Questo è il primo di due articoli che trattano del movimento dei gilet gialli in Francia e movimenti simili in tutto il mondo dal punto di vista di un generale inquadramento mondiale del fenomeno. 

World Revolution / Revolución Mundial

For the refoundation of the Fourth International / Por la refundación de la Cuarta Internacional

Born of the decision at the International Conference called by the Partido Obrero of Argentina, the Partido de los Trabajadores of Uruguay, the EEK of Greece, and the DIP of Turkey in Buenos Aires in April 2018, the ambition and aim of our international theoretical-political organ World Revolution is to become an international reference point of militant Marxism for principled debate, political clarification, programmatic demarcation, theoretical re-arming with revolutionary materialist-historical dialectics as a guide of action, regrouping and unification of the revolutionary vanguard fighters now dispersed internationally in fragmentary struggles.

Our battle cry is: for the Permanent Revolution and communism, build the International of world socialist revolution!

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The brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Istanbul Consulate of Saudi Arabia in a way that would arouse the envy of the most professional horror movie director is, on its own, nothing but a wake-up call.  This murder shows the reactionary nature of the state system constituted by the Saudi state, along with its close allies in the Gulf such as Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, and, despite its obvious current contradictions with Saudi Arabia, Qatar.

From the Great French Revolution to the 1880s, that is for a full century, until the Russian revolutionary movement began to stand on its feet, Marx and Engels continuously emphasized that Russia was the was the  primary source of reaction in Europe. What Russia was to 19th century Europe, Saudi Arabia is to the Arab world in the 21st century.

Il 30 settembre, il popolo di un piccolo pacifico paese dei Balcani ha mostrato la sua resistenza contro la politica ricattatrice delle più grandi potenze imperialiste e il loro intervento per piegarlo ai propri interessi: l'ingresso della Repubblica di Macedonia nella alleanza NATO. In questo giorno, macedoni, albanesi, turchi, valacchi, serbi, Rom, bosniaci e membri di tutte le altre etnie della repubblica - in solidarietà attraverso un massiccio e organizzato boicottaggio del referendum illegale - hanno dimostrato unità nella resistenza all'imperialismo e alle élite corrotte che conducevano queste politiche.

Nonostante i forti sforzi di politici di tutto il mondo, come il cancelliere tedesco Angela Merkel, il segretario alla Difesa degli Stati Uniti James Mattis, e il primo ministro austriaco Sebastian Kurz, che ha visitato il nostro paese il mese scorso, e la costosa e manipolativa campagna governativa per la presunta prosperità che il nostro paese avrebbe avuto nella alleanza NATO, non è stata spezzata la resistenza del popolo contro i politici corrotti del paese e di tutto il mondo.

Combattere l'imperialismo e la guerra con la rivoluzione socialista internazionale!

Avanti verso l'Internazionale rivoluzionaria!                                                                                                                                                                      

1.     La dottrina di Trump "Make America Great Again" è una dichiarazione di guerra contro l'Unione Europea, la Russia, la Cina, l'Iran e il resto del mondo, compresa, infine, l'America stessa.

Questo è diventato cristallino, anche tra i più scettici, con l'ultimo viaggio del Presidente degli Stati Uniti in Europa l'11-16 luglio 2018, che è stato giustamente descritto come "cinque giorni di carneficina diplomatica".

The 56th International Antiwar Assembly, organised by the All-Japan Federation of Students’ Self-Governing Associations (the Zengakuren) and the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL), was held in Tokyo as well as six other Japanese cities on the 5th of August 2018, just one day before the anniversary of the brutal nuclear attack of US imperialism to Hiroshima. Even though the solidarity messages of the organizations reflect different approaches to the issue of war and imperialism, the event itself was an important meeting for the discussion of the possibility of a new world war and its consequences. Two members of the Christian Rakovsky Center, DİP (Turkey) and EEK (Greece) sent solidarity messages to the event. Both can be read below.

Message of the Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK)

Dear Comrades,

15 Eylül Cumartesi günü Makedonya’nın Doyran şehrinde Balkanların farklı ülkelerinden sosyalist partiler, devrimci örgütler bir araya geldi. Levitsa’nın ev sahipliğinde yapılan toplantıya Yunanistan’dan DİP’in kardeş partisi EEK’in yanı sıra NAR, OKDE, SEK, DEA, Türkiye’den DİP ve EMEP, Sırbistan’dan Marks21 katıldı. Toplantıda Levitsa ve Makedonya halkıyla dayanışma amacıyla imzalanan bildiriyi yayınlıyoruz:  

18 Haziran'da, Makedonya ve Yunanistan hükümetleri iki ülke arasındaki ilişkileri 25 yılı aşkın süredir etkileyen isim tartışmasına çözüm olarak sundukları bir antlaşmayı imzaladılar. Bu antlaşmanın, iki taraf için de ulusal sorunu çözmek ve iki etnisite arasındaki dostluğu geliştirmek yönünde gerçek bir niyetin sonucu olmadığı, Batı emperyalizminin kurumlarınca, özellikle de NATO ve AB tarafından dayatılmış bir hamle olduğu şüphe götürmez. Bunun başlıca kanıtı, Makedonya hükümetinin isim meselesinin çözümünü Makedonya'nın AB'ye (ve NATO'ya) girişiyle ilişkilendirdiği bir referandum düzenlemeye karar vermesidir.

Η 4^η Ευρω-Μεσογειακή Συνδιάσκεψη τον Μάη του 2017 έδωσε έμφαση στις συνέπειες του πρώτου ταξιδιού του Τραμπ έξω από τις ΗΠΑ στην Σαουδική Αραβία και το Ισραήλ: τον σχηματισμό ενός φιλο-ιμπεριαλιστικού πολεμικού άξονα από το Ισραήλ, την Σαουδική Αραβία, τα Ενωμένα Αραβικά Εμιράτα, την Αίγυπτο και το Σουδάν, ενάντια στο Ιράν και τους συμμάχους του στην περιοχή, πρώτα από όλα την Χεζμπολάχ στον Λίβανο και το Συριακό καθεστώς του Μπασάρ Άλ Άσσαντ.

Αναπόφευκτα ο πρώτος στόχος και θύμα μιας τέτοιας ανίερης συμμαχίας είναι ο Παλαιστινιακός λαός, τα δικαιώματά του στον εθνικό αυτοπροσδιορισμό, περιλαμβανομένου του δικαιώματος στην Επιστροφή όλων των Παλαιστίνιων προσφύγων.

YEMENH

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Iran is fast becoming the centre of a storm in the Middle East and Western Asia in general. The United States under Donald Trump started to implement new sanctions on the country on 6 August. On the other hand, demonstrations are roaming the country and have reached the capital city, Tehran. We are publishing below the transcription of the speech made by the Iranian delegate at the Emergency Euro-Mediterranean Encounter, held in Erethria, Greece on 23-25 July 2018.

Struggles on the right to abortion on demand are being waged around the world, from Poland to Ireland, from Argentina to in all probability very soon the United States. The draft law being debated in the Congress in Argentina is, at this point, the greatest test for the women’s movement and others fighting for women’s emancipation. The draft law passed its first reading in the lower chamber of Congress earlier. It will now be voted in the Senate tomorrow, the 8^th August 2018.

The Emergency Euro-Mediterranean Encounter that convened in Erethria, Greece on 23-25 July 2018 passed, unanimously, a resolution that defends abortion as a right for the women of the entire world. In support of our Argentine sisters, we publish this Declaration on the eve of the voting in the Senate.

The huge development the women's movement has acquired, under increasingly radicalized expressions - direct action, strike, etc. - is inseparable from the general tendency to popular rebellion that is running the world, spurred by the world crisis.

The agreement between the leaders of the Republic of Macedonia and of Greece, Zaev and Tsipras, received the support of 41 intellectuals from around the world as well as from Greece and Macedonia, who published a petition they signed in the British newspaper The Guardian on 20 July 2018. This petition, which is supposed to be written from a left-wing point of view condones the role imperialism has played in all this. A petition that was written as a rebuttal of the first also sidesteps the issue of imperialism and the role it plays in the Balkans. This second petition was also signed by an international set of intellectuals, including certain from Macedonia and Greece. At the time of publishing this, we are not aware whether it has been published yet.

We are publishing an Open Letter by two intellectuals from the region, who are also the leaders of two revolutionary Marxist parties in their respective countries, the EEK of Greece and the DIP of Turkey.

On July 23-25, 2018, an Emergency Euro-Mediterranean Encounter, called by the Balkan Socialist Center “Christian Rakovsky” and the web network RedMed, was successfully held in Eretria, Greece. Its aim was to discuss and take practical steps of action in relation to the dangerous situation produced by the world capitalist crisis and the escalation of war in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Europe, marked by the “diplomatic carnage” of the five days  visit by Trump in Europe (July 11-16, 2018).

The tragedy of the victims of the fires in Greece, the days of the Encounter, moved all the participants who declared, through a special statement, their solidarity.

Revolutionary Marxist and Communist parties, organizations, journals and militants from eleven countries took part in the proceedings.

From Greece: EEK (Workers Revolutionary Party, the host of the event), NAR( New Left Current for Communist Liberation), Syntonismo/ Coordination of Trade Unions, Students, and local movements for the Refugees, plus activists working in “hot spots” for refugees.  

From Turkey : the DIP (Revolutionary Workers Party)

The Emergency Euro-Mediterranean Encounter, an international gathering of revolutionary Marxist workers’ parties and organisations from Europe, North and South, the Middle East, Russia, Africa and Latin America convened in the evening of Monday, 23^rd July 2018 to open its deliberations to last three days in Erethria, Greece, unaware of course of what was to happen that very night. We woke up Tuesday morning to learn to our deep consternation that, the night before, fires had ravaged several areas of Greece and, in certain localities, took a very high toll in terms of human lives. At the time of writing the figure of those who have passed away, had reached an astonishing 76, in addition to a legion of injured, burnt in the fire, hundreds or perhaps thousands of homes scorched, whole communities destroyed.

We are immensely shaken by this tragedy that has befallen the Greek people. We humbly present our condolences to those who have been left behind by the deceased. We extend our best wishes to those who are suffering as a result of their burns. We extend our solidarity and sympathy to the people of Greece.