New Worker Online Digest Feb 4
New Worker Online Digest Week commencing 4th February, 2000. 1) Editorial - Peace matters. 2) Lead story - True cost of NHS bed shortage. 3) Feature article - New police enquiry into Telford hangings. 4) International story - More Unionist threats to the Irish peace process. 5) British news item - Connex drivers achieve resounding victory. 1) Editorial Peace matters. WHEN it comes to the peace process in Ireland it is the maintainance of the ceasefire and the advance of social equality and justice which really matters, not the handing in of weapons by some arbitrary date. The rush for immediate decommissioning of weapons is a demand from the most backward and bigoted section of the Unionist camp -- one which Unionist leader David Trimble is all too willing to oblige. It is not even a genuine demand but a tub-thumping device to scupper the peace process and continue with the old ways of subjecting the Catholic community of northern Ireland to institutionalised discrimination and social injustice. If Republicans had taken the same boneheaded view from their own standpoint -- that peace and progress could not begin until British and Loyalist weapons were decommissioned -- there would have been no IRA ceasefire and no peace process at all. The progress that has been achieved so far is based on the courageous steps taken by the IRA in calling and maintaining its ceasefire, by Sinn Fein and the SDLP in fighting for the peace process to get underway and by the majority of the people from both communities who voted for the Good Friday Agreement and expressed their desire for an end to violence. In all of this has been an understanding that peace has to be built on justice and on growing trust and that the weapons and means of war will finally go when the fear and the oppression are gone. It is unreasonable -- ridiculous even -- to expect the oppressed community to disarm before members of the new Assembly have even had time to get used to saying "good morning" to each other let alone carry out the reforms necessary for building a lasting peace. Decommissioning should be seen as the fruit of the struggle for peace, not a demand made at the outset by a bunch of bigots hoping to bring the new Assembly to a grinding halt. The British imperialist state, which lies at the root of the divisions and the violence, has not only failed to speak out against the reactionary Orange bigots but has so far failed to adequately carry out its self-appointed task of reforming the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), apart from a little tinkering and the dropping of the word "royal" from its title. This has a bearing on the weapons issue since decommissioning depends on both Republicans and Loyalists feeling confident that they have security and that the police and other agents of the state will be impartial, fair and willing to protect and serve all of the people without fear or favour. The RUC is light years away from this position. It has always been a sectarian, almost entirely Protestant, force which has played a major rolein the long-standing oppression of the Catholic minority. The Catholic community neither trusts nor wants this remnant of the past -- and with very good reason. Not surprisingly the capitalist media gives plenty of space and air time to Trimble and the bigots behind him. This promotes the view that the threat to peace comes from the weapons of the IRA. This all flies in the face of the fact that the IRA ceasefire has held firm despite many deliberate provocations and that Loyalist gunmen have in that time carried out sectarian killings. it also ignores the fact that the largest arsenal of all belongs to the British Army. Despite the opening of the Assembly, British troops continue to circle the fields and villages of South Armagh in military helicopters and the many fortified barracks continue to cast a shadow over the north of Ireland. Nor should it be forgotten that weapons do not fire themselves -- if there were a return to violence it would arise from a breakdown in the struggle for peace. The armed groups are not equal in the decommissioning stakes. For the British Army decommissioning is meaningless since it is an army and always has a ready supply of guns. Only British withdrawal from Ireland would meet the requirements. The Loyalist para-military gangs are in a similar position. It is never really explained where their weapons come from but considering which interests they ultimately serve it is clear there would always be a ready resupply available. In this situation the demands for immediate decommissioning are simply calls for one-sided disannament based on holding the democratically-approved Assembly to hostage. ** 2) Lead story True cost of NHS bed shortage. by Daphne Liddle FIGURES published last week reveal that 26 patients died in December in the London area as doctors tried desperately to
China Accuses US Seeking To Dominate The World
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 04:13:44 +0200 (EET) Subject: Fw: China Accuses U.S. Of Seeking To Dominate The World From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG Hindustan Times February 2, 2000, New Delhi ForeignChina accuses US of seeking to dominate the world Beijing, February 1 (AFP) CHINA TODAY slammed a White House report on US global leadership objectives in the next century, saying it was tantamount to a manifesto for world domination. "'To lead the world' is the same thing as seeking global hegemony, so this report is the same thing as a manifesto on the US plan to establish global hegemony in the 21st century," the leading People's Daily said in a signed commentary. US insistence on taking a "leadership role" and "forging a new world order" were clear indications of US hegemony, it said, as was US willingness to protect its economic interests abroad and promote global democracy and human rights. The commentary came as the US House of Representatives prepared to vote today on the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act, which will allow for close ties between the US and Taiwan military leaders. The People's Daily was referring to the White House report "a national strategic security for a new century," which was released in Washington in early January. The article said Washington wanted fulfil its desire to dominate the world after it failed to do so at the end of World War II and the cold war. "The US believes that up until the year 2015 there will be no other global strategic adversary capable of opposing it, so this is its third opportunity to claim title to global hegemony." America would achieve its goals through the use of its "soft forces" . These forces include the internet, film, television, books, capital and consumer products - which would be backed up by the "hard forces" of its military as seen in the 1991 Gulf war and the bombing of Yugoslavia last year, it said. __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ 466MHZ PC for ONLY $449! Get your PowerSpecPC 4610 with Intel Celeron 466MHz, 4GB-HD, 40XMaxCD-ROM, 56KModem, All for $449! Add 17 in. Monitor Printer for only $209 (after MIR). MEI-Micro Center, America's Source for Computer Products since 1986! For details http://www.listbot.com/links/mei2 or call 1-888-480-4895 (Please Use ValueCode: PSEM005). __ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___
Social Democracy Not Less Dangerous Than Haider
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 04:02:50 +0200 (EET) Subject: Austria: Haider and the politically correct totalitarism From: "ilc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Social Democracy is no Less Dangerous than Haider=92s Rightist Populism Via =93anti-fascist=94 follies to =93politically correct=94 totalitarianism= facing the possibility of a government with participation of the Austrian Freedom Party (FP=D6) Declaration of the Revolutionary Communist League (RKL) Not only in Austria, but all over Europe, an =93anti-fascist=94 cry of leftist-liberals against Haiderism can be heard, even in Christian-conservative circles. Even Hillary Clinton felt bound to speak ou= t against Haider. Those =93humanist=94 crocodile tears of the ruling imperial= ist bourgeoisie are dutifully reproduced by the left. Now the EU commission crowned the whole story, announcing officially to isolate Austria in case o= f FP=D6 government participation. It is a terrible mistake not to know the main enemy 1 From an international point of view, the ruling group of the New World Orde= r is left-wing liberalism. Left-wing liberalism advances neo-liberal globalisation, boundless exploitation of the Third World and even the impoverishment of relevant parts of the population in the West, they advanc= e =93humanitarian interventionism=94 =97 i. e. global imperialist aggression = under the guise of human rights. If an analogy with fascism can be seen today, then it is rather the political current expressed in its most clear form by Clinton and Blair. Tell us, what is the difference between the alleged attack of Poland against Germany, and the massacre of Racak =97 both pretex= ts for aggression wars? The difference might be that the United States of America in their fantasy of omnipotence gave such a poor fabrication that the truth was found out even before their final defeat. Are the genocide programmes of the USA launched against Vietnam, Kurdistan, Palestine, Iraq and Yugoslavia less bad than the Nazi schemes called Lebensraum East, just because they have been committing them under the label of human rights? Genocide has a constant factor of imperialist capitalism for more than a hundred years! The main difference between modern =93human rights=94 imperi= alism and fascism is the internal r=E9gime, the political structure in the imperialist centres, which is not based on violent oppression of the antagonist working classes by means of civil war, but it is based on social= , political and cultural integration of these working classes as junior partners of imperialist aggression. This makes modern imperialism even more dangerous, because it is more impenetrable. It is thus small wonder that th= e ideological plaster of neo-liberal globalisation has =93leftist=94 origins.= As there is a lack of an antagonist working-class movement, the conception of =93civil society=94 is transforming set pieces of comprehensive human emancipation into a system that is not just compatible with capitalism but even stabilising capitalism. The end of history is proclaimed, and any collective social action is said to be not just meaningless, but even anti-democratic and totalitarian. Only the individual counts, organising it= s immediate environment, e. g. by participating in NGOs. Freedom and emancipation are said to be only attainable by individual and isolated personal initiative. Individuals communicate only in the sphere of the market which creates ostensibly objective, inherent necessities (Sachzw=E4n= ge) that are beyond the influence of the people, and ostensibly equal democracy= . The authoritarian state that found its most extreme form in fascism, must b= e restrained, but: The capitalist state as such is left untouched. Communitarianism, =93civilian=94 neo-liberalism =97 a late decay product of= the failure and integration of the 1968 movements =97 renders new stability (at least temporarily) to crisis-ridden capitalism by oppressing any collective resistance. 2 To call Haider a fascist is a clear expression of ignorance of the historic phenomenon of fascism as a r=E9gime of (preventive) civil war against a soc= ial revolution. Haider does actually have roots in that tradition, but his rise is owed to his breaking with this tradition. Rightist populism has no party apparatus to speak of (in stark contrast to fascism): Right until today their party =97 or rather public relations factory =97 has difficulties to = find cadres to fill the abundant political functions, especially on the lower levels of representation, and their party is not based on mass activism at all. The ascend of J=F6rg Haider is due to the virtuous American-style medi= a staging. His populism has neither a unified political programme nor a firm social basis. All those econimistic analyses of the FP=D6 as an expression = of those who lost in the modernisation process are rather superficial. Haiderism rather is an eclectic movement of protest not only against the social but also
Le fascisme au pouvoir : la Turquie, l'Autriche. Et après ?
Title: mml-info2 Roger ROMAIN a/conseiller communalB6180 COURCELLES sites web : http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/Sommario.html http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/enbref.html e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Benjamin PESTIEAU To: Benjamin Pestieau Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 2:23 AM Subject: mml-info MML-Info-MML-Info-MML-info Bonjour à tous, Dans toutes les unifs, Haider est sur toutes les lèvres. Mais qui est-il vraiment? Voilà de quoi traite la première partie de ce MML-info. Mais nous avons voulu aller plus loin et lancer le débat sur l'origine de la montée des partis fascistes partout en Europe et particulièrement en Autriche. Finallement nous terminons par des propositions concrètes d'actions anti-fascsites. Ettouffons la bête immonde ! Mercredi soir, Jorg Haïder, leader du parti d'extrême-droite autrichien (FPÖ dit Parti de la «liberté») et Wolfgang Schüssel, le leader du parti conservateur (ÖVP) ont conclu un accord gouvernemental. C'est la première fois depuis la venue de Mussolini au pouvoir en Italie, de Franco en Espagne et d'Hitler en Allemagne que les fascistes entrent dans un gouvernement européen. Mais qui est Jorg Haïder ? Le FPÖ est né en 1956, comme le continuateur d'un petit parti, l'Association des Indépendants, créé en 1949 pour servir de refuge aux anciens nazis. Ses deux premiers dirigeants, Anton Reinthaller et Frederich Peter, étaient, le premier un ancien cadre du parti nazi et le second un officier de la Waffen SS.(1) Aux élections parlementaires de 1986 (avec de l'arrivée de Jorg Haider à la tête du parti), le FPÖ obtient 9.73% des voix ; en 1990, 16.64% ; en 1994, 22.5% ; en 1995, 21.9% et en octobre 1999, 26.9%, devenant le deuxième parti du pays en dépassant les conservateurs de quelques dizaines de voix.(2) Le FPÖ, le Parti de Jorg Haider est un parti clairement fascsite. Ce parti défend un société exclusivement chrétienne et définit comme principal ennemi "l'islam fondamentaliste mais aussi le (consumentisme) hédoniste, ainsi que le capitalisme agressif et l'obscurantisme qui trahit le fondement spirituel de l'Autriche. Le troisième chapitre du programme du FPO s'appelle « Autriche d'abord ». Ici, il devient clair que le programme défend un patriotisme qui doit animer tout autrichien et qui ne souffre ni doute ni critique. Néanmoins le principal thème de son programme reste la xénophobie. Haider veut introduire dans la constitution autrichienne que « l'Autriche n'est pas un pays d'immigration » et veut imposer des mesures d'expulsions rigoureuses des étrangers et des demandeurs d'asile. Il veut aussi imposer aux étrangers hors UE un système de contrat saisonniers qui les empêchent de s'établir durablement en Autriche. Il prône aussi l'établissement d'une carte d'identité spéciale que les étrangers serait toujours obligés de porter sur eux."(3) Dans un autre registre tout aussi terrible, Haider a reconnu que "la grande fortune dont il hérité (600 millions de fb!) avait été réalisée à l'époque de la politique nazie 'd'aryanisation', c'est-à-dire à travers la spoliation des juifs. " (4) Il a déja cité Hitler en exemple pour sa politique de l'emploi et rendu hommage aux "valeureux combattants" de la Wehrmacht (l'armée allemande pendant la seconde guerre mondiale). (5) Encore un dernier point très important du Parti de Haider est son rejet de "l'égalitarisme". Pour les fascistes autrichiens du FPÖ l'égalité est incompatible avec la liberté. Economiquement il veut suivre la politique de Thatcher c'est-à-dire une société où les "forts" pourraient librement l'emporter sur les "faibles". (6) (1) Journal du Mardi, 1er février, p7 (2) Ibidem, p6 (3) NRC Handelsblad, mardi 1er février (4) Journal du Mardi, 1er février, p7 (5) Ibidem, p7 (6) Ibidem p7 L'Europe unie rempart contre le fascisme ? L'arrivée de Haider au gouvernement autrichien nous interpelle certainement sur la question de l'origine de la montée du fascisme partout en Europe ainsi que la manière d'y réagir concrètement. Nous ne pourrons passer à côté des questions suivantes dans nos actions pour stopper le fascisme: l'Europe sera-t-elle réellement le rempart contre le fascisme? N'est-elle pas au contraire de part sa politique (de fascisation) la source de la montée du fascisme? Toutes les politiques européennes qui ont conduit des centaines de milliers de gens dans l'exclusion ne sont-elles pas à l'origine de la montée du fascisme? l'application de parties des programmes des partis fascistes (centres fermés à l'écart des ville pour les sans-papiers, fermeture totale des frontières, etc) n'ont-elles pas contribuer à légitimer les arguments fascistes et politiques fascistes? Toutes les politiques sécuritaires tournées spécialement vers les jeunes d'origines immigrés (rapport Verwilghen), ne favorise-t-il pas les réflexes racistes et fascistes?
Kohl-Mitterand : mêmes combats, mêmes magouilles !
Roger ROMAIN a/conseiller communalB6180 COURCELLES sites web : http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/Sommario.html http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/enbref.html e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] La droite allemande buvait des pots-de-vin de Mitterrand 2,5 milliards de FB. C'est l'estimation - provisoire - de l'argent noir du parti de l'ex-chancelier Kohl. Parmi les donateurs, Mitterrand (via Elf) et le magnat de l'acier et de l'armement Thyssen, dont le grand-père finançait déjà Hitler. Après les Belges, les Français et les Italiens, les Allemands découvrent que leurs politiciens sont des pantins grassement payés par les multinationales. Herwig Lerouge Ce n'est que quand les gros se battent entre eux que nous apprenons ce qui se passe réellement derrière les coulisses du pouvoir dans la démocratie parlementaire. Cette fois, l'homme par qui le scandale est arrivé est un certain Karlheinz Schreiber. Marchand d'armes allemand, représentant de la firme Thyssen-Krupp AG, il se trouve aujourd'hui au Canada. Il est en liberté après avoir payé une caution de 32 millions de FB mais fait l'objet d'un mandat d'arrêt international pour corruption et fraude fiscale. Il se démène pour empêcher son extradition vers l'Allemagne. L'homme veut sauver sa peau: «The war is on», la guerre est déclarée, a-t-il déclaré à la revue Stern à Toronto.Lors de la vente de chars, d'avions Airbus et d'autres affaires juteuses, Schreiber aurait reçu des commissions de l'ordre de centaines de millions de FB. La plus grande partie servait d'ailleurs à payer des pots-de-vin à des chefs d'entreprise, à des politiciens et même à l'ancien chef de la sûreté de l'Etat, Holger Pfahls, aujourd'hui planqué en Asie. Vente de chars à l'Arabie SaouditeSchreiber entraîne dans sa chute tout le sommet de la CDU, en particulier Helmut Kohl, chancelier (Premier ministre) de 1983 à 1998. En août 1991, il rencontre à Zurich le trésorier de l'Union démocrate-chrétienne (CDU), Kiep, accompagné de son conseiller, Horst Weyrauch. Schreiber transmet à Weyrauch une valise contenant un million de marks (vingt millions de FB). D'après Kiep, l'argent provient de la firme Thyssen-Krupp AG et concerne une affaire de vente de 36 chars Thyssen à l'Arabie Saoudite. Le gouvernement aurait décidé de livrer ces chars contre l'avis des généraux. Selon la firme, il s'agit d'un don tout à fait normal à un parti et non d'un pot-de-vin. Des oiseaux troglodytes à 650 millionsToujours est-il que cet argent n'est pas passé par la caisse du parti. Weyrauch l'a déposé sur un des comptes occultes ouverts avec l'accord de Kohl. Ils ont été approvisionnés avec des 'dons' de grandes firmes comme le champion de vente par correspondance Quelle. De cette façon, il était impossible de découvrir l'origine des fonds. En puisant dans ces comptes, Kohl aurait distribué des centaines de millions de francs aux sections régionales de la CDUKohl refuse jusqu'à ce jour de livrer les noms de ces généreux donateurs. Chaque jour, les experts qui épluchent les comptes de la CDU trouvent de nouveaux millions de marks dont l'origine n'est pas claire.En 1993, Weyrauch et le prince Casimir zu Wittgenstein, le trésorier de la CDU de Hesse, ont également ouvert en Suisse un compte sous le nom de 'troglodyte'. Sans doute espéraient-ils qu'on ne retrouverait jamais un si petit oiseau. A cet époque, le président de la CDU de Hesse était Manfred Kanther. Ce dernier allait devenir ministre de l'Intérieur et l'homme le plus à cheval sur la loi et l'ordre de l'ère Kohl. Il a fait voter une nouvelle loi sur le financement des partis politiques. Mais juste avant, il a encore vite mis 650 millions de francs d'argent noir à l'abri. Il semble que d'autres sommes sont passées au Liechtenstein. Elf fait le plein à Kohl sur ordre de MitterrandLe Parlement a décidé de mettre sur pied une commission d'enquête parlementaire sur l'affaire des comptes occultes de la CDU. Le député Volker Neumann en sera probablement le président. En tant que socialiste, il a de bonnes raisons d'enquêter sur un aspect cocasse de l'affaire: le financement de la campagne électorale de Kohl en 1994 par le président français Mitterrand. En 1992, la firme pétrolière française Elf Aquitaine aurait versé des pots-de-vin pour quelque 1,8 milliard de FB, dont au moins 270 millions sont allés à la CDU. Dans le cadre de la vente au rabais de toute l'industrie est-allemande construite au cours de quarante ans par les travailleurs, Elf Aquitaine a reçu le droit d'exploiter le réseau de pompes à essence Minol et la raffinerie de pétrole de Leuna en ex-RDA. Selon des responsables d'Elf Aquitaine, c'est Mitterrand en personne qui aurait donné l'ordre de verser cette somme. Et les services secrets français auraient participé à l'opération. On ne voyait déjà plus la différence entre le programme des socialistes et celui de la droite. Mais de là à financer leurs campagnes électorales... Selon
Le débat au sein du PCF
Roger ROMAIN a/conseiller communalB6180 COURCELLES sites web : http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/Sommario.html http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/enbref.html e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interview de Jean-Luc Sallé, de la Coordination communiste «Le PCF n'est plus redressable» Alors que le Parti communiste français (PCF) tiendra son 30ème Congrès fin mars, la direction du parti est de plus en plus contestée, surtout depuis sa participation au gouvernement Jospin. Solidaire s'est entretenu avec Jean-Luc Sallé, responsable national de la Coordination communiste, active au sein du PCF. Jean Pestieau «La 'Coordination communiste pour la continuité révolutionnaire et la renaissance léniniste du PCF' s'est créée fin 1991, explique Jean-Luc Sallé. L'opportunisme aggravé de la direction du PCF et la contre-révolution en URSS ont obligé des militants restés communistes à mettre fin à leur isolement et à coordonner leur action oppositionnelle. L'objectif était alors de surmonter la dispersion pour livrer une bataille frontale contre la direction et son révisionnisme, de regrouper les militants révolutionnaires. A ce moment là, nous n'écartions aucune hypothèse: reconquête ou reconstruction? La pratique, l'impact de nos idées, nous permettraient d'affirmer, pensions-nous, notre stratégie pour la renaissance du PCF.»Comment le PCF est-il passé d'un parti révolutionnaire marxiste-léniniste à un parti gestionnaire de la France impérialiste?Jean-Luc Sallé. Tout d'abord, je voudrais préciser que nous nous inscrivons comme continuateurs du passé révolutionnaire du PCF. Ce parti a été un parti communiste de masse, très influent dans la classe ouvrière, assurant l'hégémonie du courant révolutionnaire sur le réformisme. D'où de grands combats: Front Populaire, Résistance, solidarité internationale avec l'URSS, anti-colonialisme...Parallèlement, des fautes opportunistes étaient commises, inspirées par des tendances au légalisme, à l'électoralisme, sous-estimant le rôle des masses, leur initiative créatrice. Tant que le PCF restait communiste, ses fautes étaient autocritiquées et corrigées. Mais avec le développement du révisionnisme dans le mouvement communiste international, l'écart entre théorie et pratique s'est creusé, ouvrant ainsi la voie à une révision générale des principes.En 1976, au 22ème congrès, les éléments révisionnistes, actifs à tous les échelons depuis des années, ont pris les rênes du parti pour éliminer du programme la dictature du prolétariat (et de la théorie marxiste de l'Etat!).S'inaugure alors un processus révisionniste à certains égards, original par sa relative lenteur: chaque abandon a été 'digéré' avant de passer à l'étape suivante, chaque fois au nom de 'conditions nouvelles': abandon de la révolution, socialisme, du pouvoir de la classe ouvrière et de ses alliés, de la propriété collective des moyens de production, du marxisme, de l'internationalisme...Au 28ème congrès, une nouvelle étape a été franchie: celle du passage du parti révisionniste au réformisme social-démocrate. C'est l'ère de la 'mutation', curieux concept qui vise à faire émerger une force social-démocrate s'inscrivant dans l'aménagement social du capitalisme, dans la collaboration de classe.Toutefois, mesurons aussi que la bourgeoisie ne soutient la 'mutation' de Robert Hue (secrétaire général du PCF) que si ce dernier garde son influence sur les travailleurs, s'il parvient à empêcher toute renaissance d'une avant-garde communiste.Comment se fait-il que les dirigeants du PCF se soient tournés contre la défense des intérêts de la classe ouvrière? Par quel mécanisme?Jean-Luc Sallé. Les idées ne tombent pas du ciel. Il faut analyser effectivement les causes matérielles qui ont engendré le révisionnisme et le réformisme. L'impérialisme, en surexploitant les peuples des pays dominés et dépendants, dégage des surprofits qui permettent au capital la corruption de certaines couches de travailleurs: ce qu'on appelle l'aristocratie et la bureaucratie ouvrières.En France, après la libération du fascisme, les conquêtes sociales ont permis au PCF de gagner beaucoup d'emplois de permanents syndicaux et politiques. Le phénomène a eu des aspects négatifs, les éléments les moins conscients du point de vue révolutionnaire se sont donnés des sinécures: encadrement de loisirs, vacances, assurances...Il s'est cristallisé ainsi progressivement une couche sociale 'au-dessus' du prolétariat. C'est cette couche qui a été le soutien social du révisionnisme avec une ligne qui consistait à 'contester le système sans le renverser', parce que leur cadre de vie les intégrait au capitalisme.Ensuite la bureaucratie (au sens où Lénine l'entendait) a ouvert les rangs du parti aux couches moyennes, cadres supérieurs, professions libérales: base pour l'émergence d'une formation social-démocrate supplémentaire, occupant un créneau abandonné par le PS. Une récente étude sociologique
l'AUTRICHE APRES LA TURQUIE : LA PESTE FASCISTE DE NOUVEAU AU POUVOIR en EUROPE
Roger ROMAIN a/conseiller communalB6180 COURCELLES sites web : http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/Sommario.html http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/enbref.html e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lu dans "SOLIDAIRE": Bleu et noir en Autriche? Non, pas le bleu et le noir du Football Club Brugeois. Mais le bleu du Parti Populaire Autrichien et le noir du prétendu Parti de la Liberté (FPÖ) du nazi autrichien Jörg Haider. Ces deux partis sont sur le point de former un gouvernement en Autriche.Notre ministre des Affaires Etrangères Louis Michel et le président français Jacques Chirac ont protesté: pas de ça en Europe! Bizarres, ces hommes politiques qui acceptent que les fascistes se présentent aux élections mais hurlent quand ceux-ci risquent d'entrer au gouvernement.Et surtout, l'Europe n'est-elle pas elle-même responsable de la montée du fascisme en Autriche, en France, en Italie, en Belgique et ailleurs? Depuis sa demande d'adhésion à l'Union Européenne, en 1995, l'Autriche a dû accepter 30.000 lois et règlements européens: hausses des impôts pour les travailleurs, coupes sombres dans les acquis sociaux, privatisations En cinq ans de temps, les Autrichiens ont du avaler les mêmes couleuvres que nous pour arriver aux normes de Maastricht. En absence d'une opposition syndicale et politique réellement anticapitaliste, Haider a eu tout le loisir de canaliser l'opposition à la politique des partis traditionnels. Son parti est aujourd'hui le parti le plus fort parmi les premières victimes de cette politique: les ouvriers et les moins de trente ans. Ceux-ci se sont détournés en masse du Parti Socialiste. Ils espèrent que Haider va mettre en pratique une autre politique. Ils se trompent évidemment. Pourtant, le programme qu'il négocie aujourd'hui avec le Parti Populaire ne diffère en rien de celui du gouvernement précédent. Création d'emplois précaires, retour des femmes au foyer, diminution des coûts salariaux pour les patrons, introduction de la TVA au lieu d'une taxe sur les fortunes.Il n'y a pas moyen de détacher les électeurs des partis fascistes sans leur présenter une politique qui inverse vraiment la vapeur et fait payer les milliardaires au lieu de ceux qui bossent ou voudraient tant bosser.
L'AVIS DE LA RKL D'AUTRICHE A PROPOS DE L'ARRIVEE AU POUVOIR des FASCISTES
Roger ROMAIN a/conseiller communalB6180 COURCELLES sites web : http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/Sommario.html http://www1.brutele.be/users/r.romain/enbref.html e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: ilc To: Roger Romain Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 5:19 PM Subject: AW: l'AUTRICHE: LA PESTE FASCISTE DE NOUVEAU AU POUVOIR en EUROPE Cher camarade, Trouve suivant notre declaration sur la situation en Autriche comme Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire d'Autriche. On ne peut pas lutter contre Haider en se appuyer sur la bourgeoisie politically correct. Fraternallement Alfred Klein pour la RKL/ILC **International Leninist Current (ILC)Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI)PF 23, A-1040 Wien, AustriaTel Fax +43 1 504 00 10[EMAIL PROTECTED] Social Democracy is no Less Dangerous than Haiders Rightist Populism Via anti-fascist follies to politically correct totalitarianism facing the possibility of a government with participation of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) Declaration of the Revolutionary Communist League (RKL) Not only in Austria, but all over Europe, an anti-fascist cry of leftist-liberals against Haiderism can be heard, even in Christian-conservative circles. Even Hillary Clinton felt bound to speak out against Haider. Those humanist crocodile tears of the ruling imperialist bourgeoisie are dutifully reproduced by the left. Now the EU commission crowned the whole story, announcing officially to isolate Austria in case of FPÖ government participation. It is a terrible mistake not to know the main enemy 1 From an international point of view, the ruling group of the New World Order is left-wing liberalism. Left-wing liberalism advances neo-liberal globalisation, boundless exploitation of the Third World and even the impoverishment of relevant parts of the population in the West, they advance humanitarian interventionism i.e. global imperialist aggression under the guise of human rights. If an analogy with fascism can be seen today, then it is rather the political current expressed in its most clear form by Clinton and Blair. Tell us, what is the difference between the alleged attack of Poland against Germany, and the massacre of Racak both pretexts for aggression wars? The difference might be that the United States of America in their fantasy of omnipotence gave such a poor fabrication that the truth was found out even before their final defeat. Are the genocide programmes of the USA launched against Vietnam, Kurdistan, Palestine, Iraq and Yugoslavia less bad than the Nazi schemes called lebensraum East, just because they have been committing them under the label of human rights? Genocide has a constant facter of imperialist capitalism for more than a hundred years! The main difference between modern human rights imperialism and fascism is the internal régime, the political structure in the imperialist centres, which is not based on violent oppression of the antagonist working classes by means of civil war, but it is based on social, political and cultural integration of these working classes as junior partners of imperialist aggression. This makes modern imperialism even more dangerous, because it is more impenetrable. It is thus small wonder that the ideological plaster of neo-liberal globalisation has leftist origins. As there is a lack of an antagonist working-class movement, the conception of civil society is transforming set pieces of comprehensive human emancipation into a system that is not just compatible with capitalism but even stabilising capitalism. The end of history is proclaimed, and any collective social action is said to be not just meaningless, but even anti-democratic and totalitarian. Only the individual counts, organising its immediate environment, e.g. by participating in NGOs. Freedom and emancipation are said to be only attainable by individual and isolated personal initiative. Individuals communicate only in the sphere of the market which creates ostensibly objective, inherent necessities (Sachzwänge) that are beyond the influence of the people, and ostensibly equal democracy. The authoritarian state that found its most extreme form in fascism, must be restrained, but: The capitalist state as such is left untouched. Communitarianism, civilian neo-liberalism a late decay product of the failure and integration of the 1968 movements renders new stability (at least temporarily) to crisis-ridden capitalism by oppressing any collective resistance. 2 To call Haider a fascist is a clear expression of ignorance of the historic phenomenon of fascism as a régime of (preventive) civil war against a social revolution. Haider does actually have roots in that tradition, but his rise is owed to his breaking with this tradition. Rightist populism has no party apparatus to speak of (in stark contrast to fascism): Right until today
[Cuba SI] England: 20 labour MPs Demand Elian be Freed
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - [EMAIL PROTECTED] c/o The Red Rose 129 Seven Sisters Road London N7 7QG Tel. 0171 263 6452 Fax. 0171 561 0191 E.Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poptel.org.uk/cuba-solidarity/ http://www.cubaconnect.co.uk News release. For immediate release and circulation. Date; 4th February 2000 20 Labour MPs demand that Elian Gonzalez be returned home to Cuba Over 20 Labour MPs have signed a letter calling on the Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to ask for the return of the six year old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez to his father. In questions, in the House of Commons, Robin Cook has stated that the matter is not for his concern, stating that "I will not run my neck into that noose". However in recent days the French, Spanish and Canadian Governments amongst others have made it clear that they want the boy to be returned as soon as possible. If these Governments can see fit to make it public that they agree with the US Federal Authorities decision to send Elian home, the British Government should do the same. "It is totally unacceptable for this young lad, Elian Gonzalez , to be used as a political football by the United Statesinternational law must prevail in the interests of the child. A growing number of MPs are calling for Elian to be returned." Angela Smith MP "Clinton must return the child to his father and the British Government should tell him thats the only ethical thing to do." George Galloway MP For more information contact Rob Miller 0171 263 6452 or 0171 281 4057 Notes to Editors: - Full text of the letter and list of signatories is attached - The Cuba Solidarity Campaign is working to highlight the effects of the illegal US blockade of Cuba, which was recently opposed by the British government and 156 other countries at the United Nations. - The Cuba Solidarity Campaign organised a picket of 200 people outside the United States Embassy on Saturday 29th January. George Galloway MP and Nick Palmer MP were among those speakers who called on Robin Cook to demand the return of Elian Gonzalez to his father. == 3rd February 2000 Dear Sir/Madam, Elian Gonzalez is a six year old Cuban boy who recently saw his mother drown in a tragic accident off the coast of Florida. He is now being held in Miami against his fathers wishes by distant relatives he has never known. Elian is the innocent victim in a political circus. There has even been a preposterous call for him to be made a US citizen. Were he any other nationality but Cuban he would have been returned immediately for his own health and well being. He should be re-united as soon as possible with his father and close family in Cuba. This is the only right and sensible course of action. It is in the interests of all parents that the internationally accepted right of parental custody should be upheld. France, Spain and Canada have all now called for the boy to be returned. Robin Cook and the British Government should do the same without further delay. Yours sincerely, Angela Smith MP, John McAllion MSP Tony Benn MP Diane Abbott MP George Galloway MP Bernie Grant MP Audrey Wise MPAlan Simpson MP Alice Mahon MP Harry Barnes MP Nick Palmer MP Tommy Sheridan MSP David Borrow MP Norman Godman MP David Lepper MP Bill Etherington MP Llew Smith MP Bob Waring MP Paul Clark MP Maureen MacMillan MSP Rhoda Grant MSP Rob Miller National Co-ordinator Cuba Solidarity Campaign c/o Red Rose Club, 129 Seven Sisters Rd, London N7 7QG Tel. 0171 263 6452 Fax. 0171 561 0191 E.Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] World Wide Webhttp://www.poptel.org.uk/cuba-solidarity/index.html = NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = nytcari-02.04.00-11:56:14-14905 Cuba SI: http://www.egroups.com/group/cubasi/ Imperialism NO! Venceramos! Information and discussion about Cuba. Discussion of the path of Ernesto Che Guevara. Want To Be Showered With Kisses? Visit eGroups Valentine Gift Guide http://click.egroups.com/1/1160/0/_/30563/_/949683401/ eGroups.com Home: http://www.egroups.com/group/cubasi/ http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications __ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___
Korean Central News Agency Feb 4
Letter to KCTU Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- The central committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea on Feb. 3 sent a letter to the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) calling upon the 10 million South Korean workers to actively join in the work to form a "nationwide ad hoc committee for probing the truth behind the GIs' mass killings." The letter said: The massacres of innocent civilians by the U.S. aggression troops during the Korean War were a wanton violation of the international treaties and wartime laws and regulations which ban targeting non-combatants. Such an unheard-of criminal act can be committed only by the American cannibals whose mode of existence is aggression, plunder and killings. The United States is paying lip-service to "investigation" into the mass killings in a bid to flee from its responsibility for them till now when the truth behind them has been probed clearly by testimonies of victims and the declassified secret documents of the U.S. military, far from admitting them. This is an unpardonable mockery and insult to the Korean nation. Noting that the reality calls on the people to turn out in a nationwide struggle to defend the national dignity, the letter expressed the belief that the KCTU would respond to the appeal of the political parties and organizations in the DPRK and actively join in the work of the north and south to form a "nationwide ad hoc committee for probing the truth behind the GIs' mass killings" by pooling the will of the 10 million workers of South Korea. Film show on foundation anniversary of Communist Party of Vietnam Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- A film show was sponsored by the Korea-Vietnam Friendship Association in Pyongyang on Thursday on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Invited there were Do Thi Hoa, Vietnamese ambassador to the DPRK, and embassy officials. Jon Kuk Man, vice-Minister of Education who is also chairman of the association, other officials concerned and working people in the city were present. The participants appreciated the Vietnamese feature film "Remorse." Film show and friendship gathering with Cuban embassy officials Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a film show and a friendship gathering with Cuban ambassador to Korea Jose Manuel Inclan Embade and embassy officials in Pyongyang on Thursday on the occasion of the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il. Present there were vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Yong Il and officials concerned. The participants appreciated the Korean documentary film "Under the Great Brilliant Commander" part 12. And they talked with each other, deepening the feelings of friendship. Foreign guests visit revolutionary museum of Ministry of Culture Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Diplomatic envoys and embassy officials of Arab countries in Pyongyang visited the Revolutionary Museum of the Ministry of Culture on Thursday on the occasion of the auspicious holiday of February. The guests looked round historic relics and materials, being briefed on the fact that the great leader Kim Jong Il set forth the unique idea for the development of the Juche-based literature and art and has wisely led it. And they went round the mock-up location streets of the Korean film studio. Halt to anti-north war moves demanded Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Pak Kwang Gi, chief of the Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK), on Thursday called a press conference at the mission as regards the escalating war maneuvers of the South Korean authorities against the north in the New Year. Pak said: The South Korean authorities made public the "national defence policy guideline for 2000" in which they set it as a main target for this year to "establish perfect defence posture" and decided to spend 5.3 trillion won this year to develop or introduce the latest military equipment from the U.S. and other countries. The ruling quarters of the self-proclaimed "people's government" have kicked up war hysteria by holding a "security meeting" and a "meeting of commanders of the entire army" one after another to let loose a spate of extremely provocative outbursts and conducting "midwinter tactical exercises" and nocturnal march, etc. In Seoul and other areas. The arms buildup and war exercises intensified by the warmongers of the "people's government" from the outset of the year are a clear indication that their moves to provoke a war against the north have become more pronounced as days go by. The Kim Dae Jung group, together with outside forces, are leading the situation to the brink of war defying the aspirations of all the fellow countrymen after national reconciliation and unity, peace and peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. This is last-ditch efforts to bridge over
