Abimael Gusman - Anti-communist inquisitors or how to bury a myth?

Every year, on the same day, they gather to celebrate, but above all to recall their great contribution, without compensation, to the rescue of democracy in Peru, as they claim. They are retired policemen of various ranks, members of GEIN, the special intelligence unit set up within the National Anti-Terrorist Directorate, the notorious DINCOTE. They started in the early 1990s under the presidency of the social democrat Garcia and continued during the years of the fascist Fuhimori. Operation Victoria. Eighty-six carefully selected police officers, led by Captain Benedicto Jimenez, went on the hunt for the leadership of the illegal Communist Party of Peru after being recruited, trained and equipped with advanced technology hardware by the US Embassy in Lima and the CIA.

Stan Swamy lived a life of service to the poor and oppressed. He paid for his commitment

 

Stan Swamy died Monday afternoon in the Holy Family Hospital in Bandra, Mumbai. A thorn in the Narendra Modi government’s unknown plan for development in the forests of Jharkhand has been removed. Those who wanted him out of the way will be happy — though crocodile tears may be shed.
Citizens of this ancient land who have a heart will shed a genuine tear or two. I am one of those who is grieved. There will be many more like me, some vocal but mostly silent mourners whose cerebral dislike for injustice rankles in their guts. I may be categorised as a co-religionist of the Jesuit priest, but the great majority of the mourners cannot be accused of even a whiff of parochial feelings.

Concerning Violence

Colonialism is not a thinking machine nor a body endowed with reasoning faaculties. It is violence in its natural state and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.

 
 WATCH CONCERNING VIOLENCE HERE

 Göran Hugo Olsson’s Concerning Violence is the first major film to grapple with the work of the influential Martinican author and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon since Isaac Julien’s biographical documentary Frantz Fa
non: Black Skin, White Mask (1995). Whereas the earlier film took a holistic, if esoteric, approach to appraising Fanon’s life and ideas (including his upbringing in Martinique, education in France and work in Algeria), the punchy Concerning Violence focuses on a specific sliver: the opening chapter of Fanon’s classic text The Wretched of the Earth (1961), in which the author posits the act of one nation colonising another as a form of pure, subjugating violence. Fanon also discusses violence – in the context of uprising and rebellion – as a means of liberation and physical, spiritual catharsis for the oppressed.

Peru: Anouncement of People’s Movement Peru

 

 

 FAILURE OF THE REACTIONARY ELECTIONS,

THE ROLE OF THE LOD (MOVADEF)

AND THE ACTIONS OF THE “FEUDAL WARLORDS” OF VRAEM

 

 

 

 

“Destroy bureaucratic capitalism, both private and state; confiscate all its properties, goods and economic rights for the benefit of the new state, as well as those corresponding to imperialism”.

(1st Congress of the Communist Party of Peru, General Programme of the Democratic Revolution)

 

The faction of the bureaucratic bourgeoisie in the second round of the general elections for the replacement of the reactionary authorities of the old landlord-bureaucratic state at the service of imperialism, mainly Yankee, as a consequence of the resounding failure of this reactionary electoral process 2021, by those farcical traps of the farce itself which are the reactionary elections, will be represented by the candidate of the “Peru Libre” party, Castillo.

Men, Women Fighters, and Che Guevara Banners: Socialists of Gaza Take Center Stage (PHOTOS)

 

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Palestine’s largest socialist movement, held a large rally in Gaza City on Wednesday, June 2. 

The rally was held under the banner of celebrating the victory of the Resistance in the latest Israeli war on the besieged Strip, which started on May 10 and lasted for 11 days. 

The rally was also motivated by another objective, asserting the centrality of the socialist movement in Palestinian resistance and political discourse. 

Thousands of Palestinians, mostly PFLP supporters, turned out to the massive rally, where hundreds of men and women fighters marched in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City.

ON THE GREAT UPRISING OF THE COLOMBIAN PEOPLE

REPORT OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF COLOMBIA (RED FRACTION)

Three weeks have already passed since the beginning of the national strike in Colombia on April 28. Three weeks of uninterrupted protests which initially targeted an anti-popular tax reform proposal presented to the congress but which have turned into a real popular uprising against the government of the reactionary Iván Duque and his party the Democratic Centreⁱ, led by the landowner, paramilitary chief and genocidal leader Álvaro Uribe Vélez, an enemy of the people deeply hated by the Colombian masses especially for having commanded the thousands of extrajudicial executions (known as „falsos positivos“) that were carried out in the country by the reactionary armed forces during his mandate (2002-2010) in the midst of the war of the old state against the revisionist guerrillas of the FARCⁱⁱ and the ELNⁱⁱⁱ.

A Ceasefire Isn’t Enough – It’s Time to End the Occupation

By Shabbir Lakha

On Saturday 15 May, as the bombs were raining down over Gaza, 150,000 people shut down the streets of London and laid siege on the Israeli embassy. It was a sight to behold. People of all ages, from all communities came together, united in rage and solidarity. It was one of 77 protests taking place across the UK and marked the biggest Palestine protests since 2014.

Israel has now agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza, but only after killing over 230 Palestinians, almost a third of them children, and only after bombing homes, medical facilities, schools and key infrastructure. The ceasefire had been on the table for a week, but with the backing of Biden vetoing a UN call for a ceasefire thrice, Israel repeatedly rejected it and deliberately chose to escalate its bombardment no matter the civilian casualties.

The ceasefire is welcome. It will wind down the barbarity we have witnessed in the last eleven days. But as the BBC’s Paul Adams admitted,

These episodes follow a familiar pattern: Israel presses home its undoubted military advantage until the international outcry over civilian casualties, and a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, demand that the operation end.

Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union stages protest in Bathinda on March 15th

With resolute determination the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union representing the dalit landless agricultural labour, continues to flash the torch of resistance. The agricultural labour are merciless victims of the Agricultural bills and engripped by the ruler’s policies which patronise neo-colonial slavery. On the invitation of Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union State Committee, thousands of farm labourers men and women on March 15th protested against agricultural laws, amendments in labour laws and oppression on Dalits in the local grain market. Morally the spark of revolutionary resistance against the neo-fascist attacks of the rulers was ignited.I was present at the rally. In my view the gathering was not so large comprising around 5000 people, but still had important qualitative impact. For two weeks meticulous preparations were made for this event, particularly in the Malwa region. It is significant that a separate rally only for the landless agricultural labourers was staged as distinctive from the landed peasantry. The wrath the participants had against the present rulers was written on their faces as though a flame was burning within. They clearly understood the fascist nature of the bills introduced by prime minister Modi which made them hapless victims of the Corporates.I was impressed with the lucidity or cogeal nature of the speeches which at the very root explained the deep penetration of neo-fascism in the Indian economy, giving striking emphasis to the proto-fascist policies of the current Modi led Bharatiya Janata party.It continued the pattern of several qualitatively impactful protest rallies conducted by the PKMU in Bathinda at state level, in recent years. Another aspect that touched me was the intensive participation and great presence of women, who looked like holding half the sky.

Freedom for Pablo Hasél

Rappers from Mexico and Colombia show solidarity with Pablo Hasél

Latin American rappers spoke out on social media after Pablo Hasél's arrest and threat to freedom of expression


The imprisonment of rapper  Pablo Hasél has caused international controversy and outrage. Amid the pandemic, Spanish youths have been in the streets for eight days protesting and clashing with police.

Artists from all over the world have been quick to show solidarity with the rapper, who has been imprisoned for glorifying terrorism, insulting the Spanish Crown and state institutions.

Crackdown and state terrorism all over Greece, on the pretext of demonstrations in memory of the murdered student, Alexis Grigoropoulos

 

Today, on December 6th 2020, 12 years have passed since the murder of the 15 year-old student Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was shot dead by the police officer Korkoneas, under the state's responsibility. This murder didn't only shake Greece, but peoples all around the globe.

This murder was the straw that broke the camel's back and brought about a youth uprising, since they saw their own reflection in the face of Grigoropoulos, given the fundamental crisis of the capitalist-imperialist crisis, with a future that is both uncertain and without any prospect. School and university students as well as broader parts of the Greek youth were daily protesting and organising demonstrations, take-overs and assemblies in schools and universities. In front of the beating, the tear-gas and the arrests they were more and more infuriated, because they understood more and more that Alexis Grigoropoulos' death was not an accident, but the real face of this rotting system.

No to the deportation of Dr. Banu Büyükavcı from Germany!

The Nuremberg Department of Foreigners and the German state started the deportation process of Dr. Banu Büyükavcı for "reasons of public interest". Dr. Banu Büyükavcı is known for the long-running political trial in Munich of the Turkish Communists of TKP / ML , known as the "Munich Communist Trial". 

She is one of the ten, arrested in the international police operation in five European countries, coordinated and organized by the German state, on April 15, 2015 on charges of being members of the TKP / ML, under Article 129 / b of the German Penal Code. The trial ended on July 28, 2020, and the ten communists were sentenced from 2 years and 9 months to 6 years and 9 months in prison. Banu Büyükavcı was sentenced to 3 years and six months in prison while she was remanded in custody for 32 months, 4 of which in complete isolation and was released on parole on 19 February 2018.

The people of France fight back against Macrons new secutity law

Thousands of French people took to the streets to demonstrate against the new law of "National Security". Despite the state of emergency and the states measures against the pandemic, tens of thousands defied the bans all over France and demonstrated. Police and demonstrators have clashed in Paris despite the tear gasses and the water cannons used.

250 Million Workers And Farmers Strike Nationwide In India

India saw one of the biggest nationwide strikes by workers, joined by protesting farmers today. Several states saw a complete shutdown. Over 250 million workers across sectors participated in the strike, called by 10 central trade unions and hundreds of worker associations and federations.

Kerala, Puducherry, Odisha, Assam and Telangana witnessed a complete shutdown while normal life was partially affected in several other states as workers struck work and took to the streets, protesting against the “anti-worker” and pro-corporate policies and labour laws as well as the new farm laws brought in by the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata party government, among other demands.

TKP/ML Central Committee – Politburo: “Those who become the sun to the mornings so that no one woke up to the darkness!”…TİKKO Dersim Regional Commander Özgür and the Fighter Asmin are Immortal!

 

Our Working People of Turkish, Kurdish and Various Nationalities and the Guarantee of Our Fight the International Proletariat;

In these days when the fascist dictatorship thinks it is invincible; In these years when the all-out attacks against all masses of people, especially the guerrilla forces, continued uninterruptedly; In this period of military occupation and aggression from Rojava to North Africa, from the Caucasus to the Eastern Mediterranean; in these times when chauvinism seizes minds with a heinous siege; In these conditions where liquidationism is substituted for the power perspective politics with the by turning the decline in the class struggle into a politics of “preserving power”, “reconciliation”, “pacification”, “reformism”; In this process, where the technological power of the fascist dictatorship was exaggerated and the battlefields were abandoned; In this situation, where the darkest state of darkness collapses like a nightmare, where despair stalks, unbelief swarms, the most reckless and worst forms of the counter-revolution are experienced and which surrounds the spirit of the time, our Party continues to challenge this whole process by shouting the slogan “Long Live the Victory of the People’s War” in Dersim.

ATHENS: NEO-NAZI ‘’GOLDEN DAWN’’ TRIAL Conviction combined with state repression Which “democracy” won?

More than 25,000 people gathered on Alexandras Avenue and surrounding streets _­­erupted in applause with the announcement of the decision of the Criminal Court of Appeals at the Golden Dawn trial. Only minutes later, riot police attacked with an obvious predetermined government plan to dismantle the rally with chemicals, flash grenades and water spraying from modern their new armored vehicles. The largest part (including our block) walked towards Vassilissis Sofias Avenue and completed the demonstration at the Parliament, while the smaller one headed towards Patision Avenue.

Four Dalit Women Raped Every Day’: Why Caste Matters In Sexual Assault

A 20-year-old Dalit woman from western Uttar A 20-year-old woman from the Scheduled Caste community from western Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, who was allegedly brutally assaulted and gang-raped by four caste men from her village, died nearly two weeks after the attack. She was fighting for her life in the intensive care unit of a government hospital. The incident took place on September 14 at a village in the district, some 200 KM from Delhi. Doctors at the hospital said that the woman's tongue was cut and she has multiple fractures all over her body. All four accused have been arrested and sent to jail under the charge of gang-rape and murder. Media Questioned For Mentioning Castes Of Victim, Perpetrator Media houses are often questioned for mentioning the caste of the victim/survivor and perpetrators involved in such crimes.

TKP/ML CENTRAL COMMITTEE – POLITBURO: To Nubar and Rosa Comrades Who Keep On The Line of 1st Congress of Our Party!

 

To Kurdish, Turkish and Various Nationalities and to Our Working Class and Working People,  On September 6-9, 2020, our party’s two brave cadres and fighters who cursed the frustration, confronted the counter-revolutionary attack with revolutionary war, fueled the fire of hope, and tested with faith-determination-science-practice, were immortalized in a large-scale military operation.

Common statement signed by Greek activists, academics, writers and students Save the life of the Indian writer and activist Varavara Rao!

(The list of signatures is being updated)

Varavara Rao, a poet, a writer, an activist and an advocate of democratic and social rights for decades against the arbitrariness of Indian governments, has been jailed for almost two years along with ten other activists, lawyers, journalists, etc. They are all accused of inciting violent incidents in the Bhima Koregaon case, a charge that is considered false, while the government for the last two years has failed to prove the charges in court to start the trial. The conditions in the prisons, where these prisoners of conscience are being held, are said to be unhealthy and the threat of the Coronavirus pandemic spreading has increased the risks. Varavara Rao, at the age of 80, has been tested and proved to be positive for COVID-19 and has many concomitant illnesses. His condition reveals the absolute neglect of his health by the prison authorities. We join our voices with academics from all over the world, intellectuals, journalists, members of the Indian Parliament, international humanitarian organizations, the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) and others, and we demand the immediate release of Varavara Rao and the other pre-trial imprisoned activists of the same case.

Chained Muse: Notes from Prison by Varavara Rao

In November 2019, when the Bhima Koregaon accused were still housed in Yerawada Central Prison and their case had not yet been transferred to the NIA, the Telugu poet penned some thoughts about his experience there, and the carceral nature of the state.

With news coming in about the worsening health of Varavara Rao (VV), his family held an urgent press conference on July 12, 2020 to demand adequate medical care for the incarcerated 80-year-old Telugu poet. Held in prison for the past 22 months as an under-trial in the Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case, VV’s health has become a crucial cause of concern since May 28, when he fell seriously ill and had to be hospitalised in the Taloja Central Prison and later was shifted to the state-run JJ Hospital.

Callous Disregard For The Health Of Varavara Rao Must Be Condemned! Release Him Immediately!

Release Varavara Rao immediately! Condemn the State’s blatant and callous disregard for the health of the 80-year-old revolutionary poet! Demand the release of all political prisoners!

The Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) demands the immediate release of the revolutionary poet Varavara Rao who has tested positive for COVID-19. As per information received by family members, Varavara Rao’s health has rapidly deteriorated over the last couple of weeks. This is also evidenced by his weakening physical state, incoherent speech and inability to independently perform daily or bodily functions. After persistent efforts of family members in highlighting his health condition, the jail authorities, who had denied these concerns, were compelled to shift Varavara Rao to JJ Hospital in Mumbai on July 13th.