70 vuotta Leon Trotskin murhasta (1)

KYSYMYS: Mitä mieltä olette Saksan ja Venäjän liittolaisuudesta? Oliko Stalinin pakko ryhtyä sopimukseen, ja jos on ollut oikein menetelty, mitä olisi voinut aikaisemmin tehdä toisin, jotta vältyttäisiin siitä? Venäjä etenee Baltian maissa ja Suomessa, ja väittää, että joutuu menettelemään niin puolustautuakseen mahdollisesta ulkoinvaasiosta. Uskotteko, että sellainen hyökkäys natsien tai porvaridemokratioiden toimesta on mahdollinen?

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”Olen tekemässä kuolemaa poliittisen murhaajan iskun seurauksena …hän hyökkäsi minun omassa huoneessani. Taistelin hänen kanssaan …  menimme sisään … keskustelimme ranskalaisista tilastoista … hän löi minua … pyydän, sanokaa meidän ystäville … olen varma Neljännen Internationaalin voitosta … menkää eteenpäin.” Nämä olivat Leon Trotskin viimeiset sanat, jotka hän saneli ennen kuin kuoli. GPU:n ja Stalinin kätyri  Ramon Mercaderin murhaava käsi iski jäähakulla lokakuun vallankumouksen johtajan, Puna-armeijan rakentajan ja Neljännen Internationaalin perustajan päähän.

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Kapitalismin kriisi on tullut uuteen vaiheeseen. Asuntolaina- ja luottokriisinä alkanut prosessi käynnistyi kesällä 2007 ja kärjistyi Lehman Brothers –pankin konkurssiin syksyllä 2008. Silloin alkoi prosessin toinen vaihe. Kapitalistiset valtiot pumppasivat markkinoille pankkien kautta tuhansittain inflatorisia miljardeja dollareita ja euroja. Keinotekoinen likviditeetin kasvu pelastaa pankit väliaikaisesti, mutta se luo kaksi ongelmaa lisää. Ensinnäkin riskit sosialisoitiin, ja tällä tavalla kriisi valtiollistettiin. Samanaikaisesti vaadittiin sitä, että kansalaiset maksavat viulut. Sen jälkeen ei enää puhuta taloudellisesta kriisistä, se oli saanut poliittisia piirteitä. Toinen ongelma liittyy siihen, mihin pankit sijoittivat niitä tukisummia. Kun arvojen ja palveluiden tuottamiseen ei voitu pitkään aikaan investoida, pankit suunnistivat jälleen kerran keinotteluun ja kuplien kasvattamiseen.

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The enemies of the people embrace!

Build solidarity between the working classes of Greece and Turkey!

Greece is in flames. The world economic crisis of the capitalist system has descended upon the country in extremely intensified form and left the economy face to face with bankruptcy.

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Resolution of the International Secretariat of the CRFI

The World Capitalist Bankruptcy

The world capitalist crisis, universally acknowledged as the worst in the history, has not ended; we are in the midst of its unfolding. At the end of 2009, the specter of sovereign defaults from Dubai and Greece to Ireland shaking the Euro-zone and the European Union as a whole and revealing the catastrophic impact of the mountains of debts on capitalist States all over the planet, starting from the United States themselves, belied early claims for a recovery.
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Declaration of the Executive Counsil of the CRFI

1. The proletariat and the popular masses of the world are facing an unprecedented crisis and a unique historical situation, in this Mayday 2009, the Day of the international working class.

The world capitalist crisis destroys the lives of millions of people all over the planet condemning them to expropriation, unemployment, destitution, misery, and furthermore, wars and State repression. But at the same time, although the weight of the crisis is bitterly felt, resistance to capitalist barbarism is growing. There is an ascending wave of social struggles, mass strikes, occupations, and popular rebellions such as in Greece or Guadeloupe.

The Coordinating Committee for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International (CRFI) calls the international working class and all oppressed and exploited to mobilize to put an end to that social catastrophe, to refuse to be buried under the ruins of the world capitalist bankruptcy. The capitalists must pay for the crisis of their system! The capital expropriates our lives, let us expropriate capital and open a socialist way out from the current devastation!
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Statement of the Initiative for the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (DİP)

2/2/2009

The Initiative for the Revolutionary Workers’ Party considers fully warranted the response by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan to the attitude of Shimon Peres, the president of Israel, and David Ignatius, US journalist and moderator of the panel discussion. It was correct to criticise sharply Peres’ manner of speaking, to respond in kind to the moderator, who kept patting the prime minister of a foreign country on the shoulder, displaying the arrogance of a person close to the establishment circles of an imperialist country, to remind him of the unfair allotment of time to the different speakers, thereby privileging Peres, and in the end to abandon the panel. Those who criticise Erdoğan for using the bullying style he resorts to back home are thereby promoting the idea that he should have acted meekly when confronted with such effrontery from imperialists and Zionists. They have thus also been admitted that they cannot defend the idea of equality among nations even for their own people, let alone for those nations whom they oppress. Erdoğan’s behaviour is so abominable domestically because he unjustly attacks oppressed people. It is exactly for the symmetric reason why his behaviour at Davos is to be commended. There is no basis for comparing the two, as Erdoğan is the oppressor in the domestic cases while he represents the underdog in the Davos case. Erdoğan has displayed a more honourable attitude vis-à-vis the representatives of imperialism and Zionism than his detractors.

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The EEK (Revolutionary Workers’ Party) of Greece and the DİP (the Initiative for the Revolutionary Workers’ Party) of Turkey, both sections of the CRFI in their respective countries, note with disgust the outrageous statement by the Turkish actor Atilla Olgaç concerning his deeds during the Turkish military intervention in Cyprus in 1974. During this statement, made during a TV show to millions of incredulous spectators, the actor confessed to shooting on the forehead  and killing a 19-year old Cypriot prisoner of war whose hands were tied after the latter spat at him and his superior. He went on to say that he killed nine other Cypriots, not elaborating on the details of these cases. Having defended his remarks to Turkish papers during interviews the next day, he then made a turnabout to retract his confession, claiming that he had mixed up the truth with the events he had imagined for a script he was writing. The question of whether the retraction was made under the pressure of Turkish authorities or as a result of the actor’s own embarrasment should not overshadow the immense significance of his previous confession.
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CRFI:n kannanotto:

Koko historiallinen maisema on muuttunut. Viime vuonna räjähtänyt kapitalismin kriisi, joka kärjistyi syys-lokakuussa 2008, on saanut ennalta arvaamattomat mittasuhteet ja uhkaa romahduttaa maailman pörssimarkkinat, kansainvälisen pankkitoiminnan, teollisuusjätit, sekä ajaa lukuisia valtioita konkurssin partaalle.

Maailmanlaajuinen romahdus on jo tapahtunut. Pörssien pääomitus on puolittunut, tappiot ovat nyt lähes 3000 miljardia dollaria velassa mitattuna ja velkaantuminen jatkuu väistämättä; läntisen maailman pankkijärjestelmä on lähes hajoamassa (Financial Times 28/10/08), huolimatta ennenäkemättömistä valtioiden väliintuloista.
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Resolution of the International Secretariat of the CRFI

1.     The entire world historic landscape has changed. The exacerbation in September-October 2008 of the world capitalist crisis that exploded last year takes unprecedented dimensions driving to collapse the world stock markets, the international banking system, gigantic industries and a growing number of States on the edge of default.

The global crash has already taken place. The capitalization of world stock markets has halved; losses on debt instruments now amount nearly $3 trillion, and debt destruction inexorably continues; there is a “near-disintegration of the western world’s banking system” (Financial Times, 28/10/08) despite unprecedented State interventions. Lue lisää »