From: Eric Hayes Patkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 20:18:37 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [pttp] IRSP: Class War in Genoa: Protester shot dead in Genoa Irish Republican Socialist Party 20 July 2001 IRSP: Class War in GenoaProtester shot dead in Genoa The International Department of the Irish Republican Socialist Party issued a statement on the attacks by Carabinieri on protestors at the Group of Eight summit in Genoa, which left dozens injured and one demonstrator dead. "What is being seen on the streets of Genoa is the unfolding of the class war and in that conflict the bourgeois State has demonstrated both its class nature and its capacity for violence." The IRSP spokesperson continued: "In a blatant act of state murder, independent eye-witness sources have confirmed that Italian police shot a demonstrator in the head and as if that was not sufficient to show their contempt for the working class people protesting the global onslaught by the capitalists, a police van then drove over the man, crushing him. "The IRSP stands in solidarity with those standing in the front lines of the class war in Genoa. The G8 anti-working class policies cannot be allowed to go unconfronted, as the lives of working women and men are literally on the line and the international imperialists seek to wring the last drops of profit from the labour of our class worldwide. As was made plain in Genoa, these drops of profit are synonymous with the blood of our class. We are engaged in a life or death struggle and cannot stand idly by." "Globalisation is but another expression of the concept 'imperialism' and we in Ireland have long experience with the impact of this system of international exploitation. The meeting of the G8 demonstrates that the capitalist class understands its interests transcence international borders. The demonstrations in Genoa show that working people are gaining greater consciousness of their interests as a distinct class. The state violence in Genoa demonstrates that to thwart the interrests of working people the bourgeois state is prepared to remove the velvet glove and reveal the iron fist that has always lurked there." In concluding, the spokesperson said: "Forward with the class war!" ENDS -- _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
