Lets raise our voice to prevent america from destroying the new wave of revolution. Libyians are capable of handling gaddafi, america must to told to not fish in the troubled waters farida
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Faizi S <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:02 AM Subject: [Arkitect India] Every country must have a perpetual Tahrir Square To: [email protected] Every country must have a perpetual Tahrir SquareMarch 2, 2011, 8:51 pm [image: article_image] ** by S. Faizi In this Jan. 29, 2011 file photo, Egyptians pray on the side of a road opposite Egyptian army armored vehicles, along the Nile river in downtown Cairo, Egypt. For decades under Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s Islamists of all shades were disenfranchised, thrown in jail or targeted in crackdown after crackdown. Now their tormentor of some 30 years is gone, and they are rushing to claim a spot in the country’s new political landscape. *(AP) * In the wake of the election of Butros Ghali as UN Secretary General, I congratulated an Egyptian friend I met in Nairobi on his country having nominated a minority community member for the position which was offered to the country and the region for the first time. He looked straight into my eyes and said, we didn’t nominate a Christian, we nominated an Egyptian. I was overwhelmed. A society composed of individuals like this cannot be held by American-supported tyrants for too long a time. My tears of joy join the global ocean of joy. And I recall a universe of celebration and triumph I had as a boy when the authoritarian Indira Gandhi regime fell in 1977, routed by the illiterate Dalits and Muslims of north India (while ‘cent percent literate’ Kerala returned cent percent pro-Emergency candidates). The further trajectory of the Egyptian democratic revolution is, obviously, not certain at this time- it is indeed a matter of concern that the ad hoc power rests with the military. Nevertheless it has already shown that it is an epoch making event. It was not a revolution that was led by charismatic leaders but by the people themselves. Al Baradi who came from abroad, and who is a member of the shadowy right wing American think tank, the International Crisis Group, was ignored by them; Ghali was kept away; Amr Musa- Mubarak’s former foreign minister and current head of Arab League- too didn’t excite them. The spirit of freedom, democracy and the strength to challenge oppression has spread across the society and that is the guarantee that the effect this second Jasmine revolution will linger. The Egyptian revolution, like the Tunisian one that inspired it, has been a festival of the people. Had Mao Tse Tung been alive today he would have been glad to see his dictum being played out in Tahrir square. This will also be marked as a civilised revolution. The people had no arms but hope and determination and the willingness to sacrifice. They did not create a reign of terror as the French revolutionaries did. They did not lynch Mubarak as America’s Mujahidin did to USSR’s Najibullah. Nor did they lynch Sulaiman- Mubarak’s CIA-groomed lieutenant- like the public murder of Ceausescu and his wife in Bucharest. Nor was the Tunisian strongman Ben Ali treated that way. This provides an inspiring model for several revolutions to come, not the least in the Arab world. Civilised, peaceful revolutions, where the entire populations become partners not just some leaders or a band of army such as the Continental Army of America. The peaceful separation of southern Sudan that preceded the wave of revolution is also a reason for celebration, though Omar Bashir’s turn to leave is long overdue. US, Israel and Saudi Arabia tried every bit to subvert the revolution, but the people have overcome those moves. The subversion efforts will continue, aided by the west’s autonomous foreign policy instrument—the western media. The liberation of the Arab world from the US clutches will help a long way in turning the US into a democratic society as well, the weakening of the imperial might will throttle the power base of the military-industrial-Zionist complex and that will restore the democratic entitlement of ordinary Americans. At seminar where I was to confront Prof. Samuel Huntington, years ago in Riyadh, he argued that the large youth population of Arab countries posed a threat to the west. He was very true this one time. The young people no more tolerate the American imposed tyrants, and that obviously poses a threat to America’s imperialist interests. I salute the young women and men of Egypt. Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Libya.... Hope Algeria where they had valiantly fought the French colonialists who committed one of history’s wretched genocides will erupt soon. The global civil society must resolutely ask the US and allies to keep off Libya. And hope the turn of the hedonic royalties across the Red Sea will not be far off. Bahrainis have already turned Manama’s Pearl Square into their own Tahrir Square. The peaceful nature of the ensuing revolution in the Arabian Peninsula must be secured, especially since these countries have huge populations of foreign workers. Eighty per cent of Dubai’s population are foreigners, for example. Hope the Jasmine revolution will also walk southward, at a slow pace, right up to Zimbabwe. Although Robert Mugabe bears the great legacy of anti-apartheid struggle, he must realise that he has been unduly overstaying. The dictators backed by the West, some indeed supported by French mercenaries, in several of the sub-Saharan countries must exit and hand over power to the people so that they can shape the destinies of their resource rich countries. The over 70,000 French troops stationed in various sub-Saharan countries pose the greatest threat to democracy and independence in this region and they must quit immediately. The new Egypt in the north and the democratic South Africa in the south can serve as pillars of political stability, national sovereignty and democracy in Africa and the people’s power can reverse the neo-colonial economic order to which they have been subjugated. Latin America is finally celebrating democracy and sovereignty discarding the US imposed regimes, but for a few remaining vassals like Colombia. The leftist ideology, anti-imperialist worldview and the Christian liberation theology fuel the spirit of democracy and independence in L America, while the assertion of national sovereignty, anti-imperialist legacy, opposition to the oppressive and corrupt regimes and the liberation theology of Islam that underlines participatory rule and encourages disciplined revolt against unjust rulers drive the Arab revolution. L America and the spreading Jasmine revolution can rescue the world from the neo imperialist world order, even as former NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) leaders like India have turned client states. Every country must have a Tahrir Square where the masses transform themselves into weapons that would peacefully eliminate undemocratic regimes and reclaim peace, freedom, sovereignty and economic democracy. And it must be a perpetual one, for, eternal vigilance by the people alone can guarantee sustained freedom and true democracy. Where shall be India’s Tahrir Square? Are the Maoists listening. When shall they stop killing policemen from poor families, give up the weapons, and move ordinary Indians to our own Tahrir Square. And the Americans need Tahrir Square more than anyone else to liberate their country from the forces of tyranny and wars and reclaim the values for which its great leaders like Abraham Lincoln had stood. * The writer is an ecologist specializing in international environmental policy, based at Thiruvananthapuram. 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