[International Delegation Releases Report and Calls On the Indian Government to Address Violations of the Labor and Human Rights of Maruti Suzuki Workers] June 27, 2013 New Delhi, India Today, 27 June, 2013, the International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) released the report entitled, “Merchants of Menace: Repressing workers in India’s new industrial belt, Violations […]
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Communist and Workers Parties condemn intervention in Syria
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following resolution on Syria that was signed by many of the parties present at the 22nd International Communist Seminar. Freedom Road Socialist Organization was among the signers.
Resolution on Syria
We, the undersigned parties present at the 22nd International Communist Seminar
1) reaffirm that the subversive policies and activities of imperialism in order to impose its hegemony in the Middle East are the main reason behind all conflicts, tensions and wars in the region. US and EU imperialism and the NATO, along with Israel and the pro-imperialist reactionary regimes of the region (such as Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia) share a common responsibility for the crimes against the peoples of the region.
2) condemn the instrumentalization by imperialism and its allies in the region of inter-religious divergences and conflicts. Imperialism intervenes brutally in the internal affairs of states, supporting domestic reactionary forces, and does not hesitate to intervene directly, supporting provocative fundamentalist and terrorist organisations under the pretext of “humanitarian interventions”.
3) condemn the Israeli military aggression against Syria, in blatant violation of international law and condemn imperialism’s unconditional support for these bellicose acts.
4) support the absolute right of the Syrian people, who suffer from subversive attacks and terrorist actions supported by imperialism and the reactionary regimes of the region, to determine their political path and leadership without any foreign interference. We declare our complete and unreserved solidarity with the people of Syria.
1. Algeria, Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme (PADS)
2. Azerbaijan, Communist Party of Azerbaijan
3. Belarus, Belarussian Communist Workers’ Party
4. Belgium, Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB)
5. Bénin, Parti Communiste du Bénin
6. Brazil, Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB)
7. Brazil, Partido Patria Livre (PPL)
8. Bulgaria, Party of Bulgarian Communists
9. Cyprus, Progressive Party of the Working People (AKEL)
10. Denmark, Communist Party of Denmark
11. France, Union des Révolutionnaires Communistes de France (URCF)
12. France, Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France (PRCF)
13. Germany, German Communist Party (DKP)
14. Greece, Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
15. Hungary, Hungarian Workers’ Party
16. Iran, Tudeh Party of Iran
17. Ireland, Workers’ Party of Ireland
18. Lebanon, Lebanese Communist Party
19. Luxembourg, Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL)
20. Malta, Communist Party of Malta
21. Mexico, Partido Popular Socialista de México
22. Netherlands, New Communist Pary of Netherlands (NCPN)
23. Palestine, Palestinian Communist Party
24. Philippines, Communist Party of the Philippines
25. Portugal, Portuguese Communist Party
26. Serbia, New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
27. South Sudan, Communist Party of South Sudan
28. Spain, Communist Party of Spain (PCE)
29. Spain, Spanish Communist Workers’ Party (PCOE)
30. Sri Lanka, People’s Liberation Front – JVP
31. Sweden, Communist Party (KP)
32. Switzerland, Parti Suisse du Travail
33. Tunisia, Parti des Patriotes et Démocrates Uni
34. Turkey, Communist Party of Turkey (TKP)
35. USA, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO)
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Jun 28: 100,000 Students And Workers March Demanding End To Rich-Poor
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc280613C.htm 100,000 Students And Workers March Demanding End To Rich-Poor Divide In Chile By Countercurrents.org Chile police have arrested 224 students, including some 100 minors in protests and sweeps to clear schools of occupiers demanding education reform, said media reports. According to the country’s Interior Minister Andres Chadwick, protesting students occupied 28 schools including 21 […]
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Anti-war groups call for action against intervention in Syria
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from anti-war organizations calling for National Days of Action, June 28- July 17, to oppose the war on Syria.
United Statement and Call for Action to Oppose U.S./NATO and Israeli War on Syria
No more wars – U.S. out of the Middle East!
National Days of Action, June 28- July 17, 2013
The White House’s June 13th announcement that it would begin directly supplying arms to the opposition in Syria is a dramatic escalation of the U.S./NATO war against that country. Thousands of U.S. troops and intelligence personnel are training opposition forces and coordinating operations in Turkey and Jordan. Israel, the recipient of more than $3 billion annually in U.S. military aid has carried out heavy bombing raids against Syria. The Pentagon has developed plans for a “no-fly” zone over Syria, threatening a new U.S. air war.
The pretext for this escalation is the assertion, presented without any actual evidence, that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in the conflict that has been raging for more than two years. Like their predecessors, President Obama and other top U.S. officials pretend to be concerned about “democracy” and “human rights” in Syria, but their closest allies in the campaign against Syria are police-state, absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Once again the so-called ‘Responsibility to protect’, R2P, is used as a pretext for NATO to dominate this region.
Just as the false claim of “weapons of mass destruction” was used as justification for the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the allegations that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian military is meant to mask the real motives of Washington and its allies. Their aim is to carry out “regime change,” as part of the drive to create a “new Middle East.”
The invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya, the now-escalating war in Syria and the growing threats against Iran are part of a coordinated regional effort by the United States, Britain and France to dominate this oil-rich and strategic region.
The U.S. government cuts basic services and has eliminated hundreds of thousands of public sector workers jobs in the last three years in the name of a discredited austerity which has destroyed the economy, but has unlimited billions available for wars of aggression and NSA surveillance of almost every American.
We join together to call for National Days of Action, June 28- July 15, 2013, to demand:
Stop the U.S./NATO/Israeli war and all forms of intervention against Syria!
• Self-determination free from outside intervention for the Syrian people!
• Fund people’s needs, not the military!
• U.S. Out of the Middle East!Endorsers:
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)
United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ)
AFI3RM
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines
Arab Americans for Peace
Arab Americans for Syria – AA4S
BAYAN USA
CRI-Panafricain
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Global Network Against Nuclear Power in Space
Green Party of the United States
Honduras Resistencia USA
International Action Center
International Coalition to Free the Angola 3
Iran Working Group VFP
KmB Pro-People Youth
March Forward!
May 1 Workers and Immigrant Rights Coalition
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum
Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
Revival of Panafricanism Forum
SI Solidarity with Iran
Socialist Action
Syrian American Forum
The Green Shadow Cabinet
U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
U.S. Peace Council
Ugnayan (Linking the Children of the Motherland)
Veterans For Peace
World Can’t Wait
Akbar Muhammad, International Representative, Nation of Islam
Ardeshir Ommani, President, American Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC)
David Swanson, RootsAction
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report (organization for identification purpose only)
Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild
Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, candidates, Green Party
Jim Lafferty, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild/Los Angeles
Margaret Flowers & Kevin Zeese, PopularResistance
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report (organization for identification purpose only)
Nada Khader, WESPAC
Prof. Jared Ball, radio host
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general
Ron Jacobs, journalist
Sami Ramadani, journalist and scholar
Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
ANAKBAYAN Los Angeles and San Diego
BAYAN-SOCAL
Bob Carter, Justice for Palestinians, Houston (organization for identification purpose only)
Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel
Community Futures Collective
Eugene E Ruyle, Peace and Freedom Party
Habi Arts
Kevin Akin, California State Chair, Peace and Freedom Party
LEF Foundation
Los Angeles Peace Council
Maine Code Pink
Peace and Freedom Party, Santa Cruz County
Peoples Video Network
Puerto Rican Alliance-LA
RI Peoples Assembly
RI SOS Save Our Schools Coalition
RI Unemployed Council
Sabah Jawad, Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation
School of the Americas Watch – LA (SOA Watch-LA)
SiGAw-GABRIELA USA
Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC)
Stop the War Machine, New Mexico
Teach Peace Foundation, Sacramento, Calif.
The Dream Team 2013, RI
Union of Progressive Iranians
West County Toxics Coalition, Richmond, Calif.To endorse the call and actions, click here: https://www.unacpeace.org/No_Syria_War_support.html
For your local information on actions, click here: https://www.unacpeace.org/Syria_actions.html
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Why is international media ignoring current protests in Bulgaria by Petya K. Grady ?
Bulgarians have been out on the streets for a week by the thousands but with very few exceptions, international media outlets have chosen not to cover the protests.
On the surface, the decision makes sense. People in Sofia took to the streets a week ago today after Delyan Peevski – a well known oligarch, media mogul and politician – was appointed chief of Bulgaria’s State Agency for
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Kolkata – KNS statement against government’s attempts to silence protest movements
Statement by Krantikari Naujawan Sabha The chit fund owned, state government bootlicking media of West Bengal are labeling the protesting villagers of Kamduni and activists and supporters of the movement as “Maoists” – oppose the continuous misrepresentation by the government of the anti-violence against women movement. Last 21st June, against rape, called by intellectuals and […]
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Excessive violence used by Turkish police during protests, say Council of Europe: On this 26th Day of June Democrcay and Class Struggle call for an investigation of Turkish Government Torture of peaceful protestors
Even the European Council friends of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unable to defend Turkish Government violence and call it excessive.
See Also Amnesty International Report from beginning of June condemning Turkish Government violence here :
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/turkey-disgraceful-use-excessive-police-force-istanbul-2013-06-01On this United Nations International Day against Torture we
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Communist and Workers Parties in solidarity with Cuba
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following resolution on Cuba that was signed by many of the parties present at the 22nd International Communist Seminar. Freedom Road Socialist Organization was among the signers.
Resolution on Solidarity with Cuba
We, the undersigned parties present at the 22nd International Communist Seminar, are expressing our solidarity with the Cuban people and especially with the five Cubans who were involved in the anti-terrorist struggle. They were victims of a rigged and hostile process, their most basic rights were violated and they were suffering injustice and excessive prison sentences in the United States.
We welcome Rene Gonzalez’s recent return to his country as a victory of the international movement that took up the defense of his case.
The disclosure of this case, especially in the United States, and the international support for the struggle for his liberation are the only guarantees to attain justice.
Moreover, we reiterate our condemnation of the unjust economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States, that is causing suffering and deprivation for the Cuban people and constitutes the principal obstacle to its economic and social development. We reaffirm the profound rejection this injustice has generated in the international community.
1. Algeria, Parti Algérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme (PADS)
2. Azerbaijan, Communist Party of Azerbaijan
3. Belarus, Belarussian Communist Workers’ Party
4. Belgium, Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB)
5. Bénin, Parti Communiste du Bénin
6. Brazil, Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB)
7. Brazil, Partido Patria Livre (PPL)
8. Bulgaria, Party of Bulgarian Communists
9. Cyprus, Progressive Party of the Working People (AKEL)
10. Denmark, Communist Party of Denmark
11. France, Union des Révolutionnaires Communistes de France (URCF)
12. France, Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France (PRCF)
13. Germany, German Communist Party (DKP)
14. Greece, Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
15. Hungary, Hungarian Workers’ Party
16. Iran, Tudeh Party of Iran
17. Ireland, Workers’ Party of Ireland
18. Laos, Lao People’s Revolutionary Party
19. Lebanon, Lebanese Communist Party
20. Luxembourg, Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL)
21. Malta, Communist Party of Malta
22. Mexico, Partido Popular Socialista de México
23. Netherlands, New Communist Pary of Netherlands (NCPN)
24. Palestine, Palestinian Communist Party
25. Philippines, Communist Party of the Philippines
26. Portugal, Portuguese Communist Party
27. Russia, Russian Communist Workers’ Party – CPSU
28. Russia, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
29. Serbia, New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
30. South Sudan, Communist Party of South Sudan
31. Spain, Communist Party of Spain (PCE)
32. Spain, Spanish Communist Workers’ Party (PCOE)
33. Sri Lanka, People’s Liberation Front – JVP
34. Sweden, Communist Party (KP)
35. Switzerland, Parti Suisse du Travail
36. Tunisia, Parti des Patriotes et Démocrates Uni
37. Turkey, Communist Party of Turkey (TKP)
38. United Kingdom, Communist Party of Great-Britain – Marxist-Leninist
39. USA, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO)
40. Venezuela, Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)
41. Vietnam, Communist Party of Viet Nam -
Obama’s Lies and Kevin Rashid Johnson’s Truth : 26th June 2013 : United Nations International Day Against Torture
Obama’s Lie
“U.S. President Barack Obama said that “[t]orture violates United States and
international law as well as human dignity. [It] is contrary to the founding
documents of our country, and the fundamental values of our people… The United
States will continue to cooperate with governments and civil society
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Jun 25 : India’s watered-down food bill won’t really benefit its hungry millions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/jun/24/india-food-bill-hungry-millions No one can deny that food security – or rather the lack of it – is a crucial issue in India. Despite more than a decade of stellar GDP growth and rising per capita incomes, food consumption remains very low and highly unequal. The government has not done a demographic health survey for years, […]