This RCP, USA, author of the note below, is a Maoist outfit. China did embark upon the nuclear path under the stewardship of Mao even while tagging nuclear weapon as "paper tiger". One would like to have its response on that.
Sukla On 19 March 2011 00:27, Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> wrote: > A Global Disaster… A Necessary Response > > The earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 have already > caused, and are continuing to cause tremendous destruction and death. The > terrible suffering, the threat of an even more catastrophic nuclear disaster > demand an urgent response. The lack of aid and assistance from the global > powers—not just the Japanese government—is shocking and outrageous. Huge > questions of life, health, and the global environment are being posed in > extreme terms in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. > > *Revolution *will be speaking to these questions in more detail and depth > in the coming days, but the following points can be made right now: > > - The disaster in Japan is a global event. Even if it were confined to > Japan—which it is unlikely to be—we all have to take global responsibility. > We have to be thinking and talking with each other about what we can do > about this. > - The nuclear crisis now in Japan has tremendous implications for human > life and the world’s ecosystems. Depending on what actually happens to the > reactors in Japan, there are even larger and more critical dangers posed > for > humanity and the global environment that must be understood and confronted. > - This is not a “Japanese problem” but a problem of > capitalism-imperialism. This disaster is bound up with the anarchic > expand-or-die profit-in-command nature of the capitalist-imperialist system > and rivalry between imperialist countries.***And the U.S. is directly > involved in the nuclear aspect of it, including the General Electric > reactors.* > - Humanity can’t predict and control nature but effects of natural > disasters don’t have to be mediated through the existing social relations. > People are being denied information about what is happening to them. People > are being told to be “orderly,” to obey the authorities. This is the exact > worst way to handle something like this—people need to be informed and > mobilized to deal with a disaster of this type, and history shows that when > the normal social relations are suspended in such disasters the people > almost always react by organizing themselves to deal with the situation... > and the authorities always react by forcefully suppressing that. This must > not happen. > - Things don’t have to be this way. There is another way society can be > organized. Get the *Constitution For The New Socialist Republic in > North America (Draft Proposal)*, from the Revolutionary Communist > Party, USA and the special environmental issue of *Revolution, #199*, > “State of EMERGENCY! The Plunder of Our Planet, The Environmental > Catastrophe & The Real Revolutionary Solution” (available at Revolution > Books and at revcom.us) out everywhere—to the environmental movement, > on campuses, to all those who have stepped forward to express concern and > outrage and to the people broadly. > - At the same time, everyone should put their heads together, struggle > to develop, and unite to fight for demands on the system right now to deal > with the effects of this disaster. The governments must mobilize all > resources to contain the disaster, and there must be international medical > rescue and aid. The outrageous cover-up and lying must stop and there must > be full disclosure of what is going on, including independent scientific > panels to investigate and verify the actual nature of this crisis. The full > scale of the human and natural disaster must be made clear. There must be > an > immediate moratorium on building nuclear power plants *everywhere* and > a deactivation of all plants everywhere with the same or similar design to > the ones affected in Japan. Other just demands should be formulated and > fought for. > > > > http://revcom.us/a/227/Japan-Global-Disaster-en.html > > -- > > > You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up > a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on > the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. > -AMBEDKAR > > > > http://venukm.blogspot.com > > http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur > > http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Green Youth Movement" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB. > -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
