[GreenYouth] Re: Sangh Parivar penetrates Obama transition team
Should we send protest letters/ requests to Obama demanding the removal of this person? I have been reading in different groups about her clear connections with VHP. What you all say? Aryan On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Bobby Kunhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This appearded on the front page of today's HT. Demonstrates Sangh Parivars efficiency. I was shocked and appaled. May be we should have a petitions or somethinmg and ask diaspora and other friends in the US (Stop Funding Hate Capmpaign, Common Cause, AID etc. ) to act fast to make sure that Sonal Shah is not includedc in the final team and may be do more research on her past. Being involved in the Gujarat earthquake to raise funds for VHP also is an indirect involvement in the genocide that followed. Here goes the story ** * http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePageid=c92bdef7-a366-47df-bf51-daae396caeecMatchID1=4816TeamID1=6TeamID2=1MatchType1=1SeriesID1=1212PrimaryID=4816Headline=Obama+team+member%2c+Sonal%2c+has+VHP+links * *Obama team member has Sangh links* US President-elect Barack Obama may have cultivated a left-of-center image for himself, but Sonal Shah, the Indian-American advisor in his transition team, has well established rightwing leanings. The 40-year-old economist has been associated with the overseas activities of the Sangh Parivar. She was a national coordinator of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America campaign to raise funds for Gujarat earthquake victims in 2001. Her father Ramesh Shah, a vice-president of the Overseas Friends of the Bharatiya Janata Party (OFBJP), had campaigned for LK Advani in Gandhinagar during the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. He had also briefly traveled with Advani during his Bharat Udaya Yatra, countrywide election tour. Sonal's brother Amit and sister Rupal are now based in Ahmedabad, running a voluntary organisation, indicorps. Its website says its aim is to engage the most talented young Indians from around the world on the frontlines of India's most pressing challenges. I returned to India eight years ago, Amit told *HT* before suddenly deciding not to talk any further. An SMS from Rupal said no comments from here, and added that Sonal be contacted through email for any queries. A senior functionary of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), involved in the global activities of the Parivar, said only Ramesh is associated with its activities. He works with the OFBJP and supports, among other things, the Ekal Vidyalayas, the functionary said. Ekal Vidyalayas are single-teacher primary schools run by the RSS with the aim of inculcating Hindu values in children, mostly in tribal regions. The Shah family hails from Sabarkantha in Gujarat but Sonal was born in Mumbai. Ramesh Shah moved to the US in 1970. Two years later, Sonal, Rupal and their mother joined him in New York. The family later moved to Houston. Sonal has worked as vice-president with Goldman Sachs and also in the US Department of Treasury. Currently, she is with the global development team of Google.org. Volunteers at the indicorps office in Ahmedabad were under instructions not to speak anything. *(Inputs from Ahmedabad)* Warmly -- Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ -- Book Port, Ground floor, Kurian towers, Banerji road, , kochi , Kerala, India- 682 018 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 0091 484-6530759, 0091 9746339846 www.bookport.in --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] press statement from university community regarding abvp vandalism
Press Statement 9th November 2008. A protest march against the ABVP's fascist assault and vandalism was held by the University Community on the on 7th November, starting from Vivekananda statue, Arts Faculty of Delhi University. A large number of students and teachers from Delhi University were joined by JNU and Jamia students, and a march of more than 600 people traversed all colleges in the North Campus raising slogans. The march also stopped in front of DUSU office for around five minutes, raising slogans against ABVP as well as Nupur Sharma, the President and her associates who attacked the seminar on 6th November. The march proceeded to the Vice Chancellor's office, where a protest meeting was held. Students and teachers in one voice spoke against ABVP's communal-fascist politics, the inaction of the Delhi Police as well as the administration's attempt to curb the rights of speech and expression. A delegation of students and teachers, which also included the representatives of University Community, the organizers of the public meeting of the 6th November, met the DU administration and demanded immediate and strict action against the ABVP lumpens who were responsible for full-scale vandalism, physical assault and inciting communal frenzy. The university administration was asked to file an FIR against the culprits, and to constitute a time-bound enquiry into the incident. The ABVP and its masters, BJP, have however continued to justify their action. They, including Nupur Sharma have been giving communally charged statements in the media targeting Prof. SAR Geelani in particular and the university community in general. The ABVP has been spreading completely baseless allegations and are hounding the organizers of the public meeting and the members of the group, University Community. Yesterday the ABVP tried filed a false case alleging that four members of the group tried to attack the DUSU office. The white lie however was for all to see, the march was conducted peacefully and no such incident as alleged by the ABVP has ever occurred. The members of media were present, and a large contingent Delhi Police personnel was deployed which accompanied the whole course of the protest march, and they would have reported about it had such incident occurred. A number senior teachers of the university also were present, who marched along with the students. It is to be noted that even before the march reached in front of the DUSU office, the gates of the office were closed. After their fascist politics getting successfully repelled and thoroughly exposed, the ABVP and its masters in RSS and BJP are now resorting to spreading rumours and baseless allegations in order to save their face. We condemn such fascist tactics of the ABVP and the sangh-parivar to intimidate and repress the democratic voices of the campus. The University Community takes strong objection to the false and dangerous propaganda from a person holding a responsible office like the President of the student union the largest Central University of the country. Moreover, by calling a teacher of the university a terrorist, ABVP and Ms Nupur Sharma has insulted the entire student of the university. We demand an unconditional apology from Ms Nupur Sharma for her objectionable remark. By planning and organising the attack under her leadership personally (she personally led the vulgar attack on the spot) she made an aborted attempt to disrupt a meeting which was duly publicised and held at a venue with the permission of the University Authorities. ABVP is also challenging all the democratic structures of the university. In fact, this very act goes a long way to prove the concerns expressed by the organizers about the increasing onslaught of the right- wing Hindu communal-fascist forces in our country. This act and the brazen manner in which the DUSU President has carried this act shows us that the threat looms much larger than we can envisage. It is not only states like Gujarat or Orissa that are witness to this onslaught, even institutions of higher learning in the national capital are not free from the clutches of Hindu communal fascist goons. Ms Nupur Sharma has also gone on record saying that she herself would have spat on SAR Geelani. This also shows that the DUSU President has no respect for the law or the judicial system of the country, let alone codes of civilized conduct in public places. We should all think whether such a person has any right to hold a responsible office. It is the typical duplicity of politics of the Hindutva brigade to take recourse to the law when it is convenient for their divisive politics and to break it to run their writ as they are against all forms of democratic functioning or accountability. It is also interesting to see the ABVP student who resorted to a heinous act of spitting on respected Geelani is trying play another drama in sections of media that like Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, another ABVP
[GreenYouth] Saluate to a brave soul who valiantly fought her honour from the Hindutva terror in Orissa
A story for serious follow up and not for big TRPs of the channels. *Salutation to a brave soul who valiantly fought her honor* By Vidya Bhushan Rawat They came in large number with their OB vans, photographers and anchor persons. Much before she could come and join the press, the hall at the Indian Social Institute in Delhi was fully overcrowded. Every body present thought that for that day there was enough 'news' to spread the TRPs. I had never seen such a 'concern' from the commercial media for the communal violence against the Christians, so it was quite surprising that the popular faces of the TV were there to broadcast live the 'historic' press conference. Yes, I am talking about Sister Meena, an Adivasi nun who was raped by the Hindutva's thugs in kandhamal district of Orissa On August 24th. In her statement made to the press She said, *On August 24th, around 4:30 pm, hearing the shouting of a large crowd, at the gate of Divyajyoti Pastoral Centre, I ran out through the back door and escaped to the forest along with others. We saw our house going up in flames. Around 8:30 pm we came out of the forest and went to the house of a Hindu gentleman who gave us shelter. On 25th August, around1:30 pm,the mob entered the room where I was staying in that house, one of them stopped me on my face, caught my hair and pulled me out of the house. Two of them were holding my neck to cut off my head with axe. Others told them to take me out to the road; I saw Fr. Chellan also being taken out and being beaten. The mob consisting of 40–50 men was armed with lathis, axes, spades, crowbars, iron–rods, sickles etc. They took both of us to the main road. Then they led us to the burnt down Janavikas building saying that they were going to throw us into the smouldering fire. When we reached the Janavikas building, they threw me to the verandah on the way to the dining room which was full of ashes and broken glass pieces. One of them tore my blouse and others my undergarments. Father Chellan protested and they beat him and pulled him out from there. They pulled out my saree and one of the stepped on my right hand and another on my left hand and then a third person raped me on the verandah mentioned above. When it was over, I managed to get up and put my petticoat and saree. Then another young man caught me and took me to a room near the staircase. He opened his pants and was attempting to rape me when they reached there. I hid myself under the staircase. The crowd was shouting where is that sister, come let us rape her, at least 100 people should rape. They found me under the staircase and took me out to the road. There I saw Fr. Chellan was kneeling down and the crowd was beating him. They were searching for a rope to tie us both of us together to burn us in fire. Someone suggested to make us parade naked. They made us walk on the road till Nuagoan market which was half a kilometer from there. They made to fold our hands and walk. I was with petticoat and saree as they had already torn away my blouse and undergarments. They tried to strip even there and I resisted and they went on beating me with hands on my cheeks and head and with sticks on my back several times.* I am not putting the entire text which is already available to various websites where the nun says openly how the police never protected her and it was not even doing its basic duty of filing her FIR. Instead, it discouraged her from doing so. Her horror story moved every one but more than that was her immense courage to come in the forefront against the guilty who are being protected by the inefficient and corrupt state government of Orissa. For the past one year, the Hindutva's hate campaign against the Christian missionaries in Orissa and other parts of the country have not resulted in anything. Despite the terror the work of these communities in the far flung areas of the country is praise worthy. Despite all the blames of evangelism, the work of the missionaries in the poor communities in India is unparallel. No one can deny the fact that such an enormous amount of work particularly in the health and educational sector in India is much disproportionate to the number of the community in the country, which denied education to large part of the its masses named as Dalit-Bahujans and an educational set up dominated by brahmanical elites of the country. Orissa's horror story did not end in frightening the community workers. It is terror in all the forms. From burning the churches, demolishing their holy book, to attacking the social institutions of the community and even when such things fails to dampen the spirit of the community then the final assault. And the final assault is in the form of molestation, rape and indignity heaped upon women and men both. It is beyond shock that such mishaps of history are defended shamelessly on the television channels and widely circulated internet debates. So, it was refreshing to see
[GreenYouth] Re: Sangh Parivar penetrates Obama transition team
Doing something before the power-link gets consolidated for worse, would be most opportune at this hour. Some kind of lobbying through e-mail net works must be useful in bringing about a positive outcome. Regards, On 8 Nov, 14:41, Bobby Kunhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am given to understand that some progressive groups amongst the Indian diaspora in the United States have already started lobbying efforts. Beyond that maybe it might make sense to have mulktiple demands going from India and getting that to the attention of the new dispensation. One is glad that the story made it to the headlnes of HT 2008/11/8 aryakrishnan ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Should we send protest letters/ requests to Obama demanding the removal of this person? I have been reading in different groups about her clear connections with VHP. What you all say? Aryan On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Bobby Kunhu [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: This appearded on the front page of today's HT. Demonstrates Sangh Parivars efficiency. I was shocked and appaled. May be we should have a petitions or somethinmg and ask diaspora and other friends in the US (Stop Funding Hate Capmpaign, Common Cause, AID etc. ) to act fast to make sure that Sonal Shah is not includedc in the final team and may be do more research on her past. Being involved in the Gujarat earthquake to raise funds for VHP also is an indirect involvement in the genocide that followed. Here goes the story ** * http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=Ho... * *Obama team member has Sangh links* US President-elect Barack Obama may have cultivated a left-of-center image for himself, but Sonal Shah, the Indian-American advisor in his transition team, has well established rightwing leanings. The 40-year-old economist has been associated with the overseas activities of the Sangh Parivar. She was a national coordinator of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America campaign to raise funds for Gujarat earthquake victims in 2001. Her father Ramesh Shah, a vice-president of the Overseas Friends of the Bharatiya Janata Party (OFBJP), had campaigned for LK Advani in Gandhinagar during the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. He had also briefly traveled with Advani during his Bharat Udaya Yatra, countrywide election tour. Sonal's brother Amit and sister Rupal are now based in Ahmedabad, running a voluntary organisation, indicorps. Its website says its aim is to engage the most talented young Indians from around the world on the frontlines of India's most pressing challenges. I returned to India eight years ago, Amit told *HT* before suddenly deciding not to talk any further. An SMS from Rupal said no comments from here, and added that Sonal be contacted through email for any queries. A senior functionary of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), involved in the global activities of the Parivar, said only Ramesh is associated with its activities. He works with the OFBJP and supports, among other things, the Ekal Vidyalayas, the functionary said. Ekal Vidyalayas are single-teacher primary schools run by the RSS with the aim of inculcating Hindu values in children, mostly in tribal regions. The Shah family hails from Sabarkantha in Gujarat but Sonal was born in Mumbai. Ramesh Shah moved to the US in 1970. Two years later, Sonal, Rupal and their mother joined him in New York. The family later moved to Houston. Sonal has worked as vice-president with Goldman Sachs and also in the US Department of Treasury. Currently, she is with the global development team of Google.org. Volunteers at the indicorps office in Ahmedabad were under instructions not to speak anything. *(Inputs from Ahmedabad)* Warmly -- Bobby Kunhuhttp://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ www.bookport.in -- Bobby Kunhuhttp://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] more about the RSS lady in Obama's Team!!!!
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sukla Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://stopfundinghate.org/resources/Saff$/Jan-Feb2005.htm 3) Indicorps and its Sangh affiliations The South Asian Conference Council (SACC) at Yale University organized a conference on solidarity in the South Asian community. The objective was to increase social activism in the South Asian student community. The conference included panels on youth activism and workers rights and brought together some very progressive activists in the community (such as Nahar Alam from Andolan, Saru Jayaraman from Restaurant opportunities Center of New York, Chandra Bhatnagar from the ACLU to mention a few). In conflict with this progressive list of speakers, the organizers also invited Sonal Shah, vice president of Goldman Sachs and co-founder of Indicorps. According to their website, Indicorps is a non-partisan, non-religious, non- profit organization that encourages Indians around! the world to actively participate in India's progress. While some of the organizations that Indicorps works with are indeed secular and progressive, at issue was their affiliation with organizations of the Sangh parivar. These connections range from personal affiliation of Sonal Shah with the VHP-A (see http://www.vhp-america.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=13), institutional affiliation of Indicorps with IDRF (IDRF is one of Indicorps´ supporters; see http://www.indicorps.org/index.cfm?function=supporterslevel=1), Indicorps´ involvement with Sangh parivar projects such as Ekal Vidyalaya (see http://www.indicorps.org/index.cfm?function=partnerslevel=1). Perhaps most questionable was Indicorps´ decision to accept an award from the butcher of Gujarat Narendra Modi in November 2004, at a time when numerous human rights activists have been threatened from continuing their work (http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/india/gujarat/). The conference organizers allowed a couple of progressive youth collectives (Organizing Youth! and Youth Solidarity Summer) to read a statement and ask Indicorps to explain their association with the Sangh Parivar. Far from explaining, Sonal Shah admitted her affiliation to the VHP-A, claimed that she would take money from anyone (including the KKK!), and used a young Muslim volunteer to claim that Indicorps was in fact secular. Such is not the kind of solidarity that one expects from a non-partisan, non-religious organization. In fact, based on the evidence and Sonal Shah´s admission, Indicorps can be listed as one of many front organizations of the Sangh parivar in the US. Soon after this public discussion, the Patriotic Sons of Mother India (a virulent Sangh outfit) posted a defence of Indicorps by attempting to defame Youth Solidarity Summer as anti-India and anti-Hindu- typical reaction from the Sangh for one of their own! CAMPAIGN TO STOP FUNDING HATE Peace Is Doable --- On *Sat, 8/11/08, Rights Support Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] * wrote: ** * http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePageid=c92bdef7-a366-47df-bf51-daae396caeecMatchID1=4816TeamID1=6TeamID2=1MatchType1=1SeriesID1=1212PrimaryID=4816Headline=Obama+team+member%2c+Sonal%2c+has+VHP+links * *Obama team member has Sangh links* US President-elect Barack Obama may have cultivated a left-of-center image for himself, but Sonal Shah, the Indian-American advisor in his transition team, has well established rightwing leanings. The 40-year-old economist has been associated with the overseas activities of the Sangh Parivar. She was a national coordinator of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America campaign to raise funds for Gujarat earthquake victims in 2001. Her father Ramesh Shah, a vice-president of the Overseas Friends of the Bharatiya Janata Party (OFBJP), had campaigned for LK Advani in Gandhinagar during the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. He had also briefly traveled with Advani during his Bharat Udaya Yatra, countrywide election tour. Sonal's brother Amit and sister Rupal are now based in Ahmedabad, running a voluntary organisation, indicorps. Its website says its aim is to engage the most talented young Indians from around the world on the frontlines of India's most pressing challenges. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_messenger_6/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Fwd: The Many Faces of Sonal Shah..........By VIJAY PRASHAD
-- Forwarded message -- From: OISHIK SIRCAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weekend Edition November 7 / 9, 2008 The Many Faces of Sonal Shah Obama's Indian By VIJAY PRASHAD Barack Obama has appointed John Podesta to run his transition. During the lean years of the Bush administration, Podesta, native of Chicago, ran a shadow cabinet for the Democrats. Since 2003, the home of this government-in-exile has been the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank set-up to rival the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. The money, about $10 million per year, came from George Soros, Peter Lewis, Marion Sandler and Herb Sandler – the main liberal financiers. CAP has its set of fellows. Many of them worked in some capacity within the Clinton administration (where Podesta was Chief of Staff). There are hard-nosed people like Rudy deLeon (who went through every Defense secretariat in the Clinton years) and Jeanne Lambrew (who served as a health analyst in the National Economic Council during the waning years of the Clinton administration). But there are also the fresh faces, young people who came to Washington with glowing references from the Ivy League. Others marched over from the Hill, after serving various terms as staff members for the Democratic warhorses. They have been groomed to be part of the next Democratic administration. Their hibernation is over. Obama has called. The likely suspects have picked up the phone and moved to the transition headquarters. Among them is a former CAP fellow and now Google employee, Sonal Shah. Shah is well known in the South Asian American community, and is a fixture in the Washington liberal circuit. The latter know her for her Democratic credentials, most of which seem to lie somewhere between neo-liberalism and welfare liberalism. The bleeding heart pauses, but then ticks again to the tune of pragmatism. This is perfect material for the CAP, which is hardly enthusiastic about the Democratic Leadership Council's total commitment to triangulation (which means capitulation to conservatism), but it is not averse to a little political calculus itself. Shah, a product of the University of Chicago, shined her corporate shoes at Anderson Consulting (who was Enron's accountant), which probably made it easier for her to go into Clinton's Treasury Department, where she helped Robert Rubin put a U. S. stamp on the post-1997 Asian economic recovery. The corporate side was balanced with an interest in the ideology of giving back. When Bush took office, Shah went to the Center for Global Development, and while there joined her brother Anand in forming Indicorps. Knowing full well the desire among many South Asian Americans to give back to their homeland, the Shahs created an organization to help them go and volunteer in India, to do for them what the Peacecorps did for young liberals in the 1960s. Shah left the CAP to work for Goldman Sachs, and then went to Google. Shah's story is not unlike that of most of the CAP fellows, many of whom honed their dexterity at trying to reconcile the irreconcilable, capital and freedom, private accumulation and human needs. But there is a less typical side to the Shah story. Born in Gujarat, India, Shah came to the United States as a two-year old. Her father, a chemical engineer, first worked in New York before moving to Houston, and then moving away from his education toward the stock market. The Shahs remain active in Houston's Indian community, not only in the ecumenical Gujarati Samaj (a society for people from Gujarat), but also in the far more cruel organizations of the Hindu Right, such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Overseas Friends of the BJP (the main political party of the Hindu Right) and the Ekal Vidyalaya. Shah's parents, Ramesh and Kokila, not only work as volunteers for these outfits, but they also held positions of authority in them. Their daughter was not far behind. She was an active member of the VHPA, the U. S. branch of the most virulently fascistic outfit within India. The VHP's head, Ashok Singhal, believes that his organization should inculcate a fear psychosis among [India's] Muslim community. This was Shah's boss. Till 2001, Shah was the National Coordinator of the VHPA. In 2004, I ran into Shah at the South Asian Awareness Network conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At an earlier panel I questioned her links to the Hindu Right, and so asked people to be wary about her organization, Indicorps. She was furious, and we had a bitter exchange in the Green Room. But at no point did she deny her active connections to the Hindu Right. Her brother, Anand, wrote to me not long after, concerned that Indicorps, which he runs full-time from India, would be tainted by our tussle. I was curious about Sonal's own personal relationship with the VHPA, I wrote back, That sparked some concern for me. Of course we are free to have our multiple associations, and there is no expectation that all our
[GreenYouth] Congratulatory Letter from the First International to Abraham Lincoln on His Re-election
Congratulatory Letter from the First International to Abraham Lincoln on His Re-election http://marxists.architexturez.net/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America Presented to U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams January 28, 1865 [A] Written: by Marx between November 22 29, 1864 First Published: The Bee-Hive Newspaper, No. 169, November 7, 1865; Transcription/Markup: Zodiac/Brian Basgen; Online Version: Marx Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2000. Sir: We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery. From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class. The contest for the territories which opened the dire epopee, was it not to decide whether the virgin soil of immense tracts should be wedded to the labor of the emigrant or prostituted by the tramp of the slave driver? When an oligarchy of 300,000 slaveholders dared to inscribe, for the first time in the annals of the world, slavery on the banner of Armed Revolt, when on the very spots where hardly a century ago the idea of one great Democratic Republic had first sprung up, whence the first Declaration of the Rights of Man was issued, and the first impulse given to the European revolution of the eighteenth century; when on those very spots counterrevolution, with systematic thoroughness, gloried in rescinding the ideas entertained at the time of the formation of the old constitution, and maintained slavery to be a beneficent institution, indeed, the old solution of the great problem of the relation of capital to labor, and cynically proclaimed property in man the cornerstone of the new edifice — then the working classes of Europe understood at once, even before the fanatic partisanship of the upper classes for the Confederate gentry had given its dismal warning, that the slaveholders' rebellion was to sound the tocsin for a general holy crusade of property against labor, and that for the men of labor, with their hopes for the future, even their past conquests were at stake in that tremendous conflict on the other side of the Atlantic. Everywhere they bore therefore patiently the hardships imposed upon them by the cotton crisis, opposed enthusiastically the proslavery intervention of their betters — and, from most parts of Europe, contributed their quota of blood to the good cause. While the workingmen, the true political powers of the North, allowed slavery to defile their own republic, while before the Negro, mastered and sold without his concurrence, they boasted it the highest prerogative of the white-skinned laborer to sell himself and choose his own master, they were unable to attain the true freedom of labor, or to support their European brethren in their struggle for emancipation; but this barrier to progress has been swept off by the red sea of civil war. The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world. [B] Signed on behalf of the International Workingmen's Association, the Central Council: Longmaid, Worley, Whitlock, Fox, Blackmore, Hartwell, Pidgeon, Lucraft, Weston, Dell, Nieass, Shaw, Lake, Buckley, Osbourne, Howell, Carter, Wheeler, Stainsby, Morgan, Grossmith, Dick, Denoual, Jourdain, Morrissot, Leroux, Bordage, Bocquet, Talandier, Dupont, L.Wolff, Aldovrandi, Lama, Solustri, Nusperli, Eccarius, Wolff, Lessner, Pfander, Lochner, Kaub, Bolleter, Rybczinski, Hansen, Schantzenbach, Smales, Cornelius, Petersen, Otto, Bagnagatti, Setacci; George Odger, President of the Council; P.V. Lubez, Corresponding Secretary for France; Karl Marx, Corresponding Secretary for Germany; G.P. Fontana, Corresponding Secretary for Italy; J.E. Holtorp, Corresponding Secretary for Poland; H.F. Jung, Corresponding Secretary for Switzerland; William R. Cremer, Honorary General Secretary. 18 Greek Street, Soho. [A] From the minutes of the Central (General) Council of the International — November 19, 1864: Dr. Marx then brought up the report of the subcommittee, also a draft of
