Was Pablo Neruda killed by Pinochet?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/was-pablo-neruda-killed-by-pinochet-8641352.html
Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, described as the “greatest poet of the 20th century” and known for his romantic works, died on 23 September, 1973, after battling prostate cancer. Now prosecutors claim he was murdered on the orders of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet.
Karl Korsch: a Marxist friend of anarchism - A.R. Giles-Peters
http://libcom.org/history/karl-korsch-marxist-friend-anarchism-ar-giles-peters
“Marxists of the 1920s have an interest for anarchists of a quite different order from those of any other period. The reason is that for a brief period after the First World War Marxism was a revolutionary doctrine in a way that it had not been since Marx nor has been again (leaving aside its use as an ideology of basically peasant nationalist revolutions.) In that brief period the Russian Revolution served as a rallying point for left-wing intellectuals of all shades of red and black, and these joined with anarchist workers and socialist workers of a syndicalist stamp to form the basis of the new parties of the Third International. Except in Spain, anarchist and syndicalist organizations everywhere lost ground to these new parties which rapidly evolved into bureaucratic state socialist organizations interested in the control of the working-class movement. During this evolution those anarchists, syndicalists and left socialists who held true to the initial promise of the Russian Revolution were isolated, weeded out and kept by the party’s superior organization from the access to the working class that alone could sustain a revolutionary movement. Karl Korsch was one of the casualties of this process.”
#histoire #communisme #marxisme #anarchisme #Karl_Korsch #conseillisme
The Big One ? - By Laurie Garrett | Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/23/the_big_one?page=full
Laurie Garrett sur #H7N9 ; tldr
We are at a mysterious fork in the road. One path leads to years, perhaps decades, of spread of a new type of influenza, occasionally making people sick and killing about 18 percent of them. It’s not a pleasant route, strewn as it is with uncertainties, but no terror seems to lurk on its horizon. The other path, however, wrenches the gut with fear, as it brings worldwide transmission of a dangerous new form of flu that could spread unchecked throughout humanity, testing global solidarity, vaccine production, hospital systems and humanity’s most basic family and community instincts
Le problème avec la grippe, c’est qu’il existe un « lobby de la grippe » qui est très influent dans la sphère politique, et qui s’appuie sur la stratégie de la peur (cf la répétition sur l’exemple de la « grippe espagnole » en 1918).
On sait qu’un jour ou l’autre, un virus aviaire mutera de façon à devenir transmissible et percuter l’humanité jusqu’à ce qu’elle trouve en elle-même une parade (cf. la grande peste). Le problème est qu’en criant au loup à chaque nouvelle mutation annuelle, on finit par exaspérer les populations, qui seront désarmées le jour où la mutation épidémique arrivera.
J’ai beaucoup suivi la question au moment du H5N1 (6 ans déjà !) et depuis, on voit systématiquement les mêmes refrains, les mêmes arguments, la même façon de distiller la peur pour garantir le flux de subvention vers les laboratoire du lobby de la grippe. Le précédent épisode concernait l’étude (pleine de trous) du laboratoire hollandais sur les mutations provoquées autour du virus H5N1. Fabriquer des virus dangereux au prétexte de mieux connaître les mutations mortelles... quand la souche même qui pourrait muter change tout le temps (maintenant, c’est le H7N9).
Reports reveal rapid pauperisation of the Spanish working class - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/02/spai-a02.html
Reports reveal rapid pauperisation of the Spanish working class
By Alejandro López
2 April 2013
Recent reports published by a number of statistical organisations reveal just how massive and rapid the pauperisation of the Spanish working class has been.
Pyongyang menace de frapper des bases américaines | Je ne comprends pas très bien ce qui se passe là-bas, qui provoque quoi, et qui veut quoi, mais ça commence à faire un bruit de fond désagréable.
http://globalpresse.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/pyongyang-menace-de-frapper-des-bases-americaines
Les forces armées nord-coréennes ont été placées en état d’alerte en vue d’effectuer d’éventuelles frappes contre les bases américaines sur le territoire des Etats-Unis, ainsi que sur les îles de Guam et Hawaï, dans le Pacifique, a annoncé l’Agence télégraphique centrale de Corée du Nord (KCNA).
Le comité d’experts géostratégiques mondialement réputé de mon bistrot estime que http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#North_Korean_prostitu est peut-être le symptôme d’un niveau d’agitation sociale inhabituelle en Corée du Nord.
Non, vous n’y êtes pas. D’après la presse « mainstream », le nouveau « Juche », Kim Jong Un, qui est un très jeune homme est sommé par les vieux généraux de l’armée « populaire » de montrer que lui aussi est bien burné. Le problème, c’est que cette bande de cons jouent avec des ogives nucléaires alors qu’ils pourraient aussi bien organiser un concours à celui qui pisse le plus loin. Et là, le jeune trou-du-cul aurait toutes ses chances face à des vieillards prostatiques.
Pour jouer, il faut être deux. Et en face, ça répond.
Les B52 te font pas peur, j’envoie les B2…
http://www.almanar.com.lb/french/adetails.php?eid=104220&cid=19&fromval=1&frid=19&seccatid=33&s1=1
« Les déclarations de la Corée du Nord, qui relèvent de la provocation, donnent en réalité un très bon prétexte à Washington pour étendre ses capacités de défense anti-missile dans la région Asie-Pacifique », a encore dit l’expert russe.
China, the Abnormal Great Power - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
http://carnegieendowment.org/2013/03/05/china-abnormal-great-power/fo53
China’s rising economic influence has leaders around the world on the edge of their seats. But Beijing is an abnormal great power. Its international potential is constrained by significant domestic economic vulnerabilities, and the inward-looking Chinese leadership has yet to craft a nimble and constructive international posture. And as the Chinese economy normalizes, its growing pains are laid bare. All this has the effect of elevating risks and aggravating insecurities in China’s neighborhood and beyond.
Akiva Orr, co-founder of Matzpen, passes away | Israeli Occupation Archive
http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2013-02-13/akiva-orr-co-founder-of-matzpen-passes-away
Expelled from the Communist Party in 1962 for his critical attitude and free thinking, Orr – together with Moshe Machover, Oded Pilavsky and Jeremy Kaplan, formed Matzpen – The Socialist Organisation in Israel. Matzpen was critical of Zionism as a colonial project, in which Zionists came to Palestine to expropriate the indigenous Palestinian population, and not simply to exploit them economically as was the model of much of European colonial regimes throughout the world.
voir le trailer de « Matzpen »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwCz1UVOvbE
Le trailer d’un film sur des Israéliens anti-sionistes courageux
Golda Meir : ’les Palestinens, ça n’existe pas’.
Akiva Orr : ’Qu’est-ce que c’est que cette connerie ? qui est-elle pour nous balancer une telle connerie ?’
In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem | e-flux
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/in-conversation-with-raoul-vaneigem
Hans Ulrich Obrist : I just visited Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, who have written an appeal to Barack Obama. What would your appeal and/or advice be to Obama?
Raoul Vaneigem: I refuse to cultivate any relationship whatsoever with people of power. I agree with the Zapatistas from Chiapas who want nothing to do with either the state or its masters, the multinational mafias. I call for civil disobedience so that local communities can form, coordinate, and begin self-producing natural power, a more natural form of farming, and public services that are finally liberated from the scams of government by the Left or the Right. On the other hand, I welcome the appeal by Chamoiseau, Glissant, and their friends for the creation of an existence in which the poetry of a life rediscovered will put an end to the deadly stranglehold of the commodity.
HUO: Could we talk about your beginnings? How did your participation in situationism begin, and what was your fundamental contribution? At the outset of your relationship with the SI, there was the figure of Henri Lefebvre. What did he mean to you at the time? Why did you decide to send him poetic essays?
RV: I would first like to clarify that situationism is an ideology that the situationists were unanimous in rejecting. The term “situationist” was ever only a token of identification. Its particularity kept us from being mistaken for the throngs of ideologues. I have nothing in common with the spectacular recuperation of a project that, in my case, has remained revolutionary throughout. My participation in a group that has now disappeared was an important moment in my personal evolution, an evolution I have personally pressed on with in the spirit of the situationist project at its most revolutionary. My own radicality absolves me from any label.
A Chinese Web censor snaps, goes on public rant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/09/a-chinese-web-censor-snaps-goes-on-public-rant-against-censorship
We need [Sina] Weibo to deliver voices. But a hand is manipulating behind us. Someone is doomed to be sacrifice in this game.
Signals in China of a More Open Economy - NYTimes.com
By EDWARD WONG
Published: December 9, 2012
BEIJING — In a strong signal of support for greater market-oriented economic policies, Xi Jinping, the new head of the Communist Party, made a visit over the weekend to the special economic zone of Shenzhen in south China, which has stood as a symbol of the nation’s embrace of a state-led form of capitalism since its growth over the last three decades from a fishing enclave to an industrial metropolis.
The trip was Mr. Xi’s first outside Beijing since becoming party chief on Nov. 15. Mr. Xi visited a private Internet company on Friday and went to Lotus Hill Park on Saturday to lay a wreath at a bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping, the leader who opened the era of economic reforms in 1979, when Shenzhen was designated a special economic zone. Mr. Deng famously later visited the city in 1992 to encourage reviving those economic policies after they had stalled following the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 1989.
East of Center » Blog Archive » A Win for All Whistleblowers
http://eastofcenter.tol.org/2012/10/a-win-for-all-whistleblowers
Sur l’élection de Libor Michalek, sous la bannière du #parti_pirate, au Sénat tchèque.
#tchéquie
Vers une critique du #maoïsme
http://libcom.org/history/notes-towards-critique-maoism
“In France, Maoism never had the clout of the much larger main Trotskyist parties (Lutte Ouvriere, the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire and the Organisation Communiste Internationaliste, all of which are still around today, in the latter two cases under different names). Most of the Maoist “Marxist-Leninist” groups had been discredited by their manipulative role during the May–June 1968 general strike, such as one which marched to the barricades on the night of the most serious street fighting (pitting thousands of people against thousands of cops), announced that the whole thing was a government provocation, and urged everyone to go home, as they themselves proceeded to do. But in the spring of 1970, one small ultra-Stalinist and ultra-militant Maoist group, the Gauche Proletarienne (Proletarian Left), momentarily recruited Jean-Paul Sartre to its defense when the government banned it, following some spectacular militant interventions around the country. Sartre, who had over the previous 20 years been successively pro-Soviet, pro-Cuba and then pro-China, saved the GP from extinction, but it collapsed of its own ideological frenzy shortly thereafter. (It notably produced two particularly cretinous neo-liberal ideologues after 1977, Bernard-Henry Levi and Andre Glucksmann, as well as Serge July, editor-in-chief of the now very respectable daily Liberation, which began as the newspaper of the GP.) Former French Maoists turned up in the strangest places, such as Roland Castro, a fire-eating Maoist in 1968, who became an intimate of Socialist President Francois Mitterand, and was appointed to a leading technocratic position.”
#marxisme #chine
Bloody South Africa Mine Massacre Unmasks ANC Neo-Apartheid Regime
http://www.internationalist.org/southafricaminemassacre1208.html
http://www.internationalist.org/marikanaminemassacrewomenb120817.jpg
French Communist Party backs killing of South African miners
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/stal-a21.shtml
After sympathetically quoting South African President Jacob Zuma and cynically expressing its “indignation and horror” at the violence, the brief communiqué published August 17 by the Communist Party (PCF) states: “The PCF reaffirms its solidarity with all the political and trade union forces in South Africa in their struggle to reduce inequality, for progress and for social justice under the true rule of law.”
It is public knowledge that the “political and trade union forces” defended by the PCF ordered and defended the massacre. The African National Congress (ANC) government’s national police commissioner, Riah Phiyega, declared after the massacre that she “gave police the responsibility to execute the task they needed to do.” She opposed any prosecution of those responsible for the miners’ deaths, saying, “This is no time for finger-pointing.”
J’ai été choqué par la nouvelle, alors j’ai vérifié : Le texte du PCF exprime la pleine solidarité avec les ouvriers en lutte. Il faut vraiment chercher la conspiration capitalo-staliniste entre les lignes pour arriver à ces affirmations. Voici la source :
http://www.pcf.fr/27454
Afrique du Sud : le #PCF exprime son indignation et son horreur devant le massacre de mineurs grévistes
Le massacre de 34 mineurs grévistes par la police en #Afrique_du_Sud suscite une profonde émotion. Le Parti communiste français exprime son indignation et son horreur devant une telle violence contre des salariés vivant dans la misère et revendiquant pour leurs salaires et leurs conditions de travail.
Le Président sud-africain, Jacob Zuma, a lui même souligné l’incompréhension suscité par une telle répression. « Nous sommes choqués et consternés par cette violence insensée », a t’il dit en annonçant une commission d’enquête.
Une tragédie meurtrière de cette nature, le peuple sud-africain qui a connu la terreur de l’Apartheid, ne devrait plus en connaître.
Le PCF réaffirme sa solidarité avec l’ensemble des forces politiques et syndicales d’Afrique du Sud dans leur lutte pour réduire les inégalités, pour le progrès et la justice sociales dans un véritable Etat de droit.
#Parti_communiste_français
Pas tendre pour les gauches françaises, la 4e internationale !
French ex-left parties support state persecution of the Roma
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/roma-a21.shtml
By Anthony Torres
21 August 2012
France’s petty-bourgeois parties, including the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle, LO) and the Left Party (PG), are maintaining a deafening silence over President François Hollande’s decision to destroy Roma encampments.
Since the election of the Socialist Party (PS), these outfits have shifted their public position on the persecution of the Roma, which they had previously criticised, albeit hypocritically, when it was being carried out by the previous, conservative president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Millions join general strike in Spain
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/spai-m30.shtml
Yesterday’s general strike against new labour laws imposed by the right-wing Popular Party government was backed by millions.
The two main union federations, the Socialist Party (PSOE)-aligned General Workers Union (Union General de Trabajadores, UGT), and the Communist Party (PCE)-led Workers Commissions (Comisiones Obreras, CC.OO) estimated that the stoppages were supported by 77-80 percent of the workforce. Many more people, unemployed, school children, housewives and students used it as a vehicle to protest government cuts and austerity measures.
Mass stoppages took place in industry, transport and services. The walkout hit road, rail and air service with barely any domestic or European flights in operation.
Nissan, Seat, Ficosa o Valeo and the petrochemical factory in Tarragona were shut down as well as Yamaha and Derbi o Panrico. The PSA Peugeot Citroën plant was opened, but with about 10 percent attendance. In Navarre, factories such as Volkswagen, FCC Logística, Human Koxka, TRW, Kybse o Dana were paralysed. Factories near Madrid closed down. Industry, ports and shipyards in Galicia were idle.
Although the trade unions had agreed minimum transport services of 30 and 35 percent, huge queues formed in all cities. The unions report that 91 percent supported the strike on the railways.
The Danger of Child Sexuality - an interview with Michel Foucault
http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm
alias La loi de la pudeur
Ce texte a des implications qui vont loin au delà des questions évoquées dans son titre. Il est d’une grande actualité car il discute l’avènement de la société sécuritaire et ses définitions. Malheureusement sur le web on ne trouve l’intégralité du texte qu’en anglais.
Cette phrase de Michel Foucault risque d’intéresser Julian Assange :
Listen to what the child says and give it a certain credence. This notion of consent is a trap, in any case. What is sure is that the legal form of an intersexual consent is nonsense. No one signs a contract before making love.
Dans le même contexte il est intéressant de voir à quel point en 1977 l’idée de la liberté sexuelle était présente dans toutes le couches de la sociétie et dans la majorité des courants politiques :
Pétitions françaises contre la majorité sexuelle http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9titions_fran%C3%A7aises_contre_la_majorit%C3%A9_sexuelle
Voire aussi
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_loi_de_la_pudeur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Morality_and_the_Law
Interview with the IASR (Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative from Romania) | libcom.org
http://libcom.org/library/industrial-worker-interview-iasr
The transition was vastly different in comparison with other Eastern European countries, because there were two unique things. For one, Romania was the only Warsaw Pact member, which forcibly overthrew the government and executed the country’s head of state. Romania is also the only country where the actual revolution was considered a coup d’état, orchestrated by the Nomenklatura (the high officials in the Communist Party). So against this particular background, the transition was weird and very suspicious because the state’s capital simply disappeared and was privatized overnight. The former secret police members/collaborators and [Communist] Party members landed in high positions in the government, and ironically many became the multimillionaire businessmen of Romania. So in reality, this once again proves the “new class” theory: the former ruling class is now the new ruling capitalist class. The left in a traditional sense is practically non-existent; the parties are extremely similar due to the fact that the mainstream parties are the offshoots of the National Salvation Front, the governing body of Romania in the first weeks after the revolution, which was formed by the former Communist Party elites. So in mainstream political discourse the left wing is a thing of the past, every discourse is dominated by either pseudo-populist rhetoric coupled with a national Stalinist sentiment, or by traditional capitalist discourse. For anarchism it was worse, because the movement was literally destroyed by two dictatorships: the fascist one during WWII and the Stalinist one after WWII, so people have no idea what anarchism is and what it represents. For some years now, anarchism was associated with only the “punk” scene, so it’s hard to present it as a legitimate socio-political point of view. Our recent work in discovering some old anarchist newspapers from the 1900s and a study about the anarcho-syndicalist movement up until WWII have given us hope in the quest to historically and politically legitimatize it.
Leaked cables spark witch-hunt for Chinese ‘rats’ - The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/leaked-cables-spark-witch-hunt-for-chinese-rats/article2165339
Some of #China’s top academics and human rights activists are being attacked as “rats” and “spies” after their names were revealed as U.S. Embassy sources in the unredacted #WikiLeaks cables
China International Fund : The Queensway syndicate and the Africa trade
http://www.economist.com/node/21525847
une enquête de The Economist sur la captation des ressources minières africaines par un « syndicat » sino-angolais
Over the past seven years [the Queensway syndicate] has signed contracts worth billions of dollars for oil, minerals and diamonds from Africa [on] remarkably profitable terms. If that is right, then they would be depriving some of the world’s poorest people of desperately needed wealth. Because the syndicate has done deals with the regimes in strife-torn places, such as Zimbabwe and Guinea, it may also have indirectly helped sustain violent conflicts.
What MI5’s records on my father tell us about the uses of surveillance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/28/mi5-security-service-records-my-father-surveillance
“I was two years old when my activities first came to the attention of MI5. In 1952, nothing if not thorough, a security service officer carefully filed a copy of an article written by my father in the Daily Worker about the books good Communists should encourage their children to read.”
The Lebanese Left Fails in Syria
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/1786/the-lebanese-left-fails-in-syria
The position of the Communist Party on what is happening in Syria is a failure on both the ethical and political levels. Here, [failure with respect to] the sense that policy [is supposed to] truly serve the interests of the oppressed classes, [and this] makes the party one with a rightwing leadership. It practically rejects the change demanded by the toiling class and the workers in Syria, as well as adopts the regime’s “external conspiracy” narrative. All that remains for the comrades of the political bureau is to participate in the propaganda against the protesters, calling them “conspirators” or “armed gangs.” This is especially [the case] since [the Communist Party’s] Secretary General Khalid Hadada confirmed once again the centrality of “the conspiracy against Syria” in an article of his in al-Safir newspaper (May 28th, 2011). If he rejects the security solution in Syria, he also repudiates “attempted bullying by the outside.”
Traduction de l’article publié dans Al-Akhbar :
http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/13895
Is Three Gorges Dam making China’s worst drought in decades worse? | McClatchy
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/30/114979/is-three-gorges-dam-making-chinas.html
#sécheresse #barrage #Chine
Eric #Hobsbawm: a conversation about #Marx, student riots, the new Left, and the Milibands | Books | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/16/eric-hobsbawm-tristram-hunt-marx
Today, on a side road leading off from the heath, the Marxist ambition remains alive in the house of Eric Hobsbawm. Born in 1917 (in Alexandria, under the British protectorate of Egypt), more than 20 years after both Marx and Engels had died, he knew neither man personally, of course. But talking to Eric in his airy front room, filled with family photos, academic honours and a lifetime of cultural objets, there is an almost tangible sense of connection to the men and their memory.