Sri Lanka: First May under escalating war

heikki sipilï¿½ Sun, 14 May 2000 12:45:19 -0700
>From: "Int'l Leninist Current" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>Sri Lanka: First May under escalating war
>
>Following the invitation of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP, Peoplesï¿½
>Liberation Front),  a delegation of the International Leninist Current (ILC)
>took part in the celebration of First May in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
>The JVP May Day Ralley with around 30.000 participants was the biggest May
>Day demonstration of all political forces and a clear signal of the popular
>rage against the neoliberal government.
>The May Day celebrations were overshadowed by an escalation of the war
>between the neoliberal center-left government of the Peoplesï¿½ Alliance (PA)
>and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in the northern part of the island. The 4th of
>May the governemt declared the State of War to repulse the advances of the
>LTTE. Imposing censorship and prohibiting social protests like strikes, this
>step will effect dramatically the democratic and civil rights of all the
>citizens and especially the revolutionary opposition.
>In its May Day Ralley the JVP denounced the incapacity of the PA government
>to fulfill its promises of peace after decades of war with the Tamil
>minority. At the same time the JVP warned that the war could be used by the
>government to cover its anti-popular politics of selling out the national
>wealth to multinational enterprises, of creating free trade zones where the
>workers suffer inhuman conditions, of constant price increases and of
>limited democracy still maintaining a constitution of the times of
>authoritarian rule of the former UNP (United National Party) with an
>executive  precidency with nearly absolute power. The defence of national
>souvereignity, one of the central slogans of the JVP May Day, requires first
>of all a popular fight against these politics of the national bourgeoisie,
>imposed by the IMF. The JVP also denounced the recent foundation of a new
>nationalist Singalese party that will try to distract with populist
>chauvinism the discontent of the people with the escalation of the war.
>The representative of the ILC in his speech especially pointed out the new
>forms of the imperialist advance under the banner of neoliberalism using a
>democratic and humanitarian mask as well as center left puppet-governments
>to impose reactionary politics of new slavery all over the world. This has
>to be opposed by coordinating the revolutionary fight for national and
>social liberation in an International Antiimperialist Front.
>
>International Executive Comitee of the ILC
>Vienna-Rome, 5th of May 2000
>
>********
>Speach of the delagte of the ILC:
>
>Dear people of Sri Lanka!
>Dear comrades of the JVP!
>
>We are very happy that we can bring again our revolutionary and
>antiimperialist greetings of the International Leninist Current, the
>Revolutionary Communist League of Austria and Workers Voice of Italy, to the
>liberation movement of Sri Lanka for the First May 2000, the day of all
>fighting people in the world determination to fight together agianst
>imperialism.
>The people of Sri Lanka and the JVP, the revolutionary front of the Sri
>Lankan people, are an important example for this necessary and noble value
>of solidarity and internationalism of the opressed, and example that today,
>after all the dificulties and defeats of the international revolutionary
>movement, and facing an brutal political,economic, military and cultural
>coubnteroffensive of imperialism is of fundamental importance for the
>resistence of all of us. The words of the revolutioanry internationalist Che
>Guevara are more valid than ever: ï¿½Every people that liberates itself is
>only a step in the liberation struggle of our own the people.ï¿½
>The capitalist globalisation and neoliberalism want to impose a regime of
>new international slavery on the poor people. When the imperialist proclaim
>to overcome the national borders, it is a threat in order to subjugate the
>people and impose its rule of injustice, foreign controll and social caos in
>every corner of the world and against everybody who doesnï¿½t accept their
>dominance. Today the imperialists are so shameless and arrogant to justify
>their colonialist interventions against the people and governments that
>doesnï¿½t accept their barbaric rule with ï¿½freedomï¿½ and ï¿½human rightsï¿½. This
>is a beasty lie in order to fool the people in the West, in order to avoid
>international solidarity by desinformation and lies spread by the bourgeois
>mass media among the people. But the bombs and hunger embargos the
>imperialists impose on the people, like in Yugoslavia, Irak, Cuba, etc. show
>reality behind this mask: imperialism, capitalist globalization is a
>colonialst and genocidal dictatorship, a decadent sistem which enriches a
>handfull of multinationals throwing millions in poverty and denaying a
>future of dignity to the entire humanity.
>Against the imperialistsï¿½ international politics, against their
>globalisation, people have all the right and the duty to defend the
>independence and souvereignity of their country. Defend their country
>against the sell out to the imperialists that is promoted by the national
>bourgeoisie, all the rich and corrupt servants of the global capital that
>betray the culture of their country, the dignity and the identity of the
>people for some miserable US-dollars. This deeply corrupt ruling classes are
>ready to sell the last factory, the last acre of land and even the whole
>history  out their country without any shame!
>In the same way as imperialists cover their colonialist cruzade of
>neoliberalism with values like ï¿½freedomï¿½ and ï¿½human rightsï¿½, their servants
>in every country, this dependent capitalist class and its corrupt
>gouverners, trie to cheat the exploited people giving their regime a touch
>of ï¿½democracyï¿½, apparently opposed to a dictatorship. But what democracy is
>it, that just continues the same politics against the people as former
>dictatorships. The people will not exept this lie, because this is just a
>new form of a dictatorship, with new methods to exlude the masses and
>exploit them. All those promises of peace and social justice have proofed in
>practice to be the very opposite: a general social attack against the
>workers and peasants in favor of their imperialist masters and also a new
>selective war against the best fighters of the poor and exploited. All this
>governments that said to represent the interest of the people has proofed to
>be anti-peopleï¿½s alliances, alliances that represent the interests of
>foreign capital and the US-world dictatorship of neoliberalism.
>The poor people, the workers and peasants are called to rebuild the nation
>under the banner of social equality and peoples power in their prolonged
>resistance against the forces of the new neoliberal barbarism. Only the poor
>people will defend their history, their country and culture against the
>distructive forces of neoliberalism, against the robbery of the national
>welth, against the humiliation and new slavery of this anti-peolpleï¿½s
>alliance of the imperialists and its national servants.
>Against the globalisation of slavery the people fighting for their
>liberation will again rise the banner of the brotherhood of the poor, of the
>unity of all that are fighting against imperialism. In order to globalise
>social equality we have to globalize the determination to resist with all
>forms of fight against, we have to globalize this values that the Sri Lanka
>people and the fighters of the JVP express: tenacity in the fight, an
>indestructible will to win and a profound internationalist identification
>with all the workers and peasants in all the world that stirve for justice.
>As sincere communists we will not forget what history has tought us with the
>blood of thousands of fighters and martyrs of the world revolution: that our
>revolutionary determination, our political clarity  and our fighting
>organisation must be superior of that of our enemies in every respect. We
>will fight together with all our forces wherever there is a posibility to
>overthrow imperialism. But we will not cease the revolutionary fire until
>the imperialist fortress is conquered and destroyed.
>Our place is wherever a people rises against this empire of opression,
>injustice, against the barbarism of capitalism. The Sri Lankan people and
>the JVP every day show in practise, in fight, not only in words what means
>the internationalism necessary to win: the fighters of JVP stand together
>with the revolutionaries and the people in other parts of the world,
>whereever  they have been expelled by the hatred of the ruling class. As
>your fighters stand side by side with us in Europe, you can be sure that all
>sincere revolutionaries will not hesitate to give its contribution to the
>victory of the heroic people of Sri Lanka.
>We are sure that this First May that again we can spend together with you,
>comrades, in Colombo will  help us to sharpen our internationalist weapons,
>to gather our forces, to forge our International Antiimperialist Front
>against the comon enemy, capitalist globalisation, the new imperialist
>slavery.
>
>Long lives revolutionary internationalism!
>Long lives the revolutionary people of Sri Lanka!
>Long live the figthers and martyrs of the JVP!
>Down with the anti-peoplesï¿½ alliance government!
>All the power to the revolutionary workers and peasants!
>
>**************************************
>International Leninist Current (ILC)
>Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI)
>PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria
>Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>


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