Kansannousut Argentiinasta Etelä-Eurooppaan, Lähi-itään ja edelleen Latinalaiseen Amerikkaan

Nykyinen kapitalismin maailmanlaajuinen kriisi teki tuloaan 1990 –luvun loppupuolella. Muutamassa vuodessa kriisi levisi epidemian tavoin ympäri maailmaa; Kaukoitä, Venäjä, Brasilia ja Argentiina. Samanaikaisesti puhkesi epävakautta poliittisella tasolla. Argentiinan vararikko johti kansannousuun, joka kaatoi viisi presidenttiä. Maassa vallitsi pitkään kansannousun jälkeen kaksoisvalta, tapahtui  tehdasvaltauksia, markettien ”ryöstelyä” ja elintarvikkeiden jakoa. Työttömien piqueteros-liike valtasi valtateitä estämällä siten ulkomaankauppaa. Kapitalismi Argentiinassa stabilisoitui muutamaksi vuodeksi kansainvälisen poliittisen ja taloudellisen tilanteen vaikutuksesta. Kapitalismin globaaliromahdukselta vältyttiin luomalla uusia kuplia ja fiktiivisiä arvoja taloudessa, sekä Kiinailmiön, että Latinalaisessa Amerikassa sovellettujen reformien ansiosta.

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The restoration of a dictatorship

Araz Bağban (*)

The new constitution submitted to referendum by Mohammed Morsi, the president of Egypt elected with the support of the Freedom and Justice party, i.e. the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in addition to its properties of attacking working class achievements as well as women’s and minorities’ rights, is preparing the legal ground for the Brotherhood to seize the whole political power in the country. The powers proposed for the president in the constitution, not subject to any supervision, are leading Egypt towards dictatorship. This picture in Egypt is perhaps not precisely the same with what happened in Iran after the 1979 revolution, but by looking at Iran we can clearly see how the restoration of a dictatorship took place. The only important difference might be that the people of Egypt have detected the prospect of such a restoration and are trying to defend the achievements of the revolution without any hesitation. Although the continuous protests of religious minorities and women (despite all the attempts of the supporters of president Morsi such as sexual harassment and physical assaults) as well as those of political organizations forced the president to make concessions on the content of the constitutional declaration related to the powers granted to the president, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have gone on to complete the constitutional referendum, denying any delay requested by protesters and opposition.

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Erdogan and Mursi, stop shielding Israel!

The aggression by the Zionist Israeli state on Gaza that lasted for ten days has, for the moment, been stopped as a result of a cease-fire. However, underlying problem have not gone away and pose threats for the future. The peoples of Turkey and of the Arab countries should grasp the essence of the problem, adopt a more active stand against Zionist Israel and reject the hypocrisy of their own governments.

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The tremor in the Communist Party of China

Ahmet Devrim

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is holding a new congress, the 18th, due to start on November 8. The CCP is at the helm of the single-party system of the People’s Republic. The nine-member Politbureau Standing Committee (PSC) acts as the supreme body that rules over this vast country with a population of 1.3 billion souls. The secretary general of the party, ranking number one in the PSC, automatically becomes the president of the country and the number-three member the premier. As is commonly known, under Mao Zedong, the country was ruled not only by a single party but simply by one single man. After the death of Mao in 1976, there was no question of one-man rule, although the rule of the single party was sustained. A tradition was developed whereby the PSC elected in one congress is authorised to rule the country for two consecutive terms. Given that the CCP convenes a congress approximately every five years, this implies that each president and premier serves for a decade. The vice-president and the deputy premier are also members of the PSC. These people are largely expected to take over the posts of president and premier in the future. In short, the elections to the PSC determine who will rule China over the next decade. That is why serious conflicts (and occasionally purges) occur in the period leading up to a congress within the party bureaucracy.

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The Mediterranean basin: the sea of revolution!

The following is the text of a leaflet that the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (DIP) distributed at the Middle East Conference held on the weekend of 20-21 October 2012 in Istanbul, where a host of Arab and Kurdish left-wing organisations from the Middle East and North Africa were invited to speak. Among those present were Hezbollah and the Communist Party from Lebanon, the Tunisian Communist Workers’ Party, the People’s Democratic Front of Palestine, the Communist Party of Syria, the Democratic Unity Party (PYD) of the newly autonomous Western Kurdistan (Rojava) and representatives from countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Iraq, Iran etc. The conference was organised by the People’s Democratic Congress (HDK), an alliance of the Kurdish movement in Turkey and a host of socialist parties of Turkey, an alliance that is in the process of converting itself into a political party. The DIP has always been in solidarity with the Kurdish movement fighting for the rights of the oppressed Kurdish people. This is an English translation of the original Turkish text.

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VASTARINTAA KONSENSUKSEN SIJASTA

Kuntavaalit 2012 käydään kaikkea muuta kuin ruusuisten olosuhteiden vallitessa. Lakisääteisiä velvoitteita palveluiden järjestämiseksi on lisätty samalla, kun resursseja kunnille on vähennetty. Sen seurauksena kunnat velkaantuvat kovaa vauhtia. Oulun talous on epätasapainossa. Kaupungin budjetti on laskusuunnassa. Maan hallituksen ajama kuntauudistus ei tule ratkaisemaan ongelmaa. Uudistus pyrkii vain auttamaan kuntia leikkaamaan palveluiden määrää ja huonontamaan laatua. Pienemmät kunnat jäävät uuden Oulun jalkoihin niin palveluiden kuin demokratiankin osalta. Uudistus suosii myös palveluiden ulkoistamista tarjoamalla kuntalaisten rahaa sosiaali- ja terveyspalveluyrityksille.

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KUNNALLISVAALIT 2012 – KANNANOTTO

Tämänkertaiset kunnallisvaalit käydään haastavissa olosuhteissa. Hallituksen suunnitelmat kuntauudistuksesta pyrkivät säästöihin peruspalveluiden kustannuksella, ja samalla markkinoiden luomiseen yksityisille sosiaali- ja terveyspalveluyrityksille. Valtuustoihin tarvitaan tästä syystä tinkimättömiä julkisten peruspalveluiden puolustajia. Vallitseva talouskriisi tulee näkymään väistämättä myös kuntatasolla, ja valtuutetuilta vaaditaan aitoa oppositiohenkeä, jotta oikeistolainen hyökkäys saadaan aisoihin.

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Iran and the so-called currency crisis

The Wednesday protest in Tehran last week on September 3 was the result of the recent currency crisis in Iran. This so-called foreign currency crisis started last year when the Iranian rial was losing value abnormally. And the difference in the rate of exchange between foreign currencies and rial is rising every second in these days. The rial has fallen by 25% in one week (last week) and has lost more than 80% of its value since the end of 2011. In other words, the rial faces a real free-fall. As a result of this fall, exchange bureaus were unable to do business since the rate was changing every second.

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A new upsurge of the Greek working class:

First General Strike against the newly elected Samaras government

EEK marssii 16.9.2012 (vieo)

The working class and popular masses of all the over-indebted capitalist countries, arrogantly named as “PIGS” by the global finance capital and the imperialist chancelleries, are now in an uncontrollable rebellion.  A tsunami of popular anger against the EU and the IMF imposed measures of social cannibalism is engulfing the entire Southern Europe. The last few days, hundreds of thousands of workers are flooding the streets and the squares, from Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, to Athens, and then Rome.

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DIP summer camp, a “festival of proletarian internationalism”

After the summer camp of 2011 devoted to a study and discussion of V.I.Lenin, the Leon Trotsky Summer Camp of 2012 was held for five days between 29 August-2 September on the Aegean coast of Turkey, at a site aptly facing the Greek island of Lesvos. True to the internationalist heritage of Trotsky, the camp hosted a series of comrades from Italy, Greece, Russia, Scandinavia and Cyprus. Close to 100 participants shared long hours of theoretical and political discussion as well as cultural and sports activities.

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