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L’histoire réunit le destin de nos pays une nouvelle fois. Sauf que cette fois ceux qui nous lient ne sont ni les Sultans et les Pachas, ni l’impérialisme. C’est le peuple ordinaire de nos pays, les ouvriers et les chômeurs, les gagne-pain et les femmes au foyer, les retraitées et les jeunes, surtout les jeunes, les jeunes femmes et les jeunes hommes de nos pays qui se sont réunis pour créer un futur meilleur.
Quelle audace et quel enthousiasme de voir occupées les rues et les plus grandes places de nos pays par de centaines de milliers, voire de millions de personnes début juin en Turquie et fin juin en Égypte ! Quel grand espoir et optimisme pour le futur du Moyen-Orient et d'Afrique du nord !
We call on our Egyptian brothers and sisters to join a common fight against all kinds of oppression. Past history bound us together under the yoke of the Sultans and the Pachas. Present history calls us to fight together to bring down all kinds of oppression and exploitation once and for all. Tahrir and Taksim provide us with the will and the power to do so!
Lo sgombero di Gezi Park da parte della polizia, la notte del 15 giugno, con l'ampio uso di gas lacrimogeni e per la prima volta dei cannoni ad acqua arricchita con liquido urticante, non ha spento il fuoco della ribellione in Turchia.
È vero, la rivolta che seguì l'espulsione e che ha portato a manifestazioni per tutta la notte e l'occupazione delle piazze in diversi quartieri di Istanbul e città di tutto il paese, fu di breve durata. Ma dall'energia continua delle masse nascono nuove forme di azione come gli “standing man”e “standing woman”, in cui alcune persone stanno in piedi in silenzio per ore, in luoghi dove non sono consentite manifestazioni. Questa forma di azione certamente isola gli individui gli uni dagli altri, non è paragonabile alla chiarezza delle masse manifestanti, e, quindi, è una modalità inferiore di protesta. Ma in questo contesto specifico, dove era quasi impossibile organizzare azioni in piazza Taksim, hanno annunciato il ritorno delle masse nel luogo più conteso e hanno sollevato il morale del movimento, dopo la battuta d'arresto causata dall'evacuazione (seguita, tra parentesi, dallo sgombero delle piazze occupate in altre città).
The near equality in strength of the two camps contending for power in Egypt led the army to stage a Bonapartist coup. It is not only the recent episode of unprecedented crowds in the millions coming out on 30 June that has made the army move.
The evacuation of Gezi Park by the police on the night of 15 June through the ample use of tear gas, and for the first time chemically enhanced water cannon, has not extinguished the fire of rebellion in Turkey.
True, the insurgency that followed the evacuation, which involved night-long marches and the occupation of squares in the different neighbourhoods of Istanbul and cities all around the country, was short-lived. But from the continuing energy of the masses burst forth new forms of action such as the ‘standing man’ and ‘standing woman’, in which individuals stand silently for hours at a venue where they are not otherwise permitted to demonstrate. This form of action certainly isolates individuals from each other, is not amenable to voicing grievances explicitly, and hence is an inferior modality of protest. But in this specific context, where it was almost impossible to stage actions on Taksim Square it heralded the return of the masses to the hotly contested space and raised the morale of the movement after the setback caused by the evacuation (followed, incidentally, by the evacuation of occupied squares in other cities).
Las movilizaciones en Brasil comenzaron el 6 de junio, con dos mil manifestantes en el centro de San Pablo contra el tarifazo del transporte en esa ciudad. La represión de esa acción (asi como la de los dos dias siguientes) ordenada por el gobierno estadual (de derecha) y apoyada por el gobierno municipal (PT) fue violentísima, con decenas de heridos y detenidos. Dos semanas después, los manifestantes, en casi todas las capitales y ciudades importantes del país, han superado los dos millones, con un millón em Rio de Janeiro el jueves 20. El tarifazo, reafirmado vehementemente por el gobierno municipal petista y el estadual derechista en los primeiros dias, fue retirado, y hoy es casi una anécdota. Varias otras capitales estaduales y ciudades que habían anunciado aumentos del transporte los retiraron sin que mediara el planteo explícito de uma reivindicación en ese sentido. El anuncio del gobierno paulista retirando el tarifazo, el jueves 20, buscaba vaciar las calles. Fue festejado de imediato en las calles, claro,...
The International Conference on “Europe in crisis: for an internationalist revolutionary alternative”, following the initiative taken in December 2012 by the Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (CRFI), has successfully taken place in Athens, Greece on June 9-10, 2013, hosted by the EEK, Greek Section of the CRFI. They participated in the debates and/or brought their messages of support, representatives from over forty(40) revolutionary and anti-capitalist political parties, organizations, social movements, combative trade-unionists, collectivities of workers’ and citizens groups of struggle and individual militants from four(4) continents and twenty(20) countries.
Biz Avrupa’nın, batısında doğusunda, kuzeyinde güneyinde bulunan 20 ülkesinden, ama ayrıca Ortadoğu, Asya, Afrika ve Latin Amerika’dan gelen, onlarca farklı siyasi örgütte, devrimci ve anti-kapitalist sol partilerde, mücadeleci sendikalarda, sosyal hareketlerde, halkın öz-örgütlenme temelinde oluşturulmuş mücadele kolektiflerinde kavga veren militanlar olarak 9-10 Haziran tarihlerinde Atina’da Uluslararası Avrupa Konferansı’nda bir araya gelmiş bulunuyoruz. Tüm ülkelerdeki işçileri, işsizleri, yoksul ve sosyal olarak dışlanmış kitleleri, dünya kapitalizminin mevcut krizi tarafından yayılan sosyal felaketten çıkış yolu olarak devrimci enternasyonalist bir alternatif için ortak mücadeleye katılmaya çağırıyoruz.
Nosotros, reunidos en la Euro-Conferencia Internacional de Trabajadores los días 9 y 10 de junio en Atenas, militantes provenientes de veinte países de Europa, del Oriente y Occidente, del Norte y Sur, pero también del Medio Oriente, Asia, África y América Latina, luchando en docenas de diferentes organizaciones y partidos políticos de la izquierda revolucionaria y anticapitalista, de sindicatos combativos, de movimientos sociales, de colectivos de lucha popular auto-organizada, llamamos a los trabajadores, a los desempleados, a los pauperizados y las masas sociales excluidas en todos los países a unirse en una misma lucha por una salida revolucionaria e internacionalista de la catástrofe social diseminada por la actual crisis mundial del capitalismo.
Après des jours d’hésitation et de négociation, le gouvernement a finalement décidé d’évacuer la Commune de Taksim, là où des milliers de gens campent dans le parc Gezi et que des dizaines de milliers d’autres ont visité tous les soirs. La police a attaqué le parc Gezi samedi soir (15 Juin). Après l’avoir fait évacuer à l’aide de gaz lacrymogènes et, grande nouveauté, de canons à eau dans laquelle celle-ci est apparemment mélangée à un type particulier de produits chimiques, car elle brûle la peau de tous ceux qu’elle touche, la police a rasé les tentes, l’infirmerie, les cuisines et la bibliothèque qui y avaient été installées.
Le 1er Mai 2013, la police a fait pleuvoir des tonnes de gaz lacrymogène sur des dizaines de milliers de travailleurs et de jeunes dans les différents quartiers d’Istanbul, afin de les empêcher de s’approcher de la place Taksim. Le gouvernement avait décidé que cette place, lieu traditionnel des célébrations du 1er Mai mais aussi de quantité d’actions politiques quotidienne, petites et grandes, devait être fermée aux manifestations pendant toute cette année, et cela parce que des travaux d’aménagement devaient être réalisés sur une grande échelle, impliquant le creusement d’énormes puits dangereux pour les foules de promeneurs. Au cours d’une prestation particulièrement ridicule, le gouverneur d’Istanbul a tenu une conférence de presse, juché au sommet d’un monticule au bord d’une de ces fosses, dans une tentative désespérée de faire comprendre à tout le pays la menace que représentaient ces fosses pour les passants.
Istanbul est devenue un champ de bataille envahi par les gaz lacrymogènes. La police a - sans aucun doute possible à la demande du Premier ministre Tayyip Erdogan et son gouvernement AKP - attaqué les manifestants dans le centre de la ville, près de la place Taksim, pendant cinq jours consécutifs. En soi, cela n’a rien d’une nouveauté : la police turque est célèbre pour sa brutalité dans le traitement des manifestations indésirables aux yeux du gouvernement. Il y a à peine un mois, le 1er Mai, elle a dispersé, sans ménagement et à coup de gaz lacrymogène, un rassemblement de milliers de travailleurs et de syndicalistes. Donc, en soi, il n’y a rien de nouveau sur le front de la police. Cette fois, la nouveauté vient d’ailleurs et c’est elle qui fait toute la différence.
After days of hesitation and negotiation, the government has finally decided to evacuate the Taksim Commune, where thousands camped in Gezi Park and which tens of thousands visited every night. Police attacked Gezi Park yesterday evening and after evacuating it using tear gas and, as a novelty, water cannon apparently supplemented with a special kind of chemical since it burnt the skin of everyone it touched, razed the tents, the infirmary, the kitchens and the library established there to the ground.
We, gathered in the International Workers Euro-Conference on June 9-10, in Athens, militants coming from twenty countries of Europe, West and East, North and South but also from the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latina America, fighting in dozens of various political organizations and parties of the revolutionary and anti-capitalist left, of combative trade unions, of social movements, of collectivities of popular self-organized struggle, we call the workers, unemployed, pauperized and social excluded masses in every country to join into a common struggle for an internationalist revolutionary way out from the social catastrophe spread by the current world crisis of capitalism.
This resolution was adopted unanimously by the International Conference “Europe in Crisis: For a Revolutionary Internationalist Alternative” on 10 June 2013.
“Es una revuelta, no una revolución (todavía)!”, una referencia a la famosa conversación entre el rey Louis XVI y uno de sus asesores durante el estallido de la revolución francesa.
On May Day 2013, the police poured tonnes of tear gas on tens of thousands of workers and youth in different quarters of Istanbul in order to stop them from approaching Taksim Square. The government had decided that this square , the traditional venue for May Day celebrations and home to daily political actions big and small, was to be shut to demonstrations this year because development work was being done on a massive scale involving huge excavated pits making it dangerous for crowds. In a ludicrous act, the governor of Istanbul stood atop a mound at the edge of one of those pits to hold a press conference in a desperate attempt to drive home the threat that these pits represented for people. Exactly one month later, on Saturday June 1, the masses protesting against the urban plans behind this development work and against the government itself had captured the square and made it the freest part of Istanbul, or rather of Turkey! The police withdrew that afternoon from Taksim Square to abandon the place to the thronging crowds of protestors unfathomably numbering in the hundreds of thousands! It has now been three days and not one single soul has fallen into the scarecrow pit...
Estambul se ha convertido en un campo de batalla cubierto por gas lacrimógeno. La policía, sin duda a instancias de Tayyip Erdogan y su gobierno del AKP, ha estado atacando a manifestantes en el centro de la ciudad, cerca de la Plaza de Taksim, por cinco días consecutivos. Esto no habría sido ninguna noticia en absoluto: la policía turca es famosa por su brutalidad en el trato a manifestaciones no bienvenidas por el gobierno. Sólo un mes atrás, el 1° de Mayo, había dispersado una concentración de miles de trabajadores y sindicalistas usando gases lacrimógenos incansablemente. Por lo tanto nada nuevo en el frente de la policía. Esta vez es diferente por otra razón.
Istanbul è diventata un campo di battaglia coperto da gas lacrimogeni. La polizia, senza dubbi e per volere di Tayyip Erdogan e il suo governo AKP, hanno attaccato i manifestanti nel centro della città, vicino a Piazza Taksim, per cinque giorni consecutivi. Questa non e' una novità' : la polizia turca è famosa per la sua brutalità nel trattare con le dimostrazioni sgradite al governo. Solo un mese fa, durante il primo maggio, avevano disperso una mobilitazione di migliaia di lavoratori e sindacalisti usando gas lacrimogeni senza limiti. Quindi niente di nuovo sul fronte della polizia. Questa volta pero' la situazione è diversa per un altro motivo.
Το Ιστανμπούλ έχει γίνει ένα πεδίο μάχης καλυμμένο από τα δακρυγόνα. Η αστυνομία, αναμφίβολα με εντολή του Ταγίπ Ερντογάν και της κυβέρνησής του του Κόμματος της Δικαιοσύνης και Ανάπτυξης, επιτίθεται σε διαδηλωτές στο κέντρο της πόλης, κοντά στην πλατεία Ταξίμ, εδώ και πέντε συνεχόμενες ημέρες. Αυτό βέβαια δεν αποτελεί είδηση: η τουρκική αστυνομία είναι διάσημη για την κτηνωδία της στην αντιμετώπιση των ανεπιθύμητων για την κυβέρνηση διαδηλώσεων. Μόνο πριν από ένα μήνα, την Πρωτομαγιά, διέλυσαν μια συγκέντρωση χιλιάδων εργαζομένων και συνδικαλιστών κάνοντας «απλόχερη» χρήση δακρυγόνων. Συνεπώς, τίποτα νέο στο μέτωπο της αστυνομίας. Αυτή η φορά είναι διαφορετική για έναν άλλο λόγο.
Istanbul has become a battlefield covered by tear gas. The police, no doubt at the behest of Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP government, have been attacking protestors in the centre of the city, near Taksim Square, for five consecutive days. This would have been no news at all: Turkish police are famous for their brutality in dealing with demonstrations unwelcome to the government. Only a month ago, on May Day, they had dispersed a gathering of thousands of workers and unionists using tear gas unsparingly. So nothing new on the police front. This time is different for another reason.
Unisciti alla Conferenza Internazionale “Europa in crisi- per un’alternativa rivoluzionaria internazionale” ad Atene, Grecia, nella sala dell’Unione Nazionale dei Giornalisti, via Akadimias and Voukourestiou , 9-10 Giugno2013
The Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (CRFI) and RedMed are jointly organizing a conference of internationalist revolutionary forces of European countries to meet in Athens, Greece on 9-10 June 2013. The aim is to close ranks among forces fighting against austerity in the different countries of Europe, to determine a common policy against that of the Troyka and the capitalist governments of the countries in question, to organize campaigns and work together in the future, as well as establishing links with the world outside of Europe, in particular the Mediterranean basin. The conference will be held immediately after the Alter Summit to be held in the same city on 7-8 June 2013, in which our forces will be intervening as well. All forces and persons who are determined to fight the assault of the capitalist class and defeat it are welcome to share their ideas with us at the conference.
Απορρίψτε τη ληστεία των καπιταλιστών ληστών!
Ελληνοκύπριοι και Τουρκοκύπριοι, ενωθείτε και παλέψτε!
Για μια Ενιαία Σοσιαλιστική Κύπρο!
Kάτω η ΕΕ! Για τις Ενωμένες Σοσιαλιστικές Πολιτείες της Ευρώπης!
Aşağıdaki bildiri, Güney Kıbrıs’ta doğan ve bütün Avrupa’yı tehdit eden ekonomik kriz bağlamında, Dördüncü Enternasyonal’in Yeniden İnşası Koordinasyonu içindeki kardeş partimiz Yunanistan’dan EEK ile birlikte Devrimci İşçi Partisi tarafından yayınlanmıştır. Bildirinin orijinali İngilizce hazırlanmıştır. Burada yayınlanmakta olan, İngilizce metnin Türkçe çevirisidir.
Le Forum Social Mondial 2013 a ouvert ses portes mardi, le 26 Mars 2013, à Tunis, la capitale de Tunisie. Une manifestation qui a commencé au centre-ville s’est dirigé, après une marche qui a duré plus de trois heures au stade Menzah, sur une scène près duquel a tenu lieu la cérémonie d’ouverture.
The Troika has burned its fingers in Cyprus. It overshot and the brutal measures that it tried to impose on the people of Cyprus fired back. It tried to impose, in addition to a near 10 per cent one-off levy on the Russian money launderers, a near 7 per cent levy also on the small depositors of the island: workers and peasants, widows and pensioners were all robbed of their hard-won savings of years! The people of Cyprus immediately took to the streets and rejected these measures. In the vote taken in the Cypriot parliament in the South, not one single deputy voted for the measures agreed to by a president elected by a majority of the people less than a month ago! Total defeat for Merkel, the new tsaritsa of Europe! Shameful rejection for EU imperialism! Tiny Cyprus, producing 0.2 per cent of the overall GDP of the EU, is now threatening a collapse of the whole system!
The revolutionary tissue of the Mediterranean is being woven in ever tighter knots. In a new display of the combative mood of the working classes of the different Mediterranean countries, the workers of a steel plant in Egypt (Kouta Steel) sent their greetings of solidarity to the workers of a factory in Thessaloniki, Greece by the name of Vio.Me, which has lately become a self-managed factory.
Vio.Me earlier had benefited from internationalist solidarity from Argentina. The Argentinian section of the Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (CRFI), Partido Obrero, had been very much involved in the takeover and self-management of factories by the workers during and in the aftermath of the economic crisis in 2001. In December 2012, during a meeting organised by the Ergatiko Epanastatiko Comma (EEK-Workers’ Revolutionary Party), our Greek section, a workers’ delegation from Vio.Me had the possibility of meeting with the representatives of the PO, who readily informed them on how the Argentinian workers had proceeded. International solidarity thus bore very concrete fruits for the Vio.Me workers.
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L’assassinat de Chokri Belaïd, secrétaire général du Parti unifié des patriotes démocrates et un des leaders du Front populaire pour la réalisation des objectifs de la révolution, dont fait partie son courant, est un fait d’énorme importance pour la révolution tunisienne et les luttes de classes dans le monde arabe.
These attacks targeting women do not raise fear, they cultivate anger. Rather than abandoning the streets, Egyptian women have been organizing demonstrations for days. As women militants of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (DIP), we salute the courage of the revolutionary women of Egypt. And we call women around the world to fight against sexual harassment and rape!
Bugün kadınları hedef alan bu saldırılar Mısır’da korkuyu değil öfkeyi besliyor. Mısırlı kadınlar, bu saldırılar karşısında sinip alanları terk etmek yerine günlerdir eylemler düzenliyorlar. DİP’li kadınlar olarak, Mısırlı devrimci kadınların cesaretini selamlıyor, tüm dünyada kadınları cinsel tacize ve tecavüze karşı mücadele etmeye çağırıyoruz!
Tunus devriminin önde gelen önderlerinden biri, iktidardaki liberal İslamcı Ennahda’nın silahlı milisleri veya Selefi çeteler tarafından katledildi. Kendisini Marksist olarak niteleyen Birleşik Demokrat Yurtseverler Partisi Genel Sekreteri Şükrü Belaid bir suikaste kurban gitti. Belaid aynı zamanda solcu, pan-Arap milliyetçisi ve çevreci 12 partiden ve çevreden ve ayrıca bireylerden oluşan Devrimin Hedeflerinin Gerçekleşmesi İçin Halk Cephesi adlı ittifakın da önde gelen liderlerinden biri idi.
Il Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori(PCL) si presenta alle elezioni politiche sulla base di un programma anticapitalista: l'unico programma realmente contrapposto all'”agenda Monti”, a partire dalle ragioni del lavoro e di tutti gli sfruttati. L'Agenda Monti è il programma degli industriali, dei banchieri, del Vaticano, già votato in Parlamento da tutti i principali partiti ( PD, PDL, UDC). L'ipocrisia che la circonda regna oggi sovrana.
Two years ago, in the wake of the revolutionary uprising in Tunisia in December 2010- January 2011, on the 25th of January 2011, the Egyptian people rose in rage against the 30-year dictatorship that had been ruling the country under the iron fist of Hosni Mubarak. For 18 days they fought for bread, jobs, freedom, and dignity. They occupied Tahrir Square, that aptly named square, whose name, “Emancipation” in Arabic, later resounded throughout the world symbolising the struggle of the masses everywhere. They fought the “Battle of the Camel” against the hired thugs of the regime, the notorious “Baltadji”. From 7 February on the working class staged a strong strike movement in industry, in transportation, in the docks of the Suez Canal and elsewhere. The system now had to sacrifice the dictator. Mubarak came tumbling down. The Egyptian masses thus proved to the world that the will power and courage of ordinary people, if they come together in their millions, will overcome the mightiest dictatorship.
Türkiye’deki mücadele üzerinde devasa etkiler yaratabilecek bir cinayet başka bir ülkede, Fransa’nın başkenti Paris’te yaşandı. Bu, işçi sınıfının devrimci öncüsünün uluslararası alanda örgütlenmesinin, yani bir dünya partisinin önemini hissetmemize yol açabilecek somut bir örnek. Devrimci İşçi Partisi, böyle bir devrimci işçi Enternasyonalinin inşası için Dördüncü Enternasyonal’in Yeniden Kuruluş Koordinasyonu’nu (DEYK/CRFI) destekliyor. DEYK/CRFI’ı destekleyen üç parti (biri DİP), Paris’te yaşanan cinayetler üzerine son günlerde bir bildiri yayınladı. Bildiri, Fransa işçi hareketine ve soluna hitap ettiği için, orijinali Fransızca olarak kaleme alınmış bulunuyor. Bildiri, DEYK/CRFI’ın Fransa’daki sempatizanları tarafından bütün ilgili Fransız örgütlerine iletiliyor. Aşağıda bu Fransızca bildirinin Türkçesini yayınlıyoruz. Ayrıca, bildiriyi orijinal dili olan Fransazca’da da yayınlıyoruz. Bildiri, Latin Amerika’da da DEYK/CRFI’ın Arjantin örgütü olan Partido Obrero’nun (İşçi Partisi) sitesinde İspanyolca olarak yayınlanmış bulunuyor.
L’assassinat à Paris de trois militantes kurdes de la mouvance du PKK est un fait d’une grande importance. D’abord parce qu’il survient juste à la suite de l’annonce d’une série de pourparlers entre l’Etat turc et Abdullah Ocalan, le leader du PKK en prison, visant à une solution politique à la guerre entre l’armée turque et la guérilla du PKK. Cet assassinat entame l’espoir que cette annonce avait créé auprès du peuple kurde et les milieux progressistes turcs. Puis, et non de moindre importance, c’est la première fois dans la longue histoire de ladite guerre qui perdure depuis 28 ans que des hauts représentants du PKK soient assassinés. Sakine Cansiz, la plus importante cadre parmi les trois militantes, est fondatrice du PKK (elle a donc fait partie du mouvement depuis au moins 1978). Elle était également sa représentante en l’Allemagne depuis longtemps. « Rojbin » Fidan Dogan, pour sa part, servait de porte-parole du KNK, le Congrès National du Kurdistan, une des très diverses organisations que le PKK a créées pour faire entendre en étranger la voix trop longtemps réduite au silence du peuple kurde.
The worst fears of the ruling classes of Greece and Europe are becoming true: an uncontrollable social explosion is under way in Greece. When these lines are written, late in the night on February 12-13, 2012, the violent clashes and street fights between demonstrators and the riot police, in the center of Athens and in other cities all over the country, still continue. The phony “majority” that just voted in Parliament the new package of measures of social cannibalism imposed by the troika of the EU, the European Central Bank, and the IMF cannot and will not stop the Greek social wild fire to expand in the country and spread beyond Greece, all over Europe and internationally.
The people made their voices very clear on the streets: No to everything proposed! No to all making and supporting the proposals!