March 2010

 

Dear Comrades,

This is my spot to politically vent a little—ok, a lot—as well as

a section to post letters from other socialist individuals & organizations.

The opinions I express here do not represent the views of other people

associated with Parallel Perspectives. 

Regards,

JEFarrow

                                                                   

Previous Postings:

Dear Comrades #1  [April 2008] California budget woes; Red Army in Afghanistan; Humans unwilling to modify their behavior.

Dear Comrades #2  [May 2008]  Treacherous Arab Oligarchy; Capitalists & the Environment.

Dear Comrades #3  [August – December 2008] Stimulus package; Animal Rights Terrorists; Castro praises Russian Orthodox Church.

Dear Comrades #4 [March - April 2009] More bailout (for the Capitalists); The Disarming Myth of the Liberal Bourgeoisie

Dear Comrades #5 [July - August 2009] California draconian budget cuts—and more on the way;

Anti-religious views; Michelle Obama vs. Laura Bush.

Dear Comrades #6 [November – December 2009] Karma or Complicity?; Mission to Mars: Fasten your seat belts?

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9. March 2010

Reactionaries & The Occult

 

Dear Comrades,

 

The mysterious & secretive world of The Occult has always been copiously peppered with confidence tricksters, the psychiatrically challenged, proto-fascists & a whole gallery of people promoting purely personal agendas. The initial resurgence of neo-paganism in the 20’s & 30’s of the last century was almost exclusively dominated by people with racist views and the belief that most people were “evolutionarily incapable” of governing themselves, and needed a “Messiah” to lead them. Hitler easily stepped into that role—and almost immediately had many of his “Prophets” liquidated.

 

3Emblem of Thelema

 

Groups outside The Third Reich were waiting for “The New Aeon” and a Prophet of their own. These groups mainly asserted 1 of 2 points of view: 1) They believed the Aeon had been sparked by infamous Occultist Aleister Crowley. The Crowley factions still exist & are self-described as “Thelema” and/or “Chaos Magick” disciples. Interestingly, Crowley himself attempted to contact Hitler in order to convince the Dicatator to adopt Thelema (“Will”) has the religion of The Reich.  2) The second group placed their bets on the dawning “Age of Aquarius” and believed its Messenger & Messiah (spiritual Avatar) to be a Hindu boy born into a Brahmin family named Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986). This latter group was primarily made up of Theosophists & Spiritualists.

 

See also,

REVIEW: THE LAW IS FOR ALL Aleister Crowely

 

As stated above, Thelema groups still exist & many of the organizations have a large—and possibly still growing—membership. Krishnamurti shocked his Order of the Star, and organization promoting Messianic pretentions. As a matter of fact, he went on to develop a philosophy that was an expression of a rugged, existentialist individualism that denied all reliance on authority, particularly “spiritual” & political authority. In short, he got out of the New Age racket altogether & rejected its “psychic” trappings as being either useless or delusional.

 

3Emblem of Theosophy

 

The consciousness-expansion explosion of the 60’s was liberally fueled by the popularity of ingesting psychoactive substances & an American generation in rebellion against the materialistic

conformity of the 1950’s social structure, as well as widespread opposition to the Vietnam War. This led to a politically active counter-culture that embraced & extended the idea of The New Age. There was also a resurfacing of neo-paganism, an interest in the occult & witchcraft (christened “Wicca” by practioners.) Wicca was created by devotees who weren’t entirely comfortable with being identified with an historically questionable anachronism, i.e. “witches” and who also wanted a more eclectic counter-culture religion to fit their life style.

 

3This photo doesn’t really illustrate anything in particular,

  I  just thought it was kinda cute.

 

You hardly hear the term “New Age” bandied around any more, probably because it got so far out that finally even its main advocates must have become just a little embarrassed. The term New Aeon is still in wide use (well, obviously) but is more restrictive & not an option for people who don’t want to be pinned down by any philosophy too specific—and in some cases “tainted” with Satanism. People who didn’t feel comfortable with the New Aeon milieu, either joined the Wicca movement and/or became Conspiracy fanatics. Neither alternative has a clear political focus, however, they share a general pro-capitalist, diffuse liberatarianism. In collusion with the Conspricy Fringe, Libertarianism in the U.S. is backed by landlords & other Right Wing, rabidly anti-socialist individual. Wicca began as a pro-feminist, vague collectivist slant. With the shift of American feminism into a pro-capitalist & nationalist agenda, heaven or hell only knows what Wiccans believe these days.

 

 

Some occultists are conspiracy buffs, while many conspiracy theorists are anti-occult, feeling an imperative to fend off evil designs of The Illuminati, Freemasons, The Vatican, etc. (Well, they may be right about The Vatican!)

 

And they’re all paranoid…very, very paranoid.

 

There are several occult “themes” being promoted by the Conspiracy people:

 

·            The idea that there is a “crisis of infertility” (among whites)

·            There is a dark force promoting androgyny

·            The move to a “New World Order” (often personified by Barack Obama)

·            666 represents micro chipping as a means to control the population

·            A belief that 2012 represents the “End Times.” Also, The so-called Bible Code.

·            Pseudo-scientific & “psychic” beliefs claiming that 1 segment of the population is on a more “evolved” plane of existence than another.

 

The agenda of the political & Religious Right is clear to see:

 

·            The “crisis of infertility” directly dovetails the anti-abortion Crusade. I need to do a little more undercover investigation on this one. It’s related to the Gray Conspiracy in some way. The main point, I think, is that it is a recent fabrication that dovetails with the release of a report that states “minorities” are reproducing at a higher rate than whites in America that, in fact, whites show a rate of declining births. My guess is that whites have fuller access to birth control & are less tied to religious ideas that place a lot of pressure to reproduce. At any invent, lowering the birth rate of EVERYBODY is a good thing.

 

·            The androgyny theory is a barely concealed part of an anti-homosexual agenda. This belief takes a number of forms. One that I found particularly interesting claims that “Grays” ET’s hate mankind & are hell-bent in neutering humanity. Homosexuals or bisexuals are perceived as evil products of Grays tinkering with the plumbing.

 

·            The move to a “New World Order” really gets the Tea Party kooks up in arms. I think at the heart of this conspiracy theory (in the U.S. at any rate) is a racist  backlash to the Obama Presidancy. At first I was shocked at pictures of T-Party people with long, grey hair & wearing tie-died shirts—old hippies! But then their previous lack of political commitment made sense. They denigrate the State, yes, but are the first with their hands out should any need or catastrophe come calling. For now their join the chorus, calling for the collapse of an imagined “Socialist State.”

 

Maybe when marijuana is de-criminalized, they will nod off & shut up.

 

·            The 2012 thing (claiming “the Mayan calendar” predicts the world will end that year) is a figment of non-Mayan imagination. The only purpose it seems to serve is to scare people & to make $$$. The Christian Right has its very own version of this same idea called “The Endtimes.” Like the Mayan Calendar, the “End” is imminent (it always is.) Not to worry, Jews have their “Bible Code.” This novel approach to The End claims that the Old Testament contains embedded codes that can be deciphered by computer. The messages are appropriately dire & frightening. Then there’s The Da Vinci Code, etc. et nauseum.

 

All of these bedazzling “Codes” and “Secrets” are claimed to present “hidden” or “ancient” wisdom historically denied to the metaphysically challenged dopes. Just what constitues this Secret Knowledge, and better yet, how can it improve one’s life?

 

Does it really make any difference whether the Knight Templars had the mythical Holy Grail in their possession? Were the majority of “Founding Fathers” (I really hate that term, “Founding Generation” is more like it) really Freemasons? Who cares? Is that really Mary Magalene and not John the Beloved sitting next to Jesus in The Last Supper? What difference does it make. None of these little New Age & Occult gems of wisdom benefit anybody except their authors. They may be interesting like an intellectual hobby, but they have absolutely nothing to offer in terms of improving life in the real world.

 

The Last Supper, c.1498 Art Print

 

See also,

New ‘Last Supper’ theory crashes Web sites

Amateur scholar claims Leonardo painting reveals mysterious figures

New Da Vinci Theory

 

The 666 craze is probably the most familiar idea of the lot. It all began with the ever controversial The Book of the Revelation of John. Like all Apocalyptical writings, The Big Disaster is scheduled to occurr at any moment. Well, 2,000 years later we’re still holding our breath. Approaching the year 1,000 CE a huge segment of the population were convinced that the world would on that date—and they had just as many—if not more—objective reasons to believe it. It was a very hard time for humans. Certain religious sects walled themselves into structures in order to prepare for the end. They starved to death.

 

See also,

“666” and Historic Materialism

 

An amazing example of the pseudo-science method can be found in Stan Gooch’s book THE NEANDERTHAL LEGACY. In it Gooch claims that homosexuals & socialists are evolutionarily inferior to the more evolved heterosexuals and capitalists. This is simply a new form of the highly discredited & racist notion of eugenics. The Nazis claimed eugenics formed the scientific basis of their criminal racist policies.

 

File:Galton class eugenics.jpg

 

Galton's view of the British class structure was the basis and

emphasis of the eugenics movement in Britain.

 

One of the things I find really interesting about these subjects is that some are consistent with the others; others are exclusive, while some can be applied to Occultists who are also Conspiracy people, as well as Conspiracy theorists paranoid of Occultists! The only thing that is really clear is that proponents of these ideas (whether or not they really believe in them) can be dangerous. When the occult is mixed with politics & organized religion, the potential for destructive behavior should be obvious.

 

See also,

DOES SPIRITUALITY REALLY EXIST?

THE METAPHYSICS OF REBELLION

 

an epilogue (of sorts)

 

The Second Coming

W.B Yeats


Turning and turning in the widening gyre
the falcon cannot hear the falconer;
things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

 

 

 


Surely some revelation is at hand;
surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
when a vast image out of Spritus Mundi troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands

of the desert.


A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, is moving

its slow thighs, while all about it reel shadows

of the indignant desert birds.


The darkness drops again; but now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast,

its hour come round at last, slouches
towards Bethlehem to be born?

 

Painting: The Ghost of a Flea

William Blake 1757-1827

 

 

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5. March 2010

Proud at Last!

 

[Photo Josh On/Socialist Worker.org]

 

Tens of thousands gathered outside San Francisco's Civic Center at the end of the Day of Action (Josh On | SW)What a sight! Thousands upon thousands of young people in America taking to the streets protesting the debilitating State Budget Cuts. And not just college kids, but elementary school kids!

 

True, the basic strategy & co-ordination of the mass protests involved college students & adults, but this was no mere giving kids a day off to mug for cameras: They were children having fun, yes, but they were children with a definite purpose in mind. You could see it in their faces. They didn’t want to lose after-school programs like 4H (various rural type programs that teach animal husbandry & respect for animals from a working farm perspective.) The 4H program has been a central program for years, often defining the nature of rural community. Then there are after- school activities like sports, art & music. Then there are also many favorite teachers getting the axe. The cramping of classrooms and more. The students knew exactly what they were protesting against.

 

If that wasn’t reason to enough to feel proud, it was the most multi-racial actions I have ever seen. Finally, there is a sense to hope that the new generation of American youth really will represent something wonderful & collective—and they will be instrumental in bringing down the Oligarchs and the capitalist system.

 

FROM SWO:

 

Check out our special coverage of March 4 day of action...

A DAY OF ACTION JOURNAL
Throughout the day, SocialistWorker.org readers provided reports and photos from the rallies, strikes and actions in California and around the country to defend public education.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/03/05/day-of-action-journal

 

More below…

 

18. February 2010

Plugs pulled on free websites?

 

Dear Comrades,

 

I had to read this article (below) twice just to make sure I understood it correctly. If the Obama Administration manages to impose an “opt-in” Internet policy, almost all socialist & progressive groups can kiss their sites sayonara.

 

Regards,

JEFarrow

 

Tech industry warns that Obama administration seeks to kill free websites

 

A coalition of Internet companies called NetChoice warned today that the Obama administration's Federal Trade Commission is angling for a new rule that would require web site visitors to "opt in" to allow web operators to collect information for advertisers to target ads.

 

Executive director Steve DelBianco warned that such a rule would "devastate" free websites -- including this one -- by eliminating targeted advertising. Consumers seldom "opt in" to allow web sites to collect data on the personal interests they manifest by clicking on articles or advertisements.

 

DelBianco used an example of a reader named Grant looking at a golf article. "The web site ought to be able to tick a box saying Grant likes golf and use that to serve ads" and share "non-sensitive" data with Nike to buy the ads, as opposed to selling blind and irrelevant ads for baby diapers.

 

The FTC won the broader rulemaking authority it needs in the House-passed financial reform legislation but it is meeting Senate resistance. DelBianco predicted that such a rule would up-end the advertising model that now drives the Internet and require ad-supported websites, including blogs, to find a new source of revenue. NetChoice members include Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, Yahoo, eBay, AOL, and several web merchandising groups.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=57469&tsp=1#ixzz0fuq4oOWe

 

 

                  

 

 

 

The Banquet

 

Joni Mitchell

 

Come to the dinner gong
The table is laden high
Fat bellies and hungry little ones
Tuck your napkins in
And take your share
Some get the gravy
And some get the gristle
Some get the marrow bone
And some get nothing
Though there's plenty to spare

I took my share down by the sea
Paper plates and Javex bottles on the tide
Seagulls come down
And they squawk at me
Down where the water-skiers glide

Some turn to Jesus
And some turn to heroin
Some turn to rambling round
Looking for a clean sky
And a drinking stream
Some watch the paint peel off
Some watch their kids grow up
Some watch their stocks and bonds
Waiting for that big deal
American Dream

I took my dream down by the sea
Yankee yachts and lobster pots and sunshine
And logs and sails
And Shell Oil pails
Dogs and tugs and summertime
Back in the banquet line
Angry young people crying

Who let the greedy in
And who left the needy out
Who made this salty soup
Tell him we're very hungry now
For a sweeter fare
In the cookie I read
"Some get the gravy
And some get the gristle
Some get the marrow bone
And some get nothing
Though there's plenty to spare"

 

 

 

   

 

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Happy International Women's Day

 

It was the courage of hundreds of women shirtwaist workers that inspired International Women's Day. They walked off the job for better wages and the right to vote in 1909, striking for 13 weeks in a bitter cold New York winter. At the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in 1910, one hundred years ago, German Communist Clara Zetkin proposed that March 8 be set aside each year for solidarity with women workers around the world.  Since 1977 International Women's Day has been recognized and celebrated by the United Nations.

 

Like May Day, International Women's Day is borne of the struggles of the U.S. working class for decent wages and working conditions and equal rights. 

 

The centennial anniversary of International Women's Day takes place in the midst of a devastating global economic crisis. 

 

The U.S. Department of Labor reports growing long-term unemployment for women ages 45 to 64. Official unemployment for female heads-of-households is 12.6 percent. About 1.1 million are single mothers.  For some, the only income is food stamps.  As poverty rises, these are crisis conditions.

 

The continuing wage gap plus low wage jobs with not enough hours and lack of adequate health care put women at the bottom economically.  Income is even lower for African American, Latino, Asian and Native American women as a result of racism.

 

The Machinists union has issued a call for women across the country to "join together in telling Congress, America needs JOBS Now!" on Monday, March 8. Women are urged to send a message to their Senators and Representative to support the program of JOBS Now! for a substantial new stimulus package that will aid states and cities, and create jobs for public works on a large scale.

 

The right to join a union is a strong antidote to poverty. Union women earn 32 percent more than nonunion women, African American union members earn 28 percent more than their nonunion counterparts,  for Latino workers, the union advantage equals 43 percent and for Asian American workers, the union advantage is 6 percent.

 

Women are a key part of the broad alliance that elected President Barack Obama. The right-wing did everything to split off women, including the candidacy of Sarah Palin. But in the end, the majority of women did not vote for a candidate who opposed reproductive rights and workers rights. They voted for the candidate that represented a change in direction away from the extreme right-wing.

 

The first bill that President Obama signed into law, the Lily Ledbetter bill, protected the rights of women to take action against wage discrimination. Now much more is required. 

Health care is expected to come up for vote soon, and hopefully can break through the logjam of the Republicans and conservative Democratic supporters.

 

The most significant thing that can be done to uphold the meaning of International Women's Day is to restore and rebuild the grass roots movement that elected President Obama around the issues.  The five-point jobs program of the AFL-CIO and Jobs for America Now is an excellent starting point that can make a difference in people's lives.

 

The labor movement understands that women represent an important sector against reaction. They are embracing and reaching out to women workers who now make up half the workforce.  Unity of the coalition is number one if the cause of women and all ordinary people is to be moved forward.

 

"Just like women 100 years ago, women in America-and around the world-are fighting back," says the proclamation of the AFL-CIO Executive Council. "On this year's anniversary of International Women's Day, we recommit ourselves to continue to the struggle for equal rights, dignity and respect for all working women while paying close attention to women's concerns in our fight to create jobs."

 

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3/7/10

 

In 
Defence of Marxism

  Monday, 8 March 2010

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Women’s struggle and class struggle – Part One

By Marie Frederiksen

Women’s struggle and class struggleOne hundred years ago today, 99 women from 17 different countries attended the Socialist Women's Conference held in Copenhagen in the House of the People. In this first part, we look at the origins of Women's Day, the origin of women's oppression in class society, how capitalism lays the material foundations upon which the question of women's emancipation can be tackled as part of the struggle of the whole of the working class for the emancipation of the whole of humanity from class oppression.

 

Marsinah: An Inspiration For the Working Class Struggle

By Fatkhul Khoir

Marsinah: An Inspiration For the Working Class StruggleMarsinah (1969-1993) was an Indonesian worker who was kidnapped by the army and brutally murdered on May 8th 1993 because of her involvement in the strike action at her workplace. She led a strike with 500 of her fellow workers, knowing full well that under the dictatorship of Soeharto her life was in danger. Marsinah has since become a symbol and inspiration for the workers’ struggle in Indonesia. Let us celebrate International Working Women’s Day and remember Marsinah by rolling up our sleeves to fight for socialism, the only way out of the misery of capitalism.

 

A Monologue: Marsinah Accuses

By Ratna Sarumpaet

A Monoloque: Marsinah AccusesWe also publish an excerpt from a monologue written by Ratna Sarumpaet (translated to English by Robyn Fallick). This monologue was written in her memory in 1997 and it has since become a tradition to perform the monologue at every May Day celebration. “Marsinah Accuses” has also been performed in many other countries.

 

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Bolivia: El Estado burgués y la cuestión de los archivos de la dictadura

By El Militante - Bolivia

A las 8 de la mañana del pasado miércoles 17 de febrero agencias de prensa bolivianas como la Red ERBOL anunciaban el ingreso del fiscal en el Alto Mando de las FFAA para investigar los archivos secretos de la dictadura. Se trataba de la aplicación de una resolución ministerial (0316 del 2009) que tiene como objetivo facilitar el acceso a familiares de las víctimas, autoridades que investigan el caso y personas que demuestren su interés legítimo para acceder a la información militar. Una hora y media después la noticia que el Comandante en Jefe del Alto Mando Militar ha negado el acceso al fiscal y a la Defensora del Pueblo. Anuncian que ellos mismos, los mandos militares, entregaran la información. Hoy (23/2) la noticia que los archivos serán filtrados y no serán hechos públicos. Un balde de agua fría para los familiares de la victimas y el pueblo boliviano que espera desde hace 40 años justicia.

 

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Stoppt die Morde und die Repression gegen die revolutionäre Bewegung in Honduras!

By In Defence of Marxism

In Honduras geht das Putschregime, das sich mit manipulierten Wahlen ein demokratisches Mäntelchen zu geben versuchte, weiterhin mit staatlicher Repression gegen Oppositionelle vor.

 

Kvindekamp og klassekamp

By Marie Frederiksen

Her på 100 året for vedtagelsen af 8. marts som kvindernes internationale kampdag, er det på sin plads at tage kvindespørgsmålet op til grundig debat i hele arbejderbevægelsen og blandt alle unge og arbejdere, der ønsker et lige samfund. Ideerne om klassekamp er blevet forkastet af mange på venstrefløjen. Men som marxister mener vi, at kvindens undertrykkelse er uløseligt forbundet med klassesamfundet.

 

 


 

 

3/7/10

 

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

 

RAWA, March 8, 2010

 

Emancipation of Afghan women not attainable as long as the occupation, Taliban and �National Front� criminals are not sacked!

Statement of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) on the International Women�s Day

Today, on the 8th of March, Afghan women are mourning for the gang-rape of Bashiras and Saimas, for being flogged by most lowed elements, for being auctioned in open market and for their young daughters who put an end to their miserable lives by self-immolation. But the perpetrators of all these crimes are forgiven; therefore they enjoy complete immunity, are still holding their official positions and tightening it through plundering our people and country.

Local warlords publicly flogged two Afghan women.
February 2010: Local warlords in Ghor province in Western Afghanistan publicly flogged two Afghan women.

Though we don�t expect anything different from the most corrupt and dirty puppet regime of the world, the pain of Afghan women turns chronic when the! world believes that the US and NATO has donated liberation, democracy and human and women rights for Afghanistan; whereas, after eight years of the US and allies� aggression under the banner of �war on terror�, they empowered the most brutal terrorists of the Northern Alliance and the former Russian puppets � the Khalqis and Parchamis � and by relying on them, the US imposed a puppet government on Afghan people. And instead of uprooting its Taliban and Al-Qaeda creations, the US and NATO continues to kill our innocent and poor civilians, mostly women and children, in their vicious air raids.

 

In such conditions, we saw that Karzai, as the most demagogic and flagrant President, turgidly talks about the London Conference, which in face had no positive outcome for Afghan people and where he only bargained and dealt for the return of the terrorist Taliban and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar to power and the pouring of millions of more Dollars which go! to the pockets of the Karzai family and the mafias of Fahim, Khalili, Dostum and other murderers.

The Karzai puppet and reactionary regime is implicated in corruption and blood of the poor from top to bottom. Only the hundreds of people killed in the recent avalanche tragedy in Salang and the miseries of millions of refugee Afghans in the hands of the Iranian criminal regime are enough to punish and jail many of the so-called high ranking officials for negligence and inattention to the problems of our people.

 

But the US government does not try to curb its Afghan stooges and allows them to commit many crimes, betrayal and lootings, so they could repress and intimidate Afghans in any possible way and stop the emergence of any anti-fundamentalist and pro-independent uprising in Afghanistan. Therefore, it comes of no surprise that the decay and corruption of top criminals such as Rabbani, Sayyaf, Dr. Abdullah, Qanoni, Karzai family, Zia M! assoud, Fahim, Khalili, Saddique Chakari, Mirwas Yassini, Zahir Aghbar, Hadi Arghandewal, Anwar Jakdalak, Ismael Khan, Atta Mohammad and others are even reflected in some Western media, who have made dirty businesses and multi-billion Dollar investments in Afghanistan and Dubai as a result of their lootings and drug-dealings in Afghanistan.

 

To show to the world that they value women�s rights, the US and its Afghan mafia lackeys nourished a bunch of flunkeys and pro-occupation women to hold conferences and meet the so-called �his Excellency� President Karzai and his US-assigned spokespersons Wahid Omer, Siamak Herawi, Sibghatullah Sanjar and other traitors to ask for more ministries for Afghan women. But they are grasping the intentions of others with their own dirty mirrors and think ordinary Afghan women are unaware of the fact that even if all the members of the cabinet are made up of reactionary women such as Amina Afzali, Hassan Bano Ghazanfar, Massoud! a Jalal, Noorzia Atmar, Qadria Yazdanparast, Shukria Barakzai, Fouzia Kofi, Manija Bakhtari and others linked to brutal warlords, still it will not bring any positive change for Afghan women, because such women, acting as committed agents of the US government and its fundamentalist and non-fundamentalist menials, only define themselves by raising soft criticisms and asking for some reforms acceptable for the governing criminals and their foreign masters.

 

With money and offers of official posts, the US and its Afghan agents have bought many Afghan intellectuals. Many of the writers and poets are paid by the blood-thirsty Iranian regime who instead of raising people�s awareness and mobilizing them for pro-independence, pro-democracy and anti-fundamentalism struggle, try to pave the way for Iranian theocratic regime�s deeper involvement in Afghanistan and inflame and fuel ethnic, sectarian and lingual tensions among Afghan people.

 

RAWA alw! ays believes that women�s problem is a political issue and we cannot tackle it separately from the current catastrophic political situation. Without the overthrow of the current puppet regime, which is becoming more mortal and odorous than before by the inclusion of Taliban and Gulbuddini murderers, none of the thousands of the problems of our unhappy people will ever be solved.

 

Slogans about restoring peace, security, democracy and women�s rights will be empty and amplified claims, as long as Afghanistan has not gained its independence; the Taliban and the Northern Alliance killers are not prosecuted and the billions of wealth they have pillaged from people are not taken back from them. The benchmark to judge if any individual or organization is truly patriotic and progressive in the current situation is their struggle in any possible means against US occupation, the criminal Taliban -- who have the enslavement harness of Pakistan around their nick -- an! d the hirelings of Iran and the US in the �National Front�.

 

RAWA is eager to get united in solidarity with individuals and forces that are ready to fight for democracy in an independent front against the occupation, the Taliban, Jehadi and Khalqi and Parchami homeland-sellers.

While women of Afghanistan are experiencing a new era of captivity and are in the grip of the fundamentalist monsters, RAWA sends it heartfelt salutations to struggling brave women of Iran, Palestine, Kurdistan, Sudan, Nepal, India and the rest of the world and announces solidarity with them.

 

 

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Stop killings and harassment against the revolutionary movement in Honduras!

By In Defence of Marxism

We have received the following message from Honduran activists of the National Front of Peoples' Resistance against the repression of the Porfirio Lobo government. His government was installed through fraudulent elections organised by the coup regime, despite massive abstention of the masses and harsh repression. The repressive attitude of the Lobo government uncovers its pretence of being democratic. The International Marxist Tendency declares its full solidarity with the Honduran workers and youth who continue to struggle and are suffering the repression, killings.

 

 ESPAÑOL

¡Alto a los asesinatos y persecución contra el movimiento revolucionario en Honduras!

By In Defence of Marxism

Hemos recibido esta denuncia de activistas hondureños del FNRP contra la represión del gobierno de Porfirio Lobo, quien fue puesto en el gobierno por unas elecciones fraudulentas organizadas por los golpistas y donde las masas mostraron su rechazo con una abstención enorme pese a las presiones enormes por parte del gobierno de Micheletti. Esta actitud represiva del gobierno de Porfirio Lobo echa abajo la careta democrática que quiere presumir. La CMI declara su profunda solidaridad con los jóvenes y trabajadores hondureños que están sufriendo de persecución, represión e incluso asesinatos.

 

 

 

 

3/5/10

 

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