-a-policia-hondurena-pero-ignorara-a-su-director . - AP's blog http://quotha.net/blog/1 - - Read more http://quotha.net/node/2459 -- Venezuelan Government Denounces the Presence of Opposition Mercenaries Apr 8th 2013, by Chris Carlson [image: Interim President Nicolas Maduro at a campaign in event in the state of Bolivar on Saturday (agencies)] Interim President Nicolas Maduro at a campaign in event in the state of Bolivar on Saturday (agencies) Punto Fijo, April 7th, 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) Venezuelan government officials released a recorded conversation on Saturday that allegedly reveals the use of mercenaries by the Venezuelan opposition to create chaos in the lead up to elections next Sunday. Interim President Nicolas Maduro made the announcement at a campaign event on Saturday, assuring that the group of mercenaries were already in Venezuela, and are seeking to carry out three objectives before next weeks elections: sabotage the electrical grid, increase the number of murders in the country, and assassinate Maduro. From Central America we have gotten information that a group of mercenaries has entered the country, with coordination from the Central American right-wing and some sectors linked to the opposition candidate, he said. Maduro said that US officials Roger Noriega and Otto Reich were behind the plan, together with right-wing sectors from El Salvador and Venezuela, and had paid the mercenaries to kill him. They want to kill me because they know they cannot win the elections on April 14th, he said. Shortly after Maduro made the accusation, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua appeared on news channel Telesur to give more details. Through our intelligence agencies, we have recorded conversations among right-wing groups where they discuss using Central American mercenaries to carry out destabilization plans in the country, he said. Jaua explained that the groups involved are led by a retired colonel of the Venezuelan armed forces, David Koch Arana, who is allegedly linked to Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the operation is coordinated by Salvadoran right-wing politician Roberto dAubuisson. In a recorded conversation between dAubuisson and Koch Arana, vague plans are discussed to engage in activities inside Venezuela, and the conversation would also seem to implicate the Capriles campaign in the plans. Jaua read a portion of the dialogue that allegedly took place between the two individuals, which went as follows: *Roberto dAubuisson:* How are things going down south? You havent given me the reports . Are the reports we are sending you useful? *David Koch Arana:* I have the reports, but I havent sent them to you yet Supposedly they have informed the Venezuelan government that there are foreigners interfering in the political situation. Capriles has managed to find safe places so that our people can chill. The team already arrived and they are working together. One group is already working in the streets to disorient the vote. *Roberto dAubuisson:* Did you tell them that it should be like we worked in the campaign here? Just be careful. Remember that they have offered their support if they win, and that would be good for us. I dont know how the other groups that we sent from here are working, but I hope they dont clash with each other or have conflicts, because they dont know each other. I will talk to them to see how we should organize the operations there. Jaua said that the full audio of the conversation would be made publicly available in the coming days. He also assured that they were taking immediate action to find and neutralize the alleged mercenaries, and that intelligence forces had been deployed
[LAAMN] Fw: Farm workers in Wash. DC lobbying for immigration reform NOW. Join them virtually.
Farm workers in Wash. DC lobbying for immigration reform NOW. Join them virtually. More than 100 farm workers, students, and families of undocumented immigrants are in Washington DC, right now, lobbying members of Congress for a new immigration process with a path to citizenship for farm workers and the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the country. Can you join them virtually, by clicking here to send your representatives a message today? This delegation is made up of farm workers, their children and DREAMers who have received temporary legal status, traveled from California, Washington, Oregon, Florida, New Jersey, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, Ohio and Minnesota to lobby. Modesto, CA resident Leobardo Padilla is part of the delegation. He's been a farm worker for 30 years and has been mistreated and underpaid many of those years. He tells us not much has changed. “I’m very excited to participate in this event and fight for those co-workers and friends who feel they don’t have any rights.” The UFW has been working with key Republican and Democratic lawmakers, such as Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), to ensure Congress approves the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act (AgJOBS)--or includes language that addresses farm workers' needs as part of any immigration reform legislation. The bill would give professional career farm workers presently in the U.S., who have been contributing to our country's economy, the right to earn legal status by continuing to work in agriculture. Pleasetell your representatives it is time for a new immigration process that includes a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants, including farm workers. This pathway should have provisions which encourage current skilled farm workers to remain in agriculture through making the path to permanent status briefer on condition that farm workers remain in agriculture. It also makes sure that farm workers can make at least the wages they are making today. http://action.ufw.org/immig413 After you take action please share this campaign with your friends and family. You can send them an e-mail, post this campaign on your Facebook and/or Twitter page byclicking here or going to http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c9d/145687a8/47f465dd/2b47656a/858196204/VEsHBw/ OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED.Please add our new email u...@ufw.org to your safelist/address book so that our messages don’t get trapped in your spam filter. If you have questions about how to do this, drop us an e-mail. Check out our website at: www.ufw.org and keep up with the latest news. Check out the UFW's Social Networking pages. Click to visit our Facebook, YouTube, Twitter pages. Become our friend and follow us. If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the UFW List Serve. Privacy Policy United Farm Workers, P.O. Box 62, Keene, CA 93531, http://www.ufw.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Fw: Whose water?
Food Water Watch View this message online Become a Member Water Is for Everyone Protect funding for our public, local water systems Everyone deserves access to water Tell your Senators: support our local water systems Dear Romi, Everyone has the right to clean, safe, affordable water. Whether you live in an apartment in New York City or a farm in a small town in Iowa, you should be able to rely on the water coming out of your tap. But the Senate is considering a new law that could shift the balance of how our water systems are funded across the country. Remind your Senators: everyone deserves access to clean, affordable water! Municipal water systems — from wastewater treatment facilities to the pipes that bring water to your home — need repairs as they get older, and those repairs can be expensive, especially for small and rural communities. Historically, the federal government has helped local governments bridge those gaps in funding. But this new bill would give funding only to large (usually urban) water system projects, ignoring the needs of small and rural communities. The new bill would also prioritize funding privatized water systems over public ones. We have seen time and again that publicly managed water systems have higher-quality service and lower rates than those managed by private companies, yet this bill would get rid of restrictions on federal funding for privately financed projects, and ultimately, it would create an incentive for local governments to sell out their water systems to private companies. Adding insult to injury, it would give higher priority to projects that support the fracking industry. Where should our tax dollars be going? To bring clean, safe water to all our communities? Or to make life easier for private water and fracking companies? If it passes, this bill would be a big step backward, putting private companies ahead of ordinary citizens. Can you urge your Senators to reject these new rules for funding water system projects? Speak out to ensure safe, clean, affordable water for everyone: http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/R?i=ZFF5Pod0HL2b7pvRbEr-0A Thanks for taking action, Jo Miles Online Organizer Food Water Watch act(at)fwwatch(dot)org Share This Food Water Watch is a consumer advocacy nonprofit that challenges the corporate control of our food and water. We empower people to take action and transform the public consciousness about what we eat and drink. Donate Contact Us • Visit the Website Food Water Watch, 1616 P Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 • (202) 683-2500 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] Fw: Whose water?
I'm afraid this is the wrong viewpoint. All resources, belong to someone. This is after all now a Capitalist workld, and resources are Capital. The Government will lease those resources to you or sell them to the highest bidder, but THE PEOPLE OWN NOTHING MORE THEN A HACKABLE ELECTRONIC VOTE. Scott Food Water Watch View this message online Become a Member Water Is for Everyone Protect funding for our public, local water systems Everyone deserves access to water Tell your Senators: support our local water systems Dear Romi, Everyone has the right to clean, safe, affordable water. Whether you live in an apartment in New York City or a farm in a small town in Iowa, you should be able to rely on the water coming out of your tap. But the Senate is considering a new law that could shift the balance of how our water systems are funded across the country. Remind your Senators: everyone deserves access to clean, affordable water! Municipal water systems â from wastewater treatment facilities to the pipes that bring water to your home â need repairs as they get older, and those repairs can be expensive, especially for small and rural communities. Historically, the federal government has helped local governments bridge those gaps in funding. But this new bill would give funding only to large (usually urban) water system projects, ignoring the needs of small and rural communities. The new bill would also prioritize funding privatized water systems over public ones. We have seen time and again that publicly managed water systems have higher-quality service and lower rates than those managed by private companies, yet this bill would get rid of restrictions on federal funding for privately financed projects, and ultimately, it would create an incentive for local governments to sell out their water systems to private companies. Adding insult to injury, it would give higher priority to projects that support the fracking industry. Where should our tax dollars be going? To bring clean, safe water to all our communities? Or to make life easier for private water and fracking companies? If it passes, this bill would be a big step backward, putting private companies ahead of ordinary citizens. Can you urge your Senators to reject these new rules for funding water system projects? Speak out to ensure safe, clean, affordable water for everyone: http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/R?i=ZFF5Pod0HL2b7pvRbEr-0A Thanks for taking action, Jo Miles Online Organizer Food Water Watch act(at)fwwatch(dot)org Share This Food Water Watch is a consumer advocacy nonprofit that challenges the corporate control of our food and water. We empower people to take action and transform the public consciousness about what we eat and drink. Donate Contact Us  â¢Â Visit the Website Food Water Watch, 1616 P Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 ⢠(202) 683-2500 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Manifiesto de la Corriente Marxista del PSUV ante las elecciones del 14 de Abril
http://www.luchadeclases.org.ve/venezuela-leftmenu-161/7331-manifiesto-lucha-de-clases-revolucion-bolivariana Manifiesto de la Corriente Marxista del PSUV ante las elecciones del 14 de Abrilhttp://www.luchadeclases.org.ve/venezuela-leftmenu-161/7331-manifiesto-lucha-de-clases-revolucion-bolivariana[image: Imprimir]http://www.luchadeclases.org.ve/venezuela-leftmenu-161/7331-manifiesto-lucha-de-clases-revolucion-bolivariana?tmpl=componentprint=1layout=defaultpage=[image: Correo electrónico]http://www.luchadeclases.org.ve/component/mailto/?tmpl=componentlink=66b283139e2270e90099932ba40ccffc420c7a86Escrito por Corriente Marxista del PSUV Lunes 08 de Abril de 2013 [image: Elecciones 14A] *La ausencia física del presidente, las elecciones del 14 de Abril y el futuro de la Revolución Bolivariana * El 14 de Abril habrá elecciones presidenciales, y una vez más la burguesía y el imperialismo de un lado, y la clase trabajadora y el pueblo pobre del otro, se enfrentarán en una batalla electoral de proporciones históricas. Nuevamente, y una vez más, al igual que ante el golpe de estado en 2002 y ante el paro petrolero, las masas trabajadoras se movilizarán en defensa de la Revolución Bolivariana. El ánimo de combatividad de nuestro pueblo, y la desmoralización de la base social de la burguesía, ya se evidencia en las encuestas realizadas por consultoras burguesas y oficiales. Dichas elecciones marcarán un antes y un después en la historia de la Revolución Bolivariana. Sólo la radicalización de la revolución después del la vistoria socialista del 14 de Abril, podrá garantizar una victoria definitva de la revolución sobre el capitalismo. No hay caminos intermedios, radicalización de la revolución o nada. Aunque pueda invadirnos una profunda tristeza al recordar la ausencia del presidente, debemos mirar hacia delante con mucha fuerza y temple, debemos transformar toda la tristeza y el dolor en fuerza y determinación de lucha, para hacer avanzar la revolución socialista y no retroceder nunca. Ahora que ya no está con nosotros el presidente, nos toca a las bases del movimiento revolucionario empujar hacia adelante la revolución, con el objetivo de radicalizarla y completarla, como única manera de llevar a la práctica el legado revolucionario de Hugo Chávez. La burguesía y el imperialismo tenían todas sus esperanzas puestas en que el fallecimiento del presidente Chávez hubiese generado una desmoralización tremenda entre el pueblo revolucionario y la clase trabajadora, y que ello pudiese haber conducido a una pronta derrota del proceso revolucionario. De ahí su asquerosa campaña mediática en la que cada parte médico negativo era una celebración, y cada parte médico positivo ameritaba mentiras y calumnias anunciando ya la muerte del presidente. No pudieron estar más equivocados. La desaparición física del presidente ha radicalizado el ánimo y la conciencia de lucha y de combatividad entre las masas. Hoy más que nunca el pueblo revolucionario está dispuesto a luchar hasta el final, para defender a la Revolución Bolivariana de los ataques del imperialismo y la burguesía. Las consignas Chávez vive, la lucha sigue y No volverán, que han sido coreadas por millones de camaradas en gigantescas manifestaciones, durante las dos semanas que siguieron al fallecimiento del presidente, son tan sólo una diminuta muestra del nivel real de ánimo entre las masas. Sin embargo, de la misma manera, la ausencia física del presidente mostrará de una forma más evidente las contradicciones que existen dentro de nuestro propio movimiento, el movimiento bolivariano, entre las bases que queremos radicalizar el proceso en un sentido socialista revolucionario, y los sectores reformistas y burocráticos que prefieren conciliar con la burguesía antes que perder los privilegios que han ganado a costa de la revolución. Asimismo, los revolucionarios y las revolucionarias sabemos que el presidente constituía una barrera que frenaba las negativas políticas burocráticas y reformistas de dichos sectores, y a pesar de ello, aún así lograban hacerle daño al proceso revolucionario desde adentro. Es obvio que ahora, podrán actuar con mayor libertad y podrán plantear de manera más abierta y con menos dificultades, una política de conciliación con la burguesía. Sólo nosotros y nosotras, las bases del movimiento revolucionario, podemos frenarlos, y empujar la revolución hacia adelante. El 14 de Abril habrá elecciones presidenciales, y una vez más la burguesía y el imperialismo de un lado, y la clase trabajadora y el pueblo pobre del otro, se enfrentarán en una batalla electoral de proporciones históricas. Nuevamente, y una vez más, al igual que ante el golpe de estado en 2002 y ante el paro petrolero, las masas trabajadoras se movilizarán en defensa de la Revolución Bolivariana. El ánimo de combatividad de nuestro pueblo, y la desmoralización de la base social de la burguesía, ya se evidencia en las encuestas realizadas por consultoras burguesas y oficiales.
[LAAMN] Editorial of the newspaper of the Revolutionary Left Current in Syria: A transitional government… for whom?
http://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/editorial-of-the-newspaper-of-the-revolutionary-left-current-in-syria-a-transitional-government-for-whom/ Editorial of the newspaper of the Revolutionary Left Current in Syria: A transitional government for whom? Posted on April 7, 2013http://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/editorial-of-the-newspaper-of-the-revolutionary-left-current-in-syria-a-transitional-government-for-whom/ [image: 561303_446341728781906_2016080537_n]http://syriafreedomforever.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/561303_446341728781906_2016080537_n.jpg Thanks for the translation to a comrade who wants to stay anonymous Editorial of the newspaper of the Revolutionary Left Current in Syria: April 6, 2013 Front Line, the newspaper of the Revolutionary Left Current in Syria Issue 13 March 2013 *EDITORIAL* *A TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT FOR WHOM?* The extension of the liberated areas from the shackles of the dictatorial bourgeois regime, and the extent of mass destruction which they undergo from the continuous shelling by regime forces, and the devastation of infrastructures and all aspects of social life, is accompanied by an increase in the number of local and civilian councils attempting to manage the affairs of the daily life of citizens. In parallel, coordination committees continue to develop in the form of self-organizing structures of the popular movement, while the battalions of the Popular Resistance democratic army composed of masses who have borne arms and dissident soldiers play their role of confronting the killing machine of the dictatorial regime; we exclude here the jihadists and Islamists supported by oil monarchies and who are minority factions and who limit their ambition to something else: an Islamic state, i.e., a reactionary project for which the revolutionary masses did not make their sacrifices; they did so rather for freedom, democracy, equality and social justice. The transitional government we support must embody the revolutionary social components of the popular revolution, namely the workers, poor peasants and soldiers. It should not be a game or a contract awarded following demands from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in one of the hotels in Istanbul, and behind which are aligned the Muslim Brothers who have become a burden and an obstacle to the victory of the revolution because of their opportunism, their organic subordination to backward states, notably Qatar, and their ignoble use of financial funding and medias of their states to buy allies among the ranks of the people which was denounced in many demonstrations. The Brotherhood-liberal government of Hito was established under the demand of Qatar, and these maneuvers of the Muslim Brotherhood have been rejected by the Free Army and the popular movement. It thus becomes a component of the counter-revolution, of which it is our duty to bring down, like the dictatorial regime. We call for a transitional government that would be the revolutionary expression of the power of the people in revolt. *THE REVOLUTION A THIRD YEAR * [image: 561433_441710879254911_1910834982_n]http://syriafreedomforever.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/561433_441710879254911_1910834982_n.jpg This majestic popular revolution enters its third year, in a context of major sacrifices, destruction, suffering and exile. And this is the revolution that extends its liberated territories, tightens its grip on the regime of the decadent junta and increasingly approaches victory. And despite the big uproar about the so-called regional and international support for the struggle of the Syrian people, we must admit the naked truth: our revolution is an orphan one, and many of those who claim to be its friends betray it. The allocation of the seat of Syria in the Arab League to the National Coalition has no more than a little symbolic value, since this league is a decaying institution of corrupt regimes facing popular uprisings. As for the financial support and weapons, it is almost all support by the Sheikhs of Qatar and Gulf group to the jihadists and Muslim brothers who, with the junta regime, constitute components of the counter-revolution, one wanting to steal it or turn into a religious war, the other working with all its power to put an end to it. None of these forces want it to triumph as a liberation revolution of the people from the yoke of repression, authoritarianism, exploitation for an emancipated society based on justice and equality. Our revolution is indeed a majestic one. It is not only facing a murderous regime of the worst kind, which does not hesitate to treat its people as an enemy and try to crush them with all kinds of weapons and missiles. But it is also a magnificent revolution because it was able to prevent all parties of the above-cited counterrevolution from achieving their goals while preserving its original claims of emancipation, equality and justice. The challenges facing the
[LAAMN] Screening of Phil Donahue's: BODY OF WAR ~ Wednesday, April 10th, 8:00 PM at the Home of Carla Leigh McCloskey in Malibu ~ Phil Donahue will be at this Screening ~ RSVP Necessary ~ $25 Don
Phil Donahue Will Present His Highly Acclaimed Documentary Film: BODY OF WAR www.bodyofwar.com Wednesday, April 10th at 8:00 PM At Olandar: The Home of Carla Leigh McCloskey in Malibu Donation $25 To RSVP, Get Address More Information: Email: carlamcclos...@aol.com or Call: 310-457-5398 Phil Donahue will be at this Screening! Arrive at 7:30 PM to See Leigh McCloskey’s “The Hieroglyph of The Human Soul” www.leighmccloskey.com BODY Of WAR is an intimate and transformational feature documentary about the true face of war today. Meet Tomas Young, 25 years old, paralyzed from a bullet to his spine-wounded after serving in Iraq for less than a week. Body of War is Tomas' coming home story as he evolves into a new person, coming to terms with his disability and finding his own unique and passionate voice against the war. The film features two original songs by EDDIE VEDDER. Body of War is a naked and honest portrayal of what it's like inside the body, heart and soul of this extraordinary and heroic young man. Body of War unfolds on two parallel tracks. On the one hand, we see Tomas evolving into a powerful voice against the war as he struggles to deal with the complexities of a paralyzed body. And on the other, we see the historic debate unfolding in the Congress about going to war in Iraq. Phil Tomas Young, the Iraq War Veteran featured in Body of War, have been a focus in the media recently. They were on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman. Tomas Young's letter denouncing Bush and Cheney as war criminals on the 10th anniversary of the war in Iraq went viral on the Internet. Join us for this exciting evening with Phil Donahue, an American hero who stood up against the Iraq War when it was not a popular stand for the media. Not to be missed. - RSVP Necessary as Space is Limited. Body of War, a film by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to several standing ovations and acclaim. It won Best Documentary from the prestigious National Board of Review and was nominated for Best Documentary from the Producer's Guild of America. Body of War was short-listed for an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary and was released theatrically through Landmark Theatres. Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro were featured in a special on Bill Moyers, as well as appearing on all the major networks and publications. www.bodyofwar.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
